#Anyway I'm gonna quote “it's not gay if it's for science” from now on

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The funniest argument I've had all week was from a homophobic soul eater fan. They kept bashing Cromaka (and Itafushi because I sent a sticker of it) with the argument that they were "Just friends" yet they vehemently shipped SoMa. Then I brought up Spirit and Stein and how Stein LITERALLY DID EXPERIMENTS ON SPIRITS BODY and he said "It's not gay if it's for science"

Yeah uhh this is totally for science! Anyway fuck homophones, and hypocrisy. Soul Eater fans please read your manga, the anime is washed compared to it LMAO

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sherlock holmes reactions part 4 (?) ive lost count already but unsurprisingly ive grown even more attached to him

using this as the cover image because i made him a playlist. cause im awful

no legit this is gonna need a read more because it's SO LONG SHIHEWIESHEFSHIEWHF

Had three mental breakdowns this week and realized i do in fact kin sherlock motherfucking holmes. this does not bode well for anything in my life mentally I've diagnosed him with so many things

Oh boy lol you want the list I think hes autistic (undisputed honestly) plus also adhd but on top of that there's the manic depression and uhhh the bpd lmao I dont even think that's it those are just. the obvious ones

But yeah man's a fucking mess and a shit person but in the same way as me so 👍

Some highlights I thought were very funny:

watson: we are in fact going to be waltzing into a place where people are Shooting People you do not have your gun. this is a problem

sherlock: don't worry watson I have my trusty stick!

watson: visible pain

This clearly happens like every day or so with them

but yeah there were some really honestly sweet scenes with them at the apartment and why am i getting soft over the crusty man being gay

have you considered tho. have you considered them

have you considered sherlock, who usually only plays absolute garbage on his violin serenading watson to sleep when he was tired and in pain and watson being so fucking in love with the man and waxing poetic about falling asleep to his music and waking up to see him fallen asleep on the couch next to him and oh my god them

They're just really sweet together for such a completely dysfunctional couple so much of the time lol I just. Sherlock being like.

Sherlock half of the time: watson you're fucking stupid. no i won't take care of my personal needs stfu. watson get a goddamn life. watson shut up. watson no one cares about your goddamn opinion. no i need to disturb you in the middle of the night it's for science. hey watson mind if i manipulate mansplain malewife

Sherlock the other half of the time: HELLO SIR YOU ARE MY FAVORITE MAN TO EVER MAN HELLO MAY I SPEND THE REST OF MY DAYS WITH YOU HELLO I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU WE ARE PERFECT MATCHES I LOVE YOU AND I NEED YOU YOURE SO MUCH BETTER THAN ME PLEASE MARRY ME

They're... they certainly are.

ALSO OH MY GOD.

THIS ONE TIME WHEN SHERLOCK WAS JUST PACING AROUND THE ROOM AT 3 AM GOING "IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE >:(((" AND HUDSON LIKE BARGED IN TO COMPLAIN AND THEN WATSON WAS LIKE DUDE YOU GOTTA STOP DOING THIS AND PROCEEDS TO SAY THE LINE "YOU ARE KNOCKING YOURSELF UP, OLD MAN"

BAHGHSFHGRHEWHEWHIFEW

BRB SOBBING

CALLING HIM AN OLD MAN???? KNOCKING HIMSELF UP?? I DONT KNOW WHATS FUNNIER

The main highlight of this part was I have now gotten to see him have a great time watching his homo homie get married

Its so fucking funny.......

I was prepared for a funny reaction by yuumori sherlock's face when he said it lol but. Damn i was really not prepared tbh

watson: I'm engaged!

sherlock: *pained groaning*

watson: do you... not like her?

sherlock: no she's fine she's great you'll be wonderful together bUT I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE ARE HETEROSEXUAL WATSON DO I HAVE TO MARRY MYSELF THEN WATSON? ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE ME MARRY MYSELF.

watson: yeah... yeah... fair, I feel really bad because you did this whole case and I got a girlfriend out of it and all you got was me leaving you alone fuck man im sorry what are you gonna do without me

sherlock, highly sarcastic: dont worry watson I've always got my handy cocaine! *pulls it out and gets high in front of watson just as he's about to leave*

watson: *in fucking agony*

sherlock: good for you!

I DONT EVEN- THIS SCENE KILLED ME MULTIPLE TIMES OVER WHAT

ITS SO GODDAMN NONCHELANT ABOUT IT SHERLOCK IS JUST LIKE YEAH I WILL IN FACT NOT BE MENTALLY HEALTHY IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME 24/7 BUT WHATEVER YOU DO YOU /S

I'd like to apologize to watson on sherlock's behalf lmao. man is being a bit too codependent on main

The last thing about sign of four I do need to address is yeah, there's the Horrific Amounts Of Racism in that one and the whiplash hearing it is just ridiculous because they seem to be so knowledgeable in all other areas and fairly... politically correct, taking sherlock's original misogyny as a purposeful character flaw, but then they just mention someone indigenous once and suddenly its all parrotting racist propaganda and just... really awful shit. There's no way I'm gonna speak for the group that just got absolutely hate crimed here but anyone can tell the author just has no clue what he's fucking talking about and it's physically painful.

And I don't know, it's just so bad it seems out of character? Doyle's making these motherfuckers say shit that honestly, Sherlock would know better about. And especially Watson. Come on, you cannot tell me watson is mentally capable of being prejudiced against someone. Please do not make him that way.

I'm not sure how to handle it specifically, or what's the proper way I should handle something like that in a media I otherwise like. Is it ok to say Doyle was clearly a piece of shit on the matter and separate those characters from his bias or is that insensitive?

I don't know, I was Not a fan of it and I'm glad to see they've at least finally shut up about the guy

But anyway yeah, uhhhh onto the short stories because I'm trying to read those before I get to the final problem

Scandal in Bohemia was a fucking ride, first of all, before we even get to Sherlock's girlboss arc we have to discuss how gay the whole situation was and how Doyle's attempt at making them less gay failed spectacularly

Like he's all "ah yes I need to marry off watson and uhhh make sherlock ummmm interact with a woman so they dont look gay" but he does it SO BADLY that it makes them look EVEN GAYER

cause i mean, even the conversation they had about watson getting married back in sign of four was gay af, but how Doyle handled things afterward was in no way straighter.

Cause you know, the man kind of wrote himself into a corner with the fact of Watson narrating these stories. So Watson has to be around to witness them, and to witness Sherlock's own thought process rather privately, so he has to be around sherlock at night, a lot. But trying to come up with a reason for that happening just... it didn't occur to Doyle. He just went. Ah yes this makes sense. And it's Watson just like Sleeping Over At Sherlock's like every other goddamn day and every time his wife leaves town and having them basically still live that cute domestic home life but they have absolutely no excuses for doing it anymore. It's quite funny

Like it was gay already the way they interacted when they officially lived together but it was like, a necessity for them. Now it's not, Watson just comes over because he goddamn wants to, and it's hilarious to me.

LIKE IDK I THINK THEY KIND OF BROKE UP FOR A YEAR OR SO BC OF WATSON GETTING MARRIED AND THEY LIKE DONT HAVE CONTACT WITH ONE ANOTHER BUT ONE DAY WATSON JUST INEXPLICABLY HAS THE URGE TO COME VISIT SHERLOCK ON NO NOTICE AND THEN SUDDENLY THEY ARE TOGETHER NEAR 24/7 AGAIN LIKE BARELY ANYTHING CHANGED AHIEHOEWH

SIT DOWN AND TRY TO TELL ME THOSE ARE NOT HOMOSEXUALS

Watson walks in on no fucking notice after a full year and Sherlock is just. In the middle of some experiment obviously but hes like

Sherlock, carrying around unidenfiable chemical mixtures: W A T S O N you look good you look good! i see you've gained seven pounds!!

watson: uh. thanks??? Hey lol *awkwardly waves* Uh um Wanted to Uhm sEe you

Sherlock: ABOUT gODDAMN TIME AND YES WONDERFUL LOOK LOOK SIT DOWN I HAVE THINGS TO INFODUMP ABOUT

watson: :) ok :) *turns to camera* and we were back to the old days

sherlock: makes a deduction

watson: wowwwwwwwwwwww !! so true bestie !!

sherlock: !!!!!!!!! :))) !!!!! :))) uh fuck im supposed to be smooth Its Elementary Lol

watson: *turns to camera* when i stroke his ego like this and compliment him he blushes like a girl like i just complimented his dress so i do it more because he likes it. this is a homie trait

watson: well i should probably get going! my wife will notice that i am gone my dear buddy bro homie!

sherlock: NO DONT LEAVE IM LOST WITHOUT YOU (pretty much a direct quote lol) your. wife doesn't. get back home until monday. I know this because I am smart and definitely have not been stalking you.

watson: alright :)))))

AND THEN HE FUCKING SLEEPS OVER LMAO FUCKING HOMOS

So yeah they're right back where they were before pretty much and there's a case bc of course there is

And honestly I think this short story specifically was so insane mostly just because of how absolutely fast it all went. Yuumori kind of made me believe the original Irene Adler was more of an important character than she really is? And I think that's. Honestly so funny. Motherfucker shows up for ten pages, girlbosses her way around town, and changes sherlock's entire opinion of the female gender while still keeping him gay?

LIKE NO LOL SHES NOT IN ANY WAY A LOVE INTEREST AND WATSON GOES OUT OF HIS WAY TO SPECIFY THE FACT THAT IN NO WORLD WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED BECAUSE. SHERLOCK. DIDN'T DATE WOMEN.

HE WAS JUST??? SO IMPRESSED AND SHELL SHOCKED BY HER EXISTENCE HE DECIDED IT WAS TIME FOR GIRLBOSS APPRECIATION DAY TODAY AND ALL DAYS HENCEFORTH???

AND THEY HAVE LIKE O N E INTERACTION?? God, the power this woman(?) has. Watson looks at her once like. damb shawty 😳 and she's like "no<3" and he's like FUCK

Like yeah it's pretty much just the king walking up like "help girl the whore is blackmailing me" and sherlock being like "ok lol this will be easy" and then it proceeded to not in fact be easy or even possible

sherlock like... posed as a dead body and tried to get her to give up the location of the photo but she out-acted him and skipped the town the next day after doing the 'good night mr. sherlock holmes' thing with sherlock completely tricked

and she just. sends a letter like "dear sherlock holmes. you're a fucking idiot and i think it's funny that you lost. nice job tho mad respect" and sherlock just SHORT CIRCUITS

the king comes back a bit later like "hey Dude where's my Photo" and sherlock's like oh yeah uhhhhhhhhhhh about that and the king is like HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN THAT GODDAMN HARD i would have dated someone more noble if she wasn't so pretty i swear im on a whole different level from her

and then. GIRLBOSSIFIED SHERLOCK HOLMES RESPONDS "from what I have seen of the lady, she seems indeed to be on a very different level from your majesty" ABSEHHESHEFHHFES ROASTED

and the dude just LEAVES

After that I read a few more of the short stories and well the highlights I got from that pretty much were these conversations

Watson: sherlock. honey. have you. eaten anything today

Sherlock: IT DIDNT OCCUR TO ME DEAR WATSON

Watson: ITS FIVE PM

and:

Sherlock: *having one of his Moment Moments at three in the goddamn mornig* GRRRR CRIME ISNT WHAT IT USED TO BE

Watson: MY DEAR SHERCOCK WHAT IS CRIME S U P P O S E D TO BE LIKE ACCORDING TO YOU

Sherlock: no one's original anymore fucking copycats

Watson: so you want the criminals to make things harder for you specifically.

Sherlock, exasperated: yes!

I love them your honor.

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I loved the poetry you featured in “teaching poetry to fish” so much! Do you have a list of all of those poems anywhere, or any additional recommendations?

hi! okay so I *didn't* have a list of all those poems in one place but now I do!

I always feel like I should put in a disclaimer that I'm a science-major idiot barely pretending to know a goddamn thing about lit er a ture, so like. there are SO many people who know so much more about poetry than I do, and SO MANY MORE POETS. these are just a bunch of things I happened to read and liked.

anyway because I'm ridiculous, in addition to just giving you a list I'm gonna also ramble about some of the poets a bit and tell you if I have any favorites of theirs that aren't in here. and I'm gonna break it down by ~era. and it’s all going under a cut ‘cause it’s gonna be long.

ANCIENT SHIT

horace: carmina 1.3, carmina 3.2. horace was a roman dude who wrote in latin and once upon a time I learned latin and tried translating some of his poetry. I can't really tell you much else about him. I forgot it all. but as far as latin poets I also really like catullus.

liu zongyuan: dwelling by a stream, river snow. I really just found these poems from googling and don't know much about their author, but he seems awesome. I believe he was writing during the tang dynasty? if you google his stuff or tang dynasty poets you should find some online sources with loads more chinese poetry from that era and it's pretty great.

PRE-19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN DUDES BEING DRAMATIC ABOUT RELIGION

there are so many people who can say so much smarter shit about this section than me. I learned enough to go grabbing what I wanted.

dante alighieri: inferno

john donne: the bait, a hymn to god the father

john milton: paradise lost

NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN POETS

ok so I know a lot more american poets than I know other poets. just in general. I feel like the two giants of the nineteenth century are dickinson and whitman, and they're super different, and you can probably tell which one is more my style, but like, whitman's good too!

walt whitman: song of myself (I don't think I actually quoted this one but I echoed something from it in the text and now I can't remember for the life of me what)

emily dickinson! I love the shit out of emily dickinson. her poems aren't really titled, so this is just all the first lines: my life had stood a loaded gun, this world is not conclusion, how the old mountains drip with sunset, the brain is wider than the sky, a narrow fellow in the grass, I felt a funeral in my brain, to pile like thunder to its close, much madness is divinest sense, after great pain a formal feeling comes, bring me the sunset in a cup, the poets light but lamps, tell all the truth but tell it slant, split the lark and you'll find the music.

EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

okay so I feel like 1900 to 1930 or something was a RICH time for poets. there's a lot going on here. the world is changing and ww1 in particular makes everyone feel that way, especially in europe; you get a lot of poets processing that. you also get poets like robert frost over in america writing this kind of intentionally old-fashioned subject matter but with more modernism in it than you'd think. we're gonna do the europeans first:

wilfred owen: dulce et decorum est

william butler yeats: the second coming, sailing to byzantium

t.s. eliot: the love song of alfred j. prufrock

a.e. housman. this dude was a very sad gay man and classical scholar. I think he did a lot of latin translations but not of authors I'm too familiar with. he's the subject of a brilliant tom stoppard play, "the invention of love." housman poems I used were: vii. he would not stay for me, and who can wonder; xxx. shake hands, we shall never be friends; xxvi. the half-moon westers low, my love. and for americans:

carl sandburg: skyscraper. more processing of modernity! but this time in terms of its architecture, specifically in the midwestern context (chicago). I really think cas would like this poem.

robert frost: birches. I really liked and wanted to use "for once, then, something," which is about looking down wells and trying to see secrets, but I couldn't find a spot. it feels like an incredibly cas poem to me as well. I also nearly used "a dream pang" and "after apple-picking." in fact, am I sure I didn't use "after apple-picking"? oh dear. it's in the Vibes anyway.

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

langston hughes: poem, the dream keeper. there's a lot more harlem renaissance poets than I included here that I haven't really dug into yet. but I've read some claude mckay that I liked. I also love the langston hughes poem "the negro speaks of rivers," and while its language vibes very much with poetryfic, it didn't feel appropriate to take out of context in that way.

MORE AMERICANS, SO MANY AMERICANS

marianne moore: the fish. I like marianne moore fine in general, I'm not head over heels for her, but she was a big mentor of elizabeth bishop, and she wrote a poem called the fish, so. I also like her poem about ostriches.

allen ginsberg: howl, kaddish, song.

sylvia plath: blackberrying

elizabeth bishop: the fish, insomnia, seascape, one art. elizabeth bishop is a big rec for me - you can get all her collected poems in one reasonably sized book, she didn't write all that much over the course of her life, and her use of language to evoke places and moods absolutely floors me.

robert hass: meditation at lagunitas

HELLO LET'S GO TO SWEDEN

okay so listen. the one non-science class (the only one!) I took in college was on scandinavian literature. so I know a couple swedish poets. that's it. but I LOVE THEM.

tomas tranströmer. my favorite book of translations is bright scythe, translated by patty crane. I recommend ALL of it without reservation but what I included was: baltics, romanesque arches, kyrie, winter's formulas, face to face, allegro, the nightingale in badelunda, secrets on the way. I didn't wind up using "firescribbling" but put that on your tranströmer list too.

edith södergran: hell, dangerous dreams, vierge moderne. I don't know as much about her as I do about tranströmer but I love her stuff! and there are some that felt EXTREMELY deancas-relevant but that I didn't have a chance to include: triumph of existing & the instrument's lament. all the poems I have of hers are in a collection entitled love & solitude. honestly, go read those last two, like, now. if you can't find them come back here and tell me and I'll transcribe them. you need them. that's all.

SEAMUS HEANEY GETS HIS OWN SECTION

look so I only used a single seamus heaney poem in this whole damn thing but who cares? he's a legend. and I love all of his stuff. the vast majority is SO specific and evocative of rural ireland that it wasn't very transferable to the context of poetryfic. I used "valediction."

NATALIE DIAZ GETS HER OWN SECTION

I also only used one natalie diaz poem because I didn't really know her yet. but she's the BEST. she's my FAVORITE. I used "these hands, if not gods." her whole new poetry collection postcolonial love poem absolutely knocks me out, and her first one is great too. if you want another poem that you can find on the internet try "if I should come upon your house lonely in the west texas desert."

I DON'T KNOW I FOUND THEM ON TUMBLR

uh. these are some poets I don't know anything about. I just saw them on tumblr. and was like yes that's the stuff.

hannah faith notess: yoshi (a pastoral)

jane mead: I have been living

craig morgan teicher: another day

PEOPLE I'M MAD I DIDN'T LEARN ABOUT IN TIME FOR POETRYFIC

joy harjo, especially "invisible fish" (I mean come on) (I did write an extra fic just to use that one though)

anna akhmatova. incredible russian poet. I’m really just getting to know her now.

ada limón. I think I did actually know some of her stuff (especially "what it looks like to us and the words we use," which I could have used if the opportunity arose, it just didn't) but I am looking forward to diving deeper.

BONUS SECTION FOR MARY OLIVER

I mean she's mary oliver. if someone wants to be snide about her popularity, don't listen to them, she's brilliant. I feel like I didn't really dive into her body of work for poetryfic because I probably would have found so much relevant that I'd get myself all turned around by it, but the one I came closest to using is "don't hesitate."

I hope that this is something like what you were hoping for! I had fun rambling, anyway. :D

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Anyway @auntiewanda is throwing enough bullshit around to be getting mod Nora pissed off and anon hate sent to a friend of mine.

It wasn't "understood" it was stereotyped and the ones diagnosing gender dysphoria excluded anyone who was not strictly gay or lesbian. Trans people have always existed with different sexualities, whether you knew it at the time or not.

Okay honestly I'm more concerned about the fact that you're using one couple, that made the news probably because this is so rare, to claim that straight people are colonizing the LGBT+ community. I'm personally more worried about the straight people going to pride parades to party while literally being afraid of the gay people there and getting disgusted by sexual remarks, but sure, non binary trans people are the issue.

Normally I don't act like this but I don't give a damn when you were born because right now you're no infant. Shit changes, you can complain about it, but don't be an ass to others for it.

Okay so the conservative unaccepting thing is normally what sprouts trans trenders but so are incredibly accepting households where the kid will never get any shit for being who they are.

Dysphoria*

The conclusion fits along in science through studies that have been going on since you were born, probably before but who knows. I can connect my experiences to sociology a bit and I know my sociology teacher liked the transgender bathroom study me and my partner did. Sociology fits into feminism to I'm not gonna go into much there.

I know that this was a thing after both of us were born but it still exists, people can use queer as an umbrella term for themselves.

Hey uh I'm gonna quote what my friend said once in elementary school to his teacher

"When are you going to go to the doctor to get that stick removed from your ass?"

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