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(getting los angeles and louisiana mixed up after cursory google) LA baby. the stars are out. you got shrimps in da bayou. (thinking about the sopranos) bada bing bada boom

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in 2025 i intend to learn as little as possible about america. and you can do this too. take my hand

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no more media analysis until we agree that all art is a sublimation of the desire to ritually sacrifice the king. yeah all of it. yeah even cars 2 and stuff

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Bad art is better than no art

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Cracking one of these bad bois open & sharing with my mutuals

'Tis the season

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thinking about hela again... god i know i keep saying this and then not doing it but i need to write that backstory fic i NEED to bring my fucked up frankenstein girl to life

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*tamp tamp*

ah i see youve noticed me tamping down the soft earth

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*tamp tamp*

ah i see youve noticed me tamping down the soft earth

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*tamp tamp*

ah i see youve noticed me tamping down the soft earth

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*touching his extremely defined six pack* who did this to you.....

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just an idea, not sure if i could prove it, but i think perhaps what underlies the contrast between sherlock and mycroft is that mycroft is duty-driven, while sherlock is justice-driven.

what do i mean by this? i think i mean that mycroft has an internal set of standards for people. there are ways we all must act and things we all must do, because those actions are inherently good. whereas sherlock has an internal set of standards for the world. there are just and unjust situations and we must act in whatever way will bring justice about.

this means sherlock is arguably more selfish, because he's less likely to do self sacrificial things (although he very notably still does!), but it *also* means he's less likely to impose his ideals on others.

it's also interesting that mycroft finds his sense of purpose on a very grand scale (politics, national security) while sherlock finds his on a very individual one (solving murders). this could be about how sherlock, despite being pretty detached, is more in tune with the problems of individual people than mycroft is (including his own), while mycroft is focused on bigger pictures and greater goods. but primarily i think it stems from the fact that the larger the scale is, the more you have to work with and trust institutions. and we already know that sherlock will not.

but then again, if we put those together, maybe we get something true. maybe mycroft believes in Society, while sherlock is at least trying to believe, or working his way towards believing, in People.

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i hope you write (i hope we both write)

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i keep going oh nooo i can't like this character criiinge but literally why. oh my god tumblr user tyrannuspitch likes an edgy emotionally repressed highly punchable queer-coded character with ambiguous disorder who ppl frequently unjustly assume is Evil. fork found in kitchen!!!

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also. bears repeating. i don't actually seek out posh men as favourite characters. fiction just conspires to give my favourite character archetypes almost exclusively to posh men :/

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some more miscellaneous thoughts on contrasts between sherlock and mycroft:

class. they definitely grew up with money, but mycroft REALLY leans into it while sherlock is... kind of ambivalent?

mycroft calls their mother "mummy" and sherlock corrects him to "mother". these are both posh mannerisms, but of different kinds. mycroft goes for a display of affection that's so casual it almost feels cold/ironic, while sherlock goes for stiff, factual formality.

mycroft dresses like a caricature of a politician: three-piece suits, pocket watches, umbrellas held like fashion canes; while sherlock likes to wear formal clothes in informal ways - ie shirts with the collar open and no tie. they both look like they have money, but mycroft is displaying loyalty to conservative values while sherlock is doing the opposite.

their responses to being in buckingham palace. mycroft demands respect for the institution. sherlock makes a loud, petty show of disdain by refusing to get dressed, then deliberately aligns himself with john and against the palace by stealing an ashtray. (he was probably quite pleased that john said "what are we doing here?", positioning the two of them as the same, in contrast to mycroft, the aristocracy, etc etc.)

however. sherlock can still be kind of a snob. even if we decided to blame his worst remarks on the writers, his general attitude of superiority kind of automatically absorbs his background. he's not just intelligent, he's privileged enough to have been allowed to cultivate and use it. i truly don't believe that man has ever had a normal job.

however. sherlock is an outsider everywhere, regardless of class, which means snobbery can sometimes be used against him. sebastian, his old classmate in the blind banker, tries several wealth-related power plays on sherlock. sherlock does his best to scorn them, but the message of "you don't belong" isn't really one you can just brush off.

essentially: sherlock thinks he's a countercultural bohemian who just magically never has to worry about money, while mycroft thinks he's on downton abbey.

gender. this is closely related to the class stuff.

mycroft is doing a form of posh-specific and somewhat dated masculinity that reads as effeminate to 99% of the population, but it's kind of a power move because embracing it means only caring about the opinion of the 1%.

sherlock is doing a more universally palatable, "cooler" masculinity, and even makes a few jabs at mycroft on this topic... but because people find sherlock strange in so many other ways, this doesn't stop him being read as sexually ambiguous / potentially queer a lot of the time.

politics. this is also a variation on the same theme.

i don't think we ever learn what party mycroft is a member of, but if he really means that he's in government and not just a civil servant, then he's either a tory or a lib dem. so somewhere on a spectrum from centrist to right-wing, and even if he is a centrist, he's one who's willing to work with the right. honestly, i definitely feel like he's meant to be a tory, but i can't actually prove it.

sherlock's politics are also not very clear. he does make some remarks that imply disapproval of the political establishment as a whole: "that's the stupidest thing i've ever done" / "and you invaded afghanistan"; "try not to start a war before i get home"; "how quaint - queen and country"; but given how snobbish he can be at times and how uninterested he claims to be in the news, i think i'm putting him down as an apolitical cynic rather than like. actually left-wing.

so in all three of these cases, we get: "conservative" (ranging from "probably somewhat" to "excessively") versus "ambiguous, with countercultural leanings (of varying intensity and deliberateness)". hmmmm...