I don’t have anything planned for either of these momentous occasions (one of which I honestly NEVER thought would happen), but I just want to share some love and thank all of you for making my tumblr experience so fantastic and for enriching my life so much for so long. To friends old and new, those of you who have stuck around for so long, and those of you who are more recent additions to my little tumblr universe, thank you.
There’s 15 years’ worth of doctor/rose (mostly, but far from entirely, nine/rose) fic recs in those pages, between teaspoon and here and AO3, and nine years’ worth of extensive tumblr tagging, so go nuts! ;)
and i admit your ask made me laugh because this here old blog was founded solely for doctor who way back when. of course, from the post, you couldn’t know which way i voted or which show i was referring to that i hadn’t heard of….but i did tag the post with “dw” for doctor who, and i knew that anyone who follows me would know which show i meant.
but! my own dw fandom aside, believe it or not, there are people out there who have never heard of doctor who! it’s difficult to imagine, i know, but there are people who have not been blessed enough to be introduced to a low budget british sci fi show that began in 1963, and that has turned into something so big and wonderful and meaningful to so many. and if you meet someone who hasn’t, i hope you won’t make fun of them.
july is disability pride month !! so, here’s a reminder that respect isn’t something disabled people should have to earn or fight for, but something that should be given naturally, this month and every month.
there is still so much ableism not just in the wider society, but in queer spaces and communities, even amongst other disabled people - as a person with autism, i am part of the disabled community, but i know that that i still have more privilege than people with physical disabilities who are harmed by the unaccommodating design of our buildings and public spaces; or more stigmatised metal disorders and disabilities such as psychosis, schizophrenia and dissociative disorders.
so, this disability pride month i urge not just for more respect in the wider community, but within the disabled community itself. celebrate your own disability/ies, but make sure you celebrate other disabilities too and never put someone down for being ‘more’ or differently disabled than you.
happy disability pride month from your local anxious autistic girlie <3 it’s a time to celebrate
[ID: a banner of the disability pride flag, which consists of red, yellow, white, blue, green stripes, diagonal across a dark grey background. end ID]
even with those four numbers there are countless possible combinations good luck with figuring out which one is the right one you punk
*straightens calculator*
It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:
n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.
Unless an alarm goes off if you don’t get it right in 3 tries
*straightens calculator again*
Kick the fucking door in
well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. and this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, thats most likley it.
some sherlock holmes shit just went down over here
No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.
Sherlock out.
woah.
it got better
and this is why the sherlock fandom could either rule the world or end it….
Close, but not quite, I think. People will almost always choose a number they can remember. What’s memorable about 0791? Try 0719 - a birthday, 19th of July. That is more likely.
Those deductions are great and all, but unnecessary.
The light is green.
The door is already open.
And that’s why we have a John Watson.
This is “top 10 favorite posts” level.
Omg, it’s actually on my dash! This post is like a fossil!
Idk if I’ve rebloged this before, but I’ll reblog this legend again
Smithsonian? I’ve found the quintessential Tumblr and Sherlock fandom post. Yes. I would consider it definitive.
Ahh it’s back.
“And that’s why we have a John Watson”, indeed 😂
Legend of a post. 10/10 recommend reblogging.
this post is on my dash I feel HONORED
THE POST OF LEGENDS HAS RESURFACED ON MY DASH
I’VE ONLY EVER SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS OMG
On your dash? I dig for gold like this,,, by looking at my mutual pages.
I’ve only seen this on Pinterest!
*gasp* THE SACRED TEXTS!
:O
THIS IS A LEGENDARY POST I HAVE BEEN GRACED BY IT’S APPEARANCE!!!
Why did Tumblr stop doing stuff like this, it’s genuinely fascinating, and cute that we include our favorite media in things we do
Well. Since you asked. I was on tumblr as this post was being built in 2013. The height of superwholock. Which has, since then, been declared peak cringe. So people picked new fandoms to openly love in earnest. Which were also eventually declared cringe. Eventually the youth decided to cut out the middleman, and declared loving anything in earnest to be fully cringe. So it has been a really long time since the day to day users of tumblr have let any fandom create anything nearing the cultural phenomenon that was superwholock. And it is exactly those cultural phenomena that are needed to create posts like this.
So. What happened? Cringe culture happened.
Try and imagine what would happen if this post wasn’t the “sacred texts” only ever seen in screen shots and in pinterest. Try and imagine any current pop culture detective media fandom creating this post today. They’d be slaughtered for being cringe by the time (in this case) Sherlock was mentined.
But because this post is 10 years old and completely broke containment, it’s celebrated when it graces our dashes.
I blazed a small fandom event announcement. Because I was genuinely excited to be part of a Big Bang for a wonderful movie. One of the first responses I got was “Why would you blaze this?” Because of genuine excitement. Because I wanted to celebrate the friends I’d met in the fandom To spread joy to people who might also like the content but hadn’t seen it yet. The fact that that was genuinely not realized made me sad. I love thing, I celebrate thing. I’m too old for cringe. Cringe is dead. Love what you love. Enjoy the small things in life, it’s too short to do otherwise.
CRINGE CULTURE DIED AND WE KILLED IT.
SPREAD THE LOVE FOR YOUR FAVORITE SHOWS
CRINGE CULTURE DIED AND
WE KILLED IT.SPREAD THE LOVE FOR
YOUR FAVORITE SHOWS
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Tumblr already has a personalization algorithm it’s called my beloved mutuals who have great taste and only wish to psychologically damage me sometimes
protest proves love is real. striking proves love is real. standing together and standing tall against the scoundrels proves love is real. TROT ON BUCKAROOS
Even going outside the context of the barbie movie, it is truly incredible that they could write that last part and try to frame it as a bad thing
it really is so hard to parody this because this article is actually framing “Living your life and being comfortable with how you present yourself” as a negative political agenda
The offensive lyric was: “Wouldn’t it be nice to live in paradise.” “Where we’re free to be exactly who we are.”
It goes beyond transphobia or homophobia; conservatives want fascism, and that means they don’t even want children to feel comfortable being themselves, no matter what that looks like.
Actors and Animators should go on strike next tbh. Especially cgi animators. Put the fear back into Hollywood
Animators? Yes. Actors? If youre talking ppl like RDJ or Jamie Lee Curtis or what have you. They have more than enough fucking money. Take a look at one production cost and see how much these people are paid.
My dad is an actor/playwrite. He has to constantly search for new gigs to make ends meet, and even then ends up doing retail or lyft or doordash a lot of the time between gigs.
And my parents don’t live in a huge house in New York or LA, it’s a tiny townhouse in a really small city. My mom’s the one who really pays the mortgage with her events organizer and house manager jobs at local theatres, and even then they struggle to afford living expenses. They used food stamps when I was a kid - not every month, but enough that I see it as a normal thing to do.
And when he does get gigs, especially like big tv gigs, working conditions are CRAP. He nearly got severe hypothermia once for having to jump in a freezing cold river in early winter from 11pm-3am, repeatedly, for a shot they didn’t even end up USING.
Scheduling is abysmal, overtime is never properly compensated for, the jobs are DANGEROUS (mostly on a physical fatigue level), and work is contractual by nature. Are there some contracts that are ridiculously good? Yes, that’s how contract-based work tends to happen for a lucky few.
But getting a contract like that is like winning the lottery, and even then they can be really exploitative if you don’t have a kickass agent and/or a really good entertainment lawyer. There aren’t really steady 9-5 full time acting jobs with benefits the way there are with other jobs. It’s difficult to get any gigs in the first place, I cannot emphasize enough how much it is a constant job search.
And that’s not even getting into the horrendous conditions and disrespect for voice actors. Actors should ABSOLUTELY go on strike
I fucking hope RDJ and Will Smith and everyone on top strike too. You want a real impact? Let’s see what happens when top names refuse to work until the people on the bottom are compensated fairly too.
Being able to pretend it’s just some uppity character actors or commercial actors lets studios distract. When there’s no star for the best blockbuster to be, they can’t ignore the demands.
The top-paid members of an industry strike in support of better working conditions for their coworkers, not for more money. Neil Gaiman and George RR Martin aren’t striking because they want or expect to be paid more, they’re striking to support the entire rest of their industry because they care about it.
Not to mention, even the big names are often treated like absolute shit.
Kate Winslet nearly got hypothermia on multiple occasions whilst filming titanic because, despite the fact that the whole thing was happening on a carefully controlled set and thus could have the water at whatever temperature he wanted, James Cameron wanted to take the “acting” out of acting and he had the water set to be as cold as possible without it being frozen. He called it method acting. He didn’t bother to see if Kate could ACT as though the water was one-degree above freezing; he just called it right from the go and was like, hey, what if I make my lead actress spend several days getting in and out of BORDERLINE FREEZING WATER, so that it will look realistic.
Her chattering teeth and whole body tremors? Yeah, not acting. That was her body on the edge of actual real life hypothermia.
And look at the way they treat men these days with making them fast and dehydrate to the point of collapse, just so the director can get two seconds worth of a shot where their muscles and veins are all bulging unnaturally.
When he was filming Logan (I think it was Logan) Hugh Jackman literally DID collapse. One of the scenes of him all bare-chested and muscly and roaring angrily? Is a much shorter scene than it was supposed to be, because that’s all they managed to get out of him before he LITERALLY PASSED OUT.
And these are the big name lead actors who are getting treated like this. If THEY are being treated so appallingly, what hope in hell do the smaller actors have of not being worked into the ground?
YES, the actors should go on strike. Yes, including the biggest-name stars who’ve never been mistreated and who get the cushiest most comfortable jobs. They should go on strike too because they support the improved conditions and pay for all those in their industry who ARENT treated well. Which is most of them.
I know generations are centered around consoles, but if play games on PC or a handheld was your first system, then just pick which gen was going on at the time
