Cloistered Self

i love him 

jane austen: this character is going to be the purest, sweetest, prettiest, kindest character i have ever written jane austen: everybody will love her jane austen: she is her mother’s favourite jane austen: a rich, kind, handsome bachelor falls instantly in love with her jane austen: the heroine looks up to her jane austen: she has never done anything wrong in her entire life jane austen: if she has any character flaws at all its that she is TOO much of an absolute sweetheart jane austen: and i will call her….. jane austen: jane :-)

2018 its gonna be jane austen levels of self love ONLY

OH MY GOD IT’S HIM

PLAY OF THE GAME

The ‘Wonder Woman’ Cast Respond To Internet Trolls

Florida man stumps neighbors by covering home in aluminum foil

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - Polish artist and Tarpon Springs resident Piotr Janowski recently covered his home, including the concrete driveway and the surrounding palm trees, in sheets of aluminum foil.

The project, entitled “402 Ashland Ave”, is intended to make people think in uncommon ways about common goods.

For protection

against the aliens

okay but how did he get it so cleanly done

do you know how much chicken I could bake with this

he has been made to take it down

Everything is chrome in the future

he came for his entire life holy shit

so as it turns out, there is no such thing as superhero movie fatigue. we all just tired of watching the same white dude in the lead. 

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BI PRIDE and VISIBILITY not ERASURE!!!

Happy Pride Month 2017!!!

#to all my bi friends and/or followers #you count #💕

Of all the strange things to happen in 2017, Smash Mouth explicitly supporting trans people during pride month is by far the most pleasant. Hey now, you’re an all star.

Hey, so I’m at the Sherlock Convention in Los Angeles and my friend Chelsea just bought a piece of Baker Street wallpaper for $100 (she had it signed) and someone made off with it. If you could signal boost this, we’d like to find it.

Not all heroes wear capes. The woman in the photos is Zakia Belkhiri and — the response to her photos has been wonderfully encouraging.

reblog forever

Here’s the actual line in context from TFP:

So if anyone is interested in my opinion, this is the message I see this sending.

First of all, it’s wrapping up potentially the last episode of the entire series, by giving the last word on Sherlock and John’s identities, relationship and life purpose to Mary…  That alone upset a lot of people.  

Lines like:

Really drive home the fact that she owns these men, that she is the one getting to define who they are allowed to be.  That is a sensitive topic for queer fans, whose entire identities and existence have been defined by powers outside their control forever.  It feels like John and Sherlock are being stripped of their agency.  It is the straight (arguably dangerous and abusive) spouse of one of the pair who gets to ‘give her blessing’, give them permission in other words, to become whatever or whoever she deems appropriate.  It is her vision of them that they are allowed to inhabit.  She defines their existence, identities and purpose.

Also, it seems to kind of fly in the face of the heart of ACD canon.  Mary was a mere blip in canon.  The Granada series chose to erase her completely, because they recognised that the heart of the Sherlock Holmes stories is the relationship (however you want to define that) between Sherlock and John, and nothing should come between that, or you lose the heart of your story, and your audience.  

For people who saw a queer relationship between John and Sherlock in this adaptation (and believe me there is a book’s worth of support for that reading), having a woman, especially one who had lied about her own identity, shot, drugged and repeatedly threatened/endangered the protagonist, and whose husband had admitted before her death (in TST) that he didn’t even like her anymore, get to be the one to define who John and Sherlock are and what their relationship would be allowed to be from beyond the grave just seemed insensitive at best and downright insulting at worst.

Secondly, what she seems to be saying here is that the the way that John and Sherlock have tried to manage their brokenness and become better men (Sherlock trying hard to substitute drug addiction with helping people by solving crime, and John managing his PTSD-related adrenaline addiction by helping in this endeavour), doesn’t really matter.  Let’s just ignore all the effort that must have gone into it, let’s erase flaws or struggles that are too uncomfortable, and reduce these men from human beings to legends.  Who they really are doesn’t matter, all that matters is the legend, the stories, the adventures.  Let’s not focus on these very real, human men, with human problems, human pains, human grief, human struggles.  That’s uncomfortable, and difficult.  Let’s just ignore/erase all that, and let them be a legend, let their real identities be rewritten, fictionalise, sanitised, so they don’t make, in Sue Vertue’s words, ‘The 99%’ of the world uncomfortable.  

That’s my reading of it anyway, and why it upset me so much.  I’m sure there are a lot of different interpretations out there, but it’s hard for me to wrap my mind around anon’s interpretation.  To me it’s saying the opposite.  It’s not saying: “Be who you are regardless of what others think.”  It’s saying, “Be precisely who others decide you are allowed to be.”