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stoicmike · 9 months

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Just because what you are saying is obviously the case does not mean that everyone, or even anyone, will agree with you. -- Michael Lipsey

#madness #facts #obvious #reality #contradiction #argumentative #disputatious #self-doubt

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herstoriies · 5 months

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@reverdies - oh look, it's Javert & Priscilla! Why hand over a paper like 'normal' people when a Diva can gracefully smack-facepalm it at one's Archrival-Significant-Annoyance?

[ps. note to self I need to draw this of them XD!!]

For context, full clip here: ['the good part' begins at 25:18, the above moment happens at 26:03! and the full duet begins at ~ 23mins in]

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bonus:

(she looks so pleased with herself afterwards! XD)

#reverdies #reverdies : javert #priscilla x javert #v: joie de paris #the pugnacious producer and the difficult diva #(or disputatious diva works too haha)#la pimbeche #;D #at it again!#Youtube

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riki-riks-chick · 26 days

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My Masterlist

Started: 05/04/24

Last Updated: 05/29/24

Total Works: 85

Smut: Green

Fluff: White

Suggestive: Blue

OneShots:

Blind Date

BFF!Sunoo helping Y/N get pregnant

Jake Fucking Sunghoon's GF: Three's a Crowd

Spiderman!Jake Saving GF!Reader

Transition: Park Jongseong

Racing Thoughts: Needy Riki

Keep Quiet: Horny Riki

Unnecessary Affection: Nishimura Riki

Attention Whore: Kim Sunoo

7MIH: Lee Heeseung

Dressing Rooms: Lee Heeseung

Tease: Nishimura Riki

Beneath The Desk: Park Jongseong

Life Saver: Park Jongseong

The Bodyguard: Park Jongseong

Disputatious: Yang Jungwon

Scream: Kim Sunoo

Sunshine and Rain: Lee Heeseung

Press It: Kim Sunoo

Milk: Yang Jungwon

Milk (Remastered): Yang Jungwon

Realize: Lee Heeseung

Texts:

Sunghoon FWB Texts

Riki BF Texts

Jay FWB Texts

Jake BF Texts

Sunghoon IG Story Replies

Jake IG Situationship

Jay BF Texts

Jay Birthday Texts

Basketball Captain!Riki X Cheer Captain!Y/N

Enha Hyungs Receiving Sexy Pics b4 a Concert

CEO!Riki x Idol!Y/N

Heeseung FWB Texts

Jake FWB Texts

Imagines:

Riki BF Things

Giving Enha Hyungs Head

Thigh Riding Jay

Heeseung Corruption Kink

Delinquent BSF Sunoo

Class President Jungwon

Making out w Enha Hyungs

Enha Hyungs as Your Brother's BFF

Heeseung Dacryphilia

Jay Birthday Surprise

Jealous Riki (revealing clothes)

Heeseung Oral Fixation

Heeseung Smoking and Y/N hating it

Boob-Obsessed Heeseung

Cock-Warming Enha Hyungs

Enha Hyungs sleeping on Boobs or Ass

Enha Hyungs Pleasuring their GF's Ass

Enha Hyungs when Virgin!Y/N cums 3 minutes in

Enha Hyungs when Y/N wears a Short Skirt

Enha Hyungs when Y/N makes a Short Dick Joke

Tall Heeseung x Small Y/N

FWB/Situation w Heeseung

Enhypen while making out

Non!Idol Riki x Idol!Y/N

Enhypen Getting Walked in On

Enha Maknaes Sleeping on Boobs or Ass

Enha getting Walked in On by Their Parents

Scenarios:

Y/N Reacting to a New Nickname

How Enha Hyungs would eat the 🍪

Enha Hyungs Leaving Hickeys

Enha Hyungs when you're a pillow princess

Enha Hyungs when you 69

Enha Hyungs Boobs or Ass

Enha if They Had Kids with Y/N

MTL:

Maknae MTL Liking PDA

Thoughts:

Needy Riki

Sunghoon Slutshaming

Cuddling w Riki

Tipsy Heeseung

Jealous Jay

Bedtime w Sunghoon

Getting Manhandled by Sunghoon

Worried BF Jake

Dance Class w Riki

Idol!Sunghoon's GF

Riki Struggling

Wanting To Hug Riki

Sunghoon Thoughts

Giving Jungwon Head

Pussydrunk Heeseung

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anthozooa · 8 months

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Always in a disputatious mood when he chooses that pipe!!

Still bffs though <3

#sherlock holmes #dr watson #acd canon #acd holmes

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majaloveschris · 8 months

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Why nothing makes sense, part 8.

Comic Con and Wedding Ring Edition

So before I start this part of the Why Nothing Makes Sense series, I'd like to say that I'm not saying there wasn't a wedding or that this isn't real. However, I'm going to explain why things don't make sense to me and why I think this might not be real.

So before we jump into this amazing Comic Con weekend, I'd like to go back to the DM Boston airport sighting. So that picture of them coming back from Portugal happened (according to that "anon") after their honeymoon and wedding. So we could all see in that picture that Alba was wearing no ring. This was obviously very weird to a lot of people, since if you are newly married, why wouldn't you want to wear your ring? We got explanations from anons, like they wanted to keep the marriage private or that they only had a commitment ceremony. After the thousands of articles and the comic con, we can all agree that both of these explanations are bullshit. So why wasn't she wearing a ring? Where was hers? If this is real and they got married, then why didn't she have hers on?

People love to throw around "they are private" excuses, but they aren't. They never were, and they never will, because they want to sell this relationship. Since Alba stepped into his life, he has forgotten that he is a private person. And he is still pretty private about everything except her. If they were private, there wouldn't have been Instagram stories uploaded or articles about their wedding, or he wouldn't have worn his ring, or even if he had, he wouldn't have talked about their wedding. This whole shitshow is everything but not private.

After people started questioning this whole ring thing, he suddenly appeared to wear one at the Comic Con. I think he was showing the ring much more on the first day but appeared to hide it more on the second. The ring alone looks cheap and not very fitting. I'm not only saying this based on the pictures, but I talked to someone who's met him (yeah, I have evidence they met), and they said it looked rather yellowish than gold, and it was clearly too big for him. He looked unhealthy, and I don't really understand the "he looks the healthiest and happiest he's ever been" comments because I don't really see it.

Then we got that amazing interview. So the whole thing started with the lady saying that he's been working a lot in the past 2 years, and if there was a personal project he was working on right now, This question was clearly planted. I doubt that he or his team didn't know about the questions prior to the interview. Even if they didn't know about this question, he could've said anything else. Saying he's getting ready for fall and immediately changing the subject, or he could've started talking about Dodger. He needed to talk about her; he needed to talk about the wedding. He said it was really, really great. Now call me disputatious, but he always said how much he wants to settle down, get married, and start a family. So if she is the one, if she is the person who makes him happy, etc., I would assume he would've said something like, "It was the best day of my life" or "This was everything I've ever wanted, and I'm so happy" not that it was "really, really great". Then he continued that they "kinda had two ceremonies, one on the East Coast and one in Portugal". What does "kinda" mean? You either had two ceremonies or not. And why did he say East Coast and not MA? Everyone knows he lives in Massachusetts, and there were like a thousand articles about them getting married, so there isn't really anything to hide at this point. Then he mentioned his wife's Portuguese, which we've all also known, and I don't even want to mention the awkward "Go Portugal!" thing. He also said it was wonderful and beautiful, but a lot to organize. Then he said they've been enjoying life since then, and he mentioned autumn and seemed excited and happy to talk about it. He turned back to "their" life, and his face changed again. It seemed like he didn't even take himself seriously when he said that they were "reflecting". I think he only mentioned the last sentence so he could change the subject and start talking about something. It felt like he was trying to remember everything he had to say and share.

People said he looked happy talking about the wedding. I mean, he didn't look desperate or sad like every other time we saw them together. I care more about actions than words, and him smiling while talking about the wedding won't make me forget how he acted during the NYC pap walk, Disney, that awkward car kiss, or the Boston airport photo. I also think that you can see that as soon as he changed the subject, he looked happier. He looked way more excited to talk about autumn and Dodger than about his own wife and their kinda weddings. And he definitely talked much more about it.

He didn't share new information; everything he's said we already knew about the weddings. There wasn't a fan who asked him about her during the interview; they knew the questions prior, and even if they didn't, he didn't have to talk about her. So then why? People won't start liking her and shipping them just because he talks about her, and what if some people think they didn't get married? They seem to care so much about what people think about this, which I don't really get since if this is real and they are happier than ever, then why do they keep trying to convince people that it is? They are supposed to be private, yet they act like they are selling something. They keep trying to fill gaps and make this more authentic, but it's not and never will be. Those things that make this whole thing really fake for me and for a lot of people are already out there. You can't change what's done, and no matter how hard they try, those inconsistencies and bullshit are out there and will stay there. They can try to explain and fill the gaps by "randomly" mentioning it or publishing an article, but again, why would they do that? Why are they doing all of this if this is genuine and they have nothing to sell or prove?

#majaloveschris #why nothing makes sense posts #cevans-love

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ofbakerst · 10 months

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in a disputatious mood

#granada holmes #the copper beeches #jeremy brett #david burke #sherlock holmes #baker street #my posts #fave #feline

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bossymarmalade · 1 year

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“Something about Richard [Belzer] was quintessentially Jewish. He was kind, disputatious, intellectually curious, and hilarious. Although he wasn’t at all religious, he was proud to be Jewish and embraced that identity.”

Richard Belzer was a Jewish comedian. Why didn’t his obituaries say so?

edit: as he was Jewish, the way to memorialize him is to say “may his memory be a blessing” rather than RIP! just something to know for the tags :)

#richard belzer #homicide life on the street #'kaddish' was such an excellent episode #john munch #jewish characters

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handweavers · 5 months

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"The magnitude of self-descriptors as devised by North American trans men or favourably assigned to trans men by other transgender communities implies a drive for meaningful self-expression that emanates from substantive agency, even if this agency is conditioned, interpreted and curtailed by existing cultural semiotics. In many cases, purposeful self-description lends itself heterogeneously yet effectively to self-empowerment and self-realisation. At the same time, the astounding variety of these appellations and their meanings lay bare the instability, fuidity and evolution of becoming a trans man. A signifcant self-designated name for one trans man ‘may be another’s Gender Trash’. It could hold signifcance only for a specifc period of time before other more compelling labels emerge and take its place. Contrastingly, Malaysian trans men may not necessarily possess the cultural capital, legal and political resources, or religious liberty to engage in similarly diverse pursuits of self-description.

Miriam J. Abelson’s recent study unearths the negotiations of trans men with dominant manifestations of American masculinities such as ‘hypermasculine men, regular guys, progressive men, and faggy men’ as conditioned by issues of ethnicity, class and geographical space. Malaysian trans men also encounter such negotiations, although issues of ethnicity, class and space often do not seem to be at theforefront of their consciousness in such deliberations. Instead, issues of identity, social engagement, dysphoria, transitioning and religion appear to take centre stage in their subjectivities. Admittedly, any denotation of what it means to be a man in Malaysia—or any part of the world—is always a precarious project, given that each man is socialised into, and consequently self-polices and self-defines ‘man’ in accordance with the specifcities of his lived realities. Yet it is possible to locate the political, sociocultural and religious rhetoric that determines and shapes notions of ‘manness’, ‘manhood’, ‘manliness’, ‘maleness’ and ‘masculinity’.

Malaysian studies on men indicate that male masculinities are conditioned by class, ethnic and religious factors. For instance, traits such as crudeness, boisterousness, physical strength and disputatiousness among Malaysian Chinese male truck drivers stand in contrast with the dignity, authority and self-restraint among male truck owners. Moreover, machines fgure largely in cultural interpretations of a technology-driven masculinity among Malaysian Chinese working-class men. Financial stability, job security, good physical health, sexual virility and male-designated genitalia are prized as ‘manly’ traits. Patriarchal practices also serve to corroborate both ethnic, sociocultural and Malay-Muslim dictates of masculinity. Same-sex attractions between men—often erroneously ascribed to trans women—is unanimously condemned as illicit in largely conservative Malaysia, mostly due to the convergence of ethnic (read Malay-Muslim), Islamic and nationalistic ideologies. There is also an uncontested and steadfast belief that masculinity is superior to femininity in Malaysia. These contributory elements of masculinity impact heavily on formations of gender identity among trans men."

— J. N. Goh, Becoming a Malaysian Trans Man

#so much of this book is so quotable i feel crazy

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dathen · 1 year

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“the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood” is such a great little detail

First, the fact that Holmes has a Cranky Mood Pipe. I hc that it’s because it puts him in a “chomp on things” mood and the cherrywood has a better chomp feel than his usual.

Second, that Watson is so observant and attentive that he’s connected the use of this particular pipe to Holmes being in a bad mood. This is the exact kind of domestic “married energy” that fans note whether they read Holmes as aro or not—having spent so much time with someone that you know tons of random details about them and their habits, including silly and nonromantic and irritating things.

#letters from watson #the copper beeches

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burningvelvet · 1 year

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excerpts from lord byron’s letters that read like tumblr posts from the 1800s

(diary version: https://www.tumblr.com/burningvelvet/708562718092836864/random-excerpts-from-lord-byrons-diaries-that)

“We of the craft (poets) are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”

“Remember me to yourself when drunk. I am not worth a sober thought.”

“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go, it is useless to inquire. In the midst of myriads of the living & the dead worlds — stars, systems, infinity — why should I be anxious about an atom?”

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

“I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.”

“I do not believe in any religion. I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.”

“Venice and I agree very well - in the mornings I study Armenian, and in the evenings I go out sometimes - and indulge in coition always.”

“The great object of life is sensation — to feel that we exist, even though in pain. It is this ‘craving void’ which drives us to gaming — to battle — to travel — to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description, whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.”

“If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.”

“When I am ill or unlucky I philosophize as well as I can.”

“Cant is so much stronger than cunt.”

"I have such a detestation of cant ... that I make myself appear rather worse than better than I am."

“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”

“Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.”

“I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”

“Why should Queens not be whores? every Whore is a Quean.” [Context: 1. Queen Caroline was being tried for adultery 2. “Quean” was another word for “prostitute”]

“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”

“I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation. They are all better than us, and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.”

“I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.”

“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.”

“Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk.”

“In the last two years I have been at Venice, I have spent about five thousand pounds, and I need not have spent a third of this, had it not been that I have a passion for women which is expensive in its variety every where, but less so in Venice than in other cities.”

“I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long, – I am such a strange mélange of good and evil, that it would be difficult to describe me.”

[on a lover, Margarita Cogni] “I forgot to mention that she was very devout, and would cross herself if she heard the prayer-time strike — sometimes when that ceremony did not appear to be much in unison with what she was then about.”

[on his future wife] “I am quite irresolute — and undecided — if I were sure of myself (not of her) I would go — but I am not — & never can be — and what is still worse I have no judgement — & less common sense than an infant — this is not affected humility…”

“I was the fashion when she first came out; I had the character of being a great rake, and was a great dandy — both of which young ladies like. She married me from vanity, and the hope of reforming and fixing me.”

“I read ‘Glenarvon,’ too, by Caro Lamb — God damn!”

"I have seen three men's heads and a child's foreskin cut off in Italy.”

“What could I do? – a foolish girl – in spite of all I could say or do – would come after me... I could not exactly play the Stoic with a woman who had scrambled 800 miles to unphilosophize me.”

“I have fallen in love, which, next to falling into the canal (which would be of no use, as I can swim), is the best or the worst thing I could do.”

(on the possibility of spies being sent for him during the Greek Revolution) “If these Gentlemen have any undue interest and discover my weak side — viz — a propensity to be governed — and were to set a pretty woman or a clever woman about me — with a turn for political or any other sort of intrigue — why — they would make a fool of me — no very difficult matter probably even without such an intervention. But if I can keep passion — at least that passion — out of the question (which may be the more easy as I left my heart in Italy) they will not weather me with quite so much facility.”

[on a Venetian lover, Marianna Segatti] “I am sure if I put a poniard into the hand of this one, she would plunge it where I told her, — and into me, if I offended her. I like this kind of animal, and am sure that I should have preferred Medea to any woman that ever breathed.”

[in response to a fan letter] “You tell me that you wished to know me better, because you liked my writing. I think you must be aware that a writer is in general very different from his productions, and always disappoints those who expect to find in him qualities more agreeable than those of others; I shall certainly not be lessened in my vanity, as a scribbler, by the reflection that a work of mine has given you pleasure; and, to preserve the impression in its favour, I will not risk your good opinion, by inflicting my acquaintance upon you.”

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mur-art · 2 years

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*Spicy* Historical California Headcanons (Part 1)

I found a book at the used bookstore called “Hellacious California! Tales of RASCALITY! REVELRY! DISSIPATION! and DEPRAVITY! and the Birth of the Golden State” by Gary Noy.

Needless to say, I had to buy it.

It includes tons of primary sources and is like, a totally serious historical account of 19th century California. Anywaaaay...here are some silly headcanons about my favorite dumbass elbow macaroni, based on some of my favorite facts from said book. I’m sure there’ll be a Part 2 at some point.

-California is extremely reckless and impulsive; it’s ingrained in his fundamental personality. As this book points out, hundreds of thousands of people traveled across the world on a reckless gamble: that they would find gold and get rich against all odds. That’s the kind of culture that California grew up immersed in, this “try everything, morality be damned” mindset. Yes, he likes to tell himself that he’s changed and is more rational now, but even today, every time he gets into an argument solely for the adrenaline rush or can’t stop himself from making an unnecessary comment, that’s the impulsiveness shining through. He still finds it really hard to turn down a dare or a decision he knows won’t end well.

-Related to the first point, he has “died” so many times in really stupid ways. He’s pissed off the wrong people and gotten shot in the chest. He’s fallen off of cliffs while drunk, messed around with rattlesnakes, drowned at sea, and gotten trampled while racing horses. Of course, he gets right back up and recovers and ends up doing it all over again. Because what’s self-preservation when you’re immortal?

-California taught Nevada how to gamble. California always enjoyed it, and played card games and other games of chance almost religiously. (In the 1850s, playing cards were even called “California Prayer Books,” and the first slot machines were invented in CA.) California gave Nevada his first deck of cards, and taught him all the table games. Nevada rolled with it (literally) and California tried to distance himself from it later during the Gilded Age/late 1800s, when he was trying and failing to be more “respectable” and “mature.” (Gambling was *officially* outlawed in CA in 1872, but that stopped exactly no one.)

-When he was younger, California was incredibly awkward around girls, and was terrified to even talk to them. This is based on the fact that only 8% of people in Gold Rush California were female. People would literally pay money just to SEE a woman.

-Luckily, Cali loved the other 92% just as much as he loved women...

-There’s a section on wine history in this book which further solidifies my HC that California used to not-so-secretly steal communion wine from the padres (the Catholic dudes, not the baseball team, although he would steal wine from the baseball team if he could) and get super drunk to make it through Mass whenever he was forced to sit through it.

-There’s a really hilarious story in the book about a bunch of California winemakers trolling a “Wine Expert” who was super snobby about European wine being better than California wine. They replaced all the labels on the European wine with California labels, and vice versa, and suddenly the “Wine Expert” was unknowingly complimenting everything about California wine. And THAT, my friends is Pure California-- California would absolutely pull a stunt like that.

-California has literally always been an annoying little argumentative shithead. I love this quote:

“The Californian [spirit] involved [...] a certain daring, a refusal to be fazed or be put off by bad luck or circumstances, an unwillingness to give up... But there is still more to the California spirit than a willingness to gamble and accept dares... The Californians promptly acquired rather large chips on their shoulders, and in addition to a certain [haughtiness], the California character becomes notably disputatious [argumentative] and competitive.”

#in this essay i will--#welcome to the table #wttt #wttsh #welcome to the statehouse #wttt california #wttt headcanons #history inspired headcanons #girls when calif--#calif when girls--

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anneangel · 6 months

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Sherlock Holmes explaining, or grumbling, about why John Watson's writing dismays him, canon:

"To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes celebres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province."

"And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records."

"You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—"you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing."

"It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my friend's singular character.

"No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales."

Sherlock Holmes (...) emerged in no very sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings.

"At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, at all. (...) But in avoiding the sensational, I fear that you may have bordered on the trivial."

"The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold to have been novel and of interest."

"Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, can barely tell the difference (...) They do not care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality”.

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"I must admit, Watson, that you have some power of selection which atones for much which I deplore in your narratives. Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations. You slur over work of the utmost finesse and delicacy in order to dwell upon sensational details which may excite, but cannot possibly instruct, the reader.”

“Why do you not write them yourself?” I said, with some bitterness.

"I will, my dear Watson, I will. At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a text-book which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume".

#sherlock holmes #dr. john watson #arthur conan doyle #acd canon #holmes canon #I'm sorry to tell you Holmes but you'll be more interested in beekeeping later on #Holmes seems angry here but actually encourages Watson to write more in other cases #sherlock holmes/john watson #The Adventure of the Copper Beeches case #The Adventure of the Abbey Grange case

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 month

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By: Charlie Walsham

Published: Apr 12, 2024

What must it feel like to realise you are part of an organisation that has placed so-called progressive values ahead of evidence, risking real-world harms to countless vulnerable young people?

In the wake of the publication of the Cass review into gender identity services for under-18s in England, I know exactly how that feels. No, I’ve not been moonlighting for the now defunct Tavistock clinic: I work as a journalist for BBC News.

Regrettably, I believe there is a straight line between the BBC’s capitulation to extreme trans rights ideologues and the disturbing findings in Dr Hilary Cass’s 388-page report.

Crucially, what Dr Cass has exposed was only able to happen because of a skewed and distorted national conversation around the issue of sex and gender, a narrative I believe aided by the nation’s broadcaster. Dissenting voices have been marginalised, castigated, cancelled, silenced.

Well before Dr Cass got to work, BBC employees started putting their preferred pronouns in their email signatures. Given the increasingly polarised political debate over self-ID, these virtue-signalling postscripts made a mockery of the BBC’s neutral remit; they also exerted an unspoken pressure on colleagues who resisted this posturing.

When Dr Cass began her work in 2020, after an alarming spike in the number of gender-questioning patients being referred to the NHS, mainly teenaged girls, what was the BBC doing? Was it providing an evidence-based corrective counterweight to the toxic trans extremist narrative gaining traction online?

Nope. As children spent even more time on screens thanks to the Covid-19 restrictions and school closures, the BBC Teach website was hosting an educational film in which young children were told there were over 100 gender identities.

As Dr Cass tried in vain to wrest data from the uncooperative Tavistock clinic to assist her work, the BBC was doubling down on its adherence to the cultish self-ID doctrine, depicting in news reports sadistic male murderers and devious rapists as women so as not to offend these odious men; victims be damned. This approach by a news organisation on any topic, let alone a hugely disputatious issue, looks like pure propaganda.

Despite having a well-funded Verify department, the BBC has made no attempts to set out the cold, hard scientific reality that modern medicine has found no way of changing a healthy biological male human into a woman, or vice versa.

Neither has the BBC’s Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent ever tried to interrogate the often-aired claim that ‘trans women are women’, a favourite slogan of the charity Stonewall, which the BBC was closely affiliated with as recently as late 2021.

Even simply looking the other way was not enough for the BBC. Instead, it signalled what looked like a complete abandonment of accuracy on the trans issue when it upheld a complaint against the Today programme’s Justin Webb for daring to say that trans women are ‘in other words, males’.

Now, thanks to the diligent and courageous work of Dr Hilary Cass, the BBC has been forced to reflect on its sins of commission and omission, and platform some sane voices on the subject.

On the day of her review’s publication, Radio 4’s Today programme broadcast an interview with Dr Cass. With the measured and level delivery one would expect of a respected clinician, she detailed some of her shocking findings, from the rocketing number of troubled teenage girls seeking gender dysphoria treatment to the fact there is no good evidence puberty blockers are a safe treatment for young people wishing to transition.

She refused to opine on whether her review had uncovered a scandal. The author Helen Joyce was far less reticent when, nearly three years after publication of her book, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, she was finally invited on to the BBC to talk about the issue.

She told the 5 Live breakfast programme the report was: ‘A stinging indictment of the NHS, of the regulators in healthcare, the politicians and the media, including the BBC… all of whom have looked away as a medical scandal unfolded with vulnerable children at its heart.’

In a move characteristic of the intellectual level of 5Live debates however, Joyce was only allowed to speak after listeners had been subjected to the views of former Big Brother contestant and transgender celebrity Hallie Clarke. Clarke declaimed she had always known that she ‘wasn’t in the right body’ because she used to dress up in ‘blonde wigs’ and wore pink as a young child.

Nicky Campbell was up next on 5Live, hosting his weekday phone-in. It soon became clear that there was relief among callers that the BBC was finally waking up and smelling the coffee. One mother told Campbell how her daughter’s school had connived with the youngster, who began questioning her gender after being ‘horribly bullied’. The school allowed her to use a different name and referred her to a gender clinic without her mother being informed.

Mercifully, the story had a happy ending. The teenager narrowly avoided gender dysphoria ‘treatment’ due to long waiting lists and had grown into a young woman who was now a ‘happy and thriving lesbian’, content in her own body following ‘lots of counselling’.

‘Thank goodness I didn’t take her to one of those private gender clinics,’ her mother said. ‘She could have been prescribed hormones; she could have gone down the wrong path. Thank goodness we didn’t do that.’ This brave mother then gave words of advice to other parents of gender-confused children: ‘Watchful waiting. First do no harm.’

Another courageous woman, one of the few BBC journalists to emerge with credit from the gender treatment scandal, also appeared on the airwaves. Hannah Barnes, formerly of Newsnight but now associate editor at the New Statesman, wrote Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children.

She told Woman’s Hour the disturbing findings of the Cass Review had been known for a long time.

‘For those who have followed this for many years, there are no surprises in there but it’s quite shocking to see it laid out in such devastating and comprehensive detail… For the Prime Minister to say a spotlight has been shone (on the issue), well, yes, but it’s been shining in the background for a long time and really we probably should have acted long before this.’

A brave mother and a courageous journalist. Perhaps in future, BBC editors should be guided by these fearless women, rather than fretting about ‘misgendering’ killers and sex offenders.

Charlie Walsham is the pseudonym of a BBC News employee who has worked at the Corporation for several years.

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