#yeah no shit sherlock!

[c0rpseductor]

‘Control the narrative,’ Papá always says. ‘That way, you control the story.’

i didnt really comment on this last time but this is such a stupid fucking tautology

[marzipanandminutiae]

Silly question I think you would be qualified to answer: before electricity, how exactly did one manage to light a candle (or rushlight) in the darkness if one woke up in the middle of the night?

Not silly at all! That's a totally understandable thing to wonder.

I think it comes down to muscle memory- you probably would have been doing this all your life, once you were old enough to light it yourself unsupervised -and the fact that most houses aren't totally cave-dark at night. Once your eyes adjust, unless you're visually impaired, you could probably see matches and a candle well enough. Pre-matches, you could light a candle from the banked fire in your room if there was one. Or...flint and tinder, I guess? Or you'd just go without, if there was no fire already lit and no way of lighting one to hand.

(and even if you are visually impaired, I can attest that some impairment can be worked around for things like that. I'm thankfully within correctable range, but I mostly put small or low-contrast things like that in the same places in my room all the time, so I can find them easily without them being highly visible. like my glasses, which have very thin wire frames- hard for me to find them without them on, if I don't know where they are, so they're usually in the same place every night)

(before anyone starts in with the Second Sleep!!!!! stuff, I read that paper and all of the "evidence" is just misinterpreting sources that talk about individual episodes of nighttime wakefulness, to turn it into a cultural norm when that's not what those sources indicate at all. ie "I woke up at night once, and read a book until I fell asleep again!" becomes "EVERYONE woke up at night, every night, and was awake for a few hours or something!" sorry to burst the pop history bubble there)

[onceandfuturelesbian]

merlin: newsflash, i have no plan.

merlin: everything i’ve done in the last ten years has been me making stuff up as i go along.

[tagarilaghost]

When you when you when you-

Silly nightmare guy! I think at least I started this drawing with that in mind. Kind of got carried away I guess-…

[sygneth]

Holmes College Adventures Masterpost Chapter 2: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8 AO3

you could make a career out of this

Pros of going to the country: - I can lie in the forest moss for hours - inner peace - inspiration for drawing them in the country Cons of going to the country: - having only my old broken tablet so drawing is painful (didn't stop me though)

[s0ap-bubbles]

People being shocked that vash isn’t a skinny twink will never not be funny to me

[happistar]

Nobody in the tags is talking abt the moment in the latest ep where john immediately breaks the fourth wall after saying he wouldn’t. Dumb as shit joke, absolutely loved it

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[makorragal-312]

Okay, so we're all in agreement that that line from Tommy in the date scene was weird as fuck, right?

[wikitpowers]

I don’t know if you take show recommendations, but since we’re all waiting for TWP to come around I wanted to recommend Dead Boy Detectives. I don’t know, I just thought you might enjoy the show :)

HEY! okay okay i just watched the trailer and WHERE DO I KNOW THE PIERCED-COOL-LOOKING GUY FROM??? (this is kinda embarrassing but was he on that disney show 'the lodge'? lmao)

anyways, i watched it and let me just say: having 'welcome to the black parade' in the trailer? killer. that's a fucking banger that is. and the show actually looks hella funny? and just me or is it giving hella fruity? and did i catch a glimpse of rowena from supernatural? okay this is ✨giving✨ so i may simply just have to watch it muahahah

it also kinda screams kit and ty as sherlock and watson and i'm all for that. i'm a bit scared it might be kinda spooky bc i'm a coward but also i can't imagine it being that bad, so i will for sure try checking it out at some point :]

[drlettuce]

Merlin holding aithusa:baby my cute babey

Arthur:Merlin no!

Merlin: my scaly babey

Arthur:put that down!

Merlin: hold our scaly babey Arthur

Arthur: Merlin no where do you get that

Merlin:B-but scaly babey

Aithusa:*rawr* papa!!!!

Arthur:......

Arthur: scaly babey

Arthur:come to papa!!!

[short-wooloo]

There's a lot of people pointing at how the Israel-Palestine ceasefire has ended and fighting has resumed as some sort of "gotcha"

It took 6 weeks to broker this ceasefire (and hamas didn't even really keep to it, surprise surprise, they still kept firing rockets at Israel), 5 days is not much time to broker an extension and/or longer ceasefire

This is the real world people, a ceasefire doesn't just happen by declaring/calling for it, they take time and negotiations and dealings and compromises

And as long as hamas keeps Israeli citizens (and non Israeli citizens) hostage while firing rockets at them, Israel has no reason to keep a ceasefire with hamas

[skyriderwednesday]

I can see two readings of Holmes turning so much to Watson about the pencil here:

1) "This is the same kind of large, soft, dark blue pencil Watson uses! Watson, you recognise how much of your pencil would be left if you'd sharpened it down to this point, right?"

2) "Watson, you should know this from the time I gave you a whole unsolicited six-hour lecture on pencils."

[vertical-tacos]

forgot to post

bonus:

[deconstructthesoup]

Decided to listen to Sherlock & Co. and it's already sold me due to having a neurodivergent Sherlock who explicitly struggles with sensory issues in a very real and relatable way

[followerofmercy]

Hey who wants to play Poverty Simulator from my roommate's social work classes

It's great. It's miserable. It's a little unrealistic because grocery prices have skyrocketed.