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Watching the Hollow Crown, and how dare Hal end Henry IV Part II by saying:
"PresumeĀ notĀ thatĀ IĀ amĀ theĀ thingĀ IĀ was, Ā ForĀ GodĀ dothĀ knowāsoĀ shallĀ theĀ worldĀ perceiveā Ā ThatĀ IĀ haveĀ turnedĀ awayĀ myĀ formerĀ self."
and then begin Henry V in the same busted ass red leather jacket jerkin from his ale house days. What the hell, Hal. Why hast thou still that janky thing?
woke up today and realized that tumblr entirely killed fuck ya life bing bong so here ya go again
one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"
the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.
holding hands! (ā ļ½„ā āā ļ½„ā )ā Ā ā \ā (ā ļ½„Ļļ½„ā )ā /
americans love doxxing their home states more than anything. we hear the name of our home state and everything goes black and we wake up 10 minutes later, having reblogged no fewer than 8 posts featuring the name of our home state
h/t to emilyscartoons
Onion Headlines + Richard II (2/?)
obsessed with the energy of these pictures from the old globe's richard ii. bolingbroke's face š
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"i don't care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt" i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die
i know a lot of people study just to get paid well but girl this is engineering be for fucking real take this seriously
114 people died in the Hyatt Regency collapse, and in the US it's the third largest structural collapse fatality count, behind 9/11 and the Pemberton Mill collapse in 1860.
I've learned about this tragedy in my physics classes, to demonstrate tensile strength, and as a reminder about the importance of calculations being done right. I've also learned about it in my legal classes as an example of construction defect lawsuits. I've seen it referenced in disaster response classes.
Between AI and the current Presidential administration, we're barrelling right back towards this nightmare.
There are multiple errors that resulted in this collapse, but these stand out to me:
1. Kansas City was facing high unemployment and needed to attract jobs and business into the city. So the planning and inspection departments may have looked too closely at the designs.
2. An engineering firm too lazy to double check their designs or design changes by the manufacturer before approving them. The error that resulted in the collapse was one that the owner of the engineering firm said that a "first year engineering student" would spot.
3. The steel manufacturer treating preliminary plans as final plans, not verifying the math on their end.
The bridges' original design could only hold 60% of the minimum load required by city code. The design changes recommended by the manufacturer halved that. Less than a year and 3 weeks from opening to the public, the whole thing collapse.
Articles about the collapse say that everyone "trusted" the other party to have done the calculations correctly.
A significant portion of the population trusts what the computer or AI tells them, without checking. Imprecisely calibrated AI hallucinate information. The US economy is going into a downturn and federal regulatory agencies are being gutted.
We are going to see the Hyatt Regency Collapse repeat over and over for decades, not just in buildings, but in medicine, manufacturing, the environment, etc.
Some of this we're just going to have to weather, but the message for AI users comes straight from IBM (once the world's leading computer manufacturer) back in 1979:
"A Computer Cannot Be Held Accountable. Therefore A Computer Should Never Make A Management Decision."
The owner of the engineering firm that designed the Hyatt Regency spent the rest of his life lecturing on the disaster, to serve as a warning to his fellow engineers about the real-life consequences of sloppy design.
I don't think Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk will have the courage or the honor to do that when OpenAI / Meta / xAI are responsible for getting people killed.
So if you're going to blindly trust the AI to do critical work tasks, I hope you're prepared to be making an apology tour for the rest of your life if it all goes wrong.
I often wonder what happened to authors of unfinished fanfictions.
I hope theyāre having a nice life
we absolutely are not and that unfinished fic haunts us to this day
Reblog if that unfinished fic haunts you to this day
Curly-haired Girls' Tea Party! (Just have drawn some of my Favorite Musical Heroinesļ¼ļ¼āŗļø
Elisabeth ļ¼Elisabeth das musicalļ¼ Christine Daaeļ¼ The phantom of the operaļ¼Sarahļ¼Tanz der vampireļ¼
The way that most of Conan Doyleās Sherlock Holmes storiesā most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880ās, compels me.
Thereās a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Womenās Money.
Yup, thereās a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young womanās complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil.Ā Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again.Ā (This is why I find āSecretly a womanā or āTransā Holmes headcanons much more convincing than āsociopathā Holmes.)
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 sheās probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going āOKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know youāre okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us toā.
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.
This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmesā family life.Ā The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.)Ā Thereās definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors.Ā Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime.Ā And yes, so much of it is of the personal type.Ā
dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) donāt 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 DONāT HAVE uhā¦.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 youād 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 beā¦a good person who helps out people the police canāt and wonāt help. There you go. Thatās how to write a relevant modern Holmes.
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.Ā In the stories, Holmesā 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.Ā Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since itās such a gimme.
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, Devilās Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I donāt know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.
#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 )
Letās not forget the time Holmes helps a young woman whoās being catfished by her own stepfather to steal her inheritance, and when the villain sneers that the law canāt touch him, Holmes grabs a horsewhip out of sheerest chivalry.
So, the most canon-accurate iteration of Sherlock Holmes in the last few decades is actually Benoit Blancā¦.
I think itās 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 womanās 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.]
One of my favorites is one where the womanās husband is actually a good person, the Adventure of the Yellow Face.
Husband comes to Holmes, tells him that someone is blackmailing his wife and she refuses to him who or why, but can Holmes help his wife?
The story turns very Gothic for a bitāwife going pale at the sight of a āhideous faceā leering at her from the upper window of a neighboring house, mysterious letters, strange payments of large sums to unknown people, her sneaking out in the middle of the night to visit the house with the face. Holmes and Watson and husband force their way into the house to confront the blackmailerā¦.
Turns out the āhideous faceā is a child wearing a mask. Her daughter from her first marriage in the US, in fact. To a Black man. The money was spent getting her child to Britain and setting up a home for her so the wife could see her, because she thought her new husband wouldnāt accept a mixed-race child.
Husbandās response:
ā¦when [Munroās] answer came it was one of which I love to think. He lifted the little child, kissed her, and then, still carrying her, he held his other hand out to his wife and turned towards the door. āWe can talk about it more comfortably at home,ā said he. āI am not a very good man, Effie, but I think I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.ā
Holmesās response:
Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper āNorburyā in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.
As a Black guy in an Interracial relationship, itās hard to express how much reading this story as a kid, meant to me ā then, and now. Thatās not to say Doyle has anything like a modern understanding of why Racism sucks; he was Knighted, after all, for writing a very pro-British history of the Boer War. Thereās a horrific amount of Sadian Orentalist ideas in his works, including at least one āfunā foray into Phrenology.
But then you get a story like this one. Or the anti-KKK message of the Five Orange Pips. And I think thereās more to this than the kind of ādonāt bring your toxic Otherness to Britainā approach that some Sherlockian scholars have accused ACD of. Just because he and Stoker were friendly doesnāt mean they were playing with the same themes.
Holmes praises the US at at least one point. Irene Adler ā The Woman ā is an American! Doyle does dive into racist (and gendered!) stereotypes, but he also weirdly does this bits of nuance that speak of something more enlightened, like heās not just another Victorian-era man.
He is, and allows Holmes to be, a man of complexities. Not fully of them moment he lived in, and not really seeing what we see today, save thru the idea of sheer human decency to the least of us.
Doyle wrote works that, from time to time, transcend the age they came from. Thatās a hell of a legacy.
Dilemma ~ 1928 ~ Alistair K. MacDonald (Scottish artist, 1880-1948)Ā
which costume would you rather wear? (1893)
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requested by: anon
request: 19th century womenswear inspired by naval themes such as ships, sailing, and the seas (either more with a uniform appearance or more costume-y)
commentary from the curator: I ended up combining the two options and going for theatre costumes that take inspiration from uniforms (and also sailing more generally). these are both from a production of HMS Pinafore, and I hope they fit what you were looking for! if not, please feel free to send in another request! āŗļø
In this period of Droughtcula, allow me to share the time I wrote Jonathan and Dracula taking a lovely trip to the zoo:
He tugs at Jonathanās sleeve when they enter the giraffe enclosure, seemingly thinking that his companion could miss the creatures towering over them if the Count doesnāt point them out. āMy friend, they have Questing Beasts.ā
āGiraffes,ā Jonathan corrects.
Dracula doesnāt seem to hear him. āLook at their necks. How strong are their hearts to push the blood so high?ā
Jonathan has no answer, struck with the sudden concern that Dracula might try biting one to see for himself. He takes hold of Draculaās hand in an effort to guide him away, but he may as well try to move a mountain. Itās a baseless worry anyway; they just stand there for around ten minutes more before going over to the elands, and then the ostriches.
Dracula is particularly enamoured with predators of any sort. They spend a worrying length of time at the bears pit, with Jonathanās heart seizing each time anyone stands near them. He is almost certain that Dracula would not throw a stranger into a pit of bears just for the sake of amusement, if only because it would draw attention, but Jonathan cannot be sure. It seems exactly his sort of humour.
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Come on now. He would prioritize the ring. I would prioritize my child.
Thatās no way to talk to your father
