There’s a vaguely Islamophobic documentary on the History Channel about historical warfare (”The Ancient Mega-Fort”), and it had been SUPER INTERESTING until they started talking about how Islam is an expansionist religion, “just as as Christianity is an expansionist religion, sending missionaries all over the world”. Except they’re painting the Muslims as the aggressors in a situation where the Christians are doing the EXACT SAME THING, and they misused the word “jihad”.
I’m just … were they JUST sending missionaries? Were they, perhaps, sending other people WITH the missionaries?
Oddly HEAVILY-ARMED missionaries, y/n?
I’m not 100% sure that missionaries need to be quite that pointy?
This sarcasm brought to you by the grumpy valkyrie who thought the documentary was really interesting what with the weaponized bees and so on UP UNTIL THAT POINT.
I’m sorry weaponized bees? Because now I need to know more about weaponized bees. In my head i’m sure they tried to use them to sting the enemy but in my heart i want it to be little bee knights fighting duels with their stingers and maybe riding hummingbirds or dragonflies or something as their noble steeds.
Also fuck Islamophobia who needs that shit WHEN WE COULD BE TALKING ABOUT BEE KNIGHTS
The weaponized bees were actually from Mayan defenses, in an earlier segment on the episode. I did not catch ALL of it, because turned it on mid-episode, but they did a re-enactment bit with bees inside a statue/model thing that was made to look like a person. Then if someone were to ATTACK the model person, they would end up COVERED IN BEES.
Though really, having bee hives at intervals outside your fort in general would make it really easy for enemies to accidentally disturb them and then get COVERED IN BEES. So that’s useful!
Also, honey. Delicious, and good for its antiseptic, preserving and antiallegenic properties!
lit his pipe with an ember from the fireplace because he thought it looked cool
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built a pillow fort in a client’s house
told a guy he was giving him secret government documents and then gave him a book about bees instead
told watson stories about his past solely to avoid cleaning his room
oh i almost forgot
decorated his room with pictures of famous criminals
Ordered a picnic for a pair of newlyweds
Was offended that Watson doesn’t praise his skills as a housekeeper
Waived his fee if his clients are too poor to pay him
Made hot chocolate to wake Watson up on a cold morning
Danced around and bowed to imaginary friends
‘Flushed up with pleasure’ when being praised
Wouldn’t explain how he comes to conclusions because he was worried Watson would think he is ordinary
Grabs Watson’s hand when he’s frightened
Let another puppy lead him on adventures.
WHERE ARE YALL GETTING THIS/1!!1!!!????!?
Leaped over furniture like a gazelle.
•Shook hands with a baby :,}
noticed watson looking sad and touching his old war wound and tried to cheer him up with some deductions about his sparkling eyes
deliberately knocked over a table, shattering a glass fruit bowl which sent fruit rolling everywhere, then blamed it on watson and ran away
was not surprised when a dog died after its owner died, due to the “beautiful, faithful nature of dogs”
sent watson a telegram telling him to come over at once so he could tell him his most recent thoughts about dogs and the importance of their emotions to detective work
told Watson anecdotes about his favorite violinist for an hour while they had lunch together
made a little diagram out of breadcrumbs while explaining something to Watson
Shared a room with watson in a house that had 11 bedrooms
Makes his client wait while he changes into slippers
Has a realistic dummy made of himself and uses it to fool a client
twice
in the same story
Let a jewel thief off one time because:
a, the thief cried
b, the case had been really easy & if the Yard couldn’t solve it then frankly fuck em
c, it was Christmas
And People ™ still think he was an unfeeling, cold man of reason. Honey that man probably slept with a fluffy stuffed bee.
Made a BIG drama about killing a jellyfish with a rock
Being a well-paid, soppy mess who retires to keep bees is #TheDream
Some more!
-Employed a bunch of street urchins, and talked to them like a general with his troops.
-Tore up Watson’s trousers to check him for injuries.
-Lets a man get away with murder because it would keep a pair of sweethearts from being hurt.
-Stops an investigation so he can go look at flowers with Watson
-Still loves dogs even after getting his ankle torn up by one.
Let a murderer go because he did it to avenge his love who had been murdered.
Nearly cried when Watson was shot, knocked the shooter out with the butt of his gun and then threatened to kill him when he woke up.
That is a very good quality gurdy…and I wish I could play like that…
If you’ve never heard hurdy-gurdy before, allow me to assure you that whatever you are expecting it to sound like, it won’t be even a fraction as cool as the real thing.
Saudi Arabia gave women permission to drive and this is the first thing they do 😭
This shit’s harder than ANY post malone track
Somebody on twitter called her SaudiB
This track is hard
I saw that someone who speaks Arabic took a stab at translating it and it turns out she’s basically doing a PSA about safe driving rules and I fell in love
everything from the wurlitzer to the spinning double horn speaker to the over alls to the cow skull which he is using to crash the cymbals suggests that this is some sort of demi-god
there are bells on his elbows for crying out loud, and is that an 8 track recorder??? help
In the Italian city of Verona, local street artist Cibo paints colorful wall art full of appetizing food over neo-nazi graffiti (x)
“It’s my civic duty, and my right … honestly I feel like have a right to cover [erase] these kinds of things. Since I’m doing a public form of art, I have to take care of my city and … it’s like my own art gallery. How do you explain a swastika to a child? How do you do it? It’s impossible. It’s a racist message. And it’s not okay .”
knitting in the dark 