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Today, I bring you meta on a recurring motif in Yuukoku no Moriarty that is somewhat less heavy-handed than the Christ metaphors and the religion and the darkness and the light and the fire and the water.
Today, I bring you discussion about threads.
I’ll be honest, this one is hugely impacted by my desire to incorporate something similar into my current writing projects with intention, and thus I wanted to explore it. I suspect a lot of the things this discussion will touch on were unintentional, and some were not, and it’s a bit tangled up trying to figure out what was what. But it’s also true that I don’t know the authors, so I don’t know what was intentional and what they were hoping we’d noticed that they never commented on. I also think the fact that it appears to be in there anyway is interesting and thus worth commenting on it.
I suspect reading that this was about threads, most of your minds jumped to the red string of fate Sherlock says ties him to William. But the series uses it in a lot of pretty versatile ways, as it does with most things—the manga really likes reusing and repurposing elements, and I like that a lot. In fact, I think the series plays up the concept of reusing and repurposing things for new meanings.
So let’s start
There’s a recurring theme in the series of what, and who, is tied to what and who, connected to what, what beginning leads to what ending. We see it in Sherlock’s mind maps of crimes and the way he refers to being led to and led by William. We see Moran’s chains to his past being replaced wholly by William’s ties to him. We see discussions of who started what and what that lead to, and whether it was fate or something they caused and we see them being tied to their own past in atonement. We see thorny rose vines entangling characters up with each other.
The ties are causal, but they’re primarily relational: they’re what people feel stuck in and trapped by, and what they feel led by.
Most of these threads are tied, shall we say, to William. While he and his brothers are all represented as spiders in their family heraldry, William is certainly the master weaver at the center of it all who builds their web. And as he builds his plan and web throughout the London underground, he’s also creating his home and tying himself to his family: a spider’s web is more than just a trap for victims, and William’s plan is more than just self-sacrifice and murder.
So William attaches his sticky catching threads to all his beloved ones to keep them close to him, and at the same time freeing people from their chains to other people and ideas—and okay, chains aren’t threads, but they’re long tangly things, so close enough, okay?
And his spidery, webby threads turn into the curtain tassels to pull on for his play to reveal what he wants. They turn into puppet strings to lead people where he wants to dance for him as he pleases. He uses them as trick wires as the Lord of Crime to complete his purposes.
He uses them to lead, connect, bind, to control—but he doesn’t use them to kill.
William never hangs anyone. Never uses a garotte. He never kills anyone with string, a rope, thread, any of it. Yes, you could argue that those things are so hard to pass off as an accident…but so is beheading Baskervilles. So is bringing a gun to shoot Milverton. That doesn’t appear to be what strings are for to him. The strings seem to be more…well…him.
Sherlock sees that thread in William a lot.
When the image of spider webs and their prey tend to crop up, it’s usually in Sherlock’s musing about The Lord of Crime. He’s the first one to mention a thread leading him to William—that Red String of Fate. And, when he’s afraid that thread has snapped, he manages to snap the string of his violin. It’s a fun visual detail to ground the whole scene and bring it back to reality from his musing. It connects William’s play wires to Sherlock’s own artistic performances, in a way.
I also like that the snap brings an end to his playing, his musing, his song, his fun. Without that thread connecting him to William, everything sounds off and doesn’t work properly, and he’s not happy about it. Obviously, a violin string can be replaced, but the thread between two people can’t be so easily. But shortly after this, Sherlock and William get to revive their connection, too, and prove it still strong and the game still on and the dance still playing.
And, when Sherlock speaks to William at Milverton’s mansion, he vows to unravel William—like a spool of so much thread. Like the threads he uses to connect William’s crimes and mysteries to each other on a wall, like the threads that he brackets the Moriarty brothers together with. But William himself is caught in his own spiderweb, and Sherlock is going to free him from it, and in the process, unravel the core of who William is and what’s there underneath all the puffery and stage makeup.
Miyoshi did a “birthday” art piece for William the year that was all coming out that showed William with a red thread wrapped around his own neck, dangerous as anything else, and a motif in the first time it was confirmed by one of the creators themselves that it’s his false birthday and part of his Plan. I like that piece a lot for a lot of reasons, but that thread did look rather like a noose—a weapon he’s never used, but was about to strangle himself.
Sherlock’s statement to unravel William also a signifier that Sherlock has followed that red thread that connected them and realized he found a horrific knot strangling William up in it. Sherlock is no longer excited by the strings and threads: he wants them gone.
I think it’s interesting that in New York, when William finally feels ready to confront all these things about himself, he finally unwraps the last ties, the last thread on him—the bandages over his eye—and proceeds to tie himself to Sherlock metaphorically instead. His heart is finally untangled from the mess he trapped it in and he can bind it again properly, healthily, and with new purpose.
William and Sherlock’s new promise to each other doesn’t come with any discussion of threads or ties. William has left that behind now, and his bonds to other don’t need to be tangled up and restrictive. When Bond renamed themself, they didn’t have any images of threads, either, because their relationships with their friends and Sherlock’s side of the team was not caught up in such a complicated mess. And now, William finally has that freedom, too.
#Yuukoku no Moriarty#Moriarty the Patriot#I feel like I mighta pulled some of this out of my ass this time#I tried not to
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The Killer, a David Fincher movie
There are so many things about this movie that I loved. First thing first, the source material. I absolutely love the comics. The cinematography was brilliant. Absolutely beautiful. The colour palette was absolutely in sink with the rhythm of the story.
Now there is one thing you need to know. This isn't by any means an action packed movie. It is a psychological journey inside the mind of a methodical mind of an organized killer who is on a constant edge of a breakdown but not quite getting there perhaps or getting there and had been long fallen off. That for us to see. So if you don't enjoy slow paced planned stories this might not be for you.
The monologues are absolutely amazing. Michael is absolutely fitting for this role. The music is just great. It did gave me Fight Club vibes Tbh. And also the fact that we also have an unreliable narrator was what made it all more tense. My only issue was that it was so much milder than the source material and Fincher style actually. All in all it was a brilliant movie that will be roaming in my head for quite a while. I give it an strong 4/5
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What an excellent day for an exorcism.
#mp#reghan#babylove#i tried not to#i tried so hard#but alas#i always was gonna#shes my fave baby#and im not complete without her#so here she is#ts4#sims 4#blender#blender render
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I’m sorry but it happened. I kinda like Tell It to My Heart.
#I tried not to#but it crept up on me#hozier#it took me like a year but it happened#honestly it’s the vocals in the first verse
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I am a predictable motherfucker and I pride myself on nothing else
Also behold, the only reason I care to keep SSO on my phone still
Two of them :3
(My main to the left, my alt to the right)
#sso#star stable online#Horse: Silentecho#Horse: Silentmoon#Two of them :DDD#Also yes I wear the exact same tack combo on both of my accounts#I tried not to#But it's just too good#The only difference is which non baroque bridle I wear when I ride an older Gen 3#But knowing my predictable ass I'll switch to the bosal once I start with the craft on my alt in like 100 years
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god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait
#executive dysfunction#shitpost#every day I get stuck in waiting mode for SO LONG and SO MANY TIMES#that one time I tried adhd meds it fixed it but then I. was like no I am going to be scared and not continue taking it <3#and also. I simply did not like the psychologist and did not want to have to go back#so. rawdogging the world <3#man if I could start a task right now...then you'd see...then you'd all see....
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i watch baseball for the side quests (ps: this baseball player also makes fruit cocktails midgame)
#please… when he started decorating it with sunflower seeds#when the commentators were like: he actually tried to pour water in the moat#;_______; i love#baseball can not be a real sport#my fave moment is still mantis-chan perched on victor robles’ cap. the tandem we deserve#but this. this come close#the nhl should let opposing players in the penalty box build a snowman together#lourdes gurriel jr#arizona diamondbacks#baseball#mlb
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List of Palestinian Evacuation And Support Fundraisers
Last Update: 05/19/2024
All fundraisers have been looked into by me or vetted by others. If anyone notices issues in validity with any of the fundraisers listed please let me know. Funding updates daily!
Fadi Al-Sharif and family ($22,855/$62,500 goal)
Hayam Taha and family (€15,593/€30,000 goal)
Deyaa and family (€16,787/€30,000 goal)
Deyaa reached the initial evacuation fee for his family and they have extended the goal to pay to support themselves after they evacuate.
Fatima Alshanti (kr20,562SEK/kr150,000 goal)
Shahed Ghazi and family ($19,721 CAD/$94,838 goal)
Little Yusuf and family (€21,462/€85,000 goal)
Sara & Huda Hajjaj and family ($9,071/$25,000 goal)
Mohammed JH Shamia's family (kr48,338 SEK/kr250,000 goal)
Maram Ahmed and family (€8,291/€30,000 goal)
Hamza Almofty and family ($6,306/$35,000 goal)
Mahmoud Jomaa (€2,614/€10,000 goal)
Dr. Mohammed Shaga ($2,436/$20,000 goal)
Abdulrahman Alshanti and family (kr145,099 SEK/kr350,000 goal)
Besan Almabhouh's family (€8,239/€25,000 goal)
Said Tanani and brothers (€33,565/€50,000 goal)
Donia Tanani and family (€73,129/€100,000 goal)
Hussein Shamiya, his pregnant wife, and son ($17,785/$40,000 goal)
Mohammed Shamia and family ($26,273/$35,000 goal)
Amro Bakr & kids Bakir and Tala (€15,080/€28,000 goal)
Almadhoun family ($23,955/$80,000 goal)
Child Mohammed and family (€20,214/€30,000 goal)
Sana'a and family (£25,641/£70,000 goal)
Noha Ayyad and family ($32,195/$95,160 goal)
Maryam Ayyad and family ($725/$15,000 goal!!!) - Maryam is related to Noha listed above, who is managing her fundraiser.
Hamza Sameer and family ($6,333/$55,000 goal)
Hamza is related to Noha, he is her uncle’s son.
Nazmi Mwafi and family ($6,671/65,000 goal)
Ibrahim Almofty and family ($7,442/$40,000 goal)
Hamdi Hejazi and family ($25,101/$25,000 goal) INITIAL GOAL COMPLETE!!!
Mohammed Ali and family ($10,185/$25,000 goal)
Heba and family (€58,634/€80,000 goal)
Mohammed Abuhasanein and family (kr10,077 SEK/kr 350,000 goal)
Rawan and Yemna (kr46,328 SEK/kr319,315 goal)
Laila Auda (€7,084/€35,000 goal)
Ola Madi (€2,454/€40,000 goal)
Tawfik Satoom and family ($6,227/$45,000 goal)
Laila Abd El Bari, her husband, and unborn baby Sham (€6,024/€25,000 goal)
Abdullah Mohammed and family ($6,765/$47,000 goal)
Ruba Abushaban and family (€11,040/€50,000 goal)
Hala, her husband, and their daughter ($6,715 CAD/$50,000 goal)
Hoda and Abdul Rahman ($2,409/$18,000 goal)
Al Maghari family (£4,524/£74,000 goal)
Arwa Abudawaba and family (kr238,599 NOK/kr500,000 goal)
Hani Alhajjar’s family (€12,735/€50,000 goal)
Ouda family ($18,822 CAD/$50,000 goal)
Rawan Ahmed and family ($13,410/$40,000 goal)
Dr. Wael Eldahdouh's family (€5,001/€110,000 goal)
Abdullah Lulu and family ($4,058/$6,000 goal)
Lara, Abdalla, and family (€10,656/€50,000 goal)
Firas Salem and family (€15,450/€65,000 goal)
Amal Abu Shammala's family (€43,170/€47,000 goal)
Dr. Mohammed Alshaer and family (€5,103/€18,000 goal)
Roqaya Al-Hayek and Mohammad Jamal Al-Hayek (€14,769/€25,000 goal)
Haya and family (€5,454/€60,000 goal)
Mohammed Dahdooh and family (£45,347/£45,000 goal)
INITIAL GOAL COMPLETE!!!
Ahmad Iyd and family (£4,588/£150,000 goal)
Renad and family (£1,332/£25,000 goal)
Mohammed Aljbour and family (€4,307/€25,000 goal)
Sarah's mother (€5,471/€15,000 goal)
Sarah reached her initial goal to evacuate her mother and has raised the goal to provide support for she and her family once they are in Egypt.
Dr. Hasan Adwan and family (€4,467/€98,000 goal)
Marah Atallah and family ($565/$27,000 goal!!!)
Dr. Nasrallah Almassri ($8,778/$30,000 goal)
Afnan Hasaballah (€3,230/€20,000 goal)
Linda Khwaiter and family ($385 CAD/$80,000 goal!!!)
Muhammad Al-Thalateeni and family (€6,102/€20,000 goal)
Al-Zaeem family ($3,009/$50,000 goal)
Mahmoud Al Tibi and family (€8,463/€60,000 goal)
Almoghrabi family (€1,537/€25,000 goal)
Mohammad's family (€8,147/€30,000 goal)
Aziz and his mother ($2,873/$50,000 goal)
Mohammed, his wife, and their newborn son ($840/$50,000 goal!!!)
Tala, her aunt, and their family (€18,071/€50,000 goal)
Ala Osama ($70/$50,000 goal!!!)
Aesha Balaha and family ($1,006/$10,000 goal)
Farah and family (€1,795/€35,000 goal)
Zinh Dahdooh ($3,792/$40,000 goal)
Rana and family (€5,141/€30,000 goal)
Al-Alami family ($543 CAD/$100,000 goal!!!)
Khaled and family ($33/$15,000!!!)
Tamer Alnoaizy and family (€3,357/€20,000 goal)
Ahmed Dawoud and family ($2,225/$87,000 goal)
Omar and family (€2,866/€20,000 goal)
Haytham and family ($752 CAD/$70,000 goal!!!)
Hamdi and family ($145 CAD/$62,000 goal!!!)
Mahmoud & Rawan (€944/€15,000 goal!!!)
Hashem, Samar, and baby Omar (€315/€45,000 goal!!!)
Aseel Maher and family (€1,559/€30,000 goal)
Mayada Jihad and family (€2,100/€30,000 goal)
Amal, her children, and her unborn baby ($718/$15,000 goal!!!) URGENT! 15 DAYS TO COMPLETE!!!
#tried to ensure these were all fundraisers i was sure of or were vetted by others. i will update daily & add as more come in!#palestine#free palestine#gaza#mutual aid
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it should be illegal to put ads in apps or sites for solitaire or picross or sudoku tbh. playing classic puzzle games uninterrupted needs to be a HUMAN RIGHT
#this is me being silly but#man i hate hate hate when the solitaire app that CAME WITH MY GOD DAMN LAPTOP tries to feed me ads#at least with the sites i got adblocker. but man#jort post
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Expertise can't help you here.
#dungeon meshi#kabru#laios touden#falin touden#Happy Thistle Thursday once again. Have I been holding on to this comic for several weeks? Sure have!#I forgot how long it takes for Chimera Falin to come into play.#I still really love my 'better drawn' art of her - unfortunately it was several weeks too early for the anime only folks.#Slowly getting the hang of drawing Laios. I don't know why I struggle so much but I am getting...somewhere.#Meta time: God damn I love how the chimera shows off the expertise and gap between Kabru and Laios.#The truth is: they are both *right* and they are both *wrong*.#This creature is a combination of monster and human and they only have the skillset to deal with one of those.#Kabru goes for all the human vitals - but she isn't human.#Laios tries to approach her as a monster and is struck down by the humanity he sees in her.#She is something new that defies what they *both* understand about the world. And that makes her such a perfect antagonist.#The damsel was the dragon all along!#...She is really so cute though. Terrifying! But adorable. I am so excited to see the boom of fanart for her.
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Chilchuck and senshi shenanigans
(in reference to how Chilchuck is actually middle-aged and has adult children)
#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#chilchuck#senshi#comic#greseadraws#i was wheezing when senshi tried giving chilchuck the talk
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endless night
#animal art#animal comic#penguin art#comic art#artists on tumblr#just a comic about emperor penguins#(they are emperor penguins but yellow didn’t go with the colour scheme loool)#(i tried to make it work just trust me lol)#i keep forgetting to upload here woops#sometimes i don’t wanna draw anthros#i’ve been wanting to experiment again#i have a couple pieces planned#but i also wanna do more horror#rlyyyyy hard to decide lmaoooo
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every so often i just think about how good it was that the most foolproof one-size-fits-all solution for dealing with basically any horrifyingly evil supernatural monster of the week in the magnus archives was just. burying them in concrete. like yeah i can believe that a few tons of grey brutalist slop would stop the wolfman or pretty much anything in its tracks to be honest. they use that shit on nuclear waste. do you honestly think you're stronger than a nuke? a fucking nuke?
#🐉#they should have tried it on elias. not because i think it would have worked im sure hed have seen it coming#but just to see his reaction.#tma
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I made a Room Building tutorial! Lemme know if it helps! 🧡
Tip me here| Commission info here!
#anonbeadraws#digital#art tutorial#tutorial#room building#room design#illustration#gif#digital art#digital tutorial#art help#art resource#let me know if it helps!#tried to make it as simple as I could
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lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)
if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.
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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.
I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.
I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.
If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.
#cw: suicidal ideation#cw: suicide#cw: self harm#cw: mental health#cw: depression#i made the balloon the main representation of my self destructive urges for a reason but im not going to explain it#i tried to keep a lot of the details in this vague#it would be my worst nightmare if this comic encouraged someone to hurt themselves#so. please dont#for a long time even the thought of making this comic felt so insipid and narcissistic#with the state of the world as it is#having the only threat to your life be yourself felt so privileged and trite and shameful#but doing this comic made me sit down and process things in full#and im just. very grateful i didn't give in to my thoughts back when i sincerely felt i'd be more useful to the world dead#i also feel the need to say that this wont represent everyone's battle with mental illness. its unfortunately different for all of us#there is no fix-all#and im afraid this might be one of those comics that either resonates a lot or misses the target by a mile#i made it for myself foremost. and now that its done im glad i did it#thank you for reading#and please stay alive#stillindigo art#stillindigo comics
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AU where Mr. D claiming to be Percy’s dad accidentally counts as Claiming according to Greek god law or whatever and now all the other gods legitimacy believe Percy is his son, but if Mr. D corrects it, he has to explain to Zeus why he pretended he was Percy’s dad so now he’s like “YEP ol’ Perry Johansson is MY child wowie just look at the little fry, you have your mother’s eyes. Please stop standing next to water or you will blow my cover”
Meanwhile Poseidon is just standing off to the side like “how on earth did I dodge THAT bullet”
#EVEN BETTER if Mr D tries to keep his cover by actually treating him like a son#Clarisse doesn’t mess with him cuz after the toilet fiasco Mr D is like “I will feed you to my cult young lady!! good job Peter :)#Percy is like “hey dad why can I control water “and Mr D is like …ever heard of that guy that turned it to wine??#Mr D: PLEASE just help me I can’t keep it a secret for much longer Mr. Brunner: you told him his brother was JESUS???#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson the lightning thief#dionysus#Mr D
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