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An early Edwardian woman taking a mirror selfie with a Kodak Brownie box camera in 1900

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faeries are not real but i wish thwy were so i could spray one with raid

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“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”

— ERIN BOW

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SHERLOCK HOLMES (1984-1994) ♦︎ 40th Anniversary ♦︎

“To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. The two men are interdependent; without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. And Watson leads a pretty dull life, enlivened only by his adventures with Holmes. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.” – Jeremy Brett

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This man deserved all the awards. Such a talented man 🖤

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It seems like Watson is rather used to Holmes touching him rather frequently, but I like to think that sometimes he still can get surprised (and flustered)

random thoughts

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Visiting Fulworth

Today @jeremys-come-to-bed-eyes and I went on something that I might have been classified as a "research trip" for The Beekeepers Picnic, if it had happened a few years ago! As it is, there's no hiding that it was just a geeky fan trip.

I didn't invent the idea of Holmes retiring to keep bees in a village called Fulworth - it gets alluded to a few times in the stories, and there is one story set there, 'The Lion's Mane'.

We know Holmes' retirement home is either a 'cottage' or a 'villa', it's a few miles out of Eastbourne, and it's clearly somewhere where it's possible to walk to the sea for a swim. Sherlockian tradition is that the real-life place fitting this description is the village of East Dean.

So, that's where we went - walking from Eastbourne.

This area is famous for it's white chalk cliffs, which are eroding away very quickly. Here is a path to nowhere!

These cliffs are known as the Seven Sisters. They all have names but the only two I remember are Short Bottom and Rough Bottom.

The beach there is all pebbles - I knew that when creating my game, but I felt like a pebble beach just wouldn't look right all in pixels, so I made it sandy instead.

East Dean is absolutely gorgeous, basically everything I could have hoped for.

Here is the village green - flying a Ukrainian flag in solidarity!

And here is Mr Holmes' official cottage. As far as we could tell its now an office of the local estate rather than someone's house, so we didn't feel too weird taking lots of pictures! The Lions Mane implies his cottage is a little way out of the village, but I'll forgive them for putting it in the centre instead.

(I think that the dates are obviously the dates he lived there as recorded by his biographer - our last information on Holmes is from 1917. I think they made the right call not to try to invent a date for his death.)

A lot of the cottages in the area have this really distinctive mixture of pebbles and brick which I think must be a hallmark of the local area, but I was pleased to see a few whitewashed buildings like the ones I put in the game:

Thank you for reading, please enjoy this adorable foal.

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sunset/sunrise and the Victorian intimacy of a first name

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reblog if you'd go on a roadtrip with your pfp

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On this day in 1984, 40 years ago, Granada premiered a much anticipated new series: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, on the ITV network. Starring Jeremy Brett and David Burke.

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“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.” - SH

Brett-Holmes done in Paget style. Painted tonight on my Livestream. (Not sure how long, lost track of time. XD)

Painter 12.

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song: FUNGUS by the narcissist cookbook

(for @angryducktimemachine i hope you like it bestie cuz it's all your fault <3)

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Put a branch of lilac into my room and aaaahh it smells so good! :)

I love it so so much when I open the window in the evening and the birds a singing

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I had a similar situation once with my sister who walked in on me watching Granada one day, started puttering around, and maybe after two minutes said "Wait - they live together?! Naaawww, okay," and sat down to watch with me. :D

So I kinda got my mom into Granada Holmes. I am not a native speaker and neither is she, in fact she can't really understand it. But I don't mind translating and she has read the original stories and she's rereading them now, might mention it is at least partially because of my recently sparked Sherlock Holmes obsession. Today, I deciced to watch The Final Problem and The Empty House with her. And out of the blue she says to me. "What if Watson had jumped into the falls because of the grief? It would have been like Romeo and Juliet." Now it was a joke, but my mom never seemed to ship Johnlock, so this caught me a little off guard. My mind is racing right now and my question is,

Have I just turned my mom into a Johnlock shipper?😅

A pucture for attention and because they're cute.