so apparently some people feel like it’s annoying when someone engages with a lot of stuff from the same person, like going through their ship tag and liking all the content there.
hearing about this, i was immediately paranoid about reblogging literally anything from anyone i don’t talk to on a regular basis.
so to save others from the same paranoia, i’m gonna say that if you like every single post on my goddamn blog it is okay. i might be kind of concerned about your level of time management, going through 23,000 posts, but it wouldn’t bother me.
It’s gonna be hard to answer this on mobile because I can’t link: followers feel free to jump in!
I’m also assuming you are referring to the 57 reference in the (possibly not real) rough draft script?
But wait! There’s more!
The long of it: Mofftiss (maybe just Steven I think?) like to use the number 57 in all of their works. The most obvious is the number 57 used in the Shakespeare episode of doctor who. 10 exclaims “oh, 57 academics just punched the air!” when Shakespeare said something that could reference his bisexuality.
And of course in BBC Sherlock, ASiB (I think) Sherlock’s phone pings 57 times (as counted by john) when Irene texts him. In T6T Mary called John 57 times when she was ready to have the baby but John was with Sherlock (doing something with a jellyfish?? who knows).
I know there was a list/meta that people have made surrounding this, so I’m gonna direct you to my tags:#57, #57 texts, #the number 57. That should bring up anything I have archived surrounding that.
TL:DR; 57 is heavily suggested to be a queer coded number in at least Steven Moffat’s works (possibly also Mark’s…Idr the fandom consensus on that). The fact that it comes up in the rough draft script and made it to the final episode (albeit in a different way) is telling and supports this theory.
Hope this helps and makes sense!
HEY I DONE GOOFED! This is what happens when you try summarize something from memory!
Moffat had nothing to do with the 57 in Doctor Who! He wasn’t with the show yet, Gareth Roberts actually wrote the episode.
For what’s it’s worth: I don’t follow doctor who at all and have literally only seen 9’s entire season and a few random episodes including the Shakespeare one.
And I’m dumb again….mary called john 59 times not 57….forget I said anything lmao
“I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is.” A Study in Scarlet – You can find it as a lot of nice stuff in Redbubble🙂
I bought this one and the John one too! They are lovely and are in matching fancy gold frames!
I was reading Sherlock’s post on John’s blog – which also is the very last post on that blog – when I realized something in the comments section that I probably should have noticed ages ago:
Does this ring any bell? ANYONE!?
Talking about elephants in the room, but this has been there since Series 3, hiding in plain sight. Three things stand out to me:
1. Sherlock is hinting heavily about John’s wedding as a crime scene and what happened there. He seems very lonely and desperate for some attention; he has been leaving comments for two days, but no-one cares. John and ‘Mary’ have apparently read his post, but they both merely tell him to shut up.
2. Finally, when John no longer responds at all, Sherlock allows himself to be distracted by Mrs Hudson, and they’re about to play CLUEDO. As in “clue”.
This is very sad and very good, @possiblyimbiassed. I never really got it how ANYONE that is stressed so much in TLD and TST was just meant to point to Culverton Smith’s choice of victims. Because we get the ANYONE at a very crucial point in Sherlock’s life, one of the most crucial of all. He realises he has lost John for good. So he gets obsessed with the word but it is about him and John, not about some cereal killer.
In connection with the blog, however, it gets even more heartbreaking. Imagine Sherlock leaving the wedding with no one noticing or caring – we get the look from Molly but she goes on dancing – and then sitting at home and not even getting answers to his blog comments.
For me more or less the whole of S3/TAB/S4 is about Sherlock trying to live without John, coming to terms with having lost the persons that matters most to him. Sure, there is his past as well – do not get me started on this – but the one constant thing that is repeated again and again is Sherlock losing Johnin every conceivable way. @ebaeschnbliah
We begin with one bust missing. It was a bust once proudly at the front. It was on a
shrine, never meant to be touched or handled, only there to collect dust and perhaps get cleaned once in a while but otherwise? Nothing was ever going to happen to it, it’s static.
And yet, someone decided it was their duty to smash it, to discover the secret hidden and reveal it to the world. The statut quo couldn’t stay.
After that beginning that chocked Sherlock because it’s him who noticed the change by the absence of Thatcher, two busts fall
to their death. Different owners, same modus operandi. Bust Two and Bust Three fell, Bust two’s braking was linked with Mycroft after he mentionned a fic where Sherlock avoided death. So, bust 2, avoiding an appointment with death, a fall… hmmm…
As Lestrade
shows Sherlock Bust Three, Sherlock’s face and Thatcher’s are mixed, showing their fate
are one and the same. Both fell and got broken because of it.
Because of
the third statue, we finally have enough evidence the culprits left behind to track the one responsible.
We are like hounds after the one responsible for that mess. Unfortunately, the
one responsible for this hid his traces too well. He’s decided to hide his tree
in a forest. No choice but to wait.
Fourth try,
we think we’ve got it. Except it’s murder this time, something horrible
happened, something wrong happened and we know there is something wrong with the modus operandi. Plus, there was not one but to
busts and both met a hammer.
So far, each owner had one bust, but ower four? He had two.
The process
of elimination is finally at work. We know
we’ll get the answer with the fifth burglary. It’s just time to wait now and
catch themIN THE ACT. Like Lestrade, we’ll have to catch them IN. THE. ACT. and like him, the fifth time will be the charm.
This isn’t silly at all, @fellshish , this is fucking me up.
Miss Orrie Harker? I what sort of name is that. Has a ring of Ormand Sacker about it.
Wait, you’re right! That awfully looks a lot like the name Doyle first gave to John Watson.
But that means, if the murderer, who I strongly suspected based on evidence within TST to be Mary, killed the victim whose name was a reference to John Wtason… then that means…
Oh boy.
John Watson is definitely in danger.
The doubling up of the busts in owner #4 / Act 4 / s4 is messing me up! Two busts = two busted stories? The real plot and the one that we saw onscreen? Idk idk??
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