#proper thoughts

[housesofwax]

MACLISE, Joseph [1856] Surgical Anatomy

[kate-apologist]

if it’s pirate!au that means i have every right to make the crew whichever companions i want......

[akajustmerry]

“saying you’re asexual is gross because you’re over sharing personal sexual preferences” congratulations!! your disgust at asexuals informing you of their sexuality is aphobic

“asexuals are just straight people who want to be part of the lgbt community” congratulations!! you just barred lgbt aces from their own community

“asexuals haven’t suffered the way lgbt folk have throughout history!” congratulations!! you just used the erasure and stigma against non-sexual people throughout history to shut down any discussion of how countless aces have and still do experience social ostracism, are sexually assaulted by folk with zero respect for their orientation and endure the psychological trauma of this indifference

“asexuality is just a preference, not an orientation!!” congratulations!! you’re using the exact same rhetoric that was used to discriminate lgbt+ people to invalidate aces

“when an ace person tells me they don’t like sex they’re judging me for liking it” congratulations!! you are so vain you believe that someone not enjoying something you enjoy means you should not be enjoying it wow I sure hope no one tells you they hate food

“aces are not allowed to reclaim the q slur” the reclamation of that word is entirely up to the preference of the individual to identify themselves and did you ever consider that maybe many aces identify themselves as queer because as soon as they say they’re ace all y'all crusty aphobes jump down their throats??

asexuality is a sexual orientation with a large spectrum that encompasses both lgbt and non lgbt folk and you cannot bar us all from the lgbt community for this reason

[akajustmerry]

I know that fandom and media isn’t a safe space and that the onus of teaching ethics is not entirely placed upon the artists who make content for consumption BUT I also know that it’s really messed up that almost nine times out of ten i know which character will be killed in a show because they are either a) black b) non-black poc c) mentally ill or d) LGBT or even all these BECAUSE WRITERS DELIBERATELY CREATE THESE CHARACTERS SO THEY’LL BE MARGINALIZED SO THEIR DEATH WILL HAVE IMPACT AND SEEM “WOKE” because killing a dark skinned black person, or Asian, or mentally ill wlw, etc is a reflection of the current political climate, right? NOOOO

The worst part is that they think this is deep and don’t understand how showing the brutalization of these character’s deaths and bodies only further desensitizes audiences to similar issues happening in real life 

Killing Poussey Washington did nothing for BLM, despite the writer’s claims, all it did was tell millions of black wlw the world over that the struggles of existing and staying positive despite them will get you nowhere (what’s worse is that making her death an accident actually shifts the narrative to absolve white facists of any responsibility). Poussey was in a loving relationship, she was happy and yet...

Killing Wes Gibbons wasn’t “necessary” nor did it make sense. You took a mentally ill dark skinned black man who had endured trauma, remained kind and altruistic despite all that, killed him, desecrated his body, had the characters use his traumatic history to worm their way out of responsibility for their actions.and you did all this just as he admitted he was starting to feel genuinely happy with his life... for what? how is that progressive?

Killing Glen Rhee did not show us how violent Negan is. 5 minutes before he killed Glen, Negan bashed Abraham to death and YET Glen’s death is the more gory and violent of the two. Glen was happy, he was about to have a family with Maggie. All killing Glen showed us, like with the deaths of the other aforementioned characters, is that writers don’t want characters of color to be happy, especially if they’re LGBT.  

And though she is not a poc, Vanessa Ives in penny dreadful was a religious bisexual mentally ill woman who constantly and literally fought her demons as well as patriarchal Victorian/catholic values her whole life, had finally learned to accept herself and the writers used this (a moment that should have been empowering) to make her force her love interest to shoot her in the head, an act that no matter how u look at it is essentially sending the message that religous mentally ill wlw  should just give up 

i’m just so damn tired of this narrative that white writers keep throwing in my face that i, a wlw mentally ill poc, will never be content in my life and if I am the world won’t allow it for very long it s absolutely appalling and needs to fkn stop, or at least stop pretending that it’s edgy when all it does is add to the hurt we feel every single fkn day and doesn’t help others understand our hurt either 

[akajustmerry]

when u copy ur friend’s answers but u b really careful not to make it TOO obvious

[akajustmerry]

The Lying Detective: A Summary

toby jones as disposable villain who isn't moriarty #5: I am SUPER EVIL

sherlock: i'm high and suicidal and apparently that's humorous! come fellow suicidal friend, let's tell my brother to fuck off

*later*

therapist: how's the baby?

john: I HAVE A BABY?? oh wait yeah :(

mary apparition: honestly bro u trippin ballz

*later*

sherlock, also trippin ballz: to quote hamlet, fucking nope?????

mrs hudson: *is suddenly james bond, shoves sherlock in the boot, drops him into john's lap* you forgot this

john: i don't care

sherlock: *drinking from a flower vase* apparently my abusive suicidal drug use is still v humorous at this point!! lmao i'm gonna die in 2 weeks

*later*

toby jones as disposable villain who isn't moriarty #5: *holds up a bowl of cornflakes* i'm a CEREAL killer! get it?? do you tho???? imagine if my bff the queen murdered people anyway i'm really evil in case u forgot

kids in hospital: and spider-man couldn't come visit us because????

*later*

faith: hi :)

sherlock: shit i did the bad decsioning oh well i'll do it more btw i'm STILL suicidal and overdosing

john: ...

john: you waNNA FKN GO M8???

sherlock, bleeding, still suicidal and now bashed by his best friend: this is all my fault and totally portraying a healthy friendship between two people that isn't abusive

toby jones as disposable villain who isn't moriarty #5: btw guys i am still over here being EVIL

*later*

mrs hudson: I'M TIRED OF THESE MUTHAFUKIN PEEPS IN MY MUTHAFUKIN HOUSE

mary: sherlock my guy my pal, if you could lean into your fatal manic abuse of drugs and depression so you can be pals with my husband that'd be tight of u go get wrecked lov u

sherlock: i wanna die

toby jones as disposable villain who isn't moriarty #5: murdering people IS SO FUN!! I AM CLEARLY SO SO EVIL RN!

john: fuk u m8

sherlock: omg thanks for coming to save me at the last minute even tho i have been suicidal and overdosing from literally the start of this episode.

john: ur a dick

mary ghost: lol he should wear the hat

*later*

sherlock: *apparently still has irene's orgasm as his text alert even tho he apparently never texts her back and it would expose her as still being alive*

john: aw thats cute! happy birthday btw speaking of texting i too was texting a hoe

sherlock: aw damn :( sucks bro :(

john: yeah ikr??? mary's dead but i still wish i'd done more than text my side-hoe i am literally saying that ur relationship with irene adler is the same as this

sherlock: *literally does and says nothing*

mary apparition: lmao i'm dead!

john: basically, life is short so u should text her back anyway i'm gonna cry now

sherlock: aw :( life sucks :( let's hug it out while a montage revealing that your bus-hoe and therapist was my secret sister who has literally never existed before now and that my brother gets laid apparently these 2 things are relevant to the montage

john: *sobbing* btw i don't think u killed mary

sherlock: that's okay! u only beat the living shit out of me for it so badly i had to be hospitalized before!! this is literally gaslighting but whatevs its okay we're hugging i guess

toby jones as disposable villain who isn't moriarty #5: lolololololol i am still EVILLLL

mary apparition: wear the hat

sherlock: kay :p

sherlock: btw bestiie it's totally okay that u bashed me and cheated on ur wife like.... me texting the only person i romantically love and u being a cheating asshat are basically the same we r all human and i have been psychologically abused and traumatized to the point where i think that's totally fine :)

john: cool! anywho!! i just remembered i have a kid and i've left it with friends even tho one of the main points of this ep was that i have no one so ig2g

*later*

euros/sherrington/whateverthefuck: bye now time for u to have the death i am another classic case of moffatiss villainizing women, showing their mysogyny and incapability of creating female characters independent of male ones :)

[akajustmerry]

i bag on the lying detective for my own reasons, but i will say this:

“In saving my life, she [Mary] conferred a value on it. It is a currency I do not know how to spend.”

Is a stunning line of dialogue and I don’t think there was a better, more accurate, way Sherlock could have articulated the reasons for his actions and his grief in that episode. Even though I am still incredibly angry at the treatment of female characters this season, I don’t mind the idea that Sherlock values time with the people he loves more because of how much time Mary gave him by sacrificing her own.

The ending, for all it’s faults and cheesyness, with Sherlock hugging Rosie and hanging with Molly and texting Irene, shows Mary’s sacrifice wasn’t for nothing and Sherlock learns to value himself and others the way Mary would want him too and the way he should.  When you remember that Sherlock has demonstrated many times his disreguard fot his own life, the ending doesn’t seem as empty i guess.

(I feel like they didn’t have to kill Mary to have this story-arc but whatever)

[akajustmerry]

I bug on moffat a lot because in recent years his writing has decreased in quality BUT allow me to say that some of my absolute favorite quotes in the universe come from series 5/6 episodes of Doctor Who that were written by him like:

“The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.”

“Life is a mess everyone has memories of a holiday they couldn’t have been on, or a party they never went to, or met someone for the first time and felt like they’ve know them their whole lives. Time is being written all around us everyday. People think their memories are bad, but their memories are fine”

“If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.”

“we’re all stories in the end, just make it a good one, eh?”

“And the times we had, eh? Would've had. Never had. In your dreams, they'll still be there. The Doctor and Amy Pond... and the days that never came.”

“You're always here to me. And I always listen. And I can always see you.” 

“She was clever and brave and kind and funny. And had more love in one heart than I could ever have in two.”

“Nobody important”. Blimey, that’s amazing. D’you know, in 900 years of time and space I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before.”

“Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they’re going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what’s the point in them being happy now if they’re going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.”

so when I’m harsh on moffats writing, whether it’s sherlock or doctor who, I’m harsh because I know he can do better… Because He HAS done better. I am holding him to the standard he set. Don’t make me into a pariah for criticizing his mediocre writing when I know it can be anything but.