people be gay

28. They/them. Love vaguely crappy crime shows and podcasts about consulting detectives.

[suzalulubf]

over the years the holmes/watson dynamic has been diluted into a kind of ‘esoteric detective/exasperated sidekick’ take which sucks because canon acd holmes/watson is very much more like this

[poppypirate]

No, but this.

The esoteric detective/exasperated sidekick annoys me a little as I engage more and more with ACD canon, because my god, they're nothing like that.

I feel like the most visible example of this is BBC Sherlock, and the way John reacts when Sherlock returns from "the dead," going straight for anger and punching him several times. Like I know there's a lot of complex emotions at play there, and on its own, it's a great take on the complicated response to seeing a friend you thought was dead just randomly show up a couple of years later. But because I saw BBC Sherlock first and read the ACD canon after, I was so confused to see Watson almost jump with joy to see Holmes again. It made BBC Sherlock seem like a deliberately hypermasculinised take of this scene that's canonically so very full of warmth and affection and joy, emotions that the BBC version just fail to explicitly capture - the only joy the viewers draws from the scene is out of the context that it's Holmes and Watson we're talking about. I know BBC Sherlock gives John's trauma the importance it hasn't been afforded in previous adaptations, but like, idk... I feel like my point still stands.

Granada did The Empty House SO well too, despite being made in a decidedly more... stringent time than the 2010s.

This is also why in terms of modern adaptations, Sherlock and Co is my favourite. There is sensitivity and kindness there in a way that is just so honest to canon, while still being mindful of the characters' trauma responses. While I'm terrified of Reichenbach happening there (idk man sherlock is just way too much of a darling on that podcast - it makes me so sad that he'll have to deal with a moriarty), I am definitely looking forward to the way his return will be dealt with, because I KNOW it'll be better than whatever BBC did.

On that note, I really hope they start putting Sherlock into disguises on the podcast hehe. It'll be so exciting to see them in a modern context

[theholmwoodfoundation]

Inspired by our friends @224bbaker who posted theirs on their BlueSky - they very kindly allowed us to follow suit!

So here is our PowerPoint on why YOU should listen and support The Holmwood Foundation!

[marlenacantswim]

hello psych people, this is not a drill: i have discovered a download to the FULL ENTIRE PSYCH 2014 POINT AND CLICK ADVENTURE MYSTERY GAME. and I KNOW it's the full game because i just finished playing through it!!!

unfortunately, outside of a chance encounter with someone selling a physical disc, there is no legal and legitimate way to play it, since it's abandonware (i reached out to the company to confirm this; they legally cannot sell it anymore since the license expired and was never renewed), so we have to rely on the media preservation efforts of past fans.

frankly, i'm obsessed with this game. it got a lot of genuine laughs out of me and committed to the psych universe far more than i was expecting, and though i have many qualms with it, it is those issues that make it so i cannot get it out of my mind. it makes me want to learn how to mod, because there's only a handful of tweaks and additions that would make it the perfect psych gameplay experience that exists in my head.

anyways, loose lips sink ships, so if you'd like to play it yourself, message me and i'll gladly send you the link! you just have to unzip the .rar file and open the "Psych" application in the resulting folder. it'll only work on systems that can run .exe files (sorry my fellow macbook users).

[youfecklessthug]

they should make it illegal to interview people on a Thursday and not tell them the outcome till the Monday or Tuesday

[hackfurs]

General tumblr reminder, since some people don't know: If the person's URL has "deactivated" plus a string of numbers (a date) after it, that means that they manually deleted their own blog. It doesn't mean they were banned. Banned blogs don't have "deactivated" after them and will just be the normal URL you can't click on or interact with. They look very similar and function the same, but they were caused by two very different things.

[hackfurs]

thats not true i dont think people would do that

[wheahead-deactivated20260112]

One thing that I think Brett's Holmes portrays really well is the level of casual affection and domesticity between him and Watson. They're quite touchy and physically comfortable (by victorian standards at least), very anticipitory of each other, and it's clear, owing heavily to the acting, how much they mean to each other and how long they've spent around the other. Watson is gentle and sympathetic with his friend in a way that i feel some adaptations lose (while also maintaining the strength and temper he sometimes shows in canon), and Holmes, despite being a few degrees colder in his dialogue and tone, clearly holds a good deal of care for Watson and takes genuine pride in watching him suceed on cases.

That applies more broadly, too. They removed a lot of Holmes' kinder, more comforting dialogue, especially when he's dealing with a distressed client, but Brett's acting really shines in portraying subtler warmth and concern. I know the microexpressions have been mentioned before but good lord, he really is seeing how many he can fit into one episode, and it plays into that controlled, not unemotional, aspect of canon Holmes.

[pussyhoundspock]

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

[nonevahed]

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literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)

[zarohk]

And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.

[daisywords]

if you put a weird character in a normal situation, people call it "literary fiction." If you put a normal character in a weird situation, people call it "genre fiction." If you put a weird character in a weird situation, you will have produced a forbidden, elite type of fiction that attracts one-star goodreads reviews from the most boring people you can imagine

[romanceyourdemons]

told my coworker “they’re accusing the chivelord of chive fraud” and it turns out she doesn’t know what any of that means and i look crazy

[romanceyourdemons]

HE CONFESSED TO THE CHIVE FRAUD

[romanceyourdemons]

context for the people not following along with chivegate: chopping a cup of chives is a pretty standard test of a chef’s knife skills, so about a month ago a redditor on r/KitchenConfidential started cutting a cup of chives every day until reddit says they’re perfect. he quickly became a wildly popular character, his chives posts regularly hit the front page of reddit. ah what happy larks we’ve had. chive montage break.

but earlier today someone posted that for the past two days he had posted the same cup of chives, just a different photo and flipped. investigation, accusation, excuses, and despair followed in the comments. a few hours later the chivelord himself posted an apology, stating that he had been having car trouble and was unable to get and chop chives and had been too embarrassed skip a day. he offered to submit to the most-upvoted reasonable punishment, which as of right now is, in second place, buying a tripod and posting videos of him chopping his chives, and in first place, simply sitting with the weight of his betrayal

[valtsv]

oh my god god god god god my dad just tried to complain about me wearing earrings with ghosts on them because they're "not very festive" so i said Well Actually ghosts are very appropriate for christmastime and he said tell you what if you can show me a single christmas themed thing that has ghosts in it i won't say another word about your fashion choices this entire holiday. i Promise. so i got him to lean in realllllll close as i opened up the browser app on my phone and slowly began to type "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" while the blood rapidly drained from his face.

[deep-dark-fears]

You had a good run. An anonymous fear submitted to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thanks!

Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th www.comicartsla.com/

[official-lucifers-child]

so my friend just texted me to see how i’m doing today. i said i’m alright why do you ask. and he said you were wearing more rings than usual today. and i said yeah what’s that got to do with the price of fish. he replied. with. “You wear more rings when you need the extra sensory input in your hands, which is usually correlated to an overall worse mental state because usually you like less sensory input, your max number of rings is 3 or 4. So I thought I’d check on how you’re doing.”

to be loved is to be known but jesus christ please be a little stupider.

[official-lucifers-child]

okay i know i’m op but ??? @wizardarchetypes this is hilarious to me

[prokopetz]

Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who regards this as a personal victory.

Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who's just as surprised as you are.

Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who's mad about being left out.

Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who tells a different story about how it happened each time they're asked.

Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who, in their unguarded moments, admits it's probably for the best.

Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who claims the others are "just resting".

Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who insists it's not their fault.

[aokozaki]

Doctor Who

[iambeees]

A detail I dont think I've seen anyone talk about when analysing Wake Up Dead Man's women is Louise has a brother. And this only makes her asking father Jud to pray for her even more heartbreaking, because despite having a brother, she feels truly alone. She gives no indication that her brother has visited their dying mother, let alone provide her with emotional support.

We talk a lot about how the church treats and exploits the women who are active in the church, but there's little discussion about how the church's ideals of what a woman should be impacts every woman, not just the ones who attend the services. Louise knows Wicks is a cruel man, but she still, probably subconsciously, conforms to his ideals. She is the only one in her family to care for her mother. She attempts to make polite conversation with Jud but is shut down by him. When she sternly but politely calls him out for interrupting her, Jud sighs and becomes more frustrated.

We can even see how being a woman impacts her job. She runs the buisness with her brother, but hes the face of the buisness. He *takes* the orders, but she does all the *processing*. She should know all the answers, but she cannot give Jud and Blanc the answers because she has to get her brother to do it, and only then can she call back Jud.

Its small details like this that I love the most about Wake Up Dead Man. Such a perfect film

[bef0re-i-sleep]

Just read that one sherlock holmes story where theres that rich guy blackmailing people and Holmes got commissioned to help a lady that he's blackmailing, and when he doesn't budge he BREAKS INTO THE GUYS HOUSE TO GET THE LETTERS HE'S BLACKMAILING HER WITH, then witnesses a different woman come in and murder the blackmail guy, and then barely escape without getting caught. And then when Lestrade comes to ask him to figure out who killed the blackmail guy Holmes is like "lmfao no he had it coming" and that's literally it. Phenomenal.

[infinityundone]

My prediction for the next Benoit Blanc film is that after Marta (accused of a murder, scared but works with Blanc), Helen (pretends to be a murdered person to work with Blanc), and Jud (accused of a murder, keeps trying to confess to it and has to be stopped by Blanc), the next in line is going to be someone who has not committed a murder, but really wants to do so and Blanc has to continuously talk them out of it while also trying to find a different murderer.

[niightegoblingtyime]

I can hear it now,

Watson #4, absolutely losing it: Everyone already decided I’m guilty, and all of my problems could be solved by just becoming the person everyone tells me I am! Don’t you see? I can fix this! I just have to kill him!

A very frazzled and exhausted Blanc: Ah don’t knohw how tuh tell you this buht… no. Do nawt do that.

[gayrefrain]

someone on here posted about how Benoit seemed more radicalized after the events of Glass Onion (if i can find the post again I'll link it) and i haven't stopped thinking about it

here's what we know about benoit blanc

he's a famous detective who has worked on a variety of high-profile cases

his father was a cop

his mother was religious and they stopped speaking to each other

he listens to musicals

he is very observant

he is not religious

he lives with a man (confirmed off-screen to be his partner, ambiguous onscreen)

he is bad at mystery games

we know glass onion took place in May 2020. as part of this case, he watched a powerful white man try (and eventually fail) to steal the work of one Black woman and try to silence/intimidate another. and right after that he likely observed the way cops treated people (especially people of color) during the protests of summer 2020

In knives out, Benoit Blanc works closely with the cops, but also willfully invites a suspect he knows is involved in the death of Harlan. While he does not do anything to obscure her potential guiltiness, he does let her protect herself.

in glass onion, Blanc agrees to help Helen with the case outside of law enforcement. the cops don't even show up until AFTER the glass onion building bursts into flames.

In wake up dead man, Jud is already assumed guilty despite circumstantial evidence, but Blanc's reading of him shows him to be kind-hearted and incapable of murder. While he does work with the cops, he intentionally gets in the way of the law and helps protect Jud because he knows him to be a scapegoat.

i think it makes a lot of sense over the entire timeline's narrative that Blanc would become more aware of the systemic issues in the justice system after the first two cases we've seen as movies, and that he would be more willing to go outside the law to make sure justice is served