#which is still so good i regularly go ????

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Broke (2016): BBC Sherlock is a phenomenal piece of media and anything that seems like a flaw just hasn't been fully explored yet

Woke (2020): BBC Sherlock is an incredibly flawed series run by an egotistical writer, it never deserved the hype and is actively bad on so many fronts (especially representation)

Bespoke (2024): BBC Sherlock is flawed and bogged down by increasingly poor writing, which many fans refused to see while it was airing, leading to hugely misplaced expectations (particularly for the final series), AND it has the seeds of some compelling characterizations and portrayals, some genuinely solid performances, and touches--albeit imperfectly--on complexities that are still being discussed today (particularly as it relates to the relationship between Sherlock and John). The huge cultural impact of the show has created a massive pendulum effect in its public perception, leading to most people today remembering a caricature of the show (whether positive or negative) rather than appreciating its nuanced merits and failings...that being said Season 4 sucked

[tleeaves]

There are two wolves inside me. One wants to embrace a new hobby in dance so I can be active and feel elegant and graceful and strong. This wolf wants to try something new and exciting, finally indulging in something I've always had an interest in.

The other experiences such frustrating emotions on a near daily basis that I want to go back to boxing, which is arguably easier to break into since I've already done it before. This wolf doesn't think of elegance, she just wants to fuck shit up until her body's so overworked and warm it fogs up car windows without having to do anything but sit inside.

Which one do I fucking feed??

[mars-ipan]

interesting to me how when i turned 19 i was kinda terrified bc i was like “oh shit this is my last year as a teenager….. i won’t be a teenager after that… i wanted to be a teenager for all of my childhood and now that part’s almost Over. aaaaugh” and now approx. 9 months later i cannot fucking WAIT to stop being a teenager oh my god i am ready to move on. 20s please i would like to be in them. i am done being 19 thank you !!!

[kelocitta]

Tangentially related to some of the discussion i posted earlier but quiet literally the first RW Art Month i participated I did it completely on whim like, one day before it started. And I mostly did it because I hadn't drawn a ton of rain world and wanted to draw more. Fandom presence was a lot smaller than and I was one of a handful of artists who did the entire thing. Fast forward and I still do Art Month and I've gotten to work with VC directly. But it was quite literally something I decided to do completely on whim that set the ball rolling, and for something a lil more niche and certainly with a lot more dev/fandom art involvement than most. It's really random how and why you might get noticed more than usual, especially with the "toss it into the search and hope it pays out' mechanism of Socmed

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Doctor who tiktok my mortal enemy

[cryolyst]

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[sysig]

Gotta sweep up all this Dust (Patreon)

[the-casbah-way]

even though i really love what hrt is doing to me it has made me so self conscious because i know my body is changing more visibly now and i don't like the idea that people who know me very well will be able to see that. i just hate the idea of people looking at me. and i worry that the people i care about will like me less the more they look at me because i'm ugly

[dandyghest]

hot pink 11+ year old digital camera still works and is ready to go on wonderful adventures once again :]

my beautiful hot pink princess ... 🫶

[orcelito]

This just in, local struggler severely overestimates how much they can eat yet again. Left with half a bowl of ramen and a sad, sad heart

[tumbloggingattheendofitall]

I think it's actually really solid from a philosophy standpoint that Aaron Sorkin created the contrivance of The President Invoked The 25th Amendment

Because above all, the text of the amendment covers the circumstances

But beyond that, it's been like 20 years and I've gotta say that if half as many politicians had involved that level of cognizance in decision-making, I don't actually think we would be in this political landscape

What I mean is. They swore a man in to do a job that collectively lasted less than a day. He did do that job, unbriefed and largely unprepared and it was on the back of The US President was Unable to continue his duties that they made another guy temporarily President and they only got there because the president was already so taxed by his daughter being kidnapped that he was unable to continue

Jfc I mean I do actually Hate the motherfucker that made Temp President in the show

But I think it's really valuable that this show was so obsessed with Process for so long because it made a better show where we're asking ourselves not only politically what this does to this guy (which makes us politically savvy) but in a modern context, I'm frankly asking what the fuck else wasn't focused on, in-universe, that makes this situation challenging to navigate and weird to get through because we now have a temporary new president and not for the reason that the amendment envisioned either

I mean it's actually fascinating as a discussion and I think it makes things like political science more interesting as we try to a world where people frequently get so old they die (or get voted out) before resigning their seat in public office

And this one is such a wild circumstance that it could only be tv but these are the kind of circumstances that do kind of make public office and how those leaders deal with it tells you a lot about them

Like how for example I think being President is more important to Donald Trump than any process that allows for the country to actually function

I think he'd never invoke the 25th even if he were suddenly upon his deathbed by disease with warning

Because I think he's the kind of man that cares more about his ego than how an entire country functions (it doesn't or it Tries Badly) without that figurehead -because I would argue the biggest advantage to a president is having a figurehead at which other countries can point a gun, which allows them to lose focus on the other ways that the government actually (theoretically) runs

Anyways I'm just saying things recreationally but I'm really pondering this in light of what I have seen in the show and the ways that this show largely reflects a politics that is baking to the one we continue to play (because the people who haven't embraced the panopticon believe politics still works like this, or else have already died)

I'm just saying there are already many obviously challenging pieces to this but conceptually there is a letter that removes his power as an elected official, and another what returns it, and both get approved at once.

And then the capitalism that makes a rabid and ravenous Press also makes itself known and I'm reminded that people make their whole salaries on the shit like this which is why the 25th has only ever been theoretically enacted (and I don't know history but I'm pretty sure I'm right about that one since it's an American time

[skrunksthatwunk]

last minute pre-grandparent-visit room deep cleaning has revealed that within the drawer i tend to assume just has old, off generic birthday cards and theater/concert programs there are also many, many going away cards and letters and things from the last couple of times i moved away. i guess i always thought of it as such a lonely thing, and i talk a lot about how i don't think i made Real friends until recently, and not to get choked up on main or anything but i think maybe i was completely fucking wrong

[hecate-spawn]

I think after dating two women the general consensus is that I'm really bad at dating because I rush into things but very good at getting broken up with and staying on hood terms because we were better as friends anyway

[wolpatinga]

[nugatorysheep]

Sometimes I think about how, back when the roster was much bigger, me and my old friend group all picked out WTL characters that we thought the others were the most like, and almost universally people thought Druid was the most like me. That probably should've been my first clue that none of them knew a single thing about me, but hindsight is 20/20

I also often think about how, after several days of going through things that had happened to me over the last four or so years, I was told 'You seem like a person who wants to be understood', and it hit me that until then, I had never met someone who ever really got me. Now that I have, I could never settle for less.