#sherlock holmes you are the exception

[tremendously-crazy]

does anyone else immediately lose interest in a book when there's a romantic subplot or is that just me

[sesamestreep]

it’s wild to me that like every modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (and by modern I mean “made recently” not “set in modern times”) is like Hell Bent on coming up with a Reason™️ that Watson stays with Holmes and trots around with him on adventures all the time despite the inconvenience and the danger and all, and so it’s like “oh, Watson’s a gambling addict, he loves uncertainty and mystery” or “oh, Watson’s an adrenaline junkie, he gets off on being constantly in danger from criminals” or even like “Watson’s atoning for sins of the past of BEING IN THE WAR by solving crimes with Holmes now” or WHATEVER. And it’s like, girl, maybe he’s just in love! Did you think of that?? Maybe he’s got a crush and it’s making him do stupid things. Maybe he’s just got bad taste and his type is guys who don’t know how to refold newspapers properly but can identify different types of cigar ash by sight, smell, and taste. And wrote a monograph on the subject. Maybe he’s down bad is all. I mean, Keep is simple, stupid!!!

[holmesunenthusiast]

You think Watson ever felt guilty when Mary died as he was mourning Holmes, wishing he'd spent more time with her instead of grieving someone already gone? You think he buried her close to the honorary grave he made for Holmes, or separate so he could properly give each of them his attention when he came to visit? You think he buried them with a single plot between them, waiting for his own turn? You think he spent time creating checks and balances of who he was meant to be hurting over more?

You think when it was all over he ever went back to Mary's grave and begged her to come back too?

[ryuusea]

「I will catch you…」

[buckingham-ashtray]

Abandoned by the rest of the train in the tunnel of a station built but never used and which nobody ever thought of much less looked for, unknown to the world and only vaguely remembered by an isolated man with a weird train obsession who chews on his worn stupid hat when anxious, the stranded car is the bomb of sentiment itself where the heart lay buried in the middle of the exploding ruination connected to every one of its arteries, trapping the lost and wandering deers in the florescent lights of imminent doom inside this coffin for two and watched with numbers flickering red ticking down the last seconds of their lives as the brain knelt by his heart splayed wide open on the floor, hands joined in prayer in front of his pleading eyes where they pooled and spilled down the ravines of his cheeks with the pained confession that he cannot unlove his conductor whom he was always meant to but would never belong with, who was the first ever man to spread the maps of London on the table in search for and set foot on this forsaken explosive chamber of heart hidden away underneath the road named Sumatra, and as his love forced its way through the clenched teeth of aggravated half-truths and betrayed by red-rimmed eyes, time stops at 1:29. 

[angryducktimemachine]

I am just here to say that i just went through so much of your rqg fanart and i absolutely adore all of it! I Especially love your hamid design .. and sasha cause i Loooove sasha always either way. Idk just ... i love it and idk i am begging for more. Idk how long ago it was that you dtew that stuff but i am currently listening to it for the first time and i am so desperate for good fanart

Hello! And thank you very much I'm glad you enjoy it!! :D

Unfortunately I'll have to disappoint about more in the foreseeable future, while RQG is very dear to my heart, due to a few reasons I kind of burned out of it. Regardless I am glad to hear you enjoy mine and others fanart and I hope you have fun listening to it!

[throughpatchesofviolet]

Good morning ... been doing some thinking, and I'm still going to post about my ships, but also I'm going to try and focus more on a project of mine. I've been talking about it with my friends, and I really want to try and make it a reality--which means I may OC post more.

[moonlightandpalmtrees]

Genuinely curious to those of you who make fandom playlists. What’s the most out there, “you really have to squint and turn your head to see it” or slightly embarrassing songs on one of your playlists

I’ll go first. On the “you really have to have brainrot to see it” side, I have Guilty as Sin by Taylor Swift on a Holmes/Watson playlist. Also, Tounges and Teeth by The Crane Wives on a Bagginshield playlist.

On the slightly funny or embarrassing side, Criminal by Britney and E.T by Katy Perry on a Garak/Bashir playlist. Im not at all ashamed.

[skyriderwednesday]

See this bit confused the absolute crap out of me when I was trying to gather dates for my chronology--

Because Watson sets up this paragraph talking about 'Things Holmes Did In 1895', but this is a reference to The Priory School, which cannot occur earlier than 1901.

So after being confused for a good twenty minutes, I looked again at the publication order and swore a bit -- because we won't get that story for ages, but this is a callback to the previous month's story.

So yeah. That's who the Duke of Holdernesse is. He's a guy Holmes and Watson won't meet for a minimum of six years, that Watson can only reference because these stories are written in retrospect.

[nothingenoughao3]

The sign that I am reaching a fandom critical excursion is when I start building investigator cards for Arkham Horror based on the fandom. How obsessed I am will determine how much material I can generate for Arkham Horror games.

So far, I've made investigator cards for Left 4 Dead/Left 4 Dead 2, Star Trek TNG (including Q as an Ancient One), Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Hellsing, Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent, and Good Omens. Once I made cards for Rick & Morty and Steven Universe but those obsessions didn't last so they've never been playtested.

For Torchwood, I've actually made an entire elaborate set that includes a special Torchwood item deck, a replacement Ally deck, a Herald (Abbadon), a Guardian (the Doctor), new monsters, an alternate set of Ancient Ones, and a specific overarching scenario. The only reason this hasn't been playtested is because I don't have a printer; hence, I have to make all the cards and chits by hand, and I'm too neurofucked to manage that task most of the time. One of these days, though...

I'm currently developing a Re-Animator game, which will have a number of characters, monsters, etc., but is less elaborate than "Death By Torchwood" because there's just not a lot of characters in that universe. And my wife and I are batting around ideas for a Twin Peaks-themed game that would be heavily reliant on a new Ally deck and probably have to rewrite a bunch of rules as a result.

Anyway, my point is that since my focus this week is on The Godfather, it's really goddamn hard not to start gaming out cards so that I can have the Corleones fighting Cthulhu.

[gender-euphowrya]

it's really baffling to me that when i tell people i don't eat veggies they're like "THEN WHAT DO YOU EAT" like. do you not know about the other food groups. have you exclusively been eating carrots and leaves like a bugs bunny

[sherliammmm]

brutally judge me based off of my top kins in order

[rhys-ravenfeather]

Something just occurred to me.

Sooooooo...given that 'vampire detective' is a popular enough character archetype to have a trope named after it, and just how many adaptations there have been of Sherlock Holmes over the years (including THAT one)...

Why haven't we gotten vampire! Sherlock Holmes yet????!?

[palladium-poisoned]

i love how i call myself a weeaboo (which i am) as if i post about anime on here

i don't not post about anime but like. barely.

[cantsayidont]

I still don't like the Granada Sherlock Holmes, and I HATE Jeremy Brett as Holmes.

[xsunbirdx]

I think Fugitive Telemetry is pretty funny from Indah's perspective. There's a murder on the station. You alert your government leader, and they bring their bodyguard/corporate-spy-and-murder-construct with them to the scene of the crime. Turns out it's also Sherlock Holmes. It alternates talking like it's in a TV show, and making various ominous statements, including things like "if I killed them, you'd never find the bodies." It refuses to elaborate on that one. Well that's comforting. It does go on to show that it couldn't have done the murder. But did it just confess to murder? Why did it just confess to murder? It goes on to save your officers lives (wait, did it just hack the system it promised not to hack? Eh, we'll let it slide this time.) and then mount a solo rescue mission (extremely successful, except for being shot by the people it's saving), and still hasn't killed anyone. So far. It already forgot that someone got murdered and that you were actually trying to solve a crime. Anyway, once you give it full access to your security system, it solves the crime within an hour or so. Turns out it was your coworker of 43 years. Who was actually a corporate-spy-and-murder-robot this whole time.