[…] 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.
I would watch the hell out of that. I’d even write for it. What do you do with Mycroft being part of the “Establishment” then? Mycroft works at the local youth center? Mycroft as a pastor, deeply disapproving of his brother’s failure to reject street culture and conform? Hell, Mycroft IS the police? Token affirmative-action face of colour, should have made DI ages ago but is still a PC even though half the force secretly ask his help? And because they resent Mycroft, they resent Sherlock even more, fueling the rivalry? Lestrade can stay a DI, with the authority to choose to work with either Holmes but not enough authority to force everyone else to do so.
I’m curious to see how Mrs Hudson and Moriarty would work in this.
Holy fuck this would be truly awesome. Mrs Hudson could be a nice woman who occasionally makes the boys a meal or offers up a warm bed during severe weather. And Moriarty, fuck. He could be like a well-to-do man who previously was in Sherlock’s situation. He somehow moved on from that kind of life, and sees a lot of himself in Sherlock actually, but hates for that reminder. Wants to take Sherlock down, put him back in his place.
Shit, this would be bloody brilliant.
aaaaalllll stuff I want to cram into the ‘#221b baker towers’ tag proper. DAMN YOU TUMBLR.
…Can we have this? Can we please have this?
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All of this commentary. All of it. Fuck this idiocy. People who should come out of the closet: no one, unless it is safe and healthy for them to do so.Seriously? “If you’re hiding anything, no matter how good your reason is, then you’re ashamed of it”? No. NO. FUCK NO.
COMING OUT COMPROMISES YOUR SAFETY. COMING OUT CAN GET YOU TRAUMATIZED, SENT TO THERAPY, BEATEN, RAPED, TORTURED, DISOWNED, AND MURDERED. YOU CAN LOSE YOUR JOB. YOU CAN LOSE YOUR FAMILY. YOU CAN LOSE EVERYTHING. COMING OUT IS NOT A REQUIREMENT.
“Ashamed”? No. Fuck. No. This attitude is what’s shaming. This attitude comes from a position of safety and privilege and it completely ignores the reality that many people, in many countries, put their fucking lives in danger by talking about who they are—no matter how proud they are to be that way. Being comfortable with your own sexuality or gender identity does not keep you from getting killed. It does not keep you from being hated. And being afraid or unwilling to ruin your life on other people’s violent prejudice does not make you weak—it means there’s a big problem with a system that it’s not your responsibility to fix by putting yourself in the line of fire. In fact, it means you’re maybe not the one in a position to fix it, because you’re too busy surviving. And survival is noble enough, if that’s what you’re facing. If you choose that your responsibility is privacy and safety, that’s legitimate, it’s respectable, and it’s NOT ANYONE ELSE’S FUCKING BUSINESS.
“Because they couldn’t understand it gets better”? I can’t believe you just made a statement that more or less reads, “I had to show these poor children the light! Cannot believe they thought their current situation actually matters in the long run! Not like it doesn’t get better! I will enlighten you.”
She seriously just SHAMED CHILDREN FOR BEING AFRAID? For the record: it doesn’t always get better. It also doesn’t always matter if it could get better. If you are being tortured by your classmates at the age of fourteen, some benevolent promise by people who aren’t in that situation anymore who are so tired of your pain isn’t going to just flip a switch and make you go “Oh, okay! I guess I’ll just endure my daily suffering at the hands of tiny bigots and think about the future!” What a fucking ridiculous thing to say. What a flippant, unempathetic, egotistical thing to say.
If you give that much a shit about queers, maybe pay attention enough to know that the problem isn’t with their perceptions.
sheLLEY WHY
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