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[…] try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah - young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.
Brilliant. Seriously.
Tumblr Accent Challenge:
Say your name and username:
Say where you’re from:
Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Cthulhu, R’lyeh, Nyancat, Kwisatz Haderach, GIF, Kyrgyzstan, weeaboo, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, Reichenbach, Shyamalan, backfeifengesicht, Vriska, Gamzee, Alagaesia, Murtagh, “garich i dhôl goll o orch”, Sauron, nudiustertian, rastaquouere, epicaricacy, accio, kitteh.
1.Do you speak whale?
2. Do you speak “sand people” or Wookie?
3. Are these the droids you’re looking for?
4. Say ‘salmon’ with the l:
5. Benedict Cumberbatch: attractive or not?
6. Sing a song but leave it unresolved at a suspension:
7. What do SOPA, CISPA, and PIPA mean, and how do you say them?
8. DCnU:
9. When you read the words ‘omg’, “wtf”, or “lol”, your inner voice says:
10. Give us a haiku on a topic of your choice:
11. ANATA WA KAWAII WEEABOO DESU KA?? Etto… respond in Japanese, arigato, nyan~~:
12. Would you vote Roy Mustang for Fuhrer:
13. How do you cook a karkat and would you pair it with red or white wine?
14. Ship yourself with a random person you follow. Give us who and the shipmanteau:
15. Pick one of the following and rant at length: Makorra, Masami, Borra, Borrami, Korrami, Makorralin, Asamakorralin, F$%^&ING SHIPPING.
16. Have you ever used, or considered using, any of the following phrases: what is air, my creys, all my feels, Miss Martian sucks
17. If you have, stop that right now.
18. Does this make the joke funnier?
19. Does this make the joke funnier?
20. DOES THIS MAKE THE JOKE FUNNIER?
21. Summarize the plot of Homestuck in twelve words:
22. Pottermore …?
23. Politishippers?!?! (Is Romney x Santorum canon?)
24. Arkh. Just… Arkh.
25. Remember when Tiger and Bunny was on? How wack was that show?
26. Yo, is this racist?
27. Go to bed!
