Hey! I Don't Mind At All. I Think That My Definition Of Romance Is A Bit Weird. Traditional Romance Has

Hey! I don't mind at all. I think that my definition of romance is a bit weird. Traditional romance has a big emphasis on the physical part, which does not attract me at all. I think that the ideal romance is actually much like the ideal friendship. Once I read that gestures can never be defined as platonic or romantic, because it depends on the intentions of the people involved. A kiss could be completely platonic, and hands brushing could be insanely romantic. But outsiders can never know.

Untraditional romance, to me, means they have romantic feelings for each other, but never advance on the physical part. Such as a couple who doesn't kiss, for example.

Explaining this is hard, and it's not a one size fits all. But I've seen that, in fiction and in real life, they start out different.

Romance start out with an interest in some specific part of the person, be it their hair, their smile, their kindness, their intelligence. Friendship starts with a respect for the other person's bring, while also being a desire to be like.

I am a firm believer that, if you don't think your friends are some of the best people you'll ever meet, you have the wrong friends. They are supposed to be counsellors, confidants, partners and role models.

A romantic relationship has less pressure. They are supposed to maintain the connection, and that's it. It's rare to see people making their partners their role models. Perhaps an inspiration, but not a role model. That is usually reserved for platonic relationships.

I see a lot of potential in Sherlock and Liam for both directions. While I do ship them, I also think they would be a great friendship. This confusion of mine blends into the romance, because while I can see them having a traditional romance, it doesn't seem very... them, if you know what I mean.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense to you, but it's the best explanation I can give.

platonic sherliam shipper?

Yes, most definitely! I can see the potential of them as a romantic ship, I just get easily bored with romances.

Actually, this makes me curious, just how weird it really is within this fandom? Is there anyone else? I feel like most of the posts I see around are about romantic sherliam, and... well, it's fine :) But I would love to add my platonic perspective to the mix, maybe even finally sit myself to write fanfics that reside in my head.

Thanks for the ask!

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meme dump :3 more incoming

This is actually a very good analysis, and I fully agree. I really hope that they put more representation on the next part of the manga, but, to my own opinion of the writers, it'll probably just be making Sherliam half-canon and calling it a day. It would also be really cool to have more women in the story. I was reading some fanfic the other day, and realised that the Yuumori world is literally not meant for women, but I might expand on that in a later post.

YuuMori meta theory: why we didn’t get the story that was originally planned by the author - part 4

Hello everyone! This part is the longest up to date and will wrap up the main inconsistencies surrounding the characters in YuuMori, although there are definitely more to be seen. This post is also a beginning of sorts to pinpoint when the series really started to shift, but again, that is just my opinion; and you’re very welcome to share yours!

TL;DR: James Bond was not planned to be a trans man from the beginning and it really shows; not to mention that his writing is full of harmful stereotypes.

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YES to all of these, but I'm also obssesed with viewing the Morigang as the third part of the conflict in PJO. Like, Percy with the gods, Luke with the titans, and the Moriarty team for themselves and the demigods, fighting for a fair world. It would be really cool if the Holmes was originally very on the side of the gods, but gradually shifts over to the middle with the Morigang as the story goes on. Then later, the Morigang compromising with the gods and stuff.

And just becoming like, those weird and slightly scary older counselors. Also, Von Herder is absolutely helping his brother Leo build the Argo II, you don't even need to ask. Annabeth thinks Liam is very interesting, but he does not like her. Not one bit. Louis, on the contrary, is on good terms with her, even though not exactly close. Moran and Bonde are most definitely the camp playboys, and the only reason that Bonde hasn't flirted with more people than Moran is because he can't flirt with his own siblings.

And Mycroft would definitely be Chiron's assistant. He and Albert are also probably Mr. D's favorites.

A random, kinda crack pjo x mtp crossover

Random little PJO x MTP thoughts but William and Louis would be children of Hades. Before someone rocks up with "They're children of Athena" I simply want to avoid the whole "Sherlock and William are technically siblings in that vein of thought."

Following on from that, Sherlock could only be a child of Athena for me, unless there is some god of detectives and critical thinking or something.

(Maybe Louis and William are students of Athena on Olympus because they were cool or something, idk)

Moving on though, Albert is a child of Achlys and he carries it around as the most depressing burden ever. The man would not be able to get over it. Mostly, this connection comes through poison and Achlys being the personification of Sorrow (his dramatic ass in the tower is the only proof I need).

Mycroft I'm 30/30/30 on. One hand, he's Sherlock's half brother and the son of Zeus (cause he has that whole leadership thing going on), on the other hand, he's the son of Athena and Sherlock's full brother, and on the other other hand, he's a child of Ares and represents battle strategy. So while Sherlock is normal intelligence, Mycroft is strategic intelligence. The most probable one would be child of Athena but it's fun to think about.

James is a son of Aphrodite and has the most beef with Hera for being all "femininity this, masculinity that." He loves Artemis and her hunters, briefly considered joining her hunters when he was Irene, then found he didn't fit there. He's still invited on hunts sometimes.

Jack and Moran would be kids of Ares, with Jack being some legacy type guy, one of the very few Greek Demigods to survive to old age. If it were set in the Percy Jackson Universe, Moran would but heads with Clarice a lot and Jack would mentor her.

Herder is a son of Hephaestus, done.

Moneypenny gives off the vibe like she'd be a child of Hestia but I'm fairly sure Hestia has a virginity vow so maybe she's just a follower? If not, then maybe a child of Demeter (cause she provides) or Hermes (cause she's a secretary).

John's a child of Apollo in every Will Solace aspect of the gig. The man's a healer, a ball of sunshine and a soldier in one breath. the only thing he probably couldn't do is play music. Billy is also a kid of Apollo and takes on more of the aspects of the "archer" since he's a gunslinger.

Miss Hudson is a dryad or some other creature from the camp.

Patterson, weirdly, is also a child of Athena. He, Sherlock and Mycroft aren't particularly close as siblings but they do see eye-to-eye (Sherlock gets jealous of him a lot).

Fred would probably be a child of Persephone, which makes a strange relationship between him, Louis and William.

Bill is a child of Hecate for all the mystery around him. He can hide things and is extremely smart in doing so. He natural math skills are just his and have no connection to Hecate (I really tried to find a god that relates to him but Athena is the only other one and it just bothers me how many of them would be children of Athena).

Adam Whitely would be a child of Zeus but he'd die trying to protect his human brother.

Wiggins would be some mischievous little forest creature that bothers Sherlock for food.

I mentioned in another post that Yuukoku no Moriarty is an adaptation that plays with adaptation as a form, and no one asked me about it, which kind of makes me sad because I really wanted the impetus to talk about it to override my executive dysfunction. But it turns out I think it was interesting enough to write anyway.

Maybe it’s not as interesting a realization as I thought it was when I thought of it…whenever that was. This year, sometime. Maybe this is because I said that literally hours ago and didn’t want to wait.

So, Yuukoku no Moriarty is an adaptation. A loose adaptation (very loose), but nonetheless an adaptation of not one, but two different very well-known stories in not only the anglosphere but pretty much globally. I have never read a Sherlock Holmes story in my life or seen literally any other adaptation of it. I still knew who several of the characters were before I even started the series. I have never read a James Bond novel or seen literally any of the movies. I still knew the character’s names and often roughly what the did, before I started the series. I could recognize a lot of the names of the story arcs and what they were riffs on.

That is how well-known and famous these stories are. They are stories people know just through existing in the world and bobbing along as osmosis.

And this story would not work if it were not an adaptation.

Now, there’s a lot of way to approach adaptations. For instance, when adapting a book to a movie, changes are usually made so that the material in the book can get crunched down to fit into a movie of reasonable length, which means scenes or characters might go. Some lines that were thought will be said. Things like that, in order to make the story work in the new format. Takeuchi-sensei says in his notes in volume two of the series to think of Sherly as just another flavor of Holmes because each adaptation’s version is slightly different. That’s just how adaptations are, no matter how faithful. Changes have to be made to tell the same story properly.

And then there are looser retellings and adaptations that tend to be less strict about trying to tell the same story. Something like Elementary is not really trying to tell the same story as the Sherlock Holmes canon did. Like. The events are not the same. The characters are different. They gender-swapped someone and set it somewhere else. They just used the same pieces of the story—some of the characters and their dynamics, etc.—to tell a different story they wanted to tell.

Yuukoku no Moriarty is doing both at once: It’s a loose retelling that’s dramatically changing the story—and also acknowledging in-universe that this is a different story from the one it’s “supposed” to be.

It helps, because the original Sherlock Holmes stories were narrated primarily by one of the characters acting in the story, and he was, in the original canon, writing them to sell them for money. There’s a bit of a strange fourth wall there that YuuMori is taking full advantage of.

YuuMori’s story starts out with a flashforward: a flashforward to one of the most famous scenes in the original canon, a scene which was reliably recognized for what it was as Reichenbach Falls and Moriarty’s end.

And then tells us a story about how narratives are artificial. How they’re crafted to serve an end. A story about a villain who casts himself into a role as one and calls his plans a “play.” A villain who chooses someone to cast into the role of his nemesis and make the protagonist, intentionally trying to craft a poetic contrast between the two to make the story really impactful. And all this despite the fact that neither of them ever properly fit into the roles they were imagined as and the story demanded them to be: William’s cast listing for his play, as upfront as the cast list in a play might be (if you’ve ever noticed, a play will have the entire cast and their roles in the front), is fake and not true to reality.

It tells us a story about a doctor who writes stories about his best friend and hid the messy details to make sure neither of them came off too terribly and no one got too angry at the details. A doctor who fudges the story of him proposing to someone for a ploy to avoid making his fiancée upset and buried stories completely at his friend’s request for the greater good.

It tells us a story about how the world was told a woman was dead and gave her new life as a man, and the two sides were easily enough to slip and blur between. It tells us a story of a blackmailer who tells the truth in ways that would cause the most harm, and it tells the story of how lying about a man’s actions help save the country because it was a horror they did not need to know.

YuuMori is constantly telling stories about lies being given to people to make a story easy and palatable, to serve the ends of the one lying about the story, of about people crafting narratives and stories, and the more the lie, the closer they put the character to us.

And then it shows us that the story we thought we were seeing from the start in the flashforward was also a trick. You know this story, it said. You know this story and how it ends. Everyone does. It’s one of the most famous endings of a character in the anglosphere.

But did we really? Or do we just know how we were told to story goes and how it ends?

Yes, we had a flashforward. But that one panel would have meant nothing if we did not know that Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty faced off at a waterfall in Switzerland, and that Professor Moriarty died there, the victim of his eternal nemesis and enemy. And we only knew that because it’s an adaptation of one of the most-adapted canons in English literature.

The story fundamentally would not work if it were not an adaptation. It relies on that premise to tell a story. Not because it’s using the same copyright pieces. Not because it’s trying to tell the same story.

But because if we didn’t think we knew the story, then the twist couldn’t have happened.

And I think that’s an amazing use of the form.

Hi! Thank you for answering me i almost died with the Narcissus thing i love it!

For your ask game: 9M, 9S, 9W, if it's not too much, ofc. I just really love Herder and like to know what others think of him!

Whoooops I totally forget that I'm so sorry here we go: 9 is all Herder 9M: Has elemental powers (for example fire and water), Which element does the character control? Fire because he's part of the arsonist team. No but really Herder could melt shit together like there's no tomorrow with a little laser finger beam

9S: Is forced to have a date for a prom. Who will the character ask to fake date?

John Watson because he's so invested in Herder's ideas. No dance, no fake romance. Just talking for 7+ hours about screws and mechanics and hearing someone enjoying every minute of it Option 2: Not going because he was to busy and forgot. Maybe locked again in the basement by Liam: "I bought you some cheap-ass mind puzzles. Have fun; I let you out in two days."

9W: Is born from a Greek god/goddess. Who are the character’s parents and does the character have any powers?

Narcissus who made him blind so his son doesn't have to suffer from looking at his beautiful father

I'm not deep enough into greek mythology, sorry But I know Zeus knocked up everything with a pulse so he can be a son of his in the end