Musings on Life and Geekdom

If I was drinking with the girls and someone threw a dog-bitten rock near me, I would ask the caster what's up. Why we throwing dog rocks?

ONE. FUCKING. JOKE.

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

@darkersolstice

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.)

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.

#my favorite murder in holmes canon#is when they straight up witness a lady murder her blackmailer#do nothing except destroy his other blackmail material#and then straight up lie to lestrade about it#sherlock holmes#more of this in modern adaptations pls (via @cactusspatz )

Let’s not forget the time Holmes helps a young woman who’s being catfished by her own stepfather to steal her inheritance, and when the villain sneers that the law can’t touch him, Holmes grabs a horsewhip out of sheerest chivalry.

So, the most canon-accurate iteration of Sherlock Holmes in the last few decades is actually Benoit Blanc….

So yes, Benoit Blanc is the best modern Sherlock.

Didn't realize they made emergency thermal blankets for babies

@hobbitguy1420

wish me luck, guys, I'm three rooms and a hall into trying to turn the Mystery Shack into a sensible floor plan

alright, as long as I ignore the museum hallway (for now), I've got half of a decent ground floor plan. I've got the gift shop, kitchen, staircase entry way (which is connected to the back porch), and Stan's office. This gives me an extra hallway that I may turn into the plaid hallway.

I've found three fireplaces (including the woodstove in the kitchen) and there's only two chimneys. Stanford. Baby. What the fuck.

GODDAMN IT STANFORD I JUST FOUND ANOTHER FIREPLACE WHERE ARE YOUR FUCKING CHIMNEYS MAN

I think I should be legally allowed to stab Ford, actually.

Might as fucking well!!!!

Realistically, given Gravity Falls, the Mystery Shack might just have a Minotaur - or Manotaur - living in it.

wish me luck, guys, I'm three rooms and a hall into trying to turn the Mystery Shack into a sensible floor plan

alright, as long as I ignore the museum hallway (for now), I've got half of a decent ground floor plan. I've got the gift shop, kitchen, staircase entry way (which is connected to the back porch), and Stan's office. This gives me an extra hallway that I may turn into the plaid hallway.

I've found three fireplaces (including the woodstove in the kitchen) and there's only two chimneys. Stanford. Baby. What the fuck.

GODDAMN IT STANFORD I JUST FOUND ANOTHER FIREPLACE WHERE ARE YOUR FUCKING CHIMNEYS MAN

I think I should be legally allowed to stab Ford, actually.

boss makes a spider i make a slime. that's why i . thas why, tthats why i uhhh. t. thawhy

t.gats why i can't think up an end to the rhyme

GET BACK TO WORK

Sorry, Millennials, but recent paleontologist findings and hyolaryngeal apparatus reconstructions no longer support the hypothesis that "rawr" means "I love you" in dinosaur.

i support women's wrongs

hey @derinthescarletpescatarian it looks like the rest of tumblr's learning of this

They could have at least used real photos pf the statue.

(To the tune of Rasputin): BLEH BLEH DRACULA, KING OF TRANSYLVANIA, HE IS A BAT AND ALSO A MAN

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