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I'm Soo curious to how you interpret Moran through the lens of his relationship with his mother? Like. We all have an idea of Augustus (..All my homies hate Augustus Moran) but fewer people talk on Moran's mother and I want Your opinion ? 💙 -B

I think I have referred to her in a few of my stories but essentially I believe that his mother was as much of a key influence on him as his father was, or maybe an even bigger influence. I think she is the one who encouraged him and nurtured his talents and tried to guide him to be a good person and she is the main reason that whatever he does and whatever he is capable of doing, he's still got his own sense of what is right and wrong and he still has lines he won't cross. But I also think unfortunately she died when he was a child so the loss of her has also influenced him too and caused him to 'go off the rails' slightly and engage in far more 'bad' behaviour but he's still retained a lot of what she taught him, both in terms of his sense of morality and him still being interested in things she taught him (in one of my stories it's playing the piano, I think she taught him to play the piano and he can still play it now. In the modern day AU novel I'm working on it's also her that gave him his love of horses and taught him to ride when he was a child). Also her death I think has affected him and made him even more repressed about a lot of his feelings and emotions, even in the modern day. I don't think he was ever allowed to properly grieve for her - he comes from an era or a class (or both) that basically expects him to maintain a 'stiff upper lip' and 'be a man' and not cry, not be overly emotional, yet he was devastated about losing his mother but he had to basically shove all that grief down inside him, and it has messed him up.

I do think it varies a bit depending on whether it's the Victorian era or the modern day because in the Victorian era she was probably much more pushed into a loveless marriage and trapped in that and little Sebastian was probably shaped a lot by the things he witnessed of that relationship, where his mother did have very little in the way of legal protection and no real way to escape the marriage. In the modern day with the changing position of women in more recent times then she was probably more likely to have genuinely loved Augustus once and I don't think he would really get away with treating her as badly as he may have done in the Victorian era but it was still not really ever a happy marriage and I think that is still one reason why Sebastian does hate and resent Augustus because he may not have been as physically abusive as the Victorian incarnation may have been but to Sebastian's eyes Augustus still betrayed his mother and he was still emotionally cruel towards her at the very least.

I also think his affection and respect for his mother has shaped Moran's overall attitude towards women and is probably a reason why he often tends to be friendly and even actually friends with women even when that's not really considered 'normal', especially in Victorian society (which was very homosocial) but also to some degree in the modern day too. I think Moran is bisexual and he has a high sex drive and he's had sex with plenty of women but he does see women as people not as sex objects and much of that does come from his regard for his mother. I do tend to have Moran being close friends with Kitty Winter and I see his willingness to be friends with her, a woman who is either going to be essentially viewed as a 'fallen woman' in the Victorian era or is pretty obviously a sex worker in the modern day, having a lot to do with his mother and her influence on him.

His mother is probably also a reason why even though Moran can be a very cynical person and in his younger days probably he scoffed at the idea of ever falling in love and wanting to settle down with someone and even though he saw his parents in a very unhappy marriage, he still believes in love and is capable of expressing his love (even if it's not always verbally) and still wants to be in a loving relationship with Moriarty, because he knows his mother did love him very much.

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The Hunter's Funeral Procession

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slut 🙄

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the ICC is taking claims from people who have lost family due to the genocide in Gaza

Justice For All

idk if you've seen this already, but I wanted to pass it on just in case

[post talking about it on Instagram]

Thank you, I had not seen this!! It looks like you can submit a claim if you know a victim from as far back as 2014

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Paul Anderson as Colonel Sebastian Moran

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His love for Gaza shone through in his photographs, seen in his steadfast portrayals of joy and beauty. Whimsical compositions by the sea depict young boys jumping and playing. In a series of works focused on his grandmother, a survivor of the 1948 Nakba who was displaced from her native village of Isdud, Arandas portrays her as a symbol of strength and perseverance in Gaza, zooming in on her weathered hands harvesting olives against deep fertile earth. Traces of personal and cultural histories can be seen in the crisp light of ripe olives and the details of intricate embroidery adorning her hanging dress.

“Where can I begin talking about Gaza and Palestine, and how can I begin when I know that I am the living dead? Everyone who writes about Palestine has prepared himself to be among the dead, but despite our prior knowledge of our fate when we write and write about this land, we do not stop or for a moment hesitate to inhale her love,” he reflected.

Remembering Gaza Photographer Majd Arandas, Killed by Israeli Airstrikes

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The Tiger at Reichenbach Falls

"...For an instant I thought that it was an accident; but a moment later, looking up, I saw a man's head against the darkening sky..."

(WIP)

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“You see, hidden within the unconscious is an insatiable desire for conflict. So you’re not fighting me so much as you are the human condition. All I want to do is own the bullets and the bandages. War on an industrial scale is inevitable. They’ll do it themselves within a few years. All I have to do… is wait.”

JARED HARRIS as PROFESSOR JAMES MORIARTY Sherlock Holmes; A Game of Shadows (2011)

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OK I’m not actually liveblogging all of this but I need people to know that when Holmes says “We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands. But for all his efforts he could not get his balance, and over he went. With my face over the brink I saw him fall for a long way”

which seems to be saying that Moriarty is somehow hanging in the air with neither his hands or feet touching anything for several seconds before he falls, all I can now picture is this:

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James and Sebastian in Disney cartoon style.

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So I guess it’s about time for me to say happy 11 year anniversary of shipping these assholes

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On the margin was written, in Holmes’s precise hand:

The second most dangerous man in London.

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Colonel Sebastian Moran.

Best marksman in the British Army.

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“The nightmares again?” Moriarty asks, and doesn't that just make it worse for Moran? That sometimes the Professor seems to show understanding, albeit somewhat misguided understanding, towards him. If he was simply always cold then Moran could perhaps understand that more and better cope with it. In time perhaps he could even begin to move on from this almost crushing sense that his life amounts to nought without the Professor returning his regard in some significant way.

But sometimes Moriarty at least tries to be compassionate towards him, and somehow that fact makes the pain even worse, because it sometimes comes so close to what Moran craves, yet always at the last moment misses the mark.

“Yes sir,” Moran replies because it's easier to lie than to even begin to try to put the truth into words.

“Well then.” Moriarty stands up and moves to place his own empty glass back on the sideboard. As he passes Moran's chair he briefly pats the Colonel on the shoulder. He does not see the pained manner in which Moran, equally briefly, screws his eyes tightly shut.

- excerpt from We Shall Be Dangerous by @tiger-moran

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It’s a fucking travesty that there is not a single fic where Holmes tries to go undercover as a soldier and Watson just laughs in his face because he’s So Fucking Bad At It and ends up doing it for him and Holmes is just [horny grips] the entire fucking time. Or even one where Watson fixes his posture, smooths down the uniform, drills him with questions, teaches him bawdy songs and limericks etc and Holmes is just reeling over it for Multiple Reasons

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Okay I KNOW I post about this a lot, especially Moran but like. I’ve been thinking. I don’t ship MorMor, but like, there’s something deeper there.

He’s close enough to Moriarty that he’s trusted to run messages for him “the professor wants to meet” and “follow Meinhard” We also know Moriarty trusts him completely, as he trusts Moran to assassinate Meinhard(?) while he goes to the opera. Which also “That’s a shame, professor. I was looking forward to Don Giovanni.” Now, Irene would never have spoken to him like that, she was too intimidated by him. Also, Moran is WAY more casual and less nervous around Moriarty than Irene ever was, so he knows he’s either too valuable to kill, or Moriarty happens to enjoy his company. Also, also, Moriarty payed good money for Moran’s ticket to the opera, meaning he absolutely intended for Moran to go with him, but something changed last minute and he had to adapt.

And, we see Moran dig through the watchtower rubble to find Moriarty with as much desperation as Watson did to find Holmes. I don’t know what he says to the guards in German, don’t ask me that. It’s not translated, annoyingly. (If anyone knows, please let me know.) But either way, he seems reluctant to leave Moriarty, though he does and obviously manages to shoot Watson. And don’t tell me Watson didn’t get shot, because you SEE the bullet tear through his waistcoat, it grazed him at least.

But anyway, Moran is easy around Moriarty, he’s gained Moriarty’s trust, and he’s loyal at detriment to his own life (from what we’ve seen.) Moran is also the “second most dangerous man in Europe,” which is high praise.  Now, we know that Moran was discharged dishonourably from the war (probably around 1880) and the movie is set, as Watson tells us at the start, in 1891, so Moran’s been out of the army for about a decade. Having a dishonourable discharge, he probably would have been heavily shamed and ostracised, which is exactly the type of person Moriarty would want to pick up for his team. For clarification, I’m not saying Moriarty found a vulnerable Sebastian and preyed on him and like, brain-washed him into being evil or whatever. I have a feeling Seb probably always had an affinity for killing things without remorse, and having found him angry at the world, Moriarty just found a way to utilise those skills.  He might have exploited his anger, but I don’t think he was ever abusive to Seb in any way, is what I’m trying to say.

Plus, Moran calls him “Professor” both to his face and when talking about him to others, which implies that he knew Moriarty in his professional capacity. (Maybe he attended a few lectures and that’s how they first met?) But the devotion he carries implies that he owes Moriarty a lot. He puts SO much on the line for the Professor, including his own safety, that it’s fair to say he probably owes Moriarty his life for something. If not, then like, there’s totally a super strong connection there.

TL;DR: I don’t personally ship MorMor, but here’s a long list of evidence that supports the two of them at least caring about each other. Though it’s mostly just examples of Moran’s single-minded devotion so make of it what you will.