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NO MID-SIZED CITY HOPES AND SMALL TOWN FEAAARRSSSSSS

I'M THERE KOST OF THE YEAR CAUSE I HATE IT HEEEREEEEE

is a byler song

#byler small-town #byler #smalltown boy #i hate it here #mike wheeler i know what you are

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ao3 is wild cause like seeing the tag "bathtubs" next to "psychological torture" is not an experience I can have on any other website

#ao3

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HOLY SHITTTTTTTT

If you watch this show carefully, there is a subtext about John drinking. - Steven Moffat

for Clem

#johnlock

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Why Sherlock isn’t really sexually oblivious

Sherlock is considered by the vast majority of fans as a sexually oblivious person. But is he, really? I always believed quite the opposite, so I’ll try to explain my viewpoint. Let’s remember the dinner scene in A Study in Pink:

John: People don’t have arch-enemies.

Sherlock: I’m sorry?

J:  In real life. There are no arch-enemies in real life. Doesn’t happen.

S: Doesn’t it? Sounds a bit dull.

J: So who did I meet?

S: What do real people have, then, in their ‘‘real lives’’? 

J:  Friends? People they know, people they like, people they don’t like. Girlfriends, boyfriends …

S:  Yes, well, as I was saying – dull.

J: You don’t have a girlfriend then.

S: Girlfriend? No, not really my area. 

(Source: timelordemort)

John doesn’t seem to pay much attention at first, but then he starts thinking that the phrase “not really my area” may have a very specific meaning.

J:  Oh, right. Do you have a boyfriend?

(Source: pondmelody)

Sherlock turns to look sharply at John. 

J: (thinks Sherlock believes he’s judging him) …Which is fine by the way.

S: I know it’s fine.

J: (smiles reassuringly) So you have a boyfriend…?

S: No. (”Why do you insist on asking?”)

Sherlock keeps looking at him sharply.

J: Right, okay! (”Relax, why do you stiffen up?”)

John licks his lips. Sherlock narrows his eyes.

J:  You’re unattached. Like me. Fine. Good.

For John, this conversation has come to an end. After one last suspicious glare, Sherlock looks away. However, obviously his mind isn’t on the murderer. He takes a breath and turns to John again. 

S:  John, um… I think you should know that I consider myself married to my work, and while I’m flattered by your interest, I’m really not looking for any…

J: (only now he understands why Sherlock was looking at him oddly) No…no.. (he nearly chokes) I’m not asking… no… I’m just saying, it’s all fine.

S: (unconvinced) Good. Thank you.

J: (”What the hell did just happen?”)

(Source: http://www.allkpop.com/forums/profile/becci)

This is the definition of a honest WTF moment.

Now, the most popular opinion is that John made an effort to hit on Sherlock and after Sherlock rejected him he decided to never bring it up again and became extremely heteronormative as an act of self-assurance. 

In my opinion, this is not what happens here. John doesn’t try to hit on Sherlock. He just chats in a friendly manner, trying to learn more about his mysterious new flatmate. However, when Sherlock responds that ‘a girlfriend is not his area”, it’s absolutely normal and expected that John thinks Sherlock is probably homosexual, taking into consideration everything he’s heard that day. Mrs Hudson, Donovan and Mycroft have already implied that these two might be a couple, but none of them knows anything about John’s personal life - they do know about Sherlock’s life though, don’t they? If all of Sherlock’s acquaintances supposed so quickly that Sherlock and John are a couple, then Sherlock must be gay. It’s the perfectly logical conclusion and Sherock actually underpins it with his reactions. Then John tries to reassure Sherlock that he is open-minded (after all his own sister is a lesbian). Sherlock misunderstands John’s intentions (or perhaps not?).

Everyone analyzes John’s not gay - gay flirting, but in fact there isn’t much in John’s actions. The curious case here is Sherlock.

Sherlock stops responding casually when John asks him if he has a boyfriend. His reaction, though, is very interesting. Let’s see it again.

What does he look like? Well, most definitely surprised. But is he unpleasantly surprised or irritated like John thinks? According to the following gif…

(Source: sherlockbbcgifs)

NO

It’s not really the words, it’s the look. Sherlock becomes passive, stops being talkative and looks at John - uhm what’s the word? Angrily? No. Defensively? Hmm not sure… Examiningly? Yeah, probably… Intensely? Closer…

EXPECTANTLY

Yep, that’s the word. Sherlock is surprised at first, because he didn’t deduce John is gay (and he was right because John isn’t). But then he looks as if he expects from John to reveal his true intentions, which is something that John doesn’t do because he has no such intentions (keep reading, I’m a Johnlocker). 

But John makes two mistakes:

He licks his lips.

He says that he is single as well.

 These two things convince Sherlock that John tries to flirt with him. While the first needs some further examination, the second isn’t flirting. It’s just a simple declaration. Poor John tries desperately to make Sherlock comfortable and makes it even worse by telling him that they are in the same situation. After some thought, Sherlock then decides to speak openly and reject him. John denies that he had any romantic / sexual intentions and then an unconvinced Sherlock…

…looks away relieved? No. Maybe calmer but definitely not relieved. 

Now, remember, Sherlock never again acted like that in other flirts. People consider Sherlock sexually oblivious, but whatever he is, that’s not oblivious. He predicted Jim would hit on him, before the latter even closed the door of the laboratory.

#Ohhh shit he’s gay  #he came for me  #john is right behind me  #I must ignore this guy completely

Sherlock is completely rude towards Jim (sometimes even Jim needs some understanding okay?) and this is not because Jim is a human being and Sherlock despises human beings. I stand by the opinion that Sherlock may be somewhat socially awkward, but he’s not hostile to people he just met for no reason! So, Sherlock behaves so terribly in front of Jim, because he realizes that Jim is attracted to him and plays with Molly’s heart. And most importantly, John is in the room, so Sherlock must look as disinterested as possible.

Also, he immediately understood Kitty Riley’s sexual approach was fake. He is the only one who suspects Irene Adler is in love with him from the very beginning, you can read this analysis (”Why was Sherlock so emotional in the last scene with Irene?”) for more on this topic.  And look at his face when Molly refreshes her lipstick:

People laugh at how oblivious he is and how he doesn’t understand that Molly just asked him out. And I’m looking at him and I only see suspicion. It’s as if he thinks “Shit, she‘s about to hit on me. How do I escape from that?” Seriously, that’s his face when Molly simply says she refreshed her lipstick:

Then, when Molly asks if he’d like to have coffee, Sherlock takes advantage of her poorly expressed question and quickly rushes out of the room before she has a chance to tell him bringing him coffee was not what she meant. 

In TBB Sherlock intentionally compliments Molly’s looks to make her allow him to see the corpses. Sherlock is aware of his sexual attractiveness and uses it to his advantage more than once. 

So Sherlock is not oblivious as we usually think. It’s not that he can’t recognise a sexual approach - he can, but he usually chooses to ignore it. 

But that’s not what he does with John. In fact, he does exactly the opposite. If he meant he was asexual, he would say that a boyfriend isn’t his area either and everything would end there. But he didn’t say that. He clearly waited passively for John to make a move and when John didn’t, he rejected him in advance, because that’s what he does, that’s how he feels safe.

So, Sherlock didn’t reject John because he wasn’t interested in him. He rejected him because he believes that’s what he must do in order to protect himself from “destructive love”. He doesn’t want to fall for John, but he falls anyway. In other words, if John actually did hit on him that day and his flirting was daring, Sherlock would probably not have the discipline to resist. 

So what I mean here is that Sherlock is gay and interested in John, but John is clearly disinterested in him? Nope!

There is this excellent argument that when the most observant man in the world thinks you’re flirting with him, then you probably are. Fair enough. 

But I said that John’s words didn’t really hide some romantic interest. 

Once again, it’s not the words but the unconscious reactions - the lip licking, the reassuring smile, the effort to make Sherlock feel more comfortable and explain, when clearly Sherlock isn’t very keen to speak about these issues. The really hard effort to play cool. Just to name a few. John thinks he just chats, but his subconscious betrays him in front of Sherlock. John hasn’t realized he’s interested in Sherlock yet. Some claim that John is a bisexual who, after being rejected, started being extremely heteronormative, but this is not the case.

When they left the restaurant to chase the taxi, John didn’t care being rejected by Sherlock, because he didn’t realize he had such feelings for him yet. Therefore he doesn’t act in a heteronormative way in the rest of the episode. In the next scenes John is more delighted than ever and he literally gives no fuck about what Sherlock just said. Remember what followed:

This.

That’s something not-gay-John-Watson wouldn’t do as easily in The Reichenbach Fall. He still doesn’t think about it when he touches Sherlock. However…notice the way Sherlock already looks at him. 

And then this mutual mastur… errrr… enthusiasm.

And then this, whatever you want to call it.

(Source: onetrueharem)

This actually happened in front of a dozen of people. And we know that John has an issue with what people think. But we don’t see him acting heteronormatively here. He doesn’t care, because he doesn’t realize that what he does isn’t quite expected of two straight guys who just met. (And this is probably the last time he doesn’t realize it.)

Ironically, Sherlock knows what John feels for him before John himself, because he deduces what he feels by observing his reactions, movements and decisions just like he does with all other people! So there you go, John Watson is the oblivious one of the two. In his forty(?) years of living, John Watson has never experienced something that strong and undeniable, so it ‘ll take him a while to understand what is really going on here. Sherlock never was sexually oblivious and will never be. On the contrary, he’s quite quick on these matters, especially when it comes to men. John will start realizing that something doesn’t feel quite right probably at the end of the episode. When he kills for this goddamn guy without a second thought. Don’t worry, John Watson won’t be oblivious for long. Heteronormativity says hello in the Blind Banker.  

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wlw date idea: visit a 19th century church and watch pride and prejudice.

afterwards, read "Incivility or; The Very Essence of Love." by @gallantrejoinder

here's fanart of that.

I find it the perfect experience to do both back to back because I prefer the 2005 film over the series (I know, shame on me but I like my darcy at peak antisociability) and with the film still in mind, THE lesbian p&p fanfic only hits that much harder.

#pride and prejudice #wlw #lesbian #fic rec #fanart #keira knightley #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #jane austen

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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this is why i hate that the two New sherlock adaptation separate them. sherlock and daughter? Watson? no! Sold as Set, DO NOT SEPARATE!!!.

people who say holmes doesnt need watson clearly didn't understand the Holmes stories. yes Holmes is a Genius and Watson isn't. but THATS THE POINT! he needs him regardless of his non-superhuman intellect! he needs him because of it!! watson isnt a genius but thats the whole point!!! theyre two sides of the same coin (haha) THEY NEED EACH OTHER!!!

I think a lot about how all versions of Watson don’t see themselves as anything special, meanwhile all versions Sherlock Holmes are looking at them like “This is the most wonderful human being who ever lived and the only person I want to spend all my time with for the rest of my life.”

#johnlock #lil merlin reference

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I need to bookmark and pdf download this fic tho....

#ao3 down #ao3 #johnlock

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hi i love your fics and I was wondering if you had any byler fic recs

thanks

hello there! in all honesty, i have not had the time to read a lot of byler fic as of late, but it’s been a while since i posted some recs so i’ll drop a few that i’ve enjoyed recently! as always, i do endorse every fic in my bookmarks to the highest possible degree, so always feel free to look through those for new reading as well <3

say it with your hands by pseudologia (@hellfiremike) — will is a new employee at the movie theater mike works at, and mike starts thirsting over will’s hands to a degree that’s downright detrimental to his employment status

GOD. this fic. i gushed in their dms immediately after finishing it because this might be my favorite modern will characterization of all time, and this is coming from someone who has a million and one takes on modern era will byers. this fic just checked all of my boxes — from the summertime romance to mike’s painfully in-character teenage angsting to will being a frequenter of star wars reddit threads and an enjoyer of sufjan stevens. and the TENSION. oh god the tension. i’ve read all their fics probably three times over each, and i also highly recommend like i am home again, a college au set during a halloween party which made me stare at my phone refreshing ao3 hourly until it updated, and can this be a real thing (can it?) wherein mike and will reunite in a gay bar. enough said

landslide by chamb3rs — the party’s senior year of high school

i don’t often reach for chaptered fics since i usually have such limited reading time, but i’m sooo so so happy i stumbled across this one. there have just been very few fics that have touched me like this one did. i blew through this in one sitting a few weekends ago and subsequently experienced the full range of human emotions (and then some) all in the span of a few hours. everything about this was perfect — the will pov, the weird liminality of transitional periods, the party and byhop family dynamics, down to my favorite portrayal of theeeee jennifer hayes in any fic ever. on top of all of that, this fic perfectly captures the heartbreaking euphoria of being in love with your best friend, and all the ups and downs that come with it. i crawled out of the ao3 tab covered in blood and my chest was hurting and i was shaking and i had damn near chewed my own arm off — and then i sent the link to my friend 10 minutes later and watched her experience the same exact thing like a train wreck in slow-mo HAHAHA

what a time to be alive by passerine_in_jade (@newlesbianprideflag) — will disappears and haunts mike from the upside down

i’m forever a total sucker for a good haunting metaphor, so it’s absolutely not a surprise that this fic is appearing on this list. the premise for this was so so so cool and interesting, and it’s another chaptered fic i’m glad i had a little extra time to read. the way the author had me rooting for mike and will the whole time even though half of the pairing was offscreen for a large majority of the fic is a highly commendable feat. mike’s unyielding loyalty to will and will’s constant faith in him felt so true to their canon selves, and there were so many moments that were so quiet and intimate and tender that i really felt like i was intruding on something. good good stuff

that’s what you get for falling in love by harriet_vane — will gets his first boyfriend in college, and mike, ever the ally, has very normal feelings about it

i want to preface this by saying that this fic is rated m, mostly just for mentions/allusions to sex, and one largely non-explicit portion of a scene in the last chapter. if that’s not your cup of tea, it’s easy to tell when it’s coming up and to skip past it without detracting from the plot, but i think it would be a greater detriment to not rec this fic at all, because it has quickly made the list of my favorite byler fics of all time. something about this take on jealous mike especially resonated with me — his inner monologue is simultaneously hilarious and depressing, and his obliviousness regarding his feelings for will feels so true to life without being overdone or cartoonish. you can tell just how much they really care for each other, and the conflict in this actually made me start crying because it felt so visceral and so fundamentally them. you can tell this author really understands their characters, and the love put into this fic is soooo palpable. it’s the kind of fic where you want to bonk their heads together to knock some sense into them, but you are helpless to do anything but hold on as you’re swung along for the ride.

finally, i try not to just rec fics written by my friends, but my recent reading list would be incomplete without these two wonderful additions:

the way you love me by strangeswift (@strangeswift) — byler exes (absolutely heartwrenching edition)

i’ve been hearing abby talk about her ideas for this fic for the better part of a year as she worked on it, and she actually edited and posted the first two chapters while i was visiting her! and by god is this world a better place with her byler exes concept in it, because if you want angst, you’ll never have to look further than her ao3 page. something about the way she writes will in this fic just makes my heart shrivel up and die in my chest — his quiet resignation, the bitterness (always love a good bitter will byers moment) and the Longing that never quite went away. mike’s characterization is also top notch, and you can really feel the chemistry between them during every interaction. at the time of me posting this list, chapter 4 is not yet up, but trust me when i tell you guys it’s going to soooooo be worth it. :-)

the end is here by bookinit (@bookinit02) — a speculative byler-centric season 5

if you’ve been following my blog for any amount of time, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that haven’s canon rewrite series is hands-down my favorite series across any pairing and fandom. her creativity with her season 5 concepts never fails to astound me — from the scripts she’s been working on as an alternative to the episodes she rewrote for s1-4, to her ideas for possible plot lines, and just incredible writing all around. i’ve had the privilege of reading through her scripts before she posts them to her blog (definitely go check them out) but special privilege bias aside, it takes soooo much skill to create such a visually powerful story in a medium that allows for such little narration, and the corresponding chapters just totally pushes it over the edge. pre-s5 required reading for every byler, and 100000% my new canon if the show doesn’t pan out

this definitely is not an exhaustive list because i have a million and one fics on my to-read, and one day i will get around to reading them all, but i hope there is something on this list that strikes your fancy!!

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byler people, show this some love!

ac: me, scp: megawrld, song: it's nice to have a friend by taylor swift

#byler #mike wheeler #will byers #byler edit #it's nice to have a friend #taylor swift #finn wolfhard #noah schnapp #stranger things #stranger things s5

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they're actually wills friends from school.

before the two boys got together, will went out on a date with one of them but it didn't really work out (because will is so stuck on mike) so instead, will introduced his date to this other friend from math class he suspected to be queer. and surprise, surprise, they're dating now!!

the lesbians were already dating when will git to lenora. he met them independently, in hso art and chemistry classes and they both invited him to sit with them at lunch and he had to cancel on the second girl cause he already had plans for lunch but when he gets to the table it's both of the girls, the second girl just telling the first about the unfortunate cancelling of this nice guy when will shows up and they all burst out laughing.

the five of them go skating together from time to time (they taught poor will) and they went to the cinema together a couple of times (will wouldn't go to nightmare on elm Street 2 but did tag along to see. young sherlock holmes)

on several occasions did the girls try to find a guy for will. which he always laughed off. the girl from art class comes to wills house sometimes, which joyce always welcomed with a "knowing" smile. (she did not know, ,,)

We need a story about them ‼️

#byler #will byers is gay

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angelica remind me what were looking for

she's looking for me!

eliza, I'm looking for a mind at work

(great artwork. very sorry if you see this shitpost but thats what happened in my mind)

It's been a while since I drew Will😗

#hamilton #byler

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the first clip is the city of heidelberg, the second the small town of cochem.

the only reason I could think of as to why the confusion occurred is that the churches look similar-ish.

heidelberg...... cochem.

but still, cochem is clearly much smaller and there are no red roofs anywhere... how could this have happened????

we need to talk about young sheldon season 7. namely the introductory shot to Heidelberg, which includes the shot of the Castle of Cochem, which is located in very much not HeidelbergTM.

#young sheldon #what the actual fuck #dear cbs please talk to your editing/research department #or pay them better im sure this was some underpaid intern running on just caffeine... #regardless. sincerely: what the fuck

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im gonna need there to be a film about the german king friedrich 2.

there would be such an audience for this. allow me to sell this to you:

major father complex because his militarist dad didn't like his "weak", "girly" nature, his love for literature and french culture over hunting an war. friedrich was also sometimes guilty of crossdressing which his dad hated.

also his dad hit him, arrested him and once put him in custody, considering the murder of his son. actually killed friedrichs best friend, with him he commited an act of desertation.

friedrich came to him on the morning of the execution, blew him a kiss and pretty much had a panic attack as his maybe-boyfriend was killed lmao.

later on, the father forced him to marry a woman. he didn't like her one bit lmao. friedrich tried to get out of it, thought about abdicating, but eventually relented.

friedrich 2 married, pretty much ignored his wife for the rest of his life after that and had no kids.

friedrich 2 was, surprise, surprise, very likely gay.

there are both rumours about men and women being close to him. somehow the male rumours seem to be more prevalent lmao. if it gets to the point that old historians acknowledge this I mean... well. most historians, no matter how straight they are, seem to be in agreement over his queerness.

he also had a younger brother who was gay and "jealous of the pretty boys only interested in friedrich"...

slay.

not to mention, he was a philosophy enthusiast, personal friend of voltaire and spreader of enlightenment... was pretty involved in wars eventually, but is generally remembered to be a pretty cool guy. introduced potatoes in germany!

the arthur pendragon stans, the draco malfoy stans, the young royals stans, the john watson stans and the dean winchester stans should love this...

#queer history #friedrich 2 #arthur pendragon #draco malfoy #young royals #john watson #dean winchester

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PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. if you don’t have the option available, update your app or close your browser/refresh a few times. important to note you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

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Sherlock’s cute legs (◡‿◡✿) (for @sherlock-and-john-getting-it-on)

Bonus:

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alongside the roughly 20 hours worth of screen time of just him staring at will...

“Mike is straight! He has never shown any sign of being otherwise-”

Mike Wheeler:

#byler