#Doyle Bennett

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Justified 02x12: Reckoning.

[dailyjustified]

[willowmckinley]

🫐 What’s your favorite underrated thing in your fandom? (A ship that only you seem to write for, a character there’s almost no fics about, a trope that criminally hasn’t been written yet, etc.)

@itookyoudown Thank you for the ask! Ohhhh, such a good question. (From this ask game).

Obvious answer is Raylan/Bob, right? I'm the only one to write a fic of just them. And I love them. And Raylan liked Bob in high school, a time when I don't believe Raylan liked much of anything.

Time Travel/Fix-It is a trope I think every fandom should have at least one of. So even though I'm the only one writing one, as far as I've seen, I don't think it's undersaturated. Same with Raylan/Zach. I'd love to see more angsty bullshit but I wrote everything I personally wanted/needed from it.

In my heart, the real answer is Doyle Bennett fic. He is my blorbo. Raylan Givens has my heart and soul, but Doyle Bennett is the shiny thing my magpie brain swipes to add to my nest. I expect zero people other than myself to write him, which means I gotta write him more right now.

[tardisman14]

I’m just realizing how funny it would’ve been

if these 3

had been cast as these 3

especially considering that they share the same mom

[just-here-for-the-whump]

Republic of Doyle 3x6 The Dating Game

[secretsofthewilde]

Wentworth text posts 2/?

[scorpsik]

Joan Ferguson, Vera Bennett...

Bea Smith, Franky Doyle

I see a lotta posts for Wentworth... but I want to show the love for the original and best: Prisoner Cell Block H

[phryneluvbot]

don't know if wentworth fans are still alive in here or not, so here's a cool server to join if you think bridget westfall is hot https://discord.gg/Qnxcgf2Dur

we're also very funny, and loads of edits and fics and freakytits enjoyers

[c-nv-s07]

Wentworth text posts pt. 5

[theboxedmiracle]

I need to know who was in charge of recruiting staff for this godforsaken prison and how they accidentally managed to hire every single goddamn psycho in Australia

[no-side-us]

Letters From Watson Liveblog - Dec. 22

The Creeping Man, Part 3 of 3

I don't think it's intentional but I'm going to count Holmes and Watson being in the bushes here as a reference to the earlier stories, like say The Speckled Band, just to create for myself a sense of finality. After all, this is the last case we have before Holmes' retirement! And with everything they've been through, they're still just two guys solving a mystery by hiding in some bushes.

For a story ostensibly set right before Holmes' retirement, I think this is the first reference we've gotten from Holmes himself that he's going to retire. It's an offhand comment too, though him saying "of my dreams" would suggest he's been thinking about this for a while now.

Woah, why would he do that? Not only is it just plain mean, but provoking an angry dog that's been chained up is just asking for it to get loose and attack you. I think that's a pretty common trope actually.

Well, I won't say the Professor deserves it, but it is comeuppance. This also isn't the first angry dog we've seen, so in my head I'm going to see this as another reference to all those previous dogs that have attacked people in these stories.

Remember that other time that guy got his throat ripped out? Doyle's really bringing it home.

Ah yes, the monkey drug case. I had forgotten what this was until now. One of Sherlock Holmes' last cases! One of his last great adventures! The last mystery of the great detective Sherlock Holmes! And it's about a monkey drug.

Jokes aside, I do think it's funny to think that this case is the reason Holmes retired. Like it was either too weird for Holmes or too nonsensical, and he just couldn't deal with it anymore. Bees make more sense than this.

And the Professor did it so he could be younger and marry his coworker's daughter. I thought they were already engaged but whatever, I guess not.

That last line from Holmes though sounds like one of those quotes which are profound on its own but in context is being applied to a very strange situation.

I'm going to assume Holmes doesn't really understand how the drug worked and is thus explaining this through his understanding of the case, not the weird science behind it. Still, a very funny line.

As for my final thoughts, I think ultimately there was a lot of missed potential in this story to establish more parallels between Holmes and Professor Presbury. You have this older, intelligent, learned man, respected by his peers and colleagues with a well-established reputation trying to turn back time and make himself younger. And you have a story set right before Holmes is about to retire! That feels like a great set up for him to see himself in the Professor, reflect about his age, or his legacy, or at least talk more about his retirement plans. Instead it's kind of a standard, interesting mystery.

But also, all that's just my imagination pulling ahead of the way Doyle wrote these stories. Honestly, I don't mind that it's a standard, if not a little stranger, mystery. I don't think Holmes would be the type to think about his age like it was a burden or something holding him back. I think he'd simply wake up one day and go, "I ought to retire," and he would simply leave to play with his bees.

So while I wish this story was a bit more, I'm glad to enjoy it the way it is.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

[nerdygaymormon]

Living on the Inside of the Edge

Chris Kimball wrote a book for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who find they are living on the edges of the church. It may be circumstances like getting divorced or having a child come out as queer that pushes someone to the edge. It may be being a single person in a church focused on families. It could be a feminist perspective that sees the problems with patriarchy in the church. Maybe it’s learning about some history of the church or a myriad of other reasons that someone finds they are on the margins.

I think this book works especially well for people who’ve been pushed into a different phase of faith. I find most church leaders who are in Stage 3 of Fowler’s stages of faith don’t speak about faith in a way that resonates with me.

Chris Kimball is a straight, cis, married, middle-aged man who once served as bishop and is grandson of an LDS prophet. He decided to include voices with different life experiences. He included a married woman, a Black man, a woman who is single, a gay man (me), and so on. 

I’ve read the book and found it speaks to me. 

If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, many of the ideas I present in my chapter of the book will sound familiar.

The book is now available on Amazon for purchase. Btw, I get no remuneration, the only financial benefit I will receive is a copy of the printed book. 

Below are snippets from each of the chapters written by the contributors.

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[dollhousefan]

Does anyone know if there's gonna be a season 2?

[geekcavepodcast]

Horror Anthology "Hello Darkness" Announced at BOOM! Studios

BOOM! Studios has announced a new ongoing horror anthology series titled Hello Darkness. The anthology will contain stories from R.L. Stine, Francesco Francavilla, Garth Ennis, Becky Cloonan, James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, Brian Azzarello, Vanesa R. Del Rey, John Arcudi, Ryan Sook, Cullen Bunn, Sas Milledge, Sarah Gailey, Liana Kangas, Marguerite Bennett, Michael Conrad, Martín Morazzo, Andy Lanning, Trevor Hairsine, Steve Orlando, Genevieve Valentine, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Letizia Cadonici, Sarah Andersen, and more.

Hello Darkness #1 goes on sale on July 24, 2024. The issue sports a main cover by Paolo Rivera and variant covers by Jenny Frison and Peach Momoko.

(Image via BOOM! Studios - Paolo Rivera's Cover of Hello Darkness #1)

[incorrect-republic-of-doyle]

Leslie: Well, has Jake been wrong before?

Malachy: How wide are we willing to open this up?