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Fell down the rabbit hole that is Iron Maiden having a Mascot called Eddie with a whole backstory. Legacy of the Beast sounds familiar. 😲

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Are Miyagi-Fang t-shirts a real thing yet? 🤔. Is anybody on this? I have the money ready for you.

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“Rocky defeated Clubber Lang. Did he do it alone? No, he did it with Apollo."

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The Rape Clause

So I want to iron out the facts behind this. Because it’s a really serious issue and everyone from all over the world need to understand what sort of government is leading the UK and what we in Scotland are being forced on us.

1. The Conservative (commonly known as Tories) government at Westminster (British parliament) passed a bill commonly known as ‘the rape clause.’ They passed this without a parliamentary vote and made it become law.

2. The rape clause is part of welfare cuts. The Conservatives have essentially forced a 2 child policy because families will not receive any tax credit for their 3rd child. Please bear in mind that this is £13 a week in social security.

3. What the rape clause does is excludes mothers from the tax cuts if the child was conceived non-consensually. However, the woman must *prove* that she was raped. A mother must fill out an 8-page document in order to apply for this.

4. The questions within the form ask the mother to relive her trauma. They also ask for the child’s name on the form. That child will have officially documentation assigned to their name that they were conceived from rape.

5. The rape clause does nothing to address marital rape. The form asks mothers to confirm they are not living with the other parent of the child.

6. The rape clause creates serious problems in Northern Ireland. The law being that not reporting a serious crime is a crime in itself. If there is no police report to back this documentation up then mother’s will be called out as liars or will be arrested for failing to report the crime.

That’s the break down of what the rape clause is. Here is the link to the form of anyone would want to look at it. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/606978/nnc1.pdf

I will now talk about what’s happening in Scotland. Many of you will know that Scotland went for independence in 2014 and one of the main pro-independence arguments were policies that Scotland didn’t vote for being implemented in Scotland. In the UK General Election 2015, Scotland only returned 1 Conservative MP. The current Scottish government is run by the Scottish National Party and our First Minister is Nicola Sturgeon. The Scottish Government help to mitigate the welfare cuts implemented by the Tories. The SNP are pro-independence.

In the 2016 Scottish elections, when it looked like the SNP would win again pro-union supporters voted the conservatives in the second largest party with 31 Members of Scottish Parliament (MSPs). They pushed the traditional opposition, the Labour Party, into 3rd place. I’ll now talk about the Conservatives in Scotland and how they are defending it. (Please note UK conservatives and Scottish conservatives are the same party. Think of the Scottish conservatives as a branch office)

1. Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, had defended the rape clause. She has only done so via a spokesperson. I believe this is pathetic and cowardly as she refuses to denounce the clause in front of a TV camera. I believe she is doing this because she wants to move to London to secure a job with the heads of the UK conservatives. All other parties represented at the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in Edinburgh have fought against this clause.

2. Her defence of this is that the form is 'the most sensitive way’ this could be done. I’m sure many of you will agree, the form is anything but sensitive.

3. Ruth Davidson and the Scottish Tories released statements yesterday. All of which said that while they fully support the rape clause, it’s the Scottish government that should have to mitigate it.

And that’s the way the Scottish Tories do things. The UK Tory Party implements welfare cuts, the Scottish Tories then blame the Scottish government for not mitigating it, the Scottish government mitigate it and then have less of a budget so they can’t have that budget invested elsewhere…Which then allows the Scottish Tories to attack poor funded services.

That’s how they operate. The rape clause and those who defend it are completely disgusting.

I’m calling it as it is, this is a direct assault on women. This was brought in by a female Prime Minister and Scotland cannot continue to mitigate horrific Conservative policies. We can only work with the budget we are given.

I’ll leave you with a quote from my First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

“It’s not enough to be a woman in politics. You have to do what’s right with the power you have as well.”

Thank you for reading this.

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Hahaha - Batman knows!

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Please don't combine Austen and Sherlock! My heart can't take it! :D

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more”                                         ↳   Emma, Jane Austen

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THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!

Queerbaiting in BBC Sherlock

Note: Before you label me as a ‘butthurt LGBTQ fan’ (as if such a thing even exists), I’m straight. Because apparently that makes my opinion valid now.

What is queerbaiting? 

There’s a pretty wide definition, actually, but the one that’s most relevant here is: it’s when you make very heavy references to queer relationships or even queer characters in your shows, but then you never follow through on these references. It’s done to increase viewership and draw LGBTQ fans in (because of the promise of positive representation). So basically, it’s a marketing technique, but a harmful one.

Why is queerbaiting harmful?

Think of it this way. You’re gay/bi/a lesbian, and people around you aren’t very accepting or are plain homophobic. You see these two men on TV, and you start thinking…wait, it looks like they’re in love. You go online and realize that you’re not the only one reading the show in this way - there are literally thousands of other people interpreting it the same way. So you tell everyone around you, look at these two men. They’re gay and in love, and this is a popular TV show, and it means that my sexuality and my feelings are valid, and there’s nothing wrong with how I feel. Everyone laughs at you and says “Nope, they aren’t in love. You’re delusional.” 

You think, okay, let them laugh. When this becomes cannon, they’ll know. The queer subtext is all there, and the writers wouldn’t dare not follow through on it, right? But sadly, the queer subtext remains just that: subtext. And suddenly all the homophobes around you stand validated.

But there’s no gay subtext in BBC Sherlock. It’s just a wishful ship.

Wrong. I’m not saying that everyone has to ship Johnlock, but no matter what you ship, you can’t deny the gay subtext in this show. People have written thousands of words worth of meta about it - and it all makes perfect sense. (I believe @inevitably-johnlocked has a master list - or she can link you to one). There are videos decoding all the gay subtext -  let’s take the example of TJLC Explained - 48 videos, and they add up to a total time of 37 hours, 49 minutes and 41 seconds - each one decoding a different aspect of the gay subtext in BBC Sherlock. Apart from the TJLC Explained series, there are a lot of other videos doing the same thing. Sure, a small number of such videos and meta are a little far-fetched, but the majority of them are well-referenced, well-written, and properly decode the various literary tropes used by BBC Sherlock. (Like, seriously, kudos to this fandom for being the absolute best meta-writers I have ever seen. You could turn half of these metas in as proper college essays.)

But the writers and BBC have said that there is no gay subtext.

The problem isn’t even so much with Johnlock not becoming cannon - it’s with the way Mofftiss and BBC have responded to being called out for their bullshit. Yes, they did a complete 180 around the time of season 4, saying “that is not the story we want to tell” and “it has never been implied that John and Sherlock are in love”. When so many people, literally thousands, are reading your show the exact same way, it’s because you put the subtext in there. Saying anything else is an insult to our intelligence - and again, it’s blatant queerbaiting and feeding heteronormativity and straight culture.

*yawn* Heteronormativity and straight culture are myths.

In His Last Vow, if Sherlock had come back to life for Molly or Irene Adler, everyone would insist that he’s in love with them. There would be no question about it. He came back to life for John, but him and John are eternal bros, right?

That, my friend, is heteronormativity right there.

Basically, you’re bitter that your ship didn’t become canon. 

LOL. Read above^ you think anyone would put in this much effort just because ‘their ship didn’t become canon’? The Johnlock community is literally comprised of people of all ages, sexualities, nationalities, and genders. So honestly, pegging us as ‘horny teenage fangirls’ - bit ridiculous. We aren’t waving flags and going around yelling “It’s gay because they looked at each other!”, we’re actually ANALYZING and DECODING the show. Before you label us, go read some meta, then tell us we’re still delusional for believing Johnlock could be real.

Besides, I don’t see such an uproar happening about hetero ships. You know why? Because they have representation, whereas LGBTQ representation in media is still severely lacking.

But artists have the right to do what they want with their art. 

Of course they do, but if my art offended an entire sect of society, I think I’d at least apologize, instead of blatantly denying everything and insulting the people who called me out for my bullshit. 

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How I feel in Scotland just now.......

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What a day!

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Except that Steven Moffat will probably be walking a few steps behind wearing a sandwich board with NOT GAY on it, and ringing a heterosexual bell of non gayness...

how many people are going to think Sherlock and John are a couple now that they are raising Rosie together like it’s not going to be like hey are you guys gay? they’ll just pass them on the street and see them swinging Rosie between them and they’ll think awe that’s so sweet, it’s nice to see people proud of their sexuality and Sherlock and John will never correct them because they’ll never know 

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Another Watson telling it like it really is!

what an iconic moment

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March 1 , 2017 23:30 The day I realised how wonderful this guy is and now I love him. I wish he could be the new doctor ....after watching him in interviews I'm convinced he would be perfect.

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It's my fav ever fic! I just love the whole plot of it.It could def be a film.It's so amazing!

Another great fic ( if you are crazy about tennis like I am) is

http://archiveofourown.org/works/366788

Pretty much follows plot of the film Wimbledon but I love this fic because I'm obsessed with Andy Murray and tennis........ and Johnlock of course! :D

Ok I know I’m like fifty years late to the party but I started reading performance in a leading role like a year ago but I didn’t finish it cause I got busy and would lose track of what was happening because I took such long gaps in between chapters and all that so I stopped

And always meant to get back to it but never did

And now I finally am

And I cannot

Deal

With how

Amazing

This

Fic

Is

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Haha haha haha *Sobbing and wailing* me too???me too..

i literally just start cracking up when i think about how deep i’m into this. i just burst out laughing alone in my living room. this is killing me. 

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I wish I hadn't read it just so I could enjoy reading it for the first time all over again...:D

Ok I know I’m like fifty years late to the party but I started reading performance in a leading role like a year ago but I didn’t finish it cause I got busy and would lose track of what was happening because I took such long gaps in between chapters and all that so I stopped

And always meant to get back to it but never did

And now I finally am

And I cannot

Deal

With how

Amazing

This

Fic

Is

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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When people ask me why my face looks sad....

WELL! Since you asked... One of my ships are currently living together and raising a child whilst avoiding their undying love and affection for one another. Meanwhile, another of my ships just got married but one of them has been locked up in a jail full of homophobes and is scared of telling anyone he is gay. In addition to this, one of my ships recently had a baby and it quickly became a man and now it's an evil baby man .....and they are hardly talking to each other. One of my ships used to be brother and sister ( not that being brother and sister would matter where they are from). Now they are cousins trying to jointly run the family home after one of them came back from the dead recently. My final ship are currently investigating a serious sexual assault and sniping away at each other whilst secretly lusting after one another in an idyllic (yet sinister) coastal town. Other person: ............. Me: Yes...yes I do worry about fake characters problems and whether or not they'll end up together........so what? Other person: .............. Me: STOP JUDGING ME!

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When you read Performance in a Leading Role lines get blurred.You just can't help linking things from the text to real pics/situations. :D