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Welcome to the Moffia. A dedication blog to the wonderful and talented Steven Moffat. Feel free to ask/submit and share your love for Steven xx
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So, here’s a summary of my photos with actors at Sherlocked 2016 and I realize that this weekend could probably be one of fondest memories of my twenties. Not only because of meeting the actors (I consider to be able to meet and take photos with the actors as a MAJOR BONUS and nothing to be expected normally) but also because of all the nice people I’ve met in the fandom up until now and probably will after this as well.

This is the most giving, creative and understanding fandom I’ve been a part of and it has given me so much. I am truly grateful to all the people who has made the SHERLOCK phenomena to what it is and I hope it will continue for a long time to come! ^^

Sherlock never ends! ^^

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Moffat Appreciation Week: day six  A day of love for other people involved or related to Steven Moffat’s shows.

I’ve decided to focus on the actors that have worked with Steven Moffat who have been part of other projects since then.

  1. James Davenport: Was in Coupling. A show I have never seen but I have a feeling that if I was older I would have loved it. But I know him best as Commodore James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. I was also surprised to see him in Kingsman: the Secret Service one of my favorite movies that came out in 2015.
  2. David Tennant: We all know him as the Tenth Doctor. But since then he has been in films like Fright Night and television shows Broadchurch, Gracepoint on Fox and most recently he played Kilgrave in Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix.
  3. Arthur Darville: Rory Williams from Doctor Who. Starred in Broadchurch with David Tennant and will soon appear on the CW’s Legends of Tomorrow as Rip Turner!
  4. Karen Gillan: Since playing Amy Pond on Doctor Who she has been two projects that I loved so much. She played the villainous Nebula in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and played Eliza Dooley on the sadly cancelled Selfie.
  5. Jenna Coleman: Before she played Clara she played Connie in Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger and soon she’ll be playing Queen Victoria on a show called Victoria.
  6. Martin Freeman: Besides playing John Watson on Sherlock, the role he won a Bafta and Emmy for, Martin Freeman has played Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit films and be nominated for an Emmy for Fargo. He has two films coming out in 2016 the first being Whiskey Tango Foxtrot with Tina Fey and Margot Robbie and the other being Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War and he’s rumored to be playing Shield agent Everett Ross.
  7. Benedict Cumberbatch: Besides playing Sherlock Holmes on Sherlock, the role he won his first Emmy for, Benedict Cumberbatch has played Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness, the villainous roles as Smaug and the Necromancer in the Hobbit films. Played Agent Classified in Dreamworks’ Penguins of Madagascar. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor after he played Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. Has played Hamlet on stage in 2015. Play Richard III in the Hollow Crown series. And is currently filming Marvel’s Doctor Strange playing Stephen Strange. And he’s also voicing Shere Khan in Jungle Book: Origins.

I just want to thank Steven Moffat for working with these great actors and actresses before they got really famous. Since working with Moffat three actors and two actresses have appeared in a Marvel property and that wouldn’t have happened unless Steven Moffat cast them in either Doctor Who or Sherlock.

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Moffat Appreciation Week day two :  Favorite thing about the Sherlock Special

“Every great cause has martyrs, every war has suicide missions— and make no mistake, this is war, one half of the human race at war with the other. The invisible army hovering at our elbow, attending to our homes, raising our children, ignored, patronized, disregarded, not allowed so much as a vote, but an army nonetheless, ready to rise up in the best of causes: to put right an injustice as old as humanity itself. So, you see, Watson, Mycroft was right. This is a war we must lose.”
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Gif originally posted by @sherlockgifss​

Moffat Appreciation Week: Day 2: Favourite thing about the Sherlock Special

‘The Abominable Bride’ comes with many fantastic scenes, but if I had to choose my most favourite Sherlock moment, it would be the one up there and everything that follows.

Sherlock’s mind palace is a peculiar place between dream, fiction and reality, where Sherlock doesn’t need to ask ‘Afghanistan or Iraq?’, he just knows (and no, that wasn’t the only place an army doctor could have got shot at those days; have a list.). He doesn’t need to play nice during their first meeting, because no matter the rules of whatever universe he happens to be in, he and that guy will end up sharing a flat, a tea pot, a life.

Of course, like in every dream (and nightmare) the longer they go on, the less they do what one wants them to, which is why the opening scene is pretty much where Sherlock’s perfect world ends:

Mycroft is still the clever one (who has found a goldfish - no Holmes without a Watson), Watson gets to finish most of his sentences, a bored Mary goes off and solves Sherlock’s case, while he more or less manages to murder the husband of his latest client, and a very dead Moriarty shows up for tea to discuss an old case and finish things off at the Reichenbach Falls. Like they always do.

Moriarty: This is how we end, you and I. Always here, always together.

In the end, this is ‘Sherlock Holmes’, their fate is already written, there to read in the Strand: there can be nothing new under the sun.

Still, we are in Sherlock’s mind which is not there to lift the bride’s veil. It’s there to tell a story, to prove Moriarty died for real.

When both of them are down and there is nothing left but perform the truly impossible miracle of the Falls, the Mind Palace regains control and shows how back in 1891 Sherlock Holmes really survived. Why every Sherlock Holmes survives all of Moriarty’s final problems.

He doesn’t need to be better, stronger, or more clever; for once being Sherlock Holmes is enough, because Sherlock Holmes is followed into battle by John Watson, who’d never leave his side, who would be there in his darkest hour(s) to save him, may it be from Moriarty, the hound, his boredom, or himself.

John: It was my turn.

Sherlock knows friends protect people, which is why Sherlock Holmes’ Boswell keeps a few details to himself and doesn’t bother to mention that occasionally it is he who saves the hero in his “idiotic stories” on his blog, The Strand and all the other places a future world will read their fantastic adventures to come.

And yet, Sherlock jumps, as that’s what Sherlock Holmes’ do. He knows he’ll survive, and that soon they’ll meet at 221b’s fireplace, because John Watson will come up with something (an explanation - or even better - a story) to save him.

If the stories of MP!John Watson, which ended up in our universe under the pseudonym of an Arthur Conan Doyle, are the proof of John’s boundless admiration for Sherlock Holmes (and they are), then The Abominable Bride is where Sherlock Holmes takes up the pen# in an attempt to set the biggest lie in fiction right.

At the end of the day, Sherlock Holmes has no idea how he survived the fall, and all the other falls thereafter, for it takes John Watson to write the story and save a life.

*hence John’s point of view #canonically that would be His Last Vow.

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Poetry or Truth?

My favourite thing about the Sherlock Special is how Sherlock solved the mystery of himself by telling stories.

Ever since this character, Sherlock Holmes, was brought to this world, he remains one of those most iconic figures in the fictional world. Many writers loved to retell his stories. They put him in different times and vary plot lines. This Special, however, didn’t just present another version of those stories. In fact, it identified itself very intentionally as a ‘version’, which meant this ’universe’ had its edges, which meant this ’universe’ somehow had a relation with other ’universes’.

From the beginning, they told us they were going to tell an alternative story, which was set in Victorian London, an ‘au’ of Moffat’s modern ‘au’ of the ‘canon’ story created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Among all those, which one was a poetry and which one was the truth? Who could decide that? Moffat showed us, in the end of this special, it’s Sherlock Holmes himself.

Things like 'where’ and 'when’ were a story’s settings, characters shouldn’t discuss or even aware of those, along with their 'contributions to the plot’ and 'traits and appearances given by their creator’. In The Abominable Bride, almost every character did that. They acted as if they were aware of other versions of them, and they blurred the boundaries between a 'poetry’ and the 'truth’, consciously or subconsciously. And because most parts of this Victorian story were actually 'written’ by Sherlock, when the question about poetry or truth came to him, it became a mystery of his sense of self.

Sherlock/Holmes tripped between different storylines. He had to solve the case of his story/in his mind palace. But what was the case? It’s an old case, a mystery of himself, about which version of him was a 'poetry’ and which one was the 'truth’. Originally, Sherlock Holmes was a character of a series story published on The Strand Magazine. This magazine was mentioned twice. In the first time, it’s a mask Sherlock/Holmes chose to frame himself. It’s a 'poetry’. In the last time, it was referred to by Watson as a prove that it’s friends that protected people. It’s the 'truth’ he finally learned to believe in. So Dr. Watson saved Holmes from Moriarty because Sherlock/Holmes finally let him.

Moffat and Gatiss once said that Sherlock is not a detective story but a story of a detective. This Special couldn’t prove more. There was a case, but it wasn’t really the point. The real mystery he needed to solve was himself. He needed to figure out who he was and learned to let his friend help. He said that he’s always known he was a man out of his time/storyline, but in every single version, there were friends who cared about him, he just had to figure that out.

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