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Does anyone else feel, like, a weird inhibition against starting new TV shows? Like, there are shows I want to watch but when I think about sitting down to start it something in me goes “no you can’t just do that.” What am i waiting for? I feel like I need to prepare? Brain: You have to wait. Me: Wait for what??? Brain: WAIT

yourrealitybeyondtime

I found out recently that it’s due to not having enough emotional or mental space to process something new. Got too much going on in your own head/real life already.

elidyce

Me: I would like to experience this new thing.

My Brain:… no.

Me: Why not?

My Brain: Can’t do it. Not today.

Me: Whyyyyyyyy?

My Brain: Because we are processing at capacity and one more stream is going to crash the whole system.

Me, aloud: I’m not in the mood to try (new thing) right now.

seashells-and-bookshelves

THIS IS A REAL THING??? ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!!?

theeternalspace

Wow. that explains… so much

they-callme-ami

No wonder I can barely start new anime or cartoons anymore.

sanerontheinside

finnglas

This also can be a very common issue for people with ADHD or other conditions that cause emotional dysregulation, even if you’re not actively Going Through Something at the time. Like, the knowledge that it’s going to evoke an emotional response in you means you’re more likely to keep putting it off because you have trouble returning to an equilibrium after an emotional spike. Like, shows that I have been REALLY INTO, like SUPER INVESTED, with lots of feelings involved – I have to take breaks between new episodes of it and go back to watching things I’ve already watched before that I know how they end, and I’m prepared for the emotions that go with them, to give myself a break from the emotional spikes and exhaustion of being surprised – even pleasantly – by the media I’m watching.

sidneypagget

guess what all the comments say lmao

88thparallel

The one that blew my mind?

How did I never notice this before? Or maybe I did and forgot?

#sherlock

raggedyblue

the first thing Dracula watches on TV are … elephants (all those adaptations in which the canonical subtext was avoided)

graceebooks

you can’t be serious

#dracula #sherlock

wraithee

I know it could just be the bbc recycling costumes, but they really had the beard wear the same dress and for that I am grateful.

raggedyblue

@ferm-acid tag!

ferm-acid

( X ) Yes! Would I lie ghjdhd

#dracula #sherlock

featuresofinterest

fun fact for you all: bram stoker started writing dracula just weeks after oscar wilde’s conviction…….we really are in it now

housmania

Dracula! And Oscar Wilde! YES! *drops papers everywhere*

I’ll just casually drop this here–it’s a long (and good) read, but essentially, the author argues that:

Stoker wrote Dracula as a direct reaction to the Wilde trials

Many of Dracula’s characteristics actually echo Wilde as described to the trials, and Dracula’s lifestyle resembles an exaggerated version of precautions to hide homosexuality

Stoker is basically the pro-closeted 1890s alternative to Wilde’s flamboyancy, and that comes out in how he portrays Dracula and Jonathan Harker

Like if you look deeper into Stoker’s letters to Whitman, he’s practically obsessed with feeling “naturally secretive” and “reticent”

(Also he and Wilde had some weird personal rivalry going on, since Stoker married Wilde’s definitely-not-straight ex-fiancee, though later they were friendly…there’s a lot to unpack here)

So, arguably, Dracula was Stoker’s way of apologizing for his silence during Wilde’s trials.

Some highlights:

Wilde’s trial had such a profound effect on Stoker precisely because it fed Stoker’s pre-existing obsession with secrecy, making Stoker retrospectively exaggerate the secrecy in his own writings on male love.

It is difficult, Stoker admits, to speak openly about “so private a matter” as desire. In carefully calibrated language, Stoker asks forgiveness from those who might see that his silence is a sin-to those few nameless souls who know his secret affinity with Wilde.

Since Dracula is a dreamlike projection of Wilde’s traumatic trial, Stoker elaborated and distorted the evidence that the prosecutor used to convict Wilde. In particular, the conditions of secrecy necessary for nineteenth-century homosexual life–nocturnal visits, shrouded windows, no servants–become ominous emblems of Count Dracula’s evil.

Dracula…represents not so much Oscar Wilde as the complex of fears, desires, secrecies, repressions, and punishments that Wilde’s name evoked in 1895. Dracula is Wilde-as-threat, a complex cultural construction not to be confused with the historical individual Oscar Wilde.

tl;dr:

Stoker is actually too repressed to function

Oscar Wilde (especially his trials) absolutely influenced Stoker

Dracula gay

#dracula #bram stoker

shinka

literally started watching a stream for bbc dracula because i was bored and immediately the episode goes into the discrepancies and lies in the written version of john’s account vs what he actually experienced………….. everything is the same

#dracula

cringelock

bbc dracula things that manifested demons in my home

- johnny...there is no baby

- agatha having a “detective acquaintance in london”

- jonathan harker’s writing being an unreliable account of what happened/agatha having to dig deeper into jonathan’s story and ask if he had sex with dracula because he’s an unreliable narrator

add onto this at your leisure

#dracula

semechkablack

jonathan, after he found out how nothing he wrote made sense

#dracula

laurelcanyonblvd-archive

me joining tjlc in 2016:

free-martinis

Martin Freeman on BBC Radio 6: Martin Freeman’s Christmas Party Guestlist and Guide to DecadesListen as the actor explores 6 decades, in 6 shows, across 6 days, starting from 1pm on Thu 26th Dec 2019.

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#Martin Freeman

shinka

dracula bbc is only fun for tjlc-ers and it’s really telling skjfhjfdd

whimsicalnay

a relative at every family gathering: why no boyfriend?

what i want to say: the reality of being in an actual romantic relationship is actually terrifying and i’m much more comfortable entertaining the idea of having a boyfriend than actually getting one like there’s a 99.9% chance that i’ll be disappointed probably because i’ve idealized the concept in my head and my instinct to run away from intimacy combined with my high standards is a recipe for an emotional disaster and also my freedom holy shit i love my freedom and i take no shit and will drop your ass if you hurt me and i have dreams that don’t involve boys and i don’t want to waste my time on something that isn’t endgame for me like dating isn’t fun for me at all i don’t understand and i mean can you imagine bearing your soul to a person who has the power to destroy you like wHY THE FUCK—

what i always say: idk i’m just focusing on school

bi-any-chance

Bi culture TikTok

queersforpluto

garkgatiss

Yesterday in class we were discussing about how fans ruin everything and how that's a negative social impact. Do you believe we.. sort of ruined the show because of our high expectations? Did we ruin it because we made the show about johnlock?

i feel like i have to start by clarifying what we’re talking about when we say “ruined”, because if you were to ask me, the show has not been ruined whatsoever. i also don’t think we “made” the show about johnlock – that’s what it’s undoubtedly about. S4, up to and including TFP, is very very much still About Johnlock.

but i do agree pretty universally with idea that having unrealistic expectations for something can cause you to “ruin” your own experience of the actual thing when those expectations are ultimately not met. i think that might be slightly different than the idea that “fans ruin everything”, which seems like it could include fans ruining the show for other fans, or fans harassing creators to the point where they change the content/rewrite the ending they had in mind, which are both things we could have different conversations about.

everyone had a lot of expectations going into S4 – some of them realistic, some of them not, some of them too narrow and inflexible to be realistically satisfied even though they were plausible outcomes, etc. many people specifically expected johnlock to become canon in S4, which it didn’t. i think it’s safe to say nobody expected anything close to what TFP actually was.

so yeah, i do think everyone’s experience of S4 was defined by how firmly they were attached to their expectations of what would happen, and how willing they were to let go of those expectations and engage with and explore what S4 ultimately was. some people were so inflexible with their expectations that they still deny that S4 is worth engaging with at all. those people will undoubtedly lay the blame of “ruining” the show entirely on mofftiss themselves, which, i suppose i can’t argue with in a purely subjective sense: they wanted something specific from a show, and it didn’t give them that. that’s as fine a reason to walk away as any.

but “mofftiss/S4 ruined the show for me” is different from “mofftiss/S4 ruined the show period” because, clearly, i can’t relate! to be fair, my expectations were inclined that way anyway: i was quietly concerned that the simple johnlock endings people were predicting before S4 without a matching sweeping plot twist would fall flat for a general audience, be too easily dismissed and forgotten compared to what legacy i imagined mofftiss would want their groundbreaking show to leave. a completely fake S4 filled in that puzzle piece for me beyond my wildest dreams! but it took work to get there, i had to read a lot to understand what was going on, and frankly making TFP look vastly too stupid to have any meaning whatsoever was probably to deter exactly that level of sleuthing, so. here we are!

garkgatiss

does anyone recognize the recce location? i keep staring at it and have managed to convince myself it's a dam based 1% on the curvature of the structure and 99% on wishful thinking (the SYMBOLISM can you IMAGINE) but i want to hear more ideas

garkgatiss

i brightened it up a bit -- you can see the railing curves around to the left in the distance, there’s stairs going down into the void(?), and it sure looks to me like that light is sticking out from the corner of the structure but i can’t say for sure

garkgatiss

The promenade overlooking Tinside Lido in Plymouth:

The promenade wrapping around the peninsula, Tinside Lido on the right:

I’m absolutely yelling it’s not a dam it’s a POOL overlooking THE OCEAN

devoursjohnlock

Arwel is checking out a pool location in Plymouth and we're supposed to think this is not about Sherlock? Plymouth is where Arthur Conan Doyle joined George Budd's medical practice. They may as well be doing a recce on Baker Street.

#s5