#i'm hyperfixating again

[holyblanchett]

The fact that Agatha has lived for centuries and lady death (Rio) is most likely the only person in her life that has ever protected/seen the good in her.

[universalneurodivergent]

Before you jump down my throat about me not posting the original Tumblr post, I found this in a screenshot on pinterest, so this is what I am using because it would be too hard to find this exactly small three section stitch on Tumblr so leave me alone 🙃

[kimikoyuko]

I'm on my period, i'm out of Nutella, the stores are closed, I can't find my eraser for my messed up sketch, pills don't help with the period pain AND MY TIKTOK SHOWED ME A SLIDESHOW WITH SILCO LOOKING AT VANDER WITH SOME SAD MUSIC AND THE CAPTION "He wants that cookie so effing badly"

SO NOW IM HERE, SITTING ON MY BED, TRYING TO FIND A VANCO FIC THAT I HAVEN'T READ YET, WHILE CRYING MY EYES OUT BECAUSE OF THE DOOMED OLD MAN YAOI

[arttsuka]

They're holding a sign

[forest-is-sleepy]

I decided to draw Sunset Shimmer for the first time in a few years. She's absolutely one of my favorite characters, maybe even my #1.

Was a little inspired by the #mypastisnottoday2025 trend, though i missed the date by a few days.

I might make prints of this one

[cheriksversion]

Guys please my James McAvoy hyperfixation is going crazy but where is the archive? So many people don't know some of his very awesome characters :( I watched The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby Him and Her variations with Jessica Chastain why doesn't anyone know these movies? They're so good. I really recommend them. As well as Becoming Jane with Anne Hathaway. It's about Jane Austen and the movie is really good.

As an editor I use scenepacks alot and there are barely any of James' characters. So many of them aren't popular enough 😔😔 please guys we need more James McAvoy support he's still so underrated 🙏🙏

If anyone has any scenepacks or links to scenepacks of Conor Ludlow from The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby or Tom Lefroy from Becoming Jane please lmk!

Also while I'm here have this Cherik Edit I made because I love them and idk what else to put here 🙏😖

Scenepack credits for the edit go to both marvelsionscenes & sorceresscenes on Instagram! :)

[random-dragon-exe]

So because I'm hyper-fixating on FOP A New Wish, here's a drawing of Peri I did.

This show has me in a chokehold rn.

[kit-shipper]

Does anyone know who made these????

[quiet-admirer]

It's genuinely embarrassing how weak I am for an alt vibe + STEM-related interests, like, an emo computer geek will instantaneously have me wrapped around their finger, and god help me if they're fat. I'm not saying this as fetish mining, I'm just sitting here acknowledging the somewhat mortifying reality that not only is this me but I'm so obvious about it that any time there's a game with a playable character with even a LaCroix hint of this flavour I can't help but choose them and immediately my spouse will be like "I knew you were going to pick that one". And it doesn't even have to be in a sexual way, it can be a real person or a character, but that vibe is just everything to me 🫠

[infinialtairs]

NOAHOWLZ MAKING REELS? SHOCKING NEWS (/j) I have never liked doing vertical 1080p because it feels so much awkward to do than normal video 1080p...BUT! i need to make something simple and not too much work (I'm already workaholic enough) BUT YEAH, uh...more canon and oc stuff i suppose? Casper doesn't wanna leave from my head and it's getting worse with Casper and Rayman together... (also you can assume that it's Fakeman instead, i don't really mind one way or the other, Casper would be a dumbass)

They're both little idiots (most of the time Casper) but i love them so much, i actively hate it

Literally me right now:

[holyblanchett]

I can't believe we got Kathryn Hahn and Sarah Paulson in an interview together in the year of our lord 2024.

[universalneurodivergent]

All of this 😂🤣

[kittygotcaught]

sorry for not posting. It's mostly because Clownzy has had me on a CHOKEHOLD.

Ive became hyperfixtated so ermm, might take some time till a new drawing comes out (also since low motivation)

Haha okay bye bye

[tomatobasill]

someone-not me-but someone just read a t4t jegulus and is now entering a hyperfixation

(it was me)

[hot-on-my-watch]

Final Script- BBC Sherlock S4-

The Lying Detective

For a bit of recap and a few things we might have missed I recommend this vid:

And onto the script!

As I suspected, there were FAR fewer differences between the script on the BBC website and the broadcast episode than with The Six Thatchers, which had many! I do think there may have been a later 'Amends' script for TST and the Beeb uploaded the wrong one, but hey, I'll never know.

Anyway, what follows are a few minor changes I did spot, interspersed with my favorite bits of stage direction.

Fake Faith's Hair

The 'Faith Smith' that comes to Baker Street is described as having both jet black hair and her roots grown out- it seems at some point they were considering Eurus appearing with her 'natural' hair colour here but looking as 'Faith' as if she's dyed it. I mean Eurus' looks completely too, but I've headcanoned about that elsewhere! So perhaps that was a discrepancy left from an earlier vision. That or someone had to fill in Steven Moffat on the workings of dye.

It's Mrs Hudson's Episode!

There are too many amazing lines of hers to quote here, but I also enjoy these notes.

"Sherlock Vision"

Mildly amusing.

Childhood Flashback

As with TST, they were intending to go further with this sooner. Notice also that Sherlock 'freaking out' has been condensed from two incidents to one.

Another interesting line here that I think got cut:

And...

I think my tiny attention span and poorly ME/CFS addled brain failed up pick up on the cut to the aquarium until now.

"We just carpet the wall.."

I enjoy the 'it'll be easy I promise!' vibes of the description of Sherlock blurring locations and dimensions on his return to the flat. Tumblr won't let me upload more images though.

"Once More..."

Something that surprised me about the script is that it has much of Sherlock's Henry V 'Once more unto the breach dear friends' speech delivered off-camera, showing Mrs Hudson nervously moving to investigate in the hallway and Wiggins dashing out, building for longer to the reveal of Sherlock reciting and gesticulating wildly with a gun.

One can only imagine that the decision was (correctly) made not to waste even a few seconds of Benedict Cumberbatch having the time of his theatre nerd life!

Missing Scene

We eventually get to the deleted part that sent me down my script-study rabbithole: John's failed attempt at drink driving. I too was horrified when I first read these lines, having always had the abject disgust at the very notion of drink-driving that many millenials do and that older generations often lack.

Not that I approve of John's extramarital text flirtation, of spectacularly dumping his best friend and violent attack of the same!

John really is out of control and as always, he appears somewhat normal next to Sherlock. John's quiet breakdown involves whiskey at home, chronic insomnia and just about managing to hide his hallucinations from his therapist; Sherlock's much louder one involves wild eyes, track marks, an elderly landlady in a sports car, a helicopter chase and an ambulance. But as always, while Sherlock is by far the most unpredictable and flamboyant, John is just as dangerous if not more so.

I feel that this scene was cut because it really wasn't needed, and it doesn't make massive sense for Sherlock to have been sneaking around successfully watching over John when he was meant to be "off his tits" anyway.

Smith's Mobile Phone

There's then a minor point in the script about Sherlock having deduced Smith's phone password/code and another reference to something being hidden "in plain sight". It seems that it was actually the "Serial number" on the back of the phone. I don't think we lose anything from this seeing as 'plain sight' comes up a lot and it's been long established that Sherlock can crack most passwords with ease.

Smith as a Mirror for John

I have seen Smith described as a John mirror before, particularly in the shot where they stand opposite each other across the slab. And while that shot IS compelling and lord knows their hair styles are the same, I did wonder if it was just a case of them both having the same stylist- Mary's do has the same kind of vibe about it after all. However, on this rewatch I finally got it: neither is the man with morals beyond reproach that he is often seen as, both carry darkness and at least one secret, and both have killed without remorse. The irony of Smith- clearly delighted- saying "no violence please" as John takes out all his fury on the frail, felled Sherlock is appropriately sickening.

The Stolen Scalpel

The script in the mortuary scene describes close ups on the tray of tools when Culverton Smith would've had a chance to swipe a scalpel, and him standing with his hands behind his back as if he has, giving the impression that Sherlock was reasonable to think he had done that- when in reality of course it was Sherlock who had grabbed it. In the episode Smith does stand right by the tools and technicaly could've pocketed one or something but shows his hands very demonstrably after that, making Sherlock's accusation seem to appear from nowhere. I'm not sure if this will have been cut down because of the blocking and camera stuff not quite having worked, but making Sherlock look even more unhinged doesn't hurt. If he can hallucinate Smith taking the scalpel, Smith laughing non-stop, then has he hallucinated Faith?

'The Scene'- Yes That One :-(

I was intrigued to see the stage directions for 'the scene' i.e. John's rather extreme violence against Sherlock, and indeed the script describes him as having completely lost control in a fury that's upsetting and disturbing to see.

Without any intention of trying to justify John's behaviour (though he clearly was Not Fucking Okay), I have mentally disputed the idea that John "put him in the hospital" before. Sadly I did once see a loved one take a beating at least as bad as that and the police barely even check them over, let alone have them taken to the hospital. But enough of my trauma...

In the script Nurse Cornish says that Sherlock will "probably need" the walking stick, and that has been cut from the final product- as have a lot of unimportant lines, to be fair. Though we can assume John, being a doctor, reasonably thought he might benefit from it, perhaps having cracked a rib or too.

It was only on my latest rewatch that I realised "Mary" isn't in this scene at all. And last time we saw her, she was asking if John still missed her- presumably now that's back out on a case with Sherlock. In fact since Sherlock arrived to get John, Mary's ghostly prescence has been less and less. Here in the mortuary, John's mind is completely occupied with the drama of it all, never projecting her.

I'm not sure what I think of this, especially because there can only be so many things shown at once, but back in The Empty Hearse it was Mary constantly trying to calm John and push him.to reunite with his old friend. Here hallucinated Mary encourages John to tell the truth to his therapist and sticks up for Sherlock at every turn. Is this the nadir of what John and Sherlock could become "without (her)", as Mary intimates in the "I miss you" video next episode? Sadly it seems so.

"Isn't That Right, Mary?"

On to a much more pleasant scene: drinking tea in Baker street. The script mentions here that it be blocked and shot as if John is talking to theoretical Mary instead of a hallucinated/visualised Mary that's actually there. Sherlock doesn't say "isn't that right Mary?" after "I'm Sherlock Holmes, I wear the damn hat." A nice addition I think. I'm not dure it would really have worked without John speaking to a specific Mary there and then without Sherlock deducing otherwise.

"Unless she calls."

Finally, in the following scene between Mycroft and Lady Smallwood, the gender of the PM has been changed. The script calls "him" an "idiot", where the finished episode merely implies that "she" is a nuisance of some kind. Another minor change is that Mycroft is more indecisive about taking Lady Smallwood's card-in the script he is seen nearly taking the card at least twice. Her seeming to be hitting on him threw me a little the first time as I read Mycroft as openly gay, but hey, that's just me. I hope they became besties at the very least!

If you made it this far, thankyou for tolerating my ramblings and proving to myself again that yes, the changes made from the shooting script were improvements. You're welcome Moftiss.

[random-dragon-exe]

I'm starting to think that I've slept on the brilliance behind Oogie's design, and now that I think about it, his design is so simple yet effective.

For one, there's the aspect that he's supposed to be the boogeyman, which when you think about it, doesn't have a set in stone appearance.

Other aspects/forces do, for example Death: which is usually depicted as a skeleton under a cloak with a scythe. And that design can be played around with.

Going back to his design, sure there’s no set in stone appearance for a boogeyman, but there's just one trait that is quite common: the sack to put children into.

Another thing is that there's one boogeyman type creature called the Bugbear, which comes from the word "bugge" which means "a frightening thing". The word "bugge" basically makes up the word bug which is of course another word for insects.

And Oogie is this exact combination of the two.

Plus, bugs/insects are generally a thing that some people feel disgusted by. Heck some people have phobias of bugs/insects, arachnids and snakes.

So by combining the two, it not only creates a simple yet uneasy design, but it finally gives the boogeyman a a type of face.

In fact, I'd say that out of the other designs we've seen for a boogeyman in media, Oogie's is by far the most popular.

So when you think about it, Henry Selick and Tim Burton created not just another iconic character, but also a worthwhile recognizable face for a boogeyman/a personification of fear.

Props to them.