Reed And Sue

some arcane stuff again!

Book 3, chapter 18 ‘the Old Masters’

The Lives of the Gaang ep. 1 ‘Kyoshi’s advice’

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I think a lot of things because of that Au mine that I don't know how to do but the point is this I think that the decision to be a consulting detective is something that did a lot of good for Holmes in many aspects of his life but I think one of the most relevant was in improve the relationship with his brother.

Personally I don't think they have a love / hate relationship or a strained relationship for siblings who get on badly in the canon are the Watsons.

For me it is more than anything a matter of characters: Mycroft does not is someone who shows his affection in an explicit way and although Holmes has very sweet moments and gestures from him, he also does not have the habit of being like that expressive.

So the Holmes brothers get along; In their childhood it is not crazy to think that who first develops his observation / deductive skills is Mycroft, in fact it makes sense and with things like the Diogenes club it is not so crazy to say that he is a lonely and lives in his own way but then there is the little Sherlock.

According to the case Gloria Scott Holmes considered his observation and deduction skills at that time a simple hobby. And he was seen as an aimless young man but why would someone develop such a strange hobby? I think the answer is that little Sherlock did it to get closer to his brother mainly and if he continued with that it was out of his own natural curiosity.

The point is that Mycroft is the first to be different if we deviate to a somewhat queer perspective. If Mycroft is the first who knows that he is different, maybe many of his attitudes are to protect himself; observing the people around, being able to do this from a seat, his search and acceptance of a position of power and imposing - politics isn't easy or light! -.

So his own little eccentricities are why his younger brother manages to form a bond with him, they bond over and maybe even one day he will be honest with Sherlock when SH realizes his own distinctions but his attitude is different, Mycroft points out that Holmes has the energy of the family and the desire to do fieldwork.

I think this again is a reflection of how they handle things, Mycroft does not want fights, he does not want direct confrontations, he wants to deduce everything from a chair, hidden, protected in his own sanctuary and with the assurance that if someone were to try to harm him. .. It would be complicated but Sherlock is different, he is there saying his name out loud when a dangerous criminal abruptly enters his home, he makes jokes after almost dying, he is the type who is not afraid of confrontations in reality. (Maybe in other areas yes, but in apologizing for being who he is? He is not afraid of being who he is) There is even something careless and reckless in his youth.

But returning to the subject, in addition to their own personalities, these different paths that each one takes are the only point that could have separated them; because these are two very different perspectives, it is not hatred or contempt just to grow up and belong to different worlds.

They would still have their little deduction games and a few visits but there would be an outside line until Sherlock Holmes decides to be a detective. What I'm going to is that in his youth he had many doubts about what to do with his life; we know he could be just a chemist, or an actor in the theater or a violinist or an underground boxer! but S. Holmes, thanks to Trevor's father, argues that what he likes to do, what was his first approach to his brother could be useful to live and help others.

If Sherlock had dedicated himself to something else I feel that Mycroft would have supported him but there would be some inevitable distance that is broken a bit when their jobs / life missions intersect as much as when Sherlock is a detective, we saw it in the Greek interpreter, from time to time Mycroft helps him solve cases or guides him in the matter! In stressful and difficult matters that Mycroft faces in his work, he can directly request Sherlock's support and even see how he solves that complication in his life!

I think there is something... there at the bottom of how both have improved their relationship by ending up in two parallel paths; each one is different but from time to time they cross paths and meet and it's cute.

BANGER line

#silcowasright

Been thinking about Lumon/Kier’s obvious disdain for nature. The aggressive sterility of the severed floor. Dieter’s connection with nature being something to be shunned. His natural sexual urges something to be divinely punished, the punishment being a violent reclamation by nature of his body.

Gemma’s “life” being unnaturally extended into Ms Casey. Gemma always being pictured surrounded by nature, Ms Casey’s office being a thin facsimile of it. She tells Irving that he’s a talented lover, she stops him from sighing in pleasure.

Irving admits that their status as people without histories is “unnatural”. He worships a man made god, and when he finds something organic to love in Burt, they make a secret space for each other surrounded by greenery. It’s as close as they can get to feeling normal.

Persephone the goddess of spring, kidnapped to the underworld. Demeter protests, throwing the earth into an eternal winter, awaiting her return.

Irving saw the outside world blanketed in snow one day. He tries to get Burt back. He wakes up almost half a year later, he’s told. He goes outside again and it’s still snowing.

the most accurate snape quote i’ve ever read by someone on a forum: “

Risking himself to save others is the pattern of a man who believes in a good beyond himself, his own interest, his own loves and hates. For those who believe Snape can only be motivated by revenge- keep in mind- he had his chance at revenge on Black when Black was unconcious after the Dementors attack. What did he do? He conjured a stretcher and delivered him to Pomfrey for medical attention, in sharp contrast to Black’s own recent treatment of the unconscious Snape, dragging him and bumping his head into things. Snape changes over the course of his lifetime. Snape never becomes a nice person. He does become a good one.”

finishing off witch hat spam with some doodles from the other week because I Am Always Thinking About Them

I want to read the discworld series but have no idea which book to pick as my starting point. Which one would you suggest?

SURE I DO

okay so, premise: discworld works in series. you have some main cycles and then sparse novels/standalones. in order, you have:

the guard

death

witches (which is split into the classical line up and the tiffany aching YA stuff)

rincewind/wizards

industrial revolution

plus as standalones you have pyramids and small gods which are pre-current times and maurice and his amazing rodents which is another YA but doesn’t quite fit anywhere, and monstrous regimen is kind of a guard book but is more of a standalone - anyway I’d read it with the guard

personally, I’d advise to read small gods first because it’s a++++ and gives you a great introduction and it’s a parody of a lot of shit I love so you get an idea of the feel of the books and I wouldn’t read it chronologically esp because the first three books are the least interesting ones tbh (especially the third). what I’d do is going with cycles and single books in the following order:

read small gods;

then read the guard (guards! guards! + men at arms + feet of clay [TOP THREE MATERIAL] + jingo + the fifth elephant + night watch + monstrous regiment + thud!, then leave snuff be for the moment);

then move on to death (mort + reaper man + soul music [MY FAVORITE DISCWORLD BOOK YEEEY] + hogfather + thief of time);

then I’d move on to part of the industrial revolution (making movies + the truth + going postal + making money, leave raising steam be);

at this point you can do either rincewind or witches, it’s the same thing but since the last book in the series is tiffany aching which is a witches continuation I’d go for rincewind (the light fantastic/the color of magic [mind: they’re both fairly weaker than the rest of the series/of the rincewind stuff but you need both so just power through] + sourcery + eric + interesting times + the last continent (<33) + the last hero + unseen academicals);

at that point go back and do the old witches guard (equal rites [tbh it’s the worst in the series for me so if you wanna skip you can but a character shows up in TIFFANY ACHING so idk it’s short at least] + wyrd sisters + witches abroad + lords and ladies + maskerade + carpe jugulum)

now you’re ready for tiffany aching but maybe at this point you could throw in pyramids/amazing maurice if you feel like going for it - they’re a+ but you can read them whenever you want)

then you go with all of tiffany except for the last which is also the last discworld book (the wee free men + a hat full of sky + wintersmith + I shall wear midnight, do not read the shepherd’s crown yet);

at this point I’ve left you with the last three discworld books to go which concluded a lot of storylines left open, so you power up and you read, in order, snuff (last guard book), raising steam (last moist von lipwig/industrial revolution) and the finally the shepherd’s crown which is the very last one and you’re done. :) if you like, you can not read unseen academicals (which anyway has very little rincewind and more of the rest of the wizards) and keep it for last and read it before snuff so you have last wizards, last guards, last industrial rev. and last witches all together in the last rush ;)

that’s my personal favorite reading order and the one I found myself best with when I was going through with it but obviously you can switch things around, just start with death and the guards as the first two cycles you read and do small gods before all of them ;)

ETA: as someone else pointed out, you should probably read monstrous regiment after the truth and going postal so just put it there instead of the guards reading list xD

So Moira’s eyes have always been a very fun but seemingly random detail about her. But it turns out there might be a myth to explain it.

The whole myth is weird and long but basically- there was a fae lady named Pressyne who married the king of Scotland. She had a very specific rule about not being seen while bathing. At her daughter(s)’s birth, he breaks this. So, she runs back to the otherworld with her daughters. When her eldest daughter (Melusine) learns he did this, she goes back and kills him.

Her mother still held some love for him, so she curses her to become a mermaid like creature on Saturdays and that, if any man sees this, she will become a full serpent. She ends up falling for a king herself and she has kids with him, all odd in some way but healthy. With the eldest having one blue eye, and one red. But he breaks the rule (because of course he does) and she becomes a great serpent-like dragon. But she still loves her children, so she returns for them. Much like the banshee, she still comes to their ancestors to warn them of tragedies.

Which means that:

Moira has A LOT of references to ancestral spirits who warn of tragedies.

Also betrayal. Lots of backstabbing.

She has more mythological justification to summon a dragon then Genji or Hanzo combined.