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[selfishpresley]

When the infantilization of drivers fail: the case with lando norris

Personal watching of Formula One from my perspective started out with Michael Schumacher.

A man that embodied the Ferrari ideal driver. Someone with a very strong mind. A great talent with a fast car that created a combination within the sport that was only replicated with the Mercedes dominance that he had a hand in creating.

This was more than twenty years ago, and when a lot of young motorsports fans were kids.

This was the first wave to the rising popularity of the sport.

Sebastian Vettel, people could argue, contributed to the second. Daniel Ricciardo had a hand in the next coming waves. Lewis Hamilton moreso.

In the past five years, we've seen an exponential increase in spectators for formula one. Mostly to do with the popularity of 'Drive to Survive'.

From the casual fan to the most obsessed, the way that fans view drivers range from a deep love to the most ardent hate.

No matter what the opinion might be with Lando Norris, he is a victim to a kind of thinking that has affected the younger drivers from the 2019 lineup.

Victim might be too sympathetic of a word. Especially given that his media presence has helped create the kind of under-dog characterization that his fans have held onto.

You could say that this was because of the younger fans coming into Formula 1 are leaving their previous 'fandoms' of K-Pop or Taylor Swift or Sherlock or Doctor Who.

They do have a hand in perpetrating a kind of; infantilization of drivers.

Although, they are not to blame when it comes to Lando Norris.

This video by Dakota Sage, titled "The Babygirl-ification of Formula One", reminded me of the kind of online perspective that many recent fans have of certain drivers. (the video is very anti-RPF)

Baby-girlification or infantilization has been around for a long time, mostly affecting women to fetishize their already young age. It is just a recent thing that began to affect fully grown men. The term 'this *insert grown man here* is so baby girl!', has been a recent development in the broader issue of fan behaviour.

A lot of men in these fan-sports spaces like to make fun of, a mostly female kind of comments of certain drivers.

Lauding themselves as a superior sports fan because 'they aren't like these girls that only like a driver because he's physically attractive'. Or they take the sport seriously.

This kind of thinking is not only hypocritical but it causes a further alienation of new audiences that formula one is so desperate to get.

It's not just 'women know nothing about sports', it's evolved to 'these women don't know enough and they just like to see a pretty face'.

It creates a kind of 'men-women' rivalry that is very reductive to the general atmosphere that motorsports brings. Especially with the modernization of sports in general.

I will say that this is not just exclusive to online spaces. It's seen rarely in real life events. Mostly people waiting outside hotels of certain drivers (parasocial) or others giving out friendship bracelets (kind/normal some could say) or the obsession with WAGs (parasocial and psychotic when it becomes harmful).

In the case of infantilization, we will focus on one driver. (Note: there are many that are baby-girlified. Mostly white males.)

One 'under-dog'.

Lando Norris.

Lando Norris began his career at the young age of nineteen. Joining a large team that had been struck by cheating scandals and weak engines, McLaren had fostered Norris' talent two years prior. It took little time for people to fantasize that Lando could be the next great british racing champion.

The next Lewis Hamilton...

He was this young driver that started off strongly, showed great promise with more experience.

In the early years, Lando was at the forefront of people's minds.

"Little Lando Norris' was the young boyish British darling. And that has not changed as of the Mexican GP in 2024. A far cry from the 'golden days' of Michael Schumacher, Lando Norris was seen as everybody's son.

The only thing that has changed is how he is viewed within online spaces.

During the Max Verstappen dominance last year, during the Silverstone Grand Prix, Lando Norris was looking like a real contender to be the one of the other few drivers to win a race that season that weren't Max or Checo.

Lando qualified 2nd, and the majority of the people that didn't want to see Max win. Including fans of Lewis Hamilton. Some Checo fans. Charles fans. From one corner of the world to another, people were rooting for Lando to win.

What could have been his first win was taken by Max, he was about three seconds behind. He led a lap for a second it seemed.

And people had hope that the Red Bull dominance was going to end, especially in a season where things 'started getting boring'.

The online reception to Lando was at its best.

It looked like the set of recording 'we are the world' on Twitter before it started getting popular on Tumblr. Tiktoks were made supporting the British driver. Instagram videos and post coming out to support him.

Today, if we exclude the loyal Lando fans, online reception to Lando Norris has taken a nosedive.

Many could attribute this to his backhanded comments about certain drivers, his attitude with fans, his behavior with certain drivers.

All of that could be forgiven.

Lando is a wealthy, white, attractive by european standards, successful young male.

Worse people have been forgiven and defended for much worse things.

Now why is this now not being forgiven? Why is this not working now?

What happened to everybody's under-dog?

What happened to Pookie or babygirl Lando?

The infantilization of Lando at the beginning of his career has attributed in the negative public opinion.

It has failed him.

It is the reason that people in many online spaces don't like him anymore.

The fans have been convinced that Lando was just a kid. A boy that was so good, that he was racing in the highest series of motorsports because of his talent at a very young age. In our minds Lando was our little brother.

A child, one could argue.

If you see a driver as a child, or worse yet, a babyish man; you will attribute each one of his flaws to childishness.

He complains? or he whines like a baby? Is he sassy or rude? Is he reporting broken rules or snitching?

Lando fans would just see it normally, the rest less so. Most would see it as a young man with negative attributes. Moreso now that Lando has gained confidence in the sport. Has gained experience. Has a competitive car now that is competing with Ferrari and Red Bull. Two teams that have dominated the sports for eras at a time.

Now... Where did it all change?

There was no watershed moment.

More attention, more time in the sport, more success; comes with more 'hate'.

Especially when Lando Norris doesn't do much to help with the accusations against him.

He's whiny? Then you see a video of him complaining about a racing incident.

He's annoying? His particular brand of humor is put on display.

His team is definitely not helping.

McLaren has turned into a once great team that housed the likes of Senna to a team that stole documents from Ferrari to a team that likes to toe the line of being likeable.

And it's not Lando's fault in this case.

Lando is up against everybody else.

His public image is against everybody else's.

He isn't the young talent anymore, but in people's minds he is still so young. He's 'little lando norris', he's the streamer that plays with his friends online like most boys do.

Lando Norris is still seen with Lolita colored glasses. And it's not helping his recent success and his popular 'hate'.

A thing to note, there are valid criticisms to the decline in Lando's image.

His comments on someone's favorite driver. His behaviour with certain fans and drivers.

His poorly hidden following tab which includes the likes of Andrew Tate.

His lucky charm in the form of former president Donald Trump.

These are things that need to be brought up more often and in conjunction with criticism of other drivers. Including favorite drivers.

Infantilization of drivers could be innocuous, if it didn't continue past the age where they should be seen as a baby girl.

[spiteful-crow]

Jon, the concept behind the term „anima“, and Carl Jung

This is going to be a small info dump about the term „anima“. Everyone who has finished Sherlock Holmes Chapter One knows that Sherlock calls Jon his anima before they enter the garden.

It‘s an important moment if you (like myself) are struggling to understand what Jon is. Imaginary friend doesn’t quite fit, imo, as Jon is shown to be too independent to be one. Why would Sherlock desperately call for him and ask him to „intervene“, if he could simply imagine Jon at any time? It’s implied that Jon has a will on his own and that his departure is a decision Sherlock cannot simply revoke.

This is where the term „anima“ comes in handy. In the art book, Jon is described at a personification of Sherlock’s survival instincts, his will to live, and his desire to be happy. And this already kinda describes what an anima is.

The anima, in historical philosophy, is the irrational part of the soul, as opposed to the rational mind.

Here are some other definitions which can be found online:

an individual's true inner self that in the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung reflects archetypal ideals of conduct

an inner feminine part of the male personality (I will ignore this definition for now and focus on the less gendered one)

There is also a graphic, which is supposed to describe what an anima (Jon) and a persona (Sherlock) are:

I also found this more detailed explanation, which makes the term easier to grasp:

Picture the surface of the ocean. Above the water is everything you are aware of. Beneath the water is everything you are unaware of. All of it is "you". That water is the line between conscious and unconscious. On the surface of the water is a ship, a big iron-clad battleship for most people. The ship is there to protect the ocean from all the big horrible things outside of it. That's your persona. The persona is like a Navy with a mission to protect the whole ocean. At least, it thinks that is what it is supposed to do. It is led and driven by Captain Ego. It so happens that there's also a submarine underneath the ship. It has the same job as the ship on the surface, except it protects against all the horrible things in the depths of the ocean. This submarine is what Jung called the "anima" […] . The pilot of this submarine, usually opposed in almost every way to Captain Ego is The Shadow. Most of us walk around all day at the mercy of that ego and its persona, except of course when the Shadow rears its face and does something out of the blue that we did not expect.

This figurative ocean already explains Jon‘s nature fairly well - unlike Sherlock (the persona) who faces the outer world, Jon (the anima) protects Sherlock (the person) from what’s beneath the surface. Jon is the irrational part, which wants to forget the traumatic memories, which wants to have fun and enjoy life and which doesn’t prioritise the truth as much as it prioritises happiness and wellbeing.

According to Jung, every person has a persona and an anima. In Sherlock‘s case, his circumstances lead to these two parts of himself being separated from one another so much that they form two whole people. I think it shows very well how much Sherlock wants to distance himself from everything irrational by creating a whole separate person to outsource his irrational parts into.

In this context, the ending and Jon’s departure can be seen as Sherlock picking the truth over his own wellbeing and ultimately severing his ties to the irrational part of himself, which wants happiness. It explains why Sherlock accuses Jon of lying - because coping is not „truthful“ from a rational standpoint. It also explains why Jon seems so unhappy in each ending - because from his point of view, Sherlock has made the wrong decision - Sherlock doesn’t allow himself the „weakness“ of being human and therefore being unable to handle the painful truth. And this explains pretty well why Sherlock’s psyche is so fragile in The Awakened and why he desperately begs for Jon to return. Sherlock cannot handle the horrors he faces without the little, irrational part of himself, which shields him from trauma and does the coping for him. However, submarine under the ocean can no longer be located by him, because he has chosen to no longer listen to it and let it protect his psyche, and the horrors attack him from below the figurative surface (which is funny considering Cthulhu lives under the literal surface lol).

A person cannot be happy if they only value rationality and neglect their emotional needs entirely. Happiness is a feeling, too, after all. And this is the person Sherlock becomes post Chapter One. His pursuit of the truth pushes him to the brink of death multiple times, because without Jon, Sherlock will not pick his own wellbeing over his ideals. No matter what horrors he faces, he doesn’t know when to stop, so he doesn’t stop until he sees the case to the end. He is no longer in touch with the irrational part of himself, which wants to survive.

This lack of survival instinct can be seen in the books, too, imo. Book!Holmes shows no fear of death when facing Moriarty, which in itself is already questionable.

Is it healthy to be excited about dying for the greater cause? I am no psychologist, but that’s definitely nothing I would describe as healthy. There is also the part where book!Holmes describes himself as a brain. Oh well.

I am rambling a lot so I will put an end to this, but I want to conclude that Jon is definitely buried somewhere deep, and he is a very essential part of Sherlock, but Sherlock will definitely need to find a way to reconnect with this part if he wants to be happy. And he better start listening to Jon again, too!

I like to think that he does, at the end. I like to think that ultimately, he will choose himself over everything else and find happiness and peace, because he deserves nothing less.

[katewritesthings]

Love Me Like I Can // 2.5

Chapter 2.5 // Media Catch Up

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February 15, 2024 

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS NOMINEE CAUSE ONLINE STIR

Another year of the public voting for their favorite Pop Culture moments has come to an end meaning that the one and only People’s Choice Awards is this weekend. The awards show is the only one of its kind where the public votes to honor their favorite entertainment moments from the past year.

Since nominations were announced, the internet has been set ablaze with discourse around the nominees. The awards received positive feedback for being one of the few award shows this season to not only nominate Ryan Gosling for his role as Ken but Margot Robbie for her role as Barbie.

Nominations for the show Band Together have also stirred up controversy on the internet as of late. The show, which chronicles the day-to-day life of the band Bedford Scrolls, was nominated for “Best Reality TV Show of the Year” while one if its recurring cast members, Diana Hayes, was nominated for “Favorite Reality TV Star”. 

These nominations caused discussion amongst fans for numerous reasons. Some fans of Bedford Scrolls claim that it is unfair that Diana is being nominated for Favorite Reality TV Star because she was never actually a main cast member. 

@ConMeLew: idk why Diana got nominated for any TV awards? She was only in half the season and she’s not even in the band! @Scroll2Bedford: I’ve never met someone who got cheated on and suddenly just gets nominated for awards. Diana is milking it.

Fans of Diana disagree, with many fans saying that the only reason that Band Together was even nominated in the first place was because of Diana’s storyline.

@DianaFiana: y’all can play all you want, but lets be real. Would half of us even have watched this season of band together if it werent for Diana? @RnBGirly: i only ever watched the episodes she was in until the scandal was announced. Then i went back and Sherlock Holmes’d that shit

There is something that both sides can agree on, though: how awkward the ceremony is going to be with the entire band Bedford Scrolls and Diana confirmed to be in attendance.

Tune in Sunday Night to watch the events unfold!

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[doctorhomo]

watched the first ep of douglas is cancelled (against my will) and oh my fucking god

newsreader gets blasted online for making a sexist joke. no one actually says what the joke is (they might later idk) so the whole point is that it’s all speculation, possibly even untrue, because he doesnt remember making a joke at all. until his co presenter retweets it and it becomes very popular

his daughter is 19 and an absolute fucking stereotype of activist girls. literally every single one of her lines is just buzzword after buzzword, finding every word you say to her offensive. she asks them not to lie to her because she has “really bad anxiety today” and says it’s a microaggression when her mum rolls her eyes at her. who the entire fuck is like this

she also says she doesnt like one of her uncles because he’s rapey and makes inappropriate comments towards women all the time. she’s framed as being stupid for this view, because this uncle is gay. so he has no interest in women, what does it matter if he’s sexually harassing women? feels like a response to john barrowman, and not one that is good!

i would say that i shouldnt judge early doors, but honestly im fucking past that with moffat. all of his shows have had misogyny laced through them, and now he has the nerve to write a show where the main character is a self insert victim who possibly said something offensive? the difference here mr steven, is that you did say all those things. you did admit that karen gillan got the role of amy because she was tall and leggy. you did take a famous sherlock holmes story where the great detective is beaten intellectually by a woman, and have sherlock be the action hero who saves her. and more

in conclusion, i think steven moffat needs to be locked in a room until he can be trusted to write for prime time tv again

[sandcobangevent]

the case of the mysterious test

by Badger and @alecs-potatofarm

The thing about being friends with Sherlock is that you can’t really keep anything from him. Most of the time that doesn’t bother me. I’m an open book, me. Besides, he’s my best friend. There are very few things I wouldn’t tell him. But it’s exactly because he’s my best friend that this one particular thing was off limits. At least until I worked out what, if anything, I was going to do about my feelings for him. But, despite my best efforts, he figured out I was hiding something anyway.

When we first started living together I’d only ever had relationships with women. Of course, I watched The Mummy and thought Brendan Fraser was fit. But didn’t everyone? I thought Sherlock, with his dimples and stuff, was just another one of those people everybody could agree on. 

The longer we lived together the more I started to wonder whether it might be more than just a passing attraction. The fact I didn’t move out as soon as I opened our freezer to grab some Phish Food and found nothing but an empty tub was proof of…something. I just didn’t know what exactly. So I turned to the old reliable—the internet.

I posted on Reddit about mostly liking women but having some pretty confusing feelings for this one guy who’s my best mate. I don’t live under a rock, I know what bisexuality is. I just didn’t necessarily think that word applied to me. Some of the forums were more useful than others, but none of them gave me concrete answers. 

One user replied with a link that read ‘Am I Gay? Quiz’ so I decided to click on it. Even though, obviously, an online quiz couldn’t tell me one way or the other if I was in love with Sherlock I thought the questions might at least point me in the right direction. 

The first question was difficult. Have you ever had feelings for a same-gender close friend? If I knew that I wouldn’t have been taking the quiz in the first place. The second question was easier. Have you ever kissed someone or wanted to kiss someone of the same gender? I thought about the way Sherlock pouted when he was thinking about a particularly tricky part of a case and selected ‘I haven’t done it, but I want to try it’.

The rest of the questions asked me about my dating history, my friends, and how I’d feel if somebody assumed I was gay. I fudged the last answer because it asked me about my ‘For You Page’ but didn’t give me an option to say ‘I’m too old for TikTok’ then I hit submit. Instead of giving me a result right away it asked for my phone number. I should have just closed the tab and satisfied my curiosity elsewhere rather than handing over my personal data but…I didn’t.

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An hour later I was pacing around the kitchen waiting for a pan full of water to boil for some tomato penne pasta when my phone went off. The screen lit up, my phone vibrating on the table. Sherlock glanced down at it before I had a chance to move it out of view. 

“Your test results are here,” he read aloud. “What test results?”

I tried to play it cool while I moved toward him,  grabbed my phone and shoved it in my pocket. “It’s nothing important, mate. Just a silly Buzzfeed quiz. Me and Maz wanted to know what…uh…pasta shape we were.”

“You wanted to know…what pasta shape you are?”

“Yeah. She says she’s ravioli but I personally think she’s more of a fusilli. I’m lasagne, obviously. Sturdy. Dependable. Comforting.”

“I have no idea what you mean.”

“You know…”

I made some vague gestures, trying to capture Mariana’s vibe through arm movements. I probably looked as ridiculous as I felt. Sherlock raised an eyebrow and the corner of his mouth twitched into an involuntary smile. 

“I really don’t.”

“It’s…” I pushed my hair back from my face. “It’s nothing. Like I said, just a silly Buzzfeed quiz.”

Sherlock looked me up and down, examining me with those piercing blue eyes of his while drumming his long fingers on the table. “If it’s so silly why do you feel the need to lie to me about it?”

“Why do you think I’m lying?”

“Your breathing is heavier. You’re shifting your body weight from one foot to another and, perhaps most importantly, you looked at the bag of penne pasta on the side over there before you told me what the topic of the quiz was.”

I should have known that Sherlock would notice. After all, our podcast wouldn’t exist without him being remarkably observant. It hit me pretty quickly that a certain amount of honesty was the best policy. 

“I’m not lying it’s just…personal. Alright? I don’t really want to get into it just yet.”

“What kind of test result would be so personal you wouldn’t want to tell me but also so informal that you’d receive the results by text?”

“You tell me, mate.” 

“Mmm, I have some theories but nothing immediately comes to mind. I like this. The case of the mysterious test results.”

With that, Sherlock left the kitchen. I sat down on one of the dining table chairs and slumped over with a groan, holding my face in my hands. I knew that if I did decide to tell Sherlock how I felt that it would require a lot of sensitivity. This was so far from how I wanted him to find out. I thought about my options, weighing up the benefits of coming clean versus coming up with a more convincing excuse for the text.

There was one thing I knew I had to do for sure, so I pulled my phone out of my pocket and deleted the text without clicking on the link. I didn’t need the results of a mostly arbitrary and completely made up quiz to tell me how I felt about Sherlock. The way my heart pounded in my chest as I tried to calm my breathing and top my body from shaking was all the proof I needed. 

[windandwater]

I know various people have talked about how insular people around here are but like. we need to actually incorporate this fact into our behavior, and change it. and what I mean by this is. people who aren't online all the time have an extremely different perspective on almost everything we take for granted here.

like. my parents watched Sherlock. they enjoyed it a lot and my mom still makes jokes related to it without any irony or self-loathing. to them it was just. a fun detective show, a modern take on an old story. watch once and move on with life. she and my dad didn't spend several years knee-deep in navel-gazing meta that ruined it for everyone so now they can't talk about it without feeling like everyone's going to judge them for ever liking it in the first place.

partially this is a function of a lot of people here being teens & kids when it came out, but we (my parents & me) were adults. I was having a good time in fandom and look back on the 2010s pretty fondly while a lot of people here are still going through the process of hating their past selves, and you tend to project that onto the things you used to like. I did that too. and then I came around to forgiving & loving my past selves--all of them--which is why I have no problem admitting to all the things I loved in the early 90s & early 2000s but would have had a hard time admitting to 15 years ago.

but it's not just that. the weird refusal to pretend certain things never happened--Harry Potter. a smaller example, Firefly. etcetera. people think if you even mention HP at all you're automatically terf? like...if you go into the outside world, I'm sorry, but JKR's shit beliefs are not common knowledge. and like it or not that book kinda changed the world. and not all for the worse.

(I will NOT go off here on why Joss Whedon seems to get a pass for Buffy & Avengers but someone mentioned a bad thing about Firefly and now we can't talk about it at all--not to mention that it's apparently still okay for him to actively profit off of his work--but. that's off topic.)

(for the record my views are thus: neither of these creators should get any more money or attention as creators, but we shouldn't pretend that the stuff they made had zero effect on us as a culture or as individuals.)

this isn't really about any of these pieces of media specifically, it's more like. this weird insular culture that believes certain things are common knowledge and therefore if you ever talk about them except for in the Approved ways, You're Bad. it's not healthy here and it's not healthy if you ever plan to have a conversation with any living human.

I'm tired of like. if you post a gif of the wrong show you're cringe. if you reference a the wrong book you hate queer people. if you quote the wrong show you're racist. no matter what the actual gif or quote or reference is. it's not like that outside the internet and on the internet it feels like walking on very stupid eggshells.

I know how we got here but it's dumb. the past happened. it wasn't always perfect but we were still part of it. if we erase it we'll never learn from it but we'll also never get comfy with good the ways it shaped us.

we're so busy molding ourselves into a perfect future that we don't realize that the imperfect past got us here in the first place. let it exist. in all the ways it was.

[otakusparkle]

Dear visitors:

Recently, some character costumes and event costumes are unevenly scheduled. We apologize for the lack of consideration internally. We will continue to optimize and improve in the future.

The Journalist and Novelist costumes that everyone is concerned about will be launched in the Sherlock Holmes collaboration launched in early 25 years, and there will also be a launch schedule for high-end essence costumes in 2025.

The charity costumes and other high-end costumes of Toy Merchant will be made public in this and subsequent preview live broadcasts, so stay tuned!

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[jaymesyourplaything]

I am a stand alone blog. My activity does not rely on the other roleplayers. Yes, I am part of that group that I've even posted in my pinned, but reminder I am a stand alone blog and I can post without any of them. I started doing this for fun and actually roleplayed with my friends who were not part of this roleplay group at all, the group adopted me over time. Just because I am friends with them and work well with them, does not mean I need them. I am not a dead account, I will keep posting without them, even if perhaps we stop being friends or they stop roleplaying.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk lol <3 I have just been busy and posting less, or even a "hiatus" as a warning. I can not speak for them for their silences or pauses, if they are on hiatus or what not, but other roleplayers are like me and have lives. Roleplay is just a side hobby. It happens. We're all living life lol I have a full time job.

People who spend all their time roleplaying are people who don't have a, path in life. This isn't an insult, but those are the people you want to follow if you want activity. Most people just have, more fulfilling lives than, erm, spending every minute pretending you're someone you're not on tumblr. Roleplay is a hobby, not a lifestyle? I'm unsure what to say exactly as to not offend those who use roleplay as more of an escape, but I'm just not that person.

so, er, I'm not dead, I even check in near daily. activity is slow because views is slow i suppose, and that's slow because everyone's been busy, i think most people go and read the other popular sherlock roleplay group. they're the kind of people you'd want to follow if you want more consistent roleplay, they're online constantly. i prefer irl to online.

[miwhotep]

I'm so happy to see people liking this baby princess snake 😭 there's barely anything for him I think only 2 drawing (and the artist deleted their account..) and 2 headcanons.. He's funny and silly fr. May I ask what made you like him?

Hi, nice to meet you! I'm always really happy to meet other Milverton fans! 🥰

Yeah, I feel you, he barely has any content (I tend to throw parties whenever I find Milvy arts online... then I realized I can also create some to have more, so now I'm here - and I have loooot of ideas). But believe me, there are more people liking Milverton out there than you think!

How did I end up liking him? Well, I am a Sherlock Holmes fan since I'm 6, I grew up with those stories and my favourite was always The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton - it's a really interesting story from the moral point of view and Milverton is a cool villain who is able to force Sherlock to fake-engagement and break-in.

I started to watch Moriarty the Patriot when S1 aired, just to see another Sherlock Holmes adaptation. Then I got into the manga because I couldn't wait for Part 2 - YuuMori was my very first manga. Ever since the start, I was waiting for Milverton to appear - and I actually suspected him to be more of an antihero, instead of a villain, since Moriarty the Patriot turns villain characters (Moriarty or Sebastian Moran) into antiheroes. Milverton finally appeared - to be the main antagonist. I didn't mind it, I was interested to see what the author does with him, and I was quite hyped after the White Knight arc (my favourite arc), because I'm also a big Batman fan and The Dark Knight (what White Knight is heavily inspired by) is one of my favourite movies. Then Two Criminals happened and Milverton left the stage without the potential in his character getting explored. I was totally disappointed to see him go to waste, so I started wandering about him - how he turned into a villain and such. I don't think he was always evil, he has white hair while being quite young, something really traumatic must've happened to him once, maybe he turned evil thanks to that. I also like thinking that what if he was similar to Liam once - wanted to change the system with corrupt methods, but he was not as strong as Liam and in the end, he got corrupted. I always wanted Moriarty the Patriot to deal with the thought of you use evil methods for a good cause, but what if your evil methods turns you evil, too? An example of what could happen to the Moriarty group if they cross the line, a dark mirror to William. And Milverton could've been a perfect example for this.

So yeah, the unexplored possibilities in Milverton kept intriguing me, so I thought more and more about him and come up with lot of headcanons, his whole story is built up in my head now. And through this, I grew fond of his character... I know he is evil and irredeemable, I never even thought of redemption for him, he is way too far gone... but I love him anyway (for the record, it's the YuuMori Milvy I feel that way for, not the other adaptations of the character, the canon one is a great villain to me and nothing more). I have lot of headcanons, theories, analysis, arts, dolls, a cocktail, fanfiction, video edit, I really love making content for him in every form.

And there is another thing what made me a Milverton fan: his relationship with his secretary, Ruskin. I really love the evil boss, who on the other hand, care about his secretary deeply, who doesn't mind his boss' evil actions, but follow him to the very end, because he means the whole world to him trope. And there is genuine trust, respect and caring in Milverton and Ruskin's relationship - I only a platonic shipper, but Milveskin is my OTP and love them really much.

Sorry for keeping you for so long, again I ended up writing an essay as an answer. Thank you for your question and I will bring more Milvy content in the future!

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hello Steph!!

I just wanted to say how overwhelmingly happy I am that I've found someone who is still 'at it' after so long…

Ever since I was little, I wanted to study forensic science just like my mother was, I've since decided i'd like to study a double degree in criminology and criminal justice/psychological science.

i'm in year 12 now, and we are finishing up the last of our units before our external exams at the end of October. counting down the days has me looking back on my past and life in general while also looking ahead to a hopeful future of academia in honour of my mother... you could say i'm sentimental (hehe). sorry, i'm getting way off-topic. anyway, our last English unit is looking at representations of death. And by chance, my lovely english teacher introduced us to the wonderful world that is sherlock.

Honestly, sherlock and john - the whole universe, really - have saved my life. I had got myself in a really bad way and was struggling. The media, theories, and possible research from all of the renditions of sherlock, including the original text, gave me something to occupy my mind with. It ended up reigniting my love for learning and criminology/psychology.

Even more so, i'd say it was the fandom that saved my life. From hilarious old theories on tumblr to the fandom's general crack and chaos, it made me smile and brought back some joy when i could see it nowhere else.

i'd like to thank you personally. simply put, your blog and, more specifically your fanfic recommendations are the reason i am still here today. reading through them has helped me to laugh and cry when i needed it the most.

i'm getting to a much better place and finding my feet again. But I wouldn't have made it to this point without you and the fandom. so thank you. thank you so unbelievably much Steph.

... so yes, many of the blogs I've come across have long been inactive. So it's lovely to see the fandom still thriving :) i think i'd like to be you when i grow up. thank you again! <3

Have a lovely day!!!

Warm regards, Baie x

p.s: a note on johnlock... (after we watched the hounds of baskerville in class) my first exposure to sherlock was actually the bbc series which i binged. twice. then read acd's novels. somehow, the possibility that johnlock was not cannon never crossed my mind? like idk. maybe my view of love is skewed, but i tend to think love manifests in so many different regards. and to me, john and sherlock look at each other like a couple of old married best friends. so imagine my supprise when i made my way to the online discourse on the matter!! seeing people trying to prove their relationship exists was so odd to me at first. anyway yeah, point being, i'm asexual, so seeing a relationship dynamic portrayed in such a way that resembles my own relationship is very comforting. i love johnlock and the fandom to pieces <3

HI BAIE!!

OMG I am SO SORRY that I took so long to reply to this quick-reply ask, UGH.

First off, thank you SO MUCH for your unbelievable kindness in this ask. I am humbled and undeserving of such praise, but I am SO honoured that my blog has played a major role in your fandom experience. It always shocks and humbles me to read such praise.

Secondly, thank you so much for sharing your fandom story. I too had a lot of life-changing things happen because of this fandom, and I wouldn't change that for the world. It helped me understand myself in ways I never would have without it, helped me cope with a lot of family drama, got me through a sexuality crisis, encouraged me to finally seek the therapy and diagnoses I really needed, and just... helps combat the loneliness, honestly. My blog keeps me busy, so it does feel like a joy to work on it and KNOW that people enjoy being here as much as me.

I feel you on the asexuality, and on the personal interpretation of their relationship, and I do get it. I think for me it's just I spent SO MUCH TIME analyzing their characters that the only logical outcome of the series Pre-S4 was canon Johnlock. But alas, LOL.

This fandom is a fantastic place, and good golly I would not wish my neuroses on anyone to "be like me" LOL. I'm only still around because I have weird obsessions and I love running this blog and being a beacon for newcomers and old friends alike. BUT I am humbled that you aspire to be like me, so thank you <3 But you should be like YOU, because there's only one of you, and we admire you for that!!

THAT ALL SAID, good luck on your studies, sounds SO exciting! You'll be amazing!!!!!

Thank you again for this beautiful ask; now that I had a chance to sit down and read it, I am floored and sobbing, and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Thank you so much <3

Have a fantastic day, Lovely! <3

[onwriting-hrarby]

Bon dia! 🙂 14, 45 and 83 for the ask game?

Hola, hola! Thank you very much for the questions, hehe <3

14. what's your worst writing habit

I don't know if it refers to the process or something that I do in my prose that could be considered a habit... For the latter, I would say that I tend to make sentences too long and redundant. I could probably edit a bit and trim here and there, but it's also part of my style—which makes my writings difficult to read, or "more demanding"—. And for the former... Maybe that I tend to overthink too much? Even if I plan, I always end up second-guessing my planning...

45. any writing advice you want to share?

Do not listen to the readers! Especially if you write online and are not paid. Sometimes we tend to get stuck into the (often unsolicited) opinions we receive in our writings about how it should have been written. I'm not talking about fair criticism, like pointing out bad habits and such, but like "Oh, I would have made character A do this thing instead of...". And while this can be very useful when received during an editing process, once it's set and done, or once it's YOUR story you want to tell, I don't see how we should change in regards to who's reading us.

I wanted to do a little essay about this, but I think there are certain fandoms where writers were influenced by the discourse online. Like Sherlock, or High School Musical (The Series), and the character development ended up having zero sense, often invalidating the psychological progress the character had done until then.

So: write your story, however you want to write it. Someone will fall in love with it. Do not let anyone tell you how you should have written the story that's yours. Everyone can pick up a piece of paper and pen.

83. less is more or more is more?

in the writing process, more is more. in the editing process, less is more. and in the marketing phase, to my view, also less is more.

[lyxthen]

Over the years, I've learn this ability called "not giving a fuck."

There is a new instalment of a beloved property that completely misses the point of the original? I'm not watching it. I pretend it doesn't exist. I go on with my life unbothered.

Fandom discourse? Ignore it. Block all tags related. Bigotry? Report it. Don't engage with it. I am not here to debate my very existence with people that won't change their minds anyway. see something I don't like, I close the tab and move on. I refuse to partake in the backlash to the backlash to the backlash about something that doesn't matter.

I'm here to have a good time not to get angry. Being angry is actually very unpleasant. Sometimes being a hater is fun, but ranting about how BBC Sherlock sucks ass (while also being secretly fond of it) and having a performative nemesis relationship Steven Moffat is not the same thing about seriously getting mad about a TV show. If something is seriously bothering you, just LEAVE. You are allowed to do that. It is good for your mental health.

Anger is a powerful motivator, a fuel to fight against injustice. Save it for things that are actually worth it, direct it towards people that actually deserve it. Not some random guy online trying to get under your skin for the shits and giggles or the controversy-as-advertisement machinery built to boost views for revenue.

Take control of your online experience. You'll have a better time existing on the internet if you do. I promise.

[denimbex1986]

"Well this is actually quite funny because, originally, in Mark's 'The Great Game', the big gag was we never saw Moriarty; we just saw Moriarty in the guise of 'gay Jim' as we called him, and at the end of the script, there'd just be a message that would - and Sherlock would realise: 'Damn it, that was Moriarty all along.' But we had to audition someone to play Moriarty without ever having written a scene for him. So we rustled up a ridiculous scene - a really ridiculous scene, which made us sort of think: 'If anyone could play this, with these ridiculous lines like: 'I will burn the heart out of you'' - to see if anyone could actually play this. And then we saw Andrew, who gave this blistering performance, and not only did we cast him, we thought: 'We've gotta put this nonsensical scene in."

"Uh, not overly consciously, I think, um - yeah, I was very aware that I, I wouldn't necessarily be the, the first person to - that people would think of as, as Moriarty so, uh, I think there's - the job at the end of the first series was to, to sort of serve the script. It was this fantastic build-up to him, so I think, uh, it was important that, um, because I wouldn't be obvious casting, that you don't do an obvious, uh, a copycat version of someone else's villain. So, uh, I think - yeah, I wanted it to be, um, maybe audacious, and it was written very audaciously and quite, quite, uh, theatrically, yeah - but looking back on it now, I, I do understand, I do, I do see that people, uh, like, do this (pulls face) but -"

"...I was talking to Andrew about this on the train coming up, that it's a bit like Lecter - Hannibal Lecter is on screen in Silence of the Lambs for about sixteen minutes; he's talked about throughout, and then his actual impact, it's - as with Andrew - it's incredible, it's really essentially two large scenes that have made all this impact, but it's all down to Andrew's skill."

"No, it was, it was very strange; I was absolutely terrified because I, I - for some reason, I hadn't seen it, I don't know why. So I watched it, I watched it grow - I watched the first episode and I thought: 'God, this is, um, this is fantastic', and there was this huge fanfare to it and people sort of immediately, which I think is ext - extraordinary about Sherlock is that, and very hard to do, is that people had an, an immediate affection for it; I think a show can be very popular and very, um, you know, critically very well received, but I think to have an affection for a show so early on is really extraordinary. So, uh, that was really wonderful, but also made me absolutely terrified, so I was watching it going: 'Jesus - don't mess this up', you know, while at the end, I was terrified and then you know, I, one doesn't watch oneself on, on screen and think: 'That is just brilliant.' You hate it, you absolutely."

"Oh, I, well it's, in one way it, it's the - it's, it's, it was the greatest lesson I, I ever had. I, I looked online and uh, I, I read some of the most, um, unforgettable, yeah, uh, things, so, uh - yeah, I, I looked, I looked at Twitter, yeah. And I don't, I've never, no, I've never done Twi - stupidly, it's, it's, - and so I, I always say about Twitter that it's like going into a room and being, um, punched, and then kissed and then hugged, and then complimented and then someone saying: 'I really like your tie' and they slap you across the face and they push you out of the room. And you think, uh, you know - and so the answer, so the answer is, is don't go in the room."

"...Andrew just brought something so totally different and extremely dangerous - that's the brilliant thing, that you just never know where you are with him, and that sort of sense that you might think you're having a charming conversation, and then he'll just slit your throat - just for fun."

"Or his own throat...Imagine it from Andrew's point of view, though. He's watching this instant hit show, that all of us, we're all thinking: 'This is amazing, I've never a show hit so big, so quickly', we're exulted - there's one person who isn't exulted because he hasn't come on yet..."

[awesomethingsandsuch]

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CRAWLING CHAOS

Early in Holmes and Watson's relationship, they're called to a small, dreary shoreside town to investigate strange ritual killings in which the victims seem to be rapidly mummified. Intrigued by the scientific questions, the duo is pulled into a mystery that will shake their views of the natural world and the cosmos.

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[priceforrottenjudgement]

I feel like we never talk about how soul shattering it is to have long and civil conversations with ppl who are misinformed on social topics, gently coaxing them out of their bubble of prejudice, only for some self righteous, snappy 19 year old to burst in and go "wow you havent let go of these bigoted views youve been fed your entire life by all the people you know and love??? Literally go kill yourself 🤪🤪" and when you go like wow thanks for ruining literal hours of trying to get this person to sympathise with our cause the 19 yo goes "why the fuck are you defending them, why were you even talking to them, ew, are you sympathising with the oppressor? 🤢 are you trying to form a connection so that they might be forced to see you as a person and feel compassion for you?? 🤮"

Like ofc its so much fucking easier to tell someone to fuck off. Its so much fucking more satisfying to clap back at randos online. Its hard to have to convince people to see other people as human. It feels horrible to have to reach out to bigots just in case you might still be able to make them understand.

Its perfectly fine if you cant do that, but im BEGGING you to not ruin the effort of people actually trying, simply because you feel morally superior bc you WOOOW realised that someones views are bigoted and outdated like NO SHIT SHERLOCK. Do you want a medal for realising that ppl in mostly conservative, non lgbt communities MIGHT hold anti lgbt views? What are you doing about it tho?

[foundatthemuseum]

Welcome to Found @ The Museum!

This blog is optimized for viewing on it's own page versus Tumblr's default layout. For the best experience scrolling through, I highly recommend it.

Welcome to the blog documenting the interesting and occasionally unusual things I've found at museums (or in their online archives). Alongside this are other thoughts about history that I thought worth sharing.

My ask box is open for any questions and submissions. I am sadly limited at the moment to submitting only what cool stuff I find online and in the UK, so would love to see what gems are hidden around the world, whether it's local to you or something discovered on your travels.

For more information about this blog and it's content, please see below the break.

All people's histories are to be represented here to the best of my ability. That includes the histories of people of various races and cultures as well as sexual orientation and identity.

Who runs this blog?

I am Muse (not my real name), a 21+ person from the UK who loves museums, art galleries and other places of cultural importance. My pronouns are he/they/she. This is ran as a side blog and is a personal project to be updated as and when I find things to post.

Currently I volunteer at a local museum alongside my day job. I plan on studying history with the aim to become a curator and spend my time helping put together collections for humanity to look at. (And any extraterrestrial friends too, if they're interested).

My background is in illustration and I started with art history, so you may notice a lot of paintings and sculpture on this blog alongside historical objects.

Content and warnings:

I intend this blog to be reasonably light-hearted but history is complicated and oftentimes uncomfortable and tragic. As such, historical weaponry such as swords and guns may be depicted on this blog along with outdated terms and bad language in the case of written works. Artistic nudity will also be present. In all these cases, these will be tagged to help those who wish to avoid these things and curate their space online. Nothing posted here will be any more explicit than what you may find in a museum, as that is exactly where I found it.

I found an inaccuracy on a post:

While I aim for accuracy mistakes can happen and interpretations can be proven inaccurate by new evidence. If you believe a post to be incorrect, please send an ask and I will review it and update. Where possible I will mention my source, which is often the museum housing the object.

What exactly is a "Thing" for this blog?

A thing is anything of note. Some things are tiny, like a sculpture in the eye of a needle and others are entire buildings. Some are organic like fossils and others were created by people. While this blog mainly documents things people can go to see at a museum it doesn't discriminate against non-3d images and digital media.

What's the header image/profile picture/Theme?

Currently, my profile picture is one of the many carvings in the Hintze Hall at The Natural History Museum, London

My header image is a photo of Dr Watson's Study, at The Sherlock Holmes Museum, London

My current theme is Rosemary by seychethemes