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welcome to the blog

okay this is going to be The Pinned Post cause I do not expect people to always weed through everything I say:

Hi! I'm Kal, and I mainly post about mcyt stuff (specifically I reblog & post a lotta life series/hermitcraft content) & UT/DR, but I'll reblog really anything I feel like sharing.

art sideblog: @stressedbisexual-not-trademarked

a couple rules!

-ask box is always open for everything except nsfw and gore asks. I will answer questions or jokes about these topics but anything highly detailed in picture, video, or text format will be immediately deleted.

-dms are very much open! hit me up if you wanna chat! (though i have to admit i . am Very Bad at having conversations)

I have a few blog tags you might be looking for! all of them should be searchable on my blog:

generic talking tag - this is for everything original I post, or for posts I add on to

kal-draws - my drawing tag! you should be able to find everything I've drawn under this tag (although I will admit anything that's not reblogged from the sideblog is. um. maybe dont look at it lol)

kal_fic - my writing tag; used for everything I post on ao3 & now posts relating to my fics

kal_asks - this is the tag I use when answering asks

I think that's it? have fun and please don't be a horrible person!

#generic talking tag #kal-draws #kal_fic #kal_asks #<- should've added the rest a long time ago but they're here now for ease of access

meltesh28

Very endeared by how Noelle shares food items with Kris... even if this particular one hasn't happened yet in game

ravioliet

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

phantomrose96

copperbadge

I cannot get this poem out of my head. It haunts me. Joyously, it haunts me.

peepingnee

This poem format is my favorite thing and this is the first time I’ve ever seen it’s origin story. I love it. Every time.

middle-earth-mythopoeia

THE SACRED TEXTS!

zetabrarian

I forgot the context! It’s beautiful!

fagcrisis

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

maryoliveoil

rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich

awesomebutunpractical

"He wouldn't say that" has a beautiful cousin, and her name is "That's Not What This Story is About".

vampyyprincess

”spam like = block” yeah ok buddy. when i wake up to tumblr notifs of someone spam liking my stuff i start giggling and kicking my feet

deadandphilgames

i was speaking with a guy i work with and when leaving i said okay see you monday and he went oh no i wont be in monday. im going bald. and i said ?you're what? and he just repeated im going bald monday. wont be in

deadandphilgames

update: he didn’t show up on Monday and on Tuesday he was bald

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.]