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open-era · 1 year ago

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Sherlock Holmes: An Inspiration to Creators Across Media

🕵️‍♂️🔍 Sherlock Holmes: The eternal detective who's not just a character but a cultural icon! From pages to screens, he's left an indelible mark on our imaginations. Explore how his brilliance continues to inspire and intrigue across generations!

Imagine a character so clever, so intriguing, that people from all around the world still can’t get enough of him, even after more than a century. That’s Sherlock Holmes for you! He’s not just a detective in books; he’s a legend that’s woven into our culture. You see, Sherlock Holmes started as words on a page, but he didn’t stop there. He stepped out of books and into our lives, becoming a…

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#Arthur Conan Doyle #BBC #British #Classic Entertainment #Cultural Legacy #Hollywood #Media #Pop Culture #Queen Victoria #Sherlock Holmes #Warner Bros

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humming-fly · 8 days ago

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was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

#just another tally added to the board of reasons it's hard to imagine any of these guys ever entertaining guests 👍#the trickiest part of this gag was trying to think of who would ever visit these guys lmao #not the most social of butterflies this group #sth #rouge the bat #amy rose #shadow the hedgehog #e123 omega #team dark #comic #my art #doodles #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #is that really the general tag that gets used? which one of these 3 is the main one here a;sldkjf #anyways first time drawing amy!#I like her funny little shark fin from her classic design

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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gent-illmatic · 3 months ago

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Goated🐐

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sheikfangirl · 7 months ago

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Zelink Week Day 4 - Enchantment

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Zelda II: A game about focus, commitment, sheer will... and love!

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bergoose · 3 months ago

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let’s think things through before we say them ryan

#ryan bergara #watcher #watcher entertainment #ghost files #ghost files spoilers #ghost files s3 ep5 #watcher tv #shane madej #classic ryan #my little sister said this btw #🤨 ryan #vee talks

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ghostellie · 7 months ago

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Looking through old articles & forums about Formula 1 might be my new favorite pastime

#i find it more entertaining than i should #gerhard berger #ayrton senna #classic f1 #michael schumacher #jenson button #kimi raikkonen #danica patrick #james hunt #jim clark #my post #f1 memes #formula 1 #f1 #olivier panis #ralf schumacher

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artthatgivesmefeelings · 2 months ago

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Marianne Stokes (English, 1855-1927) Angels Entertaining the Holy Child, 1893

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videogamesskies · 6 months ago

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Star Fox (Super Nintendo) (1993-1995)

#star fox #super nintendo entertainment system #super nes #starwing #snes #super famicom #nintendo #classic gaming

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theskyisthelimit06 · 5 months ago

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POV: It's the night in the hotel during the 1982 Drivers Strike

#huge tw to pelson niquet bcos who tf bailed him out of jail time???#also honorable mention to bruno (jack o'malley) giacomelli for dismembering an ak-47 snd putting it back in to entertain drivers #and teo fabi.... fabi when i catch u fabi. fabi!!!#that's all 🥰🥰#didier pironi #niki lauda #alain prost #gilles villeneuve #nelson piquet #elio de angelis #bruno giacomelli #teo fabi #1982 drivers' strike #classic f1 #f1 #formula 1 #vintage f1 #incorrect f1 quotes #f1 memes

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idontmindifuforgetme · 8 months ago

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Just a girl who wants to be her mother’s daughter in the ways that matter

#Such a tenacious go getter & the smartest woman ik #Has NEVER looked back at a man twice. Knows she’s beautiful & that attention is guaranteed. Never desperate for male validation ever #The best fashion sense ik. She’s the epitome of classic & vintage #Doesn’t gaf what others are doing / is always tunnel visioned on her own goals #A mega workaholic and like. Maybe I’d rather balance but still she’s still an overachiever #I feel im becoming more and more like her by the day but still I have some work to do #Need to be more focused & to stop entertaining little boys fr #I just want to move w the unshackling confidence & elegance she seems to emanate effortlessly #I swear that woman was born that way!!!! So unfair for the rest of us mortals #Why does no one talk about the psychological torture that comes w having a naturally gorgeous genius mother #I’m dying over here I just wanna be like her but im pushing that boulder up the hill all the time #Meanwhile she’s always just On #HOW #Just an eldest daughter having a crisis about her mother who is also #The eldest daughter out of her and her two brothers #I need to journal about this I need to meditate #How to manufacture the drive that your mother was simply endowed with at birth #Not even joking I just got off my internship and now im sitting on a swing under the late May sun having a crisis about this

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acquired-stardust · 6 months ago

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Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! Nintendo Entertainment System 1987

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politicalprocrastinator · 8 months ago

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Anyway rewatching pyramids of mars and it's just making me more annoyed at the Sarah Jane was in love with the doctor retcon they're autistic/ADHD besties that are never really listening to each other just yapping and vibing about the universe

#sarah jane does not want to fuck that old man she just wants to be entertained by a new investigation and wreak bisexuality on everyone #dw #doctor who #dw spoilers #classic who

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toyastales · 4 months ago

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I like how they blended a variety of design styles to make one cohesive space.

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entertainment · 1 year ago

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Spotlight | Drive with Swizz Beatz

Direct to your dashboard: automobile aficionado father son duo Swizz Beatz and Nasir Dean discuss car culture, music, and road trip memories. Catch Drive with Swizz Beatz on Hulu.

#entertainment spotlight #swizz beatz #nasir dean #drive with swizz beatz #cars #classic cars

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countesspetofi · 13 days ago

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, DeForest Kelley guest stars in "Death in the Forest," episode 39 of the third season of The Lone Ranger (original air date June 4, 1953).

Kelley plays a gruff country doctor (typecasting!). When his patient, who overheard a plot to assassinate the territorial governor, is mysteriously killed, he believes the Lone Ranger is the killer and part of the conspiracy. His friend the sheriff deputizes him to join the manhunt.

This would be De's last appearance on The Lone Ranger, and it occurred during the season when star Clayton Moore was let go during a contract dispute and replaced by John Hart. Producers thought the audience wouldn't know or care what actor was behind the mask, but they thought wrong. Nobody likes a scab, and by the end of the season (can you imagine a thirty-nine-episode season today?) they figured the salary increase Moore was asking for didn't stack up against potential lost revenue from their big money-making hit becoming a flop. He returned the following season, and stayed in the role until the famous court case of 1979.

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #the lone ranger #1960s tv #1950s tv #tv sci fi #tv westerns #deforest kelley #clayton moore #john hart #classic tv #entertainment law

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