Apologies for being radio silent! Tumblr app wasn’t working for me/I was tired of it crashing every 2 seconds and I didn’t have the time to look into the issue! It’s fixed now, so queue will start running again tomorrow!

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marta-bee:

marta-bee:

going-to-my-mind–palace:

……..can we or at least some of us agree not to switch our thinking to this? S4 was largely a crapshoot, sure, but parts were good. The rest of the series were fantastic for what they were. Acting, directing, what about the metas and theory’s we all wrote? It just breaks my soul too see people delve into the past like this. So what if you were X age and liked Y thing. SO WHAT? It was hecking amazing what we all did back then (mainly making things where there really weren’t) and I don’t think time should change that

I wasn’t fifteen when I first saw ASIP; I was thirty-one. I enjoyed it. Actually, I loved it. I have distinct memories of watching John shooting at people in Afghanistan, then waking up from a nightmare all sweaty and shaky and just sitting up in my own bed going: “…. Duuuuuude.”

I’ve never been to war, but I do have PTSD, and it was one of the most perfect moments of television I’ve seen in a long time. Just remembering the moment sends shivers down my spine. 

In fact, I loved pretty much everything through the Watson’s “domestic” in HLV, absolutely uncritically. After that I felt increasingly confused, like I’d lost the plot and didn’t really know where the showrunners wanted to lead me. But even there, there are flashes of pure brilliance. Magnussen’s mind palace. Film noir at Mycroft’s house. Good god, that final deduction scene with Eurus at the end of TDD. The whole underwater feel of the aquarium scene in TST and pretty much everything involving Ajay. And seriously –seriously– that final violin duet. Damn.

I may not say it enough, but I love this show. Still do, even as I feel increasingly out of step and confused by it.

And even if that’s not you, @going-to-my-mind–palace is right is right I think: what you loved was real, and I hope you aren’t embarrassed with where it took you, either  creatively or “just” as a viewer. The video exists; what came after, whatever you think of that, can’t take it away.

As a further aside, and I do hope this doesn’t come off as whippersnapperish: If you were 15 when ASIP was first released you’re –what– 23 now? 24? That feels so young. That’s barely a decade ago for me, but I remember the pressure to like the right things, and the shame at being disappointed or even just liking things that weren’t clear-cut the type of thing I was supposed to like. Nerd culture has its own kind of peer pressure, and that’s doubly so in this blue-tinted hellscape. 🙂

You do you, peoples, is what I’m saying.

All of this! Take it from someone who was 16 at the time of ASiP, now the ripe old age of 24 but didn’t find fandom until I was 20; don’t let the people who enjoy crapping make you think that it’s the new normal or the “cool” thing to do. In the last year or two I’ve realized that it gets you nowhere but down.