reading schedule

I MUST READ ALL THESE BEFORE JULY 20TH that is the timeline

1) Guards! Guards!
2) Men at Arms
3) Feet of Clay
4) Jingo (just because, even though technically I don't need to read it)
5) The Fifth Elephant (SEE ABOVE)
6) Night Watch
7) Maskerade
8) I Shall Wear Midnight (+ the other three????)
9) POSSIBLY MOIST VON LIPWIG

lolol canon review

My dad wanted to watch something similar to Leverage last night, and I found that I have the first two seasons of Chuck. So we are watching that. I don't really want to watch more than the first season, though?? Anyone have any recommendations?

honestly thoughhhhhh

Sherlock fandom has been aggravating since episode two, what with the 'it's not REALLY RACISM they're just drawing on the original stories so they decided to put 19C racism in modern times and in the act of doing so made the gushing racism not anachronistic because 21C people were making racist decisions!!' and 'the show isn't sexist GOD THERE HAVE ONLY BEEN TWO EPISODES YOU MUST GIVE THE ENTIRE RUN A CHANCE BEFORE CALLING IT SEXIST'.

(WHICH is really ironic given that so much of this fucking fandom is up in arms about Elementary based on screencaps and two trailers.)

(Never mind how two episodes is two-thirds of the series, and never mind that two episodes is three hours of television.)

JUST. THIS FANDOM.

Also, holy crap, Sherlock Holmes IS a procedural:

- client consults with Holmes
- Holmes examines crime scene with Watson in tow and makes brilliant observations
- Watson is invited to deduce on his own and never deduces anything right
- But he is always there in a pinch when things start to get physical
- Parlour scene ensues, the mystery is explained, Watson closes out the story with a few observations of his own that have nothing to crime and everything to do with human nature and he is brilliant at that (oh look, Joan Watson hit that quality out of the ballpark with her observation about mirrors and Holmes seeing himself as a lost cause)

DETECTIVE STORIES ARE PROCEDURALS.

Also, since I'm on the topic of Watson-as-writer, remember how John Watson is a brilliant writer metatextually and extratextually? The popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories hinges on how well ACD writing as Watson can lay out a story and turn a phrase.

REMEMBER HOW BBC!JOHN'S BLOG IS SO GROANINGLY BORING. I'm not saying he has to write like 19C Watson, but Ms Scribe is a more engaging writer than he is. It doesn't really matter that he isn't, because different mediums, etc, but all the Sherlock stans should probably take a better look at what they're claiming is ACD canon.