A Hobbit's Tale

Specifically, you need to realize that the origin of the Secret Fourth Episode idea came from a BFI screening Q&A -- specifically a journalist (for RadioTimes, unless my memory fails me) asking the showrunners about the possibility of a Secret Fourth Episode. The Q&A where this hypothesis was first floated took place three days before the finale had actually aired. In response to this question, the showrunners laughed and denied it, but joked that the hypothetical episode could be called "The Lost Special", a reference to The Story of the Lost Special, a crypto-Holmesian detective story about a missing train written by Conan Doyle during the hiatus between The Final Problem and The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Again: the hypothetical fourth Sherlock episode had been given a title by the showrunners three days before anyone except a screening audience had even seen the third episode. The idea, outlandish as it was, had originated with a question from a professional media beat reporter. The answer to that question was one of the few tidbits from the Q&A granted immediate release and not embargoed until after the episode aired.

In the lead up to the finale, this was absolutely mystifying information to receive -- why on earth would a journalist be asking about a secret fourth episode??? After seeing the finale (first when a leaked Russian dub was inexplicably shared by official BBC accounts for some fucking reason, then the official broadcast), the idea that they were attempting to prime hardcore fans for some kind of insane media stunt became one possible explanation.

All this to say: I was there, Gandalf. I watched the premiere of Apple Tree Yard with the best of them, feeling like a lunatic before, during, and after. There was a thread of reasoning that led us there, however tenuous, and it turns out watching a random show that is definitely not a Secret Sherlock Fourth Episode while feeling like a lunatic is still a pretty harmless place to be led in order to rule out a tenuous hypothesis about a tv show.

They followed the line "What's the very worst thing you can do to you your very best friends? Tell them your darkest secret," with Sherlock speaking the words "I LOVE YOU" into the camera in the Season 4 trailer.

Happy late Valentine's day! Today I bring you one of my niche sapphic ships, Imogen and Vee from Deep Space Discounts, a miniseries about employees working in a Space Supermarket, created by DeepBlueInk on Youtube.

on being yourself

Sometimes with art I am very proud of I don't even feel like sharing hah but here my most recent Character Design commission! For Kyril Magnus. An anthropomorphic black hole lady!

And a look into the concepting process!

“Far over the misty mountains cold

To dungeons deep and caverns old

We must away ere break of day