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kagedt: AU where Hannibal is a competitor on Master Chef UK.

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kagedt:

AU where Hannibal is a competitor on Master Chef UK.


professional-bird: CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT POPE...

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professional-bird:

CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT POPE FRANCIS IS SO FRIKKIN CHILL THAT IF AN ALIEN WALKED IN TO THE VATICAN HE WOULDN’T EVEN FREAK OUT HE’D JUST BE LIKE “SUP DUDE LETS GO GET YA SOME JESUS” 

Hi, I have to unfollow a few people. Mostly for my sanity.

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Hi, I have to unfollow a few people. Mostly for my sanity.

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mid0nz: What John Watson Likes, orHow to Ship Johnlock without...

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mid0nz:

What John Watson Likes, or
How to Ship Johnlock without Really Trying (Season 3 Edition)

The Audio

Listen to it. You’re hearing two audio tracks. The first is the scene after Irene’s death. Sherlock is composing Irene’s theme music. John has a conversation with Hudders about Sherlock’s sexual orientation. They admit that neither knows and John leaves the flat for an unknown purpose and destination. As he heads down the street, he’s stopped by a tall posh woman with dark hair, pale skin, dressed to the nines in black heels, a black dress with a flowing shawl. 

Listen carefully. Sherlock’s violin music, Irene’s theme is still playing over the scene even though John has shut the door to the flat. This tells the careful viewer one obvious thing— we’re meant to associate the woman with Irene, i.e. she’s not Mycroft’s agent. But there’s oh so much more to the story and I’ll get to that.

The second audio clip is what plays when John enters 221 Baker Street for the first time since he moved out post-Reichenbach. It’s Irene’s theme mixed with the euphoric dialog from Pink when John and Sherlock catch their breath after the big chase. It’s the confirmation that yes, indeed, they’re both adrenaline junkies. 

But why Irene’s theme? Why is it tangled in John’s memory with his heady attachment to Sherlock and their adventures?

Prequels

This meta has some prequels. I highly recommend you read the first, especially.

To Recap ^

Irene’s musical theme and John’s musical theme have four note motifs and very similar contours. Their characters are inextricably linked by the music that introduces them, stands in for them, and develops with their personality growth. They’re kin by nature of the audio. The Johnlock implications are kind of obvious but that first meta up there goes into greater detail.

Yes, Ok but Get me to Season Three Johnlock Already Dammit!

Calm yourself. It’s an arc. What’s Irene so fond of saying?

So who does she send to fetch John for her dramatic Lazarus reveal? (See what I did there?) She sends what John likes. And oh is she dead on:

I’ll be clear here. Irene has sent a fem!lock, a woman with the features John so appreciates. Again— the dark hair, height, dark flowing clothing, posh. Irene knows John has a sexual pull to Sherlock (she’s hardly discreet about it) and she bloody well proved it by baiting John with a female Sherlock. Thus her smugness at Battersea.

In plot Irene’s talking about the fellow who fudged her DNA records and she’s ALSO needling (an oblivious) John. [“We’re not a couple!” “Yes you are.”]

John likes the danger and the mystery and the adventure Sherlock offers but John’s also unconsciously physically attracted to Sherlock. And in case Sherlock didn’t deduce it from eavesdropping on her conversation with John at Battersea, Irene makes it obvious in one of her final texts to Sherlock:

So Sherlock may not understand that he’s John’s best friend, but I absolutely believe (at some times, in some scripts) that he understands that his attachment to John is complex if puzzling. [In S3 Sherlock treats John as if he’s an extension of himself. He can’t be seen tearing about London with an old man after all!] Even if Sherlock is oblivious to what we all see going on between him and John, Sherlock clearly demonstrates that he cares very much what John thinks about the workings of his heart— which he equates with logic. Why else would John be the first to come to mind before Sherlock proves he’s broken Irene’s code?

John is on Sherlock’s mind because it is through John and his often elevated pulse that Sherlock first understands the chemistry of love. Sherlock also understands that John thinks he knows nothing of it. The fact is he’s studied it in John. And Sherlock knows what John likes better than John does. It’s not ordinary Sara or Jeanette who are interchangeable with any number of John’s blah girlfriends. Until Mary comes into John’s life Sherlock is the only person that can get John’s blood pumping. And Sherlock’s not actually wrong. The chemistry of John’s love is very, very, very destructive. So if Irene knows what John likes, and Sherlock knows, and Mycroft knows (“You miss the war”) who ELSE knows? Cause John himself is obviously oblivious.

Oh. Right. Psychopathology

So why Irene’s theme again? Why does Irene’s theme play at 221b when John returns to mourn Sherlock and tell Mrs. Hudson that he’s going to ask a woman to marry him?

Irene’s theme is linked sonically to John’s theme. It represents Irene, yes, but also Sherlock’s eternal yearning and what there is of his sadness. It also represents a time when Sherlock was inconsolable and John heartlessly abandoned him on a holiday, so there’s a tinge of guilt to it. But it’s also the musical bridge to the showdown with Irene where she made John’s unconscious desire for Sherlock utterly explicit. And in the extra-diegetic soundtrack, Irene’s theme is linked to the tall, posh woman with the dark hair.

John cries that Mary, she’s “not supposed to be like that.” She’s short, blonde… on the surface the antithesis of Sherlock. But at her dark core John’s best friend and his wife are actually flip sides of the same coin. 

John’s fucking Mary, he’s made vows to Mary, he loves Mary— all these things are true but he’s chosen Mary for many, if not most, of the traits that bind him to Sherlock. Their friendship is utterly erotic even if John’s wired to express his sexual attraction to Sherlock in a female form. It’s alright. Sherlock, Irene, Mycroft, Mary. They all know what John likes. He just has to come to terms.

John knows Mary’s right. If he reads the AGRA memory stick (not memory palace, mind, but there’s a parallel) that he will fall out of love with Mary. She told him so. John CHOSES willful ignorance, choses to love a woman whose history he knows nothing about rather than lose the spark of his addiction. It’s not for the baby he’s staying. He knows what it’s like to live without the war, without the untrustable Sherlock, he refuses to compromise the thrills his petite assassin offers. It’s not domestic comfort, or a simple straight life John seeks. What would Mary have to do to turn him back to Sherlock? BORE him.

Sherlock knows that’s not likely. Ultimately Sherlock chooses Mary for John.

Sherlock gives John permission to love her through surrogacy. John can’t trust Mary until Sherlock convinces John that she is trustworthy, that he, Sherlock, has enough trust in Mary for the pair of them. It’s only because of Sherlock that John chooses to keep Mary.

Listen to the music that plays over the scene when Mary takes her seat. You tell me if it reminds you of “SHERlocked" in any way. Listen carefully just as she turns to sit on the chair. It’s most obvious in the quiet piano notes at the end of both songs. It’s the similarity in aural contour again. John, Sherlock and their Women. The Woman Sherlock chooses for the man he loves so dearly.

I’m going to rewind a moment to TS03 when Sherlock is detailing the story of “Hamish” and exactly who knows and how that it’s John’s middle name. Sherlock revisits the scene where John notices the erotic tension between Irene and Sherlock and offers his name, Hamish, to their baby. Let’s take a look at how Irene exists in Sherlock’s mind palace, how he’s filed her.  She’s nude. She’s physically idealized. She’s mute. She’s stroking his face and she’s out there somewhere. When she appears, the theme Sherlock wrote her plays.  She disrupts his thinking about the case.

Or does she? What other deduction does Sherlock make, almost unconsciously? The sign of the third Watson, of course! Hamish for a baby name…leads to Sherlock deducing the Mayfly Man and after Sherlock plays his only other composition other than Irene’s theme, his waltz for John and Mary, he deduces Mary’s pregnancy (when, quite implausibly, neither the doctor nor his wife have thought of it.) 

So. In ASiB John read the erotic tension between Irene and Sherlock when Sherlock couldn’t see it. Irene read John’s erotic attachment to Sherlock when John couldn’t see it. But in TS03 Sherlock’s experience of the tension between him and Irene leads him not to a brief quiet sex fantasy about her, but to a deduction about John. Specifically about John and sex, about John making a baby with Mary, his best friend’s other beloved psychopath.

Irene and her theme continually make the show’s homoeroticism visible AND audible. 

That felt amazing to get out.

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That felt amazing to get out.

marvel-slash-geek: erens-jaeger-bombs: it’s so frustrating when your fic ideas are bigger than...

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marvel-slash-geek:

erens-jaeger-bombs:

it’s so frustrating when your fic ideas are bigger than your writing abilities 

even worse when your laziness is bigger than both your ideas and writing abilities


How Best to Pair Bourbon and Girl Scout Cookies

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How Best to Pair Bourbon and Girl Scout Cookies:

i-will-not-be-caged:

misa-nthropy, this is our aesthetic

THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

favourosie: okay so the U.K has just banned U.K porn people...

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favourosie:

okay so the U.K has just banned U.K porn people from making porn involving ‘spanking’, ‘female ejaculation’ and a bunch of other stuff which is a mess.

but we need to talk about this headline/picture combo.

[source]

jordieham: We took my niece to go take pictures. So while we...

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jordieham:

We took my niece to go take pictures. So while we were waiting, she decides to sneak & jump in another families picture. Lmfao

stay-human: Pakistani students recreate photo taken before...

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stay-human:

Pakistani students recreate photo taken before Peshawar school massacre

In atrocities like the massacre at a school in Peshawar last month, the individual victims can sometimes be forgotten; replaced in headlines by a number - in this case the 145 murdered by the Taliban.

After returning to school this week, two of the pupils - Talha Munir Paracha (far left) and Hassan Javed Khan (second right) - have given a heart-wrenching reminder that everyone at that school has lost a friend, a classmate or a teacher.

Uploading two pictures to his Facebook page, Talha showed one from before the attack and one after.

In the second photo, two of his friends - Rafiq Bangash (second left) and Mohammad Yassen (far right) - were missing, tragically having lost their lives in the attack.

loveablegeek: behindinfinity: I try to picture me without you...

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"And that's why bot fighting IS a practical application of my talents!" "Whatever you say, bonehead."


"Hang on tight, shrimp. You're so small, I might lose you to a hungry bird." "Ha ha, hilarious."


"Get off me, you giant nerd." "Try and make me, micronerd."


"This is my brother, Hiro. Despite everything, he's a good kid. I believe in him."


"This is my brother, Tadashi. He's a big dork who... always looks out for me. It's pretty cool of him, actually. Don't tell him I said that!"


"Yeah, I miss them too."


"I need something to get me through finals week so SMILE, baby bro!"


Aunt Cass asked for a nice photo of her boys to hang in the cafe, and they gave her this.


"Hey, buddy. Lots of people need our help today. Let's work hard for him, okay?"

loveablegeek:

behindinfinity:

I try to picture me without you but I can't

Big Hero 6
Hiro and Tadashi cosplay by Jin (me) and Miguel | photos by Reskiy

More of our BH6 photos: []

#do you ever see a cosplay so real it makes you uncomfortable (via superwholock-the-comic)

I’ll respond to messages in the morning. All will be answered privately.

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I’ll respond to messages in the morning. All will be answered privately.

delicately-interconnected: woodelf68: typette: zeedikay: drca...

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delicately-interconnected:

woodelf68:

typette:

zeedikay:

drcabl3:

jessicreep:

kittydoom:

A Multi-Function Clip That Hides a Toolbox In Your Hair

Um yes!

I still want to bulk buy these and adonize  batch pink.

And it would still get stuck in my hair…

now THIS is what I’m fucking talking about

EDIT: IT FUNCTIONS AS A FUCKING ORANGE PEELER, AND EVEN A LAMP IF YOU HAVE A STRING AND SOME OIL. SERIOUSLY???

JUST IN CASE YOU APPARENTLY NEED AN EMERGENCY ONE FOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES?

Looks like it would hold an incense stick nicely as well.

The need I have for these is so great I can’t breathe

Fuck weaponising femininity

UTILISE femininity

Purchase Here (only 9.99)


krillex: i just picked up one of the road paint things off the...

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krillex:

i just picked up one of the road paint things off the ground reality is definitely falling apart

someone: what's up

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someone: what's up
me: i am not comfortable telling you what is happening in my life, how about you

fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors: This morning director Ava DuVernay...

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fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors:

This morning director Ava DuVernay joins the growing list of women whose films received Oscar nominations for Best Picture without receiving a nomination for Best Director themselves.

The list of women who have directed Best Picture nominees/winners:

  • Randa Haines, Children of a Lesser God, 1986
  • Barbra Streisand, The Prince of Tides, 1991
  • Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine, 2007 (her co-director Jonathan Dayton received a nomination)
  • Loveleen Tandan, Slumdog Millionaire, 2008  (her co-director Danny Boyle won the Oscar for Best Director that year)
  • Lone Scherfig, An Education, 2009
  • Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right, 2010
  • Debra Granik, Winter’s Bone, 2010
  • Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty, 2013
  • Ava DuVernay, Selma, 2015

Additionally Kátia Lund, co-director of City of God, did not receive a nomination for her work on the film despite the fact that her co-director  Fernando Meirelles did.

Only 4 women have ever been nominated for best director and only 1, Kathryn Bigelow, has won. 

deserthooker: jaclcfrost: your icon shows who you are inside Yep

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