Tales of an Injured Fog Rat

Okay I'm gonna make this it's own post cause it's important.

Good Omens, WWDITS, and OFMD are all queer rep. But I really do think the main reason why ofmd feels the most 'real' for some people is it scratches a particular itch a lot of people on Tumblr have been trying to get for years.

Good Omens has two characters who appear to be men. Both characters spend thousands of years pining after each other and falling in love, but it's not 'explicitly states' not is there a kiss. There is rep for nonbinary folks, AroAce folks, but it's not 'gay.' The rep is purely 'queer.'

What We Do in the Shadows has a romance between two men. Both, while confirmed to be gay/bi, have not kissed or hugged or been 'romantic' on screen. They've been intimate and have had arcs to show care, jealously, and whatnot but nothing very romantic. At least, not from a classic standpoint. The creators are pushing a 'will they/won't they' arc. This is normal in many TV shows, but for many queers who are used to queerbaiting, the expectation is to be let down. Even if all the signs point to 'they will' it still hits that traumatic 'queerbaiting' tone for many.

Our Flag Means Death has a romance between not only two men, but a side romance between two men that has a kiss scene. The two main leads are romantic towards each other. But not only that, the creator has made it explicitly clear this is a romance. He has pushed again and again that this will happen, it's just a slow burn. There is explicit 'gay' rep on screen and promised future 'gay' rep.

The reason ofmd resonates is because of what other posts have pointed out. Supernatural, Merlin, Sherlock; over and over two men have been shipped together with such fervor, it feels like a betrayal when it's ignored. Or teased and then ignored. We don't want to be traumatized again.

But also, they all represent one type of rep. Romantic, gay rep of two cishet men finding love. Even though in the case of Destiel, Cas is rarely viewed as anything but a cis man (even though that's very not true). The expectation that those previous failures are being redeemed by this one show can make the queer rep in other shows seem less desirable.

Good Omens, WWDITS, and OFMD are three different types of queer rep, but ofmd has a specific trauma reaction being healed tied to it. And it's okay to recognize that, but also, it needs to be recognized that does not take the queerness away from other shows.

None of these shows are queerbaiting. Acknowledge your trauma and enjoy them all for what they are, not what you want them to be.

every time i fuck up plugging in the USB to charge my iphone and scratch it against the underside of the phone i think about that scene at the start of sherlock where sherlock assumes that john watson’s sister is an alcoholic because of the scratches around the charging port of the iphone she gave to him as a gift and i think to myself “man sherlock is a fucking idiot”

#god if I could meet Sherlock holmes I would have a field day preparing my Look to throw him off #watch me wear an engagement ring for a week before hand and take it off and wear one of my mom’s blouses that has the shoulder all crunched #from years of violin playing and a pair of brand new matching socks and carry a brand new copy of a book i’ve read 20 times #and spill some coffee on my shoes and cuddle my neighbor’s cats so i have different cat fur on me #my dream is to throw off a sherlock holmes type with pure petty bs

Actually the thing about scratches around charger port=alcoholic was a reference to the original stories, where the phone was obviously instead a pocket watch, and the charger port was the spring wind, which was harder to fuck up than plugging in a phone. The whole sherlock scan thing worked well in the victorian era, because social roles were just that rigid - the slightest deviation from the norm said everything.

That obviously doesn’t fucking work now, and the only reason that was a thing in Sherlock is because Moffat is a pretentious asshole who thinks that a show being well written, sensible, and having a coherent plot structure is all for lesser writers, and the only thing he needs is to seem as clever as possible. Which admittedly, does work out for him for a few years, until the plot holes build up too much, and fans start to get pissed off about nothing ever being resolved but instead being thrown away for the new bigger mystery it led to, which then gets thrown away for the new bigger mystery that led to. Remember Doctor Who, how at the start of Moffat’s time as showrunner, he opened series 5 with ‘what caused the crack in Amy’s wall’? He never fucking answered that. He got distracted and wandered off into different plot threads that also never got resolved. He’s a very good writer when given a single episode to work with! His first episode on Doctor Who, he was just a guest writer, and he did the first Weeping Angels episode, and it was really good, because he only had that hour to tell the story. There was no follow up episode, no next season, just this amount of time, start a story, wrap it up satisfyingly, the end. He should NEVER have been put in charge of a show, because he’s the sort of writer that really needs something to reign him in and keep him on track, to remind him ‘hey you didn’t finish that plot, wrap it up before switching tracks’.

So it looks like he’s building this giant complex mystery, and keeps promising a satisfying answer to EVERYTHING once it’s over, but it’s never over because he doesn’t know how to let shit go - there’s always got to be another twist. The Weeping Angels can’t just zap you back in time and call it a day, they need to be made an EVEN BIGGER THREAT, they gotta be able to possess you! And steal the voices of dead people! and move while you’re looking! and be the statue of liberty! and instead of leaving you alone after the time warp, they hold you prisoner for the rest of your life now! No need to explain how or why, just escalate! And of course, Sherlock can’t just fake his death, take down moriarty’s organization, and then return to solving weird crimes, nope, there has to be a bigger threat than goddamn moriarty! he needs to have a secret evil sister! and secret dead childhood friend whose represented as a dog in his memories! and maybe moriarty isnt really dead - no wait, he is - no wait, he ISN’T - no wait, he is - OR IS HE? and john can’t just get married to a nice girl he loves, NOPE, gotta be more drama, she’s secretly an assassin and on the run from the government.

Moffat just keeps building and building and building, but eventually his stories start to collapse under their own weight because he’ll never let there be an end - he just can’t let go. And eventually fans will start to get bored and annoyed with the twists, and the show that used to make them feel smart will now just make them feel irritated. And they know there will never be a conclusion to the story, so they lose interest in the characters, because there’s no struggle - its never going to wrap up, so who cares? So they stop watching, and moffat starts dropping in viewers and ratings, and tries more desperate twists to bring people back, driving away the ones still holding on… lather rinse repeat until the network finally pulls the plug and makes him walk away.

basically the sherlock scan thing made sense in the original context, in a modern setting it’s just bad writing fam

I don’t even watch Sherlock but this was wonderful to read

i dont think ive ever been more excited to watch a 1:50 hour video

it starts off tearing into doctor who under moffat and hbomberguy i could kiss you i love you great video already

please watch this video if you care about or have cared about sherlock or doctor who on any level its cathartic

this is the third time i’ve seen someone discover this video and watch all of it despite it’s length because it’s… that good

anyway, how do i letterbox this

This video is an incredible rundown of the major problems with Moffat’s writing, both in Doctor Who and Sherlock and properly puts to words a lot of my frustrations with him. 

Here’s a summary for those without the stamina for a nearly two hour video.

 He starts off that given people to answer to and the constraints of a one-off episode that doesn’t majorly affect the plot, Moffat writes an incredible story, and I agree. His one-off episodes on DW and even his parody spinoff were well done.

However when given almost complete control, he just makes plots that are too complicated and full of themselves. Eg instead of having a reveal be a catalyst for major character development, the reveal itself is the draw and just leads to more cliffhangers which lead to more cliffhangers and the answer is always “just watch and find out”. His writing is filled to the brim with the insinuation that there is more beneath the surface, but never follows through on those hints making the audience increasingly frustrated.

He completely misses the point of the shows he creates, making the main character The Most Special and bending over backwards to make everything about him instead of actually telling a compelling story. In the original Holmes stories, and in every mystery story ever made, the audience gets all the same information as the characters and we have a chance of solving the case ourselves. The detective is the hero because they put together information we would not have thought to connect. Sherlock increasingly pulls information out of thin air and there is no way the audience can have a hope of keeping up as the explanations get more and more far-fetched. The show even explicitly demonizes the people who do this! The narrator goes through each season and how this tendency just gets worse and worse.

Another point of the Holmes mysteries was the fact that they were one-off stories. You could read one without feeling like you’re lost in a bigger narrative, and shows like House that also draw from that source material generally follow that plot-of-the-week style. Straight off the bat Moffat tried to spin this complicated web of intrigue that eventually gave even the most dedicated viewers whiplash from the constant BS plot twists. He talked about the fan conspiracy that there was actually a secret fourth episode of the fourth season because on its own it was so unbelievably bad that fans thought it had to be on purpose and there had to be a greater underlying reason to explain it. (There wasn’t.)

He also dips into how Moffat has a clear contempt for the source material and rewrites these characters to be completely different in all but name, mentioning the queercoding of the villains as well. What made the plots interesting or meaningful in the first place is completely erased. John Watson is turned from the everyman narrator into the guy who has absolutely nothing useful to do except get kidnapped or drugged or put in mortal danger for Sherlock to save. 

That’s the general idea of it! 

This is mine, and I get to keep this, forever and always. <3

Literally did ‘Mary’ and John ever look anywhere near this happy parenting

Kind of stuck on the fact that John is smiling at Sherlock and continues to look at him as he kisses Rosie like Oh Kay

This is canon johnlock. They are so in love. But subtexually, because many people may still read this as platonic love. I’m just torn. I go back and forth. I need to read ivy’s post again. It will help.

Sherlockians like Anderson

Whovians cry over a dead cyberman head

Congratulations supernatural fandom, you are…sane ( or at least, the least insane ) 

are you kidding me we are the fandom that defends satan

i love how the supernatural fandom is actually offended at being called sane

Being in all three is an emotional fucking roller coaster.

Ok. My first try here.

<hits reblog at top speed>

OH MY GOD

#the first 1.5 minutes i was like yeah totally would watch this movie featuring lestrade#AND THEN SHIT GOT REAL#that whole last half minute was BAT SHIT CRAZY AWESOME

!!!!!!!!!

"bisexuals are just being greedy"

This statement is correct.  I want all the donuts to myself.  No sharon you can’t have a donut.  Yes, I know there are 24 donuts.  Yes, I want them all for myself.  Fuck off sharon.

omg i cant breathe

We really do have a gif for everything

omg

sharing doughnuts is

GUYS IT GOT BETTER

For asexual awareness week, reblog this and tag characters you headcanon as asexual, grey-ace, aro or demi

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"what does elementary have that sherlock doesn’t?"

#multiple queer characters in roles that aren’t all about their queerness but treat them as people #recurring POC characters who are not treated as incompetent or antagonists #a story structure and format better suited to the style of the original stories #an appealing and relateable Watson #also Bee Assassins

I love these shows, but by God they have a lot of problems.

Harry Potter is like a fine whisky; it gets better with age.

Sherlock is like heroin; everyone is itching for their next fix.

Doctor Who is like red wine; mature and has a big history.

Supernatural;

dust is eloquent

If we win this, we’ll get them in the finals, so let’s go!

http://www.hypable.com/2014/03/08/hypables-battleships-sherlock-vs-supernatural/

We only have 48 hours, and we need to get 150 points more than the opposite ship, otherwise the poll will be restared and will go on for another 6 hours!

It’s one vote per IP adress so PLEASE REBLOG!

VOTE NOW!

DON’T FORGET! We still need more votes!

"Something not natural," OH MY GOD.

Fandom:

(gif from x)

what would blended cucumber taste like

isn’t that an actor

we are now the supernatural fandom

You’ll need a few more episodes to reach Supernatural Fandom level of relevant gifs.