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[redwinterroses]

Name: RedWinterRoses, you can call me Red  Pronouns: she/her  Fandoms: Hermitcraft, Life Series, and related content

You can find me streaming with the Contrarian Trio (LelilaPlays and Skribblegurl) on Friday nights on Twitch, with the same username, and occasionally from the Edge SMP server! 

On AO3 as RedWinterRoses

radio shack at the end of the world: A quiet apocalypse featuring Etho, Pearl, Bdubs, and Etho's goats 

Reset, Restore: A server reset leaves Impulse amnesiac and lost in the end, and Wels determined to save the day 

Recall: Mumbo's gone missing, and Grian and Scar go in search of him -- right into a simulated alternate season 7, where Mumbo is mayor and Grumbot reigns supreme. 

Everything Turns to Gold: An epic fantasy Empires s1 fic about the cost of power, the value of loyal friends, and how Jimmy deserved a hero arc. 

This Is Boatem (We Have a Dragon): Hermitcraft, early s8, Grian gets a little... dragony.

[so-many-ocs]

what? no, i'm not a vampire. watch i can literally go in the sun (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp)

[kiwinatorwaffles]

headcanon: grian comes from a large ass avian clan and has an insane extended family that all bite harder than he does

[kiwinatorwaffles]

GRELATIVES HELP

[aries-of-spades]

it's a Greunion

[kiwinatorwaffles]

[kiwinatorwaffles]

griandparents /j

[kiwinatorwaffles]

via nowaxjustanaxe

this is even funnier because i just had another post about grian’s extended family being all of his alter egos right here you and me same brainwave mate

[kiwinatorwaffles]

you guys have to stop being funny in the tags this post is getting absurdly long

[kiwinatorwaffles]

CEASE

[aurum-the-yapper]

So should the crimes Grouncel (Grian council) commit be called Grimes?

((I'm not funny sorry.))

[kiwinatorwaffles]

from @nekora-rayven709

this is actually only his abridged list, jimmy

[kiwinatorwaffles]

THE GRAMILY SAGA IS GOING TO PUT ME IN MY GRAVE

[slugsinsuits]

not to brag but Pearl won the nautilus championships by such a margin that she thought the people behind her were just being silent and focused when in fact the next guy to pass the finish line was a good few seconds after. a proper awkward silence is anyone else running this race did i miss something sort of gap. what a woman.

[2dadsfromaz]

Guys

@maysartcorner pointed something out and I can't unsee it

Why do Imp and Skizz literally look like those guys from the Flintstones

[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.

[mothnether]

Hermit a day 23: Hermit Friends (Jimmy and Lizzie)

Hermit a day 24: False

[tieflingkisser]

[shepscapades]

[dbhc au flavored] Hermit A Day May '26, Day 28, Groups and Collabs: The King and his Royal Court

MY REN THE KING… I’ve been wanting to do a piece like this for aaaages and I’m so pleased with how this came out >:) When I tell you I cannot wait to get into dbhc’s king arc…

[Check out Hadm’s Gamer’s Outreach fundraiser to donate for comms & raffle prizes! :)]

[itzs0ssy]

I regret to inform yall i never left the desert...

[toastybeanies]

May i request a doodle of the Red King and False? I always wonder what role False could potentially play in Dogwarts!

I took this very much as False in 3rd Life in Dogwarts, so not False and Ren art unfortunately, but you may have some Martyn killing False. (Cartoon blood beneath cut!)

[apolladay]

Were you in band, orchestra, and/or choir in school?

* I was in band, orchestra AND choir

* I was in band and orchestra, but not choir

* I was in band and choir, but not orchestra

* I was in choir and orchestra, but not band

* I was only in band

* I was only in orchestra

* I was only in choir

* I didn’t do any music in school

* see results

Were you in band, orchestra, and/or choir in school?

I was in band, orchestra AND choir

I was in band and orchestra, but not choir

I was in band and choir, but not orchestra

I was in choir and orchestra, but not band

I was only in band

I was only in orchestra

I was only in choir

I didn’t do any music in school

see results

Voting ended onJun 4

[scorchroots]

I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin

[vaspider]

I think a lot of the time people get overwhelmed by everything that's going on right now, and sometimes I do too. I was thinking about that the other day, and reached a place where I was trying to fold my mind around accepting all the things I can't possibly do, because I'm only human, and only one human.

In thinking this over, I remembered reading the fable of the Crow and the Pitcher as a kid. If you've never read it, a crow finds a pitcher full of water, but can't reach the bottom, so, after failing to knock it over, he piles pebbles into it until he can drink from the pitcher.

I've heard various morals for this, from "thoughtfulness works better than brute strength," to "necessity is the mother of invention," and "little acts add up." But like... I started thinking about being a pebble, rather than being the crow.

I don't have to be the whole solution. I don't even necessarily have to be the one person who finds the solution. I just have to be willing to help as much as I can and raise the water level, and help the solution happen.

I'm sure some people will say that sounds weak and defeatist or whatever, which, you know, first of all, fuck you. But this is - in all seriousness - one of the ways in which lasting change is made. Not by big singular dramatic gestures, not by one person burning themself out by somehow doing everything all of the time, but by the dogged and continual persistence of people being present and doing what they can do, over and over, raising the water line.

It's okay to be a pebble. It's okay to raise the water level a little, in concert with all the other pebbles, and get your comrade a little drink of water. Do what you can, when you can, the best that you can, and find your peace with that.

It's okay to not do everything.

It's okay to be one of a hundred pebbles.

[memories]

you wouldn’t download a #ethoslab.

[itsmiaelloso]

My part of the collab, happy birthday gem!!

[shumart72]

boogey is after you

new pearl skin is sooo cool I love it 🥹🥹🥹🥹

i gave her cool arm armour as a treat