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Oh, God. It is all so true, and as a mother of boys AND girls I know the struggle personally. On the one hand, I love seeing my kids’ skinny legs sticking out of some short shorts. I used to track down short ones for my boys because they looked SO cute in them! But for the girl, with the tight shirts AND short shorts it is just a whole sexualization game I don’t want to play. And neither does she! She doesn’t know what it’s about but she knows she wants somethings more comfortable. Yay for this mom!!!!

“ Sharon Choksi, founder Girls Will Be, decided to do something about the lack of options for girls. She said the inspiration for her new line of clothing, came from her daughter and niece, Maya and Grace, who wanted to wear clothing that wasn’t frilly, “nothing with bows” and absolutely “NO sparkles.” They were interested in “climbing trees, building LEGO creations, and playing with cars and trucks,” Choksi said. “

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Another trailer showing men looking thoughtful, interesting, complicated and then we are introduced to the first actress (0:48) looking pretty and, seconds later, in bed with lead actor. Bummer.

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New Meta by one of my favorites! And here I was feeling sad that one of my favorite happy hobbies - reading about Sherlock - was ruined by S4. Until this post. Happy New Year to me! 

Mycroft’s Pebble

When Mycroft comes to 221B to talk about Eurus in The Final Problem, he lies.

This much is not a theory. This is a fact.

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I watched TFP the first (and only time) while drunk and getting myself drunker because it was so batshit crazy and I couldn’t believe “they” had turned such a spectacular thing with so much potential, gay and otherwise, into such ridiculousness. So rediculous people thought it was fake.

TJLC made such beautiful sense. It was such an inspirational idea. I wish it had been true. And if TJLC was never going to be true at least the story of the greatest friendship ever made was beautiful, before the writers forgot they were telling that story, too. I hope to enjoy S1 and S2 again someday but I also wish rewatching them could bring back all the joy and wonderful fandom banter that came with it.

have not watched a drop of sherlock since the moment I clicked off the telly after tfp aired nearly a year ago

have written nearly 30k of new fic since then, managed to read one fic ~to completion~ in that same timeframe

now have just watched an old fave fanvid and jesus the potency of remembering that this was a real show

it’s a stab to the heart

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I think I’m doing Tumblr all wrong.

I should be creating something. Anything.

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‘I’d lost my primary coping mechanism/obsessive interest/happy place forever.”

Yes! My husband would ask why I spent my time on Tumblr reading about a show that didn’t have an episode coming for another year and it was because it was a happy place! Facebook was full of posing and fronting and comparison. But Sherlock fandom was full of jokes and beauty and intellectual analysis. Wank, yes, but I just blocked those people. There was PLENTY of positivity! And so many beautiful gifs. Now it is all conflicted because S4 was such a clusterfuck of bad and slap-in-the-face for people who loved the show deeply. 

Almost a year since series 4

So it’s been almost a year since Sherlock Series 4 came out. In some ways it feels like a loooong year, and in other ways, I can’t believe it’s already drawing to a close. Do you Sherlock fans remember how excited everyone was last year? Many of us were smarting from some very disappointing elections, and really looking forward to some good news from the Sherlock universe. A number of beloved celebrities had passed on recently, David Bowie, and Alan Rickman, and we didn’t know Carrie Fisher was right behind, but things felt a bit glum.

We were on FIRE here on Tumblr trying to predict what would happen with S4, and so many were banking on an actual relationship between Sherlock and John to be revealed. The time felt ripe with several countries recently voting gay marriage as legal. With all the teaser trailers asking who does Sherlock love, and hints about “making history” and “ground breaking” cinema to come, it felt like time for the first openly-gay Holmes and Watson to step into the spotlight. People were so excited, the fandom was probably creating its own light source glowing gently in the dark night with the collective angst, hope, squee and general nervous energy.

Then Series 4 rolled out, and a collective jaw dropping occurred. This really wasn’t what many of us were expecting. There are still fans out there who enjoyed S4, liked the excellent acting, and camera work, enjoyed the silly fun of it, but many of us were crushed. We had held out so long, hoping for some character development, some plot hole resolution, some satisfying time with our favorite crime-solving duo, and some serious representation for the LGBTQ community as the show has woven queer culture into its fabric since day one. With all these built-up expectations, we all tuned in at the start of January with a collective breath holding …

What we actually got with Series 4 was a mishmash of crazy images, things that can only be read as dream sequences to make any sense, characters that no long seemed like the people we knew and loved, and an homage to the last few decades of horror films all remixed and thrown together with a thin veneer of Sherlock pasted over top. We walked into topsy-turvy world so incomprehensible that many shifted over to a “tin hat” club deciding that S4 had to be a joke, or a trick, a ruse for the casual fans before the REAL series 4 was revealed. How could all the people who collectively make Sherlock have agreed to this shambling mess of a show?

I can’t answer how everyone agreed to make series 4, all I know is that they did. They not only completely ditched any story they’d been telling with the first three series, but then proceeded to deconstruct the very nature of the Holmes and Watson world. They took the ultimate “buddy story,” the detective and his faithful doctor, two of them against the world, to wrench Sherlock and John apart - mocking and destroying the character of John repeatedly while Sherlock and Mary cozied up as new buddies-in-sleuthing. Suddenly a baby was part of the mix, then a ghost, then a mad sister running the whole show behind the scenes.  It was crazy-making trying to keep up with it all, and ultimately rather boring. A series of behavioral experiments in a cage on an island facility held none of the clever detective work, none of the fun storytelling, and none of the relationship building that have pulled people into the Sherlock Holmes stories for over a hundred years.

Moffat and Gatiss, two privileged men who had control of the BBC Sherlock franchise, decided to have fun, insane wish fulfillment, adding in helicopter chase scenes, explosions, Mycroft in silly costumes, bleeding portraits, and Shutter Island sequences because they were bored with what made Sherlock Holmes a household name. How could they though? I still ask myself this. Did they hate Sherlock Holmes and all that he stood for so much that they needed to leach their version of anything that made it beloved and iconic? They turned Sherlock into a maudlin junkie who could barely solve his way out of a paper bag. They morphed John into a rage-filled alcoholic who abandons his child to nameless friends and beats his best friend as he lies bleeding on a morgue floor. They made sure to code all their villains as queer, a ghastly repeat of a wrong that has been wounding the LGBTQ community since film was invented. They made ex-assassin Mary into some angelic visitor who now owned the spirit of the Holmes and Watson mythos, narrating the last gasp of the series, a montage of cases and moments that LOOKED like the show we wanted to be watching all along. It was like seeing a window to the mirror universe where everything is going well while you’re trapped in the shadowy evil version of the space-time continuum.

I still can’t get over how awful it all was. Time has dulled the sharp pain, but I still feel the loss of what BBC Sherlock series 4 could have been. It really, truly could have made history with the first queer Holmes and Watson in an open, loving relationship played out unashamedly on a world stage for all to see. It didn’t, but it doesn’t mean we can’t see this happen in another adaptation of Holmes and Watson. Our time will come. It just wasn’t 2017, but it will happen. Balance of probability don’t you know.

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Merry Christmas to all fanfiction writers! You give gifts we get to “open” again and again. I, for one, have received immeasurable joy this year from the great writers in the Sherlock fandom. Thank you!

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Wow, this is just beautiful and pure.

John and Sherlock and happy fluff at the park  ❤

For @elimaryholmes! Congratulations again for winning the raffle hosted by @thewholestreet 

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Word, dusky.

About your post on upcoming projects. This sounds tough I but I worry Ben is underestimating his currency by not choosing more popular movies. I think it’s a much better move to mix up his Indie projects with less challenging work so people don’t forget him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Just a thought.

dude he’s doctor strange, about to appear in 2018′s biggest movie (whose trailer has just broken the most viewed record :-), will film with jake gyllenhaal in a film directed by luca guadagnino - the darling of hollywood right now, has just been nominated by his peers for a SAG and is putting together what looks like a bravura performance for patrick melrose for sky atlantic .

he’s doing ok. i don’t think he’s forgotten. x

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I love these and I also love the watermark warning. 

Sherlock e-cards by Alice X. Zhang.  Her work is amazing!  These aren’t all of them, but Tumblr only lets me put in 10… You can find them all here. Please reblog with this comment, she deserves the credit for her hard work!

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My favorite bird in beautiful miniature! Best of all worlds.

by Jadie Raines

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This makes me want to cry.

But I’ve got a job to do, too. Where I’m going you can’t follow. Sherlock/Casablanca parallels 2/2

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I love this idea! I would love for this to all be true because it makes sense of so many of the “What the...?!?!” moments about T6T! That episode really was a head scratcher from the pacing to the dialogue to the dramatic ending. I would love for you to be right. And if you weren’t before now I hope Moffat and Gatiss read this and make it so!

🦈 Shark Repellent

Time for a bit of a rehash. But at least it’s been nearly a year? (Yes, I am absolutely framing my slow posting speed as a positive. Thanks for noticing.)

See, I need a post (for reasons) I can link to that explains how I think Mary faked her death in The Six Thatchers. But last time I wrote this up, The Lying Detective hadn’t even aired yet. It seems needlessly confusing to link back to that old version with all of its didn’t-know-what-would-happen-next baggage. 

Plus I wanted a version that focused more on the basic mechanics of the hoax. So I’m leaving out some chunks of explanation about how I reached certain conclusions and about canon parallels. You can dig back a year if you care about that.

Here goes. (Again.)

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Fanfiction Saved Sherlock

Steven Moffat is a good writer. But not a very good storyteller. That is what happened to Sherlock. The good writing of Mark and Steven carried it for the glorious first and second series but really, when things kept going, the story disappeared. They lost the story. Still had some wonderful moments and lines and delicate, funny, and moving exchanges but no more story. Or at least not the story they started out with. Thank god for fic writers. They can fix anything.

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When I post it goes into a void that no one reads. I reblog and post mostly for my own cataloguing. 

Reblog if you’re not Tumblr famous, and you post the stuff because you like it, and you follow people because you actually like their blog.

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This definitely happened.

wait for her

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Yes to “...it doesn’t matter what makes sense because making sense wasn’t ever part of it.” I joined this mysterious thing called “fandom” after S3 gave me whiplash and I was searching for answers. 

My eye-rolling started before S4 but it was forgivable in the context of so much wonderful character play. And even before I knew of a thing called “Johnlock” I just loved the intense relationship between our main characters. But here are some pre-S4 eye-rolls to add to the list:

+ Mary is pregnant. Well, that’s cheap! How does that fit into this?

+ Mary is an assassin? Really?!?! Agent, maybe, or more believably just trying to clear her name of some other normal thing.

+ Oh - Sherlock saves Irene single-handedly?

+ I’m jumping around here but, pressure pads at the moor? Seems like a lot of work when you could just kill him.

+ Off switch on that pretty bomb. And the bomb being so pretty.

+ Tense moment at the pool broken by a phone call.

But, you see, I will still forgive S1 and S2 silliness because I love so much about the character development and production. And TAB. Love TAB. It just started falling apart the more shows they had to make. I guess that what happens when you don’t have a plan and you also don’t have to explain your reasoning. You end up with messing things up.

Hey, Salt Crew!

If you had to choose a single moment from Sherlock s4 that was the most cringe/eyeroll/lol/enraging, which one would it be and why?  Ready, go.  Let the saltiness begin!

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