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In case anyone is wondering where I get my nerdiness from, my folks just posted on Facebook that they’re at a Steampunk Festival. And then there’s:

  • My mom knitted a Tom Baker scarf. In like, 1985. She still has it.
  • My dad went with me to a Star Trek convention in 1995.
  • I have distinct memories of my parents watching Star Trek:TNG. And we used to watch the Red Dwarf marathons on PBS. In high school Sunday nights were Doctor Who and Blakes 7.
  • When my mom owned a coffee and candy shop she made sure she sold Jelly Babies. They used to come in a Tardis shaped box.
  • My mom had an original 1960s edition of Lord of the Rings.
  • My dad woke us up at 3am one morning when I was a kid to see the Northern Lights.
  • I have faded memories of sneaking out of bed to watch Granada Holmes with my dad in the wee hours of the morning.
  • For that matter my parents came to Sherlock Seattle last year and really enjoyed themselves. My mom likes Basil Rathbone apparently
  • My dad’s an airplane geek and I’ve been to more airshows then I can shake a stick at.
  • My dad’s had a computer since the early 80s. We had one that ran on cassette tapes, went to Amiga and he stuck with that until he went to Mac in the late 90s.

Geeky parents are awesome and not a new phenomenon, and I’m glad they passed it on to me.

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tennants-hair:

”when i was your age i-”

yes but this is not 1985 anymore things have changed literally everything is different so what you did when you were my age is completely irrelevant why is this so hard for parents to understand

1985

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Good lord I’m old 

Also? No, some experiences we had back in the dark ages are still relevant (also kids have been saying this about their parents since the dawn of time)

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My parents are almost certainly going to Sherlock Seattle. This will either be brilliant or… I’m not sure. lol. They know I write fanfic. They don’t know I’ve got nearlly 500k of mostly smut…

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I was talking to my mom last night. I just bought them the Sherlock DVDs for Christmas and they’re enjoying it and my mom mentioned she’d have to set the DVR to record season three.

I said it was fantastic and she’ll love it.

She asked how I’d watched it already.

I said…“I watched it when it aired in the UK.”

“How?”

“…..magic?”

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Why The Holmes Parents are Perfect for Sherlock

wellingtongoose:

Analysis of Sherlock’s parents and why their normality is vital in explaining how Sherlock became the man he is. 

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The moment I saw them I had the sinking feeling that Mr and Mrs Holmes are irreparably wrong.

Then I realise that this was only my own narcissism getting in the way of logical analysis because if one looks at them from an impartial perspective Sherlock’s parents are surprisingly right, in every sense of the word.

I explain:

  • Why the Holmes Parents fit perfectly into Sherlock and Mycroft’s background. They had to be ordinary in order to explain why Sherlock and Mycroft are extraordinary.
  • How normal loving parents can produce such eccentrically maladjusted offspring
  • What we can tell about the Holmes Brothers’ childhood from their parents.

Hot House Flowers

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The Holmes parents’ apparently banality appears to have spoilt many deeply held fan beliefs regarding “Mummy”. The truth is I also fell into the horrific logical trap of assuming that just because Sherlock has arrested emotional development – his parents must be utterly eccentric, over medicated, psychologically unstable, adulterers who evidently neglected him something terrible.  

What we all lacked was a sarcastic voice of reason to interject with a perfectly time “really?” and an elegantly raised eyebrow.

The age old belief that parents pass their problems onto their children is definitely true but the way these problems manifest in children can be surprising and counter-initiative. 

For a doctor who has been surprised too many times to actually be surprised – I really should have seen the Holmes parents’ coming because actually they fit perfectly into Sherlock and Mycroft’s background.

 

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Okay this is about sherlock and mycroft, but i can relate to this pretty hard with my own parents too.

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I need some advice, so uh, hi hive mind/followers/random people.

My parents are coming out to visit later this month. It’s been 2 years or so since I’ve seen them in person, and I’m developing a growing anxiety even this far in advance of seeing them.

Love them, not the best emotional history between my mother and I. I know from previous experience I tend to revert around them and get the confidence sucked right out of me.

It’s going to be nearly a week with them. Now I’m a fully capable adult, but I’m honestly a little scared/intimidated. Anyway, anyone have any advice in how not to revert to a scared fifteen year old as soon as I’m around my mother longer then an hour?