Girl Meets Sherlock

Poker

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:29:47 -0400

Poker is about understanding people—reading subtle, tiny cues that even they don’t know they’re giving off. Empathizing for a purpose. Becoming each of the other players in turn, until you can make a bet with reasonable certainty.

Everybody has a tell.

Her game is conventional, cerebral, calculated. She’s not risky. She’d rather fold than take a chance on an unstable bet. The problem is, unstable is part of the cards he’s been dealt, and he can’t change his hand. He can only play what he has. Her caution is her tell.

He’s a bold gambler, willing to bet big, less willing to absorb the consequences. His people are his cards; he’s a bad bluffer. Being part of that hand is unspeakably dangerous. He only knows how to play until he wins. His perfectionism is his tell.

She’s too young to play well, he thinks at first. But she stays in the game, somehow, white-knuckling her way through round after round, scraping by with enough chips to stay alive. But she has cracks around the edges. She holds her cards to her chest until they fall one by one, dropped by her weakening grasp. Her fear is her tell.

Too easy—that’s what she is. So many clues they’re overwhelming. Her transparency is her weapon. She can be used, but in the using, she will take what she can for her own purposes. She has a keen eye. She can conceal nothing, but nothing can be concealed from her. Her eagerness is her tell.

He’s the consummate Poker player. His every move is calculated to seem uncalculated. He plays with a deliberateness that belies the passion burning underneath the surface, and he plays to win the whole game; even lost rounds somehow seem like victories for him. He has no tell.

(Companion to this piece)

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:06:20 -0400

fandomarmite: gimblewabe: sheisfartoofondofbooks: I didn’t choose the fandom life. The fandom...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:32:25 -0400

fandomarmite:

gimblewabe:

sheisfartoofondofbooks:

I didn’t choose the fandom life.

The fandom life broke into my house in the middle of the night and said “Dad’s on a hunting trip, and hasn’t been home in a few days.”

I didn’t choose the fandom life

the fandom life grabbed my hand and whispered, “Run.”

I didn’t choose the fandom life

The fandom life borrowed my phone and asked me “afghanistan or iraq?”

I didn’t choose the fandom life.

The fandom life told me that it was single and young and of good fortune, and therefore in want of a wife.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:27:09 -0400

Chess

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:49 -0400

Chess is a game of the mind, but more than that, it’s a game of strategy, where every piece must be scrutinized and used to its full potential. It’s about sacrifice, death for the sake of the king. In the end, he’s the only one who matters.

Getting attached to chess pieces is unavoidable.

Pawn. He’s a round, short man who cries at nothing. Awkward, silly, enthusiastic. Everything the king is not. He’s pathetic, the way a small, trapped animal is pathetic. He’s below the need for sacrifice. Except—a pawn can’t afford to be curious. A pawn can’t dine with kings, or he’s sure to lose his head. A pawn who is important enough to be noticed is too important to live.

Knight. He’s an imposing man, with long coats and bristling eyebrows. He’d like the world to think he’s invincible. But the king sees between the cracks in his face and the fear behind his eyes. He carries a lance, but he’s fallible. Still, diagonal moves can’t always be predicted, and he’s clever. Too clever. He will live as long as he can be manipulated.

Queen. She is beautiful, and she is cold, and she is powerful, like a bespoke sculpture made just for him. The king has killed to defend her. He would do so again. But not at his own risk, never at his own risk. She is the opposite of a liability. The queen will live until the last possible moment. It is his design that they should rule together, when the game is won.

Bishop. She is kissable. The king agrees with that as with all obvious assertions, such as the color of the sky or the taste of port wine. Like the wind, she blows where she will, but he has long-since mapped the corners of her mind. The law is the board upon which she moves, and she will not leave its confines. He has no need to mar the elegance of her movements. It would be vulgar to do so.

Rook. Castling is when the king changes places with his rook. He is the most important of all, though he cannot know his part in the plan. Words spoken in friendship, confidences given, hand on shoulder. They circle around one another, as bonds deeper and darker than friendship bind their hands together. He does not know that the king can shake free at a moment’s notice, while he himself is a prisoner. When the time is right, the king castles, and the move is irrevocable.

En passant. She guts the boy with her knife, and he knows. Once in a very long while, a pawn is worthy of promotion. The king guides her trembling, feeble hand. In time, she will be something more, something he can be proud of.

made-in-the-80s: Will & Abigail manip Really well done.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:45:50 -0400

made-in-the-80s:

Will & Abigail manip

Really well done.

bakerstreetbabes: consultingcrafter: PRE-ORDER FOR...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:39:34 -0400

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:38:48 -0400

jaredsasquatch: I’M LAUGHING SO INCREDIBLY HARD BECAUSE THIS IS...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:37:50 -0400

jaredsasquatch:

I’M LAUGHING SO INCREDIBLY HARD BECAUSE THIS IS EVERY ONE’S REACTION ON HERE WHEN GETTING COMPLIMENTED.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:37:01 -0400

"For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:32:19 -0400

““For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.””

- ― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

Black, White and Shades of Grey: The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.“You are not...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:29:32 -0400

Black, White and Shades of Grey: The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.“You are not...:

imperfect-butbeautiful:

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.

“You are not at all like my rose,” he said. “As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my…

I truly believe this is one of the best books in the world.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:22:06 -0400

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:03:48 -0400

You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:46:23 -0400

You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.

hell or glory: girlmeetssherlock: katzen-prinz: just watched the hunt and it’s a...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:45:51 -0400

hell or glory: girlmeetssherlock: katzen-prinz: just watched the hunt and it’s a...:

girlmeetssherlock:

katzen-prinz:

just watched the hunt and it’s a really intense film and really difficult to watch in places (the shop scene especially) and i didn’t understand the ending in the slightest
not entirely sure what to make of it and i don’t really think i have much to…

No problem. Glad it was helpful. xx

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:54:56 -0400

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:53:20 -0400

22/∞ matt smith aka ‘giraffe’ in action pictures

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:07:35 -0400

_{22/∞ matt smith aka ‘giraffe’ in action pictures}

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:06:52 -0400