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one thing that’s always bothered me about most people’s depiction of Holmes’s usage of cocaine is that most people in Victorian England were only just beginning to realize how badly it affected people???

like tbh I feel like a better modern equivalent would just be Holmes dumping a five hour energy into his fifth cup of coffee while Watson, a trained medical professional, stares at him in horror

I’ve always thought this

This post is my new favorite

This is actually really on point, though. Cocaine, in the time that Conan Doyle was writing, wasn’t viewed as like the scourge of the earth the way it is today. It was actually originally heralded as a harmless pharmaceutical substance that could help cure (or at least alleviate) everything from the common cold to alcoholism. It was in throat lozenges and nasal sprays and used as a local anesthetic. People had literally no idea how addictive or dangerous it was, and it was available from regular chemists. There wasn’t a stigma about it until the late 1910s and -20s when medical professionals started to realize how harmful it had the potential to be (mostly because they all got addicted themselves; in the first wave of cocaine addicts a huge fraction of them were dentists). So Sherlock Holmes having a coke habit wasn’t nearly as taboo as people often assume it is. From the earlier stories it’s actually pretty clear that Conan Doyle didn’t even know what cocaine actually did, because he describes it the first time or two as having the same sort of effects as opium or other ‘downers,’ which is pretty much the opposite of what cocaine–being a stimulant–actually does. Somewhere along the line he was either corrected or tried it himself and realized he was wrong, because his portrayal of it does become more accurate, but I think that still goes to show how casual the attitude about it was at the time. So Holmes liked coke. So what? It speaks to for his need for mental stimulation, but it doesn’t make him a rule-breaking bad boy. At the time a coke habit wasn’t much more dramatic than smoking cigars.

Of course he would use caffeine - a stimulant, especially in people with attention disorders.  Not saying that Sherlock has ADHD or anything, but he does kind of have focus problems from the amount of information flooding his brain at any given time…

I knew a guy in college who found caffeinated water (first of all: why?) and made coffee with it.  From Death Wish Coffee, a super high caffeinated coffee.

That’s definitely some Holmes shit right there.

Also I’m totally saying that Sherlock has a sensory processing/learning disorder that stimulants would help.  Like, he canonically is.  He sees everything but can’t order it properly, so he uses stimulants to get it back in order.  I’ll fight anyone for this.  Just send ‘em my way.

one thing that’s always bothered me about most people’s depiction of Holmes’s usage of cocaine is that most people in Victorian England were only just beginning to realize how badly it affected people???

like tbh I feel like a better modern equivalent would just be Holmes dumping a five hour energy into his fifth cup of coffee while Watson, a trained medical professional, stares at him in horror

I’ve always thought this

This post is my new favorite

This is actually really on point, though. Cocaine, in the time that Conan Doyle was writing, wasn’t viewed as like the scourge of the earth the way it is today. It was actually originally heralded as a harmless pharmaceutical substance that could help cure (or at least alleviate) everything from the common cold to alcoholism. It was in throat lozenges and nasal sprays and used as a local anesthetic. People had literally no idea how addictive or dangerous it was, and it was available from regular chemists. There wasn’t a stigma about it until the late 1910s and -20s when medical professionals started to realize how harmful it had the potential to be (mostly because they all got addicted themselves; in the first wave of cocaine addicts a huge fraction of them were dentists). So Sherlock Holmes having a coke habit wasn’t nearly as taboo as people often assume it is. From the earlier stories it’s actually pretty clear that Conan Doyle didn’t even know what cocaine actually did, because he describes it the first time or two as having the same sort of effects as opium or other ‘downers,’ which is pretty much the opposite of what cocaine–being a stimulant–actually does. Somewhere along the line he was either corrected or tried it himself and realized he was wrong, because his portrayal of it does become more accurate, but I think that still goes to show how casual the attitude about it was at the time. So Holmes liked coke. So what? It speaks to for his need for mental stimulation, but it doesn’t make him a rule-breaking bad boy. At the time a coke habit wasn’t much more dramatic than smoking cigars.

Of course he would use caffeine - a stimulant, especially in people with attention disorders.  Not saying that Sherlock has ADHD or anything, but he does kind of have focus problems from the amount of information flooding his brain at any given time…

I knew a guy in college who found caffeinated water (first of all: why?) and made coffee with it.  From Death Wish Coffee, a super high caffeinated coffee.

That’s definitely some Holmes shit right there.

Fuck You, Jeffrey Eugenides

Women’s Studies, Colby College

“Dead Girls Don’t Write Stories: The Sexuality of White Feminine Suicidality in Contemporary Literature”

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

fabulous 

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

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We are the kings of the world! #titanic #onthisday #SinkingoftheTitanicAnniversary #happiness #molangdiary #friendship

These tags are wild.

spicer said this shit during passover. like don’t believe for a second he made an innocent mistake, that he wasn’t aware of what he was saying.

like this is explicitly antisemitic and he clearly doesn’t understand why

he straight up doesn’t believe that German Jews were people

“he never used them on fellow Germans” the implication that german jewish ppl were somehow “not truly german” was quite literally at the core of nazi ideology, this is so incredibly mind-numbingly transparent.

[Image: A Facebook post by Press Secretary Sean Spicer which reads

“The media has mischaracterized my recent statements on the Assad regime. It was not my intention to imply that Hitler had never used chemical weapons, but that he never used them on fellow Germans.

At the point where Assad is attacking his own people with chemical weapons, you have to wonder if he is willing to do the same to United States citizens.

-  Press Secretary Sean Spicer “]

It’s fake.