#bbc's sherlock

[rosecorcoranwrites]

So apparently, in the 2022 Death on the Nile, Poirot has a tragic backstory as a soldier with a lost love & shaves his mustache at the end. That's about as bad as describing Sherlock Holmes as a high-functioning sociopath. Why do modern filmmakers despise classic detectives?

[ebony1442]

I was done Moffat's version of Holmes and Watson when he put a PTSD-suffering, combat-trained John Watson in close proximity with the man blackmailing his wife with no one except Sherlock Holmes nearby, and Sherlock didn't have the moral quandary about whether to stop his best friend from bashing the man's head in.

He probably would have; he wouldn't want to have to owe Mycroft for covering it up and keeping Watson out of jail.

Seriously, given the temper that Freeman's Watson demonstrated on several occasions, the minute he found out that the blackmailer didn't actually have any blackmail, he would have started with the man's teeth and gone from there.

[yeehawpim]

a comic about fix-it fanfics

[willgrahamscock]

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[224bbaker]

Fun Fact: in one month (1/1/23), all Sherlock Holmes stories hit the public domain and the Conan Doyle Estate can't do shit! I say this for absolutely no reason but also congrats in advance to the happy couple.

[hallo-spaceb0y]

about to rewatch BBC's Sherlock prepared to be sick of me

[kazisonline]

That's my take on them

[16woodsequ]

"Your show might be delayed by the wga strikes!"

I watched Sherlock, mate. We waited three years for the 3 worst episodes you've ever seen. This is nothing

[blindchat]

Happy Birthday Everyone BBC did not stay down despite getting shot

The Dabi dance reveal remains iconic

[dum-spiro-spero99]

THEY WOULD BE SO SO PROUD OF YOU

thanks to @pineapplecrispy for the suggestion + italian bonus, Owen WIlson bonus and historically inaccurated emo boys bonus

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[scarystickers]

Media that the gay tumblr people love

[haveyoumetmythief]

Me: It is Perfectly Normal to struggle while doing visual tasks in the dark, and fumbling while plugging in my phone is a neutral act. It has been over a decade, can you please just-

The Thing Inside My Brain:

[pinkpabli]

Talk to me about your lost fanfiction. I'm listening. I've been there. I'm here for you.

[plumadesatada]

just remembered a fic on AO3 (or more likely LJ because it had that distinct late 00's experimental vibe) that appeared double-spaced oddly, in that some paragraphs would be spaced normally and others would have double or even triple spaces in between. it was about one half of the otp getting over the other's death (or coma, can't remember which), so all the comments were about how poignant the use of visual spacing was as a means to convey all the emotional holes in the character's life.

and then the author replied like... *giggle* guys it's NOT double spaced. try selecting the whole text

and we were all like "no WAY"

but we selected the text, and yes!!!

the "holes" in the story? they were actually lines and actions from the dead/coma character's ghost, rendered invisible to the eye by the simple trick of coloring the text the exact same as the background, revealed by nothing more than a click and a drag of the mouse

a story about the profound loneliness of losing your the partner of your life and having to make do without them, without anything to fill the holes they'd left behind, suddenly became a story about the profound helplessness of seeing someone you love suffer from your absence while you are right there, unable to do anything about it, unable to communicate that you love them enough to suffer unseen and unheard with them, just to keep them company they'll never know about

it was then that I truly realized how *superior* the digital medium is to plain printed paper, how the medium and the format can add to a story.

I think about that fic about once a year. I wish I could find it again

EDIT: FOUND IT!!!! UPDATE HERE