#sue holmes

[flamie-42]

William: ok if your not gay then why are you always holding my hand and kissing me and calling me your boyfriend

Sherlock: omg bro it’s satire!

William: that’s not what satire means Sherly

[rathenrys]

Sometimes I’m really happy and then I remember that Sherlock Holmes Chapter One exists and nothing is the same

[aurantia-ignis]

Happy Valentine's to lauralemer!

The prompt was 'sharing heat after getting caught in the rain' but uh… by the time I was done with this I realised belatedly that they kind of didn't get to the part where they soak their feet together oops 😂 Take this as a very imaginative reading of 'things are heating up'??

Randomly, y'all have no idea how much research I did into fireplaces and heating during the early Edwardian/late Victorian period just for that last image………….

[saint-clover]

chat does buying this in the year 2024 make me less fuckable or more fuckable

help me buy more embarrassing dvds

[definitely-not-watson]

Can you hear this in Jon's voice:

"That deserves a slap. And then a kiss."

What about this:

"How do you turn a simple accident into a tasty case? Add some spies."

Okay, but what about this one:

"They sell door locks and pads locks. No Sherlocks though, probably for the best. Can you imagine dealing with two of you? Ugh."

Well congrats, that's probably a blorbo now.

[yourfavin-yaoihell]

Every Adaptation of Sherlock belongs in Yaoi Hell.

(There’s well over 200 so I’m only including some notable ones but feel free to add some more)

Reasoning:

-you know why.

[yesthefandomfreakblr]

Ripred is not above being a sugar baby but he'd be a really shitty one.

[fotobasher]

in my quest to really get into the ACD verse for my mycroft project i played some tgaa - and i am inclined to agree that upon sholmes' introduction - he is such a Troll HAHAHAH - he hasn't reached bbc's levels of off the mark deductions but man!! he is so faux-narcissistic it's funny

it does make it easy to write in the pov of an exasperated mycroft tho

[zoeyslayter]

2024 To Read List (plus reasons as needed):

TW for Columbine/school unaliving mention and conversion mentions (homophobia). If I've missed your trigger let me know so I can fix the tags accordingly.

All book titles connected to their respective Goodreads pages.

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold - Reading this out of pure spite in response to an-in my opinion- unfair video about Sue. Won't link it so the guy doesn't get harassed but it made my blood boil. Side note: I have a special interest in Columbine but I in no way am interested in joining Tumblr's TCC. Eric and Dylan should not be fangirled over imho.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett - I like faerie books

Murder Your Employer: The McMaster's Guide of Homicide by Rupert Holmes - No particular reason; saw it at B&N and thought it seemed interesting. R.L. Stine apparently liked it so hey, why not?

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix - I've been looking at this author for a while, and I own some of his books on audible, but I've been trying to get back into physical media

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom by Satoru Yamaguchi, illustrated by Nami Hidaka, and translated by Shirley Yeung - Whole series, but I'm on the second book. One of my all time favorite animes. Can't wait for the Switch game to come out in NA.

Fire Dancer by Catherine Jones Payne - I met this author about 2 years ago at a convention and she is awesome. I'm almost done with her Breakwater series, which I also recommend if you like mermaids.

Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins by Charles Winecoff - Perkins has been said to be bisexual, but based on further research I genuinely think that he might have been a homosexual. This topic surrounding him has interested me for a while. especially since I have reason to believe that this came from conversion therapy.

RWBY: After the Fall by E.C. Meyers - I love RWBY and also fanfiction reasons. I also got Before the Dawn and Roman Holiday for similar reasons.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - Okay so I read the first book around the time the first movie came out but I only watched the movies past that, and I suddenly got hooked back in by people mentioning small details that Collins wrote, as well as Panem Academy and Emhahee on tiktok

[abuddyforeveryseason]

It's Superman and Supergirl! Remember the Superdictionary? The one where Lex Luthor stole forty cakes? He stole forty cakes!

You know, it seems like, inside every writer, there are two wolves - one who wants to be as self-indulgent as they want, write stuff only to themselves, and not care about criticism at all. The other, the one who wants to be as popular as possible, try and craft a story based solely on what people want and strip it of any flaws, no matter how personally revelant these flaws are to them.

And to a certain point, both sides are kind of childish - wanting to be self-indulgent is like wanting to play with your toys alone and get mad at any suggestions, even though sometimes suggestions are given specifically because someone likes the writing, and wants to see it evolve. And of course, being too dependant on praise is also childish, cause it's like wanting mommy to see you do a tumble - having confidence means doing stuff for yourself as well, after all.

The one big criticism every writer has to answer to, the first thing everyone hears again and again when starting to write - is to avoid making your main character a Mary Sue. Meaning, flawless, overpowered, too important to the plot and being too unique compared to the rest of the cast.

Yeah, I mean, that does sound like an unpleasant read. The big problem is that term was created mostly to discuss stories that are based on the idea of external struggle. So if the conflict in the story comes from characters having a hard time surviving, a character that's universally powerful and beloved is boring.

That is the big complaint everyone has about Superman - why is in interesting to read a story where the tension comes from finding out who wins a fight, if one of the challengers can punch the sun shut?

And I'm not sure if I'd classify Superman as a Mary Sue. He's the strongest guy in the story, sure, but the conflict isn't whether he'll win a given fight. The conflict comes from the way the plot's constructed, whether Superman knows who the enemy is, if he can get there in time to stop him, how other people feel about it...

And there's the inner conflict that comes from Superman having a secret identity. That goes against the "Mary Sue" accusation because having the secret identity is a flaw. It was the big flaw that set the character apart from others when he was first published. And although it's never really explained why Superman even bothers "pretending" to be Clark Kent, it makes sense, even if only on a subconscious level, back when the character was created.

I know that, if I started developing superpowers as a teen, I wouldn't abandon my current identity and life, and my adolescence wasn't even as wholesome as Clark's, with his upstanding parents and friends. So, the reason Superman has a secret identity is that, even if he's not human, he's a person, with all the lived-in background, dreams and psychology that that ensues.

Then, during the Silver Age, writers pretty much gave up on portraying Superman as an enviable, much less powerful figure. For most of it, Superman was subjected to all sorts of humiliations, from being turned into a monkey every other issue, becoming evil at the flip of a hat, or otherwise being portrayed as a mean-spirited prankster or neurotic egomaniac.

All that, of course, was to suprise audiences who were shocked to see their hero reduced to such a pathetic figure.

Of course, after then, Superman was not much different than any other superhero out there - if he was super strong, his enemies were just as strong. Also sometimes he wasn't even that strong. There was even The Death of Superman, an interesting story where he was killed by the personification of the nineties.

Of course, the idea that the main character is going to be victorious isn't exactly news to the audience - at least not if the story's supposed to be about dangerous conflict. Nobody watches The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron assuming there's a chance Jimmy will be slaughtered by the end of the episode.

Mary Sues are called conflict-killers because they're overpowered, but also because they're boring. A character can be all that much better/stronger/smarter than everyone else, but readers don't mind it so much if they're also interesting. Or if the story around them is interesting. It's usually the case with a character like Sherlock Holmes - not only is he a genius, he's also surprisingly strong for a skinny, balding englishman. He's rich, too, and can even be pretty handsome and charming when he wants. And to top it all off, he's a badass who flaunts his superior intellect by declaring he gets bored with the matters of the common man.

But the stories are good, because his hypercompetence is what allows us to see him figuring out the truth. And that's often pretty interesting. Except in that story where the guy's impotence drugs were turning him into a monkey.

There are other ways to make stories with all-competent characters interesting. Sometimes comics are more about the art (and in some cases, the circunstances that make it so the backgrounds are so interesting), so it's a lot of fun if Mary Sue's just plowing her way through the plot to let us see the pretty pictures. If the Mary Sue isn't the protagonist, jealousy and admiration are interesting plots. It's a thing that works well in comedy too.

But the interesting thing about Mary Sues, and Superman in particular, is that, if the character isn't bogged down by the dangers of the world and its associated fears, the story becomes becomes purely about morality - if Superman can do anything he wants, what should he do? The best Superman (and Superman analogue) stories are about questions like that. And some of the worst ones are the ones that fumble the answer.

Anyway, he's resting with Supergirl there. Funny. Why does he even need to rest? He can punch out the sun for God's sake!

[dickwheelie]

ideal watson/holmes dynamic is the excuse me he ask for no pickles meme w Watson in front

[aveline-amelia]

I sometimes get sad about Eurus

It is somewhat known I dislike her. I hardly keep it a secret.

But...

They failed her.

Her parents failed her.

Uncle Rudy failed her.

Her brothers didn't fail her (Mycroft was a child! And obviously so was Sherlock), but she still felt excluded.

The system failed her.

The authorities failed her.

People who were in charge of her (like the Governor) failed her.

And so did the writers.

Because Eurus could have been great. If she was allowed to be brilliant, and perceptive and manipulative, and at the same time lost and sad and alone.

If we actually spent more time with her outside the prison (TLD Eurus was so much better!) and get to see her mind work and her intellect actually displayed.

Have her deduce Molly's feelings for Sherlock, as opposed to inexplicably knowing about them for some reason (Moriarty couldn't have told her as he didn't think Molly mattered).

Have her have some kind of feelings regarding Mycroft besides indifference. (At the same time if we are meant to believe she only locked him inside her cell and didn't torment him in any way, doesn't that imply she unlike her parents doesn't blame Mycroft? Because if so, wow.)

If she wasn't made into a fucking rapist (I am sorry. I can excuse child murder commited by a child. I cannot excuse brutal rape. That is unforgivable.)

If we were shown she was clever, as opposed to told.

She could have actually been good LGBT representation as opposed to a vaguely queercoded villain, while her queercoded brothers are both painfully heterosexualized and forced inside their respective closets. (side note: Mycroft Holmes, played by Mark Gatiss, still isn't heterosexual and William Sherlock Scott Holmes is still not attracted to women.)

Not even fucking Moriarty is allowed to be openly queer, since it is still common belief he only says things like that to unsettle people.

Also Eurus is a fucking stupid name, I am sorry.

Seriously.

Will/Billy, Myke and Eurus? Were they called that as children?

[oncloudatlas]

nn o kpt perché gold rush/tolerate it/cowboy like me non hanno suscitato la stessa ondata di psicopatia di "ODDIO HA SICURAMENTE TRADITO JOE" che ha suscitato guilty as sin like

[fanaticsfiction]

Authors Convinced Fanfic is Illegal/Requires Permission

Terry Goodkind: “Copyright law dictates that in order for me to protect my copyright, when I find such things, I must go out and hire lawyers to threaten these people to make them stop, and to sue them if they don’t.”

John Scalzi: “Let's remember one fundamental thing about fanfic: Almost all of it is entirely illegal to begin with. It's the wild and wanton misappropriation of copyrighted material”

Diana Gabaldon: “OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear: I think it’s immoral, I know it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.”

Robin Hobb: “Fan fiction is like any other form of identity theft. It injures the name of the party whose identity is stolen.”

Anne Rice: “I do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.”

Anne McCaffrey: “there can be no adventure/stories set on Pern at all!!!!! That's infringing on my copyright and can bear heavy penalties…indiscriminate usage of our characters, worlds, and concepts on a 'public' media like electronic mail constitute copyright infringement AND, which many fans disregard, is ACTIONABLE!”

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: “No. Absolutely not. It is also against federal law.”

Lynn Flewelling: “Whether you are writing about Seregil or Fox Mulder or Sherlock Holmes, if you do not have legal permission from the author, their estate, or publisher, then you are violating US copyright law. It is creative piracy. Doesn't matter how many disclaimers you put on, or if you're being paid. It. Is. Illegal.”

Someone Else, elaborated in the notes

[contact-guy]

Hello!

I have a question - I have come twice now across this quote of Watson talking about Moriarty in the Valley of Fear again:

"The famous scientific criminal as famous among crooks as he is-"

I am missing something. I don't understand what this is getting at (with Holmes' reaction) and I feel like the point is just soaring past my head. I am not a native speaker so that probably has to do with it. What does Holmes think Watson is about to say?

Ok I'm actually curious what people think about this because it's such a cute interaction but I wasn't totally sure how to read it either! Here's what I think and how I drew it:

Watson starts to say that Moriarty is a famous criminal. Holmes pretends to be shocked by this - because as he elaborates later, if you imply that Moriarty is a criminal in any public setting, Moriarty will sue you. So on the "my blushes" line, he's teasing Watson - "don't say that in public! you'll get in trouble!"

And Watson responds with "I was getting AROUND to saying that he's only famous to other criminals, NOT to the public". Holmes thinks this is a clever way to put it and compliments Watson's sense of humor.

Does that sound right or does anyone else have a different interpretation?