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do i ship these characters or do i want them to form a sketch comedy duo

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More Sherlock Holmes because I love him!

I have been watching the Granada series (I’m about halfway through series 2) and I love it.

References for the drawings: “Smoking is strictly forbidden in this compartment” is based on a moment in the Granada episode The Greek Interpreter. The “three pipe problem” quotation is from The Red-Headed League (short story). The black outfit, basically I just wanted to draw my version of Sherlock in the Granada outfit. Tiny Sherlock with scarf and blanket is because of how wrapped up he was in The Musgrave Ritual (Granada). The hat quotation is from The Blue Carbuncle (short story). And the deerstalker and cane drawing is just for fun, no specific reference.

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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

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like or reblog

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I haven't slept and I'm filled with rage. I hate that stupid green owl. Heres some resources for beginner language learners

1. Install anki. It's a flash card program that uses spaced repetition. Essentially, it optimizes study by showing cards you struggle with more frequently while showing easy cards less frequently. It's amazing for learning vocab. It's web and computer versions are free, the iphone version costs 25$ but there are alternatives. There is also an android version made by a 3rd party thats free.

2. Find a deck. There are plenty of free shared decks on ankiweb. Ive also heard good things about Xefjord's Complete Language Series which features over 100 different languages. Refolds premium decks cost money, but they are high quality. It can take time to find a deck that works best for you and I highly reccomend switching to a deck that you made yourself eventually. I highly encourage picking a deck with native audio if you can.

3. Grammar. Here is a collection of resources for a variety of languages. Here is another one that has more on linguistics.

4. Misc resources.

this is a site that let's you listen to radio stations around the world

this let's you make anki cards from TV and movies in your target language

this is a list of easy to comprehend materials in various languages

There's tons of great language specific resources out there you just have to find them. Here's one specifically for Japanese learners.

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“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

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finished some heavy college work and now I'm dedicating the weekend to rewatch vanitas no carte bc I never finished the first time

#on episode 5 btw #honestly fuck this professor guy i want to throttle him myself #louis :( #vanitas no carte #(person who only watches sherlock): getting a lot of sherlock vibes from this... #IM NOT CRAZY

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dance!!

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fuck everyone who says maya erskine and donald glover aren’t attractive in mr & mrs smith. their chemistry is off the walls and every scene of theirs together got me giggling and kicking my feet

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 2024 / The Swan No. 1 by Hilma af Klint

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TUESDAY AGAIN NO PROBLEM

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In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

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i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father