I like detective stories. And detectives.

A poem, an exercise in omitting letters.

So, @anonymoussherlockandmarvelgeek @loki-lock @inevitably-johnlocked @sourgrapes-aa @sherlocksbag-of-thumbs @psychosociogentleman @consult-sherlockholmes you guys should really go and watch this masterpiece like right now!!!

(Also, the guy who plays Mycroft in the parody video also played Percy Weasley in the HP movies! Don’t forget to watch the credits too, they’re full of references.)

Here’s a really interesting behind the scenes video!

Eh, No, no. Um. So yeah.

Err….

We are getting married.

Surprise!

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Today marks the anniversary of a special, most significant day in my life. Who would’ve thought that the words “Afghanistan or Iraq” would be life-saving, life-changing, life-giving.

Sherlock, for 13 years and counting you’ve been my best in everything;

My best flatmate, my best friend, and my best, one and only partner in crime.

You know that I’m not a man of words or nice speeches (I leave that to you), but that I’m more a man of action, even though my actions were not always just nor true to what you mean to me. I plan on spending the next 13 years (or till death by crime do us part) making that up to you.

Here’s to more years of mind-boggling, life-endangering, life-saving, life-changing and life-giving cases and adventure.

We stan!!!!

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her name was freddie oversteegen and she, at the age of fourteen, along with her older sister truus who was 16 and their friend johanna “hannie” schaft who was 19, was a part of the netherlands most famous all female resistance cell which was dedicated to fighting the nazis and dutch traitors.

among other things, they are known to have blown up bridges and railroads, smuggled jewish children from concentration camps and, as the tweet mentions, seducing nazis and then shooting them with guns that they had hidden in their bike baskets. freddie is quoted as having said that they “had to do it.” and that it was a “necessary evil, killing those who betrayed good people.”

though freddie and her sister truus were both lucky and survived the war, hannie schaft wasn’t. at the age of 24, hannie was caught and around three weeks later was executed by nazis, only 18 days before the netherlands were eventually liberated. she was shot with one only wounding her, and, before the final shot, hannie is quoted as having told the executioners: ik schiet beter, which translates to “i shoot better.”

though she didn’t survive, hannie is recognized as a national icon and a face of the dutch resistance, with her story even being retold in a movie from 1981 called “the girl with the red hair.” along with this, truus also founded the national hannie schaft foundation in 1992, on which freddie served as a board member.

freddie, at the time of her death, was 92 years old and the last surviving member of the resistance cell, with truus having died two years earlier at the age of 92.

It's just so perfect. The amount of blackout text. The fact it works without additions. The succinctness of the phrase. The palaeontology basis. The way it implies that tetrapods only left the water and evolved in 1562.