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July 11, 2016
John’s Other Romantic Interests
I’m not including Sherlock on this list because this is a post talking about how everyone John has dated, married, or hit on, is a Sherlock mirror.
Anthea: obvious. Dark curls, angular features, nice suit, slightly snobbish and mysterious.
Sarah Sawyer: well, she doesn’t exactly look like Sherlock, does she? But she does look like Molly. Molly is Sherlock’s metaphorical spirit, and that was what first attracted John to Sherlock. He still hasn’t come to terms with his physical attraction to him yet…but he will. But she is brilliant and adventurous.
Irene Adler: yes, John does hit on her momentarily (”Oh…you like policemen?”). Once he’s gotten over the shock of a naked lady sniffing around his Sherlock, that is. And why not, she looks just like him! She even wears his coat! (Here’s a side by side comparison. Honestly, they could be siblings, if not twins.)
Jeanette: we never saw the two that came before. We know there was “the one with the nose” and “the one with the spots”. They never specify what “the nose” looked like, but Sherlock does have spots (freckles). But anyway, Jeanette is totally a Sherlock clone - she even wears her coat the same way!
Irene Adler’s henchlady: piercing eyes, mysterious, aristocratic, dressed in fancy black clothes. She even kind of has the same smile.
Corporal Lyons: in a deleted scene, John hits on Lyons the same way he does with Anthea in “A Study In Pink” (”You get any free time?”). He has dark hair and a pale complexion.
Louise Mortimer: just like Anthea, dark curls, angular features, smart.
Mary Morstan: I actually wrote a meta on how Mary is Sherlock’s antithesis/negative/foil. She’s everything he is, only darkly inverted (even though Sherlock really is an invert, haha).
James Sholto: tall, sad, blue eyes, cheekbones. Someone who gets death threats and has suicidal tendencies and loves John fiercely. I mean, the episode basically spells out the comparisons for us, but just as a reminder:
I see Molly more of a John mirror tho
She is! Very often. I love Molls to death, but in the narrative, she has three basic functions: to mirror John, to represent Sherlock’s spirit, and show that Sherlock is not interested in women.
John’s Other Romantic Interests
I’m not including Sherlock on this list because this is a post talking about how everyone John has dated, married, or hit on, is a Sherlock mirror.
Anthea: obvious. Dark curls, angular features, nice suit, slightly snobbish and mysterious.
Sarah Sawyer: well, she doesn’t exactly look like Sherlock, does she? But she does look like Molly. Molly is Sherlock’s metaphorical spirit, and that was what first attracted John to Sherlock. He still hasn’t come to terms with his physical attraction to him yet…but he will. But she is brilliant and adventurous.
Irene Adler: yes, John does hit on her momentarily (”Oh…you like policemen?”). Once he’s gotten over the shock of a naked lady sniffing around his Sherlock, that is. And why not, she looks just like him! She even wears his coat! (Here’s a side by side comparison. Honestly, they could be siblings, if not twins.)
Jeanette: we never saw the two that came before. We know there was “the one with the nose” and “the one with the spots”. They never specify what “the nose” looked like, but Sherlock does have spots (freckles). But anyway, Jeanette is totally a Sherlock clone - she even wears her coat the same way!
Irene Adler’s henchlady: piercing eyes, mysterious, aristocratic, dressed in fancy black clothes. She even kind of has the same smile.
Corporal Lyons: in a deleted scene, John hits on Lyons the same way he does with Anthea in “A Study In Pink” (”You get any free time?”). He has dark hair and a pale complexion.
Louise Mortimer: just like Anthea, dark curls, angular features, smart.
Mary Morstan: I actually wrote a meta on how Mary is Sherlock’s antithesis/negative/foil. She’s everything he is, only darkly inverted (even though Sherlock really is an invert, haha).
James Sholto: tall, sad, blue eyes, cheekbones. Someone who gets death threats and has suicidal tendencies and loves John fiercely. I mean, the episode basically spells out the comparisons for us, but just as a reminder:
I see Molly more of a John mirror tho
She is! Very often. I love Molls to death, but in the narrative, she has three basic functions: to mirror John, to represent Sherlock’s spirit, and show that Sherlock is not interested in women.
July 10, 2016
yearofjohnlock:
From each crime are born bullets that will one...
From each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out where your heart lies. – Pablo Neruda
Please God, let John avenge this.
Some academic sources that discuss Sherlock Holmes's sexuality as queer
Enjoy! :)
Papers
Detection, Desire and Contamination: The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes by Elèni LavënArthur Conan Doyle’s famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, is often viewed as a fictional embodiment of justice and order in nineteenth-century Britain, a fantasy of epistemological mastery precisely calibrated against the social flux and uncertainty of the fin-de-siècle. Holmes solves perplexing crimes through logic and reason, and affirms a positivist conservative ideology that upholds the status quo. This thesis will challenge this comforting reading of Holmes by arguing, firstly, that he is in fact a highly ambivalent figure - morally problematic, culturally marginalised and sexually ambiguous. Secondly, it will demonstrate how Holmes should be situated within the context of various historical and contemporary discourses, including inquisitorial modes of punishment and surveillance, the discourse of atavism, contemporary anxieties about degeneracy in the upper classes and the cultural problematics of bachelorhood and bohemia in Victorian society. Finally, it will trace a continuum in which Holmes, as an archetype in a discourse of detection extending back to the work of earlier writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, sets the pattern for the legion of brilliant, eccentric and ambiguous detectives who have followed in his wake. Understood in terms of this genealogy, the detective’s characteristic flaws, traits, eccentricities and methodologies can be seen to have a specific relation to their historical moment: indeed, part of the lingering appeal of the eccentric detective lies in the fit between their eccentricities, the nature of the crimes they solve, and their ability to restore order. This thesis will demonstrate the fit in the case of Sherlock Holmes, but will also demonstrate that he is more ambiguous, ambivalent and even subversive than his consoling conservative appeal might suggest
Detectives, Doctors and Degenerates: Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper by Helen Lavën
In 1876, the criminologist Cesare Lombroso claimed that the criminal represented an atavistic throwback to an earlier stage of human development, a so-called “degenerate” with an inherently debased nature. His theories appealed to the Victorian imagination, and the degenerate criminal became embodied in the great monster- myths of the age, from fictional characters like Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to real criminals like Jack the Ripper. Influenced by fictional representations of degenerate middle-class men like Stevenson’s Mr Hyde, journalists covering the notorious Whitechapel murders in 1888 constructed a popular image of Jack the Ripper as a homicidal doctor: degenerate, predatory, but also educated and resourceful. Jack the Ripper represented a terrifying new kind of criminal at the close of the century, one whose presence in London necessitated the creation of a new breed of crime-solver. Arthur Conan Doyle provided the definitive example of the modern sleuth in his “Sherlock Holmes” stories. Sherlock Holmes appears to offer an antidote to the social contagion of criminality, reflecting the principles of order and reason, but this paper will argue that there is also a darker side to London’s favorite sleuth. If he represents a consoling figure for late-Victorian anxieties about criminality, he can also be seen to articulate certain anxieties about the professional classes and the potentially degenerate nature of genius in his eccentricity and rampant experimentalism. This paper will consider the homeopathic nature of Holmes’s social marginality and ambiguous sexuality as one response to the problem of the potentially degenerate doctor: a man of perverse genius who knows perhaps too much about the shadowy underbelly of the respectable world.
“A MERE APPENDIX”: THE RECLAIMING AND DESEXING OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by THOMAS GLYNN BRAGG
This study questions the aptness of recent critical tendencies to view Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes as preeminently an upholder and enforcer of normative masculine and heterosexual values. While the character’s eventual importance as a policeman of hegemonical gender and sexual codes is granted, close reading of the first three stories suggests that Doyle originally conceived of his detective as gender- problematic and sexually deviant. The Sherlock Holmes novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four and the short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” form a progression in which the moral character of Holmes is shifted: from a troublesome and ambiguous marginality to a position closer to the moral center. In this attempt to “reclaim” his character for the moral right, Doyle is only partially successful. The Otherness that sets Holmes apart as a noteworthy novum also prevents his conversion into a standard hero figure, resulting in a sexless and even body-less character.
Books
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity (Nineteenth Century Series) by Diana BarshamA valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All his biographers have drawn heavily on his own autobiography, Memories & Adventures, a collection of stories and anecdotes themed on the subject of masculinity and its representation. Diana Barsham discusses Doyle’s career in the context of that nineteenth-century biographical tradition which Dr Watson so successfully appropriated. It explores Doyle’s determination to become a great name in the culture of his day and the strains on his identity arising from this project. A Scotsman with an alcoholic, Irish, fairy-painting father, Doyle offered himself and his writings as a model of British manhood during the greatest crisis of British history. Doyle was committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult cultural problematics of late Victorian masculinity. As novelist, war correspondent, historian, legal campaigner, propagandist and religious leader, he used his fame as the creator of Sherlock Holmes to refigure the spirit of British Imperialism. This original and thought-provoking study offers a revision of the Doyle myth. It presents his career as a series of dialoguic contestations with writers like Thomas Hardy and Winston Churchill to define the masculine presence in British culture. In his spiritualist campaign, Doyle took on the figure of St Paul in an attempt to create a new religious culture for a Socialist age.
Naked Is the Best Disguise: The Death and Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes by Samuel Rosenberg
Naked is the Best Disguise: The Death and Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes (ISBN 0-14-004030-7) is a book by Samuel Rosenberg speculating on the alleged hidden meanings in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.[1]Rosenberg also examines the influence of Conan Doyle’s writings on other works, especially James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1974, this book argues for a surprising relationship between the Sherlock Holmes stories and Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Dionysus, Christ, Catullus, John Bunyan, Robert Browning, Boccaccio, Napoleon, Racine, Frankenstein, Flaubert, George Sand, Socrates, Poe, General Charles George Gordon, Melville, Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot, and many others.
The title comes from lines in William Congreve’s The Double Dealer (1694).
No mask like open truth to cover lies,
As to go naked is the best disguise.
It alludes to Rosenberg’s premise that Conan Doyle left clues throughout his works, revealing his innermost hidden thoughts.Rosenberg’s book was received with disdain by Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts and scholars in the 1970s. It is recognized as the first book of literary criticism about Doyle to appear in print; many other more respected works have followed.
This is a study of masculinity in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, particularly the Sherlock Holmes stories. The work is divided into three sections, focusing on aspects of masculinity in three eras - the Victorian Holmes, the Edwardian Holmes and the Georgian Holmes.
thesetison:
Sherlock is coming to San Diego Comic Con, July 24...
Sherlock is coming to San Diego Comic Con, July 24 (x)(x)
Whoot! Hopefully we’ll get a sneak peek trailer or some other goodies from this.
But I wonder why it’s always Amanda on these things? Granted, Martin and Ben are likely too busy, but why not Andrew or Loo or Rupert or ANYONE else? Ah well. I should be grateful they will be there talking about the new season!
July 9, 2016
shark pots
bug-catcher-in-viridian-forest:
bug-catcher-in-viridian-forest:
@clavery111 next to Sherlock’s left shoulder there are two pot-like objects, silvery and with a fin.
@monikakrasnorada @isitandwonder @may-shepard
Magnussen is the shark. The tweets from Mark were designed to throw us off the scent, because of filming at the aquarium, and the graffiti. Without the tweets, we’d be talking more about Magnussen. They don’t want us to talk about Magnussen. People have been theorising that the T-shirt suggests that the entire fourth series is somehow this bloodhound vs shark deal, but the T-shirt was a crew gift from Rachel Talalay, and she directed just episode 1. So sharks might just be very relevant to episode 1, not the entire fourth series. The tweets did an amazing job of distracting an entire fandom from talking about Magnussen, who is obviously the shark. Nice work Mark. [if you’re reading this, please note that I do accept bribes to keep quiet].
Of this ^^^ I have absolutely **ZERO** doubt @tjlcisthenewsexy. Sharks and bloodhounds are completely central to EPISODE 01. RACHEL’S episode. Magnussen is circling, waiting in the depths, ready to breach the surface of ep01. Just as soon as Sherlock WAKES UP
I’ve got a not crack theory concerning Magnussen I’m working on in depth. Stay tuned. ;)
I’m just rewatching TAB in this exact moment. And I can’t help, but always come back to my first nothing is real reading, meaning, Sherlock is still in hospital from getting shot by Mary during TAB. (http://miadifferent.tumblr.com/tagged/nothing-is-real)
And so I planned on making about asking, if anybody has checked, what Lars Mikkelsen is up to recently… and this was the first post on my dash. Thank you universe. ;) So… Lars Mikkelsen, anybody?
I find this theory hard to buy. Because 1) audience expectation and 2) I don’t think things were quite weird enough in HLV to be a dreamscape (TAB, yes). However, I can say that honestly from Christmas on HLV made little sense to me in terms of John’s character. I’d give ANYTHING to hear John say “As if I would ever forgive her for shooting you. Sherlock are you mad?” If the entire Christmas scene never happened, I’d be totally down with that. Also, John was equally blank on the tarmac. So… maybe.
SYNONYMS FOR WORDS COMMONLY USED IN STUDENTS' WRITINGS
by larae.net
Amazing- incredible, unbelievable, improbable, fabulous, wonderful, fantastic, astonishing, astounding, extraordinary
Anger- enrage, infuriate, arouse, nettle, exasperate, inflame, madden
Angry- mad, furious, enraged, excited, wrathful, indignant, exasperated, aroused, inflamed
Answer- reply, respond, retort, acknowledge
Ask- question, inquire of, seek information from, put a question to, demand, request, expect, inquire, query, interrogate, examine, quiz
Awful- dreadful, terrible, abominable, bad, poor, unpleasant
Bad- evil, immoral, wicked, corrupt, sinful, depraved, rotten, contaminated, spoiled, tainted, harmful, injurious, unfavorable, defective, inferior, imperfect, substandard, faulty, improper, inappropriate, unsuitable, disagreeable, unpleasant, cross, nasty, unfriendly, irascible, horrible, atrocious, outrageous, scandalous, infamous, wrong, noxious, sinister, putrid, snide, deplorable, dismal, gross, heinous, nefarious, base, obnoxious, detestable, despicable, contemptible, foul, rank, ghastly, execrable
Beautiful - pretty, lovely, handsome, attractive, gorgeous, dazzling, splendid, magnificent, comely, fair, ravishing, graceful, elegant, fine, exquisite, aesthetic, pleasing, shapely, delicate, stunning, glorious, heavenly, resplendent, radiant, glowing, blooming, sparkling
Begin - start, open, launch, initiate, commence, inaugurate, originate
Big - enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical, ample, broad, expansive, spacious, stout, tremendous, titanic, mountainous
Brave - courageous, fearless, dauntless, intrepid, plucky, daring, heroic, valorous, audacious, bold, gallant, valiant, doughty, mettlesome
Break - fracture, rupture, shatter, smash, wreck, crash, demolish, atomize
Bright - shining, shiny, gleaming, brilliant, sparkling, shimmering, radiant, vivid, colorful, lustrous, luminous, incandescent, intelligent, knowing, quick-witted, smart, intellectual
Calm - quiet, peaceful, still, tranquil, mild, serene, smooth, composed, collected, unruffled, level-headed, unexcited, detached, aloof
Come - approach, advance, near, arrive, reach
Cool - chilly, cold, frosty, wintry, icy, frigid
Crooked - bent, twisted, curved, hooked, zigzag
Cry - shout, yell, yowl, scream, roar, bellow, weep, wail, sob, bawl
Cut - gash, slash, prick, nick, sever, slice, carve, cleave, slit, chop, crop, lop, reduce
Dangerous - perilous, hazardous, risky, uncertain, unsafe
Dark - shadowy, unlit, murky, gloomy, dim, dusky, shaded, sunless, black, dismal, sad
Decide - determine, settle, choose, resolve
Definite - certain, sure, positive, determined, clear, distinct, obvious
Delicious - savory, delectable, appetizing, luscious, scrumptious, palatable, delightful, enjoyable, toothsome, exquisite
Describe - portray, characterize, picture, narrate, relate, recount, represent, report, record
Destroy - ruin, demolish, raze, waste, kill, slay, end, extinguish
Difference - disagreement, inequity, contrast, dissimilarity, incompatibility
Do - execute, enact, carry out, finish, conclude, effect, accomplish, achieve, attain
Dull - boring, tiring,, tiresome, uninteresting, slow, dumb, stupid, unimaginative, lifeless, dead, insensible, tedious, wearisome, listless, expressionless, plain, monotonous, humdrum, dreary
Eager - keen, fervent, enthusiastic, involved, interested, alive to
End - stop, finish, terminate, conclude, close, halt, cessation, discontinuance
Enjoy - appreciate, delight in, be pleased, indulge in, luxuriate in, bask in, relish, devour, savor, like
Explain - elaborate, clarify, define, interpret, justify, account for
Fair - just, impartial, unbiased, objective, unprejudiced, honest
Fall - drop, descend, plunge, topple, tumble
False - fake, fraudulent, counterfeit, spurious, untrue, unfounded, erroneous, deceptive, groundless, fallacious
Famous - well-known, renowned, celebrated, famed, eminent, illustrious, distinguished, noted, notorious
Fast - quick, rapid, speedy, fleet, hasty, snappy, mercurial, swiftly, rapidly, quickly, snappily, speedily, lickety-split, posthaste, hastily, expeditiously, like a flash
Fat - stout, corpulent, fleshy, beefy, paunchy, plump, full, rotund, tubby, pudgy, chubby, chunky, burly, bulky, elephantine
Fear - fright, dread, terror, alarm, dismay, anxiety, scare, awe, horror, panic, apprehension
Fly - soar, hover, flit, wing, flee, waft, glide, coast, skim, sail, cruise
Funny - humorous, amusing, droll, comic, comical, laughable, silly
Get - acquire, obtain, secure, procure, gain, fetch, find, score, accumulate, win, earn, rep, catch, net, bag, derive, collect, gather, glean, pick up, accept, come by, regain, salvage
Go - recede, depart, fade, disappear, move, travel, proceed
Good - excellent, fine, superior, wonderful, marvelous, qualified, suited, suitable, apt, proper, capable, generous, kindly, friendly, gracious, obliging, pleasant, agreeable, pleasurable, satisfactory, well-behaved, obedient, honorable, reliable, trustworthy, safe, favorable, profitable, advantageous, righteous, expedient, helpful, valid, genuine, ample, salubrious, estimable, beneficial, splendid, great, noble, worthy, first-rate, top-notch, grand, sterling, superb, respectable, edifying
Great - noteworthy, worthy, distinguished, remarkable, grand, considerable, powerful, much, mighty
Gross - improper, rude, coarse, indecent, crude, vulgar, outrageous, extreme, grievous, shameful, uncouth, obscene, low
Happy - pleased, contented, satisfied, delighted, elated, joyful, cheerful, ecstatic, jubilant, gay, tickled, gratified, glad, blissful, overjoyed
Hate - despise, loathe, detest, abhor, disfavor, dislike, disapprove, abominate
Have - hold, possess, own, contain, acquire, gain, maintain, believe, bear, beget, occupy, absorb, fill, enjoy
Help - aid, assist, support, encourage, back, wait on, attend, serve, relieve, succor, benefit, befriend, abet
Hide - conceal, cover, mask, cloak, camouflage, screen, shroud, veil
Hurry - rush, run, speed, race, hasten, urge, accelerate, bustle
Hurt - damage, harm, injure, wound, distress, afflict, pain
Idea - thought, concept, conception, notion, understanding, opinion, plan, view, belief
Important - necessary, vital, critical, indispensable, valuable, essential, significant, primary, principal, considerable, famous, distinguished, notable, well-known
Interesting - fascinating, engaging, sharp, keen, bright, intelligent, animated, spirited, attractive, inviting, intriguing, provocative, though-provoking, challenging, inspiring, involving, moving, titillating, tantalizing, exciting, entertaining, piquant, lively, racy, spicy, engrossing, absorbing, consuming, gripping, arresting, enthralling, spellbinding, curious, captivating, enchanting, bewitching, appealing
Keep - hold, retain, withhold, preserve, maintain, sustain, support
Kill - slay, execute, assassinate, murder, destroy, cancel, abolish
Lazy - indolent, slothful, idle, inactive, sluggish
Little - tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute
Look - gaze, see, glance, watch, survey, study, seek, search for, peek, peep, glimpse, stare, contemplate, examine, gape, ogle, scrutinize, inspect, leer, behold, observe, view, witness, perceive, spy, sight, discover, notice, recognize, peer, eye, gawk, peruse, explore
Love - like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor
Make - create, originate, invent, beget, form, construct, design, fabricate, manufacture, produce, build, develop, do, effect, execute, compose, perform, accomplish, earn, gain, obtain, acquire, get
Mark - label, tag, price, ticket, impress, effect, trace, imprint, stamp, brand, sign, note, heed, notice, designate
Mischievous - prankish, playful, naughty, roguish, waggish, impish, sportive
Move - plod, go, creep, crawl, inch, poke, drag, toddle, shuffle, trot, dawdle, walk, traipse, mosey, jog, plug, trudge, slump, lumber, trail, lag, run, sprint, trip, bound, hotfoot, high-tail, streak, stride, tear, breeze, whisk, rush, dash, dart, bolt, fling, scamper, scurry, skedaddle, scoot, scuttle, scramble, race, chase, hasten, hurry, hump, gallop, lope, accelerate, stir, budge, travel, wander, roam, journey, trek, ride, spin, slip, glide, slide, slither, coast, flow, sail, saunter, hobble, amble, stagger, paddle, slouch, prance, straggle, meander, perambulate, waddle, wobble, pace, swagger, promenade, lunge
Moody - temperamental, changeable, short-tempered, glum, morose, sullen, mopish, irritable, testy, peevish, fretful, spiteful, sulky, touchy
Neat - clean, orderly, tidy, trim, dapper, natty, smart, elegant, well-organized, super, desirable, spruce, shipshape, well-kept, shapely
New - fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent
Old - feeble, frail, ancient, weak, aged, used, worn, dilapidated, ragged, faded, broken-down, former, old-fashioned, outmoded, passe, veteran, mature, venerable, primitive, traditional, archaic, conventional, customary, stale, musty, obsolete, extinct
Part - portion, share, piece, allotment, section, fraction, fragment
Place - space, area, spot, plot, region, location, situation, position, residence, dwelling, set, site, station, status, state
Plan - plot, scheme, design, draw, map, diagram, procedure, arrangement, intention, device, contrivance, method, way, blueprint
Popular - well-liked, approved, accepted, favorite, celebrated, common, current
Predicament - quandary, dilemma, pickle, problem, plight, spot, scrape, jam
Put - place, set, attach, establish, assign, keep, save, set aside, effect, achieve, do, build
Quiet - silent, still, soundless, mute, tranquil, peaceful, calm, restful
Right - correct, accurate, factual, true, good, just, honest, upright, lawful, moral, proper, suitable, apt, legal, fair
Run - race, speed, hurry, hasten, sprint, dash, rush, escape, elope, flee
Say/Tell - inform, notify, advise, relate, recount, narrate, explain, reveal, disclose, divulge, declare, command, order, bid, enlighten, instruct, insist, teach, train, direct, issue, remark, converse, speak, affirm, suppose, utter, negate, express, verbalize, voice, articulate, pronounce, deliver, convey, impart, assert, state, allege, mutter, mumble, whisper, sigh, exclaim, yell, sing, yelp, snarl, hiss, grunt, snort, roar, bellow, thunder, boom, scream, shriek, screech, squawk, whine, philosophize, stammer, stutter, lisp, drawl, jabber, protest, announce, swear, vow, content, assure, deny, dispute
Scared - afraid, frightened, alarmed, terrified, panicked, fearful, unnerved, insecure, timid, shy, skittish, jumpy, disquieted, worried, vexed, troubled, disturbed, horrified, terrorized, shocked, petrified, haunted, timorous, shrinking, tremulous, stupefied, paralyzed, stunned, apprehensive
Show - display, exhibit, present, note, point to, indicate, explain, reveal, prove, demonstrate, expose
Slow - unhurried, gradual, leisurely, late, behind, tedious, slack
Stop - cease, halt, stay, pause, discontinue, conclude, end, finish, quit
Story - tale, myth, legend, fable, yarn, account, narrative, chronicle, epic, sage, anecdote, record, memoir
Strange - odd, peculiar, unusual, unfamiliar, uncommon, queer, weird, outlandish, curious, unique, exclusive, irregular
Take - hold, catch, seize, grasp, win, capture, acquire, pick, choose, select, prefer, remove, steal, lift, rob, engage, bewitch, purchase, buy, retract, recall, assume, occupy, consume
Tell - disclose, reveal, show, expose, uncover, relate, narrate, inform, advise, explain, divulge, declare, command, order, bid, recount, repeat
Think - judge, deem, assume, believe, consider, contemplate, reflect, mediate
Trouble - distress, anguish, anxiety, worry, wretchedness, pain, danger, peril, disaster, grief, misfortune, difficulty, concern, pains, inconvenience, exertion, effort
True - accurate, right, proper, precise, exact, valid, genuine, real, actual, trusty, steady, loyal, dependable, sincere, staunch
Ugly - hideous, frightful, frightening, shocking, horrible, unpleasant, monstrous, terrifying, gross, grisly, ghastly, horrid, unsightly, plain, homely, evil, repulsive, repugnant, gruesome
Unhappy - miserable, uncomfortable, wretched, heart-broken, unfortunate, poor, downhearted, sorrowful, depressed, dejected, melancholy, glum, gloomy, dismal, discouraged, sad
Use - employ, utilize, exhaust, spend, expend, consume, exercise
Wrong - incorrect, inaccurate, mistaken, erroneous, improper, unsuitable
Reblogging for my reference!
Blasphemy, AGRA, and TJLC Crack
So awhile ago I made this quick crack post of about the Greek village, Agra on the Isle of Lesbos (yes that Lesbos).
There is more than one Agra in the world and the Greek one has a tiny wikipedia page with only one real fact about Agra: Agra has three temples. One for Saint George, the Dragon Slayer, one for Saint Demetrius, the Soldier, and one for an Archangel (with a 50% chance it’s Micheal).
What’s so cool about Saint George and Saint Demetrius? Well lets look at how they are depicted in religious icons:
Here are George and Demetrius- They’re often depicted together.Yup that’s from google. Let’s keep going…
Best crack meta ever. Who knew I was a fangirl of Saint Demetrius?
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