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livvyofthelake · 5 months

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books i read in 2023 ranked: (bolding the ones that aren’t rereads)

shadow and bone by leigh bardugo. i don’t CARE if you think this book is bad. it has my friend ALINA in it. so what if it was bad who even cares. alina was in it.

the hound of the baskervilles by arthur conan doyle. not to be an annoying person but what do you want from me i got to get into sherlock holmes this year it was great fun and this book was awesome ok. the whole thing was just our boy john wandering around the moors almost thinking there was a haunted dog in the woods. ok, it was more involved than that but i loved reading about him wandering the moors <3

six of crows by leigh bardugo. utterly devoured this one it was a slay. i love a heist i love a crazyinsane romance i love multiple povs… she had it all

the bronze key by holly black and cassandra clare. can’t even get into it. crazy book to read at 15 and then reread at 22

prince caspian by c s lewis. didn't even plan to read this it just struck me one day this fall that i had to hang out with caspian or i'd die and then that was that it happens idk

a study in scarlet by arthur conan doyle. make no mistake this was a slay and a half. however... not to give away the plot if you were concerned with spoilers for a book published in 1887. but um. the way that halfway through it just cuts to mormons is kinda wild. not bad really, it was a cool backstory and i maintain the crime was justified. but it was weird man...

chain of thorns by cassandra clare. i would put this cunt lower but i can't deny the facts which are that grace blackthorn made me cry so much this year. i loved her i loved reading about her...

the copper gauntlet by holly black and cassandra clare. slayed. served even. idk you guys were there you saw the Posting

the iron trial by holly black and cassandra clare. again you saw the posting... i love call....

the great gatsby by f scott fitzgerald. nick carroway truly one of the best literary freaks of all time i think

the silver mask by holly black and cassandra clare. i don't want to be a hater but. it's just not the best now is it?

the field guide by holly black and tony diterlizzi. you can argue that i cheated by reading this short ass children's book today to meet my reading goal but i stricly followed the letter of the law ok. check and mate. anyway i love the spiderwick chronicles but wow i forgot that nothing happens in book 1. i had already planned to reread the whole series soon anyway so. i'll be doing that over the next few weeks <3

the sign of the four by arthur conan doyle. not his best. was kind of giving side eye for a lot of it, both at artie himself for writing it and at my boy john watson for some of his actions. i know mary was 27 but i still think she was too young to be marrying that washed up army doctor... sorry john we're pals and all it's just. well you kind of are a washed up army doctor. can't say much about the plot as the plot was lame as hell. oh btw this one is where the "i knew he was an alchoholic because his watch has scratches around the key to wind it" comes from. famous origin for bbc sherlock phone charger alchoholic plotline we all as tumblr users have heard so much about. also i did not like the audiobook narrator but whatever. i alternated between audiobook and reading it on my phone so i didn't listen to the whole thing but. i just didn't like his voice very much i'll be honest. maybe i'm english accent phobic idk. maybe he was just specifically annoying because his Woman Voice he used for mary was so fucking bad. anyway.

the golden tower by holly black and cassandra clare. i can't get into it much. i’ll say that this is the only book i read this year that i actually threw across the room because it made me so mad. it happens

into the wild by john krakauer. i'm not one for non fiction apparently. sorry to the non fiction heads out there

#didn’t count the fanfiction for the purposes of this post #anyway. gonna read some better books in 2024. my goal is gonna be a hard 18 and a soft 24. we'll see #beth.txt

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deductry · 3 years

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the rest of my thoughts on season 3 episode 1, warning: long post and i got mean.

please don’t take any of these points personally if you are a fan of this show, as a former viewer I understand what made it appealing to fans

we all eat garbage here and we shall move on

so thing i’m writing as im watching

they put so much money into this show

miss Hudson assuming homosexuality and Cracker Freeman yelling “I AM NOT GAY” is supposed to be funny apparently

Mycroft: “Watson has gone on with his life.” Sherlock: “What life? I’ve been away.”

i mean yeah, John was as useful as a freaking keychain during the previous seasons (except that 1 time he shot a guy). now is this line trying to be cocky, or is this queerbaiting, or is it self-awareness of the uselessness of Watson in this show?

sherlock holmes is eccentric but this is literally inhuman behavior.

OKAY let me fix the restaurant scene

First of all, in every instance of Sherlock and Watson in this series, its indicated that he would have wanted Johns undivided attention for his comeback, so to me it doesn’t make sense that he interrupted the proposal. And yes, he would have been able to tell John was about to propose the second he saw him (or even before going to the restaurant), I WAS.

it’s a nice restaurant, John is obviously waiting for a date, he’s wearing new clothes, he’s been in this relationship for a while, yet he’s visibly nervous as fuck, asked Sherlock for a bottle of champagne, not wine, and there’s a bigass bulging ring box in his pocket (which he btw pulled out while Sherlock was i guess fixing his eyeliner mustache or something)

And don’t say it makes sense that he wasn’t able to tell, if he was able to do THIS ↓

?????? god i forgot how wild the observations became once they realized they didn’t have to explain shit.

people can theorize that he interrupted it out of jealousy but we know johnlock isn’t a thing here so stop trying to use queerbaiting as an excuse

he tells Watson “i need you”..... and i’m like. what does Watson do for him???? Sherlock certainly didn’t trust him as much as he trusted Molly or Mycroft or basically everyone else. Is he even gonna apologize to John in any way? Does he care for him as a person? maybe next time we’ll find out

mary watson is acting like a johnlock fangirl for some reason

sherlock not caring for human lives or justice is kind of lame and antithetical to his character, why does he try so hard to be a dick. explaining this with mental health issues (”he’s a high-functioning sociopath”) is also really nasty and ableist against people diagnosed with sociopathy, who normally work real hard not to be perceived as assholes

mycroft and sherlock fighting over who’s the smartest one omg.... its so cringe and not in a funny way, these are two grown ass men competing for who can say more words faster

did mycroft just say “elementary”?,,im also sure the actor also wrote this episode which makes it cringier

my favorite part is probably the old guy that brings porn into john’s office, too bad john’s a fucking idiot and has learned nothing

now we have a case that looks interesting, but turns out it’s fake it’s not a real case. and when Molly asks the one valid question “why?”, the scene just ends? (edited, it was apparently put there by Anderson to tempt him which... lame)

Sherlock is hallucinating John’s voice ??

Molly is around him trying to be useful but he isn’t teaching her absolutely anything or asking her to do anything but be a fixture which i guess is what he wanted John for

speaking of John he just got kidnapped, which is awesome because it’s something for him to do

Sherlock was nice to Molly which i liked, even though he was nice in a very weirdly unattached way, where at first it seemed like they were gonna leave together then he just walks away. okay.

IT MAKES NO SENSE THAT SHERLOCK DIDN’T TELL JOHN THAT HIS DEATH WAS FAKE, it just makes him a terrible friend honestly

also john is so dumb.,..... he spent all that time with Sherlock and never learned to observe or even ask questions, not to bring Elementary into this but Joan would have figured out he was alive the second she spoke to his parents or Molly.

Watson is just sitting there asking WHAT?! WHY?! as if it’s not possible for something to be, while fucking looking at the evidence that it is. He brings absolutely nothing to the table besides his surprised face

If this Sherlock was really smart he would have gotten at least 300 people involved in this bomb case by now instead of going alone and telling John not to call the cops. what’s the point of that? get all the credit? Sherlock Holmes? wanting to be recognized as the hero? that’s disgusting.

him scaring john with the bomb isn’t funny or smart, it’s cruel even for friends

THERE’S AN OFF SWITCH ON THE BOMB? of course because that’s how bombs absolutely work no question.

scenes of him just smugly brushing off people begging him for help... wow awesome, he’s such a savage

Molly’s boyfriend is so much hotter than benny c, so the joke about him dressing like Sherlock is really funny in an unexpected way.

Lastly, the case was never solved, we have no idea who put john in that fire oh but maybe next time we might find out....

i need a shower i feel dirty

#;bbc sherlock liveblog #tw negativity

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just-sort-of-happened · 7 years

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Incandescent + Beyond Newton = Gay

I talked about how Eurus is Sherlock and Mycroft’s gay feelings in their childhood. The question is: how intelligent/different/gay was she? Incandescent. Aka Flaming (Flaming Homosexual is a term for someone who is very easily perceived by others as gay, usually a term reserved for men). (Notice that John asks if Eurus was smart, too, and he says, ‘enlighten me’, another light/fire reference). And she was like Newton. Now let’s ask ourselves if there’s reason to think he was gay? hmmm...

“Personal relations Although it was claimed that he was once engaged,[95] Newton never married. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire, who was in London at the time of Newton's funeral, said that he "was never sensible to any passion, was not subject to the common frailties of mankind, nor had any commerce with women—a circumstance which was assured me by the physician and surgeon who attended him in his last moments".[96] The widespread belief that he died a virgin has been commented on by writers such as mathematician Charles Hutton,[97] economist John Maynard Keynes,[98] and physicist Carl Sagan.[99]Newton did have a close friendship with the Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, whom he met in London around 1690.[100] Their intense relationship came to an abrupt and unexplained end in 1693, and at the same time Newton suffered a nervous breakdown.[101] Some of their correspondence has survived.[102][103]In September of that year, Newton had a breakdown which included sending wild accusatory letters to his friends Samuel Pepys and John Locke. His note to the latter included the charge that Locke "endeavoured to embroil me with woemen".[104]”

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So, yeah, why else describe Eurus as, ‘...incandescent... an era-defining genius beyond Newton’? She was basically, so very gay, she was flaming. She was also gayer than Newton, who never slept with a woman and clearly had a relationship with a man whose breakup nearly destroyed him.

So, if genius is code for gay then we can see that Eurus, as the Holmes brothers’ obvious gayness since their childhood, was very, very obvious. They were incandescently gay. Gayer than Newton, even.

PS yes, it was John Locke who was apparently (very unpleasantly) trying to set Newton up with women.

PPS John Locke was gay, too, btw.

#incandescent #newton #gay coding #Eurus is gay #so very very gay #like too gay to be tolerated #so she was locked up #sherlock meta

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