#Carruthers

[sherlockianscholar]

the solitary cyclist from the canon, in my opinion and acd's, is not the greatest work among doyle's repetoire. but i would like to call to your attention one point that has needled me since i first read this story.

violet (yes, one of the six violets in the canon) smith takes on a live-in music teaching position in the country for her un-married employers' (carruthers) ten year old daughter. the daughter is mentioned once in the entire story, during violet's exposition at 221b. violet goes back to the country with no further mention of the girl. after the ruckus and holmes/watson's intervention, carruthers and the others get arrested and taken to jail. off the father goes without making any inquiry into the fate of his daughter nor does violet comment on it.

now the granada episode (which i'm rather fond of) seals up this plot hole, simply and sweetly, by having violet and her soon-to-be husband look after the daughter while her father's in jail. but that doesn't happen in the story. which leads me to wonder...considering the lack of attention by violet or carruthers, did she run away or die (i say, very tongue in cheek)? did carruthers just say fuck them kids and abandon her?

or my personal favorite, did he hire a random 10 year old girl for this express purpose? given the absolute chaos and ever-unfolding half-baked schemes concocted by every member of carruthers and co, i can imagine those men coming up with something that ridiculous.

acd makes a lot of mistakes and slip-ups in the canon, but honestly, if i could ask him one question, this stupid pedantic detail would be high on the list.

[fuzzkaizer]

Carruthers - DYNA-SOAR

"... Not sure where the name "Carruthers" comes from, but they're the faceless builder that's associated with the infamous Dyna-Soar fuzz (from the early 80s). Most notably used by @kimletgordon , the original Dyna-Soar is a super heavy, sludgy Big Muff clone of sorts. The "Lite" version, which I've had for over a decade, is essentially the same circuit but with a strange configuration of the transistors that make it sound more like a chunky overdrive than a fuzz. Interestingly enough, the one I have was modded by the previous owner back into its original Muffy glory! So I had been waiting and searching for nearly 13 years to find an actual Dyna-Soar to compare it to, and finally last week I nabbed one. 😎 Both are pretty intense with the amount of gain that's available. The only other Muff style pedal that comes close would be the Maxon OD-801. The modded "Lite" I have is oddly articulate, even at the highest gain setting, but still punishing. While the regular Dyna-Soar has a mountain of low-end that can dooooooom for eons..."

cred: instagram.com/ed_skymall

[eirinstiva]

“A war of wits, and not of duck-guns”

Arriving unfashionable late to the party again, but I'm trying to keep my post on time. Let's see what Carruthers told us in the 14th chapter of The Riddle of the Sands.

A low line of sandhills, pink and fawn in the setting sun, at one end of them a little white village huddled round the base of a massive four-square lighthouse—such was Wangeroog, the easternmost of the Frisian Islands, as I saw it on the evening of October 15. 

So Carruthers has been on this adventure for almost a month since he received Davies's letter.

It was the first time I and Davies had been separated for so long; yet so used had we grown to freedom from interference that this would not have disturbed me in the least were it not for a sudden presentiment that on this first night of the second stage of our labours something would happen. 

Oh no...

All at once I heard a sound outside, a splashing footstep as of a man stepping in a puddle. I was wide awake in an instant, but never thought of shouting “Is that you, Davies?” for I knew in a flash that it was not he. It was the slip of a stealthy man.

The match went out, and footsteps were audible again. Then a strong, guttural voice called in German, “Yacht ahoy!” I kept silence. “Yacht ahoy!” a little louder this time. A pause, and then a vibration of the hull as boots scraped on it and hands grasped the gunwale. My visitor was on deck.

AHHHH!!!!! BE CAREFUL, CARRUTHERS!!!

All I thought of was Davies’s last words, and saw him astray on the sands, with no light to guide him back, the tide rising, and a heavy load. (...) A long step and a grab at the ladder, but just too late! I grasped something damp and greasy, there was tugging and hard breathing, and I was left clasping a big sea-boot, whose owner I heard jump on to the sand and run. 

I find cute that even when he was the one in danger, Carruthers was worried about Davies. Now them can go in search of the owner of the boot! (It didn't work but at least he tried.)

Nor did I. In spite of my blundering in details, I welcomed the incident as the first concrete proof that the object of our quest was no mare’s nest. The next point was what was the visitor’s object? If to search, what would he have found? “The charts, of course, with all our corrections and notes, and the log. They’d give us away,” was Davies’s instant conclusion. Not having his faith in the channel theory, I was lukewarm about his precious charts.

Danger is following them and they need to take some decisions. It's good idea to protect the diaries and all the notes and maps that look suspicious.

Siel means either a sewer or a sluice, the latter probably in this case, for I noticed that each village stood at the outlet of a little stream which evidently carried off the drainage of the lowlands behind. A sluice, or lock, would be necessary at the mouth, for at high tide the land is below the level of the sea. Looking next at the sands outside, I noticed that across them and towards each outlet a line of booms was marked, showing that there was some sort of tidal approach to the village, evidently formed by the scour of the little stream.

In moments like this I need a nautical dictionary like this one:

Even after this experience Davies and Carruthers are ready to continue with their adventure, spying on a spy.

Until the next letter!

[literallywhyamidoingthis]

Things heard in my philosophy a-level class:

"I've slammed Descartes like three times in this essay already..."

"I always imagine Hume coming in on a skateboard, wearing sunglasses."

"I was explaining intuition and deduction thesis to my mum and now she hates Descartes."

"I actually liked Aristotle until he said that only white, male philosophers can flourish."

"... the evil demon, a.k.a. Mr. Phillippou, ..." [an ex-philosophy teacher of our school]

The teacher: "left-handed people are superior. I tried to force my kids to be left-handed when they were learning to write..."

"Descartes pisses me the fuck off."

"... G. E. Moore, a.k.a. G. E. Awful, ..."

"I love error theory. It just says that everyone is wrong all the time."

"What's that guy in the Gettier example with the barns called?" "Barney." "No, no, it's Henry." "Wait, Henry? I thought it was Harry!"

"I always remember that name because my great aunt named her pet rabbit 'Carruthers'."

"But the concept of infinity doesn't make sense!" "Well, according to Georg Cantor's set theory, it does." "What even is set theory, then?" "Don't even go there. You don't need to know, so just don't ask."

"Onto and Teleo are okay, but I just can't with Cosmo. Don't even get me started on Aquinas' ways..."

"Eschatological verification is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. No offence to Hick or anything..."

"Do you think Richard Hare's friends ever called him 'Dick Hair'?"

"I don't understand how some people can even doubt qualia..."

"P-zombies freak me out."

"So you'd be willing to concede that if everyone in China had walkie-talkies, they'd be considered a mind?" "... I mean, yeah. Why not?" "You're not supposed to say yes!"

[fake-80s-yaoi]

so i'm watching never too young to die (cuz of gene simmons lol) and i think i found a lil stranger things easter egg....

danja deering's license plate in never too young to die!! which i think reads 'ITCE-4....' and then some other numbers… i see a ‘6’ and maybe a ‘5’ or an ‘S…’

billy's license plate in stranger things!!! which reads, as u can probably see, 'PCE 235.' both are blue and yellow californian license plates and both have a 'CE' in the beginning

but if that’s not enough 2 convince u, here’s the real evidence: the main character in never too young to die's last name is "stargrove" and billy's last name is "hargrove"

coincidence???? i think not

[giftideasfromaycaramba]

Relax

[clancarruthers]

HISTORY OF CARATACUS - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF CARATACUS   The ancient sources containing information about the Roman campaigns inBritannia in the 1st century, the time of Caratacus, are limited. By closely reading Roman histories, a few other textual sources, and archeology, such as coins, historians have been able to create a plausible historical timeline. Though the work of ancient historians always involves some…

[charlybird]

lol more outlaw Alden

[h0ndayota]

I love how no matter the fic, it's an unwritten rule in this fandom that if you need a homophobic side character for Plot™️, or an annoyingly confident guy who is down bad for Adam, Tad Carruthers is your guy

[secretsofthewilde]

Deadloch textposts

[pecquacti]

badlands (1973) post

[visucene]

[louisbxne]

AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)

[eirinstiva]

"The machinery of State would not suffer from my absence; excuses would have to be made, and the results braved."

Carruthers. The Riddle of the Sands, chapter 13: The Meaning of Our Work

[arthursfuckinghat]

Arthur Morgan thinks he's an ugly old fool yet he had not only women falling for him, but even the funny little station clerk in Rhodes that literally fell for him on the spot