abstinence is not immortality

97% Sherlock. Multi-shipper, Moftiss-lover, Mary-supporter, meta-writer, A.K.A. @redbuttonhole

[girlboss-revan]

"um actually jedi master boogdo from the dagdar system defeated darth krisis in 47XYZ 🙄" this is how you sound when you get too into star wars lore

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[onemoremiracle14]

A Study in Characters

Mary Morstan, Season 03

[free-my-mindd]

[depsidase]

[soulgyrl]

A perfect villain.

[manus-multae-cor-unum]

Sherlolly x drop dead

[iphigenesis]

in a way john watson is a fantasy (what if you had this brilliant enigmatic friend and what if he liked you in particular and what if he offered you the excitement of youth and adventures and a way out of boring society life and all without having to actually give up your status as a gentleman so you could have the best of both worlds) and in a way sherlock holmes is a fantasy (what if someone never got tired of you despite your various strange habits and mood swings and instead of simply tolerating you they genuinely liked you and what if you didn’t have to live alone forever and what if you never had to give up doing the things you love) and of course there’s the most fantastical part of it all (what if you could afford london housing prices)

[asenug-deactivated20240614]

Sherlock 2x2

[darlingbenny]

[dramatisecho]

they say he wandered very far // very far // over land and sea a little shy, and sad of eye // but very wise was he [x]

[timelesseternity]

“This is how I want you to remember me. The woman who beat you.”

[succubis-deactivated20180404]

Me and the madman. Me and Sherlock Holmes.

[marcelock]

she’s so cute i love her

[notagarroter]

I love it! She should do that every day, as should I. Also um… is she wearing handcuffs around her neck? k, filing that in my private mental marylock folder… ahem… down girl!

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[neko-mancy]

just saw a "only one bed" fic with the major character death warning

[dontbreakthechain]

#i guess that's one way to solve that problem

[idabbleincrazy]

“This bed ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

[pearlocked]

please, will you do this for me?