Sometimes, you just gotta be self-indulgent with your writing, even if other people say it’s “cliche” or “overused”.

Write that masquerade ball with the lush gowns and the breathtaking stranger with the tempting smile peeking out from a trickster’s mask. Even if people say it’s been done a thousand times before and they don’t want to read it.

Write it because you like it

Write that happy ending that is so sweet, it’ll rot your teeth right out of your head. Even if people say happy endings that sweet aren’t realistic or whatever

Write it because you like it.

Write that heart-wrenching death scene just so you can write something decadently comforting afterward. Even if people complain that death scenes are only for the DramaTM.

Write it because you like it.

Shippers have the ability to get other people to ship couples in fandoms they aren’t in.

Writers are seen as cool intellectuals who can literally spew novels from their mouth, but really we spend half of our days trying to figure out if it’s layed or lied. 

“We can act”

-Martin Freeman

“We never played anything as a couple”

-also Martin Freeman, same interview

Sure Jan

I want to personally apologize to Martin for being “that kind of fan” who bought into the queerbaiting & who was foolish enough to believe I’d see some bisexual & gay representation on BBB Sherlock.

My bad Martin.

-Hush, John! They shouldn’t find us. -But, but Sherlock!

Amazing

commission for @itislove !

sneakly bit of Sherlock for you all~

Reblog or your mom will die in 928 seconds.

I love my mom.

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.

sorry followers :(

omg im so glad to se so many people love their mummy

Why’re you being mean to my mum?

goddamn it

Nope. Googled it. 15 minuets. Nope. Not taking any chances

Koop

This has 1.2 million reblogs … Ps not riskin it

1.4 almost ps not risking it

Fuck this post

2.5 million notes I hate myself

I reblogged this twice now

I’m so sorry this isn’t b99 related and this isn’t real but I can’t not skip this I’m sorry

Not taking a fucking chance

Sorry, guys, but Im not taking a chance

No chances… She’s out… And she must be protected.

How dare you

I love my mom to much

Yesterday my dad told me something that I think maybe more people need to hear.

You’re allowed to just do things for fun.

He told me that in this modern society, especially the United States, we seem to have this attitude that we shouldn’t do something unless we’re aiming to be the best at it. If we can’t sing like Beyonce or Frank Sinatra or something there’s no point to singing. If we can’t make the next big breakthrough there’s no point in looking into mechanics and engineering.

But, he tells me, it took him a long time to figure out that life doesn’t have to be a race. If you want to take up the piano when you’re a teenager or later you’re not going to master it. You’re not going to be able to play to huge concert halls, but that also shouldn’t stop you. You can study a language out of curiosity and then drop the ball if you want. You can just get okay at something or even be terrible at it. You can drop it for days or years and then pick it up again and it doesn’t have to be a shameful thing.

I’m really glad he told me that because today I opened my sketchpad for the first time in months and just started drawing. And it looks terrible. But I don’t care. I don’t have the talent or patience or spacial awareness to get anywhere near good at drawing, but it’s fun. It helps me focus my mind and nobody has to see it.

And because of what he told me, I’m thinking maybe someday soon I will take up the bass guitar. And I won’t worry about how well I do, or how fast I learn, or that I haven’t played an instrument since sixth grade, or that I don’t have that much time to practice. I’m just gonna enjoy the experience. Maybe I’ll try swing dancing again and take a class because I’m not the best dancer but damn if it isn’t fun.

Yeah, you don’t have to be good at things. It’s not a requirement. Maybe that seems obvious but it had never occurred to me before. You’re allowed to just enjoy what you’re doing. For me, that feels like a life changing revelation. I don’t have to be good at something to like it. I don’t have to put 100% effort into everything I do. It’s kind of amazing.

“I said I didn’t want tea.”

pffft lolol

#stuffonmysherlock

Sherlock Watson Moriarty

My series of portraits based on BBC’s Sherlock.

Fabulous!! Unique style and simply Amazing!! ❤❤❤❤❤

Sherlock Fandom Post Series 4 - AO3 snapshot

If you are thinking the BBC Sherlock fandom has evaporated since series 4, or is about to die off from the drama of the day, I here to tell you that this network of fans are not so easy taken down. 

On AO3, our most popular fanwork archive, works are going up at a rate of a 900 to 1000 per month. That’s like 30 new works per day! (sorry haters!) 

And all this activity? It’s not just long time fans holding on to times past. We are still getting lots of new creators contributing their first works to this fandom tag. More than 150 creators per month are coming in, inspired by the show, or other fanworks, or the opportunities to connect with a thriving fandom community. Because we are here, making cool shit and loving it!

People do leave fandom communities. They always do, for many many reasons. And new canon is disruptive to fandoms built in long gaps between content. But plenty of long time fans are still here. 

These Sherlock Fandom creator waves (1,2) show how many creators from different years are still producing works and posting them for everyone to enjoy. Turn to them, if you are worries, and trust that if they can weather the storms of media controversies with TPTB, so will many others. 

We got this.

Yes we do! Thanks for sharing this!

I love these stats posts, especially when they tell me cool stuff like I’m one of only about 100 people who have been consistently posting Sherlock fic since 2011. It feels like an accomplishment.

Rest assured, I will outlast most, if not all. I have had moments where I’ve come thisclose to it, but I just don’t really see myself leaving. I have too much more to do.

Still here. Still standing. Like so many others.