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it's been almost a year since i posted this link, which means i probably haven't updated any of the lists in the folder, and there may be some new meta writers that i haven't gotten around to including. But the idea is, here's a place to get started exploring series 4 meta (and yes, i still dream of doing earlier "semesters", but it gets harder when people leave fandom/tumblr).

My focus is more on reading the subtext, than trying to sort out "what really happened" in the surface story.

if i can figure out how to do it, i would love to make this a pinned post, since the clicky in my header stopped working last year.

ETA sept 2021, if google's new security measures interferes with the link, message me and i will see if i can get you in.

#sherlock meta #the new semester #meta lists #meta links

lornaka

Bleeding hope and bleeding gold. Finished just in time for @gondorweek! now a complete diptych (INPRNT) ↬

#boromir #the lord of the rings #traditional art #watercolor #gondor week #art

tricia868

Beaded Rainbow Odenwald Shawl!

Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.

I've done A LOT of knitting/crochet this year while chronic illness kept me from my sewing machine, but I'm feeling much better now. There will be new quilts to look forward to soon, plus a few more yarn crafts to share in the meantime!

#wow #knitting #lace knitting #shawl #beads #rainbow

calaisreno

Season/Series 1 Favs

Dear Reader: If you have not read these, I envy you, for you will get to do what I can no longer do: read these stories for the first time. Alas, I can only read them for the 20th or 30th time. Ad infinitum.

The Science of Confessions / @finamour : I am endeavouring to get you to notice that I am in love with you, but that doesn’t seem to be working.

34 Minutes / @bendingsignpost : An experiment in eye contact.

A Quiet Murmuration / @cathedralcarver : Just pay me back with one thousand kisses.

Cold Snap / MirithGriffin : The Mayo Clinic prescription for hypothermia is this: Tea. Blanket fort. Sex. All right, it doesn’t come right out and say that on the website. But Sherlock can read between the lines.

The Oolong Disaster / @unicornpoe : John has a beard. Sherlock has a panic attack.

First Night Out / @verity-burns : As John recovers from the effects of a brutal kidnapping, he and Sherlock attend the Yarders’ Christmas Party. There are… developments on the dance floor…

What Meets the Eye / worldaccordingtofangirls : Amnesia is just another case to solve. Piece together unfamiliar faces, reconstruct the old identity, the lost reality. A challenge that Sherlock could even enjoy. He can read people like books. The man with the silver hair is his boss. The tottering old woman, his landlady. The girl with the worried look in her eyes…infatuated. And as for John Watson? His husband. Obviously.

Because Blah Blah Blah Happy / cwb : John is entirely done with the milk situation and gives Sherlock a list of shit he’s pissed about. Sherlock sets out to make John happy. John is happy. Sherlock makes his own list. They are both very, very happy.

And sooo many more, enough for another post!

Tell me your favorite Season 1 fics!

sarahthecoat

augh, because nouns are the first thing you lose, of course my brain goes pfft at moments like these. but i did remember not long ago, to make a collection of Top Shelf bookmarks. some are definitely s1 (or possibly s2) fics. right this minute i am remembering a podfic i have listened to countless times (aside from The Quiet Man and The Progress of Sherlock Holmes) I might have to rb this and then go look that up to add the link.

sarahthecoat

ok found it. podfic of Homemaking, by rageprufrock, read by RevolutionaryJo. top shelf.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

#fic recs #to read #to listen

westernmassposting

did you hear theyre trying to build a data center in westfield? i heard about it from a women asking people to sign a petition against it outside of the big y.

Westfield too?? they're also trying to build one in Holyoke.

It is not a surprise that they're targeting our most marginalized communities...

https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/holyoke-data-center-plan-sparks-debate-on-oversight-risks/

Holyoke^

Senators and neighbors warn a proposed Westfield AI data center could push grid costs onto Massachusetts ratepayers.

#fuck ai #fuck data centers #hell no

ghostbees

The Three Gables

The subdued omnipresent strain of period-typical racism that runs throughout the entire canon is at its worst in this shoddily plotted story. Though it gives us a hasty peek at the formidably under-used Langdale Pike, Holmes’ gossiping columnist friend, there is nothing that can redeem this adventure. Holmes is indeed a product of his time and privileged place in society, and as such displays a complex array of prejudicial attitudes, but it is hard to reconcile his relaxed mood at the conclusion of “The Yellow Face” with his aggressive racism toward the figure of Steve Dixie. The case itself is a rehash of an already twice-used plot, growing weaker each time: it is basically identical in premise to both the events of the Red-Headed League and the missing Garrideb, with clues that apparently no one but the reader picks up on, a Holmes with a remarkable absence of foresight, and the villain(ess) undeservedly getting away with her crime. One is left to wonder why it was considered for publication at all.

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#art #holmes and watson

nonasuch

Vintage so good, I even enjoyed ironing it.

This is twelve panels of hand-embroidered 1950s linen, French seamed, circle and a half fullness. Itty-bitty waist, tragically, but nothing in this world is perfect. I might need to hang it up and admire it for a while longer before I take it to the shop.

sarahthecoat

aww, that is lovely! it looks like the skirt is gathered into the waistband? if so, it should be possible to pick out the stitching, extend the waistband, and reattach it so it fits you!

#vintage clothing #lovely #hand embroidery

aziraphales-library

Lost Fic #361

1. Hello! I’ve put off asking to look for this fic because I admit I was embarrassed but I figured, “it’s the internet, there’s weirder things out there.” I’m not sure if it’s been deleted or if I simply can’t find it but there was this fic I read a while ago wherein Crowley is desperate to pee in the bookshop while Aziraphale is away. I think there was a restroom in the bookshop but it was like, locked or something?? and Crowley couldn’t hold it and resorted to peeing in a potted plant. I believe the plant grows into a tree (a lemon tree if memory serves me well?) There was no smut so I don’t think it was rated E and it might have been multi-chapter Thank you all for the time and effort you all put into this blog, mods <3 - anon

2. Hi. Looking for a Crowley/Aziraphale fic as they encounter each other through the years and fall in love. I remember two of the encounters. One in an abbey where Az is a nun sent to teach the other nuns to reproduce the bible and Crowley was posing as a widow Another they were in Paris or maybe Vienna posing as husband and wife. Sound familiar to anyone? - @tangledupinblu-blog1

3. I very distinctly remember there being a fic where all the crowleys and Aziraphales of the multiverse met, but I'm not sure if it's been deleted? It had the 1992 script, the show, the book, maybe the radio versions too? I have memories but turning up nothing in my searches - anon

4. Hello! I have been looking for a fic for ages, it I accidentally erased my ao3 history a couple years ago, and so am cursed. It was set post S1. It might be book only as the characterization was very book-like. After the failed apocalypse, Crowley goes off to a cottage he’s bought in the South Downs, thinking that now that they don’t answer to Heaven and Hell, there is no arrangement and thus Aziraphale will want nothing more to do with him. Almost immediately, Aziraphale shows up and moves himself in, but Crowley thinks it’s a temporary thing and keeps waiting for Aziraphale to leave him again. I think there’s a crossword involved and perhaps a date in the local town. Many thanks if you can find it! - @olfactoryventriloquism

If you know any of these fics please include the number in your reply! Thank you :)

- Mod D

#good omens #ineffable husbands #lost fic #found fic #in the notes

barachiki

What's your fave gif you've ever made?

Oh you are evil. There are so many I have made!

I’m going to say it is one of my Christmas Mycrofts. Not because this one took very long or anything, it was just very satisfying in the end.

But then I have older ones like this one that just make me entirely too happy…

And

and other nonsense like this…

And every single thing I have made dance.

barachiki

I’ve always loved this one of Sherlock playing with his favourite bee.

Out of all my valentines heart ones, Mycroft is my favourite.

And this still really makes me laugh.

Ok last one, I love this one because I don’t really remember why I made it.

#barachiki queue #fandom love #putting the fun in fandom

officialpenisenvy

CIL VI, 35887 = CLE 1532 = EDR120786:

Cara mieis vixi, virgo vitam reddidi. / Mortua heic ego sum et sum cinis, is cinis terrast. / Sein est terra dea, ego sum dea, mortua non sum. / Rogo te, hospes, noli ossa mea violare. / Mus vixit annos XIII.

Dear to mine I lived, life I left as a maiden. / Here I am dead and I am dust, and dust is earth. / And if Earth is a goddess, I am a goddess, I am not dead. / I ask you, stranger, do not wish to desecrate my bones. / Mus lived thirteen years.

a touching mixed-metre epitaph for a young girl: nearly identical verses appear in the epitaph of young Utilis (CIL VI, 29609 = CLE 974 = EDR144568), and both share a common theme with an epigram attributed to Pseudo-Epicharmus (D.L. Page, p. 154).

εἰμὶ νεκρός, νεκρὸς δὲ κόπρος, γῆ δ' ἡ κόπρος ἐστίν· / εἰ δ' ἡ γῆ θεός ἔστ', οὐ νεκρὸς ἀλλὰ θεός.

I am a corpse, a corpse is dung, and earth is dung too; / and if Earth is a god, I am not a corpse but a god.

#death #poetry #epitaph #dust #grief #consolation

bluebellofbakerstreet

Inktober 23 - Engrossed

You see but do you observe? There are twelve differences between this view of the crime scene and the one below. Can you spot them?

#sherlock is engrossed in the crime scene. john is engrossed in sherlock. greg is engrossed in wondering when he'll be able to get some lunch #spothedifference #art #sherlock

rowan-e-ravenwood

SERIOUS: NEW BOT SCAM ALERT

heya!

this right here?

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT REAL.

the "@staff" is just the bio text.

tumblr staff will not contact you through anything other than email or their official accounts, which will all have this badge:

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THIS OR SIMILAR ACCOUNTS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM IT.

report and block. i'd also appreciate it if you shared this post, bc that blog was JUST created and was already tagging a LOT of people, and i know not everyone has the scam-sensing instinct, even if this might seem obvious to some.

@staff @tumblr @support

vinceaddams

I just got tagged by one of these! Yikes!

(I also get tagged by this sort of scam page pretty regularly on facebook.)

#scams #psa #tumblr

linipik

im just obsessed with your good omens/otgw art -- any chance you'd do more of it?

now that you mention it….Aziraphale and Crowley in Endicott and Margueritte tea garden

Cleaned up a bit one of my discarded doodles for u

#good omens #art #ineffable husbands