Oh, congrats to being so lucky! That must have been a wonderful experience.

Does anybody know how to unlock the locked parts?

Happy birthday to you!

Have fun, Solar!

Congratulations, KP!

Some time ago I submitted my diploma thesis as a manuscript to a scientific journal. Today I received an email with a decision on it, and against my expectations it wasn't a strict rejection. If I change a couple of things in the text and answer some of their complicated scientific questions, they might actually publish it.

Yes, those little meetings ...



Deducing Moriarty.

Just watched it. Impressive. Very good acting - such a long monologue must be difficult. Good story, too. I had tears in my eyes at the end.

@ Swanpride: Just started reading your blog. Looks very interesting so far. Keep it up.

Swanpride wrote:

When it comes to being gay, the show could have chosen to not mention the issue at all. But apparently the maker felt (rightly) that it would have been wrong not to adress it. Two adult men who live together and do nearly everything together would cause question nowadays. At the same time, it is totally naturally to deny being in a relationship with someone, no matter if male or female. If someone would assume that John and Molly were a pair, John would correct this most likely, too.

That would work in the scene at Angelo's, for example, if Sherlock was a woman or if John was with Molly. "I'm not her date." Ok. That would be funny, too.
But what would you expect, for example, in the scene in SiB with Irene then? "If anyone out there still cares, I'm not actually straight." Hm ...

Swanpride wrote:

There are healthier methods to promote equality. I just started a blog about well-written female characters in the media. Because I think, it is a better idea to praise and promote them, then to complain about the bad examples, which get more attention than they deserve. If they do a good job with Molly next season, she will get an article, too. Because to me she deserves more attention for being well-written than Irene Adler for being problematic written.

That might work quite well with female characters (and thumbs up for your effort there; I'd like to read that blog). But if you tried to make a list of, for example, well-written non-straight or transgendered characters in the mainstream media, I'm afraid the list would be very short and you wouldn't find a lot of positive stuff you could write about. That's just the way it is at the moment.