March 2012
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February 2012
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Really strong song/book associations for me:
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Observatory Mansions/The Mariner’s Revenge Song
The Oaken Throne/Love Is All Around
Duncton Stone/Red Red Wine
these are all from overlistening (usually on the radio) while reading the book. anyone else have any?
I don’t think I have any book/song associations as I find music very distracting when I read (two sensory inputs featuring words = brain gets confused) but I do...
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The Slumber of Feelings (a study of autism and...
street-howitzer:
So back in September of ‘10 ’11, I began this series of essays on BBC’s “Sherlock”. The original intent, as stated in the prologue and repeated many times since, was to explain autism to allistics, using “Sherlock” as an extended metaphor. I wasn’t aiming to convince anybody that Sherlock was Canonically intended to be autistic.
After “The Hounds of Baskerville”, I’m gonna need...
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Let me tell you about axolotls (in brief)
dailysciencething:
aeromachia:
I don’t remember the exact details, but this reminds me in some ways of the experiment where they gave an axolotl growth hormone and it developed into a kind of salamander that hasn’t lived on the earth for thousands of years. I’ve always been fascinated by ancient ruins and civilisations, and I guess I like the fact that there are still genes around that code...
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Russian Sherlock Holmes Master Post
songofages:
The Aqquaintence
Basically A Study in Scarlet/The Speckled Band. My favourite scene? The underwear boxing scene in Watson’s bedroom.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7873776843772916269
The Bloody Inscription
Basically a continuation of the first movie. So its a Study In Scarlet. Fave scene is the scene in the hansom with Holmes cradling and fondling Watson.
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apiphile:
anideaforamoth replied to your post: “Why don’t you hang out online with people your own age?”
“I would rather sew hornets into my vagina” NEW FAVOURITE PHRASE
Those poor hornets though. They’d get caught in the cobwebs I have up there.
I would sew clever, creative hornets into my vagina so they could weave wonderful fabrics with the cobwebs therein.
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I JUST WANT WILLIAM-MORRIS PRINT CLOTHING, WORLD
apiphile:
WHY WON’T YOU DO THIS FOR ME
How about William Meowrris?
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Nice list of the reprehensible shits using... →
Private companies are benefiting from people who are made to work unpaid on threat of loss of benefits
This Freedom of Information response for Kent, Surrey and Sussex has many recognisable brands including: Asda, Wilkinsons, Poundstretcher, Pizza Hut, Savers, Poundland, 99p stores, and more. Worryingly, public sector jobs at Medway Council are also being filled with workfare placements.
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"stop being queer the wrong way"
apiphile:
you’re hurting the community.
fuck “the community”, when i want to play tribes within the wider pool of humanity i’ll find a better arbiter of who “my people” are than whether we both have a mild-to-total desire to fuck people of the same gender identity as ourselves, okay.
(the _____ community can, as a rule, bite me. either i qualify and don’t want to play or i don’t qualify, but...
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Women beg Chris Brown to beat them. Where to begin... →
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billieisaguysname:
Ladies, a few statistics for you…
Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten.
Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Most often, the abuser is a member of her own family.
Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than car accidents,...
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