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Boromir’s arm guard

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This is no mere ranger. He is Aragorn son of Arathorn. You owe him your allegiance.

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“be honest: if you were snape and one of the lynchpins of your existence kept putting himself in danger left and right, wouldn’t you be uh…. fucking annoyed with him.” - inspired by this post

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Please spread the word for anyone potentially affected by the ban !!!

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“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” -Fred Rogers Donate to the ACLU

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“I’m not going to be a star, I’m going to be a legend” - Freddie Mercury

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Queen, 1974. The look came from Marlene Dietrich, the Venetian mirror from Freddie’s antique collection. “They were unashamedly confident despite their track record at the time” - remembers photographer Mick Rock

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Beautiful Illustrations of Words with No English Equivalent by Artist Marija Tiurina

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it’s okay. it’s not okay.

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music questions - answer with youtube links, pictures or plain text

1: favorite band.

2: favorite singer.

3: favorite guitarist.

4: favorite bassist.

5: favorite drummer.

6: a musician you have a crush on.

7: bands or musicians you've seen live.

8: your favorite song when you were 12.

9: your favorite song when you were 15.

10: your favorite song when you were 18.

11: your favorite song now.

12: a song that says something about your love life.

13: a song you listen to when you're sad.

14: a song that makes you dance.

15: a powerful song.

16: a musician you'd like to meet.

17: a song that is a collaboration of 2 or more artists you love.

18: favorite live dvd.

19: oldest band / musician you listen to.

20: favorite classical composer.

21. a band/musician your friend(s) like(s), but you hate.

22: a band/musician that someone/something made you hate.

23: the musician you find the nicest.

24: the musician you find the most attractive looking.

25: favorite album(s).

26: favorite song which lasts more than 10 minutes.

27: a song that always makes you cry.

28: a song that feels like it's made about you / for you.

29: a song of one of your favorite bands/musicians that you'd show to someone to introduce the band/musician to them.

30: a band/musician you loved, but now can't stand.

31: a band/musician you used to hate, but now love.

32: a band/musician who made you listen to the kind of music you like most. (first one of the kind that you heard)

33: do you and your partner(s) / best friend(s) share music tastes?

34: a band / musician that both you and your parent(s) like.

35: a band / musician that made you meet someone you have loved.

36: song(s) that would be theme songs for your life or parts of it.

37: a band / musician you'd like to see live, but it's never going to be possible.

38: the favorite music cd / dvd(s) you own.

39: an album you want to own.

40: do you own any vinyls?

41: a concert you could have attended and wanted to attend, but something made you not go. (e.g. health issues, work)

42: a musician you wish hadn't died.

43: a band / musician whose works helped you last through the day.

44: a song you love to listen to when it snows.

45: a song you love to listen to when it rains.

46: a song that makes you smile.

47: a musician that shares similarities with you. (can be looks or personality or tastes)

48: favorite song from a movie or favorite anime opening.

49: sure there is a language you don't listen to music in, but you have this one song or band / musician that you like anyway. what's that?

50: the newest / youngest of the bands you like.

51: your ringtone.

52: your phone alarm.

53: a guilty pleasure song.

54: a guilty pleasure band / musician.

55: your favorite song in your mother language.

56: a song you listened to for laughs, but then actually loved it.

57: your favorite picture of one of your favorite bands.

58: the song that is currently playing. if you're not listening to any, the last song you listened to.

59: a song that you just can't stop humming / singing.

60: your favorite love song.

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music questions - answer with youtube links, pictures or plain text

1: favorite band.

2: favorite singer.

3: favorite guitarist.

4: favorite bassist.

5: favorite drummer.

6: a musician you have a crush on.

7: bands or musicians you've seen live.

8: your favorite song when you were 12.

9: your favorite song when you were 15.

10: your favorite song when you were 18.

11: your favorite song now.

12: a song that says something about your love life.

13: a song you listen to when you're sad.

14: a song that makes you dance.

15: a powerful song.

16: a musician you'd like to meet.

17: a song that is a collaboration of 2 or more artists you love.

18: favorite live dvd.

19: oldest band / musician you listen to.

20: favorite classical composer.

21. a band/musician your friend(s) like(s), but you hate.

22: a band/musician that someone/something made you hate.

23: the musician you find the nicest.

24: the musician you find the most attractive looking.

25: favorite album(s).

26: favorite song which lasts more than 10 minutes.

27: a song that always makes you cry.

28: a song that feels like it's made about you / for you.

29: a song of one of your favorite bands/musicians that you'd show to someone to introduce the band/musician to them.

30: a band/musician you loved, but now can't stand.

31: a band/musician you used to hate, but now love.

32: a band/musician who made you listen to the kind of music you like most. (first one of the kind that you heard)

33: do you and your partner(s) / best friend(s) share music tastes?

34: a band / musician that both you and your parent(s) like.

35: a band / musician that made you meet someone you have loved.

36: song(s) that would be theme songs for your life or parts of it.

37: a band / musician you'd like to see live, but it's never going to be possible.

38: the favorite music cd / dvd(s) you own.

39: an album you want to own.

40: do you own any vinyls?

41: a concert you could have attended and wanted to attend, but something made you not go. (e.g. health issues, work)

42: a musician you wish hadn't died.

43: a band / musician whose works helped you last through the day.

44: a song you love to listen to when it snows.

45: a song you love to listen to when it rains.

46: a song that makes you smile.

47: a musician that shares similarities with you. (can be looks or personality or tastes)

48: favorite song from a movie or favorite anime opening.

49: sure there is a language you don't listen to music in, but you have this one song or band / musician that you like anyway. what's that?

50: the newest / youngest of the bands you like.

51: your ringtone.

52: your phone alarm.

53: a guilty pleasure song.

54: a guilty pleasure band / musician.

55: your favorite song in your mother language.

56: a song you listened to for laughs, but then actually loved it.

57: your favorite picture of one of your favorite bands.

58: the song that is currently playing. if you're not listening to any, the last song you listened to.

59: a song that you just can't stop humming / singing.

60: your favorite love song.

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Happy birthday Sherlock Holmes ❤

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The Lying Detective

Among the thousand posts about Sherlock’s last episode, I read a few discussing the fact that Sherlock couldn’t have possibly predicted that John would have brought his cane to him.

In this post, I would try to explain (in my opinion) how Sherlock was able to “predict” it.

(This is in no way official and many might disagree with me, but here we go)

We know that John takes his cane with him in Sherlock’s hospital room while Sherlock is lying there unconscious and we know, from his words, that he has come in order to say what appears to be his last goodbye to the detective.

The cane, of course, is a symbol for John. It is the cane we first saw in ASIP, the cane which indicates that John has been injured in war. But, thanks to Sherlock, we know that the wound in his leg is psychosomatic (so, rather than physically, John is suffering mentally). And, also thanks to Sherlock, John manages to forget about his psychosomatic limp in just one episode.

Then the cane represents, in many ways, what Sherlock did to John, how he helped John overcome his issues. Most importantly, it indicates the beginning of their relationship. But John has come to the hospital to say goodbye, so the cane represents his way of closing the circle: a cane started everything and now it is going to end everything.

But it also creates a parallel between John’s situation at the beginning of the series and Sherlock’s situation in TLD. John, we all know, was alone at the beginning of the series and had absolutely nobody to share his physical and mental trauma with. The cane was a symbol for this: when John forgot the cane, the trauma was also forgotten because there was someone with him. Now it is as if John is saying the same to Sherlock: “You’ve never walked with a cane until now because, no matter what, you had me; this cane is now yours because you’ll have physical and mental trauma and I will not be there for you anymore. You’re alone exactly as I was.”

The cane might be a symbol, a representation of a circle coming to an end, the parting gift of a much pissed-off John. However, let’s not forget that John is also a doctor. Therefore, on a more practical level, the cane is just a cane. Yes, a mean to help someone walk. Basically, John knows he fought with Sherlock, he knows - as a doctor - the level of damage he has inflicted on him, and, I’m rather certain, he knows Sherlock will need a cane in order to walk when he wakes up. So, he brought it. Yes, it is a symbol, yes to everything, but it still is a cane.

Now, how did Sherlock do the trick? 

Think about the scene in which John kicks Sherlock with all his strength. Think about how much anger, sadness, emotions he put in those kicks. Sherlock could have stopped him - we are all aware that Sherlock has some amazing fighting skills - but he does not. He doesn’t even try to defend himself. Not once. 

And what does Sherlock say when John is eventually blocked? “No, it’s ok. Let him do what he wants. He’s entitled. I killed his wife.”

Certainly, one could argue that Sherlock was high and that he didn’t have enough strength to fight a much stronger (also because driven by emotion) John Watson. But if we look at it in a much more critical perspective, Sherlock is letting John kick him, he’s letting John hurt him voluntarily. First, it is a way of admitting defeat, of giving John the possibility to express his repressed anger. Second, do not forget that Sherlock has a plan. And the plan involves him putting himself in terrible danger. And John beating him will definitely put him in the murderous hands of Culverton Smith. That is why he does not fight back: he needs to get hospitalised if he wants his plan to succeed. And, in a way, he needs his injuries to be serious enough to make him unable to walk properly.

However, that would not be enough for John to bring his cane to him.

That’s why Sherlock says what he says. That’s why he mentions he was the one who killed Mary. On the one hand, Sherlock is apologising, he is telling John that he deserves it because his actions caused Mary’s death. But I believe there’s more than that. He is not only apologising, he’s literally reminding John what he did. He’s saying: “John, you almost kicked me to death, but look, I’m still the man who killed your wife!”

It is strategy. Pure, clear strategy. It is as if he’s telling John not to pity him but to hate him. 

John, we know, won’t see behind it. John will simply remember what Sherlock did. But will also - after all, John is not a cruel, heartless man - regret what he did to Sherlock.

So, what would he do? Many things at once.

His main, conscious thought would be to cut Sherlock out of his life forever - which was what he had been trying to do before Mrs Hudson’s intervention. Not only because Sherlock killed his wife, but also because he almost beat him to death. John Watson is aware that their relationship, already strained, had thus received its last blow. Therefore he decides to say his last goodbye.

But there is John’s subconscious at work there, and it:

makes him think that it is the end of their relationship

But an end suggests a beginning, so the subconscious will connect it to:

his state when they first met

Which the subconscious will also link to:

the similarity existing between his state at the beginning of his relationship with Sherlock and the state Sherlock will soon be in

But also to:

the issues Sherlock will possibly have - he is a doctor, and he knows the seriousness of Sherlock’s injuries

So, what would he think about in the end? The cane. The cane that was there at the beginning and now marks the end, the cane which represents both his and Sherlock’s state (lonely, unable to cope with their lives, broken and abandoned), the cane which also works as a walking aid - and Sherlock, given his state, would probably need one.

Certainly, one could also argue that John could have not chosen a parting gift at all, but I believe that it would have never happened.

If the subconscious suggested the cane, it also worked in another direction. Indeed, despite the mask he’s showing on the outside, we have already stated that John is definitely not a heartless man. We might, therefore, safely assume that somewhere, behind the anger, he’s still attached to Sherlock. But the anger is still there. And his subconscious connected two things:

since Sherlock is lying unconscious, a parting gift will show Sherlock that John was there but that he will also never come back; it will be a reminder for Sherlock of John’s presence and absence at the same time; it is John’s idea of a punishment for all what Sherlock did to him

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it also shows that John was indeed there, that he remembers their first meeting, that he still has got the cane; it is, then, a way of saying: I valued all that we had and I still value it

This, I believe, is the reason why John chose a parting gift and why, in the end, he chose the cane among all possibilities.

Again, Sherlock did not “predict” the future. He calculated all John’s possible reactions to his actions and words and used the best course of action and the most powerful words in order to make John act in a certain way. Sherlock knows John better than anyone else. He knows how John works and how John thinks. And he knows how to make John do what he wants him to do. Consequently, he knows John would chose a parting gift and also that he would chose the cane. Which has a recorder in it.

In saying this, I am not saying that Sherlock was faking everything. I am sure his sorrow was genuine and I am sure that his apology was more than genuine. But we should never forget that Sherlock had a plan, a plan which John “wouldn’t like”, a plan which (possibly) involved his death. This is why he went well beyond his ordinary observing (as attested by the fact that he “predicted” where he and John would be two weeks before). He delved inside John’s mind more than ever because, as we all know, his plan was to save John Watson. And in order to save John Watson, he needed to think like John Watson.

Comment whether you agree or not! I’d like to hear your thoughts!

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“Because if you tell them and they decide they’d rather not know, you can’t take it back, you can’t un-say it.”

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Well then, people of Japan - Goodbye.

Zankyou no Terror (2014), dir. Shinichirō Watanabe