WHERE YOU GONNA RUN TO ?

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Sherlock Holmes (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie

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Andrew Scott on set of Sherlock | "The Reichenbach Fall"

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Andrew Scott photographed for BAFTA (2024)

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🔪 :-/

 SEND ME THE KNIFE EMOJI TO STAB JIM!

OF COURSE , IT WOULD BE HIM. JIM HAD ALWAYS WANTED IT to be him. the scene is something jim thought about often since sherlock holmes had appeared on his radar like a guiding light through a dangerous fog. THOUGHT ABOUT is the wrong word , because jim has never felt that sense of DREAD & apprehension commonly found in other people when they think about how they’re going to die. it’s a fantasy he’s indulged more times than he can count on his fingers. and because it has to be just right , every time is different. a variable is changed to accommodate what he needs from that final moment     (   ONE   FINAL   ACT   )               no matter how minuscule it may be , IT MATTERS TO HIM.  

THE NOISE THAT COMES FROM THE BACK OF HIS THROAT is involuntary. surprised & very human of him even though he’s yet to register the pain. only the pressure. for a man so consumed by the scene of his death , in the moment where he even greatly anticipates it , he’s betrayed by the body that confines the enigma of himself. his eyes , a little wider than they had been before , don’t leave sherlock’s until they absolutely have to. until he can’t stand the idea of NOT KNOWING what the sight looks like. something

SOMETHING OTHER THAN JIM’S FREE WILL tilts his chin down to look at where sherlock keeps the knife buried inside him , just between the ribs with every intention of being FATAL. another noise , not as loud as the one that preceded it , hisses through his clenched teeth. like a laugh. a gleeful laugh of relief , distorted by the shock in his body once he sees the blood.

IT’S LIKE SOME ANIMALISTIC INSTINCT TO SURVIVE clicks in the back of his mind and tells him to fall back and retreat , but jim's not looking to survive. the jarring feeling is a slow but intense vibration that runs through his muscles , especially where the edge of the knife scrapes mercilessly against his ribs & deep into the tissue of jim’s body , which is not of sherlock’s doing             it’s jim. he can’t stop laughing. that intense , internal pressure returns to it’s former glory inside his chest , and he resists the urge to cough as his own blood starts to fill his lungs and travel up his throat. this must be what it’s like to drown , he thinks , and it instills in him a new certainty that CARL POWERS had gotten what he deserved.

A FEATHERING BLACKNESS , VOID OF SUBSTANCE , starts to wrap around his vision. like he’s closing his eyes. jim , even through the almost electrifying physicality to his death , knows that he’s not , so he understands that he must be getting close. his eyes flicker back up to sherlock like he’s running against a clock. his own clock. his mouth spreads apart in one of the most humbled smiles he’s ever worn in his life , bloodstained teeth of enormous gratitude exposed. he talks over the distant sound of CHURCH BELLS. 

❛      THANK YOU. BLESS YOU.      ❜           @undoer

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Andrew Scott, Script To Screen

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fakedsciences​:

“What about you? What do you think?” 

She plays playful too well.

     “ it’s a bit silly ,   isn’t it?   feeling bad about the things we have to do. “ 

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@fakedsciences​ said:  “So killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?”

     “ mhm.  that’s what all the must reads say ,   anyways. “

[notmorbid]

sistersong, pt. 1.

dialogue prompts from sistersong: a novel by lucy holland.

come in and get warm.

i'm so tired of being called sinful.

whose side are you on?

you've done everything right. more than right.

why can't i heal myself?

i hate feeling so helpless.

promise me i won't find you like that again.

i won't promise you anything.

pity is the last thing i want. from you or anyone.

you've been like a ghost, drifting from room to room.

it's not nice to meddle with people's feelings.

the forest does not judge as people judge.

where do you come from?

one cannot gauge all from a single point of experience.

are you ever going to grow up?

you have that haunted look on your face.

i'm sorry. i've been too focused on myself lately.

men only see what they want to see.

i think i've always known i was different.

we'll just have to keep each other's secrets.

what i want doesn't matter.

you're still you. nothing can change that.

the only thing keeping you from peace is yourself.

suggestion is sometimes stronger than any magic.

even those we think we know best can surprise us.

things will not always be this way.

the world won't change unless you work to change it.

you're stronger than you think.

nothing worth having should come without honest work.

will you tell me about your home?

you are something of a rarity.

sometimes i think i don't know you at all.

i ought to think before i speak.

we might seem to live at the end of the world, but it's really just the edge.

you seem practiced at hiding your feelings.

how long have you been away from home?

you're braver than you admit.

what's life without a little danger?

drink up and stop sulking.

i have a healthy distrust of most people.

you might as well help, now you're here.

how have you never done this before?

do you have anyone waiting for you?

you have to concentrate, if you want to see.

that was unexpected. nice, but unexpected.

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✧    NBC’S    HANNIBAL    PROMPTS   !   

*  A MIXTURE OF NBC’S HANNIBAL PROMPTS , CHANGE ANY PRONOUNS AS NEEDED .

‘   This is not a fatal wound. The bullet misses every artery.   ‘

‘   It just means she can’t do anything about it. This is my design.  ‘

‘   I imagine what you see and learn touches everything else in your mind.    ‘

‘   I can’t shut mine off any more than you can shut yours off..   ‘

‘   Please, don’t psychoanalyze me. You won’t like me when I’m psychoanalyzed.    ‘

‘   Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go give a lecture on psychoanalyzing.   ‘

‘   Therapy doesn’t work on you because you won’t let it.   ‘

‘   Well, perhaps you need to un-learn some tricks.   ‘

‘   Last time he sent me to a dark place I brought something back.   ‘

‘   I suggested one of those clackin’ swingin’ ball things.   ‘

‘   It’s the inevitability of there being a man so bad that killing him felt good.  ‘

‘   I’m still not entirely sure that wasn’t my intention, pulling the trigger.   ‘

‘   Eating her is honoring her. Otherwise, it’s just murder.   ‘

‘   So killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?   ‘

‘   You beginning to appreciate my lack of sympathy?   ‘

‘   I don’t know how I’m gonna feel about eating her after all this.   ‘

‘   It isn’t very smart to piss off a guy who thinks about killing people for a living.   ‘

‘   Passion’s good. Gets blood pumping.  ‘

‘   My parents gave me a gift. A twin. Who wouldn’t want two of me?  ‘

‘   What kind of victim forgives the killer at the moment of death?   ‘

‘   I have no taste for animal cruelty. That’s why I employ an ethical butcher.    ‘

‘   I’m afraid I insist on it, no need for unnecessary suffering.   ‘

‘   Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors.   ‘

‘   Well this should be interesting. Please, doctor, proceed.   ‘

‘   What it grows, and where it’s growing it will likely kill you..   ‘

‘   It’s getting harder and harder to make myself look.   ‘

‘   But I am looking alone, and you know what looking at this does.   ‘

‘   I know what happens if you don’t look, and so do you.    ‘

‘   I can make myself look, but the thinking is shutting down.   ‘

‘   You don’t think I have a right to know what’s happening with my wife?  ‘

‘   The effect I was hoping to have was her death. Mission accomplished.    ‘

‘   Certain personalities are attracted to certain professions.   ‘

‘   Here we are, bunch of psychopaths helping each other out.    ‘

‘   Words are living things. They have personality, point of view, agenda.   ‘

‘   Your bad luck that you’re the best, pal.    ‘

‘   I feel like I’ve dragged you into my world.    ‘

‘   I want to go on record as saying that this is a very bad idea.   ‘

‘   It’s natural to see if someone is clever enough to climb over them.   ’

‘   What reason did you have to kill the others?   ‘

‘   Insane isn’t really black or white, is it?   ‘

‘   What do you smell on me?    ‘

‘   I think that the work you do here has created a sense of stability for you.   ‘

‘   You married? You’re married. How long you married? That long?   ‘

‘   I feel like hell. Actually, no, I feel, uh, fluid, like I’m spilling.    ‘

‘   You were attacked by a patient not too long ago. I read the report.    ‘

‘   They will believe he did. They will believe he killed others, too.    ‘

‘   I’m so sorry, ______. I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you in this life.    ‘

‘   I know who I am. I’m not so sure I know who you are anymore.   ‘

‘   I am not the intelligent psychopath you are looking for.  ‘

‘   I’m not asking you to believe anything you can’t prove.   ‘

‘   I’ve always found the idea of death comforting.  ‘

‘   That would suggest a radically unorthodox form of therapy.    ‘

‘   I’m always happy to do a favor for a friend, just say the word.   ‘

‘   How does one politely refuse a dish in circumstances such as these?   ‘

‘   You never answered my question. How would killing me make you feel?   ‘

‘   She was compelled to take his life so she could take her own back.  ‘

‘   Tell me, did your heart race when you murdered her?   ‘

‘   When the fox hears the rabbit scream, he comes running. But not to help.   ‘

‘   I let you know me… see me. I gave you a rare gift, but you didn’t want it.  ‘

‘   Imagine what you must taste like. It won’t be long until someone’s taking a bite out of you.   ‘

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jim, completely serious: britney spears could have written the 1812 overture but tchaikovsky could never have done oops i did it again.

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dullards  would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem yet to be solved. we must not eliminate the impossible, we must conquer it, suborn it to our purpose. 

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Red Desert (Il deserto rosso) 1964, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni.