#｢| ❝ BROKEN CODES ❞ ❛PSA ❜. ｣

[orn-nest]

already posted on twitter (trying to get my social medias up to date/content synced).

also just a quick psa to any so-called "criticals" - please, do NOT interact (i WILL tear you apart) -

bc you do not get to push purity politics on adult audience sensibilities just bc your brains are too stunted/inexperienced/underage to comprehend nuance aka actually think critically. come back when you're either older or have broken out of your conservative upbringing enough to familiarize yourself with queer media/coding history. and then, ONLY then can we maybe talk

ps: bonus cursed alastor below the cut:

godDAMN does he need his head gear

[thegrayascendancy-if]

PSA: we are doing patches now

In the version I have uploaded just now we have the appearance of the first "perk-like" decisions, (hopefully) better exposition on how the magics of the world work and especially the way the MC accesses and uses their power. I really hope it builds a better picture than the original release, so that you can imagine it without the need to go to the blog for an explanation (which you shouldn't need to, that's on me!)

Closer look under the cut, because text and screenshots.

I have rolled out the promised "perks", debuting as the MC's attitude to magic, as is shown here:

The parts where the MC uses their magic, if they do, have been touched as well, aiming for a clearer picture as to what they can do and how they do it. Example:

The section where you get to inspect the statues of the Six Sisters is rewritten and expanded, doing away with the potential feeling like you're locking yourself into something (well, you can make a stat-defining choice right before that and skip the inspection, but it is what it says on the box, pretty straightforward). Instead it is expositional now, allowing you to learn of the types of magic and each Sister's relationship with their role and the world. Example:

If it doesn't feel right for your character to survey the statues at that exact moment, a less personal version of these descriptions is made available in the Codex:

Other changes:

fixed a few coding errors that have resulted in the mix-up of the displayed text apparently Y never touched anyone's sash when they were supposed to, and it is just sad;

removed the click-to-show-next effect from the text as the MC makes their first run from the Trio. I get a feeling it may look like a broken page with no continuation to some, so until I have a better solution to convey that feeling without it looking like an error, the animation is disabled.

[biggaybunny]

a long time ago someone told me that the rule of thumb is that every other version of Windows will be terrible, and it's held true for longer than some of you have been alive. I can't speak to Windows 95 and 98 but XP was like, pretty innocuous. Sure people bitched about it but everyone bitches about everything, it's the human condition. There's a reason so many businesses refused to get off XP for like, fifteen years.

Then Vista came along and blew hard that this xkcd about it still rings true. Windows 7 was like, *fine*. It walked back a lot of Vista's dumb bullshit. Vista had always been tablet focused which was a dumb fucking move, and Windows 7 actually worked for like, computer users, Microsoft's actual consumers. You still had UAC but this time you could turn it off without needing to edit the registry. I forget what was so shit about Windows 8 but I do remember the PSAs about not upgrading and instructions on how to downgrade, I was also old enough to remember that every business that upgraded from 7 to 8 found all their shit broken.

Now I've been using 10 for the past several years and it's pretty dogshit, but at least it's *usable* dogshit. You may notice that the overall quality keeps declining, and that is true! Microsoft's engineers are trying their best you see, but it's hard to type code with your head up your ass. And it's better than Windows 11. Like Vista (and maybe 8?), 11 is trend-chasing afaict, trying to integrate all sorts of dumb bullshit like trying to mix online services in to everything you do and I think they're doing something with AI now? Anyway I won't be upgrading; they always say oh no you HAVE to upgrade now, but they said that with 8 and guess what, no you didn't. Maybe 12 will be functional but also I'm not saying I *like* the trend. I hope Bill Gates gets killed by a falling chunk of pee ice from a plane bathroom and Microsoft goes up in flames, but until then, it's funny how consistently they keep fucking up in this specific way and yet not learning.

[heghoul]

HEGHOUL⸻ INDEPENDENT, MUTUAL EXCLUSIVE AND SELECTIVE BLOG FOR THE GHOUL/COOPER HOWARD FROM AMAZON PRIME'S FALLOUT TV SERIES AND ELEMENTS OF THE FRANCHISE. CST + 3. SHE/HER. WRITTEN BY CALI. (#)

PSA: due to the nature of the show this blog includes topics that touch on radiation, war, cannibalism, body horror, questionable morals, blood, gore, loss of one self, code of honor but easily broken.

PROMO.

temp rules under the cut:

01ㅤ| ㅤㅤintroductionㅤ : ㅤmy name is CALI (SHE/HER, CST+3) born in 1994, 21+ .welcome to my COOPER HOWARD/THE GHOUL from FALLOUT TV muse blog. this blog is private, selective and mutually exclusive. meaning i won't interact with blogs that are not mutuals with me. [this blog is open to plotting both on discord via tupperbox and tumblr].

02.ㅤ| ㅤㅤactivityㅤ : activity on this blog will be medium to low through the week days. i'm mostly active at nights and from fridays to sundays activity will be higher through the weekends and through tupperbox on discord .best way to reach me will be through discord that can be asked upon request to create a 1x1 server or just to talk. [please don't pressure me for replies or asks. as well, communication is key, i'm not a mind reader so if something is bothering you, asking me is okay.].

03.ㅤ| ㅤthreadsㅤ : ㅤthreads will be dropped and asks will be cleared. we are always welcome to do multi threads at the same time. if i get overwhelmed i will usually drop things to start over. i have a generalized anxiety disorder so that affects my productivity too asks are always welcome to be turned into threads . do not reblog memes from me unless we are mutuals. [and if you want to unfollow me, please softblock. as well, if we are friends, always reach out if you are uncomfortable, i will do my best to improve]

04.ㅤ| ㅤㅤformattingㅤ : ㅤfrom january, 2023 , this blog is forced to have only the BETA EDITOR + TRIM. please keep this in mind while roleplaying with me if you are still using the legacy editor. I no longer use small text as my go-to formatting but i might use it at times. i am still available to use legacy when required but do keep this in mind ㅤ[BETA EDITOR + REGULAR TEXT + DOUBLE SPACE. WILL USE ICONS IRREGULARY.]

05.ㅤ| BANNED FACECLAIMS. elizabeth olsen, scarlett johansson, jeremy renner, amber heard, allison mack, gal gadot, johnny depp.

06.ㅤ| ㅤㅤcreditsㅤ : psd, graphics, promo are all done made by me through my resource blog. some days i will be iconless and others i will use them, mostly when i'm at home. [i write novella, multi-para and single line as well text roleplay via discord/tupperbox and tumblr as well].

07.ㅤ| ㅤㅤshippingㅤ : ㅤ it can be hard to ship with the ghoul considering who he is and what he is. at one point in timeline he was married but we learn he was paying alimony, meaning they were divorced. he has been with men and women through the wastelands and can come out as very sexual in his comments. just let me know if you want to ship. i might ship it already.

08.ㅤ| ㅤㅤDNIㅤ : ㅤ due to personal reasons, i won't be roleplaying with characters from the following fandoms. DC'S STARGIRL, PEACEMAKER, MUSES FROM THE BATMAN (2022) AND HORROR MUSES BASED (SELECTIVE), WRESTLING FACECLAIMS. unless we are friends. on my other non ck related muses i don't mind but i have had some bad experiences in the past [personal DNI can be given in privacy, however no name drops will be given here as none of the people are bad and DNI worthy, just uncomfortable].

09.ㅤ| ㅤㅤetiquetteㅤ : ㅤ don't godmod my muse. small things are welcomed. if your muse wants to hurt her psychically, you need to let me know i just want to be given a heads up if you will ever do a thing to hurt them. i assure you, i will not mind if plotted. bare in mind, the ghoul is very much hard to kill and is over 200+ years old. [as well, don't assume ships with me unless we are friends].

10.ㅤ| triggering topics : ㅤ mentions of body horror, radiation, images of body horror, gore, radiation, war, are all topics that will be seen on this blog, please beware of this.

[princeofgod-2021]

LIGHT OF LIFE 578

John 1:4

DIVINE ORDER 143: WORKING ORDER 38

Joh 15:26 And when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHO PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER, HE SHALL TESTIFY OF ME. MKJV

THE HOLY GHOST IS WORKING 28 - HIS POWER TO RAISE THE DEAD 7

Beloved, have you ever wondered how the death of Jesus for the Sins of Men, could not hold Him captive in death in the grave?

I mean, in all fairness, how could death penalty for SIN be suddenly reversed and even become the source of liberation for all who were sinners themselves?

If you have thought deeply about the question, then I want us to see the real reason why satan never imagined that Jesus would rise from the dead.

Eze 18:20 THE PERSON WHO SINS IS THE ONE WHO WILL DIE. A SON WILL NOT SUFFER FOR HIS FATHER’S INIQUITY, AND A FATHER WILL NOT SUFFER FOR HIS SON’S INIQUITY; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. NET

These are “Hidden Codes” of Scriptures. You only see it if God wants you to see it.

Before we tackle the verse above, let’s consider something else first. Why do you think satan always loves to come and accuse us before God at every opportunity he gets? (Zech 3:1).

Rev 12:10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, power, kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah have come. THE ONE ACCUSING OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE ONE ACCUSING THEM DAY AND NIGHT IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR GOD, HAS BEEN THROWN OUT. GW

Satan has no power that God didn’t permit him to use, and so he knows his place and fears God terribly, but he also knows that God in His integrity is a JUST God and will not flaunt rules in carrying out Judgement against Sins.

He therefore would “hold God to ransom” over penalties for the sins of mankind for ever.

So the Penalty was in effect for a long time, while God kept His plans hidden for a while.

Rom 5:14 Yet death reigned as king from Adam to Moses even though they hadn’t broken a command the way Adam had. The first man, Adam, was a picture of the Messiah, who was to come. TPT

Now, God presented His Son Jesus as Propitiation (atonement) for the sins of Humanity at the appropriate [set] time.

Actually, Jesus offered Himself in heaven to come down for this (Eph 5:2; I Tim 2:6; Tit 2:14; Heb 7:27).

Joh 10:18 No one takes my life away from me.I GIVE IT UP OF MY OWN FREE WILL. I HAVE THE RIGHT TO GIVE IT UP, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do." GNB

There was a FORMULA satan wasn’t aware of in all the “equation” of redemption.

1Pe 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, THE JUST FOR THE UNJUST, THAT HE MIGHT BRING US TO GOD, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: KJV

No FAIR system of justice will give up a Righteous man to die for Sins he did not commit. Satan was blinded to the writings of Ezekiel 18:20.

God said: “A father can’t die for son’s sins” and vise vasa. The Soul that sinneth shall die. Meaning “the Soul that never sinned won’t die”.

Jesus never sinned, therefore He can’t die; the death that killed Him will have to be annulled.

A totally HOLY person CAN’T DIE. Death must “vomit” him.

Psa 16:10 For You will not leave My soul in hell; You will not allow YOUR HOLY ONE to SEE CORRUPTION. MKJV

If only satan listened more to Jesus here, he would have caught the statements He made.

Joh 10:17 This is why the Father loves me – because I lay down my life, SO THAT I MAY TAKE IT BACK AGAIN. NET

The plan all along was to send Jesus to die but rise and not be “held” by death.

This is what you call a CATALYST in a chemical reaction: it hastens and affects the REACTION but is unaffected itself.

The death of Jesus neither increased or decreased His Glory with God.

Joh 17:5 So my Father, RESTORE ME BACK TO THE GLORY THAT WE SHARED TOGETHER WHEN WE WERE FACE-TO-FACE BEFORE THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED.” TPT

But that death erased the curse and sin over Humanity, and because an innocent “Man” was killed, the murderers become guilty for killing a pure “Human”, hence satan lost the keys of Hell and death (Rev 1:18).

I will explain further next lesson. Please sit tight!

I decree that whatever curses or strongholds keeping you restrained or slowing you down, be destroyed by the Power in the name of Jesus. You will Rise, IN JESUS NAME.

See you on Wednesday, as we proceed with this interesting Subtopic.

Brother Prince

Monday, October 21, 2024

08055125517; 08023904307

[scientia-rex]

Okay I feel COMPELLED to say this before I actually do take a break, though:

A) I absolutely agree that patients should have access to their medical information. Patients have suffered deeply at the hands of a system that is built primarily for insurance companies to profit.

B) Patients often don’t understand why a diagnosis code was applied. It’s billing. It’s not necessarily the One True Diagnosis; it’s a way to get a test covered. If you’re on Medicare and I want to check your hemoglobin A1c to find out if you have diabetes, I can only get it covered if you have a condition that Medicare considers a reasonable reason to get the test. So if you see “elevated fasting glucose” on an after-visit summary, I am not diagnosing you with any actual meaningful condition; I found a number somewhere in your past that may or may not be relevant. I am making your insurance pay for a test that should be free but isn’t because our system is, again, deeply and fundamentally broken. I try to warn everyone but if they want me to cover 8 things in a 20-minute visit, which they often do, because, again, deeply broken system, something gets cut and I’d rather cut a relatively trivial explanation than actual care. I can answer the angry MyChart messages later.

C) Patients are rarely able to accurately interpret test results. I tried interpreting some when I was a second-year medical student and I couldn’t even come close. If your doctor gets a basic panel of bloodwork on you, what does it mean if your WBC and RBC are normal but your MCV is low? What if your alkaline phosphatase is elevated but your AST and ALT are normal? How worried should you be if your chloride is up but your anion gap is normal? What does it mean if you have an ANA result that’s positive with a 1:80 titer in a speckled pattern? What does it mean if the ultrasound results say “gallbladder sludge”? Why does your report only have a TSH value and not a free T4? These are not irrelevant questions. Every time I see a patient and we go over their test results, they want to know why I said the results are normal when the computer flagged something. The answer is “it depends.” The computer will almost always flag something, even in the healthiest patient, and if a patient looks at every result and tries to understand it and put it together without the background necessary, they are going to be freaked out about things that are fine and possibly under-worried about things that are not fine at all. (For instance, our system doesn’t flag PSA as high until it’s above 7.)

If you can understand why an electrician knows more about wiring than you and a mechanic knows more about cars than you and a plumber knows more about waste management than you, you already understand why expertise matters. It matters a lot in interpreting results. I am not saying this to be elitist; I am saying this because it is true. People can be brilliant and experts in their chosen fields and still not understand their results because it is a skill that takes time and it is not the skill to which they’ve applied their time.

Will some patients be able to understand their results? Yes. I have at least four physicians as patients and they can read their CMP and CBC as well as I can, regardless of their specialty. I have patients with rare disorders who live in our godforsaken rural hell for reasons unclear to me who can interpret their inflammatory markers like pros. Will most patients be able to understand their results? No. Will even some patients who do understand still draw incorrect and potentially harmful conclusions? Yes, including two of those doctors I mentioned.

When things are predictable, like patients struggling to understand complex results, we need to acknowledge and work with that in whatever way we can, not deny it because it’s uncomfortable.

And finally, the idea that doctors don’t understand how awful waiting for results is relies on the old lie that doctors aren’t people and doctors don’t get sick. I’ve waited in agony to find out if I have breast cancer. I know how that feels.

Got reblogged by Seanan McGuire again; can safely assume my notes will be a nightmare of people accusing me of being a lazy, incompetent, distracted, inhumane doctor, assuming they notice I’m a doctor. May take a week off.

People will simultaneously describe all the elements of the current US medical system that lead to burnout in service of making the very few shareholders very rich, and then pretend that doctors aren’t also profoundly negatively affected by it, and then decide the system is also actually our fault.

[brandonwayneb]

war surgeons

broken and/or dislocated,

caved shoulders

chest, lung capacity

“cell” buzzard, “lab bot tony”

“cell” “haircuts”

“lobotomy”

murdered or ‘professionally’ injured

“Open Pro Seed Jur”

“Jurisdictions & Jurassic parks”

war surgeons

Sugar Bowls

professionally assaulted by “white american brutality forces”

clubhouse languages

“greek, cherry key”

“roman bath house”

“spanish spa dates”

“trex, cell scissors”

“warla, spanish taco subway”

white brutality forces systematically stalk citizens on “double vision”

“clairvoyance” “ant cells” “hive” and “hove”

“maneuver, who done it”

“duck duck goose, mallard”

“tomato boxing”

“shadow boxing”

“vitamin sandwiches”

“rainbow blood ivy ELf talk”

“fat fairies, blood EL”

war surgeons purposely play “hot potato” with citizens freedoms & health, in a “war co ops”

victims left disfigured, or systematically wired into “blood astrology” and used as “farm” “pet supplies”

“quadrant”

“quarterback, quadriplegic, pets”

“que court reports”

“que que que cup bids”

“cupids bloods”

“quad drake pet peter pans”

“quadratic water”

“quadriplegic, pets”

astrology rip

blood rip

“cell blue poor mits”

“cell blue permits”

murder in the usa,

background “code” spell “silver lake astrology” and “blood elf astrology”

war surgeons

malpractice in purposely and selectively mutilating or murdering citizens as "human resources" between brutality CO OPS "code" "blue poor reel, sky pizza factory"

#allah #news #psa #ss #red #any #bb

[whump-a-la-mode]

My first little drabble after an unplanned absence (I blame the College Board.) This one was requested by a user who prefers to remain anonymous. They sent in the following prompt:

Can I please request something with a dangerous supervillain whumpee who ends up collapsing of their injuries on a civilians doorstep?

Thank you so much for the prompt, and I hope you enjoy what I came up with! Just a note, I have a few prompts lined up, but my askbox is currently empty. If you’d like to send anything in, that’d be great! (I’m currently in the mood for some good good villain whump, maybe some hero caretakers?)

Anyways, enjoy!

CW//Vague mention of animal injury/illness, broken limbs, bruises, delirium, fever

The knock of Civilian’s door sounded more like a thud.

As soon as it shook their home, their thoughts wandered to the idea of an unfortunate bird, crashing into the front window in the low dusk light. Removing themself from the living room couch, they ambled over to the front of the building, gazing out the clear glass, examining the lawn below. No birds to be seen, they noted, as they moved along the length of the wall, nearer to their door.

A groan.

No, that couldn’t have been- They turned back to the living room, but the television was off, just as they’d left it. And-

The second crash was far louder than the first, and far more distinct in its location. The front door. Coming to alertness, now, Civilian rushed to turn the doorknob, before stopping.

This wasn’t how today was supposed to go. For once, they had managed to secure an off day from a schedule that often spilled over into the weekends. From emergency calls from clients to a leaky pipe in the clinic, there was always something needing fixed.

This was supposed to be it. Their one true, real day to themself.

Now, there was something on the other side of their door. For a brief moment, as their hands wrapped around the knob, they considered ignoring it. Moving back to their couch, kicking their feet up, and letting it pass by.

But that wasn’t the type of person that they were. If they didn’t know, it would eat at them until they were at their wit’s end.

With gritted teeth, they turned the knob.

A kid playing a prank. A cosplayer. That was what this had to be. Some drunken fool, left knocked out by their own stumbling. Either that, or a dream. Yes, a dream. That was it, certainly.

After all, there was no way in hell that Supervillain, the real, genuine article, was laying on their doorstep. It was simply an impossibility. A farce.

Yet...

Everyone knew Supervillain. Everyone had seen the PSAs, the news coverage, the reports of body counts. Public enemy number one. The most dangerous person in Metropolis. The source of many heroes’ headstones being planted far too soon.

And, here they were.

It was on instinct alone that Civilian took a step back, hand diving in their pocket for their phone. They had to call the hotline, they knew there was a hotline. With fingers trembling over the dial screen, however, they were stopped by a hand.

A shiver shook them so hard that their teeth chattered.

Supervillain’s hand gripped Civilian’s ankle.

“I got- I got the message.” That menacing voice had been reduced to a bare croak, fingers trembling in a desperate attempt to keep their grip. Black bruises marked along their arm, in the form of what looked like... Bootprints. They’d been stomped on.

Who could stomp on Supervillain?

“The message. I know- The code. Villain...”

Crying out. They were crying out for someone. For Villain, yet another feared figure of the nightly news. They’d been trying to get to Villain.

And they’d wound up here.

Civilian had heard the PSAs, the messages, seen the posters. See a villain, call the hotline. Call the heroes. Be the savior of the city. Sometimes, they’d even do little news spots, honoring a kid who spotted a villain on the street before they could do any harm.

They could call the hotline. Supervillain would be picked up by the heroes within minutes. Maybe they’d even get a key to the city, or something.

They’d get a key to the city, and Supervillain’s injuries would more than likely never be treated. Civilian knew all too well what happened to dogs that got picked up by the ‘catcher.

Gritting their teeth, they kneeled down, prying the grasping fingers from their ankle.

“Villain, the message- the-”

“I’m not Villain.”

The collapsed figure before them notably tensed, only accentuating the injuries that seemed to decorate the rest of them. Something was more than clearly wrong with their leg, with the limb bent oddly to the side in a way that was certainly not natural. How in the world had they even got here?

“You’re...”

“Not Villain. And if you stay out here, someone is going to see you.”

Supervillain hauled themself to hands and knees-- or, hands and knee. Their arms shivered to hold up their weight as their injured leg stuck out awkwardly behind them.

“Villain.” Their words were nearly incoherent. “I went to the wrong house, Villain. I’ll be there soon, just a few minutes...”

Bracing themself against the side of the house, the villain somehow managed to climb to their feet.

“Nuh-uh.” Civilian shook their head sternly, taking Supervillain gruffly by the hand. In an instant, their balance was thrown of, forcing them to use their unwitting rescuer as support. “You’re in no condition to be walking anywhere.”

“I have the message!” The words came out in a slur as Supervillain, rapidly stupidly, pushed away. They knocked themself off balance in the process, yet, on their way down, they lifted their palms.

Great bolts of energy solidified launched forth, barely missing Civilian, and taking out a light fixture on their ceiling.

“And none of that, either.” A particular tone left their mouth as they moved forth, grabbing Supervillain by the wrist and bringing them back to their shaky feet. It was a tone that most of their coworkers were well familiar with, at their veterinary practice. The certain voice they used with patients that had decided that day to be particularly difficult.

Bringing the most dangerous single person in Metropolis into their home far from a simple affair, but, with a rather significant amount of patience, Supervillain was placed upon Civilian’s couch.

The vulnerable position left their wounds on full display.

Bruises ran up along their torso, showing themself through the ragged holes in the tattered rags that must once have been clothes. Whatever had happened to their leg had left it wrongly hinged, causing it to move and shift unnaturally.

It reminded Civilian of a car accident. But, if the boot marks had anything to say about it, it hadn’t been so simple.

“My contact!” Supervillain cried out, nearly in hysterics.

“Hush.” Civilian shushed, briefly disappearing and returning with a large duvet. The blanket was draped over their couch’s occupant. Given their completely nonexistent strength at the moment, it served as a good enough restraint to keep them in place.

They placed their hands pointedly on their hips.

“Now, what in the world happened to you?”

Lazy and delirious, Supervillain lifted their gaze.

“Need to find... Need to find my contacts.”

“I’m not your contact.”

“Villain...”

“Villain isn’t here. But it’s my doorstep you wound up on, and until someone comes looking for you, that means you’re my responsibility.”

“The- Message!” They shouted it nearly at the top of their lungs. Cautiously, Civilian crept forwards, placing a hand upon their forehead before quickly pulling it away. They were warmer than a stovetop. Supervillain made it well known that they were displeased as yet another bolt of electricity crackled from their hand.

At this rate, they were going to need to do a hell of a lot of repair work.

“Okay.” Civilian sighed, moving backwards. “You’re delirious, feverish, and aggressive.”

It was a ritual they made a point of practicing at the clinic, especially with more difficult cases. Listing symptoms. Putting everything in order, making it make sense.

That was the first step. Then came gathering the necessary tools.

Keeping a close eye on their couch-ridden ward, Civilian raced around the home, pulling items from drawers and cabinets alike. Upon returning, their hands had been protected with a pair of rubber gloves, which held a bottle of water and a pair of pills.

It was with a great caution that they approached Supervillain. They tried to imagine them as a particularly dangerous dog at their clinic. They didn’t want to harm anyone. They were only frightened, and that didn’t make them undeserving of care.

“Calm.” Civilian insisted, tipping Supervillain’s chin up. Metropolis’ number one foe could barely keep their eyes open as the pills were placed upon their tongue, and washed down with a gulp of water. The veterinarian did not relent until half the bottle was gone, at which point sparks had begun to leap impatiently from their patient’s hands. “Good.”

With a sigh, they again backed away, watching as Supervillain snuggled under the blanket they had been given.

“Now, what in the hell am I going to do with you?”

[takaraphoenix]

It drives me absolutely buckwild when I see family trees in fandom made unnecessarily complicated.

A family tree is something you should be able to read without a legend!

You got one parent, you got the other parent, you connect them, you draw a line down to the child/ren. Rinse and repeat until tree is done.

And okay, some people like to indicate when the parents are broken up with a broken heart or something. Fine, I can see the use in that if you make a tree for a story.

But some people really seriously add unnecessary lines? Like “green line indicates siblings!”... How do I explain the purpose of a family tree to them? The lines going from both these characters up to the same parents already have that purpose. This is how you define a sibling! You share at least one parent! You don’t need to additionally on top of this line add a green line below the characters connecting all the siblings. This information is already in the family tree?

And it gets worse when they also go “orange line indicates cousins!” and there is, I kid you not, on top of the lines above the characters that connect them to their parents, and the lines that “indicate siblings” also another differently colored line drawn between each and every cousin.

Above? A completely normal family tree. Reasonable to read and easy to follow. Because yes, if you lead a line up from one character to the two parental characters and a line from another character leads to the same parents, that means they are siblings! That’s how that works! And if such a line comes from one of the parents to lead up to the grandparents and there is another line leading down to another character... this means that character is an aunt/uncle and it further means that their kids are indeed the cousins of the first character because that is... how a family works.

Below? An unnecessary nightmare from hell.

I just don’t understand how you can not see that your green and yellow lines are literally just a mirror of the lines you have above, the clear to follow tines of a linear family tree. And this is a simplification! This is a basic one as an example. People will make this with multiple siblings and multiple aunts/uncles to the point that you just have a mess of criss-crossing orange lines linking all of the cousins - and it gets worse when you add another generation or two, because then the sibling and cousin lines will additionally get entangled in the black basic family lines and make it really hard to read.

Look at this! This is a disaster! Why would you make this? All these orange and green lines do not actually make the tree easier to read, they just entangle with each other and make it harder to read. The lines above the characters already indicate all of these relations!

The thing I get the least is that it would actually be easy to incorporate this need to color-code at least the siblings by just making the lines above the characters green then? You color-coded without unnecessarily adding lines!

This post was a very pointless PSA on how to make and read a family tree, because it really does feel to me like so many people in fandom do not in fact understand how a family tree works? That the lines going from the parents to indicate parentage also simultaneously indicate parentage and that your parents’ siblings’ children are your cousins and that is right there, in the tree, and does not need additional lines because you can just follow the existing lines up to the grandparents with your eyes to check if there are aunts/uncles with any children, you just have to use your eyes and follow the lines!

[magnetiix]

((figured i'd make a PSA for those who have recently returned to Tumblr: First off, welcome back <3 Secondly, check your blog themes to make sure they're still compatible with Tumblr's HTML! Tumblr has changed their tagging system and other aspects of the code, which has left several themes broken or in need of adjustments. Make sure any and all links are still functional and that all your buttons are in working order!))

[cardrisen]

So a PSA heads up - I’d been in the process of updating and tidying all my blogs and editing/updating old codes so I can be more productive and active again, but that’s kind of taken a back seat thank to Tumblr’s latest update and their removal of Javascript from being used in pages. I did message them for permission from another blog of mine with a list of blogs I needed it on, this one included, but so far, nothing’s come of it, which is frustrating considering this was in the middle of actually finishing updating a page in general and how much I still had left to do.

For the time being, this means I’m unable to fix the broken coding on some of my muses pages here, and I can’t do any edits to my muse list as planned, as a couple muses were moving off and one was coming back on, with updated pages to come for several others. I’m so sorry for the hot mess of a state my blog is in a the moment, but it’ll get fixed eventually!

...I hope. As long as there’s something done with this entire issue that’s being way more of a burden than anything else.

Sorry folks - It’s coming soon, I promise! For now, the muse list is as it is and I’m looking into possible temporary solutions, and will be tackling my rules here in the next day or two at the very least. <3

~Pom

[vendettacanons]

// Heeey y’all! I just wanted to take a quick second to level with y’all! I’ve been noticing a couple of trends over the last few days and I wanted to address them with y’all. (Btw, this isn’t directed at anyone in particular, it’s just some statements on observations and issues that people have brought up to me.) Please don’t take this personally, I’m not trying to be mean or rude to anyone. I’m just reinforcing the boundaries I laid out in my rules.

- The Carrd! I was recently told some people are having trouble with it. I’ve triple-checked and the links work fine, so it’s not the links- it’s loading. I’m not a coding or software professional so take what I say with a grain of salt. To my understanding, the way Carrd works is that everything is actually on one page. What we perceive to be different “pages” within the site are just sections of the same page being hidden/revealed using the buttons. So basically, Carrd takes a while to load after you click the link because it loads everything all at once, and then moving between pages loads faster because it’s just hiding/revealing elements already loaded within the site. This is all to say that if you think you’re having trouble seeing the Carrd, give it a minute or two to actually load in. It takes a while Because... I don’t know, the sites aren’t designed to handle massive amounts of elements I guess-

- The Interest tracker -- if you’re new here, please feel free to fill it out! It helps get the ball rolling with ideas! But please just... actually fill it out. If you have specific plot ideas in mind, great! If not, that’s okay, but please at least know which of my muses you want to interact with and which of your muses you’d like to write with mine. ESPECIALLY if you have muses that are not from ANY of the fandoms I write from. I need to know at least who you want to write with in order to help plot with you. Please don’t just tell me you’re “up for anyone” or put “N/A” or “No preference” or something like that because I’m just going to delete the form at that point. I have literally over 100 muses, I need a rough idea of what you’d like to do at least. Please refer back to my rules page.

- Ah, speaking of the rules: that little bit at the end saying I’ll know if you read them or not regardless of whether or not you send in the password? Yeah, I didn’t add that just to be cute. I can absolutely tell. The password bit itself is not necessary, but I do appreciate the people who extend me the courtesy of sending it in as confirmation that they’ve actually read my rules, special props to y’all for being so thoughtful ^ ^. My issue is... I’ve gotten a lot of people who I know haven’t. And I can tell because it’s always the same few rules that keep getting broken before we’ve even interacted. So going forward, I’m just gonna start hard-blocking people for it. (Of course, if we’ve interacted a bit or talked before and you cross a line by accident, I’m not going to instantly block you. I’ll talk it out all civil bc I know y’all don’t mean it and you probably just forgot, don’t worry ❤️)

Anyways, all that aside. I’ve made a couple amendments to the rules addressing the latter two concerns in specific but I just wanted to make a quick PSA about this because it’s become a growing concern for me. Thank y’all for reading this, I appreciate you taking the time to do so and hear out my 1 am rambles! ❤️

[charcubed]

Frank Hudson, Greta, Margaret, & Mary

(PSA: If you’ve been tagged in this post, it’s because I’m crediting you or linking to a meta you wrote! I particularly linked a lot of things at the end I think could be tangentially related. No pressure to read all of this!)

Please allow me to take you on a journey in which I present a theory:

Mary is Frank Hudson’s daughter from a relationship with another woman, and part of her motivation (as a villain, as Moriarty’s agent/possible successor) is to get revenge on Sherlock for having killed her father all those years ago and ruining the drug cartel empire.

I was calling this a crack theory, but uh, given that I’ve now written thousands of words connecting weird dots, I’m gonna say maybe this is potentially not as far-fetched as I initially thought.

Before Sherlock series 4 came out, we were given this delightful niche little “clue” in a Youtube video on the official channel:

It’s always struck me as odd that this was specifically shown in a video advertising / leading up to series 4... when it seemingly never connected to anything. Why this, of all things?

Let’s review what we know about Mr. Frank Hudson.

• He was sentenced to death in Florida; Sherlock ensured his execution. (ASiP)

• He was executed for double murder and the execution was via lethal injection. He was arrested for “blowing someone’s head off.” (TSoT)

• According to Mrs. Hudson, about their relationship: “It was just a whirlwind thing for us. I knew it wouldn’t work, but I just got sort of swept along. And then we moved to Florida. We had a fantastic time, but of course I didn’t know what he was up to” and “It was purely physical between me and Frank. We couldn’t keep our hands off each other.” What Frank was “up to” included a drug cartel and “all the other women.” (TSoT)

• Mrs. Hudson was a typist in Frank’s drug cartel (and an exotic dancer, which is in YouTube videos in-universe). This is also the scene where she’s present to hear enough to figure out that Mary shot Sherlock; in the original script, it’s made obvious that she was eavesdropping even after walking out. (HLV)

• We’re also given repeated reminders in TLD that Mrs. Hudson was/is somewhat of a badass. She tells Sherlock “you’re not my first smackhead, Sherlock Holmes,” and whether or not any of that (the revolver, the kidnapping of Sherlock, the car) is actually literally real, I take it mostly as a blatant reminder that Mrs. Hudson has a past filled with “not good” people.

A lot of this info is given in more comedic moments... but I think because it is repeatedly mentioned with consistent detail, especially largely in season 3 when Mary arrives (partially to mirror John/Mary’s doomed relationship), it shouldn’t be swept aside.

Speaking of Mary, let’s get into it. 

In ACD’s The Sign of Four, Mary Morstan’s story centers heavily around the loss of her father. That’s also the story that involves the Agra treasure, and Mary notably receives 6 pearls in the mail as part of the mystery. Keep all of this in mind because it’s going to be relevant as we go.

First, let’s roll all the way back to The Abominable Bride.

(All transcripts I will be quoting are from the inimitable Ariane DeVere.)

Giles, & Morse Hudson

The abominable bride herself–who I trust we all know mirrors Mary at this point lol–stands on the balcony and aims her guns at people on the street while saying “You?” / “You, or me?” One of the people she aims at is this man, who is listed in the credits as Giles. I always found it odd that he was named, so I decided to look him up in relation to Sherlock Holmes.

“Giles” connects to Giles Conover, the criminal in the 1944 Sherlock Holmes movie The Pearl of Death. That movie is loosely based on ACD’s The Adventure of the Six Napoleans. In the movie, Giles (who is not in the ACD story) stole the Borgia Pearl and hid it in a bust of Napoleon. In case there’s any doubt, we can know for a fact that Moffat and Gatiss are familiar with this movie because they referenced it in TGG previously; the Golem assassin is a nod to The Creeper.

So I was like, why that movie specifically? What’s significant, and how would that connect to the bride?

And as I’m sure you’ve figured out by now... they later referenced that movie again in TST. The writers called back to both the ACD story and the 1944 movie, very specifically. 

Referenced movie details I noticed in TST include the following: Sherlock calls Lestrade “Giles.” The Borgia Pearl (movie phrasing, as opposed to “the black pearl of the Borgias”) is mentioned multiple times; we’ll go back to that. We are also pointedly told by Ajay that one of the members of AGRA was killed via a broken back, which is how a murder happens in the 1944 movie.

As for TST’s references to the original Napoleon story by ACD... there are many, but there’s one thing they pointedly didn’t reference (unless I missed it) that I find interesting: in the ACD story, 3 of the 6 busts were at the shop of a Morse Hudson. Beppo, the criminal in the story, worked at Morse Hudson’s shop to have access to the locations of those 3 busts. Even in The Six Thatchers version on John’s blog, Beppo is the criminal but Morse Hudson was not mentioned. 

So I thought... alright, Morse? What morse code have we seen in the show? Well, there’s UMQRA, from The Hounds of Baskerville.

I poked around and some genius anon on @inevitably-johnlocked​‘s blog once said that if you encode UMQRA with HOUND using a vigenere cypher, you get BAKED. Mary bakes her own bread, according to Sherlock’s deductions in TEH. The abominable bride, in the above scene, shoots at/into a bakery. 

Edit: @rosie_ww on Twitter aka @silverybees​ pointed me to this, from THoB:

SHERLOCK: You’ve been to see Mr Chatterjee again.

MRS HUDSON: Pardon? 

SHERLOCK: Sandwich shop. That’s a new dress, but there’s flour on the sleeve. You wouldn’t dress like that for baking.

(Friendly reminder that shortly thereafter we find out that Mr. Chatterjee has other women)

Does this morse code / BAKED business necessarily mean anything by itself? No, and of anything in this post, it’s the biggest stretch. But it’s still kind of wild, because let’s recap so far:

• We have Morse Hudson in The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, a story which is heavily referenced in TST

• TST heavily connects to Mary / AGRA (we’ll get to how specifically)

• TST also heavily connects to The Pearl of Death, which connects to TAB

• And not only that, but The Pearl of Death connects to the exact scene in TAB where the bride shoots @ Giles and the bread shop. The bread shop could connect to the UMQRA morse code in the show... meaning “Morse” (code, and therefore Hudson) could then connect to Mary.

Morse Hudson -> The Six Napoleons -> TST -> The Pearl of Death (“Giles” etc.) -> TAB (“Giles”) -> Mary, the bride

Oh what a tangled web we weave. That’s a Hudson to Mary.

But let’s keep going. Better stuff to come.

The Black Pearl of the Borgias In TST

Let’s play the game of following the trail of the Black Pearl. Shout out to @miadifferent​ and @impossibleleaf​, because their combo post here I came across was very helpful for showing me the best way to write this out to make it easily understandable. I will be quoting / paraphrasing them below!

The first time we hear about the Pearl, it’s from Mycroft, who connects it to Moriarty’s final activities:

MYCROFT: In the last year of his life, James Moriarty was involved with four political assassinations over 70 assorted robberies and terrorist attacks, including a chemical weapons factory in North Korea and had latterly shown some interest in tracking down the Black Pearl of the Borgias, which is still missing by the way, in case you feel like applying yourself to something practical.

We also learn that the Pearl is somehow connected to London.

HOPKINS: Interpol think, the case of the Borgia Pearl trail leads back to London, so..

So we have Moriarty -> Black Pearl -> London...

And next up, there’s Sherlock’s “fake” deduction about Greta Bengtsdotter (who has always very obviously made us all think about Mary.)

SHERLOCK: Your wife is a spy. That’s right. Her real name is Greta Bengtsdotter. Swedish by birth and probably the most dangerous spy in the world. She’s been operating deep undercover for the past four years now as your wife for one reason only: to get near the American embassy which is across the road from your flat. Tomorrow the U.S. president will be at the embassy as part of an official state visit. As the president greets members of staff, Greta Bengtsdotter, disguised as a twenty-two stone cleaner, will inject the president in the back of the neck with a dangerous new drug hidden inside a secret compartment insider her padded armpit. This drug will then render the president entirely susceptible to the will of their new master, none other than James Moriarty. Moriarty will then use the president as a pawn to destabilize the United Nations General Assembly which is due to vote on a nuclear non-proliferation treaty tipping the balance in favour of a first strike policy against Russia. This chain of events will then prove unstoppable thus precipitating World War 3.

The name “Greta” is derived from the name Margareta, which comes from the Greek word margarites. It means pearl. Further versions of this name are Margarita / Margaret / Maggie.

Thus, we add her in: Moriarty -> Greta -> Black Pearl -> London

So when Sherlock finds the AGRA stick in the busts of Margaret Thatcher, he says to Mary...

SHERLOCK: I was so convinced it was Moriarty, I couldn’t see what was right under my nose. I expected a pearl.

Sherlock expected to find a pearl (Greta / a spy), but instead he found AGRA/Mary’s identity. He actually found what he was looking for, but he just didn’t recognize it.

And it actually still makes sense:

Margaret Thatcher’s bust -> Black Pearl -> Greta (“pearl”, spy) -> Mary (spy) -> AGRA memory stick

That’s how it went in the plot. It’s a subconscious connection.

So what’s ACD have to say about all that then?

This is the point where I remind you...

In ACD’s The Sign of Four, Mary Morstan’s story centers heavily around the loss of her father. That’s also the story that involves the Agra treasure, and Mary notably receives 6 pearls in the mail as part of the mystery. 

So all of this does have connections back to ACD canon; who is surprised?

But what do we know about Mary’s past from the show’s canon in His Last Vow? Let’s look at some other reminders.

SHERLOCK: By your skill set, you are – or were – an intelligence agent. Your accent is currently English but I suspect you are not. You’re on the run from something; you’ve used your skills to disappear; Magnussen knows your secret, which is why you were going to kill him; and I assume you befriended Janine in order to get close to him.

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MAGNUSSEN: All those wet jobs for the CIA. Ooh! She’s gone a bit... freelance now. Bad girl.

Mary’s not English; she could be Swedish, she could be American, but regardless–Sherlock deduced she’s a linguist in TEH. And either way, she’s worked for America.

Americans crop up a weird amount in BBC Sherlock (and ACD canon too really), and usually in negative contexts. I just want to highlight one American connection from The Abominable Bride, about Emilia Ricoletti:

SHERLOCK: So she decided to make her death count. She was already familiar with the secret societies of America and was able to draw on their methods of fear and intimidation to publicly – very publicly – confront Sir Eustace Carmichael with the sins of his past. 

HOOPER: He knew her out in the States. Promised her everything... marriage, position – and then he had his way with her and threw her over, left her abandoned and penniless.

Also, where was it that Mr. Hudson had his drug cartel? Oh yeah. Florida.

We’ll go back to that.

More Margarets In BBC Sherlock

So we’ve officially got one connection where Margaret relates to Mary. TST makes that pretty clear. 

Now, where else have we encountered the name Margaret in the show?

Three places (at least, that I’ve caught):

1. A Study In Pink.

The first victim of Jeff Hope the serial killer is Sir Jeffrey Patterson. He was having an affair with his personal assistant Helen, despite being married to his wife Margaret Patterson. 

It’s a well-known fact in this fandom that the victims in ASiP are considered mirrors for John Watson, highlighting things that would lead to his own unhappiness/death–possibly even by suicide. (TJLCE video)  So, let’s say Jeffrey Patterson is a mirror for John.

Helen the personal assistant (who says “I love you”) is, perhaps, a mirror for Sherlock. She’s wearing a deep purple shirt.

Does that connect Margaret Patterson, who insists her husband was happy, to Mary? 

MARGARET PATTERSON: My husband was a happy man who lived life to the full. He loved his family and his work – and that he should have taken his own life in this way is a mystery and a shock to all who knew him.

[looks at John’s unhappiness in HLV after a month of marriage, looks at series 4 theories about John faking his suicide / trying to commit suicide, laughs nervously]

Well. Moving on.

2. The Hounds of Baskerville.

Project HOUND was a CIA Classified / American project that Major Barrymore was involved in. The Major is apparently a fan of Margaret Thatcher, and the password to his laptop is Maggie. Sherlock types “Margare” then hesitantly backtracks and writes Maggie and it works. It’s worth noting that in the script it was drafted to just be Margaret.

3. The Sign of Three. 

MRS. HUDSON: My best friend, Margaret – she was my chief bridesmaid. We were going to be best friends forever, we always said that; but I hardly saw her after that. [...] She cried the whole day, saying, “Ooh, it’s the end of an era.” She was probably right, really. I remember she left early. I mean, who leaves a wedding early?

So in BBC Sherlock, the name Margaret is connected to...

• The Margaret Thatcher busts in The Six Thatchers, which connects to Mary/AGRA/pearls/Greta the Swedish spy

• Margaret Patterson, the wife of a mirror for John who was the victim of murder that masqueraded as suicide. This Margaret insists that the John mirror was happy in their marriage, but the John mirror was having an affair with a Sherlock mirror

• Project HOUND, of the CIA. I find this exceedingly interesting because the name "Margaret” has connections to Moriarty/Mary, and this could mean it’s safe to guess that this case is/was connected to the wider Moriarty web. We see Sherlock hallucinate Moriarty when drugged by the fog, sure, but otherwise Moriarty’s handiwork supposedly isn’t involved in this case... but maybe it was indirectly, by Mary in the CIA. Just ruminating.

• Margaret was Mrs. Hudson’s best friend, who left the wedding early when Mrs. Hudson and Frank got married

Re: that last bullet point, here is what I am suggesting as a possibility: Margaret was one of Mr. Hudson’s “other women.” Margaret left the wedding early because she was sad about the marriage, obviously, but maybe she wasn’t in love with Mrs. H like we would naturally assume (per Sherlock leaving the wedding early because he loves John). Maybe Margaret was in love with Mr. Hudson.

Maybe Mary is the daughter of Margaret and Mr. Hudson, and (as previously stated) she’s motivated to get revenge on Sherlock for killing her father and ruining the drug cartel empire. Who knows what would’ve happened to her mother Margaret, in that case, too.

This is speculation, of course, yes. Yet [waves to all the ridiculous web of connections I’ve delved deeply into, and the Frank Hudson hangman] can you blame me?

But, maybe you’re wondering... why would I think she’s the daughter of a Hudson specifically, even aside from all this Margaret stuff? 

Well.

Hudsons In ACD Canon

Where is the name “Hudson” used in ACD canon, other than for Mrs. Hudson?

Three places (that I’ve caught; my ACD canon knowledge is limited):

• Morse Hudson in The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, as discussed above; not mentioned in BBC Sherlock canon for some reason, yet strongly tied to the story that inspired TST.

• A name drop of “Hudson” in The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips.

Quick run-down of some aspects of this case: the client, John Openshaw, asks Holmes for help because a series of mysterious letters seems to be connected with the recent suspicious deaths of his uncle Elias and his father Joseph. The letters included 5 orange pips, and KKK on the envelope. When his uncle received his letter, he burnt a bunch of secret personal papers. One paper survived; it’s on that paper that we see Hudson’s name, associated with the KKK, and otherwise oddly unrelated to the case.

Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a book. It was headed, “March, 1869,” and beneath were the following enigmatical notices:

“4th. Hudson came. Same old platform.

“7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and John Swain of St. Augustine.

“9th. McCauley cleared.

“10th. John Swain cleared.

“12th. Visited Paramore. All well.”

Here are other ~features of interest~ in this case to me: Openshaw’s uncle Elias was a planter in Florida for many years. Florida is mentioned by Holmes as a “notable” state where the KKK formed a branch; the others are Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, and Georgia (hello to Tbilisi, Georgia being in TST seemingly at random). It is also mentioned that the fear of someone or something is what drove Elias from America to England. There’s also a very random name drop of “Mary” in this story that doesn’t relate to the case, told as part of Openshaw’s story, in which I can only assume Mary was a maid?

OPENSHAW, QUOTING UNCLE ELIAS: “They may do what they like, but I’ll checkmate them still,’ said he with an oath. ‘Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.’

The fact that the name Mary manages to be in this cracks me up.

The orange pips / secret societies in America / etc. all heavily tie into The Abominable Bride, and the women’s hoods were visually reminiscent of the KKK. Sir Eustace’s line in TAB of “Death” (when he receives the pips) is a direct quote from Elias in this story when he receives his pips–and a quote that Mary echoes in TST when she completes Vivian Norbury’s sentence in the aquarium.

VIVIAN NORBURY: I’m just like the merchant in the story. I thought I could outrun the inevitable. I’ve always been looking over my shoulder; always expecting to see the grim figure of...

MARY: Death.

So, in summary we have: a name drop of Hudson in a story that factors in Florida, Georgia, pips, secret societies, the KKK, and even a name drop of Mary.

• Hudson is the criminal in The Adventure of the Gloria Scott.

This case is the one Holmes credits as his first case, and it inspired his future profession. He’s telling Watson the story. It happened in his university days and centers on his friend Victor Trevor (TFP says hi, lmao). More specifically, it centers on Victor Trevor’s father. I won’t go into all the details, and the plot summary on Wikipedia is good if you’re curious, but–

A quick run-down of some ~features of interest~ in this case: Mr. Trevor the elder is being blackmailed by the criminal Hudson because of their old criminal past together with others. Hudson is threatening him with exposure / public shame, and Mr. Trevor is forced to employ him. Victor gets pissed about it and eventually upsets Hudson enough that Hudson leaves in a very “this isn’t over” kind of way. Later, Mr. Trevor dies from a stroke after receiving a letter that threatened him via a skip code. It is a skip code of specifically every third word, beginning with the first.

Full skip code message: "The supply of game for London is going steadily up. Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen pheasant's life."

Decoded message: "The game is up. Hudson has told all. Fly for your life."

(It’s not a game anymore...)

Who do we have in show canon who recognizes a skip code on sight of specifically every third word, beginning with the first?

All together now: Mary.

(Bonus points for “Save John Watson” being the phrase Mary says in her creepy posthumous DVDs. Bonus points x2 for the fact that this text was sent by Magnussen, the “Napoleon of blackmail,” to Mary when he was supposedly trying to find Sherlock’s pressure point. But anyway!)

Another feature of interest about the Gloria Scott case: Holmes deduces that Mr. Trevor was once connected to someone with the initials J.A. whom he wanted to forget, guessing it was an old lover. Mr. Trevor momentarily faints in shock. Holmes guessed this based on an old arm tattoo that Mr. Trevor had tried to get rid of, where the initials are blurry. This later turns out to be wrong, because Mr. Trevor’s previous name was James Armitage–J.A.–when he was a criminal, and that is the reason behind the tattoo. (JA? AJ / Ajay? Much to think about)

The J.A. tattoo deduction was referenced in The Six Thatchers, when Sherlock deduces that the client had a Japanese girlfriend he is now indifferent about. 

SHERLOCK: You’ve got a Japanese tattoo in the crook of your elbow in the name ‘Akako.’ It’s obvious you’ve tried to have it removed.

KINGSLEY: But surely that means I wanna forget her, not that I’m indifferent.

SHERLOCK: If she’d really hurt your feelings, you would have had the word obliterated, but the first attempt wasn’t successful and you haven’t tried again, so it seems you can live with the slightly blurred memory of Akako, hence the indifference.

I’m bothering to highlight this in TST because after Sherlock explains it, the client remarks upon it being “simple”... and that’s when Sherlock immediately launches into his ~fake~ long-winded deduction about his wife being Greta the spy, as I already talked about above. Wild.

One last fascinating thing about the Gloria Scott: this case is referenced in 2 other ACD stories–The Sussex Vampire (John texting in TST), and The Musgrave Ritual (TFP). Gotta love that.

So, uh, what if Mrs. Hudson’s “case” (getting her husband executed) was one of Sherlock’s “firsts” that inspires him to become a consultive detective full-time? We’re told in ASiP that he ensured Frank Hudson’s execution “a few years back.” The inexactness of that year amount drives me bonkers, but I think it’s potentially plausible.

Short Coda: Ghost Stories...

In Mr. Trevor’s reply to Holmes’ (incorrect) J.A. tattoo deduction, he includes the following line:

“Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”

Mark Gatiss talked a lot about ghost stories. In the Sherlock Chronicles book (which I own) teasing series 4, he said, “I can certainly give you one word. Ghosts...” and in this interview he said “There’s a conspiracy theory about everything and they’re almost the modern equivalent of ghost stories. And the great thing is, you can have all the tropes of a ghost story. . . There are lots of people in happy marriages who turn out to have terrible secrets or to have done some awful deed in the past that must be paid for in the present. In Doyle’s stories, those are the ghosts you need to worry about.”

And here are the lines we get from Holmes in The Abominable Bride about ghosts (that aren’t literal):

You may, however, rest assured there are no ghosts in this world... Save those we make for ourselves.

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We all have a past, Watson. Ghosts – they are the shadows that define our every sunny day. Sir Eustace knows he’s a marked man.

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The avenging ghost – a legend to strike terror into the heart of any man with malicious intent; a spectre to stalk those unpunished brutes whose reckoning is long overdue.

While typing, I’ve now galaxy-brained my way to the realization that Mrs. H was canonically an “abominable bride” to Frank Hudson and literally murdered him (with Sherlock’s help), just like the women in the special. She’s also shown as one of the women ignored/disparaged in the special (”I’m your landlady, not a plot device”) but just isn’t shown in the crypt/society. So that’s, uh... interesting.

In (Semi-)Conclusion: A Summary

We have the following significant points at minimum: 

• A Frank Hudson clue in a series 4 video

• One reference where Mary is undeniably connected to a Hudson who was a criminal in ACD canon (skip code)

• One ACD Hudson who was heavily connected to The Six Napoleons story, aka The Six Thatchers

• One ACD Hudson name-dropped in a story that heavily connects to The Abominable Bride, and Florida

• A bizarre pile of evidence that all Margaret mentions in the show could relate back to Mary the ex-CIA spy, in some way or another

• A Margaret connected to Mrs. Hudson who could’ve been in love with Frank Hudson (in Florida)

• The overall theme of s4 being ghosts from past deeds and un(happy) marriages coming to haunt people. And lest we forget, “ghost” Mary literally haunts Sherlock and John after her “death.”

Does that cover it? I feel like that covers it.

Of course, I absolutely could be reading into a ton of things that are unrelated, but... Who is to say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  

Random Related Stuff

Not required reading, but while poking around, I’ve found other things that could or could not connect to the above theory. I’m just gonna... info dump it right here. It could all be meaningless, it could all connect, it could be unrelated! You decide! Lots of meta links involved below, so credit where credit is due.

• I knew I wasn’t the first to come up with this concept/possibility of Mary being a Hudson. While building this post, I ran a search and came across this old one by @the-7-percent-solution​, who posited there’s a letter game at play of AEIOU involving Mary’s monstrous regiment of various characters and connects Amo/Love to Mary. I love this concept, and while I do think there are other elements/aspects in play for the plot besides just this, that post still has pieces that can work nicely; doesn’t matter that it was written before TFP aired.

• Frequently thinking about how Sherlock said “Mrs. Hudson? Leave Baker Street? England would fall,” because what does Mrs. Hudson do in TLD? She leaves Baker Street.

• All of the above cursed elements haunt me. (Arwel’s Instagram post was April of this year.) Note: there’s another tweet Arwel jokingly posted of this photo years ago, but that tweet’s caption was connected to Brexit based on dates / my memory (i.e. “England has fallen”), so I’m not including it lol.

• In TFP, when Mrs. Hudson is vacuuming, she’s listening to Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast.” The lyrics we get are “666, the Number of the Beast. Hell and fire was spawned to be released.” The other time 666 is mentioned was by Mary in TST, in reference to Rosie.

• Mrs. Hudson is in the center of the 221B promo pic for series 4, as noticed by @sherlocks-salty-blog​.

• This cursed pic of Mary’s "ring from her past” on top of a series 4, episode 3 script (??) that Amanda took has haunted me since she tweeted it. Mary wears this ring on-screen in TEH, and you can see it when Sherlock deduces her.

• The Gabrielle Ashdown passport (in TST) is from America.

• Janine (who many of us notice is likely involved with Mary / Moriarty of course) often wears pearls, as @sherlockmeta​ noticed. Mary also wears pearl earrings in series 4 promo shots but never in s4 episodes (that I can find/remember). I also always think that Mary and Mrs. Hudson are dressed very similarly in s4 promo images (see all promos here).

• @raggedyblue​ discussed how Sherlock’s window deduction in TLD sounds a lot like Mrs. Hudson’s kitchen in 221A, and how a sheet of paper being pinned/folded is an opposite element in ACD’s The Sign of Four. The re-folded paper was a map leading to the AGRA treasure, and Mary found it in her father’s desk. Brilliant catch. Of course, in the show, the paper says Miss Me which is also heavily connected to Mary.

• The mystery of the little girls with blond and braided hair, as compiled by @ebaeschnbliah​, is also going to haunt me. I suggest reading the post, but minor summary: during s4 setlock, there was filming with Ben and Mark at Ogmore Castle with a little girl "wearing a skirt or dress, and her hair was blonde and in pigtails,” and she was running circles around Sherlock. There are two separate reports from people who saw this and mentioned it had to do with Mary; at first glance it bears similarities to Eurus scenes we got in TFP, but seems different in description. This also brings to mind the little girl with blonde braided hair in TEH at the bonfire, who notably wears a bright red jacket just like Mary. And there’s also a doll with blond braided pigtails in Magnussen’s mind palace.

• @gosherlocked​ has posts about “The Children of Sherlock” (part 1)(part 2) that highlight how children are frequently victims in this show. Metaphorically, I find this interesting if Mary plays a role of a “wronged child” avenging her father, regardless of age.

• Let’s talk music in TLD–or at least, one piece of it. When Mrs. Hudson drops the teacup, Mozart’s “Andante From Piano Concerto #21” plays. That specific second movement was used in the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan. Sweden, of course, immediately reminded me of Greta the spy (aka Mary) being Swedish. After I realized this info, I ran a search to see if anyone else had mentioned this movie and I found this post, where @tjlcisthenewsexy​ and @possiblyimbiassed​ discussed how it’s a story of 2 doomed lovers who die via suicide-by-revolver. This is significant because Sherlock drops a revolver to catch the tea; death replaced by (gay) love?

• Speaking of Sweden: in The Game Is Now, Sherlock is abroad in Sweden. This is mentioned more than once: first, in this audio message between Sherlock and Mycroft (“Sweden sends its regards.” “It does?” “No, not really.”). This audio message also includes “This is not an international game of sardines.” Fish reference? Aquarium?

The second Sweden mention is visually, in this video. See below. (Also, in both, the characters say “real people,” which I can’t help but feel is a fourth wall break of them being fictional?) 

I hate this Sweden stuff specifically. Thank you.

This post is so much longer than I expected it would be, thank you for reading all of this if you did, Johnlock is real, Mary is a villain, etc.

Come yell at me on Twitter @CharCubed! 

Also, I made a secret sideblog @frankhudson​ to just reblog meta or info I might want to be able to find later lmao. Feel free to poke around if you want.

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reboot review (spoilers obvi)

ok I did not mean to get invested in this show first ofall it just kept popping up so I was like alright! fine I'll check it out

and then it became good side watching after I got the vaccine and spent like 10 hours playing minecraft

the show I think has some yikessss stereotypes in it that I wish were not there and also it makes very little sense sometimes. like when u think you get whats going on it just scrambles ur brain like that old drug psa. but also the incomprehensibility is kinda what I liked about it

I think the characters were the strongest part of it. there's some tasty fuckin drama in there!!!! and some characters I didn't really care for but like when bob disappeared and everybody was noticeably missing him I was like damn. u right I kinda miss him too

season 3 the show abruptly switched to an adult cartoon???? due to the show being cancelled in usa. VERY weird tone shift especially with all the nsfw jokes right out the gate. but at the same time the jokes were v much missed when the second half of the season hit. the lore and drama is cool but plz I need some silly times to break up all this shit

I'm kinda ok with where it got cancelled at, tho I feel like if they properly knew the show was getting canned forever they could've made a really good satisfying ending right after daemon was gone. idrc for the direction it was going w/ megabyte at the end. like the whole two bobs drama was UNBELIEVABLE but also.......... idk maybe it could've turned me back to liking the shit with megabyte if it still went on, but the current ending really just left it off with all the things I'm not really fond of in the show. to put it in the form of a weird metaphor: the show gave me more nasty fish to eat in the last episode and ones leading up to it than good, nice food so it just ends off with that fishy aftertaste. like it feels like they got the warning about the end being near and just tried really REALLY hard to get those ratings back up in a last-ditch effort

hexadecimal is 100% my favorite character in the show, and is another reason I'm glad it cut off because I would've probably had the same effect as wicked and stopped watching just purely out of the fact the evil woman I loved the most is not there anymore :pensive: (I feel like they could bring her back if they really wanted to tho)

it would be interesting to see how the show continues on without hex in it.... there's some things bob believes about viruses that don't line up with what actually happened? like it seems like he things she became good in the end because of his edits to her code, but I doubt that actually had anything to do with that beyond turning her mask into a face . she has a very dramatic character arc where she almost dies a few times and becomes proclaim-edly depressed very early on in the show with bob doing work to try to help her out. then after she dies and her mask breaks her life sucks even more!!!! and bob fixes her face and saves her life again but then curses her to become mortal basically. she becomes a form that society would accept, and it isn't until society rejects her completely that it reveals how her mask it still broken under the sprite face, and she is the most free and happy when she is her full self that doesn't care about the expectations of anybody other than herself. even if it ultimately means the one she loves won't be with her and she has to sacrifice herself to save him,

so anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk where I talk about how an ugly show had one character girlboss her way into my heart

[ti-bae-rius]

Can we stop acting like Kit is a saint for falling for someone who’s autistic?

No one ever SAYS that, but the undercurrent is disturbingly present in the fandom. No one would SAY “Wow Kit is really great for dealing with Ty” but that shit oozes from some posts.

All the people who imply Kit has “coped” with so much with Ty, all the people who totally invalidate Ty’s displays of love as less important than Kit’s (“ohhh Kit was REJECTED or FRIENDZONED (which isn’t a thing and also isn’t a BAd thing), Kit has his heart BROKEN”), this one is for you:

Yes. Yes he did. And is that kind of lack of understanding part and parcel of being in love with someone who’s autistic? Yeah, sometimes.

Kit is not a martyr for loving someone with autism, just like my friends aren’t saints for loving me, just like the girl I’m dating isn’t angelic for dating me.

Autistic people - disabled people in general - aren’t charity cases. We aren’t loved “in spite” of our disability - or we shouldn’t be. We should be loved by people who don’t love us “in spite” but “with” our disability or (even better) because of it!

The girl I’m seeing said she likes me because she likes that I will say things to her that no one else would ever say and that makes her feel special. I say that she makes me feel like when i laugh moths in my stomach see the light from my mouth and start dancing in my stomach. She likes that she can tell I’ve had a good date because I skip. She likes seeing me stim when I’m happy or when she compliments me. I am not a charity case.

Ty is not “interesting” or “unique” or “quirky” or all those things. He’s not a science project. He isn’t “hard work” to love. He isn’t a story of love against all odds.

He isn’t someone to love against all odds.

He’s someone Kit loves. End of.

And the people who seem to think Ty will be someone totally different after the Scholomance, all the TWP!era headcanons that make him more neurotypical, like he’ll just “grow out” of being autistic is equally aggravating. Truthfully, autism does change a bit over time in the ways it manifests, but between like 15 and 19, through puberty, it’s pretty consistent. Puberty can even cause regression, meaning autism seems more “intense”. Your Scholomance!Ty shouldn’t be neurotypically-coded. Your Scholomance!Ty shouldn’t suddenly magically adjust to a “mainstream” schooling environment.

No one - not Julian, not Livvy, not Kit, NO ONE - is a good person for loving Ty. No one deserves praise for loving him. The perpetuation of this shit is what continues the myth that autistic people can’t or don’t date, can’t be loved or be in relationships with neurotypical people.

So often I hear “why would you date a neurotypical person?” from an NT. I know exactly what they mean. I know they mean “why would a normal person date someone with autism? Why would they pick you over someone who’s less work?”

And to that I say: you’ve clearly never met an autistic person. We’re a goddamn privilege to love. We are not high maintenance or hard work, we’re not charity cases or science experiments. We’re just people craving the same stupid thing as everyone else: someone to care about us.

So, in summary:

Ty isn’t about to grow out of being autistic so note that down TWP!era fic writers

No one deserves praise for loving Ty

Kit doesn’t deserve a medal for loving someone with autism

Like Jesus Christ oh my god really??? Like REALLY???

Please stop glorifying loving someone??? Who happens to have a neurological condition??? Jesus????

Seriously. Stop.

This has been a PSA

[leofiat-bunny]

Gen Y Ep 1

Masterpost

Okay, these boys are annoying but +side NOT queer coded. And the queer coded characters are - so far - just fine. Not major characters - WHEN WILL WE GET THIS? - but nice enough.

Ugh, gross. 😖 Het boys. 😒

Demi??? Or closeted gay and not met a guy worth coming out for? (Update: looking like the latter?)

(ETA: why not bi, etc? He seemed very certain he’d leave no broken hearted girls in his wake... it’s not that teenage girls are incapable of understanding casual, it just seems optomistic that he’d never stumble upon a girl who’d fool herself otherwise - especially if he is considered *such* a catch)

Those shoes look hellish uncomfortable. I hope she has no sweat glands in her feet.

So they do have cross faculty classes in Thailand. Good to know.

It is going to take me a while to get all these characters straight... you know what I mean. I do find it easier when they have blatently obvious markers: notable hair/tattoos/jewellery... I'll get there but that's how I always start distinguishing characters in... pretty much anything. "Give your characters unique profiles" type of thing. The subtler stuff needs much longer to sink in.

Knowing what I (kinda) know, I hope Yu doesn't do anything he'll regret.

Well he's a brat, but I'm laughing so... 🤷‍♀️😅

He ships it XD

PSA: Please don't torture your innocent server.

So many MingKit vibes.

Okay, that actually looks nice. (I can't stand spicy food, it hurts too much; I like ginger, and black pepper, and can stand mustard, but only in *really* small amounts, so Thai savoury food is often not very appealing to me, even when it's really pretty. I'm sure there's lots of spice around there, but it looks entirely optional.)

I have no room to judge Kit, I would fall for every manoeuvrer just as much in the moment as he does.

"Fold the bird"?

😂🤣😂 Caught smiling

Ok, I tried to spoil myself for Yu's plot on Tumblr, and just got more worried (and no clear answers). I just want him safe and happy and unhurt... 🥺

*Then* I watched the last scene. Not even kidding, that was the order of events. I'm grateful on the break up front I think? Like it's not being dragged out at least?

On the + side: Friendship 😍