#original: scandal

[itsagentromanoff]

Bucky: It’s a date.

Tony: What?

Bucky: It’s a date. You said meeting. I asked you out. You said yes. We dressed up. At the end of the evening, if all goes well, there will be kissing. This is not a meeting. This is a date. And I don’t want to insult you. You chose this restaurant. I’m sure the food is very good, but this is not a date restaurant. You can’t have a date here. This is where dates go to die. You look extraordinary, by the way.

#original: scandal #robert downey jr #sebastian stan #tony stark #bucky barnes #winteriron #tony x bucky #bucky x tony #the avengers #non avengers quotes #quoting the avengers

[cursedgamerchild]

"internet historian's alt-right anyways" "great day to have never liked james somerton" "never even heard of illuminaughtii before this lol"

that's great buddy but don't go around thinking you're immune to this. if you're not looking for plagiarism, you likely won't notice it unless its egregiously obvious. hell, you've probably consumed plagiarized content without even realizing it. even hbomb pointed out that these people disguised what they presented pretty well as long as you didn't try and dig deeper. don't come away just thinking of this as a callout piece, take this as an important lesson about vetting your sources. if googling scripts in quotes was enough to expose the original, we should all start doing that shit!!

edit: it got a little too doomer-y a little too fast so one quick addition

this is hbomb's curated playlist of queer creators, many of whom were victims of plagiarism

this is producer kat on reddit calling for any more plagiarism discoveries and for queer content creators to be uplifted

please take some time to uplift these creators and recommend any you know! if you can help uncover more of the original creators whose work was lifted that would be great too :)

UPDATE- From Hbomb's twitter: "We're in the process of cataloguing everyone James Somerton plagiarised and finding their contact information. Which is quite a task, so to help us out: If you see this and happen to be one of the people Somerton stole from, please email us at [email protected]"

edit 2:

#hbomberguy #james somerton #illuminaughtii #internet historian #vice #ign etc have had issues with plaigarism before #this isnt just some youtuber scandal remember #even books can fall victim to this #kaz rowe's history vids exemplify this pretty well #i'd recommend the triboulet ass slapping myth one if you want a good breakdown #and somerton absolutely had problems with the way he discussed foreign media and anyone that wasnt a cis gay man #but considering most of his ideas werent his own that doesnt dismiss the original authors' work keep in mind

[egophiliac]

bring back zooterkins, the best 17th-century swear word

I don't normally do Just Characters Swearing, but. ...this kind of wrote itself and then wouldn't leave my head. it comes from both a piece of character-writing advice that has always stuck with me, and also my conviction that Leona is 1000% funnier as a character if his dialogue has to stay G-rated. let Kalim say fuck, but don't let Leona say bastard.

(I'm sorry)

#art #twisted wonderland #(sort of atemporally somewhere between episodes 6 and 7?) #(i - i wanted that lilia joke okay) #long post #tumblr went 'you can post up to 30 images now :)' and i was like well okay then #anyway once again i'm sorry #i'd say i don't know why i did this but actually it is because i wanted kalim to scandalize everyone #i tried to keep it...you know...tasteful. a tasteful amount of fucks. #hey remember how the framing premise for the original birthday interviews was that yuu worked for the school paper #because i have never forgotten. in my head they are still getting up to all kinds of wacky reporting hijinks.

[todays-problematic-ship]

Ah, that's a common misconception, but Oceangate was the company. The incident is Oceangategate.

#as a water-related scandal #titanic was the original watergate #or oceangate #titanic #oceangate

[brother-emperors]

revisiting crassus, clodius, and the bona dea scandal! but this time with a new composition and a limited color palette

originally when I drew the first version of this idea, it was back when I thought that crassus would be a week long fixation at most (lmao), and instead he just. took up permanent residence in my mind. it seemed like a fun thing to go back to an earlier idea and see what changed now that I've spent a lot more time with everyone involved in this era!

also the way these two interlocked politically. I am. biting into it.

The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

Crassus: the First Tycoon, Peter Stothard

Crassus: A Political Biography, B. A. Marshall

Crassus, Clodius, and Curio in the Year 59 B.C., Robert J Rowland, Jr.

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

#for example. i even know who catulus and caelius are now. i did Not know who the fuck they were when i drew the original one #now im like. wow. those sure were some allegations. goddamn #i forgot that ive drawn crassus and clodius fucking before. i'll revisit that someday. ANYWAY. time for some organizational tags #marcus licinius crassus #publius clodius pulcher #roman republic tag #do i. have a tag for the bona dea scandal. i should #drawing tag #ALSO the first tycoon book. it's not a good reference point. i disagree with uhhh like a good third of it. BUT it is an EXTREMELY sexy #read. i would love an HBO show using this book as a point of inspiration. im not kidding. id watch it so fast #i was reading something that implied clodius role in the bona dea scandal was actually partially crassus' machinations #to undermine both caesar AND pompey. and once i finish digesting THAT thought. i will. draw a comic probably

[hollis-art]

5. wander

#inktober #star trek #star trek the original series #spirk #spock #james t kirk #leonard mccoy #i was gonna make their hands into a little kiss but i couldnt figure it out... ig they're just scandalously making out on their adventure #bones knows this and he is keeping his distance. #fanart #absolutely LOVE giving kirk his cartoonish little boy face. he is just always so C: #oh the spock tail thing was inspired by @m0rbs btw :))

[faun-buns]

been playing palia a ton, i wanted to make a majirisona 🤲 i work at a bakery irl so i went with that for his path obviously </3

the delivery bit is based off of victorian era bakers who had to sell their bread door-to-door in more rural areas and i thought the bell would be cute so people know when he's on his way over

#dont talk about reth dont talk about reth dont talk about r #hes having a scandalous liaison with................... the kilima in cook ?!?!?!??! #im kind of obsessed withj him..................................... #my art #palia #majiri #majirisona #oc #original character

[sherlockianscholar]

how have i never noticed the *CLINK* from the mask hitting something before

#this guy is such an asshole lmao #i wonder if the clink happened in each take #sherlock holmes #john watson #granada #jeremy brett #granada holmes #granada watson #david burke #a scandal in bohemia #original post

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

For me, people who read A Scandal in Bohemia and go HoLmEs WaS iN lOvE wItH iReNe AdLeR are the personification of how hetero- and amatonormativity cloud our thinking. NO READ THE TEXT PLEASE JUST READ THE TEXT AGAIN!!!

The only thing which is worse is people saying Irene Adler was in love with Holmes. From her perspective, he was extremely annoying, she just wanted a chill life with the man she chose and then her pompous and dishonest ex engages a detective because he's too self-centred to imagine she could be over him, wtf?!?!

#it's gutting that almost every adaption is less feminist than the original #(which isn't veeeery feminist to begin with from today's perspective but still! at least a bit!!) #letters from watson #sherlock holmes #a scandal in bohemia #acd canon

[wonder-worker]

something I find especially entertaining about Edward IV's reign is how Scandalous™ it was lol

he married a woman “whose origins broke all established conventions for English queenship” in a secret ceremony without consulting any of his lords and then made it everyone else's problem. he committed regicide, he committed fratricide; he was accused of bastardry, he was accused of bigamy and a 19-year-long sham marriage, he was accused of using necromancy against his subjects, he was accused of being enchanted by witchcraft by both his wife and his mother-in-law (multiple times). his own mother was said to "rule the king as she pleased" in the early years of his reign. he knew he was hot and actively milked it for money. he was vain as fuck: “he was wont to show himself to those who wished to watch him, and he seized any opportunity that the occasion offered of revealing his fine stature to onlookers”. he knew everything about everyone. "he was more favourable than other princes to foreigners". he was “fond of boon companionship, vanities, debauchery, extravagance and sensual enjoyments”; he was "thought to have indulged in his passions and desires too intemperately”; "it was ever feared he was not chaste”. his subjects publicly gossiped about his sex life, his doctors thought he was insane. NOBODY understood how he was still competent despite all this.

honestly, who was doing it like him?

#(the quote is by J.L. Laynesmith) #Edward IV #my post #the original post was written as a drunken shitpost but it's still 100% true #henry viii could NEVER. Even Humphrey of Gloucester pales in comparison I'm sorry to say #(EW was also accused of controlling both Edward and the country but I don't want to get into the propaganda against her right now - however #true or false it may have been in reality - so I didn't include it. HOWEVER it's absolutely true that Edward gave her a great deal of #unconventional authority by appointing her in royal councils for the heir and spare in her own right during her tenure as queen. So there #was an existing basis for the accusations against her even though they were obviously ultimately extremely unfair and prejudiced #and meant to denigrate her) #Elizabeth Woodville #Cecily Neville #english history #its kinda funny how historians often emphasize his womanizing (which very obviously happened tho it's difficult to say to what extent) when #talking about his over-the-top lifestyle. But as we can see: Croyland - who was best-placed to know - emphasizes a wider variety of things #that worried/scandalized his contemporaries. Edward sleeping around was just one of many (and the last on Croyland's list) #I don't necessarily think it should be highlighted as much as it is #(also funnily enough 'sensual enjoyments' was also used to describe *Richard III* on his northern progress during his reign lol)

[morvantmortuary]

I hope the people I already sent this to don’t mind if I talk about it here, but I’ve been thinking about it the past couple days and it’s been bringing me joy 🖤

so the other day I was scrolling through pinterest (man there’s like. a couple people I haven’t introduced on this blog who just exist as pinterest boards rn. need to get on that) and I found this screengrab:

and I mentioned to some friends that like, Maxi would consider this in red or black first and foremost, but he would definitely be absolutely enchanted with the idea of wearing this silhouette to y’all’s wedding (non-church affiliated TM).

like I imagined you’d be scrolling through your own wedding ideas on insta or pinterest or, god, even here, and though initially you were just idly scrolling by, his pupils would expand like a cat’s and his breath would audibly catch as soon as he saw this image:

Final Them: “Do you… like it, babe?”

Maxi: “…Swishy. @A@“

which, of course, would mean that either a. a similar suit was ordered immediately to his usual tailor, or, b. being the best seams-person of the family, Rora found one of his old masquerade suits and decided to add a train like so.

at the fitting he looks so giddy on the pedestal in front of the mirror that Rora and Hex are just sitting off to the side observing like:

Hex: “I can’t even tease him, look at that face.”

Rora: “You think if we told him he could wear it every day, he’d get the stick out of his ass?”

[Maxi, oblivious, is just swishing the tails back and forth in the mirror with the biggest grin]

like. Maxi is already someone who wants to be more visibly queer/gnc but, due to growing up in small-town Louisiana in the ‘80s-‘90s and living with his specific brand of insane parents (with Vincent himself being deeeeep in the closet), never got to explore it as much as he wanted. (save for that one glorious evening he got to be Frank as a last minute understudy in a Rocky Horror Picture Show shadowcast, but that’s a post for another time)

so even though he’s elated, there’s definitely a moment before the wedding where he turns to you in a fit of nerves:

Maxi: “I don’t know, is it too gay? Are you gonna feel weird, standin’ up there next to me, in that?”

FT: “Maxi, we… we are gay, babe. Like. We are gay. It’s perfectly okay if you look gay at our wedding. We’re getting married, to each other, and we’re gay. You wear whatever you want, as long as you’re up there with me, okay?”

Maxi: “Oh. …Well, yeah, when you put it that way I guess. :’D”

and for the record, on the big day:

he looks amazing, you look amazing in something Rora tailored for you with just as much love though she’ll never admit that to your face, Hex is trying to be the best man and the wedding photographer and not cry all over you/Maxi/his lens, and all the little old ladies of the Greymoon Historical Society agree they’ve never been to a wedding so modern and obviously queer “avant-garde” before.

so anyway. just something small and fluffy for a saturday evening. 🖤

#maxi morvant #morvant mortuary #queer horror ocs #slasher oc #necromancer oc #original queer horror #all the morvants are bi tag #I hesitated to post this bc feeding the machine #but honestly. it’s small and it’s not a full thing #so as long as I post my big actual fic on AO3 — this should be fine #maxi vibes #I personally am picturing FT in a backless red halter-vest jumpsuit #just for the extra scandal #but I’d love to hear other people’s dream necromancer wedding attire lmao 🖤

[unopenablebox]

.

#im worried that last reblog was too mean. #some of you are adjacent to the deer skull world and i don't think you should have to worry about it #the versions of it i really hate are 1. as stated ppl acting like this shit isn't incredibly christian in origin and delivery #2. when people start doing inexplicably lovecraft-inspired mysticism in like direct opposition to ever learning anything factual about tree #3. anecdotes about poor rural life told to sound as scandalously ~~eldritch~~ as possible instead of like. regular life. #none of you are doing that. we're cool #also i love just being a hater unfortunately but i do want to delineate the boundaries of deeply held vs opportunistic hating.

[scandalous-dirtcup]

THE VISIONARY . THE HARBINGER . THE HUNTER

character from one of my 4 tales!!!!🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️ sketchy little old drawings from last year but I recon they still looks pretty aight

I’ll post actual drawings of her siblings soon hehehehaw

I’m gonna start using tags for my original story / writing based art. it’ll serve as a little archive for me.

She’s from a WIP named The Triangle in the Trees 👍

#some sad little man tries to get closure on his childhood SPOILER ALERT!! the creatures… #original story #original character #scandalous dirtcup art #artwork #art #character art #digital art #procreate #creature #original art #stylized #oc art #oc #queer writers #queer artist #artists on tumblr #angelic #The Penrose Paradox - SDC

[rbluepie]

Reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and drawing little sketches

(From A Scandal in Bohemia)

(From The Red-Headed League)

#they are so shaped #and silly #I put way too much effort in the last one dhsjshsj #the adventures of sherlock holmes #a scandal in bohemia #the red headed league #sherlock holmes #john watson #art #fan art #but also #original art #yeah #digital drawing #digital art #classic literature

[synechoaely]

I've seen a lot of people wishing that Jake's past got fleshed out a bit more so I figured I'd put something together that hopefully interests people. I enjoyed his character and I was frustrated at how dirty they did this man so I decided to put it in writing. It's my first time writing some cheeky smut so please be gentle. A lot of this will focus on his past initially and then move into the Scandal episodes. It won't be all smut so stay tuned. (It's weird as hell calling him Pete Harris, for the record.)

I Knew You Before by SynEchoAely

Summary: Valerie Reis has been best friends with Pete Harris since they were young. Through both their collective struggles, they have remained together despite everything. But the next chapters in their life will ultimately test their relationship. He is about to start a whole new life. She is still working towards building her current life. Will Valerie be left without her closest companion? Will his journey take him on a path she cannot follow?

#scandal #jake ballard #jake ballard x oc #jake ballard/oc #ao3 fanfic #fanfic #fanfiction #read on ao3 #ao3 writer #archive of our own #smut #slow-ish burn #olivia pope #fitzgerald grant #original characters #rowan pope #watch me make stuff up about america #jake ballard origin story #deviates from canon

[sherlockianscholar]

from granada's "a scandal in bohemia"

god, this is one of my favorite scenes in granada, a scene which only exists in the show.

in the canon, we follow watson on his merry way down the street post smoke bomb, so we miss all of holmes/adler's interaction past that point. in my opinion, this recreation of the absent scene captures the essence of the original story beautifully.

through holmes' affectations, he maintains his facade as an elderly clergyman very well. but in the last five seconds of the clip, with his pause, nod, and piercing eyes, holmes removes the mask. and irene's plans are guided onto another path.

although a "non-canonical" addition, which were highly controversial in the production's earlier years, i can see why jeremy and michael cox felt comfortable putting it in the episode (an episode which as the "pilot" carried a lot of risk).

#sherlock holmes #granada #jeremy brett #granada holmes #irene adler #granada irene adler #gayle hunnicutt #john hawkesworth #michael cox #a scandal in bohemia #original post