Do NOT put your credit in the caption. Tumblr deleted blogs that post and reblog content containing links in the caption. It happened to me and now it happened to @softjeon .
I’m in class so I can’t explain but please consider putting your link in the tags. It can seriously harm your blog and your followers.
If you want to know staff’s explanation, let me know and I can send you their email I received after they brought back my blog.
Stay safe and please reblog
Notice that neither of us reblogged porn or a link directing to porn whatsoever. We assume file share links like media fire and upload are risky and twitter and YouTube links
It looks like her trigger was giving credit to a twitter account (link in the caption)
Some people are confused as to what I mean with ‘caption’ so here’s an example:
“love” redirects to the source and CAN trigger an automatic termination of your blog.
What can you do if you find yourself not able to access your blog?
In general, all your information such as your URL; followers; posts, etc is not deleted. But you can’t access your Blog nor can other’s do anything else but tag you.
If you find yourself logged out, use the contact formula at the bottom of the log in page and choose ‘terminated account’ as the reason you’re contacting support and write them a short but detailed explanation of your problem. And then you have to wait. Tumblr might send you an E-Mail letting you know they received your messages. Be aware it can take a while for them to investigate the problem so try not to freak out.
The people I know of got their blog back so don’t worry too much.
Stay safe !
Reblogging for the signal boost. And also because I’ve never been more lost. We cannot link to anything or I am totally wrong ? Don’t get anything.
Tumblr, you’re becoming sad, uncool, unright, unfunny and be prepared to be EMPTY really fast…
So what? Now we can’t or shouldn’t link a credit? I knew Tumblr was turning into a shitty website but this is on some other plane of bullshit. If I wasn’t one of those who links back to everything, I’d be laughing… at how stupid this is.
I was going through my Torchwood tag because I thought it might be salutary to remind those coping with the disappointment of “The Final Problem” that the BBC has in fact already Gone There. Torchwood was basically Russell T. Davies’s Doctor Who fanfic and there were queer sexual encounters galore on it, including a canon m/m relationship between the protagonist and his second in command. It struggled from the get-go; there were only two ‘regular’ seasons, followed by a miniseries (”Children of Earth”) and a fourth season produced for Starz with a completely different setting and almost completely different cast. Now, there are a lot of reasons why Torchwood might have struggled that have nothing at all to do with the sex, the main one being that the first season was very uneven and included several episodes which were really, REALLY bad. But I digress.
My point was, I found this: “Me and my male showrunners.” It is an in-depth consideration of the question: why, at my advanced age and with my many adult responsibilities, am I still getting so pissed off, all the time, at the men who run my shows?
The bottom line is: it comes down to self-indulgence. What really makes me angry is when the showrunners start treating the show as purely a vehicle for their own fantasies, without taking into consideration not only standards and taste, but the labor of everyone who puts the show together. Sherlock is what it is in large part because of the extraordinary cast and the equally extraordinary production team. When you are surrounded by this much talent, you ought to feel yourself duty bound to give them material that is worthy of it. And I submit that in “The Final Problem” that is definitely not what happened.
Tumblr has been doing a purge of blogs in the last two days, reading around posts i found that both Backgrid and now SplashNews are using a third party reverse image system for their pics and then reporting for copyright to tumblr so PLEASE PLEASE if you ever posted pap pics or event pics go now and PUT YOUR BLOG UNDER PASSWORD and delete everything!!!!!! Do it before they get to you and terminate you, bc trying to get a blog back is hard and tumblr might not give it back even if you argue and argue with them! PLEASE be safe and don’t let your hard work get deleted!!
and another thing: go to the settings of your blog and scroll down to visibility and turn on the ‘hide your blog from search engines’ button! that way you will be harder to find on all search engines, its not much but it could really help!!
NOT JUST THAT!
Check off everything! If you hide the blog and make it only viewable over the dashboard NO REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH CAN SEE YOUR PICTURES!
And the explicit one makes it even HARDER to search your posts because it HAS to be someone, who is logged in to see your posts. SO REVERSE IMAGE AND LOGGED OUT MAKES IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE ANYTHING.
I tried it out on this website and made one small blog visible for EVERYONE, search results, outside of Tumblr, logged out and it SHOWED IMMEDIATELY my original posts. Then I checked off everything made it hidden and it couldn’t find anything. It took like a looooooot of time and I was worried at first that they got it and are searching it now and terminating it but my settings made it impossible for that search engine to even find these posts I have on my blog.
So, honestly, you don’t have to password protect your blogs. You can check off everything and it will take A LOT OT TIME to even search those posts..maybe even make it impossible to find them at all.
Try it out and if you still get terminated, please let me know!! Thanks!
Some times experiments don’t work out. Sometime big projects include mistakes and it takes a lot of compromises to satisfy the real goal. So was the case with The Six Thatchers.
To a room of ~100 people, Rachel Talalay explained something of the complicated backstory to the first episode of Series 4 and shared with us a little of the amazing footage that had to be left on the cutting room floor.
In Mark Gatiss’s initial script, the story was going to be told with a complicated chronology. The story was supposed to start somewhere in the middle, with flashbacks inserted into scenes. This show has played with chronology before, but this plan was more ambitions and experimental than previous episodes. In the spirit of Sherlock’s cinematographic ingenuity, Talalay decided to demarcate these flashbacks with fantastic transitions in and out of the scenes into which they were inlayed.
The filming proceeded with this non-chronological order of scenes, but when the material was assembled in a temp edit, it became apparent that the narrative didn’t really work. Talalay had her doubts about how it came together, and Moffat and Gatiss made the call to change the sequence to the straight forward chronology we saw broadcast. Talalay took pains to explain that the switch was necessary for the sake of the story and that no one was at fault for how the experiment failed. They took a risk together and these things don’t always pan out.
The choice to reorder was the right one, but it was also a very difficult compromise for two reasons. First it changed the purpose of many scenes, and with no time to reshoot they had to work out new criteria to determine the best takes to make a cohesive narrative from what they had. Second, it meant abandoning these amazing transitions that were in and of themselves creative and technical acheivements that each took days to prepare and shoot.
It was these transitions that Talalay shared with us at Sherlocked USA 2018. They will never be released, so here are my descriptions of the transitions she shared. Some of them involve scenes that weren’t part of the final edit at all. I’ve done the best I can to describe what I can remember from seeing these only twice.
1. In and Out of Cars This seems to be on the way to the first case with Greg, on the way to the WELSBOROUGH HOUSE. John, Sherlock, and Greg are in a taxi in the middle of the day. Greg says “So how long has it been then” and John replies “Three months.” Sherlock rises from his right-forward facing seat and steps out of the passenger door into day light. The camera approaches his back until we only see the coat. Camera recedes and it is night. Sherlock steps back into the right passenger seat while typing in his mobile and Mary is wheezing in labour. The camera pivots to also catch John at the steering wheel, as seen in the show. There is another transition back to the original taxi shot and John repeats “About three months.”
2. Walking through Doorways: As Greg, Sherlock, and John approach the door to the Welsborough House, Greg says “…We thought we’d never see you again.” Sherlock replies “You weren’t the only ones.” As Sherlock steps through the doorway, he pass into the room where he and Mycroft are interrogated by Sir Edwin and Lady Smallwood. He sits down and takes off his coat. The scene that followed was the one used to open The Six Thatchers.
At then end of this scene, Sherlock says “Because I love it.” and walks out the door and back into the WELSBOROUGH HOUSE.
3. To and From the Christening: John is looking at bus shelter and a bus goes by and reveals that he is wearing church clothes at the Christening for Rosie. John says to Sherlock something along the lines of “You could come visit Rosie” and Sherlock replies “The conversation would be a bit onesided.”
Another shot of Sherlock approaching the camera down the aisle, framed by the arches of the church. I’m not sure if this transitioned to another scene.
4. Through the Mirror: In the sceen where Mary finds Sherlock in the Moroccan hotel, the shot begins with her standing by the table looking accusing and Sherlock sitting on the floor crossed-legged. Sherlock gets up and walks towards a mirror by a curtain in the back of the room. In the curtain we see a reflection of Mycroft’s underground office. Sherlock walks past the mirror into the scene where Mycroft begins by reciting the wikipedia article for “Agra”
When that scene ends, Sherlock rises from his seat and walks back to the mirror to pass back into the Moroccan hotel room and sits down on the floor again to pick up the conversation with Mary.
5. Lastly, one of the magical transitions that were kept was Ajay remembering his torture and then falling back onto the carpet. Apparently the sequence was initially filmed as a single shot, with four sets lined up side by side. Like wow.
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I can’t attest that these are perfect descriptions of what was in these shots, and I know I’m missing some details. If anyone else remembers other things, please add them in.
Talalay had every reason to be proud of these transitions. They were breath taking (my descriptions do not do them justice!) and the audience gasped and clapped through the three minutes of footage that she shared. I am so sorry they had to make the compromise of removing these. I understand that it was deemed necessary, and Talalay was very clear that she agreed with the decision to change the order of the scenes, but it is a tragedy that we lost these beautiful tricky transitions.
So now please someone explain how johnlock somehow became TFP.
And as I am typing this it occurs to me, johnlock literally IS -still- the final problem.
The Unfinished Act of Sherlock Series 4, The History of Adaptations It’s Working to Fix, the Larger Narrative of What’s Been Driving the Show, and the Real Final Problem.
Take time to read LSiT tweets. Good points on so many fronts, not just the ARG idea. With a few people still struggling with the treatment of johnlockers by Mofftiss, Nat’s words may help.
Over a year out from s4-everyone needs to read these
This is how I feel about fandom. A year out from the last new episodes. Less voices. More echoes.
Well, every fandom sort of gets quiet when there’s no more new content. But I think this show ended in a way that makes it really hard to continue creating it, which is basically what fandom eventually does in this situation.
So, first of all, I’m sure there are Sherlock fans out there who loved “The Final Problem.” There are X-Files fans out there, I have discovered, who will defend anything Chris Carter writes, no matter how bad it is. For those fans who love the show unconditionally, I’m sure the conversation continues without a hitch. I just don’t interact a lot with that segment of the fandom.
There’s probably also a section of the Sherlock fandom which was never invested in Johnlock, liked Mary Morstan fine, accepted the craziness of “His Last Vow,” “The Six Thatchers,” and “The Lying Detective”….and then got to “The Final Problem” and just went, NO. Because really…the whole Eurus thing was a truly terrible decision, just from a series arc standpoint. It really drives home how little Moffat knows or cares about plotting and narrative. At the end of the show you should be resolving things that were introduced earlier, not introducing brand new characters and plot lines. Who in their right mind builds the last episode of their show around a character the viewers have never heard of? Instead of using “The Final Problem” to resolve things between John and Sherlock, they spent 90 minutes answering a question that the viewers had never asked themselves and didn’t care about. If they’d introduced Eurus at the beginning of S2 or something, they’d have had a chance to develop her and then maybe by S4 the viewers would have something invested in her. Instead, the viewers don’t even know she exists until the last 5 minutes of the second-to-last episode. I don’t know how that made sense to anyone.
But on the segment of the fandom that was invested in Johnlock, the impact of TFP was devastating, both to individuals and to the community. Because it really is in S4 that it becomes clear that Moffat and Gatiss have become fed up with the whole canon Johnlock thing and are actively trying to destroy that reading of the show. As exhibit A I offer the sudden reintroduction of Irene Adler as a potential romantic partner for Sherlock. She doesn’t appear; but John spends part of that climactic conversation in “The Lying Detective” trying to convince Sherlock to re-connect with her, and it’s revealed that she’s still occasionally texting him. I had to rewatch “The Final Problem” to write “Christmas Time After Time,” and one thing I noticed this time around is that in the final montage of the two of them in 221b, there’s a shot of Sherlock texting someone, “You know where to find me.” He can’t be texting Moriarty or Eurus; John’s in the room with him; I figure he’s supposed to be sending that to Irene Adler.
So after TFP, that segment of the fandom split in all kinds of directions. There’s the split between people who now accept that Moffat and Gatiss either are no longer or were never planning for a canon Johnlock ending, and the people who are keeping TJLC alive by inventing ever more elaborate explanations for why Johnlock really IS canon. This split has, I think, been very destructive. It used to be easy enough for people who were pro-Johnlock but not TJLC to interact with TJLC true believers without anyone getting their feelings hurt. But now, the TJLC reading of the show is so divergent from the non-TJLC reading of it–the two groups cannot agree even on things like the number of episodes of S4 that were actually shot, or whether/how much of any given S3 or S4 episode is set in someone’s mind palace or part of someone’s dying hallucination–that these two segments of the fandom don’t share enough common assumptions to have a real conversation about the show. Then, amongst the non- or ex-TJLCers, there was the split about how to respond to Moffat and Gatiss’s refusal to make Johnlock canon after having hinted at it fairly persistently in the first two seasons. And so on.
But for the Johnlock-positive but also non- or ex-TJLC segment of the fandom, which is the part of the fandom that I have the most contact with, I think the show just hurt a lot of people’s feelings so much that they don’t want to maintain a relationship with it. Moffat and Gatiss, as showrunners, never cared about the viewer’s emotions; it was all about what they wanted and how clever and badass they could be. They lost their grip on the fact that fans engage with television, primarily, emotionally. The small screen pulls people in emotionally in ways that the big screen doesn’t, and their emotional investment in characters and relationships makes them vulnerable. So it is possible to give your fans an emotional shock so painful that it functions as aversion therapy. That’s what happened with the “Children of Earth” series of Torchwood, which not only killed off half of the canon m/m couple but forced the surviving partner to commit an act so morally heinous and emotionally painful that I, at least, had no desire to watch that character do anything else, ever again.
I don’t think Moffat and Gatiss ever understood that. For instance, the biggest obstacle to me in trying to write fic about this show after S4, apart from the absolutely bonkers plotting, was John beating Sherlock up at the end of “The Lying Detective.” How do they get past that? How do *I*, as a viewer, get past that? I don’t. And that’s a loss.
Anyway. Yeah, echoes, I guess. Echoes and elegies for a show I used to love.
gonna get these printed as business cards that i can scatter when someone talks to me about Sherlock, just as i disappear in my cloud of smoke
Yeah they have a long-term strategy, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. They- they plan it out for years. So they’re um, they don’t just come up with the ideas quickly and go, “Oh! We’ll do this.” They knew, I think, really, from series 1 -and 2-, they planned the whole series out.
@tendergingergirl nominated me to try to find a way to keep track of the new meta that has been written since s4 of bbc sherlock aired in January, 2017. This is my first experiment. The folder and contents will be viewable by anyone with the link. My thought is to create a document for each writer, which will consist of their meta master list, ie a title and/or description, with a link back to the meta on their tumblr (or ao3 or wherever else their meta is made available to readers). If you tag me when you reblog your list, I’ll try to make sure it’s included, or updated.
I don’t have the time or skills to run a library of the actual texts, or a wiki that’s group edited. I also don’t have the intestinal fortitude to deal with mischief, if that happens I’ll have to shut it down or find some other method.
I’m a “both-and” meta reader, I enjoy the many different perspectives that various fans bring to the show. You may find writers in this folder whose views are different from yours, and I hope if that’s the case, you will exercise your good manners and use the back button rather than leaving rude comments.
I’d like to include LOTS more meta writers, one of the really exciting things for me about this hiatus, is how many new people are writing analysis! So if you have written even just a few pieces, please make a “master list” and reblog it and tag me! I’d like to include you!
Sherlock Fandom Archive 