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Blood is thicker than water The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

It’s not better to marry than to burn, which implies “better to marry than to go to hell”.

It’s better to marry than to burn with passion, which is “better to marry than to not get laid”.

Illustration by Fabiola Lara

Everyone has a role to play in stopping sexual assault. Whether you do something drastic or simple, helping a friend or an absolute stranger can make a big difference.

Being a good bystander is not as hard as it might seem, and there are tons of ways to do it. To prove it to you, we’re teaming up with It’s On Us (@its-on-us) and Tumblr’s Post It Forward (@postitforward) to illustrate all the amazing ways people have stepped up for their friends.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be collecting your true stories of successful bystander intervention and will be asking you to create art that helps illustrate how someone can step in to stop sexual assault. From January 24 through January 31, we’ll be highlighting some of those submissions right here.

Want to participate and inspire others to step in? Share a story of when you or someone you know intervened.

You can also share your own story as an illustration or submit an illustration of one of the bystander stories collected by It’s On Us by January 23 for a chance to have your art featured on Tumblr. Submit here!

THIS IS A REALLY FUCKING EXCITING THING, BUT OF COURSE NOBODY SEEMS TO GIVE ENOUGH OF A FUCK ABOUT MESOPOTAMIAN SHIT TO ACTUALLY REPORT THIS ANYWHERE SOMEONE MIGHT SEE IT.

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formeldeharv:

i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter

the result is this garbage

I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.

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When I read that Lucy Liu played the accordion, I was like “yeah right!” But then I found these pictures and the following anecdote:

Greg Germann, who plays [Richard] Fish, Liu’s love interest on [Ally McBeal], is an accordion aficionado as well, so he was surprised to learn of his co-star’s interest. “What are the chances of that?” he says. “Then we found out we both study with the same teacher, Milton Mann, this incredible octogenarian who only has three or four students. Occasionally, we take our accordions down to her dressing room and play. It’s me trying to keep up with her — that’s generally how it goes.” [x]

Sherlock: Studies have shown that there are health benefits for men who reside in a state of sexless antagonism with a life partner.

Joan: Ah, then you’ll live to be a hundred.

——– Well. What do we learn here? That Joan considers Sherlock and herself to be life partners. That plus they way the line is delivered gives it a sit-com like retort quality - wife/husband banter.

Also, why did Sherlock bring up that study (if it even is a real study) - I doubt he believes Gregson and Paige’s relationship is or will be sexless. The only sexless couple (or so they’d have us believe) are Joan and Sherlock. Therefore, I think Sherlock also has just stated that he believes he and Joan are life partners and it’s healthy (for him at least).

I think the Details-like staging of the conversation, their playing ball rather than hitting each other, emphasizes their growth into a unit, their own “marriage,” their own commitment to each other. Sherlock has come to appreciate the importance of that bond between them and he wants the same happiness for Gregson and Paige.

Sherlock basically tells Gregson, marriage didn’t work last time for you, doesn’t mean it won’t work this time. He is sort of paraphrasing what Joan told him when urging him to pursue a relationship with Fiona.

I could worry about this whole scenario, thinking the writers are planting seeds to bear fruit later in terms of Sherlock proposing marriage to Fiona. But a) rarely do the writers follow thru on these sort of details and b) Fiona was not even indirectly mentioned in this episode, or any episode so far this season. Of course, they can always pull a Mycroft(yech) and retrofit the story to suit their needs …

Anyway, long story short, this is what these past two episodes have given me: Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson are a package deal, they are life partners - you can’t have Holmes without Watson or Watson without Holmes. I know are rough patches ahead but they’ll work it out together, they always do.