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January 1, 2022
liifafaa:
man, pinterest is amazing
And people actually...
man, pinterest is amazing
And people actually ship this. It’s endlessly amazing to me, lol
ben-locked:
elennemigo:
★ Benedict Cumberbatch´s 2021★*
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★ Benedict Cumberbatch´s 2021★*
“You know, the gratitude of being able to do what you do, that you love doing, for a living, is just … I still pinch myself about it. Don’t tell producers, ’cause they’ll probably come to me with lower offers! But it’s the truth. It’s like, what a gig! What an amazing way to live a life.”
* this post shows just a few highlights, for more check this tag. :))
Entertainer of the Year. 2021. Hands down. Period. 🎭
Love this man. Love his immense talent. ❤️❤️
helloliriels:
consultwithmouse:
johnlock-hell-resident:
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John. Thinks. He’s. Funny.
Sherlock meets John when he’s so sick and sad he can barely walk, let alone, smile, and by the end of the day he’s gasping laughing. Sherlock adores it. Sherlock takes every chance he can to make it happen again. Sherlock is amazed that he can do that for John. It’s the very last thing he does when he’s saying goodbye.
Sherlock is obsessed with making John laugh.
I was doing fine until THAT ^
^^^^^^
I also love this moment because you have John, still fully distrusting everything about Sherlock, discovering that Sherlock has already decided that they’re a team, that he’s already on the inside and fully accepted there. It takes him until the end of the episode to decide that he’s all-in himself, that this is a man that he’ll protect at any cost, that he’ll fall into step with, agreeing not just to dinner, but to moving in, to the partnership, to a life together. But this is the moment where he realizes that his place there is already solidified, whether or not he’s even committed to it. He will commit to it. But this discovery, that this lost man who doesn’t know whether he’ll ever walk again, have steady enough hands to perform surgery again, be able to do any of the things that define him as he sees himself, has already been granted a full place of worth with this extraordinary, strange, brilliant, funny person that he’s only just met, is so important for John. He’s never been fully accepted just as he is. It’s a recurring theme that he feels like he has to be on high alert for being criticized and found at fault. His own family aren’t close enough to have warranted invitations to his wedding later on, apart from his prickly, critical sister, who declined to come. He’s not good at making or keeping friends. He’s damaged goods, broken by the war and stripped of the things he’s thought made him useful to society, the things that gave him place. But here’s Sherlock, telling him in not so many words, but very plainly that John is already trusted, invited, and accepted without question. This is possibly something that has never happened in John Watson’s entire life before this point. But now it has.
December 31, 2021
2.4 million words
With a little under an hour to go before it’s 2022, I just realized that I just crossed the threshold of the 2.4 million word mark in my writing in this fandom.
That’s right: including my current fic, I’ve now written precisely 2,400,350 words in the Sherlock fandom as of this very second! 89 of these are posted; 1 is in progress, and 1 more is being actively plotted as we speak (more about those two below!). I’ve been feeling bummed about how slow my production in general has become of late. We got hit with some hard news about my mom’s health in early November and it’s been a shock. I’m also working my full-time job and multiple part-time or contract jobs on top of that, and I’m just busy, stressed, wrestling with endless anxiety, and there’s this whole pandemic thing on top of that.
But this is feeling good. 2.4 million words! Before I started writing in the Sherlock fandom, I had previously written 1.4 million words in the Harry Potter fandom over the course of several years. I just received a translation request for my very oldest story in that fandom two weeks ago, a story that I would have posted way back in 2003. Meanwhile, here in this fandom, my oldest story (Resurrection), posted in July 2013, received its newest bookmark as recently as December 28th. Sometimes I’m actively shocked that there people still reading my oldest stories. I will never stop being amazed and delighted that there are people still actively looking forward to reading stories of mine that I haven’t written yet. That’s mindblowing, and I love every last one of you for it!
More than that, this fandom has saved me in so many ways over the years. Some of you are Patreon patrons of mine. Others of you have sent one-time (or multiple!!) donations to help me when I was in actual financial crisis. (I will never, ever, to my dying breath, stop being grateful to all of you who have done that, who are still doing it!!) You’ve reached out to me in every medium where I exist, online and off, you’ve checked in on me when I’ve gone radio silent for too long, you’ve emailed, left comments on stories just to reach me, messaged me here on tumblr. Some of you have physically visited me in this city or that. One of you has knitted me socks (GORGEOUS socks, @chained-to-the-mirror!!). You’re friends, family, community, and I’m glad down to my bones to have this community to write for, share our love for these characters and all that goes with it. It’s really quite incredible!
Okay, upcoming projects: right now, I’m about 12,000 words into a story called <i>Cupid’s Venom</i>, which features Mike Stamford trying to play the role of Cupid, Sherlock becoming obsessed with the notion of attraction/emotion-as-toxin, along with attempting to research the character of Cupid (aka: the stupidest possible ways to take Stamford’s well-meant advice!), and then I plan to finally write a sequel to my story Isosceles that will see Sherlock and John go to LA to visit Corey Graham (aka the superstar that Sherlock dates in the first story). I’ll probably give it another cheesy shape-based title like Trapezoid or something. Time will tell! :P
Meanwhile, that’s my longer than usual update about where I’m at with my writing: I’m 2.4 million words deep, baby!! Here’s to a bunch more! Happy New Year to you all! <333333333333333333333333333333
starrynightdeancas:rb to have a very gay 2022
rb to have a very gay 2022
December 28, 2021
sproutlett:this is for the people who went through trauma...
this is for the people who went through trauma and didn’t come out of it with thicker skin. but, instead, came back with sensitivity to the world and a deep sadness that won’t go away. some of us went through something and lost a piece of ourselves; our broken hearts never healed quite right afterwards. i see you and i feel you and i am you. it’s going to be okay.
Hey, look at this late Christmas/early birthday present the...
Hey, look at this late Christmas/early birthday present the universe (aka: you lovely people!) has given me! My story The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse just reached its first 10,000 hits! That’s so very cool!
I rarely deliberately write known tropes, but since I had already written two fake-couple-for-a-case stories, I thought it might be fun to try a take on the opposite: a story wherein Sherlock and John become a couple, but have to keep it a secret because of their case. So what better setting than a massively homophobic, anti-same sex marriage conference set in the US? :P This is decidedly my most political fic; I have more familiarity than I even want with this sort of group and its ridiculously restrictive limitations go, plus I’m queer myself, so it’s an issue that I get rather fired up about. Many of the rules imposed on the conference attendees in this story are taken from unfortunately all-too-real, similar groups.
Anyway! This is the 63rd of my (current) 89 stories to reach 10,000 hits and it’s exciting every time. Thank you to any of you who have read this story, even more so if you also liked it, haha! :)
December 22, 2021
Miracle of miracles, I actually managed to write a chunk tonight!! The fic is 11,500 and some change...
Miracle of miracles, I actually managed to write a chunk tonight!! The fic is 11,500 and some change now and I’m just so happy to have made any forward progress on it at all! I’ve been so depressed and stressed lately that I just haven’t had the motivation at all. I wrote about 1,000 words tonight!! :)
December 21, 2021
gaylilsherlock:
silentauroriamthereal:
ughholmesandwatso...
Look at that sad look Sherlock has on his face when John says ‘You could have called, you could have talked to me.“ If that doesn’t say, “No I couldn’t because you replaced me,” then I don’t know what does.
He even glances over his shoulder at Mary but doesn’t say it.
hey @silentauroriamthereal did you say that just to watch me die or
Yes. I’m sorry.
December 12, 2021
Is everything ok? You haven’t posted anything in quite a while and I know I’m worried and hoping you are well…
Hey… I seem to not have the option of answering privately anymore (???), so I’ll just say that no, everything is not okay. It concerns the health of an immediate family member along with some other things, and it’s been really awful, frankly. On top of that, I’m just incredibly, overwhelmingly busy, working my full-time job plus three side jobs at the same time. I’m still writing in bits and pieces, but I haven’t been on tumblr much at all, it’s true. I miss it and all of you! :/ Thanks for checking on me… hopefully I’ll be around more soonish?
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