#mystery serial

[sjstone-author]

In ‘Sesame Swallow’s Christmas Caper,’ the city of Frederick, MD, faces chaos as a cherished Christmas ornament vanishes, casting a shadow over the festive season. As private investigator Sesame Swallow delves into town secrets, she uncovers a plot to ruin the Christmas celebration and shame the mayor. Racing against time, Sesame must unravel the mystery, save the mayor’s reputation, and restore the spirit of Christmas.

[txttabloid]

Some art I did for PMD day

Commission sheet

Murder drones Fankid server

Reblogs are much appreciated

[ask-team-domination]

Who is that strange Pokemon?

Ask Hints | Rules | Next Part

Reblogs are much appreciated

[phantomcellar]

[greenerteacups]

What do you think of jkr as a writer? I for one has always felt like she didn’t treat her female characters well. It felt strange, being critical of her when she was god queen of the earth, and also being 10

I think most of the problems in her books can be chalked up to genre hopping. Books 1-3 are perfectly good and serviceable children's books — great children's books, even! They have compelling, relatable characters and juicy mystery plots. They have problems, sure, but for the first three books someone's ever written — especially someone with little or no background in creative writing — they're really fucking good. So: there's her flowers.

The last four books pivot sharply into much more emotionally complicated and sociopolitically loaded territory, because they're describing a war. And it's hard to write children's books about war. I would venture you can't really do it, at least without dramatically misrepresenting what war is! And so Rowling makes the executive decision somewhere during the writing of Book 4 that she's not going to flinch away from that, she's going to go for dramatic realism, and she kills Cedric Diggory to let us know. People had died in Harry Potter before, of course — Quirrell gets sent to the fucking shadow realm, for example. But children haven't. (It also gives parents who are reading these books with their children a warning shot: shit is about to get significantly more real, think twice before you buy the next one of these for your 10-year-old.) After that, Rowling starts leaning much more into dramatic realism, and the fast-paced mystery-novel plotting of the first few books is replaced by a slow, simmering political conflict that unfurls over the course of about a million words.

The problem — besides the fact that she's picking one of the hardest things to write about, like, in all of literature, war is really insanely complicated and emotionally intense and hard to portray well — is that she's now trying to use characters, plot points, and technologies she developed for a children's series to enact a sprawling war drama among teenagers and adults. So Hermione, who was a reasonably precocious snobby eleven-year-old, becomes this sort of encyclopedic all-knowing savant of the wizarding world, who somehow remains functional and mostly even-headed despite her identity being the chief target of a prolifically murderous terrorist group. Draco Malfoy, a schoolyard bully whose primary tools included 1. namecalling and 2. telling teacher, JOINS said terrorist group (and admittedly does react reasonably, i.e., has a total crashout and takes to sobbing in a girls' bathroom whenever he gets a free minute). Dumbledore, who starts out as "whimsical friendly winky-wink trustworthy grandfather type", ends up being Magical Winston Churchill in a violent game of spycraft and espionage, eventually revealing he's only been keeping Harry at all these seven years because he wants to KILL him! And like, maybe really good technical writing could smooth out these transitions and make the first-order dramatic choices seem more natural, but Rowling is like, a Fine Writer, technically speaking. meaning she's reasonably consistent in characterization, her plotting is well-paced and believable, she has a clear authorial voice, and her prose is readable. personally, that's not enough to get me to buy into some of the changes that happen in the later books, and because she stuffs these things so full with new elements every installment, a lot of stuff ends up getting glossed over.

And like, I still love the books. I think they're wonderful, and they taught me how to read. but i can say that and also say that Rowling probably did herself a disservice by trying to write four giant war novels as sequels to her first three mystery children's books.

[icecreamkink]

ryan shane + crew leaving buzzfeed and deciding to stop focusing on gorey violent crimes to focus on ghosts and unexplained phenomena and mysteries and drunk spooky shit. how does it feel to make content for me, specifically

[skunkes]

longlegs fucking sucked 😭

[morbethgames]

Chapter 4 of Love in Stasis is out on Patreon!

Hey everyone, just wanted to do a sort of weekly announcement that Chapter 4 of Love in Stasis, the serialized online novel, is now out on Patreon for the $5 a month tier!

With everything that happened in the previous chapter, Luz is taken to the police station for questioning. Meanwhile, Madeline has to somehow try and come to grips with what happened to her the previous night.

Along with Love in Stasis, be sure to stay caught up on the latest The Bureau news over at Patreon as well! I tend to do updates here too, but sometimes Patrons get exclusive progress updates.

I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts on the first three chapters and beyond of Love in Stasis (though I may not be able to answer asks which contain spoilers from anything past chapter 3, unless they're vague enough of course).

Thank you so much for the support!

Patreon : Love in Stasis Chapter 1 :

Love in Stasis Chapter 2 :

Love in Stasis Chapter 3 : The Bureau Current Demo

[mycroftholmesian]

Right to the Point, My Dear Holmes! 🗡️🔎 💚

[thinwhitedoc]

STARTUP | Martin Freeman as Phil Rask

[weirdlookindog]

Howard Estabrook in the partially lost occult serial The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was trying to solve the mystery of the immortal serial killer in the mountains, but got sidetracked and became a mermaid instead.

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

Crime shows just show police are useless like:

White Collar: we don't think like a white collar criminal well enough so let's have one to consult

Castle: we need an author to help us solve crimes!

Any Sherlock Holmes adaptation: we need an autistic with a special interest of solving crimes

Psych: at best? we need a psychic detective at worst? he's a fake psychic but good detective

Hannibal: we are gonna use the poor autistic man with hyper empathy to catch serial killers bc he can think like them oopsie he is being manipulated by said serial killer

Grimm: there are secret magical beings and only descendants of brothers Grimm can see them and help and luckily one is a cop

Forever: we need an immortal being turned medical examiner

[thebaronsilver]

Guys, guys, guys!!!

Stop doing whatever it is that you are doing and go watch "The Judge from Hell".

I went hunting for it after I saw a clip from it and I'm hooked! I usually can't sit through shows at all but I'm chomping at the bits to know what happens next and I'm actually watching the show instead of reading the whole story from a wiki.

It's got 14 episodes, about an hour each. I started *yesterday* and I'm already on episode five, despite classes and other obligations. I've got an exam tomorrow and who cares?!

The acting is gorgeous. Even the 1st grader was awesome! And there's this guy with like a multiple personality disorder (don't worry, not a spoiler, it's obvious within the first 5 minutes he's introduced ) and they are *awesome*.

Go watch it! Go watch it right now!

[devotioncrater]

people on here want more unhinged middle-aged lesbians where the plot isn't about them being gay, then they refuse to watch Deadloch

[fisherrprince]

does mouthwashing have jumpscares in it,