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Welcome to the void. I scream a lot.

about me:

shitpost extraordinaire

college sophomore, all the things are slow

currently a psych major working towards a career as a neuropsychologist

chronic art reblogger

I like to write! find me on ao3 at popcorn-plots

I draw cool things sometimes and occasionally post them. usually on my art blog @popcorn-arts :)

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Forgets things often, so I important things go here: my type shitpost bc it's funny, Lalitpur Durbar Square is Kamar-Taj, kinktober prompts, Doctor Strange RP blog, shit I say about things, college to-do, saranda ages/dates

Cool poems I've written go here: Ao3 anthology here, America's Suicide, AI is Not a God, Like a Friend

really just a silly human who can be trusted around Vulcans, I promise

Fic masterlist under the cut :)

yowoahji

tsfs bar scene and mccoy doodle

baraphalloplastyclinic

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

ladyfoxfire

And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.

If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.

dressedupliketheking

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

realmirrorspock

[It’s lunch, for the crew, and an ensign is asking Spock what he wants to eat, though he looks a bit sickly and pale.]

Hi, I’m the ensign and welcome to Pizza Hut…let me guess, pizza?

[The ensign faints and falls to the ground, the tray he was holding clattering on his head]

[Spock opens his communicator.]

Spock to Sickbay. An ensign has fainted on the mess hall. He seemed to be having delusions about architectural constructions made of the Terran meal 'pizza'.

[Spock steps over the ensign to get to the replicator, where he orders himself a vegetarian pizza.]

commander-spock-of-vulcan

why do you play the human game of referring to starships using she/her pronouns?

Because, while illogical, it seems to mean a great deal to Captain Kirk.

etherealspacejelly

my new pfp for anyone who wants it (+blank version so you can add other flags)

etherealspacejelly

matching jim version ofc ofc

commandervlynn

I've been so obsessed with this stickers that my friend @echoscite made little figurine versions for my birthday. This is the greatest moment of my life.

etherealspacejelly

oh my god... someone made fanart of my little guys.... thats actually crazy thank you for showing me this

my poor family, I love traveling so much and I get really excited when we get to go anywhere and we're driving to LA... one of my bucket list cities to visit and we're going to go on studio tours (one of them has STAR TREK) and to sunset boulevard and the arch from the 1950 movie and long beach and the Hollywood sign and the walk of fame and we're going on a CRUISE to Cabo, Mexico and we're going to go horseback riding on a beach and go snorkeling and wander the city and I can get mocktails and I am SO EXCITED

And I get very hyperactive and bouncy with lots of energy, not to mention loud with a tendency to infodump when I'm excited. my poor family lmao

#don't ruin it and say that LA is overrated or not worth it or whatever *I* am really excited #it's so cool #I love tourist traps so much they're my favorite thing to fall for #traveling #adhd

is-spirk-canon-yet

yeah

are-you-a-star

rocky can and does just sit on the bed next to grace too. however this has received complaints such as 'Rocky stop moving around, I'm trying to sleep.'

kot-na-morzu

Best tos episode.

fangirlsovertoomanythings

The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.

gardnerhill

There’s a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Women’s Money.

three--rings

Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil. Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again. (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)

waterhobbit

I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.

The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.

three--rings

This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life. The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.) There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors. Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime. And yes, so much of it is of the personal type.

volkswagonblues

dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.

fahbee

One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases. In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them. Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.

tiger-in-the-flightdeck

There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:

Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)

Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.

faejilly

#my favorite murder in holmes canon#is when they straight up witness a lady murder her blackmailer#do nothing except destroy his other blackmail material#and then straight up lie to lestrade about it#sherlock holmes#more of this in modern adaptations pls (via @cactusspatz )

muffinworry

Let’s not forget the time Holmes helps a young woman who’s being catfished by her own stepfather to steal her inheritance, and when the villain sneers that the law can’t touch him, Holmes grabs a horsewhip out of sheerest chivalry.

smokingtigerhiddengun

So, the most canon-accurate iteration of Sherlock Holmes in the last few decades is actually Benoit Blanc….

marzipanandminutiae

I think it’s also important to note, and complicates our ideas about what the highly patriarchal/misogynistic society of 19th century England looked like, that these stories SOLD

they were POPULAR

the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)

which is fascinating in light of. you know. [gestures broadly at all of Victorian gender dynamics, laws, etc.]

sailor-hobbiton

So yes, Benoit Blanc is the best modern Sherlock.

gay-lien-from-space

nuff said

nyxettizm

it is pride month for me ! colourful spirk !

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georgiedoodles

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