Some suggestions for a new year’s resolution for my fellow sherlockians:
– Read a well-recommended fic in a genre you have steered clear of before. If you’ve only read gen before, brace yourself for a shippy fic and vice versa; pick up a casefic if you’ve only read relationship-driven stuff before; try that AU everybody’s been raving about, or see if a lovingly romantic Mystrade might be able to thaw your heart, after all….
– try your hand at creating a fanwork the likes of which you thought wasn’t your game: do a moodboard, photoshop something, publish your first fic or watercolour your heart out
– when you see a ship war, do not engage
– give a fledgling writer who you think shows promise despite their fumbling start a bit of encouragement and love
– when you see a lesser-known fic that isn’t getting the love it deserves, leave a comment even if it’s just “I really liked this; thank you for writing it.”
– reblog at least fifteen new fanarts
– look after yourself and don’t let the hiatus get you down (fanworks are an excellent antidote)
– finally read the original ACD stories
– watch the Guy Ritchie movies
– watch Russian Sherlock
– tell your favourite fanartist/fic author they’re awesome
– write a helpful meta for writers about your real-life hobby/field of expertise
– decide to be a supportive, tolerant member of the awesomest fandom on earth instead of being caught up in petty drama and opinion differences
Sorry to break in with this on a very much Sherlock-only kind of blog- I promise not to make a regular thing of this, but this is something that’s happened TWICE now.
This is Beyli. He’s a two-month old foal and he’s adorable. He belongs to a friend of the family.
So adorable, in fact, that a member of the public spent a nice afternoon feeding him. You feed the ducks and that’s ok. right? It’s a nice thing to do.
They fed him turnip. He choked and gave himself a stomachache as a result.
The problem is that horses can’t really burp and horses can’t vomit. Their digestive systems are fine-tuned and when they go wrong, they go really wrong. Colic in horses is difficult to treat and in Beyli’s case, like many others, proved to be insurmountable. With pain medicine not working, after 4 hours of doing their best with no improvement, the vet called time on his suffering rather than let him go on to a very slow and painful end.
A horse needlessly suffered and died because someone fed him the wrong thing. They weren’t necessarily malicious, they were just hugely ignorant. And worse, they were hugely entitled. There were already signs asking people not to feed the animals. As I said, this has now happened TWICE to the same family, and they’re by no means alone.
PLEASEDon’t feed horses that don’t belong to you.
Horses can have disorders, diabetes, allergies and dietry requirements and you have NO IDEA if what you’re giving them is acceptable or not. Even ‘safe’ things like carrot and apple could be ‘wrong’ for this particular horse. Grass clippings? Not okay. Grain? Not okay for a horse that hasn’t been regularly eating it.
Don’t assume. i have seen walkers pull up random plants and offer them over the fence INCLUDING TOXIC, DEADLY weeds like ragwort. I’ve seen horses offered dog-biscuits and bread. I’ve heard of horses being regularly fed by strangers thinking they were being under-fed, when the horse in question was on a vet-given diet to control weight and other conditions.
Don’t feed horses that don’t belong to you even little treats and things like sugar cubes because it gives them bad manners. They start biting and harassing people. It’s bad for their teeth and too much sugar is terrible for them.
In some places if the owner has liability insurance, if you can be identified, YOU will be legally responsible for the vet’s bills. And if you’re thinking ‘well, they’d never identify me’, then that’s besides the point.
Please. You wouldn’t feed someone’s dog without asking, I hope. You definitely wouldn’t feed someone else’s child.
TL;DR: Don’t feed other people’s horses. You can make them SERIOUSLY ill. Treat animals in fields like animals at the zoo: you’re welcome to look, but don’t meddle with their care.
PSA: COUGH MEDICINE + SSRI ANTIDEPRESSANTS CAN KILL YOU.
I am apparently very very lucky that I had a low dose of both. Google tells me that what I had on Saturday was serotonin syndrome and it can apparently kill you.
The culprit is dextromethorphan, which is a cough suppressant and is probably in most cold medicines.
Feel free to reblog this because my psychiatrist didn’t warn me and the label on the cough medicine had nothing about this.
if you’re ever worried about possible drug interactions with otc medications/alcohol you can always use https://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html this site if you cant get ahold of your doctor
BYYYYE with my asthma I practically live on cough medicines!!!! And I NEVER knew.
The best thing about this is the anthropomorphizing of the bed AS John Watson, not like, “Sherlock’s new bedding seems kind of like a Freudian (pillow) slip.”
the horrible terrible irony of John always falling in love with guarded emotionally closed off men so he always gets the impression they don’t return his feelings when they are actually in fact also in love with him
I came out as trans to my uncle, and he wrote the loveliest response:
“Thank you for coming out to us! It is a joyful occasion to share being yourself with your family. The consciousness that resides in each of us is without gender, but gender and bodies are trappings that we put on, and it is important that you are comfortable in them. Much like a decent pair of pants.”
This is so beautiful and profound and then…..that last line.
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