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Wow, love this 😂

An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.

Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that's literally his name.

(No he won't change his name. He's Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)

John is Sherlock's flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he's a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn't Watson.

It's now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.

Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.

His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.

His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.

He doesn't even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.

Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.

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Johannes Bentzen-Bilkvist - Showery Landscape. Jægerspris, Zealand (1894)

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finally...Back on the board.

Not gonna lie, I've been struggling lately. But it felt good to get this out.

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— Mary Kate Teske

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This exchange between Leo and Jason is really poignant. I like it. Rick Riordan gets almost philosophical with that line from Jason, and I really like it.

"Trust me, Hephaestus cabin doesn't see fire powers as cool. Nyssa told me they're super rare. When a demigod like me comes around, bad things happen. Really bad".

"Maybe it's the other way around," Jason suggested. "Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that's when they're needed most."

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Alfred Poell - Landscape (1920)

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pro-abortion. pro-divorce. i believe we have the god-given right to give up

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somewhere along the way, Percy being "dumb" to Annabeth's "smart" has become a genuine part of their dynamic where in the original series it was more like: Percy's impertinent and could be slow on the uptake because he's not a walking encyclopedia of greek myth in the way Annabeth is and she teasingly calls him "Seaweed Brain" in a way that's supposed to be light-hearted and affectionate but she doesn't actually think he's dumb

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Yes, Percy turned down immortality for her, but so did Annabeth when she decided not to join the Huntresses.

Yes, Annabeth drove herself insane searching for Percy after he was taken by Hera, but Percy snuck out and forcibly invited himself on a quest to free Artemis just so he could find Annabeth.

Yes, Percy imagined Annabeth as the one thing keeping him tethered to mortality in the River Styx. She is his Achilles Heel, but she only found that out after she took a knife for him knowing that he was functionally immortal. He is her Achilles Heel too.

Yes, Annabeth saved Percy after his insecurities got the better of him and Circe nearly turned him into a guinea pig forever. Yes, she hugged him afterwards and said she was glad he wasn't dead. But shortly afterwards, Percy saved Annabeth from being dashed against the rocks and eaten alive because of her hubris. He held her and hugged her gently as she sobbed into his shoulder, realising that none of it was real.

Yes, Percy decided to plunge into Tartarus with her, but Annabeth used every last heaving, dying breath to keep him alive and constantly negotiate his safety. They both look out for one another.

Yes, Annabeth frequently mentions how Percy will be a great dad one day. Percy also once watched Sadie Kane jump in a puddle and wondered if this is what his and Annabeth's future kid would be like, before backtracking because it's not like he's been thinking about him and Annabeth having kids one day-

Yes, Percy is constantly monologuing about how cute Annabeth's bedhead looks and how lucky he is to have such a smart girlfriend. But Annabeth was once asked about Percy in an interview and complimented his bravery and general intellect Despite how oblivious he can be sometimes, and- no, that doesn't refer to anything in specific, it's just- he is so smart, but can never take a hint, even when a girl is giving him hints and- what? No! Why does everyone always think that I- that I'm- Augh! And forcibly ended the interview cause she physically couldn't keep her feelings hidden.

They are both down horrendous.

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‘Foxes Meeting at Oji’ by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

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haikou海口, hainan province of china after typhoon bebinca by 小笨笨蛋子

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I really wish that people had a better grasp on what The Average Person's Life was like pre-industrialization. If you're living in the global North the odds are good that your life is, in fact, better than a medieval king- yes, even with the political stuff- and would make your ancestors cry wild tears of envy.

The things that suck about your life are things that suck about the baseline human condition (at least since the invention of agriculture, but that's 10,000 years of humanity). Yes, including all the political stuff.

The baseline human condition is "being terrified of losing the harvest and starving", compared to that, losing a job is no big deal. (It's bad, it can be life-upendingly bad, but it's still not "you are guaranteed to die if you screw this up" bad for most people.)

The baseline human condition is "getting kicked around by a tin pot dictator", whether that be a king, a baron, a warlord, or a chief; it's taken centuries of social technology to get the world to a point where that's Not Normal.

The baseline human condition is "losing multiple siblings and/or children at a young age to diseases that are entirely preventable". That's a shocking tragedy now. The baseline human condition is "being in the pathway of said tinpot dictator's wars of conquest" and having to deal with soldiers' pillage, looting, and worse (even if they're nominally on your side). That is, again, a shocking tragedy-- it still happens, and happens in way too much of the world, but no one is going to tell you that it's normal.

I'm not saying that we can sit back and rest on our laurels. We can't. I've been calling the pre-industrial world the "baseline human condition" for a reason- unless you're very, very careful, that's what your society eventually reverts to. It takes a lot of people working very hard to make sure you don't have to live at the baseline human condition, and if you start slacking on that, you start backsliding into it.

How we treat each other- and how we use the technology, material and social, that we've developed to make things easier- matters. We can make the world even better than it is now. We can also make it significantly worse. The choice is ours.

...But if you know that you can reliably have food regardless of the season, you don't live in fear of a random attack killing you tomorrow, and you can listen to music on command whenever you want? You do actually live a better life than a medieval king. Because even kings and emperors were much closer to the baseline human condition than a random farm worker in Bumfuck, Iowa is today.

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