is anyone ever gonna talk about how mycroft tells john and sherlock to “stand away from that man” and not the other way around. and then magnussen waves his hands and says they’re harmless and the police on the ground say “target is not armed”
they were there for magnussen in the first place not for john and sherlock why does no one talk about this its probably going to be a big plot point in series 4
this also explains “oh sherlock what have you done”
The other day I had a really good idea for a story:
A high school Shakespeare club angrily splits into two groups when they can’t agree on the correct interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. One group thinks it’s a cautionary tale about the stupidity of youth and shallow lust; the other group think it’s a beautiful tragedy about poisonous hatred conquered by love. Reconciliation seems impossible-
–then a person from one group falls in love with a person from the other
#it would be better if somehow EVERY OTHER SHAKESPEARE WAS HAPPENING AT ONCE#like you got a benedict and beatice b-story#and then somebody see’s their dad’s ghost#and there’s cross-dressing#and three upperclassmen tell macbeth he will be drama club president
oh my god I need this
nobody dies but SEVEN PEOPLE ARE EXPELLED
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Depression does not always mean
Beautiful girls shattering at the wrists
A glorified, heroic battle for your sanity
Or mothers that never got the chance to say good-bye
Sometimes depression means
Not getting out of bed for three days
Because your feet refuse to believe
That they will not shatter upon impact with the floor
Sometimes depression means
That summoning the willpower
To go downstairs and do the laundry
Is the most impressive thing you accomplish that week
Sometimes depression means
Lying on the floor staring at the ceiling for hours
Because you cannot convince your body
That it is capable of movement
Sometimes depression means
Not being able to write for weeks
Because the only words you have to offer the world
Are trapped and drowning and I swear to God I’m trying
Sometimes depression means
That every single bone in your body aches
But you have to keep going through the motions
Because you are not allowed to call in to work depressed
Sometimes depression means
Ignoring every phone call for an entire month
Because yes, they have the right number
But you’re not the person they’re looking for, not anymore
by “Alexandra” Tilton, NH (Teen Ink: November 2013 Issue)
imagine trying to hug mycroft. i like to imagine it’d look something like trying to get a cat to take a bath
only if you’re not greg lestrade bc if you’re greg lestrade, after a second he sort of melts into you and gives in to his long-denied thirst for physical affection
John is desperate for Sherlock this settles it thank you
A grown straight man who’s confident about his sexuality wouldn’t have had a problem with sharing a bed with his best friend, just saying. And now we’re left to wonder, why did John go through all that trouble and sleep on the floor?
That’s..That’s not boner Sherlock. It’s a perfectly normal bodily response for a man having just woken up. Do always smell this good in the morning? Does your hair always look like that right when you wake up? Would you mind if I just… accidentally rubbed up against your thigh? Oh, did you just.. moan?? Fuck, but that’s… Fuck. Let me rub against you again, just to be sure. Yeah, yeah, that’s a moan. Holy christ. Make that noise again. You sound hoarse and wretched from sleep, shit. If I just grab you by the hips… Slip a finger against your skin, I’ve been wanting to, for ages, and don’t you know that?
It’s a habit, it seems. When they end up in the police cell Sherlock sleeps on the bunk while John ends up on the floor. What a gentleman.
it would have saved so much angst if they’d just fucked in THoB, like god intended.
The Doctor’s dilemma in [The Waters of Mars], as in so many of the best of Davies’ episodes, was a moral one. It wasn’t a problem that could be solved by being clever or using the sonic or the TARDIS to fix everything. There was no winning scenario—the Doctor had to choose the best of two bad outcomes and it hurt to watch him do it. It made us hurt for him, which made us love him all the more. The Doctor knows what fixed points in time are, so can he refuse to save Pompeii? Should he have prevented the Dalek race from ever being born? Was it wrong to destroy the Racnoss, or was it just wrong to take steely pleasure in it? Was it wrong to depose Harriet Jones? There’s a moral question like that underpinning all the best of Who.
There’s very little of this exploration in Moffat’s Who, which creates an Eleven who is that arrogant, dangerous Time Lord Victorious from the end of “Waters of Mars.” He doesn’t have moral dilemmas, he’s not bothered about the consequences of his actions, he doesn’t even pause long enough to worry about the people who might get trampled under his feet or feel bad when innocent bystanders end up as collateral damage. Consider the particularly nauseating example of the solution to the Silence infestation of Earth in “Day of the Moon”: humans being hypnotoaded into being weapons of niche destruction. Perhaps it’s a testament to the vividness of his storytelling, but think about what Moffat has created here: in that world, thanks to the Doctor, every time you or I turn around we might feel a compulsion to splatter open a skull. There’s very little to love about a character with so much power who wields it so carelessly.
Part of what’s so maddening is that Moffat often has the opportunity to explore the moral dilemmas right in front of him and refuses to do anything with it. If there’s a consequence to the Eleventh Doctor’s behavior, Moffat’s hiding it inside a strangely constructed Rubik’s Cube, and we’re no longer convinced he isn’t more interested in playing with the puzzle than finding what’s inside.
For Whom the (Cloister) Bell Tolls, Or Why We Hope Steven Moffat’s ‘Doctor Who’ Is An Island – TVBacon [x] (via youholdthewater)
