instead of learning from my mistakes i like to dwell on them until i have a panic attack
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May302012
4PM
Tragedy and Angst: Tired Trope
I have to say, I’m getting really sick of people - authors, writers for movies, TV shows, and the like - mistaking tragedy, angst and drama for depth. Putting people together just to break them up, ending character story lines in death, despair and general unpleasantness, and then we’re presented these plots like they’re deep, artistic and thoughtful.
Somehow, relatively happy endings/plots have gotten a bad rap. That they’re superficial, that they’re for trashy romance novels and silly romcoms. No, those are for children! Grown up stories need angst, they need tragedy! If characters are happy that’s only a temporary setup to make their fall from grace even more bitter.
That’s true and not true. There absolutely needs to be conflict, there needs to be drama in stories, and considering your subject matter, yes, there needs to be tragedy. If you’re writing about war and no one ever dies, then that’s an issue. But I am so SICK of books and TV shows and movies becoming just torture sessions for characters, that become comedies of errors where everything that could possibly go wrong does, just to mindlessly take people apart just to see them crumble. Let’s think of the worst thing to do to that person and do it! Depth! Art!
To me, that’s cheap, lazy, and manipulative. It also says to me that you’re probably a shit writer who can’t create proper tensions and interesting stories for characters unless you’re dropping bridges on everything they love. Stories that end well can be just as meaningful and realistic and gorgeous as those that don’t. Again, I’m not against angst. Some of the most meaningful plots are the ones that involve tragedy. They give layers and rage to stories and their characters. But when authors continuously make things shitty and tragic, that tells me that they can’t write it otherwise. Not here anymore for character torture porn, honestly.
Your angstboner has worn bunny out.
4PM
#ReplaceSherlockQuotesWithPancake
Mass Post of Photo Manips by the staff of Sherlock NYC
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4PM
The Story of the Magic Traffic Cone
We’ve had lots of traffic cone fanart on the blog lately and there’s still more to come. I expect this is confusing for those of you who haven’t followed the long chain of links back through the archive required to understand how it all started. So here’s the story in a single post.
In The Reichenbach Fall, there’s a shot of Sherlock being wheeled into St. Bart’s on a trolley. It’s only a couple of seconds long. In the corner of that shot is a traffic cone with the words “SLOW DOWN” taped to it.
Funny thing?
If you do what the traffic cone says and slow down (watch the shot frame-by-frame) you’ll see that it wasn’t Sherlock on the trolley.
This random object was giving out clues.
But was it placed by the Sherlock crew or something that’s really at St. Bart’s? I asked, and not one but two awesome people checked the actual filming location and reported back. The cone is real. A real inanimate object that clearly wants to be a Sherlockian. It’s amazing and I love it.
Hence the fanart.
(Any chance the cone is trolling and the body swap was a mistake? Always possible, and that would be amazing in its own way. But here’s why I think it loves us instead.)
this
actual
fandom
fandom
you have taken an insanity to a new level
i like it
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2PM
Tim Burton should just make a movie called ‘Johnny Depp’.
plot twist: Johnny Depp is played by Helena Bonham Carter
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2PM
Les Miserables 2012 movie trailer
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2PM
It’s been almost a year and a half since I visited the Jenny McCarthy Body Count. In that time, it looks like over 250 unnecessary vaccine-preventable deaths and over 20,000 illnesses have occurred because of Jenny and her ilk spreading brain-meltingly frustrating misinformation about the safety of vaccines.
Sure, she’s not the only guilty one, but she’s the leader of a dangerous movement that’s still quite active today.
This from a woman whose website has the following headline up today: 21 Benefits of Enzymes and Why You Need Them … oh I dunno, maybe to complete basic biological functions and literally BE ALIVE?!?!
A society that cares about science more will be a society that cares less about Jenny McCarthy. Keep up the good fight, and keep sharing science with your friends. Someone’s life may depend on it.
2PM
I love this!
Very Thursday Nextian
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2PM
Best. Trend. Ever.
BLESS YOU
I owe you a pancake.
They were the footprints of a monstrous pancake.
I could cut myself slapping that pancake.
You have never been the most luminous person in the world, but as a pancake of light you are unbeatable!
Sherlock Holmes is a great man, and some day, if we’re very very lucky, he may even be a pancake.
Consider me to be, my dear pancake, very sincerely yours.
One more thing, for me, pancake… don’t… be… eaten.
Not your pancake.
There’s been a pancake.
Not our division.Anderson, turn your pancake, you’re putting me off.
The clue is in the name. Janus Pancakes.
Well this is a pancake, isn’t it Sherlock?
Oh don’t be stupid, there’s someone else holding the pancake.
That was brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
That’s not what people usually say.
What do people usually say?
Pancake.Is yours a pancake?
No, it’s not! It’s not pancake!
Keep your pancakes fixed on me.
Pancake rush.
There was never any pancake, doofus!
THAT’S WHAT PANCAKES DO!
You know what he calls you? The iceman and the pancake.
JESUS CHRIST IT WAS THE PANCAKE!
What is it like in your funny little pancakes? Must be so boring.
“Brilliant Anderson.” “Really?” “Yes, brilliant impression of a pancake”.
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