#enola holes 2

[keirahknightley]

Costume appreciation series: Enola Holmes 2 (2022) dir Harry Bradbeer

Costume Design by Consolata Boyle

[fluffylavenderstormclouds]

No one:

Literally no one:

Eduoria Holmes at any given moment:

[virtie333]

Drabble complete. I think it's time for Enola Holmes...

[siriustaylorsversion]

London Boy- louis partridge x reader social media au

yourname.official

yourname.official I LOVE YOU, LONDON!!! liked by conangray, joelocke and 2,09,300 others.

conangray so... other than blasting london boy in your car, did you meet any cute ones?

sadiesink_ i love you, but next time i need front row tickets.

youname.official me too ig? sadie_theloml that night was sparkling, don't you let it go 🥺

taylornation you're so GORGEOUS!

yourname.official our song for all the london boys conangray zendaya yeah but, i LOVE your american smile...

youname.collective when you know you're that girl. conangray

conangray i had the time of my life...with you 💖 liked by yourname.official, sadiesink_ and 1,98,940 others.

yourname.official i couldn't be more BLESSED to have you on stage with me. you're my heart, my soul and the reason for the teardrops on my guitar... i adore you and can't wait for our... project together?

sadiesink_ i wanted to be there too, but my dumbass became an actor. STILL you couldn't count me in on your next *project*?! yourname.official NO, YOU'RE AMAZING, my love louispartridge in sadiesinks_'s words...loved our work on the *project* lovin.mills WAIT, WHAT PROJECT?!

zendaya my beautiful besties 🥺💘

florence.bysink I ALREADY KNOW I'M IN LOVE WITH THE PROJECT EVEN THOUGH I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.

milliebobbybrown the *project* has found it's feet again.

millie.y/nlove is it...what i think it is?! enolaholmesmovie umm....

enolaholmesmovie

enolaholmesmovie Tis' i... once again? Now streaming, Enola Holmes SEASON 2, only on Netflix! liked by yourname.official, millebobbybrown and 4,89,400 others.

yourname.official i am in LOVE with this cast

milliebobbybrown i am in LOVE with you louispartridge we LOVE you too!!! millie.y/nlove it IS what i thought it was, wtf?!

louispartridge this cast is BASICALLY written by the writers of friends... -yourname.official

yourname.official and i am chandler! henrycavill Pretty sure that's me. louispartridge it's ME milliebobbybrown it's probably not me.

sadiey/n.forevermore okay netflix, i guess i am subscribing to you again.

yourname.official as the chandler bing of the cast, i appreciate it. louispartridge no I AM the chandler, and yourname.official is my monica. yourname.official i am NOT monica. louispartridge your ocd says something else... florence.bysink did no one notice he said HIS monica?!

louispartridge

louispartridge was forced to post this at 2am. liked by yourname.official, zendaya and 2,03,080 others.

youname.official so it's safe to say YOU'RE the monica to MY chandler.

florence.bysink shslbsdnjhkg YES.

milliebobbybrown so who am i then?

yourname.official the rachel to our chandler and monica 🥺 zendaya our?! florence.bysink THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING.

yourname.official

yourname.official these beauties came to surprise me today 🖤 liked by louispartridge, zendaya and 2,09,890 others.

louispartridge i think we've established that i look the coolest here.

yourname.official alright, would love to hear your music now... oh wait, there's none. louispartridge your sarcasm is showing, chandler. maintain it. yourname.official isn't that my job? in chandler's words.. i like maintaining you (and it). milliebobbybrown when i tell you he BLUSHED.

florence.bysink

florence.bysink CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY LOUIS ADDED THIS TO HIS STORY AND TAGGED yourname.official?! liked by millliebobbybrown and 13,09,400 others

sadiesmills I LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yourname.fandom i hope they are together, i mean he makes her really happy!!

yourname.official

yourname.official address the letters to the holes in my butterfly wings... liked by louispartridge, sadiesink_ and 3,09,080 others.

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louispartridge

louispartridge nothing’s forever, nothing's as good as it seems, but i hope you know how proud i am you were created. liked by yourname.official, conangray and 2,08,600 others.

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[ten-cent-sleuth]

I know I’m not a big part of the xReader community, as I rarely read it and even more rarely interact, but I wanted to try making some friends there so I’m going to be posting a Sherlock Holmes x f!Reader multichap soon! Usually, I like to write 4k+ chapters and to have everything completed before posting the first chapter, but since this multichap will serve as my entries for July Break Bingo, I’m going to try something different this time.

Each chapter will be whatever length it ends up being at first (I’ll bolster them all in the revision stages later), and I will post them here as soon as they’re done. Once every chapter is posted, I’ll go back and edit, and then I’ll post the new version on AO3. I look forward to sharing the journey to a good copy more closely with my readers!

However, that does mean there will be some inconsistencies to be suffered through. Especially since this multichap will be a case fic, I’m expecting plot holes as well as OOC moments to abound. I apologise in advance, welp.

Now, for the more fun info!

Below is my empty JBB card if you are curious to see what will be giving the fic some direction. I intend to get a blackout with this multichap. 👀👀👀

Synopsis: Your father hires Sherlock to investigate your husband’s death…a decade after it occurred. Why is your father suddenly concerned foul play was involved? And what is motivating Sherlock to take on a case that has every expectation of being dry and uninspired? (Takes place in the world and time after the Enola Holmes film but before the sequel.)

Warnings: please see this post for those and feel free to send me an ask if you need more details (I’m keeping them separate to avoid spoilers)

Masterlist: A Galling Yoke Part 1 … Part 2 … Part 3 … Part 4 … Part 5 … Part 6 … Part 7 … Part 8 … Part 9 … Part 10 … Part 11 … Part 12 … Part 13 … Part 14 … Part 15 …

Status: on hiatus [as of 2024-06-05] (but Part 15 should be a satisfying ending until the next update) – please let me know if you would like to be tagged with updates! :)

Thank You, God, for letting me write this and thank you, dear reader, for reading. <3

[heliads]

I DIDNT KNOW YOU WRITE FOR ENOLA HOLES

You really are carrying all my hyperfocuses

I DO! enola holmes is so fun!! i have yet to see enola holmes 2 rip but i have a deep crush on louis partridge and honestly that's all a girl needs

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I tagged 2,781 of my posts in 2022

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Do you ever miss a friend who probably wasn’t always the best for you but you had some wonderful times together & sometimes nostalgic thoughts are an ass & get the better of you?? And you can’t really tell your friends cause they saw the signs of erratic behavior & what it did to you before you did... and no one wants to go back down that path.... cool maybe that’s just me.

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#4

Crash

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#3

I did not emotional damage from another marvel show & yet here we fucking are....

I’m not okay after watching moon knight episode 5 & yes I know I’m behind but I was busy....

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#2

When @someabsolutenonsense & I have found new fandoms & give each other warnings cause we don’t to spoil things for each other. This specific example is in regards to The Locked Tomb & Enola Holmes. I’m the blue bubbles.

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My #1 post of 2022

So I’m visiting @someabsolutenonsense for the weekend. Last night we were talking about books & naturally gravitated towards TFOTA. Which led to re-reading analysis posts by @slightlyrebelliouswriter23 and gushing over their eloquence and this led us to going down a TFOTA tumblr rabbit hole. Included in this rabbit hole were @clockworkbee @duarteegreenbriar @jurdanhell @clockworkgraystairs

Today, we went to B&N and I bought a TFOTA paperback set & Ironside. And @someabsolutenonsense bought two box sets of other series.

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[fictionalred]

Tagged by @yourspookyginger Thank you! <3

last song: Nobody's Daughter by Hole

last movie: Enola Holmes 2

last show: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

currently reading: nothing

currently working on: waiting for groceries to be delivered

favourite colour: red

sweet/savoury/spicy: savoury

coffee/tea/cocoa: tea (though I haven't actually been drinking any tea in ages now)

craving: maybe some crisps.. I'll have some crisps

If anyone feels like doing these pls consider yourself tagged!! I never know who might like these

[fulltimecatwitch]

although not a 100% historically accurate all the clothes in Enola Holes 2 were so pretty 😍

[oneefin]

i thought it would be fun to timelapse an nyt sunday solve at my current skill level so that i can sense better what an overall solve looks like lol. this is sped up 100x

maybe this wasn't the best sunday to do it on since it was far easier than the typical sunday, but it's nice anyway. some tidbits:

due to a really generous number of gettable clues in the bottom middle of the grid, i locked the theme answer WHACAMOLE very quickly. then i write in the first gimmicked answer, OZONE(HOLE), 14 seconds into the video

the left edge was really lucky. ANISTONE crossing COSMO and TITER could have gone very wrong (having not heard of any of them) but i managed to lock them in without guessing. and wild-guessing ZIPCARS below it saved me some letter reveals later

started randomly guessing + checking at around 37 seconds in, then started confirming individual letters in the last couple of seconds. (nyt crosswords are currently impossible for me to solve without doing this)

44d was really stupid of me, i meant to write ATTHETOP but accidentally wrote ATHEETOP, so when the guess + check said the HE was wrong, i thought ATTHETOP was wrong. and these two letters were crossing YENTL and GOWHOLEHOG, neither of which i've heard of, so that mistake cost me really hard

the bottom left corner really isn't my fault, there's no way for me to get ELENA, an otherwise common name, when its crossed by ENOLA, ASPEN, and LHASA, none of which i've heard of. probably the worst part of the fill in this puzzle, but that's more or less what i'm used to seeing on sundays

the top middle though was definitely a miss, i was unlucky with the vowel in MIDIS and i could have known EVENT, IVIES, and SEISM without having to check - i just wasn't sure about SING the whole time

guess i'll have to do this again on a harder sunday though, one where i actually spend a full 2 hours staring at it

[cakebakedme]

The game has found its feet again

No matter how lost you feel if you stay true to yourself the path will always find you again. – Eudoria

Perhaps what I need right now is an inspiration. A reminder of who I am. I think I tend to forget. Being all holed up inside my dimly lit condominium unit makes me an unbecoming person. I forget who I am, despite having all these opportunities to reexplore myself and my interests. I have a pile of unread books and homework unreviewed and unwritten.

I just watched Enola Holmes 2 and Enola Holmes reminds me of the main female characters I grew up reading. I thought I was too old to watch girl power-themed movies but apparently, that’s exactly what I need to light another within me. I still have Ally Carter’s young adult novels on my bookshelves. I literally built my personality as a preteen around The Heist Society and Gallagher Girls series. Growing up, I realized that I grew darker. Darkening made me lose my spirit and sense of adventure. I lost that lightness within me and I thought it would still be around despite the darkening of life.

You know, I think I could really watch some more movies. Yeah, that’s what I lack. I also need to explore: How should I enliven my love for learning? I need to identify the parts of myself that need rousing. How do I express my creativity? How can I keep the study alive? What am I interested in learning more about? Where did I leave off? And most importantly - how can I get back to where I left off?

When the seriousness of adulthood becomes so overwhelming that it sucks the warmth out of us, we need to revisit old patterns and interests to discover new experiences that can build us more. I’ve spent way too much time indoors, in front of the same computer, and frequenting the same social media sites. Technology really dilutes the vividness of human experience; almost like the gratification and fulfillment experienced is synthetic or may I say, artificial, at times. Of course, there is a choice to step back and take individual or personal agency by recalibrating ourselves. We can always take some time off social media and detox, touch some grass, and maybe even go analog. 

I think that’s the way to go for me. I have a lot of homework due this week, notably, the first draft of Chapter II of my undergraduate thesis. I’m actually thinking of summoning my inner Enola Holmes and going analog, approaching my studies like an investigation. If all else fails, I think it’s better to fake it till you make it. It’s fairly easy nowadays to get lazy and blame the lack of motivation on the depletion of the human brain’s reward systems, but I think that we need to be creative when it comes to our approaches to our productivity. The modern productivity culture is bleak, monotonous, and minimal. While it accompanies human focus and concentration, it hampers creativity - which is something important in problem-solving and brightens the bleakness and boredom of academic work.

[b-a-n-a-n-a-ss]

Movies/shows I will write for

Harry Potter

Narnia

Star wars

My Own Private Idaho

The Outsiders

Titanic

The Breakfast Club

Toy Soldiers

School Ties

It (miniseries & new)

Hidden Figures

The Lost Boys

The Mummy (only the first 2)

Legally Blonde

Heathers

Little Women (old and new)

Stand by me

Karate kid ( 1&2)

Mighty Ducks (2&3)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Scream 1

The patriot

Anaconda (1997)

Anchorman (the legend of ron burgundy)

Grown ups

Christine (that one Stephan king movie about the possessed car)

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Weird science

Edward scissorhands

The sandlot

Newsies

Holes (2003)

Top gun

The black phone

Enola Holmes

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The Sound of Music

The Night at the Museum (all 3)

Grease

Remember the Titans

The Great Gatsby

Dead Poets society

Miss peregrines home for peculiar children 

Any Madea movie 🤷🏼‍♀️

Pearl Harbor

Shows I will write for

Reign

Grand Army

Gotham

Shameless

Any DC

Any Marvel

MASH

Adam 12

Emergency

Anne with an e

13 reasons why

Euphoria

The Walking Dead

Stranger things

Umbrella academy

Lab rats/elite force

Good luck Charlie

Dog with a blog

Dance moms 🤷🏼‍♀️

NCIS

The office

Chicago fir

Chicago PD

Merlin

Ouran high school host club

Dynasty

Saved by the bell

Full house

Boy meets world

That 70’s show

Bridgerton

Outerbanks

Supernatural

Peaky Blinders

CHiPs

In the heat of the night

Daisy Jones and the Six

The Marvelous Mrs.Masiel

Band of Brothers

1940s-2000s actors:

Frank Sinatra

Marlon Brando

James Dean

Elvis Presley

Red Buttons

Montgomery Clift

Tom Cruise

Jerry Lewis

Gregory Peck

Tony Curtis

Leonardo DeCaprio

Mark Wahlburg

Jeffrey Hunter

Guy Madison

Alain Delon

Sal Mineo

Ricky Nelson

David Nelson

Dean Martin

Matt Dillon

Emilio Estevez

Keanu Reeves

River Phoenix

Rob Lowe

Ralph Mocchio

Anthony Michael Hall

Wil Wheaton

Sean Astin

Ryan Gosling

Ryan Reynolds

Paul Rudd

Victor Garber

Peter Lawford

Joey Bishop

Disney men:

Prince Eric (The Little Mermaid)

Prince Philip (Sleeping Beauty)

Prince naveen (Princess and the Frog)

Prince Charming (Cinderella)

Flynn Ryder (Rapunzel)

Li Shang (Mulan)

Aladdin (Aladdin)

Kocoum (Pocahontas)

Phoebus (Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Clopin Trouillefou (Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Jafar (Aladdin)

Facilier (Princess and the Frog)

Claude Frollo (Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Also will write for:

Various Celebrities

Rock stars (like from 60s-200s)!

Famous Vintage men (like nikola Tesla)

Presidents

Royal men (Russia, France, Great Britain,(starting at 1300s until now))

Football/baseball/basketball players

Figure skaters (Ilia Malinin and Valiery Angelpol)

This is my full list, i will add onto it when I start finding and thinking about new shows to write for. REQUESTS ARE OPEN! So if you have some please don't be shy!!

[nettlestonenell]

Enola Holmes in Review

Gentle Readers:

1.       I did not plan to watch Enola Holmes

2.       I do not/have not watched Stranger Things, and my entire concept of Millie Bobby Brown as a human is encapsulated in the occasional errant tumblr post, and a line of eyewear she apparently has created, posters for which hang at my glasses-provider.

3.       I had never heard of the YA novels about Enola Holmes

There she is!

Yes, I do tend to enjoy nearly any incarnation of Sherlock Holmes. And, yes, I am often surprised by this fact. For some reason, Holmes, unlike, say, Chris Evans as Cap or Chris Hemsworth as Thor [instances where I can’t really imagine enjoying anyone else in the role] I am always interested to see someone else’s [writer and actor and director]’s take on him. *Subtle shout-out to James D’Arcy’s 2002 turn in A Case of Evil.

Mr. Jarvis! [and there was Vincent D’Onofrio and opium!!]

And yet, watching the Enola Holmes trailer [no doubt b/c of tumblr], and yes, admittedly not unmoved [we are not made of stone] by Cavill’s Curls™ the delight I felt in watching that advert led me to start informing my family that on September 23rd what I was going to be doing was enjoying Enola Holmes on Netflix [and anyone else was free to join me].

Someone important is missing from this picture

And what a delight it was. In the run-up to its debut I read more than a few reviews of the film [and, I think, every one of them written by men], some of which struck me as simply coming from a place of mean-spiritedness, yet none—even the positive reviews—preparing me for how ENJOYABLE this film is.

I’m not going to provide a full review point-by-point here, b/c the film involves cases to be solved (no, none of them are overwhelmingly complex—YA novel--, so all the more reason not to spoil any pay-offs). But I do have some things to talk about.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – And what a nice, nice elephant it is! Henry Cavill as Holmes is, in my opinion an absolute delight of a performance. From the moment he first says Enola’s name (a perfectly-rendered reaction to the moment playing out) this Holmes fits into this Greatest Showman-like version of Victorian England, where no one’s too dirty no matter how poor, and where despite a flaming red dress, cut too low for daytime wear, young Enola is never once mistaken for a working girl. [Again, YA novel] As other reviewers have noted, HC is, well, Cut and Bulked Out, and in his highly tailored frock coats well, strapping is too light a description word. *not a complaint. Cavill’s Curls are out and proud and here to tell us that we are meant to be Having Fun, and Gentle Readers—THEY DO NOT LIE.

No, not a priest’s collar where he is undercover (though I had thought so)

In fact, you could absolutely write your thesis statement on this film, that it’s really a fraternal, familial love story between Sherlock and Enola. Sherlock is the character during the two hours that actually changes. [Yes, Enola comes to an understanding about herself, and her circumstances change repeatedly—but it is Sherlock who experiences a Change of Heart/Reversal]. 

Raise your hand if you’re totally here for significantly older brother/significantly youngest sister family love!

HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE IT – This might in no way be helpful, but, Enola Holmes is basically The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles...

Where have you gone, Sean Patrick Flanery?

a YA historical storyline that’s written adjacent to [there, famous people] here, enduring fictional characters. It’s adventurous and pleasantly immersive, historical morays are given a slap-dash portrayal, rather than a fully-accurate representation, there’s adventures to be had, and side-characters to be converted into caring about the title character as much as we, the audience, do.

LUCY HONEYCHURCH – Yes, that gorgeous girl from Windy Corner. The timeline doesn’t jibe, but I daresay Helena Bonham Carter (back in a corset—though she may have worn those for Bellatrix) as Eudoria Holmes *IS* what Lucy Honeychurch might well have become beyond A Room with a View’s end. Bonham Carter looks absolutely at home here (period films have sorely missed her! –she had a part in 2015’s Suffragette), and still wears the trappings of Victorian England like a second skin. 

Not to mention that she now join my personal comfort-list of on-screen mothers with the likes of 1997’s Little Women Susan Sarandon and Cinderella’s Hayley Atwell.

FAMILY ISSUES OR PLOT HOLES? 

It’s a fair question. There’s a lot going on in this plot, some of which...seem solvable. Why has it been so very long since the Holmes brothers have seen their own mother? And sister? How could the woman we come to know as Eudoria raise a Mycroft? [see also, Molly Weasley?] Why aren’t people who seem to care about Enola more engaged with saving her from all the dangers London throws in her way? Why does Enola accept several acts of violence aimed at her, why does she in certain instances Do What She Is Told? Rather than chalk these up to plot holes or convenient devices, I’m siding with the Holmes family being dysfunctional [who knows what dad was like? We’re certainly not told here]. 

[clears throat]

The conversations between Mycroft and Sherlock barely skim the surface of any subject they interact on. Classic dysfunction: distancing one’s true self from human interaction b/c keeping the peace supersedes all else.

Enola accepts certain treatments b/c if we really do watch her relationship with her mother, there is an element of something amiss—as I will declare the later abandonment shows. Enola is a child used to being elevated and celebrated on one hand, and shut out and isolated on the other. Her parent has informed her about so much, but essentially locked her away in a false reality, where Enola is not taken to see the world, nor taught how to interact in it (which is explicitly stated). Perhaps it is not so surprising that the Holmes’ brothers have not cared overly much for visiting their remaining family. And when repeatedly confronted with a minor child (and yet a child likely though old enough or about so, to be married off) being forced to endure things diametrically opposed to her will—the brothers’ reactions are stoic, the system they accept as to how life must be lived immoveable and morally right simply by its very existence.

MILLIE BOBBY BROWN – THE STAR – In what has to be an Emmy-nomination-deserving turn, MBB is nothing short of wholly in charge of the screen. She never overpowers the story. She’s as loveable as Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping, and as ready for her closeup as Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games. As another review mentioned, she handles the 4th wall breaks in such as way as we look forward to the next time she’s going to talk to us. We ache with her sorrow for her lost mom, and rage with her at the adults in her life choosing wrongly for her future—or simply not choosing at all.

A random observation, but one that feels important to me: her HAIR. Yes! They’ve managed to make a late Victorian-era film where the heroine’s hair looks like real hair that someone really styled (or in some scenes, didn’t). And yet, where the hair looks proper for the time. [wild applause]

COMPLAINTS: Well, in honesty there aren’t any. If you want to complain that there isn’t any dirt, that the evil of the world (I mean, c’mon, this is narrowly post-Dickensian London, here) is neutered, that the adults in question seem neither alarmed enough or emboldened enough at either their mother or sister being missing and possibly out of their depths in a dangerous society without protection, and in Enola’s case real-world skills--? Well, I’m certainly not going to disagree with you. This is YA Victorian London, after all, not Ripper Street. There is also neither a hint of or actual threat of sexual violence at any point in the film. But the lack of that has preserved us from having to sit through that, as well as no doubt lectures about how Enola’s virtue might be spoilt and she might become useful to no man.

The relationships are appropriate, too. Despite strides between Enola and certain adults in the film, by the time the credits roll they’re not showing physical affection toward each other (a move that would have seemed over-the-top), and teen relationships are shown progressing at a reasonable and mutedly awkward pace.

Now, Netflix, green-light me five more films (or more). There’s still a new version of John Watson to meet, after all!

[thatholmesburyblog]

a refreshing perspective pt 1

As requested by AO3, a sequel to ‘an alternate perspective’ which you can read here if you feel so inclined, though this can kind of stand on its own. And yes, it is going to be two parts!!

[UPDATE] Part 2 is here!

Pairing: Enola x Tewkesbury w/ much Holmesy sibling fluff? drama?

Wordcount: 512 (part 1)

The wedding is in an hour, and, pacing the Baker Street apartment she’s stayed in since she let her lease run out, Enola isn’t sure why she’s so nervous. They’ve known each other for years; they’ve been engaged over eight months. Putting off the wedding--so carefully planned for Christmas Eve!--will do nothing for her nerves. If anything, it would only serve to embolden those who talk behind their fans every time Tewkesbury arrives at a ball alone.

There’s a knock at the door, and her brother enters.

“You look lovely, Enola.” She hears the emotion in Sherlock’s voice before she sees him, and smiles.

“You’re being emotional,” she teases lightly, turning to face him, then growing more serious. “It’s understandable but not, I think, unnecessary today.”

“No.”

“Is the carriage downstairs?” Sherlock nods, handing her a bouquet.

“Your young gentleman told me to bring you these.” Enola breathes in deep, the arrangement of pink and red camellias with 'princess' mushrooms tucked in--goodness knows where he found them--reassuring her that he’ll still be the same Tewkesbury she jumped off a train with.

“Thank you.” She precedes him down the stairs; Mycroft will meet them at the church.

The carriage catches in a dozen hidden holes along the way, nearly runs off the road into a snowbank on the way to the outskirts of London, and Mycroft is standing on the steps, impatient, when they arrive.

“You’re late,” he says by way of greeting. “And your viscount--”

“I’m so glad you’ve arrived safely,” Tewkesbury says, coming around the church. Mycroft is apoplectic.

“The groom cannot see the bride before the wedding!” Tewkesbury looks nearly apologetic, but Enola speaks before he can voice an apology.

“We’ve never been much for following rules, I’m afraid.” Sherlock snorts. “I don’t see why we ought to start now, it would just give the guests an inaccurate impression of who you are and who you’re marrying.” For a moment, Enola wonders if Tewkesbury is going to kiss her, in front of the church and her brothers, before they are married. She wonders if she would like it.

“Well said, as always.” Tewkesbury tilts his top hat at her. “I’ll see you at the end of the aisle.” Enola smiles, and Tewkesbury vanishes around the corner of the church to re-enter through a side door.

“My god, what a way to begin the day,” Mycroft says as they watch him go. “Don’t wait long after I take my seat, little brother, the ceremony has been delayed enough as it is.”

“Don’t worry, elder brother,” Enola parrots. “I’ll make sure not to keep anyone waiting.”

“You look very nice,” her eldest brother adds before ascending the steps. “Pray don’t embarrass the family by ruining your outfit.”

“He does know I bought the clothes myself?” Enola whispers to Sherlock. “And that he bears no expense should any harm come to any of it?”

Sherlock nods quickly, sharply, and offers her his arm. “Shall we?”

“Yes, I think we shall,” she says, taking it as they enter the church.

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

2022 movie of the week: masterlist

if you’ve known me for any time at all, you should know by now that i will not watch very many movies this year. i’ll aspire to, i’ll think it’s a good idea, but it’s just not that likely to happen. however, that shouldn’t stop me from the fun of trying! and this year i’m aiming for a slightly different type of goal. 

my plan is to watch one movie a week. if i happen to watch more than that, great, but it’'ll be a bonus and won’t count for a following week. i’ll review my weekly movie same as i review all the movies i watch, and check them off my watchlist as i go. (my watchlist just gets longer every year. maybe 2022 is the year i finally make a dent!)

4th man out (2015)

892 (TBD)

12 years a slave (2013)

a family man (2016)

a man called otto (2023)

a room with a view (1985)

a simple favor (2018)

a single man (2009)

a wrinkle in time (2018)

about time (2013)

admission (2013)

after yang (TBD)

all the bright places (2020)

always be my maybe (2019)

ammonite (2020)

amsterdam (2022)

an education (2009)

ant man (2015)

ant man and the wasp (2018)

anything's possible (2022)

aquaman (2018)

arrival (2016)

atonement (2007)

august: osage county (2013)

babylon (2023)

bad education (2019)

be kind rewind (2008)

bedazzled (2000)

begin again (2013)

big eyes (2014)

billy elliot (2000)

black panther: wakanda forever (2022)

blockers (2018)

bohemian rhapsody (2018)

bowfinger (1999)

boy erased (2018)

brideshead revisited (2008)

bright young things (2003)

burn burn burn (2015)

cairo time (2009)

can you ever forgive me? (2018)

catherine called birdy (2022)

chef (2014)

clemency (2019)

coco (2017)

colette (2018)

crazy rich asians (2018)

crouching tiger, hidden dragon (2000)

crush (2022)

cyrano (2021)

demolition man (1993)

devil’s knot (2013)

die hard (1988)

disclosure (2020)

disenchanted (2022)

do revenge (2022)

dog day afternoon (1975)

downton abbey (2019)

downton abbey: a new era (2022)

dreamgirls (2006)

dual (TBD)

earth girls are easy (1988)

effie gray (2014)

eighty for brady (?)

encanto (2021)

enola holmes (2020)

enola holmes 2 (2022)

eurovision song contest: the story of fire saga (2020)

fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald

fantastic beasts: the secrets of dumbledore

fast color (2018)

fighting with my family (2019)

fright night (2011)

galaxy quest (1999)

girls trip (2017)

glass onion: a knives out mystery (2022)

gone girl (2014)

good luck to you, leo grande (2022)

goodbye christopher robin (2017)

gosford park (2001)

gunpowder milkshake (2021)

happy death day (2017)

happy death day 2u (2019)

happy texas (1999)

her smell (2018)

hidden figures (2016)

high school musical (2006)

high school musical 2 (2007)

high school musical 3 (2008)

holes (2003)

honk for jesus. save your soul. (2022)

honor society (2022)

how to talk to girls at parties (2017)

how to train your dragon (2010)

hysteria (2011)

i am not your negro (2017)

i don’t feel at home in this world anymore (2017)

i, tonya (2017)

i wanna dance with somebody (2022)

if beale street could talk (2018)

inception (2010)

infinitely polar bear (2014)

jackie (2016)

jane got a gun (2015)

joyful noise (2012)

judas and the black messiah (2021)

junebug (2005)

jupiter ascending (2015)

jurassic world: dominion (2022)

just mercy (2019)

kajillionaire (2020)

keeping mum (2005)

knife fight (2012)

kubo and the two strings (2016)

laggies (2014)

last christmas (2019)

last holiday (2006)

late night (2019)

legally blonde (2001)

lemonade mouth (2011)

little (2019)

logan lucky (2017)

love guaranteed (2020)

love, simon (2018)

ma rainey’s black bottom (2020)

magic mike (2012)

magic mike xxl (2015)

mansfield park (1999)

marry me (2022)

mars attacks! (1996)

mary queen of scots (2018)

master (2022)

me and earl and the dying girl (2015)

meet the robinsons (2007)

megamind (2010)

men in black international (2019)

mermaids (1990)

miss peregrine’s home for peculiar children (2016)

miss pettigrew lives for a day (2008)

miss sloane (2016)

mixtape (2021)

monkey business (1952)

monuments men (2014)

moonlight (2016)

moonrise kingdom (2012)

moonshot (2022)

mr. magorium’s wonder emporium (2007)

mr. mom (1983)

much ado about nothing (2011)

nancy drew and the hidden staircase (2019)

nanny mcphee (2005)

nanny mcphee returns (2010)

never let me go (2010)

newsies (1992)

no time to die (2021)

nope (2022)

northanger abbey (2007)

not okay (2022)

obvious child (2014)

on the come up (2022)

other people (2016)

pacific rim (2013)

paddington (2014)

paddington 2 (2017)

palm springs (2020)

parasite (2019)

paris is burning (1990)

passing (2021)

penelope (2007)

pete’s dragon (2016)

phoenix rising (2022)

pirate radio (2009)

please stand by (2017)

pride (2014)

pride and prejudice and zombies (2016)

professor marston and the wonder women (2016)

return to oz (1985)

rise of the guardians (2012)

rita moreno: just a girl who decided to go for it (2021)

rocketman (2019)

roll bounce (2005)

rosaline (2022)

saving face (2004)

say anything (1989)

scream (2022)

see how they run (2022)

seeking a friend for the end of the world (2012)

shoplifters (2018)

short term 12 (2013)

sing street (2016)

sleeping with other people (2015)

someone great (2019)

soul (2020)

spiderman: far from home (2019)

spiderman: homecoming (2017)

spiderman: into the spiderverse (2018)

spiderman: no way home (2021)

spin me round (2022)

spotlight (2015)

spring awakening: those you’ve known (2022)

spy kids (2001)

stage fright (2014)

step up (2006)

suicide squad (2016)

teeth (2007)

the 355 (2022)

the anniversary party (2001)

the batman (2022)

the beguiled (2017)

the best exotic marigold hotel (2012)

the breadwinner (2017)

the children act (2017)

the craft: legacy (2020)

the disaster artist (2017)

the divine order (2017)

the emperor’s new groove (2000)

the eyes of tammy faye (2021)

the fall (2006)  

the favourite (2018)

the fight (2020)

the fighting temptations (2003)

the five year engagement (2012)

the gentlemen (2020)

the godfather (1972)

the godfather part 2 (1974)

the godfather part 3 (1990)

the great gatsby (2013)

the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society (2018)

the hate u give (2018)

the hunchback of notre dame (1996)

the hunt (2020)

the iron lady (2011)

the legend of tarzan (2016)

the master (2012)

the matrix resurrections (2021)

the notebook (2004)

the old guard (2020)

the outfit (2022) 

the photograph (2020)

the prince of egypt (1998)

the prom (2020)

the queen (2006)

the second best exotic marigold hotel (2016)

the secret garden (2020)

the skeleton twins (2014)

the spy who dumped me (2018)

the suicide squad (2021)

the trial of the chicago 7 (2020)

the truman show (1998)

the unbearable weight of massive talent (2022)

the united states vs. billie holiday (2021)

the velocipastor (2018)

the way he looks (2014)

the woman king (2022)

their finest (2016)

this means war (2012)

tootsie (1982)

treasure planet (2002)

troop zero (2019)

turning red (2022)

two lovers and a bear (2016)

us (2019)

valley girl (2020)

velvet goldmine (1998)

venom (2018)

venom: let there be carnage (2021)

victoria & abdul (2017)

walk the line (2005)

west side story (2021)

wet hot american summer (2001)

what we do in the shadows (2014)

where’d you go, bernadette (2019)

widows (2018)

wild target (2010)

wonder woman 1984 (2020)

yesterday (2019)

young adult (2011)

zombieland: double tap (2019)