also, idk if it matters, but i think we were def supposed to be able to read that address because when i first saw the tweet, i swear it had a different screenshot where he blocked out the address too well and you couldn’t read it. the only reason i noticed that the black scribble was different is because when i saw he blocked out the address the first thing i tried to do was read it lol,,,
i didn’t take a screenshot of the first one cuz i didn’t think he was going to change it .-. so if he did change it so it could be read more easily, that at least confirms we’re supposed to know that address for some reason or another
or i’m crazy and this didn’t happen but i’m p dang sure it did
i think i snagged a screenshot of both:
so i do think we were supposed to read it!
👀👀👀
Funnily enough though crossed through two different ways, the address is the same. The first time only showed the top half of the letters, the second gives us the bottom half.
We at TJLC agree with @worriesconstantly and @alwaysanoriginal: making enough anti-S4 noise using twitter hashtag #norbury is the most likely interpretation of what the Sherlock PTB want out of fandom during this… shall we call it an intermission?
Dale Pike, a fic author whose works are almost certainly a product of Moffat & Company, suggested this course of action on January 29th. As of yesterday, in a new fic, The Players, a character IN-NARRATIVE confirmed as Moffat (masquerading as a very clumsy Sherlock), BEGS US to tell the world who he really is. Because that matters. And we just wanted to hear him say it.
In Dale Pike’s first suggestion, we received a link to THIS HANDY VIDEOwhich sums up the most egregious of s4 sins. We’ve been encouraged to TWEET THIS VIDEO as well as any other original content we may want to berate the internet with. The only ao3 tag on “The Players” is #norbury. So let’s get this show on the road.
Will it work? I DON’T KNOW. BUT WE SHOULD TRY!!!!!!! WE SHOULD TRY!!!! And we should see if we can manage to get enough of a buzz going in time for March 8th, since, supposedly, if I’m reading the signs right, SOME sort of truth ought to be revealed.
The goal here is to get #norbury trending within one hour, then keep it going as long as we can sustain. This blog is thinking we should go for 7pm London time/2pm EST/11am Pacific on Saturday and Sunday, March 4th and 5th.
In “The Players,” it’s been suggested that we’ve got to get Sherlock’s attention with a one word test, yelling, together, as loud as we can. This disorients Sherlock enough that the bomb hidden beneath his coat becomes exposed. While I have a feeling TPTB may be trying to remedy this situation themselves, they’re clearly struggling, and WE SHOULD TRY TO HELP!
BONUS TIP: IF WE CAN GET SOMEONE WITH 50K FOLLOWERS TO RETWEET OUR MESSAGE, WE SHOULD BE TRENDING WITHIN MINUTES.
ALL TOGETHER NOW:
>GET #NORBURY TRENDING >WITHIN 1HR >ON MARCH 4TH AND 5TH >AT 7PM LONDON/2PM EST/11AM PST
AND REBLOG THIS FUCKING POST!!!!!!!!!!
Once more unto the breach. .. let’s do this!
I’m reblogging this again because I have now caught up with the going ons of fandom: DO NOT USE #norbury FOR ARG RELATED THINGS. That hashtag was created to bring up queerbaiting on Twitter, NOT for ARG. It’s extremely disrespectful in my opinion to twist the hashtag in this way. Feel free to make a new hashtag for this, but keep #norbury out of it.
The story of Jim and the skull is very ominous, this entire thing is sketchy and seems like a set up for us to fail – don’t take the bait.
We spoke directly with dymm on our chat the other day, and they said contacting real life celebrities was not a good idea. Instead, we should be looking for twitters like @StartsBritain, humours and with a good following, who are also unsatisfied with TFP.
The last thing we need is news sites with headlines like “Sherlock fans harass George Takei” or something similar. This isn’t going to help our cause.
We’re also planning on going radio silent tomorrow, instead of following the skull’s plan, until they give us more solid clues.
Do you, but I’m not spamming someone and possibly bringing more wrath the way of any of us, regardless of if you are playing/believe or not.
I’m not following the ARG myself but anything that involves spamming real life people is a bad idea, please don’t do this. It’s not fair to bring anyone into this without their willing participation.
I don’t even know what’s this about and why George Takei is involved with Johnlock in any manner but can we please avoid being ‘the weird fandom that harasses celebrities’ again please?
We at TJLC agree with @worriesconstantly and @alwaysanoriginal: making enough anti-S4 noise using twitter hashtag #norbury is the most likely interpretation of what the Sherlock PTB want out of fandom during this… shall we call it an intermission?
Dale Pike, a fic author whose works are almost certainly a product of Moffat & Company, suggested this course of action on January 29th. As of yesterday, in a new fic, The Players, a character IN-NARRATIVE confirmed as Moffat (masquerading as a very clumsy Sherlock), BEGS US to tell the world who he really is. Because that matters. And we just wanted to hear him say it.
In Dale Pike’s first suggestion, we received a link to THIS HANDY VIDEOwhich sums up the most egregious of s4 sins. We’ve been encouraged to TWEET THIS VIDEO as well as any other original content we may want to berate the internet with. The only ao3 tag on “The Players” is #norbury. So let’s get this show on the road.
Will it work? I DON’T KNOW. BUT WE SHOULD TRY!!!!!!! WE SHOULD TRY!!!! And we should see if we can manage to get enough of a buzz going in time for March 8th, since, supposedly, if I’m reading the signs right, SOME sort of truth ought to be revealed.
The goal here is to get #norbury trending within one hour, then keep it going as long as we can sustain. This blog is thinking we should go for 7pm London time/2pm EST/11am Pacific on Saturday and Sunday, March 4th and 5th.
In “The Players,” it’s been suggested that we’ve got to get Sherlock’s attention with a one word test, yelling, together, as loud as we can. This disorients Sherlock enough that the bomb hidden beneath his coat becomes exposed. While I have a feeling TPTB may be trying to remedy this situation themselves, they’re clearly struggling, and WE SHOULD TRY TO HELP!
BONUS TIP: IF WE CAN GET SOMEONE WITH 50K FOLLOWERS TO RETWEET OUR MESSAGE, WE SHOULD BE TRENDING WITHIN MINUTES.
ALL TOGETHER NOW:
>GET #NORBURY TRENDING >WITHIN 1HR >ON MARCH 4TH AND 5TH >AT 7PM LONDON/2PM EST/11AM PST
Please, unfollow this person on twitter. They download fan videos from YouTube and re-upload on their twitter account without credit.
What I find most revolting about my work being stolen is that they didn’t just re-uploaded, they cut out last 4 seconds of my fanvideo so people on Twitter won’t see my YouTube username.
It’s disgusting. If you want to share a video on Twitter, share by using YouTube link. and for the love of God, don’t just cut out bits and bobs from other people’s works. Making fanvideos takes time. “Love, Sherlock”(the one that they re-upload) took me 10 months to make, from May 2016 til February 2017.
Yes, you’re reading that right. We’ve got two twitter accounts here that are named after two absolute BNFs, ivyblossom and lsit. These accounts were both created this month and their first tweet was identical, so we can be reasonably certain they were created by the same people:
Go and check out these accounts. They’re both very focussed on BBC Sherlock and they keep tweeting the link to a very suspicious video:
In the video description it says: “A message to BBC and Hartswood Films.” And the video then talks about what went wrong with BBC Sherlock etc, using only photos with short texts on them.
The really interesting part is this: There are only two videos on this Youtube channel, one of them made before tfp aired and the other one after, and the account is called Dale Pike. And guess what? There isn’t just one corresponding twitter account, there are two.
https://twitter.com/ibelieveinPike This is the first one. It was created in 2015, but there are only a few tweets from back then. It’s only become really active in January 2017, tweeting a lot of #Norbury stuff like you’d expect it to (and like dymm wants us to…).
That person is calling themselves Dale Pike. In canon Sherlock Holmes, however, there’s a journalist called Langdale Pike. And sure enough, there’s a twitter account under that name as well: https://twitter.com/Contact_Dale_P/
It seems likely that both accounts are supposed to belong to the same person. Look at Langdale’s tweet:
Sounds like Langdale has two twitter accounts.
I haven’t had time to look at all of these in detail (it’s 2 am), but I wanted to talk about this because they actually made parodies of fan accounts. How incredible is that??
@ivyblossom (I know you see things a bit differently wrt tfp, but obviously you need to be tagged here, if only to take a look at that parody account. I hope you don’t mind the speculation here!)
I’ve only read three of them. One is a poem that’s supposedly Buffy/Labyrinth fanfic, and it’s about a well (and never mentions Buffy at all, plus the author says in the notes that “[s]ome things are best expressed in really bad poetry, squirrelled away on fan-fiction sites”). And the other two I’ve read are part of a series called Spoiling Sherlock in Real-Time. They keep breaking the fourth wall, mentioning the fandom and the authors… Idek anymore.
Then I checked the comments of one of the fics and found that IvyBosom and loudest_TubSexts_in_Television have accounts too. They’re empty, but in the comments Dale accuses Ivy of being Mark and lsit of being Steven. (There’s also an account called CumberBint99 that just really ships Sherl0lly.)
I am so confused. I just watched the first youtube video.. it is so.. let’s say specific? For a parody? Wtf? And let’s talk about twin theory:
wait for it…
why? what?
Who are they?
fuck U
This haunts me:
Mark: “Im sure there are lots of mysteries on twitter”
Steven, smug: “Oh yeah”
Wait till you read all the fic.
I’m serious. EVERYBODY, READ EVERYTHING THAT ACCOUNT HAS TO OFFER.
They’re truly the Abyss of the Fandom. They are in too deep, too meta. Whoever they are (especially if it is Mofftiss behind all of this) THEY ARE FUCKING CRAZY AND OUT OF THEIR MINDS. This investment scares even me.. holy fuck
@sister-edgelord why is the lsit parody located in bangkok? (lsit is from the us, no? cmiiw)
also jdskhfds for a seeming parody account it does sort of miss the point of “mocking” tjlc by literally tagging all of the tweets with #norbury #bbcqueerbait etc
also also this fic https://archiveofourown.org/works/5363765 tags sherlock and mycroft as characters yet in the fic there are only S and M…i see you steven and mark, i see you villain
They started with that tweet about parodies being flattery for a reason, I suppose. No idea why they’d put Bangkok though – maybe they just thought it sounded funny? (Not exactly the best reason, but the only one I can come up with atm.)
And I’m serious, all of the fic I’ve read so far has been weird like that. The one you mention in particular, but the others too. I want to make a big post about all of that, but I don’t have the time.
Everyone, read that story, think about who is who in the story and read it again. They’re accusing us of theft, forgery and blackmail, and I love it.
I wanted to sum up everything we got in this post and make a more specific one with all the handwrittings I found to be more similar. Sorry if this repetitive but I think we could have something big here.
So we got this:
(Bigger pic)(If your are in a computer right click open new tab, sometimes my tumblr is stupid, sorry)
I compared the letters in all this pics and got this (here I am at 1am comparing handwrittings…while I should be doing something productive):
I draw a tick for the letters I see similar, two for the ones I see the exact same (the double tick for the John’s blog H is for both, not just the lower one) My conclusions are:
– Mycroft’s (I suppose is Mark who writes it) & original twitter pic’s E’s are the EXACT same to me. – Mark T’s are the EXACT same as the one from John’s blog…and H from John’s blog & Twitter pic nº4 looks exactly the same to me (
That H is done in a very specific way.) so I’ll let you draw your own conclusions. – Mycroft & John’s blog A’s to me are EXACTLY the same. – Also Mycroft’s handwritting looks to me very similar in general to John’s blog one. So it seems like Mycroft’s, John’s blog and our original twitter pic have letters in common. There we have a strong relationship between those three handwrittings.
If you think different or want to add something please let me know. I want to know what people think because this is very subjective and I am not expert.
I don’t know who is in the handwritting hell so I’ll tag some people under the cut, hope you don’t mind.
another example of sherlock’s handwriting, from john’s blog (the deadly tealights)!!
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Aaaah, thank you! ❤ those arrows….*eye emoji*
I might be saying something stupid BUT… John’s H is the same as the H written by the barista, the one Sherlock joked about cause he thought it was another N.
I think the note with the bath drawing is Sherlock’s ‘h’! But yes…all the same person…? *eye emoji*
The numbers look very similar to numbers on E’s note to John in TST!!!
I just want to say that that H MUST be done by the same person imo because who tf does the H like this
(in red is how that H was done) I don’t think many people do it like that and the one from the twitter seems to be done the same way. And those 7 look a lot alike. @jenna221b
Can this hell end??
Okay fml I looked more into this and…doesn’t Mycroft handwritting look a lot like one from John’s blog??
Look at the A’s and R’s….*huge sigh*
So I did my research and I found my Mark’s signature on Sherlocked last year and look.
That “T” on BATH.
it’s curiously very similar to the “T” form of Mark’s signature.
To focus on.
And the last ‘o’ from my name seems the same as Mark’s on his Mycroft’s notebook.
i believe i saw something about oysters being related to The Dying Detective?
yes it’s a quote from acd’s The Dying Detectve!- holmes to watson:
“"You will tell him exactly how you have left me,” said he. "You will
convey the very impression which is in your own mind–a dying man–a
dying and delirious man. Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of
the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures
seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain!
What was I saying, Watson?“”
Listen, I am not tin-hatting at all, but whoever is running these twitter accounts is doing a bang up job. They know their canon, and they are good writers, having a good time. So kudos. If it’s a couple of you out there on tumblr, just know you’re great!
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