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I got to see a total eclipse today! We didn’t know if we would get to see it or not because of all the cloud cover, but there was just enough break in the clouds to see it, and I’m so happy!
It got quite dark, but we didn’t get to see stars because of the clouds. But we did get to see the Bailey’s Beads and some solar flares. Those don’t really show in the pics but they were beautiful!
i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls
Time to take this post entirely too seriously:
I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.
When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.
a lot of you need to be a lot more chill about cishet passing people and couples still being part of the queer community
its happened to a friend recently and ive seen plenty of people including streamers/youtubers etc have the same thing happen over and over again, where they put the LGBT label on their streams or a pride flag in their bio and then they get people demanding to know every detail of their identity.
if you see a guy online with his girlfriend and he has a pride flag in his bio and your first reaction is to question whether hes even allowed to put that there, log off. the guy could be bi, could be trans, could be nb, could be literally any queer identity at all and it doesnt matter. its none of your fucking business. he could also just be an ally showing support, its none. of your. business.
you are not the queer police and it is not your job to make sure everyone in the queer community has the properly documented justification for being part of it. touch grass. you need to be normal about not knowing everyones labels and identities and about people keeping those private.
cishet passing people have always existed and will always exist within the queer community, they are our family and belong with us.
You are not the queer police!
also! queer people have been having kids for quite a number of years now! that guy could be the cishet-iest dude in the world but have been raised by lesbians, just like my oldest son!
this gatekeeping is poison. it is poison. stop it. you can't gatekeep the community without excluding people who need it.
What I want:
To not have people demanding that I justify who I am or who I fuck.
How I will get it:
I will constantly demand that people justify who they are or who they fuck.
CAN YOU SEE THE PROBLEM YET?!?!?
So I've finally launched my TikTok account--I'm posting videos about the research I've been doing for my books, as well as book recommendations, and even videos where I'm making book-related art and reading from my book, A Study In Garnet. If you like my femlock and female, sapphic, Sherlock Holmes content here, you'll probably like my videos there. Here's one of my art videos--I'm making mixed media art related to A Study In Garnet and reading an excerpt from it. It's from where Holmes and Watson (both in male guise) meet. Hope you enjoy! If you watch it, please let it play all the way through--I think it will make TikTok like me better--and also, if you could be so kind, do the like, share, bookmark, comment things, basically any love you can spare would mean so much to me! Thank you so much!
the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.
i want middle aged lesbian shows!! like good omens and ofmd but with women!!! my lesbian heart cant take this lack of romance </3 i dont just want the teenage queers, and i dont want it to just be a romance, but i want the ladies to fall in love and break up and reconcile and stab each other and kiss and ghost each other and fight and fuck and settle PLEASE
So I've been tentatively edging my way back into the ACD Holmes fandom at a glacier-like pace, in an effort to recapture a muse a decade forgotten. Looking for bookverse SH fans to follow, feel free to like this post or point me at them.
Meanwhile, have the poem I wrote waaaay back when, for The Empty House anthology, and then promptly forgot about until going through my WIP folder.
Cadenced scales and chords discordant Coaxed from strings, more scrape than tune Partner with the darkling twilight Shrouding all in fog-wreathed moon.
Softly now the lamp-light flickers Casting ‘cross that pensive face Shadows which betray the darkest Perils of the human race.
A child’s hope, a father’s burden A gracious lady’s firm behest – But L’art pour l’art, because the Master Is not swayed by wealth or crest.
But then! The tuneful musing halts As convoluted lies take flight. Sophistry and misconception Must give way before the Light.
Truth is Light, and his Conductor Unassuming, strong, discreet – Stalwart friend and chronicler, he Guards the sleuth of Baker Street.
Scarlet studies, Games and madmen Speckled bands but one close call. Valleys change from Fear to Shadows Heralding the Final Fall.
An Empty House stands still and silent Monument to genius gone; But no true hero lies forgotten While a chronicler lives on.
Look came in the mail today! Lucky meeeeeee!
I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at this as a beta reader. It was s a joy to read then, and it’s become a gorgeous book. Fem!Sherlock is always my jam, and I’m so happy she has a place on my physical bookshelf now. @wildwoodgoddess is a wonderful writer and fandom friend, and if you’d like to own your own copy (which I do recommend!), you can order it securely from her author website:
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(Stick it to Amazon and support her directly.)
Thanks @doctornerdington! It wouldn’t be the book it is now without your excellent insights! I appreciate you, friend.
hi hey hello I'm making a comic about my versions of Holmes and Watson! here's some sneak peeks. hope to be done with the full thing soon!
some drafts are already available on my patreon. I'll be updating it monthly as I make progress on the project! you can support me there as well, if you want ;3c
I gave my soapbox speech about how weight loss is mostly bullshit to two different patients in a row yesterday and so help me I’m pretty sure one of these days someone is going to say “but SURELY you agree I’d be HEALTHIER if I lost weight!” bc you can see the disbelief in their eyes. And like. Sure, maybe! You might see some improvement in biomarkers like LDL and A1c, and your knees would probably feel better. But you would be amazed at how much more good you can do for yourself by focusing on things you can actually meaningfully change without resorting to making yourself miserable. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables—it’s hard bc they’re more difficult to prepare and more expensive per calorie and go bad faster than other foods, but they’re what we evolved eating the most of so they’re what our bodies need the most of. And walk around more; sure, cardio is great for you, but if it sucks so bad you don’t do it, it isn’t doing shit for you. And we evolved to walk very very long distances, a little bit at a time, so our bodies respond actually very well to adding walks into our schedules, which is vastly easier than adding workouts that are frankly designed to be punishing when the definition of punishing is “makes you less likely to do it again in the future.”
You get one life. It is shorter than you can begin to imagine. Don’t waste it hating yourself because somebody is going to make money off that self-hatred. You deserve better than to be a cash cow for billionaires who pay aestheticians and dermatologists to make them (or at least their trophy wives) look thin and beautiful no matter what they actually do.
And ONE MORE THING—listen. We are NOT evolved to lose weight, we are evolved to hoard it. We came about in a world of famines. Not only does your brain have MULTIPLE failsafes built in SPECIFICALLY TO PREVENT WEIGHT LOSS, but there are epigenetic factors—factors that are not DNA but travel with it and affect how it is expressed. So if your parents or grandparents lived through a famine, like, oh, say, the Great Depression, YOU are more likely to gain weight and more likely to have difficulty losing it. AND! We live in a world highly affected by industrial pollution—there is no corner of the world free from it, micro plastics and industrial chemical pollution have been found literally everywhere ever studied—and many of those pollutants affect our endocrine systems. Looking at records of lab animals going back to the 1960s, where we have excellent records of what genetically essentially identical animals ate, we know that LAB ANIMALS FED THE SAME AMOUNT OF THE SAME CHOW WEIGH MORE NOW THAN THEY DID THE IN SIXTIES. So no. You’re not fat because your willpower is somehow busted. (Willpower, fun fact, can be depleted! By DEPLETING BLOOD SUGAR! Baumeister’s work in the 2000s demonstrated that.) You’re fat because your body wants you to live, and because the ultra rich have knowingly poured poison into the world because they don’t care if you die.
So YOU need to care if you live. And how you live. Please love yourself, because the billionaires will never give a shit about you. Weight Watchers has a 96-99% failure rate. Weight loss is a scam that makes billions of dollars every year. Love yourself too much to fall for that. Don’t wait until you’re thin to love yourself or to start living, because a) that day may never come and b) it’s okay if that day never comes. You are worthwhile and enough right now. I promise you that.
Did I mention that all studies on the subject are very clear--like, we do not need more studies on this, which is a bananas thing for a scientist to say--exercise does not lead to weight loss. It just doesn't. Anyone who tells you it does is wrong. It's good for you because it's good for you, not because it makes you thin. It improves your blood vessel health; it improves your heart health; it improves your body's ability to manage blood sugar; it improves your muscular health. It does not make you thin.
Reducing calories can reduce weight, but your body, as previously mentioned, is trying REAL HARD not to lose weight. I see a lot of recommendations for 1200 calorie a day diets. Google "starvation study" and look at how much the men in that study were given. It was over 1500 calories a day, and they were miserable. They became skeletal. They felt awful, depressed, foggy--because your brain is the single biggest user of calories in your body. It is so metabolically active that your brain uses around 30% of all the calories your body uses. Guess what happens when you starve your brain? You feel like shit. You feel stupid and depressed. Don't starve yourself. It doesn't work and it makes you feel awful and you will get rebound weight gain above whatever you lost, guaranteed, and then you'll blame yourself for "letting yourself go" because our society is built on lies.
We also cannot and should not ever suggest that anyone can lose more than 5-10% of their body weight and keep that off. It's just not possible. Bariatric surgery is a WHOLE other can of worms, I don't have the energy to explain why I almost never recommend it to my patients, but just know that if anyone has ever suggested you lose more than 10% of your body weight through behavioral changes, they are bullshitting you.
Plugging in all the available stated dates (where they’re not contradictory), my chronology is currently at something like this (question marks subject to change, etc.):
The ‘Gloria Scott’ - Summer 1875 [1] (Framing: Winter 1882-3?)
- The maths as stated don’t work, as 1855 + 30 = 1885, and these events can’t occur after A Study In Scarlet. 1875 would have to be Holmes’s second year of college.
The Musgrave Ritual - 1879 (Framing: Winter 1882-3?)
- It is stated to have been four years since Holmes last saw Musgrave. Holmes mentions telling Watson about the events of ‘Gloria Scott’. Watson must be living at 221b at the time, as his intro describes Holmes’s extremely messy habits in terms of lodging with him.
A Study In Scarlet - Jan-Mar 1881
- Watson states the date he discovered Holmes’s profession explicitly as the 4th of March, which was several weeks after they moved in together. I find it likely that it was at most mid-January when they met, and that Watson spent February observing Holmes’s habits and trying to figure him out.
The Resident Patient - Oct 1881
- Watson describes these events as being ‘towards the end of the first year during which Holmes and I shared chambers’, and then specifies that it was October.
The Valley Of Fear - Jan 1882 [2]
- It is stated to be ‘in the late eighties’, but Holmes appears to still be getting used to Watson’s sense of humour, which he claims is ‘developing’ pointing to it being earlier while Watson is still recovering from his illness. Any later and Holmes would already be very familiar with his closest companion’s personality.
The Speckled Band - Apr 1883
The Beryl Coronet - Feb 1884
The Copper Beeches - Early Spring 1884
The Yellow Face - 1883-5?
The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Oct 1885 [3]
- Mortimer’s stick is dated 1884 and Holmes notes this was 5 years ago (making it 1889), but Watson neither appears to be married nor in medical practice, and since this story is explicitly dated to before Holmes’s ‘death’, this precludes it being set after 1888.
The Greek Interpreter - 1884-6?
The Reigate Squires - Apr 1887
The Sign of Four - Jul 1887 [4]
- It is stated to be July (later mistakenly stated as September) 1888, but this contradicts both SCAN (March 1888) and FIVE (September 1887). There also seems to be a pearl missing as Mary describes their delivery.
The Cardboard Box - Aug 1887
- Holmes mentions both A Study In Scarlet and The Sign Of Four by name - which implies that Watson is a very speedy writer, since this would be only a few weeks later. However, this may be taken as self-promotion on Watson’s part.
The Noble Bachelor - Autumn 1887
- This story is dated to 1887 via Lord St Simon’s age, but Watson is soon to be married - which is not possible if he has not yet met his fiancée. Dating SIGN to July 1887 fixes this discrepancy.
A Scandal In Bohemia - Mar 1888
- Watson explicitly dates the start of this case to the 20th of March 1888, and states that he hasn’t seen Holmes for several months following his marriage (which would be in the late autumn to winter of 1887).
The Stockbroker’s Clerk - Jun 1888
- Watson states that he acquired his practice ‘shortly after’ his marriage, and that he was too busy to visit Holmes at Baker Street for three months. Counting most of March for the first month, that takes us to the June he states, which is the first time Holmes has visited Watson at his practice.
The Naval Treaty - Jul 1888
[The Second Stain - Jul 1888**]
- I take it that the story of this name is heavily if not entirely fictionalised. This is when the real events that inspired it occurred.
The Crooked Man - Summer 1888
The Five Orange Pips - Sep 1888 [5]
- It is stated to be September 1887, but even if SIGN occurred in July of that year, Watson and Mary have not married yet for him to be ‘staying at Baker Street’ while she is away visiting her (dead) mother.
The Boscombe Valley Mystery - Spring 1889?
The Man With The Twisted Lip - Jun 1889
- I place this after BOSC, as Holmes takes it as a given that Watson’s wife will not object to him sending a note and running off on a case in the middle of the night. (I suspect he’s wrong and will be due a bollocking after breakfast)
The Engineer’s Thumb - Summer 1889
The Dying Detective - Nov 1889
- Watson describes this as happening in his ‘second year of marriage’, which, 1888 being his first, works out to 1889.
A Case Of Identity - Sep 1890
The Red Headed League - Oct 1890
The Blue Carbuncle - Dec 1890
The Final Problem - Apr-May 1891
The Empty House - Mar 1894
The Norwood Builder - Summer 1894
- Stated to take place ‘several months’ after Holmes’s return. Watson has moved back to Baker Street and sold his practice.
The Golden Pince-Nez - Nov 1894
The Solitary Cyclist - Apr 1895
Black Peter - Jul 1895
The Bruce-Partington Plans - Nov 1895
The Veiled Lodger - Early 1896
The Devil’s Foot - Mar 1897
The Abbey Grange - Winter 1897
Wisteria Lodge - Mar 1898-99? [6]
- It is stated to be March 1892, but this is impossible as Holmes is presumed dead at that time. It also can’t be March ‘91 as Holmes is too busy at that time, and referencing REDH eliminates March ‘90 or any year earlier. Further, Holmes complains of boredom due to a lack of cases, which eliminates 1894 due to a very high number of cases in that year (he also would only have been back about two weeks at that point). Holmes is also busy March ‘95, ‘96, and ‘97. It is not until at least 1898 that there may be time for him to be bored by March.
The Priory School - May 1901?
- Years listed with regard to Lord Holdernesse date the story post 1900 and wording makes it seem that that is not the present year. Due to a reference in BLAC, I briefly thought Watson was dating the case to 1895, but I’m fairly sure that’s just confusing wording.
The Three Garridebs - Jun 1902
The Illustrious Client - Sept 1902
The Creeping Man - Sept 1902
The Blanched Soldier - Jan 1903
The Lion’s Mane - Jul 1907
His Last Bow - Aug 1914
I still need to place the following stories, which don’t have dates attached to them:
Silver Blaze
The Dancing Men
Charles Augustus Milverton
The Six Napoleons
The Three Students placed
The Missing Three-Quarter placed
The Red Circle
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
The Mazarin Stone
The Problem of Thor Bridge
The Sussex Vampire
The Three Gables
The Retired Colourman
The Shoscombe Old Place
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I rarely post personal stuff on here but irl I'm a writer whose work covers tech and AI quite a bit and with the WGA strike ongoing, I really want to stress that the reason Hollywood execs and higher-ups think they can just replace writers with chatgpt or have someone come and edit AI generated text is because they already think writing is that easy.
these people look at their shows, movies, etc as marketable (re, profitable) content so all they are watching for is "okay this show performed badly" and "this movie performed well" and I can promise you in a boardroom the quality, the time and effort that went into the actual writing is NEVER discussed as a contributing factor when it comes to the difference between those two things.
That's also the reason tools like chatgpt seem like magic to these people, because they've devalued the act of creation and everything that goes into making something that resonates with its audience, so naturally something that can scrape the entire digital world and spit something out that falls in line with what you asked seems like a wizard's spell, because they ALREADY think of writing as an afterthought, something where they just go "I need a show that appeals to the 16-24 age range" and writers can just fill in the blanks and they won't have to PAY PEOPLE for that.
There's a vast difference between art and content, and if you want to see more of the former, you should be furious they're trying to replace writers with what is essentially a programmable template generator. Pay your writers.
Did you see that the Welsh version of Chuck's pledge uses the word "curse" instead of "swear"? I don't speak Welsh, but I saw this on the internets and it sounds on brand.
OKAY I HAD TO LOOK THIS UP
Here's what it should be!
I swear by almighty God/Tyngaf i Dduw holl alluog
Here's what it is!
Byddaf i yn rhegi i Dduw omnipotent.
WHICH MEANS, BASICALLY,
I WILL SWEAR AT "OMNIPOTENT" GOD
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Okay I mean FIRST OF ALL that means the Welsh pledge breaks one of the ten commandments so that's a Choice and SECOND OF ALL I just checked and Google Translate actually translates this correctly so now I have a thousand questions and they really boil down to WHO EXACTLY TRANSLATED THIS GIVE ME A NAME
I think I will never be over this "I pledge my allegiance to King Prince Charles and also God can get fucked if he thinks he's so special, amen"
Man this has sent me down a rabbit hole of what Welsh speakers are saying about this. Annes Glynn has written an englyn for the new king, there's nice
I'r rhai hyn, nod coroni yw ein cael,
Yn un côr, i'w foli.
Gwrogaeth? Rhwyg a rhegi!
Na'n wir, NID fy mrenin i.
LMAO GET BARDED IDIOT
Would someone be willing to translate the poem? I’d try machine translation but, well, in this context...
Yes, but not well lol
So first that's an englyn, which is a name given to a type of short Welsh poetry used for praise, satire, or sometimes both. You know how sonnets and haikus have set syllables, line lengths, rhyme schemes, etc? There are nine different types of englyn in the same vein, but this one is an englyn unodl union:
a quatrain that goes 10, 6, 7, 7 in the syllables,
The 6th syllable of line 1 rhymes with the other lines,
Each line must contain cynghanedd
We do not have time to explain cynghanedd now but suffice to say it's a complex form of internal alliteration
I mention all that because I need you to know how beautiful that englyn is, because we're going to lose all of that when I translate it. But fuck me. That thing is exquisite on the tongue and in the ear. It's divine. My jaw dropped when my husband read it out to me. Immaculate.
Anyway, my translation:
To these ones, their crowning goal is to have us,
In one choir, to praise him.
Allegiance? Tears and swearing!
No indeed, NOT my king.
Super ugly by comparison. God, it's fucking beautiful in the Welsh.
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