toralinda: This is a close-up image of the wax seal found on Moriarty’s clues to Sherlock in The Reichenbach Fall. Can you tell what it is? …It’s a Magpie, with a bit of stolen treasure in its beak. And the song that Moriarty plays while he is breaking in to the Tower of London, the Bank of England, and Pentonville Prison? …The Thieving Magpie Overture, by Gioachino Rossini. ——————————- From Wikipedia: The European Magpie is one of the most intelligent birds, and it is believed to be one of the most intelligent of all animals.[1] Magpies also have a rather well-known tendency to steal shiny objects, and are rather aggressive towards other birds. Sounds rather fitting, no?

toralinda:

This is a close-up image of the wax seal found on Moriarty’s clues to Sherlock in The Reichenbach Fall.

Can you tell what it is?

…It’s a Magpie, with a bit of stolen treasure in its beak.

And the song that Moriarty plays while he is breaking in to the Tower of London, the Bank of England, and Pentonville Prison?

…The Thieving Magpie Overture, by Gioachino Rossini.

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From Wikipedia: The European Magpie is one of the most intelligent birds, and it is believed to be one of the most intelligent of all animals.[1]

Magpies also have a rather well-known tendency to steal shiny objects, and are rather aggressive towards other birds.

Sounds rather fitting, no?

the-girl-detective-fails: twyll: my headcanon is that molly knows sherlock is alive because she helped him do the dying trick also he stays with her for a while that is my headcanon He spends the first night at her flat. Molly doesn’t ever hear him crying but in the morning when she shuffles into her kitchen in her least-embarrassing bathrobe she finds Sherlock sitting at the table with red-rimmed eyes and dried tracks down his cheeks. One of her cats is sitting on his lap. He looks surprised when it jumps down and she wonders how long it sat there without him noticing. He’s made two cups of tea. The one in front of him is empty, the other long since cold and she realizes that he didn’t make it for her, that he’d undoubtedly automatically made it for someone else, another man on the other side of the city who probably has also made two cups of tea and hasn’t made any efforts to hide his tears. John, unlike Sherlock, has never had any problem with letting everyone see how much he cares. Except, no, that’s wrong, that’s different now. Because before she’d flutter about him unseen and unheard but now when he watches her she thinks he actually sees her, actually hears what she says. Funny how death changes people, she thinks. She’s so surrounded by it and yet it never ceases to surprise her how much it changes people. And he’s been changed by it, by his death. Even if his body hasn’t been made ash, she thinks that death means losing everything, and there is no doubt that this man has lost everything.

the-girl-detective-fails:

twyll:

my headcanon is that molly knows sherlock is alive because she helped him do the dying trick also he stays with her for a while that is my headcanon

He spends the first night at her flat. Molly doesn’t ever hear him crying but in the morning when she shuffles into her kitchen in her least-embarrassing bathrobe she finds Sherlock sitting at the table with red-rimmed eyes and dried tracks down his cheeks. One of her cats is sitting on his lap. He looks surprised when it jumps down and she wonders how long it sat there without him noticing.

He’s made two cups of tea. The one in front of him is empty, the other long since cold and she realizes that he didn’t make it for her, that he’d undoubtedly automatically made it for someone else, another man on the other side of the city who probably has also made two cups of tea and hasn’t made any efforts to hide his tears. John, unlike Sherlock, has never had any problem with letting everyone see how much he cares. Except, no, that’s wrong, that’s different now. Because before she’d flutter about him unseen and unheard but now when he watches her she thinks he actually sees her, actually hears what she says.

Funny how death changes people, she thinks. She’s so surrounded by it and yet it never ceases to surprise her how much it changes people. And he’s been changed by it, by his death. Even if his body hasn’t been made ash, she thinks that death means losing everything, and there is no doubt that this man has lost everything.

the-vashta-nerada:

can we take a moment to appreciate Andrew Scott playing Jim Moriarty playing Richard Brook playing Jim Moriarty playing Richard Brook

played by Andrew Scott

inspector-radio: supersonicsonarradar: the-side-of-the-angels: allofuslost: I’ve got one theory about Sherlock’s trick. John took Sherlock’s pulse and thought he was dead. How did Sherlock managed to fool John, a trained army doctor, on that? During the show, a clue was laid. The fourth substance from the kidnapper’s footprint was Rhododendron ponticum, and Grayanotoxin is a toxin extracted from Rhododendron ponticum and one of its symptom is slowed heartbeat. The film Sherlock Holmes(2009) also utilizes this chemical to fake Blackwood’s death. “I’ve been online and looked at all the theories,” Moffat told us, “and there’s one clue that everyone’s missed. It’s something that Sherlock did that was very out of character, but which nobody has picked up on.” What did Sherlock do that is very out of his character? He cried, and well, sniffed. The symptoms of Grayanotoxin other than slowed heartbeat are watery eyes and runny nose.(look http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/p/plant_poisoning_grayanotoxin/symptoms.htm) I’m just reblogging all the theories because they all make sense! I’m gonna go insane waiting =P Oh My God Wow this is brilliant! 

inspector-radio:

supersonicsonarradar:

the-side-of-the-angels:

allofuslost:

I’ve got one theory about Sherlock’s trick.
John took Sherlock’s pulse and thought he was dead. How did Sherlock managed to fool John, a trained army doctor, on that?
During the show, a clue was laid. The fourth substance from the kidnapper’s footprint was Rhododendron ponticum, and Grayanotoxin is a toxin extracted from Rhododendron ponticum and one of its symptom is slowed heartbeat. The film Sherlock Holmes(2009) also utilizes this chemical to fake Blackwood’s death.
“I’ve been online and looked at all the theories,” Moffat told us, “and there’s one clue that everyone’s missed. It’s something that Sherlock did that was very out of character, but which nobody has picked up on.”
What did Sherlock do that is very out of his character? He cried, and well, sniffed.
The symptoms of Grayanotoxin other than slowed heartbeat are watery eyes and runny nose.(look http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/p/plant_poisoning_grayanotoxin/symptoms.htm)

I’m just reblogging all the theories because they all make sense! I’m gonna go insane waiting =P

Oh

My

God

Wow this is brilliant! 

(Source: allarelost)

I believe in Sherlock Holmes

I believe in Sherlock Holmes

(Source: areyoutryingtodeduceme)

lemongrad:

James Moriarty you are hereby found guilty of ruining carpets everywhere.

(Source: thethiefandtheangel)

inspector-radio:

earlfoolish:

So… I guess you all have heard/read/seen the news. It’s been pretty hard to miss it - the death of Sherlock Holmes. I’m gutted but I’m doing my best to keep it together. I don’t know about you guys, but I refuse to believe it. That he was a fraud. He just can’t have been, can’t have! I saw him at a crime scene once, I had followed the sound of sirens in hope it’d be one of his cases, and there is NO WAY he was a fake. You can’t make that sort of shit up, he was too good! He was an inspiration for all of us to be more observant in our every day lives, and I won’t accept the so called truth about Sherlock that is all over the media. I know you feel like I do, and now it’s our turn to show that we haven’t lost faith in him. Sherlock might be gone, but I won’t sit silent!

#BELIEVEINSHERLOCK

Imagine being a Sherlock fan in the show universe. You’ve been following the blog, stalking Sherlock a bit at crime scenes, try to be within earshot so you can hear him do his deductions. You’ve got cutouts from the papers. Then the news reach you. What do you do? Some would believe the papers, but not everyone would buy it. And they would do what they could to clear his name.

This is my take on what I would like to propose as a tribute campaign, to show our love and support. Yes, in real life. We put ourselves in the mindset of the in-show fans, and we take a Bad Wolf/Who Killed Amanda Palmer twist on it. Guerilla art/campaigning. (Not sure if everyone is familiar with WKAP. Palmer is an american artist who in order to promote her album told her fans to spread rumours about her death through street art. I can’t seem find any of it documented online though I’m afraid) 

Let’s scribble on cubicle doors, back of bus seats, lamp posts. I won’t tell anyone to do anything illegal, but graffiti like in the pictures would be amazing. Paint on t-shirts, make buttons, go to the beach and write in the sand. Take photos of what you’ve done, put on twitter or tumblr and tag it!

suggestions of things to write:

  • I believe in Sherlock Holmes
  • Moriarty was real
  • Richard Brook = FRAUD
  • No doubt, Sherlock! (instead of no shit)

And feel free to come up with your own stuff!

Using digital media and spray paint is relevant to this chapter of the fandom. Why repeat what the original fandom did, when we can do something that is unique to us?

(I suggest you just grab an old t-shirt and slap some paint on it, but in case you’re not able to do that, I took the text from the two examples here and put them on a couple of shirts)

PLEASE SPREAD AND REBLOG!

Dude I’m up for this! 

(Source: howllor)

iamthespacecadet: So I think a lot of people aren’t really in the right frame of mind right now to think about the fallout of this episode outside of John and Sherlock and how long this wait is going to be, but there are some interesting implications of all of this. Mostly implications for Lestrade, one of Sherlock’s only friends and a man who, there is no doubt in my mind, still trusts him despite everything that has happened. What Moriarty did, to discredit Sherlock, did not just ruin Sherlock’s reputation. It ruined Lestrade’s, too. Every case that Sherlock ever helped with is going to be discredited. They will probably have to re-try every single one. This will cost not only a lot of time and money, it will also, very likely, let a lot of very guilty people go free. How can they hold a case up without all the evidence Sherlock personally handled? Personally brought to light? And Lestrade let him in, asked for his help. He is personally responsible for the legal quagmire that comes with finding out that your ace in the hole is, apparently and self-admittedly, the man behind most of the crimes that he “solved”. I have no doubt his superiors will let him shoulder the blame, alone. Greg Lestrade will not have a job by the time this is done. His reputation will be ruined, his record so tarnished that his word will mean nothing. Everything he’s ever done will discredited and dismissed. He will be made a mockery. So then, where does that leave us? What does a man who is so, at his very core, a copper do when he cannot do the job he was born for? How does he keep his life together then his actions come under public scrutiny, when his cases and his marriage and his life become the stuff of gossip? There are possibilities. Maybe he will become a detective. Maybe he will go work with Mycroft. Whatever he does, I just really hope that the show addresses that there are serious implications that come with dragging Sherlock’s name through the mud that effect more than just Sherlock and John.

iamthespacecadet:

So I think a lot of people aren’t really in the right frame of mind right now to think about the fallout of this episode outside of John and Sherlock and how long this wait is going to be, but there are some interesting implications of all of this.

Mostly implications for Lestrade, one of Sherlock’s only friends and a man who, there is no doubt in my mind, still trusts him despite everything that has happened.

What Moriarty did, to discredit Sherlock, did not just ruin Sherlock’s reputation. It ruined Lestrade’s, too. Every case that Sherlock ever helped with is going to be discredited. They will probably have to re-try every single one. This will cost not only a lot of time and money, it will also, very likely, let a lot of very guilty people go free. How can they hold a case up without all the evidence Sherlock personally handled? Personally brought to light? And Lestrade let him in, asked for his help. He is personally responsible for the legal quagmire that comes with finding out that your ace in the hole is, apparently and self-admittedly, the man behind most of the crimes that he “solved”. I have no doubt his superiors will let him shoulder the blame, alone.

Greg Lestrade will not have a job by the time this is done. His reputation will be ruined, his record so tarnished that his word will mean nothing. Everything he’s ever done will discredited and dismissed. He will be made a mockery.

So then, where does that leave us? What does a man who is so, at his very core, a copper do when he cannot do the job he was born for? How does he keep his life together then his actions come under public scrutiny, when his cases and his marriage and his life become the stuff of gossip?

There are possibilities. Maybe he will become a detective. Maybe he will go work with Mycroft. Whatever he does, I just really hope that the show addresses that there are serious implications that come with dragging Sherlock’s name through the mud that effect more than just Sherlock and John.

(Source: halearious)

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