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Love it!!! I love learning wee pieces about people from the songs to which they listen. 😁 Excellent taste, miss. 🎩

🎶✨ When you get this, feel free to list five (5) songs you like to listen to, publish, then send this to any number of your favorite followers! (Positivity is cool. 😎) 🎶✨

Well hello there my friend! I would be HAPPY to share some of my favorites!

First up, a classic of mine. Baba Yetu. I love things with a neat tribal feel, and this one reminds me of several of my book scenes!

https://youtu.be/or4IKVG2zAA?si=dlK0VdJ_8Rnwsnrt

Second, Blue Rose. This one is an emotional piano song that makes you think of all the changes and phases of life. Blue Rose's are also my favorite flowers, and means "Belief in the Impossible". A fitting message for myself, as I believe through God all things are possible!

https://youtu.be/riTRKDELLQk?si=QFzdetiaHCb4l4LR

Third, Let Everything That Has Breath. This one is from one of my favorite Theater Companies, Sight and Sound. This one is really fun to listen to while working, and I even have an animation I've always wanted to make with it for my books. Never gotten the guts up to do it yet though.

https://youtu.be/CakyCQbrCVQ?si=h7X0VkV9z5knLIe-

Fourth, Unity and The Storm mashup. This one is a combination of two of my favorite Fat Rat songs in one! They work perfectly together and I vibe to this every time.

And finally, Blessing the Rain. This one I love to listen to as I work on my novels. It has just the right vibes.

https://youtu.be/H0N2fum9DPE?si=--g2v4-skxI2O15c

Usually, my music tastes are very diverse, and I usually select music I listen to based on message and vibes for whatever I'm doing/writing/drawing at the time!

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Doesn't matter that it's not November anymore. It's ALWAYS high time to bust out the RDJ SH GIFs.

Sherlock Holmes (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie

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Pfff. 😂 Well, it is his job as Holmes's biographer (or Boswell) to also direct part of his story toward his friend's eccentric and fascinating behaviors. ✨

watson you’re supposed to be telling me about a cult of gingers wtf is this

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Bertie Wooster speaks for the people.

he is so relatable and for what.

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Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

Ooh, love it!

1. "Hùg air a' bhonaid mhòir" by Julie Fowlis.

2. "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest" by Salt Sea Pirates (another version, "The Derelict" by Abney Park, is a wonderful runner-up).

3. "Jan de Mulder / Zeeman's Horlepiep" by Rapalje.

4. "Die Forelle, D. 550," composed by Franz Schubert and performed by Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake (but, I mean, anything from EITHER of the Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes soundtracks are masterpieces).

5. "Calum Crubach, Fionnlagh ag innearach," composed by Ruth Barrett and performed by Julie Fowlis.

Yep, they're all weird picks. I've gotten used to it.

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Guys, does ANYBODY know if there was a deleted scene from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows featuring the Shush Club (and/or Mycroft)? Please. I need this.

I ask this because of three reasons.

1. There is a bonus track on the deluxe album edition of AGOS from Warner Brothers/Watertower Music called "Shush Club #3." This strange, jazzy, eccentric, accordion-based track is never to be heard on screen in AGOS. Initially, I thought that it was just a bonus track for the sake of including something Zimmer and Balfe wanted to compose. But then...

2. The credits list multiple actors as "Shush Club Maitre D's." Where were they? At first I thought they were referring to the place where they hosted Watson's stag party and Mycroft was present, but that couldn't have been the Shush Club, because the environment was certainly a loud one. 😂

3. There is an article on Baker Street Wiki about the "Shush Club," describing it as such:

The Shush Club is the exclusive establishment to which Mycroft Holmes retires to escape the noise and pressing demands of the world. The membership is made up of the great and powerful, and one of the major rules is that all disputes must be left at the door. Neither members nor guests are allowed to speak or even acknowledge anyone else except in certain, rigidly-defined circumstances.

It lists Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows under the "Appearances" section and says that it is modeled off of the Diogenes Club (from the original Canon).

So, where the blazes are this set/location, actors, and extra bonus track? XD They all correspond so as to make anyone think that the Shush Club was included in AGOS but just got cut. Does anyone have any information on this? Was Stephen Fry's Mycroft in it as a founding member of the Diogenes Club, getting more screen time than his criminally under-shown character had in the final cut? Did it include any of the main actors like Downey's Holmes or Law's Watson, or would this have been a sort of one-off short scene for humorous purposes to show Mycroft and the Diogenes Club (which I would love anyway)?

WE. NEED. ANSWERS!

So, yeah. Please speak now if you have information. Thank you. 🫡 XD

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I'm wheezing. You know me too well. 🤣

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I have been utterly and completely called out.

How dare you.

(I also noticed you're a fellow Raffles fan, which is rare to see even in the world of Victorian and classic literature. *waves enthusiastically*)

i was supposed to be cool and mysterious like sherlock holmes but instead I can't stop yapping about anything and everything that interests me in the slightest. like sherlock holmes

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What a turn of phrase. I love this.

Hey folks I’m watching House. I’m about 7 episodes in. When will they explain why Wilson follows House around like the specter of a dead wife determined to keep her widowed husband interested in living?

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EXACTLY what @holmesoverture just said.

I am not going to get my hopes up. And if it does come out, I am not going to love it, like it, or even allow myself to experience one hint of an emotion until the end credits are scrolling by. (Then, and only then, will I admittedly break down and be emotionally unavailable for a while.)

They will not ruin this series, or so help me, I shall take drastic measures. >.>

(P.S. Sorry for the overuse of italics, but emphasis is a must. XD)

brother. do NOT play with me on this. I've been waiting for like. 15 years at this point

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EMBARGO.

I got the same result you did, blast it. 🤣

Tagging @gilgamushroom, @bowl-of-wyrms, and @please-dont-pet-the-okapi. XD

alright babes, uquiz time.

find out who you would be in fantasy society. i’m reblogging with a link so tumblr doesn’t hide this. 

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Commission for @inkinary

Meet Fier, patrin of Fire and Flame.

I've had a lot of fun looking at lava and vulcanos for thos one and thinking about how a constantly changing yet robust body could look like.

Thank you again so much for commissioning me :D

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Yes. Please. POR FAVOR. A million percent. I have been scouring the internet for one, and alas! I have not turned up with one. 😔

Can we just have a Jeeves and Wooster blooper reel? 

Why? - Because I need it.

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YES. Same about Donkey Hotay/Don Quixote. I used to think samurai were literally spelled "Samoorai." For YEARS. That is the hold this game had over my life.

The references in that game are insane, especially because now I LOVE classic literature and Victorian culture, so every time I go back to play P101, I find something new that I never noticed. A good example is Governor (AKA Major-General) Stanley and Mabel in Port Royal, the reference to the "Major-General's Song" ("I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General")—both from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. Yes, Gilbert and Sullivan, who are also full-on NPCs in the game...working at SAVOY Mercantile (Savoy Operas, anyone?). XD A character named Murgatroyd is a reference to their other work Ruddigore, too.

Now, having heard "With Cat-Like Tread" and listening to the chorus very recently (# Come, friends, who plow the sea / Truce to navigation; take another station), I had an "AHA!" moment of Gilbert having sung that in the quest dialogue. XD

It's been almost twelve years, and this game still never ceases to amaze me.

You ever discover a piece of media and go “oh so that’s what wiz was referencing”

Like I had no idea what the musical, Xanadu, was until someone I knew was in a production for it and I was reading the plot synopsis and suddenly the Zanada questline in Empyrea made a lot more sense.

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WHAT THE BLAZES?!

WHAT THE ACTUAL BLAZES?!

Why am I never told this stuff?!

Finally got around to doing the Five B.O.X.E.S event and I’m just wondering WHY DONT WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE WIZARD IS THE REASON WHY BOOCHBEARD AND MR GANDRY SEARCH FOR THE PIRATE???

The wizard is fully aware that the pirate exists and is going to take down the Armada, but the pirate has no idea that the wizard exists