Audiobooks Are Great, But If You Are Not A Native English Speaker You Will Probably Understand Even Less

One of the world's most famous detective...

...is now YOUR problem.

I just wanted to let anyone know who would be interested - I worked on the charachter designs on Hearth & Holmes, a game currently in development by @abigailmoment ! If your curiosity is peaked, you can play the demo, and wishlist it on steam!

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You are John Watson. You're very worried about your best friend, Sherlock Holmes. You're right to be worried. Left to his own devices, he'll

sometimes I forget standing up isn’t painful and difficult for most people so I’ll be watching something like game changer and see the people standing behind their podiums the whole episode and think ‘wow don’t they need to sit down. how can they still think coherent thoughts’ and then I’m like oh. yeah. I have a disease

Ok so, while I agree with you that aspec people are not systemically oppressed like for example lesbians or gay people. My point was, that apparently, to be part of the LGBTQIA+ community you need to be oppressed. But just because we aren't oppressed by any law, doesn't mean aspec people don't face hate a.k.a aphobia.

I'm not out to a lot of people (I'm ace and probably biromantic), actually I only told one of my friends that I was ace, and she straight up said, she didn't believe me. She said asexuality doesn't exist.

We are told that our sexuality, the way feel is not real or that there is something wrong with us. I'm not out to my family, but I talked to my mother about some things to find out what her opinion is on asexuality. She said that a relationship without sex can't exist and that there is no other reason for relationships other than sex. Aspec people are told their whole lives, that the way they want to experience love and affection doesn't exist or is wrong. Looking at that it seems like our experience with this is quite similar to other members of the LGBTQ+ community. So while we are not systemically oppressed our experience and the social challenges we face are very similar to LGBT challenges.

Also, yes allies are supporters but they are not part of the community, they support the community. Because you mentioned blm, white allies are welcome in black spaces but aren't part of the black community as far as I know. The same goes for straight allies. They are welcome in LGBTQIA+ spaces but aren't part of the community. Yes, straight aces are still cishet, I never said it was different. What I was trying to say was, people exclude aspec people for being cishet and then include straight allies who are also cishet. Still, straight aces are not heterosexual, since they are ace and therefore differ from the heteronormative.

This is my opinion, I hope this was enough information so that you can explain yours now.

Dear exclusionists and gatekeepers please explain:

You say aspec people don't belong in the LGBTQIA+ community because we are are "not oppressed enough" or "basically straight" but then proceed to say that the A in LGBTQIA+ stands for ally. Like WTF?! Allys most of the time are cishet people. They are straight, they aren't oppressed based on their sexuality in any way and you say they are part of the community and we aren't?! Please explain I don't get it.

RIP Sherlock Holmes you would have loved Lindsey Stirling

Inspired from a conversation with my friend, something I feel about Sherlock Holmes, is that to read him as unempathetic, monotone and emotionless, is to misread his mask for truth. Holmes's real state only comes out around those he trusts; Watson, of course, being the prime example.

For an instant the veil had lifted upon his keen, intense nature, but for an instant only. When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man. [CROO]

for a moment I saw something in his eyes which was nearer to tenderness than I had ever seen. The next instant he was his masterful, practical self once more. [BRUC]

We often see Holmes highly expressive and unable to contain himself at the peak of his enjoyment and stimulation of a case, and often this is something he actively suppresses. (God, we're all thinking about that scene in SIXN - or 3GAR, aren't we?)

There was a gleam in his eyes and a suppressed excitement in his manner which convinced me, used as I was to his ways, that his hand was upon a clue. [SILV]

Holmes had taken out his watch, and as minute followed minute without result, an expression of the utmost chagrin and disappointment appeared upon his features. He gnawed his lip, drummed his fingers upon the table, and showed every other symptom of acute impatience. So great was his emotion, that I felt sincerely sorry for him, while the two detectives smiled derisively, by no means displeased at this check which he had met. [STUD]

Holmes is actively masking his excitement very often, and it's through his relationship with Watson and success in his career that he learns to accept and be his openly emotional self more and more as we progress through the Canon. Aside from this, Holmes is highly emotional and compassionate towards his clients, take FIVE, SPEC, or ILLU. I don't think ACD tumblr is really the audience that needs to hear this, but I want people to read this who understand where I'm coming from. I feel that Sherlock Holmes is so often misunderstood as genuinely dispassionate, when this is, in fact, the act, the mask, the antic disposition that he wants those around him to believe.

To believe that Holmes's coldness is in any way a truth doesn't fly with me. For me it's nothing more than defence-mechanism, which, to be fair, is what most intolerable behaviour really is. However, I would disagree with anyone who argues that it is a natural part of Holmes.

Ahri (League of Legends)

James T. Kirk (TOS)

Natasha Romanoff (Marvel)

A-spec character headcanons that—while I have evidence for—allo people would never believe, so I've stopped providing evidence:

The Doctor [All of them] (Doctor Who)

Tatiana (Spies are Forever)

Donna Noble (Doctor Who)

Aziraphale and Crowley (Good Omens)

Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

William Riker (Star Trek: TNG)

Please reblog this with your aspec headcanons you refuse to provide evidence for, they just are.

R E B L O G T H I S

I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

If I had unlimited funds and could get any car I wanted I wouldn't buy something like a red Mercedes convertible I'd get a 1931 Lagonda 2 Litre, have it gutted, and turned into an electric car.

Thank you! That's really interesting. I wonder what one must do to have a fanfiction published as a book XD

I've got a question for the ACD Holmes community. What is "The practical handbook of bee culture'"? I just saw that it is a book you can buy, that is supposed to be Holmes's journal that he wrote during his time in Sussex, which is also supposed to reference a marriage to Mrs Hudson (?!) and other things. All the booksellers list the author as Sherlock Holmes (which obv. can't be true) and Google can tell me nothing about it. Is it fanfiction, that just happened to be sold as a book? What is this?

That’s this game - pumpkin panic, a rather cosy farming- horror game where a bunch of monsters try to kill you as soon as it gets dark while you still need to do your farming