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I cannot get over this layout change it feels wrong and overwhelming and claustrophobic and mainstream like. How is a website like this?? supposed to have lizard elections?? WHERE?? are they gonna keep the singing frogs? A website looking like this cannot have a merch store?? I cannot have a pet horse on this site?? Where is Do You Know the Color of the Sky?? Is she okay?? I can't talk in the tags on a site like this?? I do not like it here at all.
The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.
There’s a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Women’s Money.
Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil. Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again. (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)
I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.
The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.
This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life. The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.) There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors. Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime. And yes, so much of it is of the personal type.
dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.
One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases. In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them. Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.
There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:
Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)
Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.
batman/tmnt adventures #1
[ID: the outside of a house in Gotham City which is surrounded by other dilapidated, abandoned buildings. One side is pristine, with crisp white paint and dark green shutters on the clean windows. The other side is decrepit, the green paint chipped and worn as the bordered up windows are framed with dirty white shutters. The front lawn is also split, one side mowed and the bushes by the door trimmed neatly as the opposite side has an overgrown lawn and the shrubbery neglected. The pathway leading up to the door is the same, where the number two hangs on it.
Batman is shown on the roof, his cape billowing around him. He uses the side of the broken skylight to drop down in the building, where he then proceeds to fights several henchmen to reach a split living-room. In the room, Harvey Dent is sitting in an armchair with his back to us and is watching the TV—which is currently playing My Little Pony. One of the characters exclaims, “—this is just the most scrumptious day!” as Batman calmly announces, “Harvey. It's time to go home.” END ID]
live action disney remakes not only perpetuate the idea that animation is primitive/immature & must be updated for a modern/older audience, they make a mockery of live action by presenting it as a colorless tasteless shadow of animation.
live action is beautiful and rich and colorful and can convey things you'd never be able to replicate with animation, animation twitter gets caught up in the disrespect of watching every intelligent aesthetic choice be exchanged for a dogged resolve to make no choice whatsoever & they sometimes act like live action as a medium is somehow the culprit, that animation has a greater capacity for creative vision & that's why the live action remakes suck. no, it's because they were made by demons
Hey. Gentiles. Listen up for a sec.
When September and October are nearing and you’re planning an event: google “Rosh Hashanah *year*” and *Yom Kippur *year*” and then, and I cannot stress this enough, don’t plan your event on those days. In fact, don’t plan any events starting sundown the night before. Those are the three most important days of the Jewish calendar, and, once again, I cannot stress enough how much this little bit of forethought and kindness will make every Jew you know cry tears of joy.
in 2023, the night before Rosh Hashanah is Thursday evening, September 14.
Rosh Hashanah ends Sunday evening, September 17.
in 2023, the night before Yom Kippur is Saturday evening, September 23.
Yom Kippur ends Monday evening, September 25.
The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won't view the artists as people.
Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, "hey, humans are making this, maybe don't harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes," it gets shut down under, "uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3"
Even though there's, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.
The more friends I make in the various facets of the entertainment industry, and the more widely my own art gets shared, the more I realize that a lot of y'all genuinely don't see artists as human beings if they meet some arbitrary standard of Being Known Online.
There is no amount of online fame that makes someone subhuman and a valid target for blatant disrespect and harassment.
Contrary to popular belief, you do not actually own and control a piece of art just because you like it a lot. The artists are not subject to your personal whims and tastes. They owe you nothing.
This post is not about people who only make fanart and fanfic. This post is about the working class artists making your favorite blorbos.
You know, the ones who are on strike right now? Because they're treated like shit by the executives? And recently an anonymous executive literally issued a threat saying that they want the writers of Hollywood to go homeless?
You don't stop being a human being deserving of respect just because your art gets famous.
Fan content is cool and all, but this is about the working class artists who do this shit to make a living and get abused by both the executives and the fandoms that spring up around their work.
somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
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ALTSTAR TREK MATTE PAINTINGS APPRECIATION
VOYAGER — by Syd Dutton, Robert Stromberg, Eric Chauvin (Illusion Arts Inc.)
Zahl Colony — "Year of Hell"
Ocampa — "Caretaker"
USS Raven crash site — "The Raven"
Ocampa City — "Caretaker"
Access shaft (Ocampa) — "Caretaker"
Martian City — "Lifesigns"
Ocampa City — "Caretaker"