#bonnie macbird

[holmesxwatson]

The face of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, floated hazily above mine with an expression of fearful concern. “Watson!  Watson!”

Original watercolor illustration by Bonnie MacBird in the style of Sidney Paget (x)

[coupleofdays]

The TRON first script draft

Last year, the wonderful @greetingsprogram1982 managed to acquire a copy of the first script draft for the film TRON, scanned it, an uploaded the pages as jpgs here on Tumblr. I have now taken the liberty to convert these scanned pages into a pdf file and upload it to The Internet Archive, in order to hopefully preserve this important historical artifact a little better (many of you are probably aware that Tumblr isn't exactly the ideal place to archive things long-term for various reasons):

I can highly recommend that any fan of the original TRON movie check out this script draft, if you haven't already done so. It's a fascinating read, containing scenes and concepts that didn't make it into the final film (and missing some parts that would be added later), and versions of the movie characters who are very different from what they eventually ended up being.

Again, huge thanks to @greetingsprogram1982 for scanning the script in the first place!

[80smovies]

[detectivejay]

I'm sure this has been done countless times, but polls are fun and I'm curious, so... For the purposes of this poll, I'm only counting shows/books/games/etc. where Sherlock is a main or very prominent secondary character, there's a decent amount of other Sherlock canon characters represented (at least a version of a John Watson), and there are some references made to the ACD originals. Not counting where he's only a relative of the lead but not a main (like Enola Holmes, RKDD, etc.)

Not counting the ACD original canon as an adaptation here, as none of these would exist without it. Everything else listed is adapting it in some way.

There's also some series I haven't watched/read yet but have been recommended that aren't on here yet for the purposes of space, including Detective L, Miss Sherlock and the Bonnie MacBird Sherlock books.

Feel free to reblog this for a larger sample size :)

[swamp-adder]

sorry if this has been asked already, but do you know of any decent pastiches that involve holmes getting put through the wringer? (mentally or physically, i'm not picky). i know that watson being kidnapped or otherwise put in a position of distress by some baddie is a fairly common trope, but i haven't seen much of the reverse.

Good question! Let's see... I'm going off memories here, which might not be 100% accurate, but here are the ones I can think of:

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer -- the obvious one lol

Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula by Stephen Seitz -- this one is extremely silly but Holmes does go through some shit in it

The Thinking Engine by James Lovegrove -- another one that's very silly/cracky, but IIRC has a part where Holmes gets addicted to a new drug and starts spiraling down mentally before begging Watson to "save" him

Art in the Blood by Bonnie MacBird -- has Holmes getting tortured by the baddies

Dust and Shadow by Lindsay Faye -- I think this had a certain amount of Holmes angst?

I'd love to read more though, if anyone else has any recs!

[hathorneheiress]

1-25 also hehe

Mockingjay

I actually can't remember. Maybe Catching fire?

The inheritance games. The naturals. The Librarians.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Bonnie Macbird.

The Belladonna series. I got the first book and didn't even read it!!

Narnia

I don't know.

Grayson Hawthorne. Edmund Pevensie. (He was my first fictional crush!!)

A sherlock Holmes book. Can't remember the title.

the Brothers Hawthorne

i hope I answer this right, but i love nerdy book smart men. Especially if he is a librarian.

Stupid love triangles.

Grayson Hawthorne.

I have a lot! Grayson Hawthorne. Avery Grambs. Flynn Carsen. Johanna Mason.

The Grandest Game

Once upon a broken heart

Art in the blood. (Sherlock Holmes)

Watson

Narnia

Moriarty

My bed

The Hungr games series

not sure.

two hours for a 300 page book.

Don't have one. Whatever I feel like reading.

[maryversusthemovies]

A computer programmer gets sucked into the mainframe of his former employer and does battle with a malevolent artificial intelligence in a futuristic world right out of a black-light poster. One of Walt Disney Pictures’ better forays into science fiction brings us a visually-dazzling world, but that doesn’t quite make up for a story that’s both nonsensical and a bit of a slog.

Starring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, and Barnard Hughes. Written by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird. Directed by Steven Lisberger. Music by Wendy Carlos.

Episode 150 - Tron

https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-150-tron-1982

[antvnger]

((You like the mystery genre? 👀 Can you recommend some books? I'm always on the lookout for new mystery books to read!))

((I’m the same way, Anon! I’m always on the lookout for new things to read! I’m happy to help out with this. This is one of those kinds of things I always love to help with lol.

I compiled a list with variety, so hopefully you’ll find something here that you would like. And a lot of these are the starts of series as well! I put a ** by ones that are of a series.))

The June Boys - Court Stevens

We Were Kings - Court Stevens

Thr3e - Ted Dekker

Obsessed - Ted Dekker

Stalking Jack the Ripper - Keri Maniscalo**

Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz**

The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz

The Tarleton Murders - Breck England

A Study in Scarlet Women - Sherry Thomas**

The Stuff of Nightmares - James Lovegrove** (not technically but he writes a lot of books in this category)

Comes a Horseman - Robert Liparulo

Art in the Blood - Bonnie MacBird**

Vicious - V.E. Schwab** (not really a mystery but worth the read)

The Gray Man - Mark Greaney** (not really a mystery but worth the read)

Hope this helps! And this is just a fraction of my little library, so if you need more I’ll see what I can come up with.

Good luck and happy reading!!))

[soultoken-archived]

GET TO KNOW THE MUN.

what's your phone wallpaper: a wonderful drawing of solaire during the game and in the bad ending; i also have a reading mode with a different wallpaper ( even if i rarely activate it ) with one of the thumbnail art of detective void. last song you listened to: "the bends" by doomtree. full welcome to night vale mood, i'm listening to it in loop because i have a literal animated video in my head with it. currently reading: "the devil's due" by bonnie macbird. it's so good up to now, and i'm always happy to read more sherlock holmes story written well! <3 last movie: "dungeons and dragons: honour among thieves"! i think it became my actual new favourite movie and ultimate comfort movie, i literally cried when i told my therapist about it. technically i saw other movies in between, but the dnd movie was the last one i actually sit down and watched start to finish, instead of keeping it as background. what are you wearing: long sleeved black shirt with a space jam shirt on top ( i'm COLD okay ), black jeans, and double socks ( i am VERY cold don't judge me :C ). piercings / tattoos: none, but i'd love to have a tattoo one day! i even know already some i'd like to have. almost all of them are borderlands-themed. glasses / contacts or both?: glasses! i used briefly contacts, and i still know how to use them, but i don't have the money to take them. and also i like glasses enough. <3 last thing you ate: pasta with red ragout, cooked by yours truly! <3 favorite color(s): sapphire blue is the absolute favourite. current obsession: MMMHH i'd say darkest dungeon 2 and welcome to night vale. i have my head full of cecil all the time, it's ABSURD the inspiration i have for him. do you have a crush?: gestures at gio!! <3 favorite fictional character?: sherlock holmes. the books one, not the [ waves ] others. read the books, please, i swear he's SUCH a wonderful character, PLEASE JOIN ME. IT FEELS LONELY HERE.

tagged by: i stole it from gio. <3 tagging: anyone who wants to do it!

[emptymanuscript]

While it is almost certainly a FAKE, I think it's much more interesting to talk about HOW to figure out it does not exist.

One of the easiest ways to check on a movie is IMDB. Most movies you are going to run into are on there.

It's extremely easy to simply plug in a title and see what comes up. Simulacrum yields:

The only film in this list that is not identified as a short or podcast is the horror film produced, directed, edited, and starring Jeff Blank, so that's probably not it.

And you rarely get shorts alone on a video tape. So if it is a real film, it's unlisted or listed under a different name.

However, it isn't just movies on IMDB. You can look up every piece of information on that box.

On the back I can see SFX team behind Aliens and the writer of Tron. On the front I can make out the names of Actress Sophie Ward, Music by Stephen Parsons (or possibly Barsons), Scott Atkins, and Jeff Griffith.

You can look up all those names on IMDB as well.

There are several Sophie Wards but not all of them are actresses which means they're the wrong Sophie Wards because only the movie stars get that kind of top line. Note also the dates of work.

Looking through their pages, there's no projects suggestive of this one.

If you go through the notes, someone scanned the barcode on the picture. Which I tried but couldn't manage. So I tried the number under the barcode in several databases and didn't find anything in there either. But assuming they know better sites than I do (I won't link to what I used since I didn't get a return), they found:

Note the similarities and differences. This says that some of the elements are correct for sure but that some of the elements may not be original. It's almost but not quite a match. So that's something to watch for. But I note TRON and 'TRON' was also on Simulacrum. The use of apostrophe might be due to it being Turkish but is another suspicion raised.

So let's look at Tron. IMDB lists two writers for Tron.

Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird. Lisberger has nothing that could possibly be Simulacrum. He's mostly Tron. The other two are an animal thing and Hot Pursuit, an 80's sex comedy. So, definitely no. MacBird is also mostly Tron except for a TV movie called Squeakers. So, also, a definite no.

There's a lot of negatives coming up. By the time I get three, my assumption is a fake.

But let's try one more thing. Terminator meets Twin Peaks. That's catchy, memorable, I wonder if that might yield a hit. And what I notice immediately is that there are no results off Tumblr. Everything I'm hitting is a reference back to this cover. That's a really good indication that it doesn't exist outside of Tumblr. Even one of the two unrelated things listing "Terminator meets Twin Peaks" that isn't about this particular thing is a tumblr page. The only non tumblr, non comment about this particular picture is a facebook post (in Finnish according to google translate) which says some of the music that was made was like that.

That's it.

That's a lot of dead ends. I could keep going on to look through the people who worked on the special effects but at this point, it's wise to ask what evidence there is that the movie is real at all?

It comes from ebay, bought based on the description instead of a pre-existing memory, because it sounded cool. There's not a tape of it - the tape in the box was a different movie. Just this cover with the description in one language and the review quotes in another. Someone in the notes thinks they might maybe remember something like it.

That's it.

So now there's quite a bit to say, no, this isn't real, and next to nothing saying it is real. So the balance of probability is that it's a fake.

So, why go through all this?

Because this is what you can do next time you hit something like this. If you aren't sure if something is real, this is how to get a pretty good bead on the facts for yourself. We can have every piece of information at your fingertips but you have to work with it.

The basics are:

List what you need to know (the goal) - in this case, is Simulacrum a real film or a fake.

List what you know - in this case title, actress, writer, musician, producer, vague era of release, bar code, etc. What the packaging looks like. How the artifact was found. That the tape was a different movie. Etc.

List what you don't know - I don't know if these people made a movie like this. I don't know if it could have been released under another title. I don't know if I got scammed. I don't know if it was an error on the part of the seller. Etc.

List ways you could find out what you don't know - Go check the the credits in IMDB. Try looking up the barcode on google. See if anyone else has the same problem. Contact the ebay seller about it. etc.

Accept that the more information you have, even if you can't have perfect knoweldge, the more likely the outcome of your search reflects ultimate reality.

You absolutely can find all this stuff by yourself. It isn't magic. It's problem solving: What do I need? What do I have to help me meet that need? What do I have in the way of that need? What can I do in order to bridge the gap between all that? That's it. That's all. And the more you do it, the easier it will get.

Real 90s sci-fi, or the next Goncharov?

I bought this movie on ebay, but the VHS tape inside is a different film. The movie on the cover sounds really cool: "Terminator meets Twin Peaks". But the description on the back cover is in Turkish, I think (!) Does 'Simulacrum' actually exist? It's weird dystopian sci-fi with two female leads, and would have been made in the late-80s/early-90s.

[ulkaralakbarova]

When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world…and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Kevin Flynn / Clu: Jeff Bridges Alan Bradley / Tron: Bruce Boxleitner Ed Dillinger / Sark / Voice of Master Control Program: David Warner Lora / Yori: Cindy Morgan Dr. Walter Gibbs / Dumont: Barnard Hughes Ram/Popcorn Co-Worker: Dan Shor Crom: Peter Jurasik Peter / Sark’s Lieutenant: Tony Stephano Warrior #1: Craig Chudy Warrior #2: Vince Deadrick Jr. Expert Disc Warrior: Sam Schatz Conscript #2: Michael Dudikoff Head Guard: Jackson Bostwick Film Crew: Original Music Composer: Wendy Carlos Visual Effects Design Consultant: Steven Lisberger Producer: Harrison Ellenshaw Producer: Donald Kushner Executive Producer: Ron Miller Director of Photography: Bruce Logan Editor: Jeff Gourson Casting: Pam Polifroni Production Design: Syd Mead Production Design: Dean Mitzner Art Direction: John B. Mansbridge Art Direction: Al Roelofs Set Decoration: Roger M. Shook Costume Design: Rosanna Norton Conceptual Design: Jean Giraud Stunts: Ross Reynolds Story: Bonnie MacBird Costume Design: Elois Jenssen Stunts: Glenn R. Wilder Stunts: Larry Holt Stunts: Charlie Picerni Stunts: Gary Epper Stunts: Walter Scott Stunt Coordinator: Richard E. Butler Production Sound Mixer: James LaRue Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Lee Minkler Costumer: Lorry Richter Costumer: Nedra Rosemond-Watt Visual Effects: Chris Wedge Visual Effects: John Beach Visual Effects: Tom Bisogno Visual Effects: Nancy Hunter Campi Visual Development: Larry Elin Digital Compositor: Liza Moon Visual Effects Camera: John Aardal Systems Administrators & Support: Richard ‘Dr.’ Baily Visual Effects Camera: Don Baker Visual Effects: William Dungan Jr. Digital Compositor: Art Durinski Visual Effects Camera: Kris Gregg Visual Effects Camera: Patric Kenly Digital Supervisor: Jeffrey Kleiser Systems Administrators & Support: Bill Kovacs Animation: Donald Leich Visual Effects: Larry Malone Systems Administrators & Support: Tim McGovern Visual Effects: Malcolm McMillan Animation: Gene Miller Visual Effects Supervisor: Kenny Mirman Visual Effects: Craig Reynolds Systems Administrators & Support: Frank Vitz Production Coordinator: Lynn Wilkinson Camera Supervisor: Christopher Dusendschon Technical Supervisor: John Hughes Visual Effects Camera: Peg Hunter Animation: Barry Cook Storyboard Artist: Bill Kroyer Storyboard Designer: Jerry Rees Animation: Darrell Rooney Animation: John T. Van Vliet Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Roger Allers Storyboard Artist: Andrew Gaskill Conceptual Design: Chris Lane Conceptual Design: Peter Mueller Concept Artist: John Norton Art Designer: John Alvin Concept Artist: Michael Peraza Jr. Art Designer: Drew Struzan Movie Reviews: r96sk: An acquired taste. For me, someone who has no knowledge of computer programming and the sort, it’s a very slow, tedious and boring watch. ‘Tron’, unfortunately, didn’t take my interest whatsoever. Not helped by the poor special effects (they get a pass due to it being an 1982 release; though I’m not convinced it’s good either way) and forgettable cast performances, it’s not a premise that’s easy to get into if you have no prior understanding of coding etc. There is some intrigue in there, but not nearly enough to satisfy my viewing pleasure – it felt like a much longer run time than 96 minutes, that’s for sure. All cool if you love this, but I very much didn’t. Hopefully the 2010 sequel gives the concept a major boost. CinemaSerf: I saw this again yesterday – it’s 40 years old! I didn’t see it at the time, I was one of those kids who hadn’t the slightest interest in “Space Invaders” nor did I ever have an Atari, but I do recall the fuss that was being made about Disney’s first foray into the wor...

[holmesxwatson]

Bonnie MacBird's Sherlock Holmes Adventures series

I'm continuing my lifelong quest to find and read all the adaptations and pastiches of Sherlock Holmes adventures that I can find, especially the Victorian-era ones. I just finished reading Bonnie MacBird's Sherlock Holmes adventures. They have the usual setup of the author finding copies of unpublished Watson stories. These were fun little adventures with plenty of those wholesome Holmes & Watson vibes I'm always looking for. I would say that the characterization of their relationship trends more towards the Granada characterization, except that in most of these stories Watson is married to Mary. There's definitely a good amount of hurt/comfort going on as well as another staple that I love, the coveted third-party-characters-noticing-how-much-Holmes-and-Watson-care-about-each-other vibe. As for the mysteries, I'm not a good judge as to whether they hold up, I literally do not care as long as Holmes and Watson are correct lol.

There are four novels plus a Christmas novella in this series so far, and what looks like a fifth book coming in 2025. I listened to all of these in audiobook format. The first book is narrated by Thomas Judd and all the rest are narrated by Simon Darwen.

series page on Goodreads (x)

series page on amazon (x)

Here’s my goodreads shelf with all kinds of Sherlock Holmes books that I’ve read or am hoping to read. Let me know if you have any recs!

[romanathree]

1, 15, 38 and 40 for book recs :)

HELLO FRIEND :D @thebraxiatelcollection

1. a book close to your heart: I’m gonna say the night circus because I read it for the first time around the end of 2017. It’s the book that really started my book collection so I have a special place for it in my heart 😊♥️

15. a book rec you really enjoyed: ohhhh so many!! I recently read Art in the Blood by Bonnie Macbird and that whole series was incredible— definitely some of the best mysteries I’ve ever consumed. I highly recommend!, Also gonna recommend an adult fantasy for you: Rage of Dragons (by Evan Winters)

38. your favourite series: well, technically my favorite series is gallifrey whahah, but for books i have a few favorites such as the shades of magic trilogy, arc of a scythe trilogy, lord of the rings, the stormlight archive, and anything by elizabeth lim (I also read the gilded wolves trilogy and the shadow of the fox trilogy this year which were both very enjoyable series!)

40. a book with a black cover: piranesi by Susanna Clarke or Frenchman’s Creek by daphne du maurier (both have beautiful writing and black covers)

[the-nerdy-autist]

James Lovegrove, Bonnie MacBird, Lyndsay Faye the holy trinity of pastiches.

They’re everything to me

(Book is Sherlock Holmes and the Three Winters Terrors by James Lovegrove)

[detectivejay]

Detective/Mystery Media List

Open to more recommendations if I’m missing any favorites I should check out, let me know! Particularly any other good Sherlock adaptations, but also interested in finding more female, PoC and/or queer-led detective media.

Watched/read/played/etc:

Sherlock Holmes (ACD canon)

Sherlock - Basil Rathbone adaptation film series

Sherlock - Granada, Jeremy Brett adaptation TV series (some episodes, need to rewatch) - shoutout to @thegreatandlovablespacedorito for reminding me to revisit this one

BBC Sherlock TV series

Sherlock - Robert Downey Jr movies

Enola Holmes (movies)

Moriarty the Patriot/Yuumori (manga and anime)

Ron Kamanohashi: Deranged Detective/Forbidden Deductions aka RKDD (anime, need to read the manga)

Hercule Poirot novels (not all but a large portion) - need to watch more of the TV show Spenser novels by Robert B Parker (not all but a large portion)

Auguste C Dupin - The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (short story)

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (book)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (book)

Case Closed / Detective Conan (anime, some episodes/seasons)

Knives Out movies

Psych TV series

Only Murders in the Building TV series (caught up to the current season)

The Dresden Files books

Brookyln 99 TV series

House MD TV series

True Detective TV series

Monk TV series (watched some episodes)

Murder She Wrote (a few scattered episodes)

Hannibal TV series

Bones TV series (some episodes, not all)

Fargo movie and TV series (watched some episodes)

White Collar TV series

Justified TV series

Miami Vice TV series

Nash Bridges TV series

Killing Eve TV series

The Clue movie

Anita Blake book series (up to book 10)

Some Nancy Drew books

Ace Attorney video games (AA1-AA6 plus Investigations 1)

Professor Layton video games (not all but I believe at least the first 3)

Sherlock Hound

The Great Mouse Detective

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century

Inspector Gadget cartoon

Scooby Doo cartoons

The Boxcar Children

Detective Pikachu movie

The Case Study of Vanitas (anime/manga)

The Millionaire Detective - Balance: Unlimited (anime) - @prapo237 got me into this one x3 so silly

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (read years ago, need to watch the show) - recommended by @holisticcomedian

Currently watching/reading/playing/etc:

Sherlock - Elementary TV series (on 2nd season, getting close to season 3)

The Invisible Library novel series by Genevieve Cogman recommended by a friend IRL - up to book 6 currently, The Secret Chapter

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (video game duology, includes Herlock Sholmes, almost finished with game 1)

Ace Attorney Investigations 2 (video game)

Persona 5 (video game) recommended by friends on the JR Discord

Sherlock Holmes and Co - podcast (currently listening to The Dancing Men Part 3, thanks to suggestions from @wasabitheweirdo and @cuil-chan)

To watch/read/play/etc:

My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files manga suggested on the JR Discord

Detective L - Chinese Sherlock-inspired TV series on Youtube recommended by @meg-pond

Miss Sherlock - Japanese series also suggested by @meg-pond

Bodkin TV series on Netflix - Irish, female-led, recommended by @rubycountess

Columbo TV series

Remington Steele

Murder on the Orient Express movie

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes film

Bonnie MacBird Sherlock Holmes books recommended by @romanathree

Soviet made Sherlock Holmes film recommended by @imlostatau on Youtube

Famous Five books

Midsomer Murders TV series

Twin Peaks TV series

Mindhunter TV series

Murdoch Mysteries TV series

Death in Paradise TV series

Phryne Fisher's murder mysteries books and TV show recommended by @milenathebrave

Turner and Hooch TV series

Magnum PI TV series

Father Brown TV series

The Professionals movie

Homeland TV series

Cadfael TV series

Broadchurch TV series

Criminal Minds TV series

Shetland TV series

Police procedural shows like NCIS, CSI, etc.

Baskerville play by Ken Ludwig suggested by @wolfyraged

Without a Clue suggested by @helloliriels

Young Sherlock suggested by @helloliriels

Vera Stanhope novels by Ann Cleeves suggested by @nightshadezombie

Charlotte Holmes books by Sherry Thomas suggested by @lej418

Sherlock Holmes stories by Anthony Horowitz ("House Of Silk" and "Moriarty") recommended by @bringerofworlds

Miss Marple novels by Agatha Christie

Any other Agatha Christie novels I haven’t read (Sad Cypress recommended by @romanathree )

AJ Raffles books by William Hornung recommended by @romanathree

Dead Boy Detectives on Netflix

The Hardy Boys books and TV series

Elemental Masters by Mercedes Lackey

Holmes, Marple and Poe by James Patterson - curious to see how this book treats these original characters inspired by the greats, the new characters are Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple (maybe related to Jane Marple?) and Auguste Poe (takes his first name from Poe’s detective, Auguste Dupin)

The rest of the Dupin stories

The rest of the Raymond Chandler books

More Arsene Lupin stories (including ones vs Herlock Sholmes)

Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout

Pet Shop of Horrors anime/manga recommended by @eden-falls

Otherside Picnic recommended by @eden-falls

Lonely Castle in the Mirror recommended by @eden-falls

The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison, saw this one posted recently by @seeingteacupsindragons and I'm curious so added it to the list

Magnus Archives horror/thriller mystery podcast recommended by @writingandwritten

EDIT: Last updated 12/2/24

[hathorneheiress]

What is your favorite book by the cover? And have you ever bought a book based mostly on the cover?

Hmm.

I love the inheritance games covers. They are very pretty. I also have a sherlock holmes series by an author named Bonnie macbird and I love the covers!

No I haven't. But I have judged a book by its cover. I thankfully still bought it and it's one of my favorite books.

Please send more!! I love answering questions!!