OH WAIT

Months ago I was trying to figure out where the hell I'd seen someone say that the 'criminal strain in Moriarty's blood' was venereal disease/syphilis. I finally figured it out. It was Naked is the Best Disguise, which in retrospect feels kind of obvious that it had to have been that because that book is one of the stupidest most pointless books ever written, full of utter drivel and bullshit. It's too nonsensical to be serious but it's not entertaining enough to work as some sort of parody, it's just ridiculous and irritating and I have literally no idea what the point of it was. Anyway I guess that answers that question, finally.

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It sure would be nice to be able to find somewhere online where people actually interact with you about stuff you care about. That definitely isn't here, practically nobody even uses this site. It is not tumblr because barely anybody on there gives a shit about anything I care about so I constantly ended up talking to myself on there too just the same as I do on a site like this which is basically dead - like the only Jared Harris stuff anyone there cares about is The Terror or Chernobyl (sorry but I am not touching either of those not even with a 50 foot pole, I do not see in the slightest what is entertaining about things where everyone suffers and in most cases dies horribly and to make it even worse they're at least partially true stories), the only Paul Anderson thing anyone cares about is fucking Peaky Blinders, the only Sherlock Holmes thing they care about is Holmes/Watson except for the few people who actually do like Moriarty/Moran but pretty much all they really care about and talk about still is just the BBC Sherlock version which sorry but they are not remotely the same characters or relationship (meanwhile the fandom overall still loves to shit on any character and pairing I care about). The only Midsomer Murders stuff anyone seems to talk about is Dan Scott (who I possibly like even less than Troy, and I don't really like Troy), Jamie Winter (Jamie's all right but I have no interest in him beyond watching the actual episodes and the relationship between him and John which is basically like a father and son relationship is not the type of relationship I have any interest in) or how Tom is amazing and wonderful but John is rubbish.

And places like AO3, they're fine as what they are, as an archive, but they're not the place to get any real interaction with other fans of whatever.
 
And even other stuff, my other hobbies and stuff, all anyone cares about there is doing everything through facebook - everything is done through fucking facebook now or maybe through instagram, so I miss everything everyone posts, I don't get to enter any of the competitions, I miss all the secondhand sales, and I'm sick of it ending up where if you don't use facebook or instagram (and refuse to use them because they are bloody awful sites, also as far as I can tell instagram is really only designed for smartphones. I do not have a smartphone, I do not want a smartphone) you've just excluded and left out of everything and it's really sucked most of the fun out of these hobbies.

It really has ended up where 'social media' has made a lot of us even more alienated and isolated and excluded than we were before all of that was ever a thing. I hate this.

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I do wish I could give a damn about Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened because a Ukrainian-based company releasing anything under those conditions deserves major respect and I think yes donating money to help people out is good but so is actually buying stuff from Ukrainian people or companies.
But even if I could play computer games (I can't play computer games) and even if I liked the whole premise of the game (I don't) I don't like the way Holmes looks in it at all, I don't like the way he looks in Chapter One either, why does he looks like some modern young trendy ~emo~ rock star or something? And The Awakened doesn't really look any better. Which sucks because while I've never played it and never will play it, aesthetically Holmes in Crimes and Punishments looked pretty much like I imagine Holmes, like if I could draw the perfect Holmes it would look like that, and I'm forever bitter that it is just a computer game I can't play and not some kind of full animated film or something. (The Devil's Daughter... I haven't seen much from that in images or gifs, actually I've barely seen anything from that, but I don't think it looks as good aesthetically and also I very much dislike the 'Moriarty is dead but he has a daughter' thing cos I mean... no. But at least Holmes doesn't seem to look so ~young and trendy~ in that.)

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Writing that random crossover thing the other day has really made me realise how well Moran's brother does fit into this universe, albeit probably, uh, rather briefly.
(I'm very much convinced largely because of the name thing that Sebastian is the second/younger son and that the first, basically Augustus Junior, who was pretty much the golden child and was doted on by Augustus Senior, died young, which made Augustus Senior even more resentful of the one who survived namely Sebastian)
Also I've been ripping a lot of my DVDs to my computer so I can actually get round to watching some of them (theoretically anyway) and I realised while ripping Hot Fuzz that (older) Timothy Dalton really makes me think of Augustus (senior. I have no idea who could represent Augustus Junior).