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*just Orin

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Being good to each other is so important, guys.

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Friend isn't having such a great time with the seasonal allergies for some strange reason.

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My gorgeous wife

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh if only there were any way I could ever hope to see this!

Did you hear the news about Daniel Casey being cast as Barnaby in the upcoming stage adaption of The Killings at Badger's Drift?!

No I did not???

Thanks anon this made my day💋

Look at him

Also the fact that the original Tom is delighted!!!! 

"Daniel brought the young Troy to life so brilliantly in the original TV pilot of the book and I’m delighted that he gets to lead the investigation in this theatre adaption." - John Nettles

My heart

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Pinnate Batfish (Platax pinnatus), juvenile, family Ephippidae, order Acanthuriformes, Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia

The juveniles of this species mimic a toxic flatworm.

photograph by DiveIvanov

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I know one day, our natures demand that one of us will kill the other. Until that day, may you flourish under the shadow of tragedy, my friend.

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the thing all sherlock holmes adaptations get wrong is making the guy an irredeemable asshole who treats everyone like shit . not only is it not reflective of the original stories they miss that “nice, smart, well mannered dude who snorts coke when he needs to think” is possibly the funniest character ever devised 

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An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.

Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that's literally his name.

(No he won't change his name. He's Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)

John is Sherlock's flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he's a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn't Watson.

It's now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.

Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.

His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.

His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.

He doesn't even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.

Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.

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Boris Karloff’s beautiful hand in Frankenstein 🖤

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My boyfriend is trying to explain cricket to me again. “He’s only got two balls to make 48 runs”, he says. The camera focuses on a man. Underneath him it says LEFT ARM FAST MEDIUM. A ball flies into the stands and presumably fractures someone’s skull. “There’s a free six”, my boyfriend says. 348 SIXES says the screen. A child in the audience waves a sign referencing Weet-Bix

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Just 1.5 weeks left to preorder my new humorous book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY. US residents who preorder can fill out this form for a cute free pin!

Preorders really help authors. Thank you so much to folks who preordered and I hope you enjoy my silly, small, yet somehow still informative book!

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Thinking about how Anakin canonically both touched grass and got laid and was still Like That.

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There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

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Hey y’all guess what

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3-in-1 demo project for my friend’s art class: Indigo dyeing, fabric pastels, and embroidery stitch sampler.

Stitches include: outline stitch, running stitch, backstitch, whipped backstitch, threaded backstitch, pekinese backstitch, split stitch, chain stitch, stem stitch, couching, fishbone stitch, crow’s foot, and colonial knots.

Details under the cut: