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YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TALKIN TO THE JEDI HAVE YOU MATE

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As the gifts from the 2025 Summer Holmestice are being revealed (until the 14th), I felt the ghost of my Holmes obsession return like a vengeful spirit...

Winter @holmestice 2022 happened three years ago, and this was my gift for @jeremys-come-to-bed-eyes! :D

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"bbc sherlock was bad" this "rdj sherlock was too violent" that.

what if I love them all? what if I am hugging the best and the worst sherlock holmes adaptations close to my chest simultaneously?? what if I'm kissing Jeremy Brett on the forehead and holding hands with Sir Ian McKellen behind his back?! what then? Can you blame me for loving them all? What if I'm so in love with the overall concept of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson that I do not care whether they're Arthur C. Doyle's versions straight from the books or some new iterations in a true crime podcast!

I'm collecting them. Rows upon rows of adaptations in the shelves of my mind. They're all here.

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i’m on episode 7 of bloodline and i really don’t want the first season to end bc we know what fucking happens…………..

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I think the really interesting thing about Danny Rayburn is that he functions as both villain and victim. I know most Ben Mendelsohn fans are reluctant to use the term “villain” to describe the character, and I’ll agree that he certainly isn’t the villain of the series, but let me explain.

Danny Rayburn is simultaneously lovable, pitiable, and terrifying. It’s amazing all those things can even be combined in one person, one complex and fascinating character. We see Danny’s fun side several times; fixing the car with Kevin, joking around with his family, being a great cook. We see Danny’s pitiable side a lot too; from flashbacks of what happened after Sarah died, to moments of extreme emotional vulnerability. And, of course, we see his terrifying side; in moments when he loses his cool, when he threatens Meg, when he begins his plan for revenge. Danny is all three conflicting traits and once, ever changing between them. And obviously, Ben Mendelsohn plays the part so smoothly and so flawlessly that Danny feels more like a real person than just a character in a tv show.

So while it makes sense narratively for Danny’s fate to be, without spoilers, what it was, it is also disappointing for the audience. Because Danny was never just a villain or just pitiable; he was also lovable. He was someone you sometimes found yourself rooting for. And even in times when he was being scary, you found yourself wanting to see what he’d do next, wanting to know what else he was capable of. And other times, wanting to know how else he’s been shaped by his tragic past.

I think the biggest mistake the show made and its greatest strength are the same thing: Ben Mendelsohn as Danny Rayburn. Because without him, the show would have never been interesting. But because of his, again no spoilers, unfortunate fate early on… the show lost its best character. John Rayburn, despite being the focus of the show, never quite carried it as well as Danny did. Danny was the heart of Bloodline, the reason you kept clicking next episode. It’s no wonder they brought him back with flashbacks; the show couldn’t survive without him. I mean, look at season 3.

Danny is a fascinating character, and season 1 of Bloodline became as well known as it was because of Ben Mendelsohn’s captivating performance as Danny. He was the source of conflict, and emotion, and regret in the show. He was what kept it interesting. The other characters just can’t measure up. Danny is something special, a rare character that feels real, that captivates your attention. He commands the screen, and the moments when he’s the focus are the show’s most powerful scenes. I had never expected to become so invested in the show, but it was Danny that grabbed my interest from the beginning, and Danny that kept me watching, and I think most fans can agree. It’s his changeable nature that makes him so fun to watch, that feeling that you never know what to expect from him. The more you learn about him the more interesting he becomes.

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new drawing ! ben mendelsohn ur face is fascinating

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Jeremy Brett With Dame Jean Conan Doyle ⭐️⭐️

“He was charming. He was the only actor who played Sherlock Holmes who took the trouble to get in touch with me and to come and see me.

All along, he would ring me up and ask my opinion. Jeremy was trying to do his very best to be faithful to my father’s stories.” (Dame Jean Conan Doyle)

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idk about u guys but i genuinely go so insane thinking about the two years mark worked at lumon before helly arrived.

how scared he must've been when he first woke up. the trips to the break room. the friendship between mark and petey and the others. him feeling like SHIT every day and not knowing why. petey comforting him, helping him to settle in.

the og refiners . the jokes they had with eachother . their theories about what they were doing, their conversations about their outies..

yknow i bet petey was the one that first said "the work is mysterious and important" to mark when he was starting out and that's where he got it from . how he made himself believe it . i just . man

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I love when we get to see Mark S scared or angry, like I just love seeing more of what he would’ve been like when he started at Lumon. I think he kindof has had to settle into this state of pseudo-acceptance of the way he’s treated, because he’s done the rebelling and threatening to kill people and trying to quit and it’s been 2 years and he’s still here and there’s no getting out. He’s very resigned and beaten down, he tells himself everything is fine and he tries not to be scared when he’s led to the breakroom and he follows the rules because “Mr Milchick cant always be nice like that.”

But he is scared of what Lumon does to him, of what they might do next, and I love when we get to see those carefully constructed walls come down even a little. His desperation when Helly is trying to break all the same rules he did, how he runs and screams that she doesn’t understand. Him asking Ms Cobel if she’s mad at him, and the look on his face when she’s waiting for him in the break room. The way he’s shaking wide eyed and tries to bolt when he’s woken up in the cabin especially, he’s taught himself to be okay with a lot of things but when presented with something new he is immediately terrified, that initial fear comes rushing back.

And I think it’s very interesting that for his anger it really only comes out when other people are wronged. And I think it’s because a large part of his rationalization is dependent on it somehow being his fault. But when Helly shows up he just, can’t apply that logic to her. He knows she doesn’t deserve the pain, he can’t rationalize it when it’s not him because he does know they shouldn’t be treated like this. And at first he just tries to just take as many punishments as possible, makes it make sense by coming up with reasons it’s his fault. But then he just gets pissed. There’s no way he can rationalize them taking all his friends away, there’s no way that’s fair, so he’s planting notes and calling the board and almost entirely drops the perfectly poised Mark S. attitude he’s been holding this whole time.

And idk that’s just my favorite thing, the acknowledgement that the way Mark S. behaves is because he’s been beaten into submission, and the very realistic way that submission cracks under pressure.

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mark s. acrylic on paper (had to play with the colors a bit to get the scan to look like the original)

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theres this really weird thing i've been experiencing lately

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"everytime you find yourself here, it's because you chose to come back."

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> > > finally treat myself with a fanart‼️ i am excited for s3, crossfinger hard it concluded w best outcome it could be 🤲🙏

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dedication from Sherlock Holmes & The Three Winter Terrors by James Lovegrove

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Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes 🫶

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SEVERANCE 1x03 / 2x06

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also the fact that drummond is killed on accident in the elevator due to the muscle spasms of the innie/outie switch-- the process is VIOLENT and is always violent and is always a death and for once it happened to lumon upper management rather than staff. the metaphor. i love it.