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“wrong day go back” by richard tipping

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It’s never more clear to me how little I engage with popular/celebrity culture than when I watch something like the met gala unfold and I just don’t know who any of these people are. Like, that is a smashing look whoever you are, famous person who maybe acts or sings or something. You look great.

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New Secret Knots comic: "Cryptid".

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When all you have is a vase, all your problems start to look like flowers

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Happy May 4th, Everyone! No faked deaths today sorry

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All My Reichenbach

Oh damn, I’ve almost missed celebrating May 4, Reichenbach Falls Day!

So many years, so many different Reichenbach headcanons, some of them mutually incompatible. For instance, long before I actually wrote H/W I had it firmly fixed in mind that during the Hiatus, Watson traveled to Reichenbach every May and spent the 4th hiking to the falls and crying into them. 

Here’s a list with links to most of the stuff I’ve written about Reichenbach over the past…25-odd years. Enjoy.

ACD CANON

H/W

O Paradis  Alone in a deteriorating hotel in Florence, Holmes commits to paper the true story of what really happened at Reichenbach and how he and Watson lost each other.

Meta:

The Man on the Tor: The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Hiatus.  In which I argue that for emotional purposes, the post-Reichenbach reunion actually happens in Hound of the Baskervilles and not in “The Empty House.”

The Perennial Problem  Review of the Granada Holmes “Final Problem.”

This Is Indeed Like The Old Days Review of Granada Holmes “Empty House”

Death is Always With Us  In which I look at the Granada Holmes “Devil’s Foot” as a way of excavating and working through the Reichenbach trauma

SHERLOCK

Johnlock:

Empty Houses  My post-Reichenbach reunion fic, written during the S2-S3 gap.

Meta:

It’s All True: Rereading “The Reichenbach Fall”

The Reichenbach Retcon

Faints and Feints: the Granada “Empty House” vs. Sherlock’s “The Empty Hearse”

Ah, Reichenbach. So hard on Watson and on all of us, and yet so undeniably important to the enduring appeal of the story and the characters.

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The Third Man (1949)

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Now I'm not saying that JD Vance killed the Pope, per se. I just think his actions raise some questions, like for example: Did JD Vance kill the Pope?

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Honest feeling.

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me making posts about my brand new niche interest no one really cares about but i m free because i will never get tired of talking to myself forever

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It all adds up.

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one of my absolute favorite genres is “a comedy that makes you laugh out loud and then completely wrecks you emotionally” like I love looove when something is genuinely hilarious but also punches you in the gut with sadness, grief, or loneliness. so many people underestimate the comedy genre and don't realize how powerful it is when it's used to explore serious topics

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This looks like the work of my old nemesis, Everything.

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When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo.

The Roads Both Taken [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A photon recites a poem:]

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And so of course I traveled both Though be one traveler, still I could Explore down both as far as I could Beyond the bends in the undergrowth...

...I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took them both and recombined, And that has made interference.

[Caption below the panel:] Photon poetry