#Arc Shash

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

Rrrrrrr…

Back.

Fear.

Safe.

Fear.

Rrrrr…

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

Myekhkkhkheh!

Making. Light!

👁️👄👁️

You. Speak too much.

Myeheh.

@shallahi-and-snowflake

I am more than aware of my overly complicated speech pattern that has been the topic of mockery.

I may as well have proven your point with my response. Stars damn you and your clever tongue, Shallahi…

[faller-of-kharbranth]

What's your favorite character and arc that you've written, and are there any future story plans that you're excited to write?

//Honestly, I don’t know who’s my favourite!

//I’m really excited for Arc Shash and SIFkah’s wildcard journey, though!

It’s just been taking a bit to get those together, motivation-wise and timing-wise.

[that-sweet-little-posh-thing]

Sherlock S4: A Study in Failure

I saw a lot of people in here making their own lists of all the inconsistencies of TFP, so I decided to make my own and to cover not only the final episode but also to take a look at everything since TST. Also I included some stuff from panels & interviews but didn’t mention anything about setlock, otherwise this list would be much longer. I tried to make it as detailed as possible so be prepared for 2.5k words. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride!

Things we were promised to get: 1.”Every clue and red herring will be paid off” 2. “Making TV history” 3. “Insane wish fulfillment” 4. “Groundbreaking” 5. “Shattering climax” 6. Culmination of everything TPTB have been working on for six (6) years. 7. “Everybody got it wrong – we want to get it right” 8. “They were made for each other” 9. “Love conquers all” 10. “Sherlock Holmes is in love – but who with?” I’m sure there are loads more, these are the ones I recall. What we’ve actually got: TST 1. Mary’s death has an only explanation – a story about an appointment with Death. 2. Somehow everyone knows this story even though it’s not that popular for practically everyone to not only know it, but even to QUOTE . 3. Why make Mary a villain in HLV and then give her a redemption arc in TST? 4. The outstanding transition from dangerous assassin to exemplary mother and vice versa throughout whole episode. 5. John’s blog is a jpg. picture, but he somehow manages to post there a heartwarming story about fatherhood even though the child isn’t born yet. 6. John and Mary have an ability to grow their hair at a horrifying speed in a few days, that’s the only reasonable explanation of their haircuts changes. 7. The whole TST case has already taken place in the past – still no one mentions this fact experiencing massive amnesia. 8. “It’s never twins” – never addressed  or resolved. 9. THE SCULL which sometimes glows like a Christmas tree and sometimes turns into Malevich’s Black Square. (and it’s completely different from the one that is present in s3) 10. What was the point of Eurus flirting and sexting with John? 11. Charlie Welsborough dying under the fake car seat (no comments). 12. Water dream sequence for some reason trigged by Margaret Thatcher. 13. One of the plaster busts Ajay was looking for is conveniently owned by Welsborough family. (this happens in the same show which claims that universe is rarely lazy to create coincidences). 14. Mycroft knows about every single one of crimes Moriarty was involved in but never tries to arrest him. 15. Why introduce a new character (DI Hopkins) for a scene a few minutes long? 16. That odd words exchange about devil and Antichrist repeated twice. About their own baby. We need context. 17. By the time 4 out of 5 plaster busts are smashed the police should have known that a criminal would target the last one that remains left – still no one bothers to lay an ambush near the house. 18. Mycroft has worked with AGRA and certainly known who Mary really is – but doesn’t reveal anything neither to Sherlock, nor to John. 19. Fucking camera man in the shot. 20. Someone points at John with a laser aiming rifle– but Ajay makes an appearance with usual gun. 21. Mary catching a bullet: - before she actually catches it a bullet makes a half way to its destination, leaving no possibility to do anything in milliseconds. - Mary’s ‘getting shot’ scene happens exactly like it CAN’T happen in real life (which was explicitly explained in HLV) 22. John does nothing to help Mary apart from shashing her. 23. Mary’s death scene - ??? 24. What reccuring dream does Ella talk about? 25. The note stuck to Mycroft’s fridge – “13th��� – never addressed. 26. Ella’s room making no sense. 27. Mary calling Sherlock “dragon slayer”. 28. WHAT WAS IN JOHN’S LETTER??? 29. Mycroft saying ‘”There’s no place we can keep Sherlock Holmes in without having a riot on the everyday basis” – did he forget about Sherrinford that’s specifically built for “uncontainables”? TLD: 30. What was the point of Eurus becoming John’s therapist? She’s written as a character who’s incapable of human emotions but still she doesn’t fail to perform a therapist session? 31. Where did she take money to buy clothes/wigs/contacts? 32. Why did she shoot John with tranquilizer from an ordinary gun? 33. What friends does Rosie stay with the whole season? Considering the fact that all John’s friends hate him even I become a bit worried about her. 33. Why attract so much attention to TD-12 and then never use it again? 34. Why did Culverton keep that note and even give it to Eurus? 35. What mutual friend put them in touch? She’s been kept in Sherrinford for  her whole life and Moriarty is already dead at that point. 36. How did Eurus know that Culverton said exactly one word/ not a name – she wasn’t participating in that meeting? 37. Sherlock can deduce what circumstances the note was kept in but can’t tell the difference between the woman in front of him and the woman on the photo. 38. What if the window opposite kitchen note board would have blinds? 39. Why does the word “anyone” trigger memories about Redbeard? 40. Why is John surprised that Sherlock’s on Twitter when he was using it constantly in TST? 41.How did Sherlock steal Culverton’s phone when there were more than 10 people directly looking at them? I’m afraid to assume what pocket the phone was in. 42. Nobody knows that it’s actually John’s blog. 43. John beating Sherlock to a pulp – what the hell was that??? 44. John knows that Smith’s favorite room is a mortuary, he hears Culverton saying that he might move Sherlock to his favorite room – but ignores it completely??? 45. Police officer visibly tries to enter a ward, he makes quite a bit of noise – no doubt Culverton hears it but he doesn’t even try to rush. 46. Lestrade somehow knows not only about Mary’s past but even about Sherlock killing Magnussen. 47. “Romantic entanglement would fulfill you as a person” – what is the point of including it if you never going to use it again? 48. It’s obvious that John visits Eurus quite in a while (not once for sure) – still no one tries to find missing therapist whose body would already be quite stinky. 49. Smallcroft - ???? 50. WHY DID EUROS GO IN SUCH TROUBLES TO GET IN TOUCH WITH BOTH SHERLOCK AND JOHN??? 51. Why return back to Sherrinford after a successful escape? Is it the only place where Eurus can take a revenge? TFP: 52. The whole thing with that girl on the plane: did Eurus deliver her lines? If so, how?? Was it somebody else? Guess we will never know. 53. Mark GaHttis’ playing. Number one Emmy’s nominee. 54. Hybrid of umbrella/sword/gun (literally no comments) 55. Fucking clown???? 56. Portraits crying blood tears. I wonder how Sherlock managed to do that. 57. “HEY BRO” 58. Sherlock wearing a deerstalker. He has just forgotten that he hates it. 59. Why does Mycroft still lie about Victor Trevor? He should have known that Eurus would tell Sherlock about it. 60. Fake graveyard? Not a really healthy way to entertain your children. 61. REDBEARD - Where were Victor’s parents? - Why nobody had a clue where to look for a missing child even though Eurus explicitly named him “drowned Redbeard”? - Why Sherlock’s parents never mentioned his sister? Did they just get over it like nothing happened? - FUCKING DOG BOWL??? The dog was not real! - Did Sherlock forget about his dad’s allergy? - Redbeard was licking Sherlock’s face in his MP. And the dog has never existed. But Sherlock remembers someone licking his face. I’ll leave it to your deductions. - Whole Sherlock’s life is deep, deep waters – his suppressed memories about drowned friend. But Sherlock didn’t know he drowned, he, in fact, didn’t know at all how he died. So where do these water memories come from? - Why did Mycroft write all those numbers in his notebook on the same page with “Redbeard” written? What was the point of “vernet”? What was it all for? 62. Fucking drone! Smashing the window! Isn’t it a bit dangerous doing that with a grenade taped to it? Why did Eurus even try to kill them if she wants to play the game? 63. John, an army man, doesn’t know what grenade looks like. 64. Mycroft knows exactly what type of grenade it is but still waits for motion sensor to activate. Well, I think they just had to justify the need to jump out of the window. 65. What phone call Sherlock talks about? John’s daughter is a toddler. 66. Mycroft asks if café below is opened, because grenade is that powerful that it can make a hole in the floor but SOMEHOW it doesn’t even cause any damages to the furniture in the room & flame just goes through things without burning them to a crisp. 67. DAT EXPLOSION aka Adobe Premiere in its finest. 68. After jumping out of the first floor window on the concrete and rolling head over heels down the stairs no one has a scratch. 69. How did they even get on a boat??? Did they use Dr. Strange’s cape? 70. So they know that the safety of Sherrinford is probably compromised, and if Eurus has indeed left the island there should have been definitely more than one person helping her. Knowing that they come there with no back up, no security, and no one knowing that they are making a visit. Very smart. 71. Why dress up as a fisherman? Why go in such troubles if they could just arrive there with trained people and detain everyone? 72. Where did the glass go??? And why Sherlock doesn’t see it’s missing? Did Eurus hypnotize everyone to ignore this fact? 73. If she is capable of enslaving people why didn’t she make somebody to be her friend in childhood? For example Sherlock? 74. All this concept of Eurus’ superpowers is kinda automatically fucked up if it doesn’t work all the time. 75. Sherlock ignoring Vatican Cameos - WHAT???? 76. The moment she jumped on Sherlock and tried to suffocate him, what was it all about??? 77. Who edited all those Moriarty videos & sounds? 78. 5 minutes was enough for Euros to tell the whole story about Redbeard, instruct what videos Moriarty has to record and come up with an evil plan how to play Sherlock and Mycroft. So we may consider that Moriarty worked for/with her? The perfect example of how to ruin character’s story. 79. And then Jim never uses Redbeard against Sherlock??? 80. What was those convulsions in front of the glass about? Can somebody explain their purpose? They had only 5 minutes and I have a feeling that biggest part of that time was spent on those movements. 81. Mycroft purchases grenades, tries to kill a clown but out of sudden he refuses to kill a man because he doesn’t want blood on his hands. 82. So they just try to save the girl by killing other people. What a concept. 83. After they are all trapped in the cell why did every prison worker disappear? Did Euros talk to every single one of them and programmed all the necessary actions in advance? 84. THAT PUKE. 85. Who builds secret doors in cells????? 86. Who painted the room and put a rifle in it? 87. FUCKING GARRIDEBS. 88. Does Sherrinford naturally have this mechanism to hang people? 89. During Euros’ game they have a motivation to play in form of the  girl on the plane but the moment comes and it just stops working. They kill people, solve cases to save the plane and suddenly stop caring about it at all. 90. Who delivers a coffin to a secret island? 91. Why nobody outside this island controls it or knows what’s happening there? No one comes with inspection? No one watches camera’s tapes? No one notices missing glass? 92. John cares about girl and other people on the plane but doesn’t care if his daughter becomes an orphan. 93. A coffin is small and Sherlock suggests it is for woman. Tall women and short men? Never seen one. 94. How did Euros get to know that Molly’s in love with Sherlock? Did she pretend to be her therapist as well? 95. Who put cameras in Molly’s house? 96. Molly talking to a lock screen – pfff why bother indeed. 97. Even if the girl would be real how the hell they planned to help her to land a plane? 98. Tranquilizer darts coming out of the walls. Because secret doors weren’t enough. 99. John and Mycroft don’t care if Sherlock shoots himself, they only care about the girl on the plane. 100. That black goo. 101. FAKE ROOM   - Who built it? - How did Euros bring it there alone? If she wasn’t alone where were her assistants? - Why even do this? What’s the point? 102. How did she bring Sherlock and John there? 103. Who and why put Sherlock’s coat on him? The last time we saw Sherlock he was in a suit. 104. Somebody has to go down the well with John to chain him up and then climb back up – it takes at least two men to do this and still Eurus is the only one arrested after all this mess. 105. John, the same man who can break every bone in human body while naming them can’t tell apart dog’s bones and human bones. 106. Who set up all those cameras and projectors? 107. “Try as long as possible not to drown”. Sherlock just stops caring about John and a girl on the plane AT ALL with NO REASON WHATSOEVER. His sisters’ riddle is much more important. 108. John climbing up a rope with his feet chained to the bottom of the well. This never fails to make me laugh. 109. Lestrade is the only one police officer in the world – wherever Sherlock gets in troubles he is always going to be there. 110. “He is a good one” – What exactly made him say this? For sure there must be a good reason to complete Sherlock’s character arc, but all he does is … hugging his sister? 111. Btw Eurus just HAPPENS to give up her game and tell Sherlock where’s John. So in the end, all she needed was a hug. And we are supposed to feel compassion. Never mind that she killed lots of people, she turns out to be not as bad as everybody thought. 112. They put her back in Sherrinford. In the place she has already successfully escaped from. 113.”She had passed beyond our view. No words can reach her now.” What does it mean and how did this happen? 114. Molly visiting 221B St. like nothing happened. She probably shagged someone and simply got over it. No need to go in depth because she’s just a plot device. 115. Mary’s DVD and voiceover – was it so necessary? Why her? Why do we keep seeing her after her death? When these DVDs will end? And who sends them at the right moments? 116. “Who you really are doesn’t matter”. (drops mic)

I want to finish this with a quote of Steven Moffat who’s 100% sure that “There isn’t something we have to come back to address.” If you ever hear this man saying that, laugh him in the face because he’s both a liar and a overconfident queerbaiter who elects to ignore the facts, but still considers his audience to be dumber than he is. Sorry for my English ^^ Johnlock is real. Tagging my all-time favourites:

@weeesi @thepineapplering @221boylove @wellthengameover @waitedforgarridebs @redpeacoat3 @the-7-percent-solution @221bmeta @astudyinsnoggy @bug-catcher-in-viridian-forest @cheuwing @deducingbbcsherlock @finalproblem @freebatchhell @hubblegleeflower @inevitably-johnlocked @kirkallalong @loudest-subtext-in-tv @notagarroter @opttoremember @pearlrebs @maryray1895

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

My Radiant is out of the ball.

She is alive, but…

[Photo ID: Shallahi, crouched down on all fours, pushing herself into a corner. She’s glaring at the camera, teeth bared, claws out, ears swept low and back. She looks remarkably bestial.]

[Audio ID: A deep, rumbling snarl that goes on for 30 seconds.]

She is… not herself… just yet.

Our Nahel has not been altered by this.

I am safe.

Our Metalborn neighbours have been informed of this, and they will keep watch for anyone who is looking for her.

I hope this was worth it for her.

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

Good.

Ough, yeah, definitely not doing anything today :[

It’s fine, it means I get to cuddle with my ‘mons instead :]

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

Okay.

We’re back home.

We’re safe.

Everything’s set up.

The Twins’ve given me a couple of days to get settled back in and prepare myself for the hybrid life.

Which means…

…

…

It’s time.

…

Kelek shield me…

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

[Photo ID: It’s Shallahi. She’s under a pile of blankets. Her eyes are puffy and red from crying. Navari and Sword are there, comforting her.]

Sorry.

Grief… has a way of sneaking up on me.

And…

…

Hhhhh.

I’m safe. I’m safe.

It can’t hurt me anymore.

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

👁️ 👄👁️

@justalileepguy

Show. face.

Lol.

[humantea]

I mean, while Lirin is absolutely not the monster that a lot of the fandom makes him out to be, I think there are absolutely fair critiques of how he treated Kaladin throughout ROW. Like, it’s true that his strict moral code is understandable, even admirable in many cases. It is also true that because of his rigid pacifism, he ended up telling Kaladin, his traumatized son who, up until a few weeks prior, he had thought was dead, that he shouldn’t have fought his enslavement and should have instead “proven [himself] to [his] masters” and, that because he fought back against the fused taking people away, he was a monster. I would argue that that degree of cruelty, whether or not it was just motivated by fear, definitely counts as him having done something wrong.

Lirin’s arc is absolutely one of growth, of accepting hope, of choosing to act, but a major part of that growth is his reconciliation with Kaladin, reconciliation that could not happen without the rift his rigidity led to. The narrative acknowledges this, with many of the major scenes of his arc revolving around him coming to understand Kaladin, his impact, and the flaws within his own worldview. Take his conversation with Noril, for example. Before talking to the man, he describes the caregivers who have painted shash glyphs on their foreheads as “Fools… refusing to accept the truth. Resisting, when they’ll just get crushed.” When he speaks to Noril, it becomes clear that he views the people wearing the glyphs as fools twice over, both for having hope and, almost more importantly, for gaining that hope from his son. He is so blinded by his stubbornness that he struggles to even admit that Kaladin has done some good. After he and Hesina finish speaking to Noril, she urges him to speak to the rest of them, to actually attempt to understand them and, by extension, his son. His growth, in this scene and others, then, is fundamentally tied then to mending the cracks his stubbornness put in his relationship with Kaladin.

To be clear, I’m not saying that Lirin is some heartless monster, in fact, I would argue that his most defining trait, and the trait he shares most with his son, is his desire to protect those around him. That’s why, when Hesina leaves him to his conversation with the glyph-wearers, the narration doesn’t describe her as hoping he’ll change, instead, it says that she trusts him to be the man she knows he is. That man has been weighed down by decades of fear and stubbornness, but fundamentally he is a good person. His arc, then, which culminates in his apology to and reconciliation with Kaladin after his fall, revolves around his rediscovery of that man that Hesina knows.

I think that there’s an idea in fandom that for a character’s story to be a redemption arc, they have to start out as a mustache-twirling villain who then grows into a hero, but I think that that fails to account for so much potential interesting nuance in characters’ stories. Lirin was never evil, but he absolutely hurt the people around him with his actions. His story, and arguably the story of the Stormlight Archive as a whole, is one of growing from those actions and finding redemption in that growth. Lirin did several things wrong, but without said wrongdoing, his deeply fascinating story simply wouldn’t work.

(Plus in that one chapter where he called Kaladin a monster he said “because I will take responsibility for what I have done!” So basically what I’m saying is Lirin bondsmith when? /j)

Keep seeing people say/imply that Lirin’s arc in row was a redemption arc. And don’t get me wrong he has a phenomenal arc in row! The way he chooses to take action and believe in hope despite everything he’s been through for the past several years is remarkable! But it’s a growth arc not a redemption arc because he DIDN’T DO ANYTHING FUCKING WRONG

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

Hhhhhhh

Cant stand touching the storming thing…

Or looking at it—HISS!

…

Have to keep it, though.

Ghhhghh. Still a little shaky.

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

Plipper mail!

A tackle hug! That tries to stretch and circle you but trips in the tackle and briefly gets her arms tangled

-Oppy ( @@freeroaming-curiosity )

MRAAH!

Th-thank!

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

…Okay. Okay.

I—

I can speak again.

The fish helped.

It helped.

…

Thank the Almighty.

Thank you, Pandoria!

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

Musharna Malice!

You're in a small, dark room. Your head feels fuzzy, and you know instinctively that you've been drugged again.

You're seated on an uncomfortable wooden chair, and you can't leave. After all, there are chains covering your entire body, chaining you to the chair. You feel something around your jaw, too. It seems to be a muzzle.

A man who calls himself your Commander keeps asking you questions. He keeps accusing you of being a Zoroark. You don't understand. Its hard to think. You answer the questions as best you can, even through the muzzle. It hurts.

Then, he says something that renders you weak, and you can't respond to any more questions.

He leaves. A door is shut.

You sit there for hours, possibly days. It doesn't seem like he'll be coming back.

[Mmh?

…

Rrrah.

…

Yes.

No.

Yes…

I don’t know.

Maybe.

No, no I’m not a—

I’m not a—

I don’t understand.

I don’t understand!

Wh—

Why—

WHY are you—

…

…

…

Mrrrrrrrrrrrrh…

Mrrrrrrrh…]

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Hhhhhhhhhh…

…Rrre…

…

Rrrrrrrrrrrrr…

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

Mmmmgh…

Just helped everyone here with a few things…

Feeling… floppy?

I think it might…

Might be sunbeam nap time…

Prrrrrrrrrr…

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

The pokeball?

Y-yes.

Heal ball.

Didn’t help.