#TRF 2017

[queerholmcs]

longer quotes completed in full below:

a damsel in distress. in the end, are you really so obvious, because this was textbook—the promise of love, the pain of loss, the joy of redemption. then give him a puzzle and watch him dance...

heaven may be a fantasy for the credulous and the afraid, but i can give you a map reference for hell.

the roads we walk have demons beneath—and yours have been waiting for a very long time.

obviously we can't actually include everything here. what do you mean half of these are from tfp. you can tell they let the show become more blatantly unhinged as they went. i was watching the s1 episode commentaries this weekend and can you imagine a world where mycroft holmes was not portrayed by one of the writers. we would have lost out on so much. i might almost be able to be normal about this show seven years after the last episodes have aired. inconceivable.

[rubahlicik]

Kalo ketemu Uni, lantas apa?

Halo warga Tumblr yang hendak berakhir pekan~

Aink mau cerita progres dikit. Setelah seminggu ke belakang ini rame soal dugaan penipuan yang dilakukan rumahati alias Sri Wahyuni, atau yang biasa dipanggil uni, aink dkk mencoba mengumpulkan beberapa informasi soal uni.

Ada beberapa hal yang bisa aink share, berikut diantaranya:

- uni dan keluarga ada di bandung (nama suami dan anak anaknya Uda ada),. Alamat terakhir (tahun 2022) Uda dipegang. Insyaallah ada rekan Tumblr yang weekend ini mau kesana

- uni punya 3 nomor hape berbeda dan semuanya ga bisa dikontak. Satu nomor diantaranya terdaftar bukan atas nama Sri Wahyuni atau pun nama suaminya.

- tahun 2019, aink pernah ngirim tanaman ke klinik Alfaiha Medika Cisaranten, bandung. Paket atas nama Sri Wahyuni, dikirim kesana karena th 2019 suami uni kerja disana. Klinik itu beroperasi mulai Juli 2019, Aink ngirim paket November 2019. Kemarin aink coba kontak admin klinik, tapi pihak klinik mengaku tidak kenal Sri Wahyuni atau pun suaminya.

- uni mulai mengumpulkan sedekah online dari 2017. Dari laporan yang curhat ke aink, seenggaknya Uda masuk lebih dari 10juta, 2 hp dan 2 laptop yang masih layak pakai. Tapi, ga pernah sekalipun ada pelaporan bukti penggunaan dana yang masuk. Baik itu struk belanja kebutuhan orang yang uni bantu atau pun bukti yang menunjukkan kalau orang yang uni bantu bener bener ada.

Poin poin diatas itu fakta, plus hilangnya akun tumblr rumahati membuat dugaan penipuan semakin kuat. Tapi, itu semua tetap akan jadi dugaan Ampe ada fakta yang bisa menyangkal atau bisa memastikan kebenarannya.

Oleh karena itu, rencananya weekend ini bakal ada yang nyari uni dan keluarganya ke alamat yang Uda di dapat. Semoga uni masih bisa ketemu disana.

Buat yang berdomisili bandung atau ada kenalan anak Tumblr domisili bandung, boleh dong di sounding. Biar banyak yang nyari, takutnya ga langsung ketemu. Boleh pm aink aja buat teknisnya.

Kalo ketemu mau apa?

Kalo aink sih pesennya buat yang berangkat besok, utamanya buat mastiin, Ini uni bener nipu apa engga

Itu kan ini masalahnya? Kalo misal ngotot bener, coba buktiin itu aliran dananya kemana, beneran ada ga orangnya? Mumpung ada yang bisa ke lokasi. Pastiin kalo ibu2, nenek, anak2 yatim yang selalu dia sebut itu beneran ada.

Trus yang ga kalah penting, uni makan uang sedekahnya ga? , kalo misal iya, apa Uda dapet persetujuan dari yang ngasih sedekah?

Coba para donatur komen, kalo misal bener uni nyalurin sedekahnya, tapi ikut make duitnya juga, kalian ridho ga?

Kalo aink sih engga... Haram tuh uang sedekah yang aink kasih kalo misal dikasih buat keluarganya. Kotor tuh perabot yang dia beli buat keperluan sehari hari kalo emang dibeli dari uang sedekah yang katanya buat anak yatim.

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Nah, kalo ternyata uni ga bisa buktiin kalo bener dia nyalurin sedekah ke yang berhak lantas apa?

Aink yakin duit dari orang yang pernah ngasih ga akan balik. Sorry to say, pelaku scam mana ada yang sanggup balikin duit yang ditilepnya.

Aink pribadi cuma nuntut dia minta maaf, bikin video klarifikasi kalo ternyata emang dia ngemis buat keluarganya atas nama sedekah. Biar apa?

Biar para donatur bisa settle. Ternyata bener selama ini ditipu, ternyata bener uang yang disisihin buat sedekah dipake buat bayar kontrakan, beli sprei atau bahkan DP rumah.

Donatur harus tahu faktanya. Uni tuh sebenernya siapa, make duit sedekah buat apa aja, biar secara mereka yang jadi korban secara personal bisa nentuin langkah selanjutnya.

Kalo Uda terbukti uni bohong, ya Aink pribadi cuma bisa pasrah aja, sambil doain yang jelek jelek buat keluarganya uni. Biar semua cerita sedih yang dia jual buat narik simpati emang beneran menimpa keluarganya..

Aink ga akan bawa ini ke jalur hukum. Ribet, Aink ga mau berurusan sama polisi. Tapii,.. kalo ada yang mau lapor ya silakan. Aink bisa bantu ngumpulin bukti chat dia minta sedekah dan bukti trf donatur yang ketipu. Silahkan yang punya waktu dan kemampuan untuk maju ke jalur hukum, Aink dukung.

Terakhir, Aink berharap setelah kasus ini dapet closure, para warga Tumblr bisa jadi lebih makin deket lagi. Deket dalam artian punya cukup banyak kenalan yang bisa dicurhatin, bisa diajak sharing. Syukur syukur bangkit lagi komunitasnya.

Kejadian kayak gini ga bakal muncul kalo calon korban yang curiga ada wadah buat bertanya. Alih alih mengambil keputusan setelah dimanipulasi tanpa sadar, komunitas bisa bantu ngumpulin fakta yang akurat. Dari curhatan yang masuk, uni ini bisa dibilang manipulatif dalam berdialog dengan donaturnya.

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Semoga yang mau berangkat dilancarkan, segera ketemu sama ybs. Biar kita semua dapet kejelasan.

Sekali lagi, Aink sangat berharap ada lebih banyak orang yang bisa ikut nyari di bandung. Aink Masi ada agenda di Majalengka, meskipun Uda gatel banget pengen ke bandung.

Boleh bantu reblog atau kontak lagi temen temennya~

Terimakasih buat temen-temen yang Uda bantu seminggu belakangan ini. Semoga cepat dapat kesimpulan soal perkara sedekah online ini. Karena sebelum semuanya terang, kita harus selalu menyematkan kata dugaan pada kasus penipuan sedekah online yang telah uni lakukan.

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hey Steph,

I am in the mood for some really long fics. Preferably not AU as I find those hard to get into. Although, like always, I am open to your all your suggestions.

Loves Seven.

Hi Lovely!!

Ahhh, I've a TONNE of long fics, and a lot of them AREN'T AUs! I'm gonna use your ask as an excuse to post a new list, and please check out the other pages linked below! I label if a fic is an AU or not, so just skip over those if you're not up for them! Enjoy!

NOVEL LENGTH FICS: 50 to 100K Pt 4

See also:

Novella Length Fics: 20 to 25K (Oct 2020)

Novella Length Fics: 25 to 50K (Aug. 2019)

Novella Length Fics: 25 to 50K Pt 2 (July 2022)

Novel Length Fics: 50 to 100K (Nov. 2018)

Novel Length Fics: 50 to 100K Pt 2 (May 2020)

Novel Length Fics: 50 to 100K Pt 3 (Jul 2022)

Novel Length Fics: 100K+ w. (May 2019)

Novel Length Fics: 100K+ w. Pt 2 (Aug 2020)

Novel Length Fics: 100K+ w. Pt 3 [MFL’s] (Dec 2020)

Long Domestic Johnlock (50K+ w.) (March 2023)

Smut-Free Fics Over 50K (Aug 2019)

Top 20 Fave 40K+ w. Fics (April 2017)

Long S3/Post-S3 Fics (20K+ w.) [Apr 2020]

Hurt / Comfort Pt. 4: 50K+ Words Pt. 1

Anxious / Worried Sherlock Pt 2 (Over 20K w.)

Long Pining Fics (50K+) [March 2023]

G,T, & M-Rated Johnlock for Newcomers Pt. 3 (20K+)

Genius is a Star Whose Light (is Soon to Sink in Endless Night) by LoloLolly (M, 51,812 w., 11 Ch. || Canon Compliant Through TFP/S4 Is Canon, Aftermath of Serbia, Alternating POV,  Established / New Relationship, Parentlock with Rosie, Explicit Torture, Mentions of Sherlock’s PTSD, Mentions of Human Trafficking, References to Child Abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Captivity, Angst with Happy Ending, Fluff, Case Fic, BAMF / Soldier John, Sherlock Whump, Mycroft and John Work Together, Marriage Proposal, Autistic Sherlock, Lestrade Finds Out, Polyglot Sherlock) – Sherlock had buried the past. Shut Serbia away in the attic of his mind palace. Muddy footprints at a heinous crime scene, however, have led him right back to old enemies. And right back to captivity. For God’s sake, Mycroft. Part 2 of the Earthly Pomp (Is But a Dream) series

Spare Parts by Raina_at (E, 63,497 w., 10 Ch. || 24th Century / Futurism AU || Post TRF, Pre-TRF Relationship, Case Fic, Mutual Pining, Estrangement, Reconciliation, Science Fiction, Reunion, Nightmares, Angry John, Cybernetic John, Emotional Discussions / Heart to Heart, POV John, Scars, Past Drug Use, Forehead Touching, Emotional Lovemaking, Kissing, Apologies, Kidnapping, Rescue Mission, BAMF John, Bed Sharing, Top Sherlock) – Two years ago, Sherlock Holmes jumped off the roof of New London Hospital. Two months ago, he walked into John's clinic as if no time had passed at all. John hasn't seen him since. But then Sherlock knocks on John's door with a case he can't say no to, and while figuring out why the biggest manufacturer or synthetic limbs in the System is going after veterans, they also need to find out whether there's a way to fix what's broken between them. Part 1 of Realigning Gravity

Swallow the Night by ArwaMachine (E, 87,873 w., 15 Ch. || TSo3/Stag Night Fix It, TAB/S4 Divergence, Toplock, Mutual Pining, PWP, Drunk / Public Sex, Anal Fingering/Sex, Alcohol-Induced Amnesia, Everyone Knows Except Them, Emotional Love Confession, Demisexual Sherlock, Internalized Homophobia [John], Parentlock with Rosie, First Kiss, Drug Relapse, Infidelity, Texting, Masturbation, Oblivious John, Emotional Love Making, Angst with Happy Ending, Dreams and Nightmares) – “Do you know how long,” John panted, his cheek scraping against the wall, looking back at Sherlock through half-closed eyes, “I’ve wanted this?” Sherlock pressed himself against John’s back, biting at John’s ear. “Not nearly as long as I have,” he whispered.

Bakers with Benefits by Raina_at (E, 88,130 w., 14 Ch. || Great British Bake Off AU || Strangers to Lovers, Switchlock, Friends with Benefits, Mentions of Alcoholism / Past Drug Use, Banter, Flirting, Fluff, Light Angst, Semi-Public Sex, Past Sherlock/Victor, Mutual Pining, POV Sherlock, Obsessive Sherlock, John’s Bum) – Sherlock Holmes has a successful YouTube baking channel, but what he really wants is his own bakery. When an old friend sends him a call for the very first Great British Bake Off, he seizes the opportunity to finally win a sponsor for his bakery. Here's the plan: Win Bake Off, get the bakery, don't fall in love with the handsome Army doctor at the neighbouring station. Easy.

Fade To Black by twistedthicket1 (M, 93,389 w., 29 Ch. || Split Personality Disorder / DID, Action, Romance, Violence, Implied Rape/Non-Con, BAMF John, Fluff and Angst, Baskerville, Human Experimentation, PTSD, Implied Self Harm, Trauma Amnesia, Past Child Sexual Abuse, Protective Sherlock, Smoking, Meddling Mycroft, Past Victor/Sherlock, Gay Sherlock, Sherlock’s Past, First Kiss/Time) – John Watson believes one day he'll just fade. That he'll drown in the black spaces of his mind, and that one day he will no longer exist. It's always been like this, the dark spots marking out moments in his life he can't remember. Where for just a moment he's someone else. Having a Dissociative identity disorder, he can't even be entirely sure he's really who he says he is. Then he meets Sherlock Holmes. A brilliant detective who when he looks at you can read your entire life story. John is immediately fascinated and afraid, half-wondering if maybe Sherlock can see the other personalities in him and half terrified of the thought of him finding out. Becoming his flatmate seems at once to be a wonderful and horrible idea. Yet as John's Blackouts become more and more severe and his other personalities begin to truly awaken and show themselves with Sherlock's help, the two soon discover that sometimes even the kindest person can harbour a demon best left untouched inside of them. Because not all of John's other personalities play nicely and some may be hiding secrets best left undisturbed...

[usafphantom2]

Brazilian Navy sinks the former aircraft carrier São Paulo, after several impasses

In a statement, naval force said that the procedure was done with safety and technical competence, in the late afternoon of Friday (3).

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 02/03/2023 - 21:58 in Brazilian Navy, Military

The Brazilian Navy sank in the late afternoon of Friday (3) the deactivated aircraft carrier São Paulo, which had been sailing for months in the sea after being banned from entering Brazil and abroad.

"The procedure was conducted with the necessary technical and safety competence by the Brazilian Navy, in order to avoid logistical, operational, environmental and economic losses to the Brazilian State," says the naval force, by means of a note (at the end of the news).

This Friday, the Federal Regional Court of the 5th Region (TRF-5) released the Navy to sink the aircraft carrier, rejecting a request from the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF), which saw serious environmental risk in the decision.

Three holes in the hull of the vessel caused the ship to fill with water, which made the sinking inevitable, according to an inspection carried out by the Brazilian Navy.

According to the document, if nothing was done, the aircraft carrier would sink uncontrollably until mid-February.

Risk of environmental damage

The Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) evaluated that the sinking of the ship can cause the following environmental damage:

The release of polluting materials contained in the structure can cause disturbance in filtering capacity and difficulty of growth in aquatic organisms;

The physical impact on the ocean floor can cause the death of species and the deterioration of ecosystems;

Emission of gases (CFCs and HCFCs) used in the insulation of rooms contribute, from the corrosion of the walls, to the degradation of the ozone layer;

The carcass can attract invasive species harmful to native biodiversity;

Microplastics and heavy metals present in vessel paints can become protagonists of undesirable bioaccumulation in aquatic organisms.

Photo of the deactivated aircraft carrier São Paulo, captured via satellite by Greenpeace. (Photo: Disclosure/Greenpeace Brazil)

Because of this, Ibama asked the Navy for information to study alternatives to reduce environmental damage. The environmental agency also wanted to map the bottom area of the ocean where the ship would be sunk.

According to the MPF, the scrap of the vessel has 9.6 tons of asbestos, a substance that has toxic and carcinogenic potential. The hull also has 644 tons of paint and other hazardous materials.

Aircraft carrier has three holes in the hull and should sink by the middle of this month, says Navy inspection

While wandering on the Brazilian coast, aircraft carriers forbidden to dock could have arrived in any port in the world, says former owner of the ship. According to Ibama, the ship did not carry toxic cargo, but hazardous materials are an "indissociable" part of its structure.

One of these materials is asbestos, a mineral fiber considered toxic. Currently banned in more than 60 countries, asbestos was used in several industrial segments.

Since 2017, a decision of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) has totally banned the use of asbestos in Brazil.

The Navy only took over the management of the aircraft carrier after MSK, the company that transported it between Brazil and Europe, threatened to abandon the hull in the middle of the ocean.

Toxic ship: understand why old Navy aircraft carrier is prohibited from doming

In the note released by the Brazilian Navy, there is confirmation that the old São Paulo aircraft carrier was shipwrecked in Águas Jurisdicionais Brasileiras (AJB), 350 kilometers from the Brazilian coast and with an approximate depth of 5,000 meters.

The document also says that the area “was selected based on studies conducted by the Navy Hydrography Center and the Almirante Paulo Moreira Sea Studies Institute”.

"The analyses considered aspects related to navigation safety and the environment, with special attention to the mitigation of impacts on public health, fishing activities and ecosystems," says the Navy's text.

According to the Navy, this place was chosen for five reasons:

Location within the area of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Brazil;

Location outside Environmental Protection Areas;

Interference-free area with documented submarine cables;

Area without interference from water works projects (e.g. wind farms);

Area with depths greater than 3,000 meters.

Experts said that the aircraft carrier could be sunk with the use of explosives. Wanted. The Navy did not detail the operation.

Here is the Official Note of the Brazilian Navy:

BRAZILIAN NAVY

NAVY SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTER

OFFICIAL NOTE

Brasília - DF. On February 3, 2023.

In relation to the hull of the former Aerodrome Ship "São Paulo", in view of the facts presented in the Joint Official Note of the Ministry of Defense, Attorney General of the Union and Navy of Brazil, it should be reported that the smoothing operation, through the planned and controlled sinking, occurred in the late afternoon of today (03), strictly as conceived.

The procedure was conducted with the necessary technical and safety competence by the Brazilian Navy, in order to avoid logistical, operational, environmental and economic damage to the Brazilian State.

The area for the final destination of the hull, located in Brazilian Jurisdictional Waters (AJB), 350 km from the coast and with an approximate depth of 5,000 meters, was selected based on studies conducted by the Navy Hydrography Center and Almirante Paulo Moreira Institute of Sea Studies.

The analyses considered aspects related to navigation safety and the environment, with special attention to the mitigation of impacts on public health, fishing activities and ecosystems.

Finally, the Brazilian Navy pays legitimate reverence to the former Ship Airfield "São Paulo". Boat that houses a belligerent soul perpetuated in the minds of men and women who garnished their conves, worthy servants of the French National Navy and the Brazilian Navy, under the aegis of naval traditions and high sailor spirit.

Source: G1

Tags: Military AviationBrazilian NavyNAe São Paulo (A-12)aircraft carrier

Fernando Valduga

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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Decisão do Superior Tribunal de Justiça é para que processo, que tramita desde 1999, volte a ser analisado pelo TJSC. Foto: Mauricio Vieira/Arquivo Secom Um recurso apresentado em 2017 pela Procuradoria-Geral do Estado (PGE/SC) ao Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) no âmbito do processo movido pelo consórcio que seria responsável pela concessão da rodovia SC-401, em Florianópolis, foi acolhido, anulando decisão que impunha condenação multimilionária aos catarinenses, a título de indenização pelos custos da obra e pelos lucros que a empresa não obteve com o pedágio – cuja cobrança foi proibida pela Justiça. Agora, o caso deve voltar a tramitar no Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina (TJSC). A decisão é do ministro Herman Benjamin, relator do caso, e foi publicada nessa terça-feira, 20. Em sua manifestação o ministro considera os argumentos apresentados pelos procuradores do Estado que contrapõem o alegado pelo consórcio. A pretensão da empresa era de que o assunto fosse decidido pela Justiça Federal porque a concessionária formalizou um contrato de empréstimo junto ao Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES). Porém, o que a PGE/SC alegou é que o contrato fora estabelecido entre a companhia e o antigo Departamento de Estradas de Rodagem (DER/SC). “O Tribunal Regional Federal da 4ª Região (TRF-4) não examinou precedente do STJ levado ao seu conhecimento (Conflito de Competência 29.471/SC), precedente esse que, versando sobre a mesma relação jurídica base (o mesmo contrato de concessão da rodovia SC 401), definira que as pretensões da Linha Azul em face do DER/SC (sucedido pelo Deinfra e, atualmente, pelo Estado de Santa Catarina) deveriam ser decididas pela Justiça Comum Estadual”, afirmaram os procuradores no recurso. Eles explicaram que o contrato de empréstimo financeiro é autônomo em relação ao contrato firmado com o DER/SC, inexistindo, portanto, litisconsórcio passivo necessário a justificar o processamento do feito, em relação ao pedido de rescisão do contrato de concessão de obra, na Justiça Federal. O ministro relator expôs, na decisão, que a existência de coisa julgada reforça a argumentação de que houve violação da legislação que disciplina a competência para julgamento do feito, “tendo em vista que a decisão (nos autos 99.0006341-4) que teria excluído qualquer responsabilidade do BNDES relativamente ao contrato autônomo de exploração da rodovia SC-401 deveria ter sido observada pelo juízo deste feito, mantendo-se a respectiva tramitação apenas contra o DER/SC – o que conduziria à conclusão de que o feito deveria ter tramitado na Justiça Comum Estadual (TJSC). (…) Diante do reconhecimento de que os pedidos deduzidos contra o BNDES, o BRDE e o BESC ficam prejudicados em razão do reconhecimento de que a matéria foi integralmente julgada na Ação Ordinária 99.0006341-4, tem-se que o presente feito somente pode prosseguir em relação ao DER/SC (sucedido pelo Deinfra/SC e, atualmente, pelo Estado de Santa Catarina), o que afasta a competência da Justiça Federal, como sustenta o Estado de Santa Catarina”. Para o procurador-geral do Estado, Márcio Vicari, a decisão é importante por reconhecer que os argumentos apresentados pela Procuradoria estão corretos. “Isso nos permitirá defender que, havendo valores a serem pagos pelo erário, eles o sejam em quantia justa, bem menores do que o alegado pela empresa”. Esta foi a terceira vitória do Estado no caso. A primeira ocorreu em 2012, quando a Procuradoria-Geral do Estado obteve uma decisão favorável no STJ que diminuiu o valor da indenização para R$ 250 milhões. Depois, em 2016, foram retirados do valor os juros e honorários advocatícios. E agora, a determinação de que o caso retorne para a Justiça estadual. Atuaram no caso os procuradores do Estado Célia Iraci da Cunha, Eduardo Zanatta Brandeburgo, Ezequiel Pires, Fernando Alves Filgueiras da Silva, Juliano Dossena, Leandro Zanini, Loreno Weissheimer, Manoel Cordeiro Júnior, Sérgio Laguna Pereira e Weber Luiz de Oliveira.

Recurso Especial nº 1794262 – SC. Informações adicionais para a imprensa: Felipe ReisAssessoria de ComunicaçãoProcuradoria-Geral do Estadocomunicacao@pge.sc.gov.br(48) 3664-7650 / 3664-7834 / 98843-2430 Fonte: Governo SC

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[portalg37]

Justiça absolve Aécio Neves de forma definitiva no caso JBS

O TRF 3 absolveu, hoje, por unanimidade e de forma definitiva, o deputado Aécio Neves das falsas acusações feitas por delatores da JBS. A decisão foi tomada nesta quinta-feira (27/07/23) pela 11ª turma da corte. Essa nova decisão confirma decisão anterior da 7.ª Vara Federal Criminal de São Paulo que já havia inocentado o deputado da acusação feita em 2017 pelo ex-procurador geral Rodrigo…

[adriroberto11]

Morre o ex-ministro Eliseu Padilha, aos 77 anos Eliseu Padilha (MDB) faleceu na noite desta segunda-feira (13/3), aos 77 anos. Ele estava no Hospital Moinhos de Vento, em Porto Alegre (RS). O político gaúcho foi ministro dos governos Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB), Dilma Rousseff (PT) e Michel Temer (MDB). Ele deixa a esposa, Simone Camargo, e seis filhos, além de netos. Informações preliminares indicam que o velório será realizado na quarta-feira (15/3), no Palácio Piratini, sede do governo do Rio Grande do Sul. Ele passava por tratamento de um câncer descoberto há um mês, conforme anunciou a família em nota divulgada na semana passada. Até precisar ser internado, Eliseu Padilha atuava como vice-presidente de Relações Institucionais da Fundação Ulysses Guimarães, instituição do MDB. Eliseu é natural de Canela (RS). Foi prefeito de Tramandaí (1989 a 1993), deputado federal em quatro mandatos, político reconhecido pelo seu trânsito no Congresso Nacional e análises sobre votações no legislativo. Na gestão FHC, foi ministro dos Transportes (1997-2001) e, na gestão de Dilma Rousseff, foi ministro-chefe da Secretaria de Aviação Civil (2015). No governo Temer, foi alçado a ministro-chefe da Casa Civil. Também durante o governo de Temer, Padilha foi ministro interino na pasta do Trabalho, em um curto período do mês de julho de 2018. “Recebo com pesar a notícia da morte de Eliseu Padilha, líder habilidoso e dedicado ao RS e ao Brasil, que serviu como ministro de três presidentes da República. Meus pensamentos e solidariedade vão para sua família e amigos neste momento de tristeza”, comentou Eduardo Leite (PSDB), governador do Rio Grande do Sul. Em 2017, foi denunciado pelo Ministério Público Federal (MPF) como integrante do chamado “Quadrilhão do MDB”, suposta organização criminosa liderada pelo ex-presidente Michel Temer. Padilha foi absolvido em primeira instância em maio de 2021, em decisão da 12ª Vara Federal do Distrito Federal, confirmada pelo Tribunal Regional Federal da 1ª Região (TRF-1) no início deste mês. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxoV9uuAiU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[queerholmcs]

did some digging bc op didn't link any originals & i saw some questions in the tags—some of these scenes match up to the latest drop of the final shooting scripts at the bbc writer's room and some are from the scripts (with a less verified provenance? made an appearance around September 2017) compiled here, several of which are titled as much earlier drafts (i.e. the trf draft quoted here is from 16.04.2011 as draft #4, and the shooting script from the writer's room is dated 29.06.2011; hence the drastic changes between this one and the episode which made it to air).

You have to see this

The foreshadowing in the script for a study in pink

Guys we missed out on John shoving Sherlock against a wall

PICKING FLUFF OFF EACH OTHER'S COLLARS ⁉️

[queerholmcs]

i know, i know, i missed a lot of good options the first time around, so without further ado:

longer quotes completed in full below:

"my brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. what might we deduce about his heart?"

"as my colleague is fond of remarking, this country sometimes needs a blunt instrument. equally, it sometimes needs a dagger. a scalpel, wielded with precision and without remorse. there will always come a time when we need sherlock holmes."

*ok this one is technically sherlock about mycroft, but mycroft is literally dropping a broken heart while playing operation, so it counts.

the one about clown outfits is from tfp. obviously.

"say thank you to doctor watson. he talked me out of lady bracknell—this could have been very different." (note to self, reread the importance of being earnest another dozen times to imagine what the lady bracknell scheme might have been. as a treat.)

yes i did give in to temptation and allow myself twelve options here. yes that was so i could add two more from tfp. no i'm not apologising.

if you don't see your favourite here it might have been on part one. sorry.

[drrafaelcm]

Negada naturalização de russo que não comprovou residência no Brasil por período mínimo

Negada naturalização de russo que não comprovou residência no Brasil por período mínimo

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[richfamous]

My most #interesting #ride #travel #roadtrip #vacation in #2017. #DeathValley #youareallalone

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Christmas and New Year's Eve 2023 Pt 1: New Bookmarks and WiPs

Happy holidays everyone! Let's get into the holiday spirit with some new Christmas fics I've recently added to my Bookmarks and MFL lists! LOTS of stories, so this list is split up into two lists! PLEASE check out the lists below for past bookmarks and MFLs! If you have a WORK IN PROGRESS that you'd like added to this list, PLEASE add them in the replies/reblogs and I'll add them to subsequent posts of this list!

The second list posting shortly is my MFL list, so if you have a finished fic you'd like me to add to the lists, please add them to the next post!

Thank you so much!! <3 Merry Christmas!!

[PART TWO]

See also:

Christmas Fics (Dec. 2017)

Christmas: Oblivious That One or The Other is In a Relationship

Christmas 2019 Part 1 (All Bookmarks XMas and New Years)

Christmas 2019 Part 2 (Marked for Later)

G / T / K+ Rated Christmas Fics (Dec. 2018) (Updated Dec 2021)

Community Recs: Christmas 2020 (Updated Dec 2021)

Christmas Trees / Decorating

Christmas-Time Love Confessions

New Year’s Fics (Jan 2023)

Christmas 2023 Pt 2: Marked for Later

BOOKMARKS

Santa Knows by Itsallfine (T, 1,719 w., 1 Ch. || Christmas Party, Love Confessions, First Kiss, Fluff, Matchmaking, POV Sherlock, Pining Sherlock) – Sherlock and John both get exactly what they want from the Yard's secret Santa exchange. Pure holiday fluff.

The Way to Start the New Year by glass_rose_paperweight (G, 4,251 w., 1 Ch. || New Year's Eve, Fluff, Pining John) – On New Year's Eve, Sherlock drags John to America for a case, much to John's frustration. However, a mistake in booking looks like it might lead to an even worse New Year's Even than John originally thought ... or, maybe it's just what the boys need.

This Year by DiscordantWords (T, 6,283 w., 2 Ch. || TEH Divergence / No Mary, New Year’s Eve, John’s A Mess, Jealous John, Awkward Conversations, Trapped in a Closet, Estranged After Return, John POV, Semi-Reunion, Angry John, First Kiss, Reconciliation, Clueless Sherlock, Happy Ending) – Last year, Sherlock Holmes showed up at the Landmark with a fake moustache and a bad French accent and threw John's entire life into disarray with two words: "Not dead." This year, there are more surprises in store.

Wonderful, Etcetera. by VictoryCandescence (T, 16,955 w., 3 Ch. || Wonderful Life AU || Alternate Timelines, Brotherhood, Homophobia, Suicidal Ideations, Mentions of Drug Use, Friendship, Different TRF, Sherlock’s Past, Victor Trevor is Past Boyfriend, Depression, Hallucination?, Love Confessions, Christmas, First Kiss) – Sherlock thinks everyone would be better off if he had never existed, including and especially himself. When he finds himself in a world in which his wish has been granted, he begins to think perhaps even he could be wrong – but it takes an unlikely chaperone to make him not only observe, but understand.

Deck the Halls by itsalwaysyou_jw (T, 31,018 w., 24 Ch. || Advent Fic / Multiple One-Shots, Assorted Tags) – One Johnlock ficlet for every day leading up to Christmas. Who is ready for pining, first kisses, established Johnlock, and everything in between? This collection of stand-alone ficlets will have it all. 

Not Broken, Just Bent by Schmiezi (E, 87,585 w., 43 Ch. || Pining, Love Confessions, Rape/Sexual Assault, Torture, Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst, Villain!Mary, Suicidal Ideations, Main Character Death, Sherlock First Person POV, Parentlock, Sherlock’s Mind Palace, Grief/Mourning, Emotional Love Making, Possessiveness, Depression, PTSD, Kidnapping, Virgin Sherlock, Eventual Happy Ending) – "For a second, I allow myself to remember teaching John how to waltz. There is a special room in my mind palace for it. A big one, with a proper parquet dance floor. For a second, I go there. I remember holding him, closer than the World Dance Council asks for, excusing it with the fact that we are training for a wedding, not for a competition. For a second, I feel his hand on mine again, smell his sweat, hear the song we used. For a second, I allow myself to love him deeply. For a second, only a second, that love reflects on my face." Fix-it for S3, starting at the end of TSoT. Evil Mary.

Bakers with Benefits by Raina_at (E, 88,130 w., 14 Ch. || Great British Bake Off AU || Strangers to Lovers, Switchlock, Friends with Benefits, Mentions of Alcoholism / Past Drug Use, Banter, Flirting, Fluff, Light Angst, Semi-Public Sex, Past Sherlock/Victor, Mutual Pining, POV Sherlock, Obsessive Sherlock, John’s Bum) – Sherlock Holmes has a successful YouTube baking channel, but what he really wants is his own bakery. When an old friend sends him a call for the very first Great British Bake Off, he seizes the opportunity to finally win a sponsor for his bakery. Here's the plan: Win Bake Off, get the bakery, don't fall in love with the handsome Army doctor at the neighbouring station. Easy.

The Lost Special: Family Matters (As Do Relationships) by ShirleyCarlton (M, 144,688 w., 40 Ch. || S4 Fix It Fic / Meta Fic, Unreliable Narrator, John’s Mind Bungalow, Friends to Lovers, Happy Ending, Demisexual Sherlock, Holmes Family, John Whump, Gay Mycroft, Misunderstandings, Drug Addiction, Parenting, TFP is a Nightmare, Virgin Sherlock, Slow Burn, Minor Character Death, Switchlock, John’s Past, Sherlock’s Past, Eurus, Love Confessions) –Sherrinford is not really the name of some high security prison. That was just a figment of John’s frantic coma dream. And Eurus is not actually Sherlock’s sister. That’s just something random she said to John before shooting him. Sherlock and John were never actually estranged. That was just their act to cover up what really happened to Mary – or Rosamund Moran, as her real name has turned out to be. Sherlock does have a secret sibling, though, and his name is Sherrinford. After finally eliminating Moran – though in a rather dramatically different way than they had envisioned – and exposing the truth about Eurus, John encourages Sherlock to delve into his past and to find out whether the reasons to keep Sherrinford away from Sherlock were the right ones, and to discover what really happened in 1981. Along the way, Sherlock and John gradually, finally, stop keeping each other at a distance, and eventually become a proper family of their own.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Christmas with You by hey_there_buddy (NR, 3,258+ w., 11/? Ch. || WiP || Christmas, Marriage Proposal, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Established Relationship, Waltzing, Morning Kisses) – Sherlock wants to propose John and he came up with his own idea.

From the First Time That I Saw You by BookGirlWithLove (E, 6,813+ w., 4/16 Ch. || WiP || Actor John AU || Christmas, Meet Cute) – Sherlock Holmes very rarely paid any attention to popular culture. He didn’t listen to the radio or watch telly. He seldom watched films. Unless that film had a certain actor in it. A certain actor who, while he might not be on everyone’s favourite list, was most certainly on Sherlock’s. In fact, he was the only celebrity to ever give Sherlock pause, which said a lot. That actor was John Watson. Who was currently standing in Sherlock’s sitting room, awkwardly holding two bottles of wine.

Christmas in Honeycutt by helloliriels (T, 25,768+ w., 12/16 Ch. || WIP || Christmas in Connecticut AU / WWII AU || Kidnapping, Spies / Secret Agents, Codes & Ciphers, Past Relationships, Developing Relationship, Fake Marriage, Fluff and Angst, Happy Ending) – John's publisher asks if his family could entertain a war hero at their idyllic estate in Somerset for Christmas. Only ... John doesn't have a wife ... or a daughter. Or an estate. He has a bedsit. In London. And some wounds of his own to recover from ... but he can't tell his publisher that or he'll get fired … What's a writer to do? Cracking Codes. Super Spies. Sherlock in Disguise. A wild Christmas romance set in the countryside! Just what the doctor ordered! Part 6 of the Liriels Chaptered Fics series

The Prince of Hearts by prettysailorsoldier (M, 46,206+ w., 12/? Ch. || Modern Royalty AU || WiP || Matchmaker Sherlock, Prince John, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Sexual Tension, Mutual Pining, Christmas, Fluff) – Sherlock Holmes is making big waves in London as the head of a thriving matchmaking firm, his unconventional approach earning him the title 'The Chemist'. To Sherlock, love is in the data, a collection of variables plugged into equations to calculate the perfect match, but, when the royal family of the small country of Galerre hires him to find a spouse for the crown prince, he will find that some matters of the heart are not so easily solved.

Since First I Saw Your Face by Stavia_Scott_Grayson (M, 398,966+ w., 19/22 Ch. || WiP || ACD Canon / 1884 Victorian AU || Friends to Lovers, Pining, UST/URT, POV Sherlock, Christmas, Developing Relationship, Turkish Baths, Victorian Attitudes, Sussex Holiday, Cocaine, Holmes’ Childhood, Cold Cases, References to Canon) – During the Great Hiatus, Holmes, studying in Tibet, reflects on his first meeting with Dr John Watson.

[possiblyimbiassed]

Time, Space and Sherlock

After the surrealistic ending of BBC Sherlock’s fourth series in 2017, many of us might have asked ourselves: is it even possible to construct a coherent plot line out of this mess? Is it possible to trace some ‘real’, believable story arc for the show; a narrative where things would still make logical sense? Or is the whole show rather a sort of abstract work of art, where everything is to be read metaphorically? Strangely enough, I think both. :)

One of the things that don’t exactly behave normally in BBC Sherlock is time. And this is not limited to S4, but can be found all over the show. We see people perform things that would be highly questionable, or even wouldn’t be physically possible, to do in our real world, considering the time it would take. Like Sherlock and John climbing over rooftops and still arriving in time to shortcut a taxi in ASiP. Or Moriarty in TRF, arriving to have a chat with Sherlock at 221B from having been in custody at The Old Bailey (at least 15 minutes apart with car, according to the maps), basically within the time it takes for Sherlock’s kettle to boil.

Or Mary showing up in the top apartment of a sky scraper in HLV, knocking out people and wreaking havoc, within the time it takes for John and Sherlock to ascend there with the only elevator. Or Sherlock, when Mary shoots him, having three seconds of consciousness left, and yet he’s able to notice how many minutes it takes for John to get there and call the ambulance. It really doesn’t add up, does it?

We also see and hear these specific elements (along with other, similar examples that I won’t bore you with now) being repeated again and again in the show, in a seemingly haphazardly and meaningless manner. In TSoT we see a sequence from Sherlock’s best man speech where he and John are chased over rooftops by Cupid a short man with a blow pipe. A rooftop is also where Sherlock chooses to meet Moriarty in TRF, and consequently then uses for his fake suicide. 

Apparently Sherlock had predicted the exact method of Moriarty’s blackmail from start. But if he knew beforehand, why even put himself in this situation? Couldn’t he thus prevent it? Or is he some kind of oracle that can predict but not interfere with the course of the events? And who was he really planning to con here - Moriarty or John? From the angle they were standing, Jim would have seen the whole theatre from above, had he not opted for a sudden - supposedly unpredicted - suicide on the rooftop. Logic fails when time is twisted here, I believe.

The boiling kettle is mentioned by John in another not too dissimilar context in THoB (thanks for the transcripts, Ariane De Vere X), when Sherlock and John are trying to fake their way into Baskerville’s military facility:

SHERLOCK: What’s the matter?

JOHN: We’ll get caught.

SHERLOCK: No we won’t – well, not just yet.

JOHN: Caught in five minutes. “Oh, hi, we just thought we’d come and have a wander round your top secret weapons base.” “Really? Great! Come in – kettle’s just boiled.” That’s if we don’t get shot.

John is ironic here of course, ridiculing the idea that the military would immediately welcome their intrusion by offering them tea. But this is exactly what Sherlock absurdly does with his arch enemy the very next episode. He even uses precisely the same words: ”Kettle’s just boiled” to greet Moriarty. It’s almost as if he would aim to fulfill John’s ironic ‘prophecy’, isn’t it?

If it was strange in HLV how an unconscious Sherlock could know how long it took for John to find him after he was shot, it’s even weirder in TST to see Mary perform a long speech after being shot. And the way she throws herself in front of the bullet after it has been fired is physically impossible. In real life with a real time frame, she wouldn’t have the time to move, because no human being can move faster than a bullet.

In the show we can also see scenes shifting forwards and backwards in time, where later events are superimposed over former events without any explanation. Like in HLV when John and Mary are being welcomed as Christmas guests at Sherlock’s parents’ house, shown before the trio had even attempted to sort out the horrible event when Mary had tried to kill their son (which they actually didn’t sort out - they were interrupted by Sherlock’s second heart failure). 

And in S4 we have these inexplicable ’jumps’ in time where big chunks that would be explanatory for the story line are simply skipped over. What happened, for example, in TST after Mary had ordered John to ”pull over” - did she give birth in the car? Or was little Rosie born on the sidewalk in the middle of London? Or was this just another labour pain after which they could continue to the hospital?  We don’t get to know, because suddenly it’s time for the baby shower. Or in TFP, John and Sherlock jump out of an exploding 221B Baker Street in London, but next moment they’re suddenly hijacking a fisher boat out at sea, perfectly unharmed. How did they even get there? And what happened in between? We never get to know.

This is not how you construct a believable story, is it? All in all, time and space are being handled in a very sloppy manner in BBC Sherlock - actually from start, but increasingly so until it gets really absurd at the end of TFP. Which is a bit illogical in a story about a detective where the facts and details are supposedly essential to his crime solving. In this show one can get the impression that time is not a linear chain of events, and space is not even relevant. But maybe it’s all just a matter of perspective?

The space-time continuum

Not so long ago, I saw this post from 2014 on my dash (X), now with an addition by @sarahthecoat (X) which in turn linked to this very interesting meta by @impatient14 (X). The latter is about BBC Sherlock seen from a space-time continuum, a concept which I find truly mind-boggling and very fascinating - thanks for the link, @sarahthecoat! Here’s Wikipedia’s representation of the space-time continuum (X):

This idea originates from Einstein’s theory of relativity. The speed of light is constant. If space has three dimensions, time can be seen as the fourth dimension. In the representation above, space has been reduced to only two dimensions, leaving the third for time. The observer is placed at an event in Origo (O), the null point where all the time and space axes and the two ’light cones’ of future and past events meet. A signal with equal or less speed than light can travel from O to a position and time within the future light cone. Therefore it’s possible for event O to have a causal influence on this future event. The future light cone contains all the possible events that could be causally affected by O.

Likewise, a signal with equal or less speed than light could have travelled from a position and time within the past light cone to O. The past light cone contains all the possible events that could have had a causal influence on O.

What is real?

But what has this to do with BBC Sherlock? Years ago, we had this really interesting discussion based on a meta by @gosherlocked about ill-treated children in BBC Sherlock (X), where we tried to explore what could be seen as ’real’ events in BBC Sherlock, and what could be seen as purely metaphorical representations. @ebaeschnbliah made a good point explaining how things only happening inside Sherlock’s head would still appear just as ’real’ to him, since every action from a person always starts from within their own brain. I think this idea of a ‘inner universe’ might also be consistent with space-time continuum: within the light cone of possible, future events even absurd things can occur, because in our fantasy everything is possible. So if Sherlock is setting up scenarios within his mind palace, separated from other people’s reality, he might get to absurd conclusions that appear very true to him. And to him the time-line might even seem logical and normal, even if it would appear twisted to an outside observer.

In light of more recent discussions around @sagestreet’s analyses of possible starting points for Sherlock’s extended mind-palace - EMP - (X), I felt inspired to try to apply @impatient14’s idea of the space-time continuum to my own view of this show.

As far as I can see (with my very limited understanding of the topic, because this ’timey-wimey’ stuff is a bit confusing, and a far cry beyond my ’event horizon’ :D) the space-time continuum idea seems to correspond with EMP theory and also with a lot of other stuff we’ve been discussing for the last few years after S4 aired. 

However, when it comes to the observer’s point in the space-time continuum, the moment when Sherlock presumably enters his EMP and starts running scenarios of possible future events, I like to see things a bit differently. I’m still inclined to hold on to the ’possibly-raggedy-theory’ as @sagestreet calls it, which places this moment right after John’s wedding. 

I have several arguments for this, and some of them involve John’s online blog, which we can all still find on the wayback-machine (X), and also in the mirrored version on tumblr (X). I’ll try to describe my view here, followed by an attempt at argumentation. It might be a bit much to read, but I’ll do my best to point out the main components, so please bear with me 😊. But first of all I recommend you to read @impatient14 ’s space-time meta (X).

Trying to apply @impatient14 ’s space-time continuum idea on the ’possibly-raggedy-theory’ (which is originally @raggedyblue’s brilliant idea; here’s my meta series about it: X), I would suggest the following:

The event when Sherlock enters his EMP - the null point in his space-time continuum - is caused by an overdose of drugs, and this point in time occurs ’off-screen’ on one of the days following John’s wedding.

The past light cone would cover ASiP to TSoT.

The future light cone would cover HLV to the last episode of S4.

Within the closest part of the past light-cone, Sherlock has been reading all the posts on John’s blog, and what we see in the show up until TSoT is Sherlock reminiscing real and imagined past events inside his own mind. They all have a causal influence on the null point (O), but not all of them have necessarily occurred in other people’s reality. 

We’re seeing the whole show from Sherlock’s point of view. But he’s trying to look at the events from John’s perspective, in order to better understand John. He imagines, for example, John waking up from a nightmare or John attending a session with his therapist or John having a chat with Mycroft.

Within the future light-cone, there lies a huge amount of hypothetical ’time-strands’ of possible future events. But the null point (O) when Sherlock loses contact with John’s and the other characters’ reality has a causal influence on these future time strands. What we see in HLV-TFP is Sherlock’s drug-induced scenarios where he, inside his comatose but still working brain, tries to follow one of these hypothetical time strands to see where it leads.

In his dream-like state, Sherlock believes that he experiences real events within real light cones, but within his imagination there’s no real materia, so physical realities and limits like the speed of light are no obstacle.

But to an outside observer (like John) time behaves differently. Throughout Sherlock’s perhaps year-long experience, John might only experience a short time when Sherlock lies comatose in hospital, perhaps weeks, and apparently with not much hope of survival.

The time-strand Sherlock has followed in HLV-TFP, however, might end up being a circular time-line, because Sherlock has only his own experience to draw from to make scenarios, and his real-life experience stopped at O. Sherlock can’t possibly predict his real-life future, even though he believes he can; he just doesn’t possess the data of future events, and therefore the higher up the future light cone that his mind travels, the more absurd becomes the result. There are far too many possible variables to take into account for this ‘modeling’ to be a good idea. So this time-strand winds up where we started from, with Sherlock and John eternally solving crimes together, eternally beeing ‘just friends’. And a Ghost!Mary telling him that this is just fine. At the end of the show as we know it for now (TFP), there’s apparently no progression.

What could make Sherlock Holmes ‘come alive’?

The issue of progression in time is, in my opinion, what needs to be solved by a potential S5. For now, this show only ends up where it started; Sherlock goes directly from the absurd, surrealistic events at the prison of Sherrinford to a ’normal’ but never-ending story of crime-solving at 221B. And in the last scene of TFP, time seems to be frozen:

At the end of S4 we can see no progression, only ’business as usual’, in spite of all the things Sherlock has learned about ’emotional context’ after John’s wedding. Continuing the story further, however, based on Sherlock’s new insights, could break this circular timeline. S5 would have the potential to transfer Sherlock and John from the eternal, crime-solving stereotyped friends, to a couple of characters that have an actual, believable life together. But this would require Sherlock waking up from his current state of surrealism. 

In ACD canon it may be difficult to follow an actual story arc, but at least Holmes and Watson grow older. In the latter part of Conan Doyle’s stories, we’re told that Holmes retired and moved alone to Sussex Downs to calmly indulge in bee-keeping, while Watson seemingly remained in London. The very last story, though - His Last Bow (LAST) - ends differently. With the villain securely tied up in the back seat, the now older Holmes and Watson leave the scene together in a car. Holmes talks about an impending ‘East Wind’ that will change everything, and now they’re traveling together into the future in a modern (for their time) vehicle of transport to cash in a check for five hundred pounds. ACD didn’t spell it out, but this to me gives a hint of potential.

But how could Sherlock re-enter the same space-time continuum as John? In short, my assumption here is that in John’s ’reality’, HLV-TFP mark a slowly progressing time strand in John’s space-time continuum where Sherlock is hospitalized after an OD of drugs. He’s comatose and in a serious condition between life and death. He needs, of course, to stay alive and wake up from this. But then what? What could he do to change this reality into something new? 

What John doesn’t know is that Sherlock’s brain is still working frantically, trying to run scenarios of a hypothetical future in his extended mind palace (EMP). To Sherlock all this appears ’real’ while to us, the onlookers, it seems surreal and increasingly absurd. But the only benefit this serious condition has for Sherlock is an opportunity for self-reflection. In his EMP, he can learn things about himself and his feelings for John, even if he gets all his predictions of the future events essentially wrong. But the things Sherlock (and by extension the audience) experiences within his EMP have a symbolic and metaphoric value to him (us). Even if they’re not ’real’ to other characters, they represent a reality which Sherlock - if he survives to wake up to it - can act upon and influence, very much like a living, breathing person.

One important thing of symbolic value for Sherlock is the change in his view of love, intimacy and emotions. In HLV-TLD Love is represented by Lady Smallwood. @sagestreet has described it beautifully in this meta (X). She’s a new character who isn’t even mentioned before HLV, which to me indicates that in this alternate reality, Sherlock has started to look more closely at Love and what it might actually mean to him. At first he (and Mycroft, representing Sherlock’s brain) is very suspiscious and accuses Lady Smallwood of being a killer and a traitor. But at the end of TLD Mycroft considers to actually meet up with her for a drink. ;) Likewise, at the end of TLD Sherlock realises that he must comfort John with a hug rather than with words - Sentiment is important. 

And at the end of TFP he learns that in order to help John, he needs to embrace his crazy sister (who probably represents another, long neglected, part of himself) and start to communicate with her through feelings (= the violin).

The null point from a meta level perspective

But even in a space-time continuum as experienced by Sherlock, why should we place ”O”, the null point of the observer, exactly where I suggest here (immediately after TSoT)? There are many other good and valid ideas about EMP starting points floating around, for example that it would occur when Mary shoots Sherlock in HLV. Or much earlier when he jumps from Barts in TRF. Or even from the very start of the Pilot or at least from ASiP. So what would be particularly convincing about this one? We have no chance of knowing, of course, but I’ll try to argue my case below.

Placing the null point directly after the wedding and making Sherlock’s  transition into EMP self-inflicted by drugs gives the whole show structure a different centre of gravity, because it enhances the importance of Sherlock’s heartbreak as a game turner. Instead of being shot in the chest by an assassin, the real cause of Sherlock entering his EMP becomes his own emotional reaction to John marrying another - adding the prospect of John having a child with them. Which would have started after Sherlock’s deduction about Mary’s pregnancy at the end of TSoT:

That would have ‘sealed the deal’ for Sherlock, wouldn’t it? Whatever would happen with John’s marriage, his responsabilities as a father would weigh heavy on John, limiting whatever spare time he’d have for Sherlock in his life to a mere minimum. The last nail in the coffin… And that’s a far more interesting reason than a gun shot in my opinion, because Sherlock will have to deal with this emotional conundrum in a different way than how he usually solves puzzles. The drugs reason would also be far more canon consistent - as I suggested in this meta long ago (X) - since this is what happens at the end of SIGN, when Watson declares his intention to marry Mary Morstan:

“The division seems rather unfair,”I remarked. “You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?”

“For me,” said Sherlock Holmes, “there still remains the cocaine-bottle.” And he stretched his long white hand up for it.

@victorianpining has elegantly described in this episode (X) of the video series ’TJLC Explained’ how, in many ways, BBC Sherlock has picked up on Billy Wilder’s adaptation, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (TPLoSH). In this film from the 1970:s the real reason behind Holmes’ drug use is strongly hinted at: his frustration over his own desire for Watson.

Also: Assuming an impending S5 and a five-act structure to the show, like @garkgatiss has suggested in this excellent meta (X), each series of BBC sherlock would represent one act. And the midpoint of the show would fall somewhere in the middle of TSoT (perhaps around Sherlock’s speech about the stag night? ;)) Thus the two halves of the show could be folded nicely around this point in TSoT, with 7,5 episodes before and 7,5 episodes after. But what about TAB? The ’Christmas Special’ was said to be separate from the rest of the show, but this wasn’t true, was it? There were ’moden’ scenes in TAB which seemed to be caused by events in HLV, which means TAB would follow logically after it in Sherlock’s space-time continuum. So if we add TAB to the equation, the midpoint would instead fall between TSoT and HLV, with 8 episodes before and 8 after.

A ‘Watsonian’ perspective?

Another possible start for EMP - thus an alternative null point - has been suggested to be the moment when Sherlock jumps from Barts’ hospital in TRF to fake his own suicide (or even the moment when he decides to do this). This could of course be seen as a crucial point; a causal event when Sherlock took a decision that would later perjudicate his whole relationship with John, resulting in John marrying Mary Morstan. But from John’s perspective I think it’s important to remember that he didn’t ’move on’ to marry Mary Morstan immediately after Sherlock jumped and (apparently) died in front of him - however cruel this may have been. No, John finally felt it necessary to ’move on’ because Sherlock stayed ’dead’ for two years, letting John grieve him without even a hint that he was alive. If Sherlock had told John at least shortly afterwards what he was doing and why, I believe much could have been forgiven. And I think this is obvious, both from John’s blog posts and from TEH:

JOHN: One Word, Sherlock. That is all I would have needed. One word to let me know that you were alive.

I’d rather see ’The Fall’ when Sherlock jumps from Barts’ rooftop as a symbol of Sherlock’s ’fall from grace’ in John’s eyes - and probably also in Sherlock’s own eyes. In the scene with the boiling kettle, Moriarty seems to be the ’tempter’ with the apple, and he claims to owe Sherlock ”a fall” - an obvious symbolic reference to the biblical ”Fall of Man” when Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. (I won’t go much further into this here, but maybe Sherlock later on gaining insight about his emotional self and his feelings for John could count as a forbidden, original ‘sin’, that would threaten to break his self-imposed celibacy? The ‘headless nun’ with the intellect stored in the fridge of 221B? Knowledge is power...)

But The Fall, however, was not a crucial point in time when John decided to marry a woman. It was Sherlock’s continued behaviour (= his absence) for a prolonged time period that made that decision necessary in John’s view. So John’s decision - even after Sherlock’s return - to ’move on’ is probably not caused by a single, crucial event, but rather by Sherlock’s whole treatment of John; his (apparent) idea that John was safer and better off without Sherlock, and not capable of confronting a dangerous enemy like Moriarty at Sherlock’s side. Why does John proceed with his wedding plans with Mary even after Sherlock has come back to his life? Because his trust is broken. John can’t risk revealing his true feelings to someone who keeps shutting him out and keeps exposing him to cruel jokes, trying to coax him into confessing things that have no apparent reciprocation.

A ‘Holmesian’ perspective!

But the important thing is, in my opinion, that we’re probably not seeing this show from John’s perspective; we’re seeing it from Sherlock’s point of view. And in Sherlock’s eyes, John marrying Mary, together with the revelation that they’re expecting a child together, would be a far more crucial event than him jumping from Barts. If this null point in time of the observer occurs shortly after Sherlock goes home alone to his ‘solitary confinement’, starts taking drugs while reading John’s blog and in a couple of days loses consciousness due to an OD, then everything we see after that, up until TFP, will only have happened in his head - within a hypothetical light cone of possible future events.

And Mary shooting Sherlock in the heart in HLV would also be merely a symbol of what she did to him by marrying John and (apparently) getting pregnant with him; a metaphor produced by Sherlock’s brain scenario within his potential future light cone.

But I suspect the shot was never real; hence the weird sliding flower pot at the actual moment, and this later image of Mary dressed as a bride with a gun, and even later Moriarty dressed as a bride in TAB - an ’abominable bride’ symbolising Sherlock’s heartbreak. So I don’t think Mary did shoot him; she didn’t have to, because Sentiment was enough to tip Sherlock over the allegorical rooftop. If Moriarty was somehow behind Mary marrying John, he really managed to ’burn Sherlock’s heart out’.

Everything we see before this crucial point in time might be Sherlock’s recollection of past events, inspired by reading John’s blog and projected within his light cone of past time. That doesn’t necessarily mean that everything we see really happened, though; it might be mixed up with little fantasies of Sherlock’s, where he embellished and dramatized the ‘real’ events in scenarios where he could play the hero. And perhaps a very James Bond-like hero at that, based on all the movies John had made him watch, according to both John’s blog (X) and Sherlock’s website (X). Because Sherlock is trying to see everything through John’s eyes, and he thinks John at least used to hero-worship him. 

It might be within this light cone of the past that we see Sherlock do all the things that do make logical sense, yes. But already here we also see him do fantastical, exaggerated things that rather seem taken from action movies. Like short-cutting a taxi by climbing rooftops in ASiP. Or battling a veiled villain, knocking them out and getting rid of them in the short time-window when John went to the grocery’s in TBB. Or traveling to Karachi in no-time to single-handedly save Irene Adler from a bunch of armed terrorists in ASiB. Or the scene where he’s being tortured while his brother is watching in TEH. There’s lots of questionable stuff happening in ASiP-TSoT - much more so than what ever happened in canon.

For this theory to be confirmed, however, we need to finally see the scene when Sherlock takes an overdose after the wedding - or at least be told that it did happen. And this is what S5 could reveal. For now, this is mostly speculation.

OK, so this is basically how I view this show, trying to place it within the concept of time-space continuum proposed by @impatient14. I might not have grasped the terms of this concept properly, but in my view it seems to fit with my points above - please correct me if I’m wrong.

To me it would make sense if the increasing surrealism of the show from HLV to TFP were basically due to three things:

Sherlock’s serious health condition; he’s near death, with the implications this has for his brain activity.

He has lost contact with reality almost completely; he’s operating within a hypothetical, drug-induced universe with its very own natural laws and space-time continuum.

He’s biased by strong emotions; heartbreak, guilt and self-loathing, which makes him draw some incorrect conclusions based on misconceptions about John.

Recurring events - a circular time strand

I’m certainly not the only one who has noticed how the story line seems to fold into itself as this show progresses, and how new versions of things we’ve already seen before seem to come back. In fact, it’s not at all difficult to make a long list of the events and elements that are repeated in BBC Sherlock (X). ’The wheel turns, and nothing is ever new’, as Sherlock says in ASiB. That line originates from canon, by the way; Holmes utters something similar in VALL: 

“Everything comes in circles – even Professor Moriarty. Jonathan Wild was the hidden force of the London criminals, to whom he sold his brains and his organization on a fifteen per cent commission. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.” 

Actually, I think the concept of recurring events was already incorporated into Doyle’s stories. But the time line still at least made some logical sense - roughly. ;-) 

In any case, what we see in BBC Sherlock - especially S4 - is not how time works for a human being living in the real world. Even if some things sometimes seem to repeat themselves in our lives, and even if our time sometimes appear to pass faster and other times slower, we don’t usually experience our lifetime as circular or even spiral, do we? These things might occur in a dream world, though; in a space-time continuum constructed inside someone’s brain. 

In @impatient14’s meta, Sherlock’s statements in TST and TLD are quoted, where he claims he could totally predict the future if he only had enough data:

The world is woven from billions of lives, every strand crossing every other. What we call premonition is just movement of the web. If you could attenuate to every strand of quivering data, the future would be entirely calculable, as inevitable as mathematics.

An advanced grasp of the mathematics of probability mapped onto a thorough apprehension of human psychology and the known dispositions of any given individual can reduce the number of variables considerably. I myself know of at least fifty-eight techniques to refine this seemingly infinite array of randomly generated possibilities down to the smallest number of feasible variables.

I correctly anticipated the responses of people I know well to scenarios I devised? Can’t everyone do that?

And already at the end of ASiP, Sherlock claimed something similar:

The thing is, though: while these things in theory may be totally cool in Sherlock’s imagination, where his own brain controls everything, in our real, physical world it’s still impossible. 

No human being is omnipotent or omniscient. But inside his drug-influenced brain, Sherlock might like to believe that this is his super-power. It’s not credible though, that someone could foresee events with the precision that Sherlock predicts them in TLD, because there are simply too many “feasible variables” to keep track on. No one can collect that much data. But if you recycle old, already collected data, you might come up with some new combinations of it. Just look at the world Sherlock dreamed up in S4! This is not a realistic future based on correct predictions; it’s a dystopic future where no one is happy and everything is bleak and depressing, but it’s also absurd and surrealistic. Because the person doing the modelling is only human; he’s biased by his own emotions and bad experiences.

John’s blog as a “second opinion”

If we assume that the null point indeed occurs shortly after John’s wedding, that also coincides with the point in time when John’s blog stops updating. Up till that point, we have been able to read John’s own version of the events as a kind of ’second opinion’ - like the one you get from a second doctor. :)

As I see it, John’s blog is the litteral ‘Watsonian perspective’; the blog, rather than the show, is the equivalent of Watson’s stories published in the Strand Magazine. And the blog posts have also been fairly consistent with the order of the events in the show. When we read John’s blog, it’s not difficult to form a coherent plot line in our heads from it. All in all, even with all their fantastic ’adventures’ described, I think the blog is a fairly logical recollection of events, and the conclusions of the crime cases do make sense - at least to the point we can expect from a fictional story. The problem is, hovewer, that the real-life blog stops updating mid-show, directly after TSoT, which is rather illogical. What happened there? This fact would only make sense to me within the context of what we can see in the show, if the stopping has an in-story reason. But in TST (which bears the name of an old blog post!) the blogging has seemingly continued. In TST we can see several cases described on John’s blog which never actually appear on the stopped version online.

The discrepancy between John’s blog and the weird references to it in S4 is particularly interesting, I believe. Since these S4 blogposts are never confirmed by the real, online blog, it gives food for the suspicion that they are all made up by Sherlock’s brain. And why do people, like nurse Cornish in TLD, talk about the blog as if it were Sherlock’s rather than John’s? Because Sherlock is the author of the very last post on the online version (X); he obviously hacked John’s blog after the wedding and took over it, while John was occupied with his "sex holiday” with Mary. Sherlock’s excuse was to publish some wedding photos, but neither them nor Sherlock’s claims about having solved the cases of The Bloody Guardsman and The Mayfly Man seem to impress John. In his comments to Sherlock’s hacked wedding post, John does not confirm that Sherlock solved these two cases. Instead, he tells Sherlock to stop.

From Sherlock’s perspective, reading John’s blogposts as well as his readers’ comments, would have been a great support for Sherlock’s memory; he could have used them as inspiration and incentive to re-live the events in his mind to try to better understand John. One interesting thing with the blog is that the order in time of the posts seems to fit with the order in which the events can be seen in the show. There are cases written on the blog that aren’t presented in the show, or even referred to, but most of the cases that John describes on the blog also figure in the show - either as full-blown plot lines or referred to by Sherlock and other characters. All in all, I think John’s blog represents a fairly coherent story arc, up until his wedding in TSoT when it suddenly stops.

But if this marks the null point when Sherlock loses contact with reality, Sherlock’s perspective might begin to differ more and more from John’s perspective, right? The order of certain events in Sherlock’s EMP might also be altered, if his mind no longer needs to experience them in a coherent order. Which might explain, for example, why he recycles a case - The Six Thatchers - that already has been described by John on the blog years ago (X), but in S4 it’s casted with almost entirely new ’actors’. Please note that the original case of The Six Thatchers is never referenced in the show. It doesn’t contribute to ’our’ (Sherlock’s) story, nor does it have the potential to alter it in any way. It could be said to have no causal influence on Sherlock’s null point, nor on his light-cone of future events. But the case could still be stored somewhere in Sherlock’s subconcious, right?

Causality and non-causality

In Wikipedia’s explanation of the space-time continuum, there’s also a part (see ’Relativity of simultaneity’, X) that explains how different observers’ experiences of the order of events could differ, depending on the speed with which they travel, provided that these events have no causal influence over each other. In the presentation of the light cones, these events are space-related rather than time-related, and are said to occur ‘elsewhere’. If an observer approaches the speed of light, they can even experience these not-causally-connected events in a reversed order, due to their own altered frame of reference:

Not that Sherlock physically can travel with the speed of light, of course, but inside his imagination this would not be a problem, because his thoughts can travel very fast, so following physical laws is not required.

An interesting thing about the Thatcher case is that in TST:s recycled version, Sherlock seems to have inserted the case in a new setting into his EMP, fitting it into a time strand with a causal chain of events within his light cone of possible future. Because this time the Thatcher case definitely has an impact on the events that follow. The smashed Thatcher busts lead Sherlock to the memory stick, which in turn leads him to Mary and him and John to Morocco, a story which ultimately leads to Vivian Norbury and to Mary’s death. All these events are now causally linked in Sherlock’s EMP.

John’s version of their time together is more ‘down-to-earth’, though, even if John sometimes appear to be a slightly unreliable narrator. It’s an ‘alternate historical source’, if you like. The blog is still useful, in my opinion, to confirm the ‘authenticity’ of different events in the show. Thanks to the blog, we can find evidence that John’s wedding truly occurred, and that Mary really exists, because Sherlock has posted documentation - wedding photos - on John’s blog, and Mary has made several comments on the blog. (We don’t actually have Mary’s pregnancy confirmed by herself on the blog; when Sherlock mansplains that she needs to avoid seafood alludes to it in a comment, she merely tells him to shut up). 

But the show represents, I believe, Sherlock’s own perspective. While reading the blog he also, of course, would add his own memories to the experiences. If Sherlock was affected by drugs already while reading, that could explain all of the weird scenes in ASiP - TSoT mentioned above, which don’t appear very realistic and aren’t mentioned on the blog.

This explanation - with or without the space-time continuum - is of course not something I’m sure of, it’s merely a hypothesis. Anyone is welcome to try to debunk it. :) But this far I haven’t been able to find any convincing evidence against it. The fact that Sherlock’s OD would have occurred ’off stage’ is not a problem in my opinion, because

a) this method of reasoning backwards to reach a solution which is not shown in the story but still most likely has ocurred, is very much Sherlock Holmes’ MO already in canon and

b) his OD is talked about a lot in TAB, and still we never actually see it happen.

As far as I can see, all the ingredients are there, but the time sequence in which they occur is twisted and folded in on itself:

Sherlock’s ‘week of solitary confinement’ before his OD (described by Mycroft in TAB) happens in TLD, when Sherlock isolates himself at 221B taking drugs 

Sherlock’s OD happens in TAB

Sherlock being taken to hospital happens in HLV

Hints of different life-threatening health problems and hospital equipment are sprinkled all over S4, but they don’t have a logically satisfactory context

Maybe this could be explained because in Sherlock’s mind, these events are not causally linked - they occur ‘elsewhere’. He hasn’t yet fully recognised what he’s been doing to himself and the real reason why. This realisation remains for the next series to explore, along with Sherlock’s solution to get out of the situation. In the mean time, he’s woven them into his alternate inner universe with a hypothetical time strand where they are not causally linked.

Predictions...

... are of course very difficult to make for BBC Sherlock - especially since the show makers still refuse to give us any details as to whether we’ll even have a fifth series and when, in that case. And there are so many ‘feasible variables’ to take into account. So maybe it’s more interesting to see what we might draw from canon? Doyle treated his audience very much the same, when he killed off Sherlock Holmes and remained silent about his future for a decade. But, as I mentioned earlier, there are differences. The plot line we’ve seen this far in BBC Sherlock seems to go on and on in circles, frozen in time, with our two eternal friends “sitting arguing in a scruffy flat”, where we could imagine that ‘it’s always 1895′:

But ACD canon’s ending was far more open-ended and took place at the beginning of a new century. In LAST we learn that Holmes and Watson have indeed aged and at least Holmes, who supposedly no longer lives at 221B, has retired to Sussex Downs and written a handbook about beekeeping. Except for this last case, where he very much acts as a Bond-like action hero still going strong. As a double agent in disguise, Holmes effectively fools and wrestles down his opponent, saves his country from enemy attacks and then he steps into a modern car with Watson at the wheel, and they travel together into the future. I so wish that Sidney Paget had made an illustration of this, but we are left to our own deductions about it... ;-). Instead, I’ll post this picture of Claridge’s Hotel, London, where Holmes told Martha Hudson in LAST that he was now staying:

Claridge’s is a famous, still existing, five-star hotel not very far from Baker Street and - ironically - equally close to the subway station Bond Street. :-) From the video on their website (X) we can indulge in any fantasy about Holmes spending a couple of nights in this glamorous luxury hotel with his Watson (maybe a prompt for a fan fiction?): There is nowhere quite like Claridge’s. The hotel began life in 1856 and soon attracted royal notice. During the 1920s it became an English institution; an art deco landmark, loved by movie stars and statesmen, fashion designers and global dignitaries. 

As for BBC Sherlock, I think the dystopic, circular plot line needs to be broken in S5, even if we won’t reach the speed of light; John and Sherlock literally need to run out from Rathbone place. Even if the plot line didn’t advance in S4, there still has been a lot of character development, at least for Sherlock. If we’ll indeed have a S5, I expect Sherlock to be able to now act on his new insights and experiences in the physical world, even if it turns out that some of them only took place inside his own head. I do expect some true progression of the plot line in S5, I do expect to see a similar character development in John and that certain predominant issues with this show - like heteronormativity - will finally be properly addressed.

Well, hereby endeth the monster post. Thanks to anyone patient enough to have followed my ramblings this far! :) Tagging some people who might be interested.

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Omg you are the first person i hear who didnt like exit west! Why is that, if i may inquire?

Of course, I'll never turn down a question about books lol. This is going to sound super bitchy probably so to qualify I don't think it's like a ~bad book~, it just really fell flat with me. Also I grade Hamid's work on a steep curve since imo he's such a talented writer--The Reluctant Fundamentalist is among one of my favorite novels.

I guess the first thing is that the magical realism aspect really didn't grab me. I love magical realism if it's done well but I'm picky about it, and unless you really work at it I think 'magical realism trope as an allegory for a social issue' can feel kind of hokey and juvenile. And that leads into my overarching critique of the book, which is that it felt more like a parable or a morality play than a fully fleshed-out novel without all the rough edges sanded off. The things that are used to make it feel universal (the city the two main characters are from and the conflict that's ongoing being unnamed, for instance) also make it feel one-dimensional. And there's a sort of flatness to the moral dimension of the story (refugees good, people trying to keep them out bad--which isn't wrong, but in a fictional context it's also not interesting) that is so different from his earlier novels. Part of what I loved about The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and especially How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is that the main characters are all ethically complicated people and you change your mind about how you feel towards them throughout the novel even though (at least for me) you're still rooting for them.

I think a lot of the reception to Exit West is due to when it was released--it came out in March 2017, just months after the start of the Trump presidency and the Muslim ban and less than a year after the Brexit vote. At that moment support for immigrants and refugees was, among a certain subset of people, at an all-time high and I think a lot of the acclaim the novel got was less about it's specific merits and more people wanting to show support for the values it stood for. Which again isn't necessarily bad and you could certainly praise Hamid for writing something so timely--but I found it boring. I don't think it had a lot of profound things to say about the migration crisis and I basically read it in one day in the summer of 2017 and haven't thought about it since. Whereas I've read TRF multiple times and I think it's the best, or one of the best, works of art grappling with 9/11.