get in, angel

🌸🌺🌸TRIBUTES for Una Stubbs from BBC Sherlock cast and crew. 🌸🌺🌸

“Historically, whenever women [especially young women] are interested in a form of media, we like to tell them it is bad for them and that they are bad for liking it — unless the media goes mainstream, in which case it becomes no longer feminine and hence okay. Novels are dangerous and cause insanity, until they become classics worthy of being studied in college. Beatlemania is the province of ‘the dull, the idle, the failures,’ until the Beatles become a band that everyone loves. Women are so attacked for loving the media they love that it is a radical act for a woman to love something unashamedly. And transformative fandom is the most radical act of all, because it reverses that ‘lady thing to respectable thing’ process. It takes a piece of media that may not have been designed for women and makes it for women.”

Holmes really was like “the worst thing watson ever did to me was get married to someone who was not me” hello????

some of my favorite pics of victorians:

I got a Holmes theory: Since The Gay was not socially accepted in (was it victorian era? I think it was) and Homes never talks about his parents, only his brother, my theory is that Mycroft taught Sherlock the observation and deduction thing to keep himself safe. What do you think? I mean it's not really that great, but I came up with it, and also found a fic that used it.

Oh I've read something along those lines in another fic too!

I found the shop in a 1895 directory (I searched for an earlier one but that was the first that came up) just to see what else was in that area. They’re between about a million photographers and dressmakers. I don’t know what the general distribution of commerce was in London at that time, but I love the thought of Holmes and Watson strolling down the street window shopping.