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Happy Birthday Kiryu Kazuma! (Born June 17th 1968)

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uhh was trying out different methods of shading

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sharing this beautiful piece from my twt because i feel like this deserves at least like 5 likes okay

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i just think hes neat hahah

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more of our fav girl 🩷

i love drawing her tbh

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I CAN DROP IT

i’m like 99% sure i’m allowed to drop a course but the student center won’t reply to my email grrrrrrr

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i’m like 99% sure i’m allowed to drop a course but the student center won’t reply to my email grrrrrrr

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goddd i’m so tired of being meeeeee

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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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okita.

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you can make fun of old people all you want but then you'll be knitting with a good album on and a cup of tea and you'll be like this is excellent actually. the old ladies were right about this one. about the crosswords too, by the way

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to be in john watson's head for the 45 minutes he thinks sherlock and janine were a couple and about to get engaged. it would be like watching a house of cards try to keep itself upright in a hurricane.

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Look. I am tired of catching strays on this. If you're going to invoke the Secret Fourth Sherlock Episode in relation to your own fandom's unhinged post-finale copium behavior, you need to know your fandom history.

Specifically, you need to realize that the origin of the Secret Fourth Episode idea came from a BFI screening Q&A -- specifically a journalist (for RadioTimes, unless my memory fails me) asking the showrunners about the possibility of a Secret Fourth Episode. The Q&A where this hypothesis was first floated took place three days before the finale had actually aired. In response to this question, the showrunners laughed and denied it, but joked that the hypothetical episode could be called "The Lost Special", a reference to The Story of the Lost Special, a crypto-Holmesian detective story about a missing train written by Conan Doyle during the hiatus between The Final Problem and The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Again: the hypothetical fourth Sherlock episode had been given a title by the showrunners three days before anyone except a screening audience had even seen the third episode. The idea, outlandish as it was, had originated with a question from a professional media beat reporter. The answer to that question was one of the few tidbits from the Q&A granted immediate release and not embargoed until after the episode aired.

In the lead up to the finale, this was absolutely mystifying information to receive -- why on earth would a journalist be asking about a secret fourth episode??? After seeing the finale (first when a leaked Russian dub was inexplicably shared by official BBC accounts for some fucking reason, then the official broadcast), the idea that they were attempting to prime hardcore fans for some kind of insane media stunt became one possible explanation.

All this to say: I was there, Gandalf. I watched the premiere of Apple Tree Yard with the best of them, feeling like a lunatic before, during, and after. There was a thread of reasoning that led us there, however tenuous, and it turns out watching a random show that is definitely not a Secret Sherlock Fourth Episode while feeling like a lunatic is still a pretty harmless place to be led in order to rule out a tenuous hypothesis about a tv show.

But if your other fandom's finale debacle doesn't even have a hypothetical title for its secret episode direct from a showrunner's mouth announced three days before you have any reason to think there might be a need for one, your fandom has less a foundation than any Secret Sherlock Fourth Episode theorists did.

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chocolate mint ice cream. banger.

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i'm sorry i don't know what came inside me. came into me. came over me. sorry.