#THEIR VOWS BEING FALSE IS GOING TO BE MY 13TH REASON

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Hi im totally fine after this . yeah

Inspired by this post!

Ty to @frazzledazzlin for making me feel really normal about old stickmen. all the time

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A(N  ESTIMATED )  TIMELINE  FOR  SHERLOCK 

PLEASE NOTE: John’s Blog and the show contradict each other at times, in these cases, the show will be taken as canon. In times where the show contradicts itself, if other media cannot solve the mix up, then estimates based on what makes the most real world sense will be used to find an answer.

ADDITIONALLY: I don’t want to get flooded with everyone's headcanons for things where estimates had to be made; but i greatly welcome canon information that might have been missed or ( ie: The Game is Now Escape Room ) have been unable to experience. I also do not consider interviews with cast and crew as reliable sources for the most part, as these answers have also changed throughout the years. It will only be given consideration if nothing else contradicts it and was said without the air of taking the mickey out of us as many interactions with fans have. They like to say things just to get us going. So I consider this less of a word of god and more of a word of the clown.

BIRTHDATES

DATES OF MAJOR EVENTS

NOTES

TL;DR

SOURCES

THIS VERSION IS THE REBLOG FRIENDLY VERSION OF A TIMELINE MADE ON MY OTHER BLOG ( SEE TAGS )

BIRTHDATES:

SHERLOCK HOLMES: January 6th, 1981 ( stated in The Casebook ); making him younger than the actor playing him. However, this does conflict slightly as Sherlock states he was nine years old when Carl Powers drowned, and the article claims it was in 1989, which places his birth in 1980 instead. This was before they gave Sherlock a canonical birthdate in any media, however, and for the purposes of this, we’ll be using the casebook age, and claiming Sherlock was either rounding or misremembering due to the fact his childhood memories are not entirely factual. Additionally, the headstone image shown in The Sherlock Chronicles says 1977, but the previous date is the one considered to be Canon. ( See Notes )

JOHN WATSON: unknown, but somewhere in the 70′s. A popular fandate is March 30th. Judging off of the actor’s age, possibly around 1971, but maybe younger as many actors are playing younger than themselves.

MYCROFT HOLMES: Exact date unknown, but he is seven years older than Sherlock, which puts him to be born around 1973-1974. Which makes him canonically younger than the actor playing him.  02/25/19 EDIT: According to sources, Mycroft is given a birthdate in the Escape Room based on the series, October 20th, 1968. While the October date works fine, year for this doesn't fit the "Seven Years Older" claim on the show. The oldest birth date given for Sherlock is 1977 and that would make Mycroft nine years older than Sherlock, not seven. The year given falls closer to Mark Gatiss' actual age, and leaves me inclined to think that perhaps year for the game isn't entirely factual. That being said, there's still no reason he couldn't have been born October 20th. Based on the "Seven Years Older" claim, stated in show, the best guess is October 20th, 1974.

EURUS HOLMES: Exact date unknown, but she is a year younger than Sherlock, which makes her born somewhere in 1982-1983 depending on when she was conceived. 

MARY WATSON: Unknown, but based on the actress’ age, likely 1974;  but maybe younger as many actors are playing younger than themselves. 

ROSAMUND “ROSIE” WATSON: January 2015. We can infer this because based on how far along Mary was at her wedding, Rosie would have been conceived Mid-April, and if she was relatively ontime, she’d be born late January. 

DATES OF NOTE:

REDBEARD / THE MUSGRAVE FIRE: Between 1988-1989 roughly; there is no clear indication on the show as to when these events took place. We can only summarize based on what we know about other events. We know that Sherlock "began" solving crimes at age nine ( see below ) due to Carl Powers; and we know that Sherlock had to be younger than ten years old during the events told in The Final Problem. Assuming that the tragic events of Carl Powers triggered something in him, making him take extra notice due to his own past experiences with Eurus and Victor; but still allowing time for all the events to take place and enough time to have passed for Sherlock to have rewritten the story so completely in his head where he can be suspicious but not fully triggered; I'd place him as seven or eight during these events.

THE CARL POWERS DEATH: 1990

*see notes for Sherlock’s birthday

UNIVERSITY: Sherlock attended the same school as Sebastian Wilkes in the early 2000s. Exact years, and if they were at school for the same duration of time is unknown; but he last saw the man roughly eight years ( if Wilkes can be trusted for accuracy ) prior to The Blind Banker, which would be somewhere in 2002/2003

SHERLOCK AND JOHN’S FIRST MEETING: January 29, 2010

CASE: A STUDY IN PINK: January 30th, 2010

CASE: THE BLIND BANKER: March 23rd-March 27th; inferred by Sherlock deducting the incorrect date on Wilkes’ watch and the on-screen passage of time.

Sherlock traveled to and from Minsk sometime between the events of The Blind Banker and The Great Game; based on the dates given, as well as the close air dates of the two episodes, it’s to be believed that Sherlock left and returned from Minsk on March 28th. This is also made plausible due to the funding Sherlock seems to have for himself, his impatience and the fact that it is a three hour flight each way. 

BAKER STREET BOMBING: March 28th; evening

CASE: THE GREAT GAME: March 29 - April 1st; we know this based on both the blog posts and Sherlock updating his website with the case answers. However, the blog post was edited from the original date of April 6th after it’s initial publication. The reason for this is unknown.

DURATION OF SERIES ONE: January 29th, 2010 - March 29th, 2010: three months exactly.

MISC: John and Sarah go to New Zealand for a week and breakup ( April 2010 )

TRIP TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE ( A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA ): September 15th, 2010

IRENE MEETING: September 15, 2010

BAKER STREET CHRISTMAS PARTY: December 25th 2010  

IDENTIFYING IRENE’S BODY: December 25th, 2010 

IRENE REVEALS SHE’S ALIVE: December 31st, 2010

JOHN PUBLISHES THE CASE: March 12th, 2011;

We don’t know the exact amount of time transpiring between New Years Eve and this point. Based on his track record, it’s likely January 15th is meant to be the date that Sherlock is told Irene is in Witness protection ( John seems to publish immediately, regardless of how tasteful it might be to reveal details of recent cases ). This gap would cover everything from Irene arriving at Baker Street, Sherlock going to the airfield, him beating Irene at the game, and saving her in Karachi. It’s likely, considering how erratic Sherlock is by early March with no cases, that the day John tells Sherlock the lie, is around late January / early February. Allowing Sherlock enough time to have done all of this as well as get riled up in time for Baskerville, which had to have occured before March 16th

CASE: THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE: Early March 2011; by best estimates given as John doesn’t take too long to post his accounts of the events, and he had already finished typing up the case prior.

BASKERVILLE CASE POSTED: March 16th, 2011. This is also the same date Moriarty hacks John’s blog with a video of him inside of their flat. Suggesting he’s already free from his interrogation shown at the end of The Hounds of Baskerville.

The dates surrounding Sherlock’s death and The Reichenbach Fall are highly questionable as the episode, the blog, and logistics for certain events all contradict each other. Joe Lidster, who wrote John’s real world blog, has comically said that Moriarty hacking the blog gave it a virus that messed with the dating system, as a tongue in cheek explanation. Meaning if we were to take that as fact, all the dates in the blog could be false. The newspapers shown in the episode, have dates that suggest different things. I’ve chosen the one which makes the most sense, based on the news reel clip on John’s blog, the statement that he went to therapy three months later, the school holiday schedule for the abduction of the Ambassador’s children and several other people’s attempts to sort this all out. An alternative version can be found here.

MORIARTY’S ROBBERIES: Late March, by best guess. Possibly a bit earlier.

MORIARTY’S TRIAL / RELEASE: April 2011

MORIARTY’S PLAN TO RUIN SHERLOCK: June 12-June 14th, 2011

MORIARTY COMMITS SUICIDE / SHERLOCK FAKES HIS: June 14th/15th; the 15th is the more commonly believed date.

JOHN CONFIRMS ON HIS BLOG: June 16th, 2011

JOHN VISITS SHERLOCK’S GRAVE: Mid/Late June 2011

TOTAL SERIES TWO DURATION: March 29th, 2010 ( The Pool ) - June 2011. Fifteen Months / One Year and Three Months

SHERLOCK DISMANTLES MORIARTY’S NETWORK: June 2011 - Late October / Early November 2013

MARY MAKES HER FIRST COMMENT ON JOHN’S BLOG: April 20th, 2013

JOHN POSTS OLD CASES: April 2013 - October 5th, 2013

WEBISODE ( MANY HAPPY RETURNS ): October 5th, 2013

SHERLOCK RETURNS: Late October / Early November 2013

JOHN ALMOST BURNED ALIVE: Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th, 2013

CASE: THE EMPTY HEARSE / #SHERLOCK LIVES: November 7th, 2013

JOHN AND SHERLOCK’S VARIOUS CASES: November 2013 - May 2014

Another case of Blog vs Screen; John and Mary’s wedding invites are shown throughout The Sign of Three with the date May 13th, while John’s blog states it was in August. The blog is deemed incorrect in this case, as well as his entries about the cases Sherlock reads at the Wedding

ROSIE WATSON IS CONCEIVED: Mid April 2014

JOHN AND MARY’S WEDDING: May 13th, 2014; ( see above note about The Sign of Three )

His Last Vow has the opposite problem as the series finale prior, in which next to no dates are given. We only know the dates at the end of the episode. Just that the events of John getting restless, Sherlock using again, Magnussen visiting, Sherlock being shot, Sherlock leaving early to confront Mary, Sherlock leaving to confront Magnussen, John confronting Mary, Sherlock being taken to Hospital again and being released all happen between May 13th and December 25th, 2014. It can take a couple months for gunshot victims to be released from Hospital, depending on the severity. Applying Mycroft Rules and Television Rules we know that Sherlock likely didn’t stay the time a regular patient would have. Knowing Sherlock he would have wanted out as soon as possible. We know John and Mary were at odds for a bit, reconciling on Christmas. Plus there needed to be time for Sherlock to fake date Janine, John to reach the level of restlessness there was and get Charles’ attention. So these next few dates are estimates. The majority of the scenes shown in episode are out of order and happen in two time periods, before Mary’s revealed and Christmas Day. 

JOHN BREAKS INTO THE DRUG DEN / MAGNUSSEN VISITING BAKER STREET: September / October 2014

SHERLOCK GETTING SHOT:  September / October 2014

SHERLOCK SNEAKING OUT OF HOSPITAL TO MEET MAGNUSSEN AND MARY:  Early/Mid October 2014; presuming based on deleted scenes depicting a Sherlock who was unable to move for a while in recovery that this was maybe days or weeks later when it was deemed safe to wake him up from medically induced coma.

JOHN CONFRONTING MARY: October 2014 ( same day as above )

SHERLOCK RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL: Mid-December 2014, inferred by how the family and friends act as if it was more recent while at the Holmes’ family home.

SHERLOCK SHOOTS MAGNUSSEN: December 25th, 2014

SHERLOCK BOARDS THE PLANE / MORIARTY’S VIDEO GOES LIVE: December 31st, 2014 / January 2nd, 2015; the show itself provides two different accounts of this. Mycroft states in His Last Vow, that Sherlock was in holding for a week, placing the scene at the tarmac in Early January 2015; however, the introduction to The Abominable Bride places the scene with onscreen text in 2014 still. The only way both can be remotely accurate is if Mycroft is rounding up, and it’s December 31st, 2014.

DURATION OF SERIES THREE: Fall 2013 - Winter 2014;  just over one calendar year.

CASE: THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE ( REAL WORLD ): December 31st, 2014 / January 2nd, 2015 ( see above )

The first scene of The Six Thatchers, along with the real world scenes of The Abominable Bride and the final scenes of His Last Vow are the same day.

SHERLOCK IS ACQUITTED OF CRIMES:  December 31st, 2014 / January 2nd, 2015 ( see above )

ROSIE WATSON IS BORN: Mid/Late January 2015, assuming she was relatively on time.

ROSIE WATSON’S BAPTISM: March / April 2015; based on many modern traditions, the baby’s age and the style of clothing worn by the attendees.

The Six Thatchers covers the majority of one calendar year, no exact dates are given but we can surmise things based on the shown development of Rosie Watson ( whom we know to be a year old by the end of The Final Problem ). Rosie is shown to have full head support and movement before Mary dies, which is something that happens around six months. This would mean Mary’s still alive around June 2015. Allowing for time in which Mary is on the lam, leading to the aquarium, the following are my best guesses for events.

MARY IS MISSING: Summer 2015 ( how long she was gone for is unclear )

MARY IS BACK IN LONDON: September 2015

NORBURY SHOOTS MARY: October 2015

SHERLOCK RECEIVES MARY’S VIDEO / JOHN’S LETTER: Late October. 2015 / Possibly Early November 2015 

CASE: THE LYING DETECTIVE: Possibly Mid-December 2015 / Early January 2016

Another case of ‘we don’t know how long’; we know Sherlock returns from hospital on his birthday, but the dates in between are unclear. Nor do we know how long John and Sherlock didn’t speak for. Sherlock would have needed a major detox, as well as treatment for his injuries. Based on the timeframe, it’s unlikely he attended any form of inpatient rehab outside of whatever the hospital had on location due to his injuries. Possibly due to either Mycroft pulling strings, or the more likely, Sherlock refusing and signing himself out when able.

We also know that the jump from The Lying Detective and The Final Problem can’t be too long. Even though Sherlock has had a magical recovery from all ailments between episodes, it’s extremely unlikely that John sat on the ‘I was almost killed by your secret sister’ tidbit for a few weeks. Meaning these episodes likely happen very shortly after one another. It also feels unlikely that Eurus would make herself known to John and then wait weeks/months to then begin acting out again once the secret was revealed.

JOHN AND SHERLOCK’S REUNITING: January 6th, 2016

JOHN’S FINAL THERAPY SESSION WITH EURUS: Somewhere between January 6th - January 13th 2016; assuming he went about once a week.

CASE: THE FINAL PROBLEM: January 13th, 2015 - January 20th, 2016; presuming John was able to tell Sherlock after ( not knowing how long he was knocked out for ); and allowing Sherlock and John some time to figure out their next move. This would also cover the attack on Baker Street and the entire event on Sherrinford Island.

ROSIE WATSON’S FIRST BIRTHDAY: Mid/Late January, 2016

OTHER NOTES:

The Entire Series spans six years.

The Sherlock Timeline runs one year behind real world time, with the show’s episodes in universe during 2016, aired in January 2017

Sherlock Holmes would be 29 in A Study In Pink, and 35 by The Final Problem based on the Casebook date. 30 and 36 by The Carl Powers age. and 33 and 39 by The Sherlock Chronicles age. All would make him younger than Benedict Cumberbatch, born 1976.

An incorrect headstone, as seen in The Sherlock Chronicles would make sense with the fact that until The Lying Detective, John states he never knew his birthdate. Which, had his tombstone had it, would make little sense. Providing an in universe reason for this odd lack of knowledge on John’s part. Perhaps John merely guessed? Maybe Mycroft knew he wouldn’t want it known, so they put a fake date? Especially as Mycroft knew he was alive. Otherwise, this is just another plot inconsistency  --- which, I’m getting quite tired of. 

We don’t know when Mary and John first met, but we can infer they’ve known each other about a year from dialogue in The Six Thatchers when John is attempting to propose.

Alternate timelines surrounding The Reichenbach Fall sometimes claim the following dates: Sherlock Testifies: May 9th, 2011; Moriarty is freed and visits 221B: September 20th, 2011; The Kidnapping: November 19th, 2011; Sherlock Falls: November 20th, 2011. This comes from a couple on screen newspaper clippings; but they are contradictory to the stated three month interval stated. It’s up to fans to decide which version they feel is more accurate.

More of a musing, but it’s kind of interesting how many times John immediately runs to the internet to share the details of really recent cases fresh in the public’s mind; in contrast to Watson’s monologue in The Abominable Bride about how careful he is to avoid doing that very thing. Which is even funnier if you view it through the long standing canon lens of John is an Unreliable Narrator

TL;DR:

SERIES ONE: January 29th, 2010 - March 29th, 2010

SERIES TWO: March 29th, 2010 - June 15th, 2011 

SERIES THREE: November 2013 - December 2014

SERIES FOUR: December 2014 - January 2016

WEBISODE: October 10th, 2013

SPECIAL: December 2014

SOURCES:

AO3 META  /  SHERLOCKOLOGY / JOHN’S BLOG / SHERLOCK ( WIKIPEDIA ) / THENORWOODBUILDER @ TUMBLR / BAKER STREET WIKIA / SHERLOCK FAN FORUMS /  THE CASEBOOK ( BUY / FACTS ) / THE SHERLOCK CHRONICLES  / MOLLY’S BLOG / SHERLOCK’S WEBSITE ( official site no longer live, information reposted from various sites listed above ) / CONNIE PRINCE WEBSITE / SHERLOCK: THE GAME IS NOW 

[bomberlandia]

Anatomy of the Bombers’ Lost Season

Heading into the 2020 season, the Bombers had two main areas they wanted to see progress in: Hitting the scoreboard more and tightening up on defence. Playing finals wasn’t a guarantee but no-one would have been surprised if Essendon made them. But the concern was: could the Bombers actually win a final if they made it?

Sitting here now after a 6-10-1 year it’s going to be riveting to see how the next few weeks play out with trades, who stays, who leaves, and to see how the club handles the external pressure throughout pre-season. If, internally, they can stick together, that’s surely a good sign that their culture is on the right path. If they don’t, it will make life hard to be as successful as they can be in 2021 if they are fractured.  

For the record: for a team that believed they could hit the scoreboard more this year, and defend, they’ve gone backwards. In 2020 the Bombers averaged 55 points per game, and gave up 69 points per game. Offensively that made them the 14th best attack in the AFL. In 2019, they were ranked 13th, ninth in 2018 and third in 2017. Defensively, they were the third worst in 2020, and between 2017 -2019 they have hovered around being the seventh and eighth worst team.

“The Essendon playing group have been through two massive transitions in my short time at the football club,” said outgoing head coach John Worsfold. “I also believe really strongly in these young men I know so well. I respect there will be those who don’t share my confidence. The future will reveal the reality.”

Right now all eyes are on Essendon and what the future brings. This year felt like halted progress and fell well short of what their best can look like. There’s talent on their list.  But most of this season was hard to watch, like a sputtering motor that never really got going.

Essendon started the new year with 15 players undergoing postseason surgery and then injuries sprouted everywhere. Dyson Heppell. Cale Hooker. Orazio Fantasia. Patrick Ambrose. Joe Daniher was months away from joining the team.  Tall forward James Stewart hadn’t played since R11, 2018. New recruits Tom Cutler and Jacob Townsend  arrived with a wait-and-see feeling. Aging defensive duo Hooker and Hurley were 31 and 30 respectively. There were more questions than answers for the Bombers.

Even with a 5-2 start no-one was convinced that this was the year the Bombers won their first final in 16 years. They scraped home against the Dockers by a goal after leading by 26 at three-quarter time. They beat a rebuilding Swans team by the same margin. They lost to the Blues by one point but were outgunned, with Carlton putting up 17 scoring shots to 11. The Collingwood win was impressive but then they limped to a 14-point win over a fairly weak Roos unit. Throughout the cluster of the early games there were warning signs the Bombers had problems, going through periods where pressure fell away, lost momentum and made mistakes that cost them goals. The good was short-lived and electrifying. The bad was agonizing to watch.

In between all of those games, Conor McKenna had a false positive COVID-19 test which suspended the Bombers-Demons match and sent football media into meltdown. Jake Stringer went down with syndesmosis after leading the Bombers to an uplifting win over Collingwood. And the global pandemic hit, forcing the round two restart to kick off June 11. But that’s as good as it got for the Bombers. From their last 10 games they netted just one more win against another rebuilding team, the Hawks – and that win took a miracle comeback from 36 points down at half time.

*

This year was meant to be a foot forward. It was believed widley that the Bombers had enough good working parts to play finals football and potentially win a final. But it didn’t go as planned. The Bombers lacked consistency. They ambitiously tried to take on a new game plan. The lack of forward personnel made kicking goals harder than it should’ve been – inside their 50 became a disaster zone. And while the backline stood strong under intense pressure and repeat entries, they just weren’t able to withstand the volume of entries for long periods. But never did the Bombers look like a real contender or threat.

The numbers from this year help explain Essendon’s story. They were ranked 17th for contested ball, which is a gap they still haven’t filled – and vowed to – since the 2017 Elimination Final loss to the Swans. Not since Jobe Watson and tagger Heath Hocking has Essendon had bulk inside the contest. Kyle Langford is still maturing but was used in the forward line a lot more this year because of injuries. It’s clear they are missing some grunt and midfield depth and a guy that can rip open a game in three centre bounces.

Without a host of marking targets for large periods of the year – Daniher, Stewart, Hooker, Laverde – the Bombers were ranked 14th for marks. This was highlighted in the final game of the season against Melbourne, with the Demons owning a 117-79 statline. The Bombers were ranked 16th for hitouts which makes sense when you consider they were blooding a young Sam Draper fresh off an ACL ailment. And they were ranked fourth for clangers: If you watched the Bombers this year you would have seen simple mistakes under pressure that emerged into opposition goals.

In the hard fought losses the Bombers showed grit. They lost to the Blues by one, Giants by four, they drew with the Suns, lost to the Tigers by 12, Eagles by 15, and Demons by 19. But the common thread in most of these losses, they failed to score more than 10 goals which makes winning games that much harder without scoreboard pressure. Even when those games were hanging in the balance, something would fail – a 50m metre penalty goal, an errant handball goal, a kick down the line turned over by an intercept mark –  which was usually followed by a period of opposition dominance. It was like players were watching on trapped inside a glass box. And this is why they ended up with six wins this year: they weren’t good enough for long enough and went long periods just hanging in games.

Xavier Campbell said at the Crichton Medal: “We want to deliver our members the 17th premiership. We are committed to doing that as quickly as we can,” he said. “An uprising is defined as an act of resistance or rebellion, a revolt. Within this team, our players and staff, you can feel there is an uprising.”

The thing about what Campbell said is that the Bombers aren’t horrible. They’re not perennial wooden spooners. But they aren’t Richmond or Geelong. They don’t have forwards that kick 70-goal seasons. They haven’t won a final for almost two decades. They don’t get let off the hook for their 2020 season. They need to prove that they can be elite and match it with the Top Eight teams. They have talented individuals but they need to evolve into a talented team.

The Bombers didn’t get a whole lot out of Tom Cutler, nor Jacob Townsend this year. Cutler looked like he found it hard to get himself in the play. Townsend will be a better fit with a fully functionally forwardline – not the no.2 option. Guys like Clarke, Guelfi, Laverde, Redman all have another year to prove their worth. And then there’s the off-season trade chaos where Daniher, Fantasia and Saad could walk. It’s still early to know what the team is going to look like in 2021 or how many gaps might need filling. Rutten and Dodoro probably don’t know what that looks like either right now.

I felt there were a lot of actual reasons why the Bombers backfired this year – transition, injuries, new game plan, playing away from Melbourne, limited training etc. Yada, yada. Yes. We’ve heard all this ad nauseam. But the wolves are out for the Bombers. People keep saying the team isn’t feared, the midfield can’t compete, they lack passion and the club is drowning in mediocrity. The answer: all those things have defined the club since Sheedy was shown the door some 14 years ago and now it’s all being exposed. Since the supplements saga the Bombers have been playing catch up and have looked off-beat and a step behind the rest of the AFL.

Come next year with a full list, a whole pre-season under Rutten, and those actual reasons for not performing will start to sound like really poor excuses. And maybe they already do sound like excuses to some. But patience from the Bomber faithful is gone. Rutten and Campbell need to move the dial next year. They need to make the hard decisions between now and Round One to make sure the Bombers don’t have a repeat of 2020.

[minecraftrelatedrandomness]

July 30th: Aimsey's character intro:

"I'm alive for today, and that's what matters, right? I'm still alive, despite everything, I'm still alive. There's always one more adventure to do."

July 30th: Owen's character intro:

"Life is for the living! And being buttoned up prim and proper and placed in perfected poses is as much as being dead than the gallows."

July 31st: Michela:

"Just because people are bad doesn't mean you can't make sure that they're doing okay."

Oct 13th: Marnie (via letter):

"Not that you ever have to live up to anyone's expectations, but just know that you're always capable of going far beyond them."

Nov 22nd: Marnie (via recollection):

"Family is where you are most accepted and loved, whoever that may be with."

Dec 1st: Water's wedding vows:

"Not so long ago, I sailed these very Isles in search of a certain something — a muse, a passion, something to make my writing memorable. I wanted to write legacies. Truthfully, that was the only reason that I joined the Herons; if anybody needed to be near these great discoverers and adventurers, it had to be me. These discoveries could fuel my work in ways unimaginable. I was naïve to the truth — I needed to live a life worth writing about before I could ever put pen to paper about my dear friends. All I've ever dreamt of is having my works remembered. I wanted to be published, I wanted to string the perfect words together to form the stories of incredible captains and daring journeys.

Today, I find myself leaving the dreams of old behind, but if you remember me, then I don't care if the world forgets. Since the day we met, I knew I needed to know you. I wanted to hear your deepest thoughts. I wanted to listen to your poems and your songs. I would find excuses to walk through town just to see you and ask about your latest works. Your very presence was intoxicating to me. It still is. I hope the people who couldn't be here today will look down towards us from the stars and smile. We're blessed by the waves to have met and I can only hope that for the rest of the days, we will love each other just as we do now. I promise to love you forever, every day, of our slice of forever. A true love that is unending. Till death do us part."

Dec 2nd: Graecie:

"Just because you've given up on us doesn't mean that we're giving up on you. Got it?"

Dec 8th: Mahara (in flashback):

"The stars will always be there to guide you when you need them."

Dec 10th: Graecie:

"Every night, I'll look up and I'll see you in the stars and the freedom of the waves, the bravery of the other pirates… Every day, the moon will bring you to the highest point, and I will see you then."

Dec 10: Ivy:

"You could've spent the past millennia trying to fix me! But you didn't! You just sat here on your false throne built on lies."

Dec 10th: Ivy:

"Voyagers, thank you for… everything. For the longest time, I wasn't sure if I could trust the people of this land, but my familiar — 'Cruppy', as you call it? It's every bit of hope I had left in me — the one part of me that wasn't consumed by rage for those that wronged me. The Corruption won't stop. My anger is satiated, but it yearns to continue the cycle of– of hatred. I won't let it do that, if they needed carefree souls to stop me, and this small glimmer of joy I have left will be my gift… to you.

The Walls should crumble soon, without her magick to maintain them. Explore. Be free. And… please, be the good that I never got to see in the world."

Further recommendations for quote sources:

Many of the character lore streams and finales, VOD or episode

TBH I only kept in the "school" appropriate quotes (because my secondary school could have had my head if I quoted some of the darker quotes) and don't know how much your school can take; if your project allows for darker quotes, I can add some more depressing or evil/amoral quotes, depending on what kind you want

All quotes here are sourced from my transcripts for TV Tropes editing that I can get to on short notice

Hey idk if people are still following these tags but does anyone have any quotes from pirates smp?

[violetspokenstories]

Untold story - Nirbhau, without fear

“ Nirbhau” is what my mother used to say to me in any difficult situation and i always tell myself that everything will be alright in the end. I was born on year 1978 in Alampur, Punjab India. Being the eldest daughter in my family with six siblings three being my own blood related and other 3 step siblings. I held a big responsibility in my family doing every house chores especially after my mother death , I  was  15 years old when my mother passed away. It  was one of the hardest time in my life, I remember crying for months and months in her remembrance and due to at reason I couldn’t complete my education because i needed to support my family and look after my siblings.  However, I still have strong desire to read and write English. My father remarried in 1993, my stepmother treated me like her own daughter although I miss my mother everyday but my stepmother never treated me less than her.

Marriage

I was 20 years old when I first saw my husband Amar Singh. He came to my house with the proposal of marriage, we both were very shy to initiate any conversation that time because both our families were there and although it was an arranged marriage we both were very attracted to each other. I only saw him three times before i officially married him but I felt like he is the one already.At the first sight, i thought he was aloof. He looked very macho with big physique but later on he had a very flirtatious personality which lured me. Coming from a very strict punjabi family we weren't allowed to meet each other that often.

We fell in love after our marriage, he treated me like a queen and never made me feel unlovable. We settled down in Faridkot Punjab and my first son was born in 1998 September we named him Gaurav Singh. When i had my first child, everyone was very happy and delighted especially my brother-in-law and mother in law since he was the first son ever born in my in-laws family.  Gaurav is loved by everyone, he is a very quiet and obedient son. He listens to me the most and although all my children are equal I always feel like he has more pressure and responsibility than my other child's so, I feel a bit pitiful for him. My second child was born in 2000, Amrit Singh. He is the naughtiest kid of them all and especially adored by my husband. The whole house was filled with tricks and mischief veness by him and would simply hide behind husband back afterwards. My husband and my second son had the bond like Batman and Robin hood partner. One time Amrit pulled a prank on my mother-in law but at that time he couldn’t hide behind my husband because my husband is also scared of my mother-in law. My last child was born in 2002, Jaskaran Preet Singh, he is the most hardworking and studious son and took care of me the most. I lived the happiest days of my life with my loving husband and my three sons as a housewife I looked after my kids my entire marriage life while my husband worked. Then one day a my friend of mine came to my house to  discuss some work in Hong Kong and invited me to work there. Coming from a poor family with  all three sons studying and  with my husband being the only breadwinner it was hard  to meet the end costs. Therefore,  I was interested in the work and after discussion i decided to take in the offer and with the help of my husband i started preparing to work as a domestic worker in Hong Kong. Then my visa application was completed and i came to Delhi through bus and flew to Hong Kong.

Turning point of my life

My employer husband came to pick me up at the airport on 13th March 2016 and dismissed in 15th May,2016 , he was really nice as he treated me as his own sister. It was 9 in the morning when i arrived in my workplace and they told me to rest on the first day. Although i was homesick but i tried to pull myself together to work hard and support my family. Everything was going okay and until i asked for my salary. My employer Sumani Kaur would tell me she would pay me after 6 months of working. During the whole 2 months of working for her family she didn't give me any rest day and without my consent she said she send $10000 rupees to my family back in India through Western Union which later convert to $1,200 HKD and my family received this amount two times. So i had no income throughout work there. Whenever i asked about my full salary, she starts getting violent and act rigorously and physically hit me. She assaulted me twice, one in my foot with a stone and another punch in abdomen area but i didn’t attacked back. I told myself if i work hard for my family and then i can go through 2 years and earn some money for my family however I told my family about this matter of abuse. One day she send me to her sister's place to work and while taking care of the younger kid i forgot a small bag which had tissues and bottles in the bus. When i came back to my employer home she shouted at me before going to work and asked me to leave the house before she comes back. As she required me leave i left the house and stayed with Minnie a  friend in Tin shui wai which i knew her because we are from the same village.

Afterwards, my employer allegedly told my husband back in India that i am living with a characterless girl and brainwashed him with lies that i also have a boyfriend here and started spreading this absurd rumours about me to the whole village. My whole life was torn apart when own my husband started getting suspicious of me and stopped talking to me.

My whole life was shattered into pieces as he was far away from me and it killed my emotions everyday as he refused to talked to me, we ourselves remained silent. This started when I filed a case complaint against my employer with the help of Leo and Minnie. Minnie knew about my situation back in India and later on she used me. I thought Minnie was my friend until then i realized she was a selfish person who only lend her help because she borrowed money from my husband and only helped me as an act and didn’t pay back the money. There is only one thing i am grateful for Minnie, that is meeting Leo and Nami. Leo helped me to find a  shelter and lodge a case against my ex employer. 

I stopped staying with Minnie after a year and with the help of Leo, I met Nami. I was relieved she could understand my language and communicate well, after knowing my interest in English she taught me basic English and showed me the way to labour court, immigration and shelter and how to travel around Hong Kong. She is like a daughter i always wished to have, Leo and Nami is like my saviour whom I am very much thankful for and with Leo and Nami’s help, we proceed the criminal case as well as labour case. In Hong Kong, I couldn’t trust anyone but these two reminded me that there are good people too.

I had to stay in Hong Kong due to the case process but situation back in India was getting worse every day as my employer's father-in-law lives nearby my house in India started to threaten my husband and my family to kill them if i did not return back the case against his son and daughter in-law. As of my information, he came to my house 3 times in India to verbally threaten to kill him and also threatened me to kill me if i come back in India sooner or later. Things got worse and my husband's health was getting poor everyday due to this issue and started getting stress and soon he was found dead.

In that moment everything changed, i still get flashbacks of that moment and it still shatters my soul. My husband was found dead on 9th March 2017 at 7 a.m India time zone, he was found near the river area. On that day, i became a widow with backlash of characterless name attached to me. Everyone blamed me for his death even my own three son stopped talking to me. My husband brother reported to the police about my husband’s death but the police didn't investigate the case thoroughly and just said it was a natural death. But i can vow, my ex employer had something to do with it as they threatened to kill him several times and came with weapons but nothing came out as in India bribery is very common i still don't believe in the police. On my husband’s grave memorial some random person asked  one of my neighbour if i am in India yet and he is looking for me and asked him to contact him immediately if i do so. As my case was still pending i couldn't come to India even in my husband’s death. God has given me such fate that I couldn’t meet him even in his last breathe, perhaps i will meet him after death. 

 My youngest son informed me that it is dangerous to come back to India at that moment i felt a sense of danger for myself and my family because i already had a doubt on my husband death because before his death, he was last seen at 3 am drinking with my sons then my husband left home at 4 am the he meet a women nearby on 5 am on the streets in normal state but his body was found dead on 7 am along the river side. I had a sense of realization that i cannot lose this fight against my employer and  if i die no one  will feed my kids and who will take care of them. As a mother i feel restless everyday in worry of my children are safety. My ex employer kept spreading false rumours that i have a relationship with another man in Hong Kong and that caused my relationship with my in laws is in a very bad state and they hate me now because they think i was the reason my husband died but only I know how much of sorrow i have been through. Even my own three sons don't talk to me properly anymore, only my youngest son talks to me. All these worries made me worried and not return back to India because i know my life and my children’s life is in danger however i want to live happily with my sons over here in Hong Kong and settle here. Currently my eldest son is looking after my other 2 sons in India now and i am here in Hong Kong still ongoing in the process of case to fight against my ex employer. I miss my husband everyday and if i could return back in time i would’ve never come to work in Hong Kong but i will fight and i am determined to win against the ones who did my family and me wrong. I believe god is looking after everyone and everyone has to pay for their sins one day. This is my life story and how it turned out to be this way. Thank you to everyone who has ever helped me in this journey and will continue to support me.