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you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

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forgotten highlight of 2017: season 4 of sherlock was literally so bad that the fans that somehow still existed were completely convinced it was intentionally bad and there was gonna be a secret fourth episode that fixed everything

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a rant.

So much of TV is way too concerned with being Clever™ right now. There’s this pervasive myth that audiences won’t enjoy a narrative climax unless it’s a total surprise. “Predictable” is always used as a pejorative term when it comes to storytelling, but I think that’s absolute crap, because here’s the thing: 

Unpredictability is not, inherently, a virtue. Unpredictability can mean: a) you don’t have a clear grasp on who your characters are or what direction they’re growing. b) you don’t have a clear vision for the story you’re trying to tell. c) you don’t know how to tell the story (for example, you have a Point A and a Point B but the middle is a bunch of disjointed time-wasting filler. 

“But,” the showrunners cry, “you never saw that twist coming! We kept you on your toes!” That does not make it good. Cleverness is often just smoke and mirrors designed to distract the audience from a lack of substance; it doesn’t guarantee a worthwhile story. I don’t want to be shocked for the sake of surprise - I want to feel like the experience was worth my time.

I want to be introduced to a character, and then I want to be taken on a journey with that character. I want every step of that journey to teach me who they are; what they believe, what they want, what they hate, what they fear, and what they love, so that when they are faced with a conflict or a critical moment of decision, I understand exactly why they do what they do. I’m hoping their choices in that moment will reveal something truthful and powerful and worth knowing about another person’s experience. 

That’s what I want in a story. I genuinely don’t care whether it’s clever or predictable or whatever; I just want a worthwhile journey in which every moment of every episode means something - to the character(s), and to me. That’s what makes serial television satisfying. It has nothing to do with shock or intellect or reinventing the wheel, it’s just about telling the damn story in a way that makes you feel it.

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i hope you’re all aware of the 300 recently discovered love letters between two gay british soldiers during ww2 that are going to be possibly adapted into a film.

they’re beautiful and poetic and tragic and heart-wrenching and brave. i highly suggest going and reading the excerpts. 

here’s the one that broke my heart:

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.“

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Pornhub comments on Sherlock screencaps:

↳ “For God’s sake, someone give that man the D?? It’s painful to watch.”

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You know, Martin Freeman really ticks me off. What bet with God has this guy won that he looks more and more desperately handsome the older he gets? That damn picture of him all in navy at the Baby Driver premiere haunts my dreams. And that fluffy hair flip in Start Up? Hopeless. Add the easy good humor and basic decency of his personality, and we're all doomed to a life of endless admiration. STOP IT NOW, MARTIN. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!

OMG I KNOW, he just keeps getting hotter and hotter. It blows my mind.

Fuck Nonny, I know. That hair. That face. That MAN

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Granada & BBC Sherlock Holmes - Similar poses/situations

Requested by poisoned-quilly

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Illustrator in 221B. (He’s out of control.) 

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Roses are red I brought you some flowers I’m really gay Let’s cuddle for hours

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Holmes and Watson, by Leonid Nepomnyasciy.

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To warm your heart a little, have some Russian!Holmes Empty House reunion.

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Do you even understand how much I love quotes from Series ½/3 revived in the context of canon Johnlock

Sherlock choking out, “I was away for two years.  I thought you’d got on with your life.”  John half-jokingly responding, “What life? You were away.”

John and Sherlock awkwardly kissing through jail bars and a frustrated John tugging him close and growling “We’re going to have to coordinate.”

Them finally having the What Are We talk and John grinning and saying, “Then you’re attached, just like me.  Fine.  Good.”

Casually holding hands outside for the first time like “Now people will definitely talk.”

Getting hot and heavy like “Do you know you do that out loud?” “Sorry, I’ll shut up.” “No, it’s… fine.”

Proposal like “You are the best man and the most human human being that I have ever known.  And there is just one more thing, Sherlock, one more miracle.  For me.”

The proposal of course getting interrupted by Crime, and the response coming apropos of nothing, a day later:  ”I need you around when I’m thinking, and sometimes I keep talking to you for days on end.  Does that bother you?  Potential husbands should know the worst about each other.”

Sherlock freaking out over event planning, and Mycroft glancing at John’s new ring and saying “I’d warn you to stay away, but I can see from your left hand that’s not going to happen”

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Watson: If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits. I am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement.

Holmes: *exists*

Watson: never mind stamford i love him

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mmmmm hate that “love love love love love… bit of a theme” is a real quote from bbc sherlock from sherlock’s mouth 

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Johnlock canon.

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literally what did sir arthur conan doyle do