We need to make The Basic Eight part of coquette literature alongside things like The Virgin Suicides and My Year Of Rest And Relaxation. It’s got everything: a morally grey, mentally unstable and likably unlikeable female protagonist, great outfit descriptions, murder, and surprisingly deep and complex musings on feminism and the nature of girlhood. It’s perfect .

mycroft holmes is crazy. he's the author, he's the queen, he's the government, he's sherlock's secret brother. he's orchestrating a submersible project, he's burying the faults, he's calling it unsportsmanlike, he's crashing it at the bottom of the sea, he's making a flight of the dead, his loose ends are "late - in every sense of the word", he's driving irene adler into sherlock's path, he's saying his secret sister's plane of the dead has to "crash at sea". he's erasing sherlock's memories, he's keeping them locked in a special hell in the middle of the ocean, he's a character in john's stories, he's Mark Gatiss, and he will kill again

You can tell how hungry for blood the tumblr userbase is this year by looking at how early in the month the Ides of March posts are being made

one of my favorite things is how people talk to themselves in tumblr tags, taking this space designed for metadata classification and using it as a form of parenthetical speech. those grey little tags feel so cozy, a whispered dimension to the flat communication of the net

More of the quality content I am here for. Even if porpentine is no more

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