marcespot:

pullthetriggermofftiss:

cryptolock:

faithchan:

worriesconstantly:

cryptolock:

The Girl Without Hands is generally speaking a very awful story, it’s writing is just… not good.  But!  There is something there that could be connected to S4- the letters.  

After the girl has her hands cut off, and is caught eating pears from the kings garden, he marries her because she is beautiful (typical) and she has a son while the King was away.  When the Kings mother wrote to him, stating that the (handless) Queen had a child, the Devil replaces the letter with lies, and continues to do so as letters were sent back and forth, the fake letters tell the Mother to kill the Queen and her child.  The mother is devastated by this and ties the child onto the Queens back (because you know… no hands) and tells her to leave for their own safety.  At the end the Queen is taken care of by an angel until she is reunited with her husband 7 years later.

Now who has constantly been compared to the Devil?? I wonder. 

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@worriesconstantly @whimsicalethnographies @jenna221b @teapotsubtext @themanandthemachine @teaandqueerbaiting @marathecactupus

but who is the angel squints

Didn’t Mycroft get angel wings in the same episode?

Oh good memory! He did! 

However, his wings are black, so still not pure, as the story seems to be focusing on.

“black wings” immediately reminded me of This Painting by Carvaggio, which depicts “amor”, the roman cupid.
the title of the painting translates to “love conquers all”.
to top it all off, there’s also a violin in the background.
all of this may be a coincidence, but….. the universe is rarely so lazy 

@worriesconstantly @221bloodnun @cryptolock 

Awesome!