Our intrepid trio can’t help but be impressed that a traffic cone was successfully used to break the security glass surrounding the crown jewels. Well done.
This one via the request line:
sarcasmtrumpsapathy asked:ok ok i got one! what if moriarty actually used a traffic cone to break the crown’s glass? lol
Teach me the way of Traffic Cone. Look! More! #traffic cone tag.
sebitron asked: Just wanted to comment on the aerogel question, from some quick research it looks like this would be a highly unlikely solution because it's incredibly expensive (several places sell small sample disks for $30) so anything large enough to actually break Sherlock's fall would be prohibitively expensive. Also, regardless of cost, aerogel is a brittle substance, even if it's strong, so the impact of a falling body would cause it to shatter.
Some kinds of aerogel aren’t brittle, but still. I just don’t think that’s what we’re dealing with here.
It’s great for catching space dust, though. So somewhere maybe there’s a little space dust Sherlock and John and Jim…
evil-sherlock-holmes asked: no obviously sherlock wanted john to recognise him by ... not his face.
Oh, what crazy, mutant Reichenfeels there would’ve been if Sherlock had been naked when he jumped.
Lestrade needs to plan these things through. What was he thinking, arming himself only with a traffic cone?
Once upon a time there was a traffic cone. Then there were some more in my #traffic cone tag.
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Do not toy with my feelings, sir.
“In your own case,” said I, “from all that you have told me, it seems obvious that your faculty of observation and your peculiar facility for deduction are due to your own systematic training.”
“To some extent,” he answered, thoughtfully. “My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class. But, none the less, my turn that way is in my veins, and may have come with my grandmother, who was the sister of Vernet, the French artist. Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”
John watched helplessly from the wrong building as Sherlock was about to actually ingest a lethal dose of tiny traffic cone.
Let me tell you about traffic cones. Let me show you more: #traffic cone tag
Anonymous asked:
This is a bit ridiculous but do you know or could you crowd source what the food item that’s pasted around the Christmas party (and Sherlock later steals one from Mrs. Hudson’s fridge) could be? It’s like rounds of white bread with melted cheese on top maybe? It strikes me as an odd food item when it pops up in Scandal but I don’t know English food very well (not that I’m looking for recipes since English food is, well, English food).
Ooh! Wait! I know this!
Not that I’ve ever eaten one in my life, but I saw it mentioned in passing at some point: they’re mince pies.
Enjoy some random leftover screencaps of John Watson vs. arch-enemy #2. Because who could resist that smooshy little face?
After becoming famous as a detective, Sherlock did the natural thing and went on tour as a God of Rock.
JUST BECAUSE OF THE AWESOME
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Anonymous asked:
RE: the I.O.U thing, I’m not sure if you’ve said it but I understood it that they were threats for each of Sherlock’s three friends - the apple in the flat = John, the office = Lestrade, and the winged one on Baker Street = Mrs Hudson. Don’t know if you agree? Love the blog by the way.
a-scandal-in-spain asked:
Verityburns has written in a fic of hers that the three IOUs are meant to be the three victims: the one in Scotland Yard is obviously Lestrade. The apple was in 221B, that means John. And the one opposite 221B is for Mrs. Hudson. It’s a pretty neat headcanon if you ask me!
While I do get the appeal of this idea as headcanon or as a useful plot point for fanfic, I can’t say I think that was the writer of the episode’s actual intent.
For example, let’s consider the idea that the winged graffiti I.O.U. was for Mrs. Hudson. Why for her? Because she lives on Baker Street? Well, so do Sherlock and John. What makes that message particularly about her? In fact, isn’t it least likely to be about her since of Sherlock, John, Mrs. Hudson, and Lestrade, she’s the only one who wasn’t out on the street with that I.O.U.?
And yeah, you could reassign the apple to Mrs. Hudson and the graffiti to John. But the very fact that you can do that shows that the connections between I.O.U.s and characters weren’t particularly solid to begin with.
The I.O.U. messages were for and about Sherlock. They were “following” Sherlock around. The fact that the I.O.U.s happened to be near Sherlock’s targeted friends was because Sherlock only goes to three places on a regular basis, and those are the places his friends are as well.
And there were three I.O.U.s and three targeted friends just because that episode had three of freakin’ everything.
Which maybe gives another way to approach this idea—there were also three fairy tale clues. The breadcrumbs, the Grimm book, and the gingerbread man. You could say those three things are even more directly connected with John, Mrs. Hudson, and Lestrade—John found the breadcrumbs, the police (Lestrade) found the book, and Mrs. Hudson accepted delivery of the gingerbread man. But do we assume that was a message about which of Sherlock’s friends would be targeted? Because it isn’t as sexy as the I.O.U.s, it seems like everyone’s cool with the idea that those were simply clues for Sherlock that coincidentally got to him via his friends because his friends are naturally going to be around him. (And from an out-of-universe perspective, because it allowed the writer to control the timing of the clue deliveries.)
Of course, by mentioning this at all I’ve probably kicked off a theory about the fairy tale clues and Sherlock’s friends in someone’s mind. Oops. Well, enjoy the headcanon if so, because I’m pretty sure that’s all it will ever be. Not that there’s anything wrong with some entertaining headcanon.
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Oh, you guys.
Gluing the memes together.
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This pleases me. You do not know how much this pleases me.
