SENIOR BAR CRAWL = TEARS

tumblebuggie:

[Legend of the Reichenbach Fall]

um, i bought a book about the Book of Kells and then i re-watched the Reichenbach Fall. yea >_>;;;

happy St. Patricks day lolol.

=>get it as print here <=

OH MY GOD

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jollyrogerjammydodger:

Here’s my painting! “Son of the Fall.”  It’s based on the painting “Son of Man” by Rene Magritte. Credit for the idea goes to my best friend/sister Kinsraw: http://kinsraw.tumblr.com/

Apple. Reichenbach. IOU a fall. Etc. 

Acrylic on canvas 

O. M. G.

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daysofstorm:

Chris and the fall. He pretended to have him fall down the waterfall a couple of times before he stuck it on :)

Speedy’s, winning so hard :)

Another photo of our hijinks. Or rather, Maria’s as Curly sat there dying of laughter.

bakerstreetbabes:

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[LISTEN]¦[DOWNLOAD]

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Welcome to the second part of Lyndsay Faye‘s Sherlock Holmes class at the Center for Fiction in Manhattan! This time: Death! Below is Lyndsay’s course description for you to follow along.

SESSION 2:  The Fall.

–The Final Problem
–The Adventure of the Empty House
–”Fan Fictions: On Sherlock Holmes” by Michael Chabon from Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
–The Bruce-Partington Plans
–The Creeping Man
–”A Case of Death and Honey” by Neil Gaiman

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed himself to be shackled to Holmes to the point of inhibiting projects he deemed more important and artistic; as a result, he summarily killed his most famous character at the Reichenbach Falls.  For ten years, the public believed Sherlock Holmes to be deceased.

This circumstance has led to an array of fascinating phenomena within the cult of Sherlockian study.  Not only did Doyle inadvertently turn Holmes into a Christ figure who, like all great heroes as explicated in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with A Thousand Faces, confronts death only to rise again, but gaping holes in the plot of both “The Final Problem” and “The Empty House” have led to endless fan speculation.

How does “The Final Problem” break numerous rules of good storytelling, and how did these authorial failures transform Holmes from a consulting detective to a mythical hero?  In what ways does Michael Chabon’s essay illuminate what we love about great literature, and how does Neil Gaiman’s award-winning pastiche reflect these concepts?

Michael Chabon’s Maps and Legends is available as a book and e-book from Amazon.

Neil Gaiman’s short story is collected in the short story anthology A Study in Sherlock, also available from Amazon as hardcover or paperback.

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[LISTEN]¦[DOWNLOAD]

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Welcome to the second part of Lyndsay Faye‘s Sherlock Holmes class at the Center for Fiction in Manhattan! This time: Death! Below is Lyndsay’s course description for you to follow along.

SESSION 2:  The Fall.

–The Final Problem
–The Adventure of the Empty House
–”Fan Fictions: On Sherlock Holmes” by Michael Chabon from Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
–The Bruce-Partington Plans
–The Creeping Man
–”A Case of Death and Honey” by Neil Gaiman

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed himself to be shackled to Holmes to the point of inhibiting projects he deemed more important and artistic; as a result, he summarily killed his most famous character at the Reichenbach Falls.  For ten years, the public believed Sherlock Holmes to be deceased.

This circumstance has led to an array of fascinating phenomena within the cult of Sherlockian study.  Not only did Doyle inadvertently turn Holmes into a Christ figure who, like all great heroes as explicated in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with A Thousand Faces, confronts death only to rise again, but gaping holes in the plot of both “The Final Problem” and “The Empty House” have led to endless fan speculation.

How does “The Final Problem” break numerous rules of good storytelling, and how did these authorial failures transform Holmes from a consulting detective to a mythical hero?  In what ways does Michael Chabon’s essay illuminate what we love about great literature, and how does Neil Gaiman’s award-winning pastiche reflect these concepts?

Michael Chabon’s Maps and Legends is available as a book and e-book from Amazon.

Neil Gaiman’s short story is collected in the short story anthology A Study in Sherlock, also available from Amazon as hardcover or paperback.

There was no other way to describe the gaping hole that seemed to have replaced the one Sherlock had once filled. Empty, might be another good choice.

That idiot.

Leaving the cases, the equipment, the people who cared about him behind; leaving him behind. The heartless bastard.

And yet he couldn’t bring himself to hate him. Not one ounce of him.

221baker-street:

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die. 

-Mary Elizabeth Frye, 1932

The poem is simply *unfair.*

atrickstertype:

sherlockpins:

I dissected a G.I.F just to get this picture.

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die.

-‘There Is a Light that Never Goes Out’, The Smiths

Lovely.

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Sherlock: You’re insane.

Jim: You’re just getting that now? Okay, let me give you a little extra incentive. Your friends will die if you don’t.

Sherlock: John.

Jim: Not just John. Everyone.

EVERYONE…

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