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“Let’s say you were born into a legacy that is, you have come to believe, ruining the world. What can you do? You could be paralyzed with guilt. You could run away from your legacy, turn inward, cultivate your garden. If you have a lot of money, you could give it away a bit at a time—enough to assuage your conscience, and your annual tax burden, but not enough to hamper your life style—and only to causes (libraries, museums, one or both political parties) that would not make anyone close to you too uncomfortable. Or you could just give it all away—to a blind trust, to the first person you pass on the sidewalk—which would be admirable: a grand gesture of renunciation in exchange for moral purity. But, if you believe that the world is being ruined by structural causes, you will have done little to challenge those structures.

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Inequality was arguably the defining fact of contemporary American life, which struck Hunt-Hendrix as urgently, intolerably wrong. Hauerwas encouraged his students to reckon with the forces that had shaped their lives, even ones that were set in motion long before they were born.

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Behind every great fortune is a great crime, according to an adage attributed to Balzac—but, unlike the money, the crimes are not fungible. Some took place many generations ago, whereas others are ongoing; some afflict a marginal few, others the whole world. … She wanted to devote her life to rectifying society’s imbalance of wealth and power, but none of the familiar options—endow a professorship? work at a soup kitchen?—seemed to get to the root of the problem. “Most of us spend our lives only embracing or only renouncing where we come from,” Hauerwas told me. “Leah wanted to do the grownup thing, the exceedingly difficult thing—to look all of it square in the face, and then to find a way to make herself actually useful.”

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The book has plenty of kind things to say about Marx and Engels, but it levels one major critique: they assumed that solidarity among “all of the laborers of all countries” would arise automatically, sparking a revolution, with or without the help of wealthy patrons—an odd oversight given that Engels, the son of rich industrialists, was a proud class traitor himself. On this point, Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor are sympathetic to Durkheim, who maintained in later writing that solidarity must be cultivated through difficult work—in essence, the work of organizing. Given the current distribution of power, working-class movements need upper-class patrons. But how much can activists really trust them?”

-Andrew Marantz, “What Should You Do with an Oil Fortune,” THE NEW YORKER, August 7, 2023

This^ New Yorker article about a “proud class traitor” irresistibly reminded me of Albert James Moriarty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Particularly manga Albert in Ch.62-63 🌹

[seeingteacupsindragons]

Tired of William being made arbitrarily smaller than Sherlock for no reason whatsoever based on nothing in canon whatsoever and in fact in direct violation of it.

Gimme the meet cute where they're fighting over the last shirt that fits both of them in Target.

"This is the last shirt with long enough sleeves that doesn't billow out ten inches on either side!"

"I ruined my last shirt with a chemical experiment!"

"Well, I ruined mine by falling asleep into my dinner and getting red wine all over it."

"Listen I know so much about chemicals that will get blood and wine and shit out of clothes I will fix your shirt please just give me this one."

Or like.

Their tailor got their orders mixed up because for some baffling reason they had the same measurements for everything, so William walks home with a dry cleaning bag full of distressed jeans and hoodies and has to wear that for a week now while Sherlock loses his shit debating if wearing John's too-small trousers is still better than this fancy suit that fits perfectly but it still a suit, and then William gets it back with a mysterious stain.

There's just so much ignored potential.

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everyone: omg [shipname] height difference!!! 🥰

me: omg same height, same build, equally strong and powerful 👌

Sherliam has ingrained this somewhat unusual preference in me; not even hualian can change my mind haha

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This is probably a common thing here, but seeing some wonderful YNM people just randomly and unexpectedly show up in the notes of an unrelated side blog with no followers is so neat, like there’s something very invisible-red-string-of-fate-y about it?

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Seven months of hyperfixation on Yuumori and Sherliam, and I never once dreamed of any of the characters… Two days after I finished reading TGCF, I had a dream about Hualian. Fascinating.

Why, Sherliam? Why? Why won't you come into my dreams? 😂

[adventure-line-tm]

forever unwell about the trope where red string represents both the red string of fate and the red string of an evidence board

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“Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.

What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most precious he has, he gives of his life. … he gives him of that which is alive in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of his understanding, of his knowledge, of his humor, of his sadness—of all expressions and manifestations of that which is alive in him. In thus giving of his life, he enriches the other person, he enhances the other’s sense of aliveness by enhancing his own sense of aliveness.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.”

— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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Browsing the top posts of a fandom new to you feels like conducting a literature review.

[we-intentionally-exude-calmness]

Moriarty the Patriot: The Remains Chapter 9 - English Translation

Greetings, folks. We are a group of 10 extremely calm power rangers people who have joined arms to bring everyone a (hopefully) pleasant English translation of Moriarty the Patriot: The Remains. Trust us. After a month of pain and suffering, we present to you, chapter 9. (Please ignore any typos you see at the end pages- we plan to fix them.) We hope you enjoy! https://mangadex.org/chapter/97eb19c9-1654-479c-8598-8e6f84754926

And last but not least, remember to intentionally exude calmness.

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I have always wondered what Albert meant here. "I will live without fail" after his talk with Sebastian makes you think he means it as to honor William's wish of everyone living on in the "new cleansed world". But then he says "it's time to burn this body" which I have come up with two conclusions:

1. He means it's time to change himself, his mindset, now that his life-long goal has been fulfilled.

2. He means to "cleanse" his body as well. Since he can't do it by dying (like it was originally planned), because of William's wish. He will cleanse himself some other way.

Now what my question is, how does punishing himself for the 3 years in the tower alone contribute to cleansing himself?

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I wondered the same thing. Perhaps he meant to burn in a figurative hell, alone by himself, tormented by their past and his guilt towards William? It’s been a while since I’ve read Ch.63, but I got the sense that William was haunted by the things he had done. Albert, on the other hand, was mostly tormented by the things he had done to William.

Albert remains a mystery to me.

[zetsubobu]

Sometimes I really wished we had a black butler x moriarty the patriot crossover

I know for a fact that if the queens guard dog existed in the world and timeline of the moriarty brothers (since mtp plays around ten years prior) then ciel would have to investigate it and get rid of them. Afterall the killing of nobles from a criminal organisation is exactly the type of case ciel gets. But I mean unlike sherlock or scotland yard, he definitely would have to eradicate them and their operation

I would have loved a showdown and see who would win. A chess prodigy and his demon butler or a mathematics prodigy with his talented and skillful followers

Because compared to sherlock, ciel would have been a much bigger threat to william

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TGCF Eng dub is hella trippy for a MTP and FE3H fan. Louis James Moriarty and Felix Fraldarius be chatting.

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Like, what an incredibly unusual statement.

'Hello, Mr. nobleman mathematician, whom I'm meeting for only the second time, say, wouldn't it be great (良いな) if it turned out you were a murderer, a crime lord?' *Wink wink

He just tossed it out like it’s a compliment. And his interlocutor took it as one. (#They deserve each other.)

The way Sherlock phrased his statement, along with the wink, implies a few assumptions to be true, otherwise, it wouldn't make sense (?):

1. He likes the mathematician.

2. He either condones or even approves of the actions of the crime lord on the Noahtic already at that point in the story.

Truly extraordinary. Perhaps so extraordinary that the anime English dub version decided to change it to the more plain “however, if you were indeed this mastermind, just how would you reply in this instance”? lol

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I adore this take and I adore this line! And anime dub is so hilarious with the change, lol. Like that's the whole point of the line, it's supposed to be this bizarre for the scene to make sense.

When Sherlock shows up, William is polite, and he may be genuinely happy to see the guy, but he can't let his guard down. William is masking, acting, and speaking with all those carefully constructed sentences. Then he receives Sherlock's unusual compliment.

And William is like: "Wait. Are you saying you would love me to be this criminal mastermind you're after? You want it to be me? Propriety be damned, catch me if you can, Mr. Holmes! Louis, don't you get it? It's oUr dUtY aS nObLeS to solve this murder mystery together with cute detective! He affirmed my way of dying living!" The compliment blows his mind, and from that moment on and all throughout the arc he's visibly vibing.

The change in body language from the proper schoolboy to elusive feline in just a couple of pages before and after Sherlock's statement is astounding.

No normal statement could produce such an unhinged reaction.

"If you were indeed this mastermind, just how would you reply in this instance?" implies that "catch me if you can" is an act, while in manga it's the most genuine William has been in ages.

[glanceart]

Minor crimes and major confessions?? A narrow escape aboard a train.

From Law of Gravity (ao3)

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Ohhh the scarf!! And William’s smile..

I am once again asking any sherliam enthusiasts to please read Law of Gravity. Whether you ship them romantically or platonically, you’d find it an enjoyable read I think. (There’s so much relationship/friendship development before they reached this moment here.) It is so well written and the relationship dynamic is simply beautiful. Very interesting OCs as well.

Post-fall canon divergence is always a fun topic to think about and honestly I kinda prefer the story in this canon divergence fanfic than canon itself haha

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Like, what an incredibly unusual statement.

'Hello, Mr. nobleman mathematician, whom I'm meeting for only the second time, say, wouldn't it be great (良いな) if it turned out you were a murderer, a crime lord?' *Wink wink

He just tossed it out like it’s a compliment. And his interlocutor took it as one. (#They deserve each other.)

The way Sherlock phrased his statement, along with the wink, implies a few assumptions to be true, otherwise, it wouldn't make sense (?):

1. He likes the mathematician.

2. He either condones or even approves of the actions of the crime lord on the Noahtic already at that point in the story.

Truly extraordinary. Perhaps so extraordinary that the anime English dub version decided to change it to the more plain “however, if you were indeed this mastermind, just how would you reply in this instance”? lol

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Yes Mr. lord of crime I see that you have the floofiest downward ahoge (what is the scientific name for it? Pls advise.)

A WJM figure in this exact pose is what I need.