#inthecornerreading

[sanspatronymic]

Tbh, “Sand and Blood,” “A Man of Great Character and Better Humor,” “These Words Toward You,” and “Dawn of Man” are some of my comfort fics

Sand and Blood has a spot in my heart because it was the first one where I really let my metaphorical hair down. So glad my scribblings can be your comfort fics!

[scriptscribbles]

I'm really glad there's a part of Tumblr that's not going along with the nonsense the fandom is putting out. The sense of entitlement in these people is insane, and as a bi woman, the fact that they're using LGBT rights to justify it pisses me off. So anyway, thank you for being a light in the storm! :)

Happy to provide a counter-perspective to that dominant one! I feel much the same in how a serious issue I care about is being misconstrued like that! Hope I can continue to express my perspective well.

[mydearsigerson]

THANK YOU for that post, it was a breath of fresh air in all this drama. It's times like these that make me appreciate the Granada fandom even more

Aww. Thank YOU.<3 I worried that it was too harsh after posting it but as an lgbt person who’s been a H/W shipper since well before 2010 and getting increasingly frustrated for the past four years, I just needed to vent for a moment.

[madqueenalanna]

inthecornerreading replied to your post: things that doing multiple times concurrently...

Power move: taking a nap and dreaming of a Fleetwood Mac-centered vine compilation

if you do that, you die, but god is so upset he kills you in heaven, so it cancels out and you wake up with a vague sense of cosmic unease

[bookishloverblog-blog]

Books were safer then other people anyways

Neil Gaiman

[nitefise-art]

I agree with you- BBC Sherlock is a decent show, but Christ, it's getting EVERYWHERE. And that's not even mentioning how toxic and awful the fandom can be.

Yeah I don’t think that aspect about the fandom is specific to BBC or anything though, with any area where there are really large numbers in a group you’ll have cool people and invariably you’ll also have idiots, just as a matter of statistics.

What irks me is the constant failure to distinguish between BBC and ACD canon as if they’re both the same thing, and the failure to recognise differences where they obviously are different. Thinking of a trait BBC’s Sherlock has? Don’t generalise it to Holmes unless you’ve read canon and you know it’s there too. Will it kill people to refer to canon Holmes as Holmes? Is it so difficult to explicitly state BBC when that is what is being referred to? People go around calling Holmes Sherlock and Watson John regardless of what version it is when it’s really only BBC (and Elementary) that uses first names. People tag Sherlock everywhere and on everything that is mildly related to Holmes as if Sherlock is the default, and tag victorian!lock on canon posts and everything else as if those versions are somehow the anomaly. I would have thought that BBC was the anomaly against a tradition where Holmes is, by virtue of being Holmes, inextricably linked to the Victorian setting, and the Victorian aspect should go without saying.Want to tag victorian!lock? Go ahead, do that for the BBC Victorian Special (although it’s my understanding that there’s a specific tag for that anyway). But other versions have names of their own and they don’t deserve to be fudged into the great big void of simply ‘not-BBC’.

[madqueenalanna]

You look so much like Megara from Hercules in that picture!

Oh my God thank you! Life goals to be honest.

[madqueenalanna]

Have fun!

thanks!