First Rules Post Of 2020 Folks 🥳

So, I think elementary is perhaps my favorite Sherlock adaptation. Very underrated, and I highly, highly recommend.

the absolute best thing about elementary, besides the entirety of it, is sherlock's humanity.

he is not an arrogant asshole. he is not a "all of you shall bow before me." does he have moments where he acts superior and puts people down? yes. but it's never a fundamental part of his being. he is clever and skilled, yes, but it is not his personality. he isn't just excused to be an asshole. it's not just "oh that's sherlock, the complete dickhead." sherlock season 1 and sherlock season 7 are hardly the same person.

he admits his mistakes, hell, he fucking apologizes for them. he changes to be kind to people. his asshole arrogance is portrayed as a defense mechanism because he's so lonely. he learns to be kind. he learns to love and he learns to be polite for the sake of it. he hates marriage, hates it, absolutely hates it, but he buys an expensive glass of champagne for a man proposing to his girlfriend, people he doesn't know, without even hesitating. he comforts survivors of assault and does his best in being non-threatening whenever there's someone who is in a delicate state of mind. he helps a girl who lied to him (to put it mildly) chose a new name and identity, to move on. he helps a victim of assult get revenge. he is willing to frame a murderer to stop him from killing others. he solves murders because he thinks it's unfathomable not to.

he dates an autistic woman, and I'm not saying this in the "oh wow look he should be praised!" sort of way, i mean, he changes how he acts in order to make her more comfortable, he buys her a limited gift, he does things he isn't comfortable doing, like clearly stating his feelings, in order to make her feel better. he reassures her when she needs it.

sherlock cares. he so fundamentally cares, about people he doesn't know, about people he does. he threatens to kill his own brother if joan is even mildly hurt. he beats a man who hurt his friend, alfredo. he breaks the law in order to help friends of friends. he tries so hard to understand normal convention.

it isn't like the majority of sherlock's I've seen and read about. he deeply truly cares, he wants to be a part of functioning society, he helps because he can't imagine not doing it. he tries to express his care and concern for people and fails sometimes because he can't communicate with them.

it's kind of stated that he's possibly autistic and it fits in with his actions. his antisocial behavior isn't because he's a dick and thinks he's better than everyone, it's because there are so few he can express himself to, no matter how hard he tries.

he names a bee after watson. he calls her extraordinary and makes an effort to be kind to her.

he hates humanity, or he tries to, at least, but he loves people. he's tried to fit in, to be someone people could be friends with, and got rejected, and now that he's older, he's trying to help people from the outside, trying to connect with people in a different way. he's a tragic character in that sense, but it's shown, it's quite literally basically stated over and over, sherlock needs people.

he's desperate with it, really. he wants to talk to people but the majority don't understand or aren't willing to listen, so he finds shelter in other outcasts. he doesn't hate the people who don't understand him. he tries so hard to communicate with people.

and to sum this all up, here are some of the quotes im talking about.

S: It has its costs. W: What does? Learning to see the puzzle in everything. They're everywhere. Once you start looking, it's impossible to stop. It just so happens that people, with all the deceits and illusions that inform everything they do, tend to be the most facinating puzzles of all. Of course, they don't always appreciate being seen as such. Seems like a lonely way to live. As I said. Has its costs.

a friend of sherlock's: You can't expect Sherlock Holmes to relate to you the way another person might. The moment you do, he'll migrate out of your life, and you'll be the poorer for it.

W: I texted you. You didn't have to come. S: As I explained the other day, there's nothing more hazardous to my health than boredom. Besides, I thought it might be nice to meet the ex. W: I'm pretty sure he's not going to show. S: And here you sit. W: I'll give him ten more minutes. If there's someplace else you have to be... S: Not tonight, Watson. Not tonight.

Sherlock, after joan thanks him for making her family understand her job as a sober companion: I simply told them what they wanted to hear. They're nice people, your family, but they are, at their core, conventional. You make an effort to appear conventional, but I know, Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the humdrum routine of ordinary life. Your family will never understand this, so I gave them some words that they would understand.

S: Realizing that you were in physical danger was difficult for me. If anything ever happened to you, I'm not sure I could forgive myself. W: Okay, this is not how you express concern for someone that you want to keep safe. Quite right, so I've reached out to a handful of martial artists who reside in the city, each one of them an expert in his or her fighting style. My hope is some combination of them will agree to train you.

these are all just from the first season.

and a few more, my personal favorites.

Misanthropy was so easy, Watson. Elegant. I miss it sometimes.

I was dying, and no one could see it but you.

S: You could have killed Agent Mattoo. And from your perspective, it would have been the expedient thing. Moriarty: And yet, to you, it would have been repugnant. Tell me, is that how you learned to be one of them? By learning to care how your actions seemed in the eyes of another? S: I'm not sure I am one of them.

W: You're not the same person I met a year and a half ago. You're- S: Good to you? Yeah. For the most part. I consider you to be exceptional. So I make an exceptional effort to accommodate you.

I’m fucking done with that 40,000 note post being reblogged left and right. Here’s the situation, shall we?

No, it’s not just “a fucking flu”. Well, it is, but it is a new virus which no one has immunity for, we have no vaccine for, and that, despite having a longer incubation period, seems to have a reproduction number estimated at 2.2. Seasonal flu, in contrast, is about 1.3. So, yes, it seems to be more contagious than the flu.

Covid-19 is particularly vicious for the elderly and immunodeficient people. In general, symptoms include fever, feeling out of breath, severe cough, which can turn into pneumonia. This doesn’t mean that you should underestimate it because you’re young and healthy: plenty of younger people, from 20s to 50s, have needed intubation, which’ll come back to later. That said, you should still protect others by following all hygienic guidelines (I’ll come back to this later).

On March 3, WHO Director-General said that “Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.” However, in Italy, for instance, right now about 7% of those infected have died and 9% have recovered as of March 14th. Unfortunately, it takes a long time for the illness to complete its course despite treatment. 

Why was Italy hit so badly? Perhaps because on average we have an older population (average age is 45). But Italy started testing throughly from the get-go, which other most European countries didn’t do and some still refuse to do. Thing is, we perhaps also underestimated the severity of what was about to hit the country; many of the ill have needed intubation and intensive care, which has put our healthcare system under severe pressure even though it’s one of the best in the world. There simply aren’t enough ICUs for everyone… and Italy seems to have more ICU units than other European countries.

According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, “The risk of healthcare system capacity being exceeded in the EU/EEA and the UK in the coming weeks is considered high.” This is what we need to avoid.

Yes, doctors in Italy are doing triage. Yes, they have to choose who to treat and save in ICU.

A doctor from Milan admitted to have what she called a “goodbye list”. A list of video calls that those at the hospital with Covid 19 can do before they die, because their families can’t visit them. They die alone and they die perfectly lucid. In Bergamo (Northern Italy, one of the most affected areas) the mortuaries are full and are placing the dead in churches.

Italy is on lockdown. Families can’t see each other, people can only go out for basic necessities, shops are closed except few exceptions (incl. pharmacies and food shops), but more and more cases are still popping up because the incubation period is LONG and the measures will take a while to help. Still,

SUPERMARKETS ARE OPEN. SUPERMARKETS WILL STAY OPEN. STOP PANIC BUYING EVERYTHING.

The reason why we’re telling you all of this is not to say that it WILL happen wherever you are, but that it may. All of the above is the worst case scenario, but governments are taking preventive measures by going into moderate-severe lockdown to avoid all the above.

So, no, don’t take that fucking flight. I don’t know how to tell you this, but it doesn’t matter if you are young and healthy: you should care about others and their wellbeing. No, please do not travel.

Wash your hands regularly.

Sneeze and cough into your elbow.

Don’t shake hands.

Try and avoid social contact – perhaps consider not going clubbing or not going to the pub or the gym.

If you have Covid 19 symptoms, do not go to the ER. Call a doctor remotely.

Don’t panic, but don’t underestimate the situation either because at this point it’s just willful fucking ignorance.

in these trying times i have made up the concept of a star trek musical

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Star Trek The Original Series S01E25 - The City on the Edge of Forever / S01E26 - Operation Annihilate!

I've been trying to find motivation to work out (I've been sick so its fallen off) when it hit me. If I can work out enough, I can be a buff sword-type lady and by the time quarantines over I can find a gf and lift/carry her around. Wish me luck guys.

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Kate Messner - Everything sucks

NEW RUSSIAN HOLMES

As it surprises absolutely no one, central has ignored me successfully on several instances, and for several weeks, in my proposal to just give them the fucking subtitles for nrh on their channel since they’ve pulled down mine. Therefore, plan B went into action which is uploading the series on google drive, so here it goes:

1. 221B Baker Street

2. Rock, paper, scissors 

3. Pagliacci 

4. The Mistresses of Lord Moulbrey

5. The Musgrave Ritual

6. Halifax

7. Holmes’ Last Case

8. The Hound Named Baskerville 

Same info could be found on this little cursed vid I’ve just uploaded on youtube, so hopefully the show could still be found via the simple keywords. 

Thanks for the trouble, youtube.  

jensenackles: Today is my beautiful wife’s birthday. And this girl is still throwin it down! Adding a little “cheer” in our lives during #coronalockdown . She even baked her own cake…(show off🙄) 🥳😊. Keep it positive out there folks. (x)