#The Morgue Scene

[wigglebox]

Newsflash: They sound ridiculous either way

[stark-stiel]

why is the season 6 dibala plot set up like chase and foreman are having an affair and hiding it from cameron

[slavicafire]

charlotte ritter. the woman of all times

[iamjackstylerdurden]

do yall think billy and stu were buried close to each other

[i-did-it-all-for-the-nookie]

oh, desert song by my chemical romance, it’s just you and me now…

[theoryofwhatnow]

what could he possibly need all of these keys for?

[behindthescreamz]

“ginger snaps” (2000) article featured in rue morgue magazine.

[jicklet]

#like mentor like mentee

[langernameohnebedeutung]

iZombie: Brother, Can You Spare a Brain? (2015)

[m0rgu3z0mbi3]

Just popping in to blurt to you guys because I'm excited. I bought tickets to see Hollywood undead in concert, and I'm so excited to finally get to see them. They've been my favorite band for almost 11 years--

[gabrielokun]

@killerandhealerqueen hbd🎉

[vveissesfleisch]

tagged by @macchiatosdumptruck (thank you! <3)

Rules are to post the last line you've written, or the wip of what you last drew! Then, tag the number of people as there are words in that line. That's a soft rule.

This is not a line, but a the last little scene I worked on in my beloved Morgan/Reid Criminal Minds fic:

“So, you ever gonna spill the beans?” “Which beans would those be?” “Come on, man. Your date.” “Oh.” Reid’s cheeks pinkened. “As you know, we caught a case, so…there’s not much to spill.” Derek smirked. “Are you blushing, Dr. Reid?” “Uh…agents?” Derek turned. The medical examiner stared back and forth between the two of them, lips parted incredulously.  Reid carefully lifted the sheet covering the victim’s legs and frowned. “There are no ligature marks on the body anywhere, no defensive wounds, no sign of a struggle at all,” he said, as though nothing had happened. And, really, nothing had happened, but Derek still found himself envious of the garden-variety turtle and its ability to retreat into its shell at a moment’s notice.

anyone who is writing anything right now - consider yourselves tagged! tag me and show me your works!

[devoursjohnlock]

i’ve seen so many people talking abt how bbc sherlock mischaracterized them & their relationship, making them seem like they can’t stand each other. i don’t believe it but i wanna ask why did mofftiss make it like “that” 🫠

My take is that Sherlock is Mofftiss' attempt to transform the subtext of the canon stories into text. This means that rather than telling any specific Doyle story directly, they're trying to tell an underlying story that appears in that canon story in a way that makes it look like a new invention to any casual viewer, but is actually true to Doyle's intention in the original story.

As a consequence, where Doyle creates a side character who is a mirror to either Holmes or Watson, Mofftiss will either eliminate (or duplicate) the middleman by giving their traits/story to directly to Sherlock or John in Sherlock. They actually do this both in subtext and in text.

So, for example, subtextual violence by a John mirror toward a Sherlock mirror in the canon (let's use Culverton Smith as a Watson mirror in The Dying Detective because it's an unusually clear example) becomes textual violence by John toward Sherlock in The Lying Detective. Mofftiss were unusually obvious with this one; Doyle literally has Watson's first observations of Culverton Smith occur through a mirror. Smith turns the full power of his medical knowledge against Sherlock Holmes just as Holmes is telling Watson that he doesn't think he's a good doctor. Smith shakes Holmes roughly as he lies in his sick bed, while Watson hides. It's very easy to see the roots of The Lying Detective in this story.

In my view, there isn't really a way to convince canon readers who aren't interested in this kind of reading, and I'm not interested in doing that. Doyle was predominantly a horror writer, and he appears to have had a lot of hangups that he expressed in his fiction (I don't just mean his relationship with sexuality, but that's part of it). It shouldn't be surprising that the subtext of these stories takes some dark turns. There is absolutely nothing wrong with reading the canon for the witty banter and the derring-do! Holmes and Watson can just be crime-solving husbands if you want, and the cases can just be the cases. But it's clear to me that Doyle hid stories within his stories, and now that I've seen that, I want to uncover as much of it as I can because I find it fascinating and fun to work out.

Despite that, I wouldn't personally characterize John and Sherlock's (or Watson and Holmes's) relationship as "they can't stand each other", and clearly Mofftiss don't either, it only takes watching the entirety of TLD to see that. I also find it a bit boring to reduce Martin Freeman's performance in that episode to only one emotion (that's famously the opposite of what he does in his acting!). Their relationship is complex, and John's deeply repressed emotions are getting in the way of their sorting it out onscreen.

[yespumpkindoodlesthings]

[floofyboi57]

The Rapture (but it’s pink) is a Mera song

[bryndeavour]