#BRUC

[doingbad]

Holmes and Watson just invented a new love language and it is terrible

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

[..]

[jazzandpizazz]

[forest-enchantress]

Here is a #68 gifs of Astrid Berges-Frisbey as Gloria in Bruc. La llegenda (2010). All of these gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute or claim them as your own. If using, please give this a like and reblog!

[we-cross-universe-king-relate]

Batman

I'm pretty sure that no one ,especially poor Aquaman, want anything to do with your city. He tells the rest of the league to stay out of his City but that's not going to be a problem seeing as how his City might be too much for any of them to stomach or put up with.

[keepingitneutral]

The Bruc Apartment, Barcelona, Span,

Cometa Architects,

Photographs: José Hevia

[ijsthee]

Shut the fuck upppppp

[stephensmithuk]

The Bruce-Partington Plans

Published in 1908, this is one from the His Last Bow collection. The international context i.e. the growing tensions with Germany, should be borne in mind when reading this.

This is the second and final appearance of Mycroft Holmes in the canon.

This is our third Violet! ACD likes the name, clearly.

This video shows the development of the Underground over time. The 1894 map does not include some of the then "mainline" services, like the one going up to Epping and Ongar, that would be incorporated into the network later on.

The Woolwich Arsenal was a massive munitions factory and research site located on the south bank of the Thames. It peaked in size during the First World War and then declined after that. It ceased being a factory in 1967 and stopped being a military site in 1994. Much of the site has been redeveloped - the Eastern half becoming Thamesmead - or repurposed.

Both attempts at a museum on the site were short-lived, sadly.

Woolwich Arsenal station is today served by the Docklands Light Railway and Southeastern trains; the Elizabeth Line station at Woolwich is a 200m walk away.

The most notable cultural legacy of the site was its works football team. Originally called Dial Square on its 1886 foundation, it turned professional in 1891 (the first London club to do so) and eventually moved north of the river in 1913 due to financial difficulties. You may well be familiar with the club's current name - Arsenal.

Aldgate was one of the former gates of the London Wall and gave its name to the local area, but the gate is now completely gone.

Aldgate station is today the terminus of the Metropolitan Line served by the Circle Line; its platforms are under a glass canopy with gaps to allow for air to get in and smoke to get out. Pretty nice station, but not very convenient for anywhere major, as it's a bit of a walk to Fenchurch Street.

The London Underground is divided between sub-surface lines dug using a "cut-and-cover" methods (dig up street, build railway, put street back on top) with tunnel dimensions big enough for regular mainline trains and deep-level lines done by manually digging underground, with resulting smaller diameters.

A variety of "circle routes" operated on now-LU lines at the time operated by companies including the Great Western Railway. More info can be found here.

Train tickets at this time were generally small cardboard ones about the size of a thumb. You can find a history of London transport tickets here.

The Metropolitan Railway rolling stock at the time generally consisted of closed compartment carriages i.e. doors on each side with no link to other compartments. It was perfectly possible for a door not secured properly to come open and someone to fall out if leaning on it. The job of the guard and station staff would be to check all the doors were properly shut.

This also had safety implications for passengers, especially female ones late at night and women-only compartments existed because of this. The emergency alarm on British trains was fitted as a measure following the 1864 murder of Thomas Briggs, in such a compartment.

Closed compartment carriages remained present into the first-generation British Railways electric multiple unit designs. In 1988, a woman named Deborah Linsley was murdered in one, with an au pair being criticised at the inquest for not pulling the cord. Her murderer has never been caught. The remaining stock was withdrawn from late night service afterwards and marked with a red line on the carriage, shortly afterwards going entirely as sliding-door stock replace.

The Naval Estimates were basically the budget requests presented to Parliament for their approval, the Admiralty being its own department until 1964, when it merged with four other departments to become the Ministry of Defence.

The first attack by a submersible occurred in 1776 during the American War of Independence, with an attempt to attach explosives to a British ship by the American Sergeant Ezra Lee using a one-man vessel called Turtle. It and other attempts failed; the submarine's ultimate fate after the sloop carrying it was sunk is unknown.

The first successful sinking of a vessel by a submarine was in 1864, by the Confederate vessel H. L. Hunley on the USS Housatonic. The former was lost with all hands shortly afterwards. It was found in 1995, raised in 2000 and is now part of a museum.

Hugo Oberstein is mentioned in "The Second Stain", which chronologists generally put in 1888. The "vibes" putting it in the 1900s don't work in light of the ending of this story.

Various openings were built in the underground bit subsurface lines of the Underground for ventilation purposes; in fact a majority of the network is open-air. The deep-level lines relied on various ventilation shafts and air being pushed in the trains, with the result that many parts of the networks are today pretty warm in summer.

Gloucester Road station is today on the Circle, District and Piccadilly Lines, the last of these arriving in 1906 in two deep-level platforms. The most notable feature of the station is the disused platform with unusual temporary art installations on it.

Underground steam locomotives were fitted with condensing boilers to reduce steam emissions, but this did nothing to deal with the soot and conditions could be fairly unpleasant by any standards. The sub-surface lines would be gradually electrified from the 1900s; the deep levels had to be electric from the get-go.

Pierrot is a stock "sad clown" character from pantomime and comedic theatre. He still turns up in various guises today, including a notable turn in Cowboy Bebop.

The "certain gracious lady" who gives Sherlock Holmes the emerald tiepin is generally assumed to be Queen Victoria herself. She was reluctant to use Buckingham Palace following her husband's death in 1861 and conducted most of her official business out of Windsor Castle instead, becoming known as the "Widow of Windsor".

[sansfeargaldin]

4x33 Grandes misterios; Montserrat

Buenas a todos, quedáis invitados a nuestras jornadas el 11 de mayo a las 18h en el parking del hotel del Bruc, en Montserrat. Esperamos que os guste y os esperamos en Twitch; saga_galdin, donde grabamos el podcast en directo. Síguenos en instagram @sagagaldin para enterarte de cuándo y qué estamos preparando. Saludos. Podéis acceder a este contenido en nuestra sección de Podcast o directamente…

[eastorhild]

I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: Episode 182: The Polyphonic Motets of Lassus

One of the most remarkable characteristics of Sherlock Holmes was his power of throwing his brain out of action and switching all his thoughts on to lighter things whenever he had convinced himself that he could no longer work to advantage. I remember that during the whole of that memorable day he lost himself in a monograph which he had undertaken upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus.

Holmes: Anyway that’s all we can do for the international espionage crisis BACK TO MEDIEVAL MUSIC FIXATION (or well renaissance really)

Watson 🤝 Me: God I wish that were me

[thenightwolf51]

"Danny was born a Wayne" AU except he's Bruce's grand uncle. The result of a one time drunken affair, shortly before Kenneth Wayne's death, to a young unmarried woman who gave the baby up for adoption.

(Whether the Fenton's, and therefore Amity, were just ahead of their times or the DC timeline is shifted a bit so that DP happens in its cannon era is up to you. Dealers choice, though now that i know about her i just love badass widowed prohibition leader Laura Elizabeth Wayne)

Danny grows up knowing hes adopted and loved by the Fentons but something (dealer's choice) happens and he loses his family and friends (maybe the whole town goes too?). In an attempt to avoid a Dan situation he flees into the Infinite Realm and doesn't stop.

He just wanders, time passes in its weird Realms way, not that Danny truly notices. A protector spirit thats lossed everything it protected. Its a wonder he doesn't fade and he actually might've if it wasn't for his human side.

But its a tug at his core that brings him from his near catatonic wandering. Gone before he can even understand it but enough to shake him back to himself. Enough to know that hes nowhere near ready to go anywhere familiar so he continues on, his wandering no less pointless but at least he's aware again.

What feels like a relatively short time later he gets another tug, and this time he manages to follow it.

He follows it invisibly through a natural portal that drops him somewhere in New Jersey and all the way to a fancy hospital room in the gloomiest city he's ever seen.

In there he sees his half brother Patrick Wayne, though he wont figure out their connection for a few more years, holding little Agatha. She's adorable in her little dress and pigtails and her sweet face causes that familiar tug he recognizes from what must have been six years ago given the girls age.

Then a nurse comes in and hands a little bundle to what must be the mother (whos name i cant find) and Danny takes one look at the little core tugger who brought him here and just melts. Even without knowing yet that this is his last remaining family, his instincts latch on and he vows to protect and care for the Waynes.

And he does.

He finds his forgetful brother's documents and keeps Aggy company when everyone else is busy and soothes baby Thomas so his poor sister-in-law can get some more sleep. He ices fevers and bruised knees and helps on later games of hide and seek.

He very rarely becomes visible and only to the children. His grief over the Fenton's convinces him its better to protect his new family from the shadows.

Danny explores every inch of the manor, including secret passages and an underground cave system. He claims a forgotten room in the back of the attic as his own, which over the years fill up with knickknacks, heirlooms, and pictures of the family. Even a gift or two from Agatha, who hadn't stopped believing in their shadowy guardian like her brother did when Danny felt they were too old to see him without drawing suspicion.

The manor becomes his haunt and he always knows where each family member is within it. And when any guests have some no good intentions.

And when baby Bruce is born tugging at his core and with the bluest little eyes, he welcomes the fussy little thing. And makes sure dear Martha never knows just how fussy baby Bruce really is, otherwise she might've never had a full nights sleep.

Danny blames himself for not being there when Thomas and Martha die, and promises to never leave Bruces side, practically becoming the boy's living shadow. Watching over him as he gets older, secretly aiding him in his training. Danny feels a bit of pride when Bruce takes some inspiration from the old stories Thomas told him of the shadowy Wayne family protector when creating his Batman identity, glad his nephew still remembers him even if he hasn't shown himself since the now young man was six.

Danny continues to protect and care for the family in a variety of ways over the years even as the family grows.

Lightening Alfred's workload, softening Dick's falls, calming Jason's temper both pre and post pit, hiding Tim's coffee when the boy hasn't slept in far too long, providing plenty of shadows and hiding nooks for Cass, helping Damian hide the litter of kittens he found.

And no one seems to know he's there, except maybe Cass and he's pretty sure Alfred has been know since he first started working for the family. No one knows, that is, until Duke Thomas moves in and lookes right at him watching invisibly from the sidelines.

(@omnicrafts @dcxdpdabbles @hdgnj @ailithnight @nelkcats @im-totally-not-an-alien-2 i dont know, the main point of all this is that Danny's been protecting the Wayne family for decades and no one, except maybe Alfred, knew until Duke moved in)

[forest-enchantress]

Here is a #68 gifs of Astrid Berges-Frisbey as Gloria in Bruc. La llegenda (2010). All of these gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute or claim them as your own. If using, please give this a like and reblog!

[iridescentoracle]

#i love that the once he's referring to is when #mycroft raced him and watson back to their flat so that he could surprise them by sitting in sherlock's chair #it would be one thing if holmes meant 'mycroft has dropped in for a cuppa once in the whole time i've lived here' #but it's SO FUNNY that he's referring to the events of the greek interpreter (via skyriderwednesday)

It is as if you met a tram-car coming down a country lane. Mycroft has his rails and he runs on them. His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall--that is his cycle. Once, and only once, he has been here.

Sherlock Holmes about his brother Mycroft in The Adventure of Bruce-Partington Plans

[lowpolybread]

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[dickgraysonsptsd]

(warning: long post + taking random comments too seriously)

i have complicated feelings about variations of "dick misinterprets bruce and invents criticism from him when there is none actually present" or "dick is too sensitive to perceived rejection from bruce" or "bruce obviously loves dick but for some reason dick thinks bruce hates him" etc as standalone statements because like. yes of course dick carries responsibility for his own emotional responses to bruce in the way that we all carry responsibility for our own emotional responses. the only thing you can control in life is yourself, and so on

but also dick has a lifetime of bruce acting in ways that imo justify dick fearing bruce's reactions to dick's failures and imperfections:

(above, robin: year one #3, chuck dixon; nightwing [1996] #100, devin grayson; the new teen titans #55, marv wolfman)

in the "dick assumes bruce is going to criticize and/or reject him despite the literal exact opposite happening" story of all time, nightwing (1996) #12–15, dick takes every interaction with bruce to be a slight of some kind:

(above, nightwing [1996] #14, chuck dixon)

and in this arc bruce is not actually here to accuse dick of not being capable or to make dick prove himself again. bruce is really just here to support dick on a case! dick is jumping to conclusions and creating problems!

but he's jumping to conclusions because those conclusions are the next step in a well-worn path that dick and bruce have tread together over and over again: dick fails, bruce tells him "you should have been better" or "you're fired" or "i don't want to hear excuses" or "i don't need you," and dick strives as hard as he can to prove himself to bruce.

(above, nightwing [1996] #101, "nightwing: year one," chuck dixon)

and dick knows that he and bruce and do this, and he knows he's responsible for his part in it. dick calls bruce a few hours later to apologize, and ends up talking to alfred about it:

(above, nightwing [1996] #14, chuck dixon)

by the way, bruce hears that dick's been wrongfully arrested in nightwing: the target (2001) and comes straight to his apartment to criticize him ("look what you've brought down on yourself"), which is exactly what dick expected of him in the aforementioned nightwing (1996) #12–15:

(above, nightwing: the target [2001], chuck dixon)

...ultimately validating dick's fear that fucking up (in this case, "letting" himself be framed for murder) means failing bruce means bruce showing up to tell him it's all his fault.

when dick preemptively winds himself up like he does in nightwing (1996) #12–15, he's flinching away from an expectation of an emotional blow that isn't going to come down this time.

and dick doesn't know it's not going to come down this time because bruce doesn't tell him. that blow just... doesn't happen, and bruce instead affirms and praises him, shocking dick:

it is ultimately a communication problem between them, yes—

(above, nightwing [1995], #1 & #4, dennis o'neill)

—but it's a communication problem with a long history of dick experiencing bruce as someone with inconsistent responses, who might tell dick "your only option is x" or "i will never forgive you for x" about the same action taken on different days.

(above, dick at a low point emotionally saves others at the cost of his own life, just like bruce trained him to, nightwing [1996] #102, "nightwing: year one," chuck dixon)

(above, bruce tells dick he can't forgive him for losing sight of the value of his own life after dick at a low point emotionally nearly dies saving others, nightwing [1996] #117, devin grayson)

and the doylist explanation for this is that post-crisis bruce and dick are written by a wide range of writers with different approaches to their characters and their relationship:

(above, the original, happier post-crisis firing story in batman #408, max collins; chuck dixon's robin: year one and nightwing: year one handle bruce firing dick as a much darker and more fraught event)

(above, dick showing that he already assumed bruce planned to reject him in his earliest days as robin [indicating that bruce isn't the origin of this fear] & a happier early days interaction between dick and bruce in legends of the dark knight #149–153, "grimm," j.m. dematteis)

but if you take even a handful of comics into account, it's clear that dick has textual reasons for believing bruce is always mentally mapping out his flaws and always ready to reject him for a perceived failure.

even in a comic that i would consider more critical of dick's instinct to assume rejection from bruce (teen titans spotlight #14), the positive note it ends on is still reliant on dick "never know[ing] how [bruce] feels about me."

and dick never knowing how bruce feels about him is a big problem. we as readers get to see bruce's internal thoughts. we understand him. we know that he loves dick more than anything and that even when he lashes out at dick he usually does it out of a devastating fear of losing him. but dick doesn't know this and bruce almost never tells him, and doesn't correct him when dick makes assumptions out loud:

(above, nightwing [1995] #1, dennis o'neill)

basicallyyyyy i think it's heartily supported by many comics that dick has experienced a pattern of criticism and rejection from bruce that he consciously or unconsciously expects to keep happening 😂🤣... and they are looping foreverrrr in their vicious cycle of not communicating, assuming things of each other, getting freaked out about it, and generally just being dumbasses

[useless-catalanfacts]

Photos by Marc Rovellada Ballesteros published in La Mira and Happyxais.

Daniel is a shepherd who has been hired by the City Council of El Bruc (a town in Central Catalonia) to graze in the natural areas between the area's towns. Like other shepherds who work in the traditional way, he practises transhumance (seasonal nomadism to take the animals to the best pastures), and when the herd comes to El Bruc their grazing is this job. In modern times, this job is usually done by the municipal brigade with chainsaws and string trimmers, but Daniel's herd can do it just as well. It consists of 150 sheep, 130 goats, 4 dogs and 1 donkey, as well as the shepherd himself. Grazing in this area, they keep the vegetation to a controlled level, making it safer and reducing the chances of a wildfire.

Shepherding and grazing have been used in this way for millennia, uninterruptedly in many places, and now a few urban areas like El Bruc are joining again in what is being called "silvopasture". Grazing in urban areas is more demanding for the shepherd, because he has to be careful with cars, domestic animals, and neighbours, but in the end it is a mutually-beneficial arrangement.

Daniel shares snippets of his job in his Instagram account Happyxais.savall.

[missanthropicprinciple]

He's like, "ok fair, we do kinda give off that vibe."

“Are you not the undertakers?”