#they're SO YOUNG

[ladyofrosefire]

Sometimes I think about what would happen if Tav, upon hearing Wyll's story, said that someone should have been there to protect him when he was 17. I really, really don't know how that would go.

[lucy-moderatz]

It's Summers blood. It's just like mine.

[amypihcs]

GUYS! LETTER. FROM. OUR DEAR WATSON!

LET'S START!

Watson apologizes for not having been able to write but we forgive him, it's the holidays and he's been busy, of course, now he's willing to tell us some more extensive cases and he starts from the very beginning! From how he and his husband met!

Watson got his medical degree and enlisted and well... the second Afghan war wasn't nice on him

Watson is one lucky bastard to have survived such a wound and the consequent infections, but he gets so ill that he gets packed up and sent back to England as soon as he can survive a ship's voyage. To a England where he has... no one

I want to hug him so TIGHT. You're not an idler, Watson, you are RECOVERING. Well, since our dear Watson IS young and stupid but not so stupid after a while he realizes that he needs lodgings that will cost him a bit less and when he decides and acts on this he gets struck by luck once again! He meets an old friend of his and invites him for lunch

Poor Watson. He will recover! Oh well, the first man who put that question? Oh, only your future husband, doctor. No i've said nothing - innocent smile -

BIOTECH PRIDE HERE: HOLMES NEVER EVEN TRIED MEDICINE. Chemistry is MUCH better uwu

Watsonsaid a very very clever thing. A PITY he doesn't know Holmes yet! You'll love him, Watson, but do not expect a man of quiet habits! But... Stamford seems strange... like as he wants to wash his hands of the situation... Is there anything under it?

Nah, Holmes would ask PERMISSION to his friend before poisoning him in the name of science, of course. And he would take the poison himself tbh.

Here he is!

Watson's done for. Cupid his square in the center here, Holmes is so DELIGHTFUL! I want to meet him, get a hot chocolate with him and discuss chemistry together!

Holmes is so giddy, he wants to infodump!

He wantso to infodump soooo much

Watson would like to listen to it, but now he's distracted by Holmes' hands!

Well, well, Watson bring your eyes back on his. To business. It's alright, here are my worst defects -Holmes picked back up his mask, he doesn't want to scare this handsome if sickly young doctor away-

They like each other!

Also, Watson, you are not lazy. You have PTSD and are recovering from invalidating injuries, you feel tired and are not as active as before because your body is using all of his energy to RECOVER.

Holmes being anxious about the violin is the most precious thing, as usual <3

Arrangements made, see ya! Btw, Stamford...

THEY ARE SO MADE FOR EACH OTHER. SO DAMN MUCH.

Now Watson has to rejoin his better half, so he'll leave us, you see

It's Holmes' BIRTHDAY!

[heretherebedork]

Ah. dreams versus reality. The part of making choices and getting older and realizing that sometimes you can't make your passion your career but still wanting to try, still wanting this to be the center of your world and everything that you live and breathe.

They're so young and you see that black and white thinking, that passion that means they don't see the choices ahead of them as anything but one or the other, winning or losing, going forever or giving up now. Oh, babies.

[paulinegrintt]

*bagpipe solo*

i miss my boys so much

[wornkindness]

amelia gathering up all the padwans during tcw into her arms: mine now

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

it is impossible to overstate the importance of this video

[eyes-of-nine]

pls assume i'm thinking about this moment 24/7 all week every week

[nero-neptune]

…we’ll show ‘em what we all mean!

[hello-waffles-are-good]

[Young Justice just chilling, writing up cases and such]

Bart, abruptly getting up: omg I've gotta go-

Tim, unbothered: aren't you forgetting something??

Bart: ???

Bart, hesitantly: uh... *Kisses forehead, then speeds away*

Tim, calling after him: No! Sign your REPORT! Damn, who taught you?

[dandeleon]

half fidd friday half "what if stan & ford found a cat and kept it on the stan o' war II with them"

[kensatou]

bonus:

[moodyseal]

I was poking fun at how unexpectedly silly the CHB kids looked in armour in the first two episodes of the PJO show (acting like an almighty army and all) and then it hit me. This is exactly how some of them will look like when they will be dying in the final battle. Silly. Tiny. Literal children

[taffywabbit]

I finally watched breaking bad (all within the past week or so while I worked, finished it and watched el camino last night) and I'm confident this isn't a new thought I'm expressing or anything but genuinely how DID an entire generation of dudes convince themselves Walter White was cool and admirable and intended to be sympathetic. I know ppl just lack media literacy sometimes but I'm still so confused

I don't think I've EVER watched a piece of media that so blatantly depicts a guy making the worst possible decisions at every turn and having his life ruined for it and not being redeemed or made sympathetic in any significant or lasting way. the kinds of justifications villains USUALLY give that make people consider them "morally grey" or "tragic" or whatever (everything I did was for my loved ones, I did what I had to to survive, once I was in this I couldn't get out, I just needed you to trust me so I could keep you safe, etc etc) is ALWAYS framed as complete self-serving bullshit when Walt says it, and one of the only shreds of personal growth he ever exhibits in the whole series is when he finally fucking admits that. every time he does something even remotely cool or drops a quotable one-liner, something terrible immediately happens that makes everything worse and makes him look like an unreasonable idiot asshole again. by the end of the series the ONLY characters they can still contrast as being morally "worse" than him are literally a bunch of bloodthirsty neonazis who kept a guy in a cage for several months. this show is practically SCREAMING at you the entire time not to admire Walt. why did every dude I knew in highschool have his face on tshirts and Facebook pfps.

I just don't get it. at least with The Dark Knight's Joker it was like, a feature-length movie and that's it. you spend a lot less time with the Joker and it has a lot less time to delve into his motivations, so there's way more room for flanderization and misinterpretation as people extrapolate the few cool/interesting/sad things they saw into a whole nuanced misunderstood guy in their heads and online. Walter White has 5 seasons' worth of 45min episodes to convince you beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a miserable fucking loser who ruins everything he touches because of greed and selfishness. if you weren't watching it for that, what WERE you getting out of this. what DID you think this show was about. am I just missing some key piece of context from 2012 or whatever that would help me understand this

[mightytato]

look at this cutie patootie THONKIN, until he saw yoouuu~

frames and process under da cut

[ffcrazy15]

There's this way of doing female-ness in Christianity that I call "pastel flower journal Christianity." I've got nothing against pastel flower journals per se, but for some reason people believe it's the end all and be all of female spirituality, and I think it's a real disservice towards young Christian women.

One of these days I'd like to start a prayer-and-reading group or something for young women, but there would be no floral themes or over-focus on how "God thinks you're beautiful even if the world doesn't" (a true statement, but it's wayyyyy too often the focus in women's spiritual reading). Instead we would be reading:

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

Sheed's A Map of Life

Portions of Pieper's book on leisure

Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life

Guardini's The Lord (or something similar)

Therese's Story of a Soul

and some select portions of the Nicomachean Ethics.

(Also they're all getting the porn talk. I don't know why we give the porn talk to young men but not young women. There's this idea that women don't use porn and they only need the talk about "guarding their heart." Bullshit. There's porn on the YA shelves of Barnes and Nobles and before that there were bodice rippers. Young women need the porn talk too.)

Every young woman needs to be getting a basic grounding in virtue ethics, logic, natural law, scholastic philosophy and Biblical hermeneutics if they're going to get by in today's spiritual landscape. Enough faffery and emotionalism in young women's spiritual education! Give them real food to chew on, not pasty sentimentalism!