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The real reason ACD tried to kill Sherlock Holmes was to stop Holmes & Watson from being made, prove me wrong.

thinking about a doctor who episode like with van gogh but instead with other famous artists/authors

like can you imagine. the doctor and their companion take sir arthur conan doyle to the future to get inspired or whatever and he looks around and sees they made sherlock holmes into both a mouse and a garden gnome and then he says ‘doctor how about you just shoot me in the face’

#holmes and watson #sherlock holmes

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To be fair, the checkmark on Twitter doesn't mean anything, so technically it could have been someone's AI chatbot making up nonsense.

Don't get me wrong, the dude should have gone and looked it up because even a quick google search gets you "Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor" along with a Wikipedia page link that goes to her patent, but you probably shouldn't trust anything on Twitter without verifying it. The source means nothing these days, unless it's Elon Musk who has special rules to make sure he's never impersonated.

#fuck twitter

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Does Tumblr actually allow a 99.9% displaying poll?

Well anyways, pick one or three for now.

Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

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#astroboy #or sailor moon if you want the first one i recognized as anime #i always forget how damned young yall are

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i sometimes come across posts that make me realise i REALLY overestimate the average person's geography knowledge given ive been obsessed with it since i was like 13 so.

here's a poll

#i can sing more than one verse of yakko's world? #but i don't have much visual memory #18 countries and some are guesses

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Hahaha. Yes, another CO!Mycroft fan!

We are legion!

I mean, really, Mycroft is so... Victorian in these games! So damned good.

Btw I still haven't finished the game, so no spoilers please, but I got to the point where Mycroft appears in person and... ah my heart. I love canon!Mycroft and I am usually... sceptic towards interpretations of him as a cold, calculative mastermind because this is the opposite of how I read him in the books (plus, I love that in the books Holmes brothers have a good, warm relationship), but this case. This is different.

The character building??? So damn good. I haven't yet discovered all of the memories from the past (but I have my theories of course), and I can already see, that what happened, fucked them both up. At first I didn't like Mycroft here, but the more I learn, the more I start to understand his behaviour and get more sympathetic towards him, too. I'm not saying what he was and is doing is right, but I see where it comes from. He genuinely cares, and thinks he has to do what he's doing. At the same time I fully understand Sherlock's attitude towards Mycroft. Not to mention how much I love how Sherlock's whole way of being changes around Mycroft? Suddenly he starts to act up like a rebel teenager (can't blame him though) and totally looses his cool?? This, this is some top tier character writing there. Because this is what I would expect to happen when a teenage boy gets to be a head of the family, and deal with horrors of supporting your close ones even though he's basically still a kid. Plus I cannot stress enough how well it goes with the times the game is set in??

There are a lot of thoughts in my head and I can't express them well, but I hope you get what I mean. I just love the writing of Holmes' brothers relationship in this because it feels so... true.

#mycroft holmes #sherlock holmes chapter one

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Go buy his sweary history book?

#fell

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this may or may not be a fantasy writing exercise for me. please reblog

#enjoy your blank scroll #is it just me #or are these ominous?

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VaultTec... saved humanity... by...

There were like four control vaults, yeah? Every other vault had an awful, evil experiment going on. Like, VaultTec was absolutely evil, freezing people, exposing them to radiation, various social experiments, killing people, locking them in without supplies...

How could anyone say VaultTec saved humanity? Is it that people don't understand satire, or that Bethesda's changes fucked it up so much that people could only see guns and gore?

I'm sure it's a bit of both.

I hate Fallout fans so much you don't even know

#fallout

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tumblr friendships are hard to maintain like im sorry i know i havent talked to you in 5 months but you’re still super rad and i still consider us friends im just dumb

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Sometimes I post and go to sleep so that I can stop myself from checking status until the morning.

ao3 writers staring at their inboxes 0.2 seconds after posting a new fic

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"The democrats can't have won! I've never met anyone who would vote democrat!"

Uh huh. This is why. So glad I'm not an American anymore. Please be safe out there, Americans.

This piece of shit murderer pulled the trigger, but every Republican who has ever encouraged violence had their hand on his gun.

The domestic terrorists who live in the Fox News Cinematic Universe are so terrified, angry, and out of control, I fear this is only the beginning.

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Ugh! How can people stand eating with other people when there's no fucking noise? And why do my parents not turn the television sound on when they're eating? Fuck, ads would be so much better than the sounds of slurping and chewing and forks hitting plates.

I think maybe that's the real reason I eat so fast, to get away from the sound of other people fucking eating. It's. So. Gross.

#misophonia? #i dunno but omg fucking put some white noise on

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if you dont want print media to die, buy physical copies of things. if you don’t want independent journalism to die, subscribe to a local newspaper. if you want more libraries and skate-parks and arcades, get a bunch of friends and call in the individual charge of your village or town or whatever and ask for one to be built and use the existing ones. if you want more native flora and fauna, start looking at the ones that already exist and how to preserve them. this is your world too. fight for it. get rid of the rot of passivity.

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If you get two bachelors degrees, that's like a yaoi poster, yes?

DID MY YAOI STICKERS ARRIVE

#dumb contributions

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

#the only people i block #are porn bots #at least i think so

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I certainly want him to come back. I'm not of the opinion of some in the fandom that he was done dirty, but he's a great antagonist, and I love great antagonists!

7 REASONS WHY MILVERTON CAN STILL BE ALIVE

Reading @diveintovortex 's recent post, I again, got inspired to make an analysis why Milverton can still be alive. I already did one like this before, related to the main antagonist of the James Bond universe, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, but today's post will rely heavily on the manga. Here, I will raise seven points why Milverton might not gone yet and we can suspect to see him again.

1, CHARACTER DESIGN

Milverton is one of the most detailed, most bothersome to draw characters of Yuumori (especially with that hair). If we look more deeply into the manga, we can see that the characters who only appeared for a few chapters - like Whiteley - are always designed in a more simple way. Milverton's character design has too much work in it, it wouldn't worth it if this was all the storytime he got. Milverton's distinct look suggests that he was meant to be much more than just a plot-device overall, he is a character on his own who still has hella lot of potential in him.

2, EYE COLOUR

Yes, I can list it under the point above as well - but I wanna focus on this a little more. Only three characters has unnatural, symbolic eye colours in the series: William, the main character, his brother, Louis - who gets important later on - and Milverton. Considering this tendency, his eye colour - beside it referencing snakes - also implies that Milverton is an important character - again: a character, not a plot-device - but Milverton was mostly just a plot-device yet, whose role was getting Sherlock and William face each other. Maybe, just like Louis, he gets important later on.

3, THE LITTLE TRIVIAS

Milverton has some, for the plot, seemingly irrelevant trivia the manga just casually drops at us - like his branch firm in New York. This New York connection gets interesting since Sherliam also ended up in New York. Was this just a coincidence? Or we will come back to this in Part 2?

4, THE RUSKIN SCENE

Ruskin, unlike Milverton was never meant to be an important character - his character design got re-used from The Adventure of One Student and we didn't even get to know his first name - but the manga still gave him a little focus at the end of Two Criminals, where we can see him searching for Milverton instead of saving himself from the burning house. He most likely survived and I'm sure there was a reason his love for Milverton got some attention in that chapter. I used to speculate that it was to forecast that he will get back to get revenge for his boss later - but again, his character design doesn't suggest he is an important character. On the other hand, that scene could be also to hint that Ruskin will save Milverton. Ruskin is not stupid - he could suspect what happened from the open door where Milverton jumped out - and that door could also provide the fastest way for Ruskin to leave the about-to-crash house. Not much time passed since Milverton got shot who could survive if Ruskin gets him out of the water in time. If he jumped into the water to escape, he might've found Milverton as well.

5, THE WATER PARALLEL

This point was suggested by @shreddedleopard during one of our talks whom I fully credit the idea to. Milverton keeps paralelling William in poses, methods - and even in "death": William "died" by falling into the water, too. If this was meant to be yet another parallel between the two, that also suggests that Milverton as well, might turn out to be alive.

6, SHERLOCK AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS MURDER

Milverton's body was never found what let Sherlock escape from the consequences of the murder. However, this might not be the true reason why his body never got found - Milverton's death was actually too bothersome if it was meant to be only for this. It would've been simplier if he just got shot, dying inmediately and his body getting burned with the house and Sherlock could've get away with the murder in this case, too. Milverton also didn't got shot in the heart, but suffered injuries what he could survive if he gets treated in time. If the writer truly wanted us to fully believe that Milverton is dead, it could've been done easily with a heartshot.

7, YUUMORI IS A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADAPTATION

Despite that Moriarty the Patriot gets inspiration from other places than Sherlock Holmes stories - like the James Bond universe or The Dark Knight movie - it's still a story focusing on Sherlock Holmes characters - and the most iconic Sherlock villain beside Moriarty, Irene Adler or Moran is Charles Augustus Milverton... who still has lot of potential. And beside him, who could be the next antagonist in Part 2? The other Sherlock villains who didn't get used yet aren't as much of a big names. That's another point what can suggest that Milverton's arc is still unfinished.

Milverton not getting enough attention in Part 1 despite he clearly implied to be an important character was due to putting too much focus on him could complicate or even get the attention away from the Moriarty Plan what was the main theme of the series in Part 1. Maybe what we saw about Milverton yet was just an introduction and now, that we already know how dangerous and evil he can be, we can see more of his evil in Part 2. Because I'm sure if he is alive, he is ready to commit even bigger atrocities what we could imagine.

#milverton #come back and be killed again! #the blackmailer dies a thousand deaths