Then What Happened

[freemanswood]

Martin Freeman in Little Bug

[freemanswood]

@bilbsmaug @safedistancefrombeingsmart

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

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[bilbsmaug]

FOR HATERS AND BULSHITTLE RUMOR CREATORS..... MEET MR. FREEMAN AND MR. CUMBERBATCH!!!!

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[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

Sherlock S5 incoming. 🤪

[erikoswinoswald]

★ The Game is On! - Sherlock

[engazed]

Blackbird, Fly

Chapter 38: For This Moment

Read it on AO3.

[engazed]

Where do you read fanfiction?

I primarily visit ...

Archive of Our Own

FanFiction.net

Wattpad

Somewhere else (leave in comments or tags)

Voting ended onJul 12

I'm thinking of deleting my presence on FFN altogether. Polling to see if anyone would be impacted. My sense is: no.

[ksyass]

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[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

...oh

[windylyndy]

“Barabbas is me.”

[girlactionfigure]

There’s a pattern in Judaism/Torah. A pattern we don’t always want but we always need.

When G-d wanted to make David a king … He didn’t give him a crown. He gave him Goliath.

When He wanted to make Joseph a leader … He didn’t give him a palace. He sent him to prison.

When G-d wanted to elevate Moses … He didn’t give him a stage. He gave him decades in the wilderness.

When G-d wanted to make Esther a queen … He gave her a crisis, and Haman.

Time and again, we see: G-d doesn’t elevate people through ease, rather through struggle.

Because it’s not despite the challenge that we rise. It’s through it. That’s how the human spirit is made and rises higher.

We don’t know what the new year will bring. But we do know this: We were not born for comfort. We were born for meaning.

We weren’t placed in this world to hide from its problems—we were created to illuminate and solve them.

And if, this year, you find yourself walking through a wilderness … or standing before your own personal or professional Goliath … Remember: That’s not a detour from your destiny. That is your calling.

Written by Rabbi Mendel Mintz, founder of the Chabad Jewish Community Center in Aspen

[greater-than-the-sword]

Have you ever fainted?

Yes

Came close but didn't actually lose consciousness

No

Voting ended onDec 14, 2025

[windylyndy]

Just once. I cut my finger with a bread knife. Sat down to put pressure on it with a rag. Realized I might need stitches and called a friend to take me to the ER. Got up to unlock the door so she could let herself in. Vasovagal response, doc later said: I fainted on my feet. On the way down, I apparently crashed into a wall of shelves and woke up with a bleeding head. The cut on my finger quickly became a much more trivial thing. Fun times.

[engazed]

Blackbird, Fly

Chapter 36: The Storm at the End of the World

Read it on AO3.

[househuntingscotland]

2 bedroom flat for sale on Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow

Asking price: £225,000

[imakewordsandpics]

Made a few updates to my covers for @engazed amazing series The Fallen

[engazed]

Stunning artwork by @imakewordsandpics, to whom I owe a thousand thank yous.

[engazed]

Just reread all of the fallen, desperate for the rest! Do you happen to know when we might be getting the rest? I am excited to see you’re considering printing this story, I would be very interested in buying it.

I'm really hoping for this month. This chapter is rather important, climax-wise, and has required a lot of planning and research, including revisiting the transcripts from the first two series. So each bit has come slowly, but I've written more than half of it and am speeding onward toward the finish line. This is likely the penultimate chapter (depending on whether I do an official epilogue, etc.), not to mention the appendix (which I've included in the first two books, so I need to stay consistent).

And I very much want to make each of these books into a print copy because I certainly don't trust that the internet will preserve these stories for years to come.

[girlactionfigure]

[pressforwardsaints]

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[engazed]

It took me years, but I finally made my way south to London to do the Sherlock Escape Room in Shepherd's Bush, and can I just say, every minute was a joy!

The strangest, most surreal part for me, though, was standing inside the recreated 221B. I have spent countless hours in the 221B of my imagination as I write my fics that the flat has become oh so very real to me. So standing in that space, it felt like revisiting a place I'd already been, a place I knew all too well, a place I've spent almost as much time in as my own home. They've done a marvellous job with the details, from the Union Jack pillow on John's chair to Billy the Skull on the mantel to the clutter on the tables and dressing on the papered walls. I wish I could have stayed a little longer and just revelled in being there. But there was a game to play. Happy to say, we successfully escaped. ;)

If you've not done so already and you're in London for a spell--and if you like to solve puzzles and crack codes and pretend that Sherlock and John are still out there doing the same--do take the time. For me, it was a dream.

[windylyndy]

Oh I would love to do that. I love escape rooms generally, but a Sherlock-themed one would be the top of my list! I spend a lot of mental time in 221B myself. I need to visit the UK, clearly!

[sannapersikka]