honestly it was a red flag when bbc sherlock went “well obviously the word written in blood isn’t the german word for revenge, it’s clearly the beginning of the name ‘rachel’, what absolute idiot would fail to see that” when in the original novel it is, in fact, the german word for revenge, which sherlock points out gleefully to a roomful of policemen who all figure it’s the beginning of the name ‘rachel.’
and by red flag I mean it was a clear sign that the adaptation was trying to one-up the source material, instead of engaging with it with love.
You’re so right. I remember watching 1x01 and thinking “wow! they got the texts to pop up on the screen, that’s super cool!” and thinking it was just like. A super well done show and so amazing. But looking back, what I actually liked about it was the snappy editing and the little bit of development that Martin Freeman was allowed to give to his character.
Apart from that, the show is so full of… contempt? Like even from the beginning, there’s this sense that the show thinks you’re probably too stupid to be watching it, but sure, I guess we’ll let you tag along and see what a clever, amazing person Sherlock is. He’s definitely smarter than you though so don’t even try to engage with the source material, a dummy like you could never get anything right.
And then that just stayed the tone of the show until I got fed up and stopped watching.
That’s just it, that thing with the texts on screen was the first time I’d ever seen phones so smoothly and cleverly integrated into the visuals, it was genuinely brilliant, and the Watson we’re introduced to in ep1 is a compelling character. And frankly even the condescension doesn’t jar yet in ep1, because part of the joy of mystery stories (and especially of sherlock holmes adaptations) is watching the detective be so incredibly clever, so it wasn’t immediately apparent that the writers didn’t want us to be able to follow along. They’re just showing off their mystery-writing skills!
And – I think this part was really important actually – because in ep1, Sherlock responds to John actually being impressed by his deductions with the startled vulnerability of someone who’s never before met someone who doesn’t immediately want to either defeat him in battle or never speak to him again. John is truly impressed with Sherlock, but unthreatened by him, and Sherlock doesn’t really know what to do with that but he really doesn’t want to lose it. So he invites John along on his case, and then shows off for him like a peacock flashing his tail in the nervous hope that John might say more nice things, and he’s clearly floored when John does.
And that’s a really good dynamic on which to build a friendship! Closet thrill-seeker who’s extremely secure in his own abilities befriends arrogant mean girl genius who’s spent so long being envied and disliked by everyone he meets that he imprints like a duckling on the first person who doesn’t do that, but he has no clue how friendships work so he just drags this person to crime scenes and worse in the hopes that somehow this’ll do the trick.
But although John is confident in his own abilities, the writers don’t actually want him to have any. My beef with this show actually started in the very next episode, where John and his date get kidnapped by bad guys. They’re tied up and being interrogated, and John is unable to do literally anything but sit there and yell about it, even when they nearly murder his date. Sherlock has to swoop in and save the day.
In ep1 when John meets Mycroft, Mycroft’s parting shot is “fire your therapist,” because she says John’s psychosomatic tremble is a response to danger but Mycroft has been unsubtly threatening him and his tremble has firmed up and gone. John responds to danger with level-headed courage, we are told this explicitly in the text. And then when his date is about to be murdered by bad guys who believe he knows the location of the hidden whatever, he can’t find the presence of mind to fucking lie about it? String them along a little? Come up with SOME way to buy time, convince the bad guys he’s cooperating so they’ll stop paying so much attention and he can figure out a way to send a message, something. Anything.
That’s when I realized the writers didn’t actually want John to be able to do anything, they didn’t want this to be the partnership they set up in the end of ep1, they wanted Sherlock to be the competent one and John to be his fangirl. And the thing is, John is the viewer insert character. He’s the one we’re supposed to be able to identify with so he can hook us into the story. And it turns out the writers just want John – and us – to do exactly what you said: tag along and see what a clever, amazing person Sherlock is.
@cafffine I hope it’s cool that I’m copying your tags onto this longer version of the post, bc on the surface that’s just the rache/rachel thing writ large – what if we took the thing that it wasn’t in the book and did that instead! – but it’s also part of this deep contempt the writers have for just…people. I was going to say ‘regular people’ but actually there are no people as clever as their version of sherlock, he’s the specialest guy in the whole wide world and he can never be wrong.
And first of all, that’s just so much more boring than a full on genre twist. The brilliance of making the shift into horror “our infallible detective was wrong,” thus signifying that the rules of the detective story no longer apply, and that same realization is also “the rules of reason and civilization we were operating by are useless, the superstitious locals are right, there be monsters here.” That’s the opening to Dracula! That’s classic horror! What a seamless genre transition, what a great way to shock your readers, what excellent suspense and what a cool mystery.
But it requires Sherlock to be wrong. It requires him to be completely wrong, and specifically it requires him to be wrong to have dismissed the locals as superstitious peasants whose fears were silly. It requires him to admit that just because he’s smarter than someone doesn’t mean his worldview is more correct.
Which, I suspect, is something the the writers of bbc sherlock don’t really know how to wrap their heads around.
the fact that people are actually for-real using threads is insane. is this what weve come to as a society? i remember a time when google tried to make their own version of facebook and it was regarded as so lame it was almost immediately a punchline. now META of all cunts is making its own copy of TWITTER of all cesspools and people are voluntarily joining??? whats next?? are we all gonna use bing and the windows phone too?? you people make me sick id genuinely rather us all go to the jeremy renner app
Along with stepping away from all film and television productions worldwide, actors will not be permitted to take part in promotional work of any kind, including press junkets, film premieres, and fan events like San Diego Comic-Con.
Sources also say that SAG-AFTRA has informed publicists that any scheduled press or acting work after a strike is ordered must be cancelled. SAG-AFTRA members are also not permitted to promote any work on social media, as that is considered publicity.
Actors are permitted to attend the pop culture convention as long as they don’t take part in any panels that promote a specific film or television show or discuss any current or future work. While attendance is allowed, individuals with knowledge of the publicist meeting tell TheWrap that SAG-AFTRA would prefer that its members completely skip the event [SDCC] later this month.
Threads is the Hot New Garbagedump by Certified Scum Of The Earth and Facebook/Meta owner Zuckerburg. It is like if twitter was even worse.
There is ONLY a For You page, meaning you can never just see the posts from your followed accounts who, yknow, you followed for the purpose of seeing their posts.You can’t see those. you have to see the algorithm’s posts ONLY. You also require an instagram to get full access to all the features like Posting Images. You need a separate social media account to properly access this new social media. And once you’ve done so, the only way to delete your Threads account, is to delete you instagram account. The Whole Thing. For Some Fucking Reason. Not to mention, obviously since it’s zuckerburg, the thing syphons your personal information like crazy, worse still than twitter.
Like ALL your data. as much as it can get. (Love that it says “Other Data” btw. Nice subtle way of saying “whatever else we want”) ALSO wouldn’t you know it? It’s fucking banned in the EU because it violates a bunch of fucking privacy laws!! So it’s DEFINITELY not safe to use!
It is as predatory and exploitative as can be, created by someone that we collectively agreed Sucks Shit and Has No Empathy For Human Life and Individuality, and nobody should be touching it with a ten foot pole let alone sign up for it. Not even to test the waters or because it’s where everyone is heading, or to see how bad it is for yourself. It doesn’t matter if you’re joining to get an account ready in case the platform ends up the new big thing. You’re feeding the statistics. Even if you’re not using that account, Zuckerburg can show the number of signups to shareholders and investors to prove to them that it’s viable. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon in case it succeeds, inform people why they shouldn’t join, to reduce its chance of success! It’s like strikes and protests; The more of us get the word out, the more effective it’ll be!
Please do your research and don’t blindly follow trends.
[Image description: A screenshot of the page on Threads detailing what data they collect. The list is titled “Data Linked to You” and is subtitled “The following data may be collected and linked to your identity.” Included in the list are items reading “Health & Fitness” (highlighted in red), “Financial Info”, “Contact Info”, “User Content”, “Browsing History” (highlighted in red), “Usage Data”, “Diagnostics”, “Purchases”, “Location” (highlighted in red), “Contacts”, “Search History” (highlighted in red), “Identifiers”, “Sensitive Info”, and “Other Data”. -end ID]
only about 20% of donations to thrift shops are sold in retail locations. The remaining majority of used clothes are handled in numerous ways, including being exported to lower-income countries and landfilled. This contributes to environmental harm. This number is even higher when we consider the fact that large numbers of low-quality or damaged items are discarded at the first sorting.
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What happens to secondhand clothes that don’t sell?
Estimates from the United States show that only about 20% of textile donations are sold through thrift shops, while the remaining 80% are sold to resellers [editor’s Note: by “reseller” this article is not referring to Depop sellers the top post is referring to, they mean commercial resellers], sorters, and graders, repurposed into low-quality textile materials for stuffing or rags, and sent for disposal. 45% of this remaining amount is domestically and internationally reused and resold, 50% is used for low-grade textile needs, and 5% is landfilled or incinerated. The fiber-to-fiber recycling only amounts to about 1% of this amount. (NIST, 2022, Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles Workshop Report) . Almost half of all second-hand clothing donations that don’t sell are exported to different countries. While African countries receive the majority of low-quality items, Latin America receives the medium-quality pieces, and the high-quality, branded items are exported to Japan which has a rich second-hand clothing market. (Hansen, 2010) . It is estimated that between 40-75% of textile donations that don’t sell are resold in bulk to textile sorters, graders, and brokers by charitable donations like thrift shops. These textile recyclers across the United States and Northwestern Europe transport their bulk second-hand textile purchases to warehouses and sorting plants, where the textiles are sorted according to different properties like fiber content, weight, quality, fabric type, and garment type. This intensive sorting labor is often done by underpaid immigrant workers in poor working conditions. (Hansen, 2010) . According to Southern California Goodwill’s vice president of retail operations Ray Tellez, Goodwill locations across the Southern Californian region track how long each piece is displayed for sale in the retail locations and the pieces that aren’t sold in 4 weeks are sent to Goodwill outlet stores. These outlet stores usually sell items for lower prices and per weight (i.e. 99 cents per pound of clothing) in an effort to keep donated and second-hand textiles out of landfills. While there are regional differences in how Goodwills across North America handle this process, this general outline of the process is the same in different regions. (Strutner, 2021) (Goodwill Outlet Store Locator) . According to Brittany Dickinson, who is the manager of sustainability for Goodwill Industries International, only half of all donated clothing is suitable for sale to retail customers through online or offline stores. The remaining half of donations are either sold to Goodwill outlets or to salvage dealers. Of the 50% that’s approved for sale to retail customers, only 38-48% of pieces are sold within the approved time frame. The rest is first sent to Goodwill outlets and later sold in bulk to salvage dealers. (Chiu, 2023) . Buffalo Exchange, which is another popular thrift store in North America, purchases second-hand clothes from their owners rather than accepting donations. For pieces that aren’t in a good enough condition to be bought by Buffalo Exchange and resold, they collect donations for local non-profits. The second-hand pieces that do not get sold in their regular retail locations are sent to their outlet stores in Texas and Arizona. (Porter, 2019)
there is so much unsold clothing from the secondhand market in the United States that we have collapsed the textile industries of several other countries by exporting unsold thrift store donations to the global south. there is no shortage of second hand clothing and never will be. resellers could not possibly buy enough donated clothing from thrift stores to ever make a dent in the global supply even if their market segment (which is borderline nonexistent) was double the size it is now. ask anyone who has actually worked at a Goodwill or Value Village about this, they’ll tell you the vast majority of donated clothing goes straight to outlets/landfill/exports, and the majority of the remaining clothing that actually ends up on racks sits there until its time expires and it ends up at the outlet/export/landfill. there is no conspiracy of Etsy resellers taking all the good clothes away from you. it’s an entirely invented moral panic from TikTok and I don’t think the people I see posting about it ever actually shop secondhand, and if they do they’ve never been to a Goodwill outlet where they sell (yes, even plus size) clothing shoes and textiles for a dollar a POUND.
Becky who buys one XL sun dress a month to flip on depop couldn’t budge the global export market if she got venture capital backing for it. it’s just too big, and Americans buy and donate too many new clothes, for individuals to do anything about it in either direction.
thanks that was all really stupid and beside the point ✌️
i want people to appreciate pigeons. not “ehehe skrunkly little trash gremlins. so adaptable and resilient”. nothing wrong with that sentiment towards racccons and opossums, but when people do this about pigeons, it shows a fundamental misunderstanding about a pigeon’s place in the world.
pigeons were beloved. they were pets, they were tools, they were food. we found use and pleasure in everything about them. then they became obsolete. then they stopped being popular. an animal that we have literally thousands of years of deep history with, completely discarded by mankind to the point most people are ignorant of their existence outside of “rats with wings”.
hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
Where do I copy-paste these to? “My filters”? “My Rules”?
‘my filters’! if you look closely you’ll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters
