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Hello, Sherlock Holmes adaptation writer. I have trapped you in this room. It is fully furnished and comfortable. On the table, you will notice a copy of A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of which redistribution is perfectly legal, as the work is in the public domain. You will notice it is rather thin. You have 24 hours to read the approximately 8,550 words in this story. To exit this room, all you must do is summarize the plot of the story without referring to Irene Adler as a seductress or implying she is attracted to Sherlock Holmes. Good luck.
I am the very model of a shrewd Ferengi businessman I’ve been on Deep Space Nine since it was run by the Cardassians My bar provides each alien that passes through its double doors With gambling and alcohol, and holographic paramours
But that is not to say that I’m impervious to harder times I’ve often been accused of larceny and graft and other crimes My righteous indignation is becoming quite demonstrable Especially with my old friend, the law-enforcing Constable.
I’m singing this while sitting in a holding cell familiar So Odo comes and lets me out before he goes peculiar That good-cop, bad-cop subroutine he just took to employing Could use some work (or one more cop) - it’s really quite annoying.
Of course he can, his brother’s friend’s a famous weapons wholesaler! He simply chose the path of peaceful station spirits retailer But a little extra traffic under counters still is not a sin – He is the very model of a shrewd Ferengi businessman.
If you love this, I *must* recommend the much-missed John M. Ford’s ST:TOS tie-in novel How Much for Just the Planet – in which they go to the planet of slapstick musicals.
Ford was not a terribly prolific writer, but he was a warm, thoughtful, caring, witty, and often hilarious person to encounter in fandom. I knew him mostly via the comments section of Making Light, where he might break out into song filk like the above at any time.
Seeing this come across my dash more or less at random reminded me of him quite forcefully.
Ford’s work went out of print after his death, we feared irrecoverably, until a journalist fan, Isaac Bulter, managed to get in touch with his legal heirs and start to broker their reconciliation with his publishers. Most of his works are now available again at your favorite ebook vendor.
Do your part - use literally anything other than Google Chrome
Reminder that switching to Firefox is incredibly easy and takes just a few minutes, you WILL be able to copy over all your cookies, browsing history, logins etc, as well as change the look/layout so it feels like what you’re used to.
I’ve reblogged this before but I never stopped using Firefox and thought it was still everyone’s standard for the longest time. WHY did people start shifting to chrome that badly? Chrome has always been more prone to lagging and freezing and crashing on every computer I have ever had while Firefox just never slows down for anything. And yeah it lets you import all your bookmarks, it has better AdBlock and it has more add-ons in general.
I’ll always use Firefox.
Firefox has ublock origin even on Android!! It has tampermonkey! Please for the love of fuck just try it out, you can uninstall it if you don’t like it
Other non-chrome browsers like brave or opera gx are still chromium based
Literally anyone who is even slightly nerdy or tech savvy and doesn’t use Firefox is missing out
This scene will forever leave the biggest impression on me
Thank you so much. I adore when this crosses my dash.
I have watched this clip every time it crosses my dash; probably a few times a year since it was released.
One day I’ll actually watch the film itself.
he even saved the fish 😭
i always get a little teary eyed about the goldfish like he is so committed to saving every life in that house, all the children, the staff, the dog, but he’s paying so much attention to everything that he notices and saves the fish too
You know how people sometimes get a cat by just having a random stray cat with no collar and no chip walk in and sit on the couch like “yo fucknuts I live here now”, and the people just go “well fuck, guess I gotta go get a litterbox then.”
Now consider: Humans doing that to the fae. Not being captured by the fae folk, not taken against their will but stubbornly walking in to their realm and refusing to leave before one of them agrees to take this damn creature. Faeries telling each other “naww come on, you can’t make it leave, it already ate your food. Everyone knows you gotta keep them if you’ve fed them.”
And another faery yells back “I did not fucking feed that thing, it climbed into my pantry and was eating flour straight out of the bag!”
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