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not... maybe kinda spoiler, so, like, watch the Reichenbach Fall first.

[(Anonymous)]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxj6cLBb61qacyse.gif


I want this to be how the third series will begin that it's not even funny.

Re: not... maybe kinda spoiler, so, like, watch the Reichenbach Fall first.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like a version of the Red-Headed League so that Benedict doesn't have to dye his hair for the first ep. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't mind all the post-reichenbach angst fic if theydidn't feel so rushed with poor writing quality. But then again, I might be hanging out in the wrong circles of LJ and tumblr.

Bonus Rant! With this influx of prompts, most of which are the same one reworded, I bet not even half of them are going to be filled.

[teabeforewar.livejournal.com]

Re:Bonus Rant - the normal ratio is less than half.

But yeah, no chance of making the ~1/3 which is usual.

[(Anonymous)]

We prompt so things can be filled.

Why, why don't people fill?

Yes, I've filled.

Over ten pages of fills in less than 24 hours and only THREE fills?!?!?

[(Anonymous)]

Filling takes time, anon! And at the moment finding an inspiring fill takes time (though many of those prompts circle around the same idea).

Rant...and fic need

[(Anonymous)]

Someone posted several pages back about how the meme prompting pages have plummeted. I complety agree.

I've also noticed that the main comm has had a surge of awful fics, churned out over-night and not betaed.

Blind_Author THANKFULLY added a new chapter to ROH.

Can anyone suggest some good fic?

I like S/J with plot. H/C is my kink with John being the one in need of C after H.

AUs are fine too. I also like Mycroft/John but I think thats a bit of a rare pair.

So: Fics that you recommend?

Re: Rant...and fic need

[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried posting this in the search post?

Parenty rant

[madcolt.livejournal.com]

My job is being shuffled about of late which is good as I'm getting what basically amounts to a promotion, but in the meantime, nobody seems to be able to decide just what my hours are, and coordinating babysitting for my son is so much more of a hassle than it has any cause to be. So I'm driving the sitter up the wall and I'm just annoyed and dear Jesus I complain a lot. :P

Re: Parenty rant

[(Anonymous)]

Man, this is the sort of thing that makes me want to go all second-wavey and start campaigning for creches in every workplace. :P

Damn height requirements

[(Anonymous)]

I'm never going to be able to go into space. Why can't I get over it already?

Re: Damn height requirements

[volverehiems.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
How long have you got left in your growing? You might still make it. <3

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea how to interpret the relationship between Sherlock and John anymore. There are too many lose ends. Too many questions with no answer. What the fuck is going on between them? Mycroft shows he cares but what about Sherlock? Does he even care about his brother at all? Or?

What's your head canon?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure what to tell you, and it's all about perspective. Do you want to know how I consider the canon relationship now in an objective way, or for me to tell you the things I infer from all of what we've seen in a fanon way?

I think Sherlock has had it with Mycroft. I don't think he hates him, but he's over him, Mycroft is not part of the most important people in Sherlock's life. Something happened between them and it can't really be repaired, mostly because I don't think they have any idea how, if they wanted to. And I don't think they really want to fix things, specially Sherlock.

I get a feeling of "it is what it is" and that's that.

This will probably get lost among the other Reichenbach-related posts, but I really need some advice

[(Anonymous)]

I think I have a problem: I have two friends, two good friends, but I also have this need to be alone in my world most of the time. I care about them and I gladly spend time with them, but only if it's on my own terms, otherwise I just feel pressured into being with them and I become a Very Not Funny Person To Be Around.

I don't know why I feel like this but I'm scared to death to try and explain to them: "Hey, I love you and everything but I could do with seeing you only once a month and talk to you via texts or emails the rest of the time if you need me" because honestly, who wouldn't be offended if anybody told them that? They'd think I don't like them or don't want to see them or spend time with them or talk to them. But that's not the case, not at all.

I just have this need of seeing people in my own time and on my own terms, same for talking to them: if you need me I will gladly listen to you all you want, but random calls or messages to chat about the weather or how my day has been? I'm not up for those, not at all, I feel like somebody's presence is pressured onto me and I don't feel comfortable at all.

I don't know what's wrong with me or if it's normal, no idea, but I do care about my two lovely friends. But I'm scared in the long run they'll just get tired and leave like everybody else has done (oh yes, I have an exstensive history of losing friends, I'm a pro at that).

TL;DR I CARE ABOUT YOU BUT I'M WEIRD AND I NEED TO SEE PEOPLE AND TALK TO THEM ONLY ON MY OWN TERMS, I'M SORRY D:

Does anybody else feel the same and/or does anybody have advice?

Re: This will probably get lost among the other Reichenbach-related posts, but I really need some ad

[(Anonymous)]

You're an introvert. It's fine. You're far more of an introvert than most of the people out there, but that's not a moral failing.

You could try making jokes about how you're not very good at chitchat until your friends get the hang of it. If that's not the way you do things and you'd rather have a big serious talk instead, emphasise the fact you care about them and don't play too much on the fact you want to see them only on your own terms; not many people would be able to separate that from the feeling of being used, even if that's not how you intended it.

[(Anonymous)]

My life is so boring. I've got nothing left. I don't care about my family anymore. I've cut them all out of my life. I have nothing. So when I say Sherlock is the only thing that keeps me going, it's not even a joke. And with S3 so far away, I don't know what to do. Everything is so, so, so boring. Utterly meaningless.

[(Anonymous)]

If it's that boring you've got nothing to lose. Potential solutions:

1. Join the army. You definitely won't be bored. Of course, this might conflict with your own personal beliefs. Or you might be medically disqualified.
2. Join the police force. Similar to the army - you won't be bored, but it has similar medical disqualifications.
3. Pick up a drug habit. Might be tricky depending on your financial situation.
4. Take up an extreme sport. A shot of adrenaline can keep the boredom away for at least thirty minutes or so.
5. Find a nemesis.
6. Pour your nihilism into a philanthropic glass. Sometimes helping others can give our lives meaning. Even if you see the help you're giving as worthless and pointless, other people won't.
7. Keep going through the motions until you find something that sparks our interest.

Graaaaahafldskj, only tangentially Sherlockian rant

[(Anonymous)]

oaisjk;lja;fdjk;l;kjw WHY

I feel like such a horrible woman. I'm a uni student, but I keep sexually fixating on either men nearly twenty years older than me or men far too young for me, who barely qualify as "men". Why must men my own age be so unattractive? One of these days I'll just jump my math prof in office hours and that'll be it. >_< Should not have taken Lo's advice on course choice...

I am crushing on a sixteen year old, who is a good friend of mine from way back. That just is no. We should not be this awkward. Plus he has a steady girlfriend. (Luckily he's a very long car drive away)

And I've been listening to recordings of BC's and Stephen Merchant's voices all day to try and calm things down.

WHY HORMONES ARE YOU HITTING ME NOW, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF SOME VERY VERY HARD COURSES. WHYYY. AND WHY ARE ALL YOU ALL FIXATING ON UNATTAINABLE MEN.

TL;DR Anon is very horny and has no safe outlets. Anon also has overactive hormones and a slightly screwed up system of sexual attraction. It has also been a constant level for two days straight. In the middle of a set of really hard courses.

...Please someone tell me I'm not the only girl in the world attracted to Merchant. I have such a thing for long-legged men. >_< (Plus a thing for androids... and yes I have read the entirety of Ask Android Wheatley over several times today.)

Re: Graaaaahafldskj, only tangentially Sherlockian rant

[(Anonymous)]

Granted, I live in a country in which sixteen is the legal age (not sure if it's the right term but- you understand what I mean), but... he's sixteen. He's not exactly a child. I'm sure he knows what's sex.

...though if he has a girlfriend you should definitely look somewhere else.

But, anyway, no, you're perfectly normal. Don't worry!

Anniversary

[(Anonymous)]

You know those anniversaries where something really bad happened and it's not so much you want to remember but you suddenly realise "Fuck that happened a year ago..."

My mother is currently going through that scenario. Drunk and crying she's sobbing over her poor dead sister who died less than a year ago.

And the death was not the issue to her. The issue is the fact that it had been 9 years since she was in contact with her sister. In those 9 years they never shared a word. Then around August she called my mother and told her she had cancer. She said she wanted no sympathy or help just that it was happening and she was dealing with it.

January was when she realised that she couldn't deal with it. It wasn't going away. She was going to die. So my mother went and spoke to her, rekindled a relationship broken by tragedy only to be brought back together at the cusp of a new one.

It was sick and wrong. I was angered by the whole thing but it sobered me to what relationships and siblings mean. The fact they never spoke, albeit over something complex and tragic, was wrong. The fact that it took her deathbed for an apology to be made is wrong.

And now I'm just sitting here, listening to my mother cry about her regrets. And I don't know what to do.

Re: Anniversary

[(Anonymous)]

There's nothing you can do but listen. Listen carefully, and give a hug if necessary. But that's all you need to do.

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck, I need to watch RF again. My memory's so fucked up these day, half of the time I don't remember where my fucking shoes are. I need some ginkgo leaves or something.

Question: I don't remember what Mycroft told Moriarty about Sherlock. Did I miss it? Or was that left open?

[(Anonymous)]

Don't worry, your memory this time wasn't guilty: we don't know exactly wat Mycroft said about Sherlock to Moriarty, the specifics were never mentioned.

Although, since it all helped shaping a sensational article on a newspaper, I'm guessing it was all private stuff like what he studied at uni, any past friend/lover (I'm thinking Victor Trevor here), any trouble he might have gotten into, probably the drug habit... things like that, I imagine, things that usually interest the public to gossip.

[(Anonymous)]

Mark Gatiss tweets a photo of a page from "The Return of Sherlock Holmes".
People react by saying "fuck you", "what a troll", "bastard", "I hate you"... I'm not surprised since after all this is tumblr we're dealing with but how does that tweet make him a troll or a bastard? And when will this trend die out?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yesplease. Could people fucking STOP sending the guys message saying "fuck you" and other delightful things. It's SO annoying! Those guys brought you the series, you were aware of how it was going to end, fucking deal with it!

Even when they post it on their own Tumblr I find it absolutely stupid, but actually sending them those messages? For fuck's sake, can't they see it's just not funny? Nor cute?
...Or actually I don't even know what they're trying to achieve by writing this, but it makes me want to put my foot up their arse.

Damn.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't cry before the episode, I really didn't. I was sad for sure, but I didn't cry. There was this voice in my mind reminding me that it was just a story.

And then I read one of the fics here, and now I've got fucking waterfalls running down my cheeks!!!

meme, you're fucking killing me. ;____;

Re: Damn.

[(Anonymous)]

Which fic?

(I've been sobbing my way through episode, fics and vids, except for a detour for a vid of the sheet moment accompanied by the song "I'm Not Wearing Any Underwear")

[(Anonymous)]

Where the helldoes this lamp!Moran thing come from?
I mean, crack is one thing but this... this just sounds stupid. But I'm still curious if there is some kind of reason for it.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it started as a comment on all the Moran speculation and fic. Something like, "fans would probably be satisfied if Moran were a LAMP" and people just ran with it.

Plus, you have to admit, he would do it just to mess with people.

[(Anonymous)]

I've made peace with the fact that if I want a cute, flattering, and supportive bra, I'm going to have to spend $65+ (if I only want flattering and supportive and plain frumpy beige, I can spend about $40) but WHY, OH WHY are the matching underwear for those cute bras SO RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE?

Cannot bring self to spend $34+tax for a single pair of underwear, so my new cute bra is an orphan. I just want nice matching sets without spending $100 per. Is that really so much to ask? I went up two cup sizes and suddenly the matching underwear now also costs twice as much. Augh.

[(Anonymous)]

Not everything has to be matchy-matchy. You could try underpants that compliment instead.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm shocked that so many people haven't figured out how he did it yet.

[(Anonymous)]

Stop teasing us, Thompson, and just tell us u_u

Friends With Feelings

[(Anonymous)]

I can not believe I am going through this bullshit again.

Today, a dear friend confessed their romantic feelings for me. I did my best to let them down gently. It's been going on for a while on their side, which if I'm honest with myself, I knew, and they understandably felt like shit because the feelings are not returned.

I know unrequited love must suck. It must be horrible to muster up the courage to confess to being in love with someone, and be rejected, even if you are rejected kindly.

But to be honest? I am fucking enraged - not at this particular friend, but because I end up in this fucking situation time and time again, and I have fucking well had enough. I don't know how to deal with these people any more. I don't want to be all comforting and apologetic and understanding, because you know what, this fucking well sucks for me, too. And in the end, I always, always look like the villain. Sometimes I have to actually act like the villain, just to get it to stop, and guess what, contrary to popular opinion, I do not actually get off on intentionally hurting people I care about. And everyone who knows me well enough to crush on me knows that I do not do romantic relationships, why do they still keep hoping that I'll make an exception for them?

Also, what am I doing wrong that it's like a rite of fucking passage for my friends to have a desperate, lengthy, tedious crush on me? What am I doing wrong? I do not want to be stuck in this frustrating loop any more.

Ugh ugh ugh I have so many angry feelings about this whole entire situation, and the ridiculous soap opera that is my life.

Re: Friends With Feelings

[(Anonymous)]

Are you me, anon? Sometimes I think 'I'm not interested' makes you, I don't know, a challenge? And then I get all paranoid and wonder if they actually like me for myself, or as game.

[(Anonymous)]

Augh. How long can this bloody cold last! I need to get my wisdom teeth out! They can't do that till I can breath!

[(Anonymous)]

Urgh, that sounds horrible! :( *hugs from a safe distance*

Squick chat

[(Anonymous)]

There's a show I've always loved without ever getting into its fandom. Now I've started reading some fic, and it seems like the most popular pairing is one with a huge age gap in it. The alternative is a pairing that's borderline incestuous - and also involves the younger character. Who is too childlike for me to see in a sexual way, ever. Anything involving him just pushes my squick buttons in a major way.

I read gen, romance and PWP in about equal proportions, so it's not like this has driven me away from the fic entirely - it would just be nice to have the option.

Re: Squick chat

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really curious to know which fandom this is...

[(Anonymous)]

My grandma joked about it this morning and now I'm actually worried. D: What if the next season is set in the summer? And Sherlock is swanning about in shorts with John in a Hawaiian shirt? And they have to go solve murders in the park with the sun shining down and ducks waddling about? What would happen to the coat?

[(Anonymous)]

And Sherlock is swanning about in shorts with John in a Hawaiian shirt?

Never mind the coat, is this going to turn into Magnum P.I.?!

[(Anonymous)]

*wails* help help! HELP!!!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

HELPING WOULD BE A LOT EASIER IF YOU WERE MORE SPECIFIC ON THE SITUATION, CITIZEN.

hrumm

[(Anonymous)]

i wanted a sherlock belstaff-y type coat couldn't find settled for a cliche trench. i'll be hard-boiled/columbo/rorscharch instead...

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck it all, I can't stand this heat.

Now it's getting dangerous

[(Anonymous)]

The moment fandom moves from within the fandom circle to "the real world" is the moment people need to intervene.

Carving "I believe in Sherlock" in the desk at your school(as one tumblr fan stated with pride) is not funny or cute or great. It's disturbed.

Photos of people placing flyers outside of chip shops, scratching "Moriarty was REAL" on the tube, spray-painting the side of buildings???

This is is sickening.

I've always hated tumblr. Hated how deluded the fans seem. I've seen tumblr rants here before and thought that it didn't really affect people outside of tumblr.

Now it is. It's frightening.

Re: Now it's getting dangerous

[(Anonymous)]

oh, ffs, relax.

kids have always carved shit onto their desks. whether they're carving "I believe in Sherlock" or "Metallica roxx" or whatever, it's not disturbed, it's called being a teenager. bfd.

take a deep breath. really, it's fine.