I’m getting bored of stories about posh white men and how much cleverer and more special they are than everyone else. I’ve been hearing that story, in one form or another, since I was old enough to listen. I want to hear about other lives, new adventures. Adaptations are all very well, but it’s long past time we updated our myths for good rather than struggling to rehabilitate the past. If we want to avoid cultural implosion, it’s high time for the British to stop rehashing tired formulations of hierarchy and privilege and start telling some new stories.

No shit, Sherlock

A review of BBC’s ‘Sherlock’ from the New Statesman

Sherlock spoilers under the cut - ‘How to butcher a Brilliant Female Character’

gigglemonster:

How do I know you’re not playing a double game? One stone, multiple birds.

#cities would crumble before them

(Source: phaust)

fauxkaren:

Shut up, shut up, shut uuuuuup.

This is obviously a joke because I am pretty sure that Mark Gatiss is gay. I don’t need to be told that ~obviously~ he was just joking around (just in case someone was about it do that). But like, when someone confronts you with possible sexism, racism or homophobia in your writing or your life, the appropriate response is NOT to get super defensive and then to make jokes about it, dismissing the views of those you might have previously offended and then tagging it with “#justgoingwiththesexism”. STOP BEING SUCH AN INSUFFERABLE ASSHOLE.