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love how not even a week later, ao3 has already made this an official tag category 😂😭

truly, this author was right fr on the first day of the cursed news drop

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cosplay project update(?)

so in honor of it being William’s (fake) birthday, I’m posting Victorian flower language from the book I’ve decided is the likeliest(?) possible contender for which book William would have found and read in the dilapidated book store. This is cause there were actually a ton of flower language books being written by different people in the 1800’s, so outside of a few mainstream flowers, meanings can differ from author to author. I’ll get into the logic behind my choice some other time.

I highlighted using William, Louis, Albert, and Sherlock’s colors. The red underline is a fun little Easter egg (haha get it cause it’s Easter Monday) for China pink aka “Sweet William”. The garland of roses I highlighted for all three of the Moriarty brothers together for ✨murder bros✨, which might be the only one besides lily that I can see a clear connection in symbolism with canon. Maybe if I think a bit more I could come up with something but eh. Also I’m not actually sure what the flower they used in the anime for the mid-episode pics of John is, so I didn’t do that one.

special bonus, there’s apparently a plant called Red Shanks that has the meaning patience in the second pic above, and I was like, surprise One Piece reference???, which is super hilarious to me.

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totally random, but while I was watching the newest cdawg vod, all I could think was that clearly the more fun interpretation of the game’s story is that rose is something like a witch who doesn’t know fully realize her ability and unconsciously created and animated the puzzles and Dr. Hakim for her parents to go through out of a desire to impose her wish that her parents don’t divorce, with the fun optional darker option of love related enchantments being used to make them reconcile by the end :DD

and then I thought it would also be fun seeing a fun psychological coming-of-age sequel of rose exploring and using such abilities, and the moral/ethical implications and consequences, as a teenager :DDDD

this would be a great fanfiction prompt if I was a writer tho….

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got my morimu op. 5 preorder a few days ago :D

I got the 特設サイト限定特典 one so I got a bonus CD, but no large bromide because I wasn’t in Japan to pick it up in person

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still so insane that the original release date for morimu op. 5 was today, on Valentine’s Day, like, how much more ✨gay✨ could the producers make it lol

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fem!William cosplay

In honor of sherliam week 2023, I'm gonna start posting about my plans for a hopefully historically-accurate cosplay of William! :D

i'm planning on designing 4 outfits: professor, noblewoman day wear, noblewoman evening party wear, and traveling wear. I'm probably going to be actually making one of the first two or both. I could also throw in a teagown, loc outfit (though i honestly think it would just be the same as canon anyways?), sleepwear, specific design for undergarments, etc, but we'll see if i'm still interested in that later

when I first came up with the idea sometime in july or august, because i am such a historical costume girly, i was like, so i would do a male one except i know that i would never wear it outside of the cosplay, which would be a waste of my money and limited energy. So, i decided to just do a female adaptation of his canon character design and made a ~1878-1879 corset, with plans to make combinations (for that sweet sweet in-character practicality), corset cover, etc. Then, as i was working on the design, i ended up coming up with a whole au/justification for an actual female ver. of william that was publicly known in-universe as a woman who identified as such with the og william also being publicly known as a girl, because if he was still a boy, then f!william would have had to cross-dress. Also, if anything i'm saying is irl historically wrong, i'm literally begging for you to tell me and forward resources about what im wrong about.

So, essentially, in the 1860-70's, specifically including ~1876 - 1879, there doesnt seem to be as much popularity towards women being highly educated through universities or being teachers at universities as it is in the later victorian era, though there already has been precedent set for a couple decades of women graduating from college. So, if a female william (f!william for short) was a well-off and decently mid-high ranking noble lady from a family with an earl/count title, it could be presumed that trying to be a "perfect noble" (wo)man would not involve being more noticeably progressive in such an eye-catching manner. However, considering that in canon william doesnt try to downplay his intelligence at all publicly, given that he is known as a mathematical genius who graduated and became a professor at a very unusually young age, even f!william would probably be stubborn enough to fully go for it and achieve the same results, with a lot more opposition from strangers. Admittedly, a woman would not have been allowed to attend Eton, because it's all-boys, and being titled a professor means that you've been hired as a professor at a university, and i imagine it'd be hard to get a bunch of likely sexist-ass old men to hire a young woman as a professor, but let's say she did manage to do it, especially with the backing of a respectable noble family name. So that means she's a ~19 y/o publicly-known-as-21 y/o to ~23 y/o publicly-known-as-25 y/o who is going to be starting to teaching mostly young men, who are almost entirely well-off to noble status, in ~1874-1878. That's the tail-end of the first bustle era and in 1876 the natural form era starts until early 1880's. So i looked at a lot of fashion plates and extant garments from this general time period to get a sense of both eras to design a dress that was first made during the first bustle era to be fashionable to that time that was then retailored to fit the natural form era's fashionable silhouette but also not being too fashion-forward since i dont think she would try to keep up with that more than necessary as it isnt her priority, because it's possible, even likely, for f!william to be more practical/frugal by choosing to have an "older" outfit retailored to fit a new era's style than have an entirely new outfit made. Side-note, there is practically no way to pass off the button-up shirt collar design as a historically-accurate fashionable lady's collar, so dont @ me about that. Currently, this is the design i've settled on for the professor design, which would be worn while teaching at Durham uni and possibly also as daywear on the days she has to go to work there.

the dominating collar scheme for all the daywear options is brown, and while i could have used more red in accordance with the canon red tie and eyes, i again know that my wardrobe doesnt do red, so that wasnt really a choice in terms of the main body of the dresses if i want to be able to wear any of it normally. This one also needs to have the color layer updated. For the professor outfit, I was keeping in mind a relatively simple/modest design- for a noble lady- but especially in the back where male students would probably see a lot of (since she would be also writing on the blackboard), because anything too complicated or eye-catching could be "distracting". i didnt want to make it too modest because the students and coworkers are also of similar social class to f!william, so there is some expectation of dressing well for her station but also not being too distracting for the young male students :/ i'm still considering toning the design down more, but im not sure how....

this is what i have for the normal noble lady daywear, hopefully appropriate year-round because i dont feel like designing a new outfit for like all 4 seasons. since it was by far more fashionable for women to wear brighter/lighter colors (usually more adorned by trims in matching/accenting solids rather than patterns for any time of year) during this time if it wasn't winter, in which case it would be dark but still rich colors, i made the browns a lot lighter to compensate for the fact that i'm trying to a. keep close to canon design and b. again, i want to be willing to actually wear it normally, so no reds or pinks as a main part. the big red ribbon will just be tacked on lightly so i can take it off when i'm not cosplaying. I also try to incorporate more of the pressed pleats trims as a nod to william's whole thing about perfectionism, precision, and preparation, as well as him being a math nerd, but like that also ties into the... 3 P's?? so *shrugs*. I also just love the trains of the natural form era so of course I had to add that here, where i can go wildly unpractical, in comparison to the professor one, which does have to account for a good bit of walking by foot across campus and possibly through town. this is also subject to change, but i like to think it's mostly set in stone here.

i also designed a black coat as a noblewoman adaptation of the one william wears in canon, which you can see him wearing when he and albert are at adam whitely's park opening speech. I'm not entirely sure about the exact nature and design of the embellishments, but its probably going to be some amalgamation of beadwork and embroidery. i'm actually also going to be making this, straight up because i want a black coat anyways lol. too bad it's not in time for this years winter. i didnt actually draw out the design for the hat but i was planning on a black base hat with brown and red decorations to tie it to any of the daywear clothes, including the coat, and maybe with a sheer white veil in the back? that was in fashion like during at least the mid 1870's. I'm also adapting the cane to an umbrella/parasol. while it'd make more sense to be a delicate litle parasol, i already have a normal-sized black umbrella with a silver metal handle, so that's like a perfect prop that mimics the dark wood cane with a metal handle that william uses in canon, though my umbrella doesn't have a sword hidden in it haha.

also, as a fun aside, in 1873, there was a brief trend for women to wear a ribbon choker that tied in the back with long tails as an evening wear accessory. so this is a sketch of a painting's outfit, dont remember the name though, that was painted in that year. Correction, I just saw that I wrote it down and its name is “Too Early”. I couldn't help but think up a fun little au of an au where f!william, who would be 18 y/o publicly-known-as-20 y/o, was at a ball and sherlock, male or female? (though i think a female sherlock would be kind of weird considering his canon bias that women are emotional, not as logically intelligent, and delicate :/), was also dragged there by mycroft or something when he decided?? to briefly visit england instead of presumably??? staying at whatever college he was studying at in paris. So, i was originally thinking that it would be such a cool image of sherlock lightly grabbing the tail ends of a red ribbon choker that f!william was wearing with a similar vibe as that sherliam manga vol. 14 cover art, as william turns to look over her shoulder at sherlock. But then, i obviously had to justify it to myself, so i came up with the whole above scenario and i guess they ended up meeting and becoming interested in each other a la canon but earlier and at some point in the night, william was teasingly staying (physically) one step ahead of sherlock and the image is when sherlock finally managed to catch william.

so i guess i'll post updates as i go? i'm definitely estimating this to be a year(s)-long project, considering all the research, patterning, and sewing i'll be doing. i'm also planning on doing a photoshoot with the cosplay when i'm done, so i'll be posting those whenever i have them ready.

edit: I just briefly skimmed a little of the history of female scholars, and apparently the first one to become a professor during the Victorian era is credited to Edith Morley, in 1908 at the age of 33, though there were some other women who also attended a male-dominated college around the same time as her in the 1890’s. Thus, for f!william to have been able to get that professorship or even attend and graduate from a college with a proper degree ~1869-1873, that would have been seen as even more extremely radical, which would have made her stick out in high society in a way that would make it harder to convince targets like lord Enders that she was similarly elitist and a “proper” noblewoman. She also would have had to convince both count Rockwell, her guardian, and the college itself to allow her to attend at ~14 y/o publicly-known-as-16 y/o and maybe even graduate with a proper degree, probably through a lot of machinations on her part, not to even mention being a professor. The only advantage to be found is that she’s seen as a noble, so there is some influence to exert to match male-dominated college chairs.

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Has anyone ever just shined a light in your eyes to see how the iris contracts and expands, but then notice how the lines or “rays” that go outwards from the center of your eye are actually probably the muscle wrinkles of the iris and the way it becomes smaller or bigger makes it look like a certain external sphincter opening and winking

because I did last night and this new observation has been haunting me all day, so I decided to curse the internet with it too to suffer with me

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I can't believe no one talked about this bit here

My man lost himself thinking/talking about Albert with such a fond smile LOLOLOL there is literaly a pause there for him to collect himself, as if he forgot he had Louis in front of him.

Mycroft: *thinks and talks about Albert ❤* .... Oh sorry, where were we?

Louis: *looking away awkwardly, thinking* oh my gosh, this Holmes too?? damn it, brothers, why????... well, at least this one's decent.

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Cyanometer - an instrument for measuring blueness, specifically the color intensity of blue sky - attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt

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im a proud "ive never used chat gpt" user btw

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I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

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I’m guessing this has been done already but they are on my mind A LOT

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Sherlock: Why doesn’t Liam find me sexy when I bite my lip? Billy: What do you look like when you bite your lip? Sherlock: bites lip Billy: …Have you considered biting your bottom lip instead?

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I'm growing increasingly fond of the Rockwells even though we continue to know virtually nothing about them. Like if you compare Chapter 1 of the manga and Chapter 4 of The Remains, there's such an obvious difference between the two households, as told just by the servants.

The Moriartys' servants are as cruel and spiteful as their masters, treating [Name Redacted] and Louis to the Cinderella routine at every turn. The whole house exudes misery and unkindness.

The Rockwells' manor is clearly different. Taking into account that they only know of Louis being adopted, it still seems clear that they're treating the three boys as equals. They're all dressed the same and roaming the house freely. Assuming the bedroom they lure Jack into is theirs (it might be the servants' quarters, not sure on that) it's a simple but pleasant room with a big window and a few decorations. Not fancy, but nice. And if it is say, the maids' room, it makes the same point: it's practical but comfortable.

The maid was what really hit me with this comparison though. She's cheerful and bright and indulgent. She is both kind enough herself and secure enough in the kindness of her employers that sneaking a snack to their wards and confessing she's doing so to the butler are clearly within the realm of safe for her. And she's only a little surprised to find the butler playing tag with the children. It's just...it's just such a warmer home.

The houses even look different. The Moriarty manor is cold, bleak, sharp angles, That One Manor In Every British Show Ever --

And the Rockwells' is funky and quirky and friendly and has fun little architectural details --

It's a little hard to get a read on Jack's whole deal while knowing so little about Lord Rockwell himself, but it at least seems like a reasonable guess at this point to think there is some loyalty and friendship between them.

And then of course, we know the boys are still at least peripherally in touch with Lord Rockwell themselves (he trolls them into hosting the tea party).

Anyway, all that in combination with Jack reminiscing about William having been a happy kid makes me want to think that the Moriarthree had a really good childhood with the Rockwells in between their various schooling. (Sure they were being trained as killers the whole time but sssshhh it's fine.)

(I will give the Rockwells a tentative pass on how many weapons these kids get their hands on because, knowing these particular kids, a locked cabinet isn't going to help much. 😂)

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I was several episodes into the show when I realized that William (presumably) painted Reichenbach Falls behind him in the S1 ending, and I basically fell out of my chair and rolled around on the floor from the feels.