lin·gua·phile

nonimaginaryfriend:

sophistory:

a-cumberbatch-of-cookies:

marmosette:

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

[…] try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah - young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.

I would watch the hell out of that. I’d even write for it. What do you do with Mycroft being part of the “Establishment” then? Mycroft works at the local youth center? Mycroft as a pastor, deeply disapproving of his brother’s failure to reject street culture and conform? Hell, Mycroft IS the police? Token affirmative-action face of colour, should have made DI ages ago but is still a PC even though half the force secretly ask his help? And because they resent Mycroft, they resent Sherlock even more, fueling the rivalry? Lestrade can stay a DI, with the authority to choose to work with either Holmes but not enough authority to force everyone else to do so.

I’m curious to see how Mrs Hudson and Moriarty would work in this. 

Holy fuck this would be truly awesome. Mrs Hudson could be a nice woman who occasionally makes the boys a meal or offers up a warm bed during severe weather. And Moriarty, fuck. He could be like a well-to-do man who previously was in Sherlock’s situation. He somehow moved on from that kind of life, and sees a lot of himself in Sherlock actually, but hates for that reminder. Wants to take Sherlock down, put him back in his place.

Shit, this would be bloody brilliant.

aaaaalllll stuff I want to cram into the ‘#221b baker towers’ tag proper. DAMN YOU TUMBLR.

…Can we have this? Can we please have this?

(via megalosaur)

wayward-watson:

girlblowingbubbles:

gingerteatime:

If Sherlock were a comedy. BRILLIANT. 

Gah her videos are amazing. <3

BEAUTIFUL.

(Source: prufrockary, via mooncactus)

dduane:

sdkay:

reapersun:

i watched x-files all day today and tried to remember how to draw fast and it was a pretty nice day

umf…x-files was my firs hard-love-tv-show… so many posters was in my wall ahahaha well and Sherlock of course..

Oh my. (ROAR)

Scully and Sherlock, skeptics together!

dduane:

I was going through some Tumblr posts and came across this material, which someone had quoted from A Wizard Alone (published in 2002)…

The Lone Power came striding up… looking as Kit had seen It a long time ago—like a young-looking human [male]… handsome, but with cruel, cold eyes and a smile you did not want to see. It was wearing the same dark suit Kit had seen It wear on his own Ordeal, but this time with a long, black winter coat over it, and a scarf wrapped around Its throat. 

…and it hit me, way too suddenly: the image of Benedict Cumberbatch cast in a Young Wizards film as the Lone Power.

…I’m going to go off and try to get back to work now. 

(Hah, says the back of her brain: good luck with that.)

(…The scarf. I can’t believe I even gave It the scarf….) (helpless laughter)

Heh, I had definitely fancasted Cumberbatch as the Lone One a while ago in response to some Sherlock fanart which reminded me of a favorite piece of Young Wizards fanart, but good to know the mistress of that particular universe agrees with me!

Have saved this to my desktop and will use it in response to anyone who doesn’t understand the meaning of contractions.

(Source: smortz, via melbetweenstars)

rustingroses:

moraniarty:

T h e  R e i c h e n b a c h  F a l l

this is beautiful.

Amazing. Just…amazing

This is beautiful. It also reminds me of this awesome art of the Lone Power that I saw a few years back and that has stuck with me. And as a result, suddenly Benedict Cumberbatch is my Lone Power dreamcast actor. Huh.

alicexz:

Brilliant, Anderson! Brilliant impression of an idiot.

It’s probably a good thing I know how to keep my mouth shut when I have moments like this…but only because you never know who will leave your life for good and who will find a way to stick around and cause trouble.

(via lost-in-a-good-book)

I’m normally a well-mannered human being but I saw this photo on my dash and all kinds of civilized thinking just stopped because unf, WANT. (The man and the wallpaper, as it happens.)

(via lost-in-a-good-book)

dduane:

drakochan:

dduane:

wearsherlock:

Russell Hobbs 1.7L Blue illuminating kettle
As seen in 221b in Series 2

Glass. Concealed element. Blue LED lights.
£25.99 / $40 Available here at Amazon.co.uk

Our kettle is dying and we need a new one…

WAIT, THIS ONE IS SEEN IN 221B?  I must have this kettle.

HUSBAND? FETCH ME THIS KETTLE!

Yeah, so you have to put your sunglasses on to look at it late at night? TOUGH.

THIS KETTLE.

(photos follow of the Sherloc!KETTLE)

djasklfasd fwant

Also can we just take a moment to appreciate how much of a fangirl Diane Duane is?

This is why I love her so much ffff <3

I don’t fangirl things often, but when I do, I’m thorough.

I fangirled this thing called “Star Trek” once.

…I was thorough.  :)

Diane Duane, teaching me how to be unashamed of fangirling & associated geekery since page one of So You Want to Be a Wizard.

freedom-star:

“Why me?”

“Why not?”

“I just thought… wouldn’t you rather take, I don’t know, I mean-“

“Sherlock? Nah. Between you and me, Molly, he doesn’t seem like he’d be much fun. I like to have fun every now and again, keeps me young. And I’d have to keep apologising for him. I have enough trouble keeping track of who I need to apologise to for myself, I can’t be having that.”

“John, then? You said… it was dangerous, and I’m not- I mean, I don’t know how to fight or anything.”

“Not a big fan of fighting myself. You don’t mind about that by the way, do you? That it’s dangerous.”

“…No.”

“Well then. What’s the problem?”

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

UGH I would watch the HECK out of this.

(Source: i-can-be-found-at-ayries, via luxheroica)