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can people stop bullying Johnk for peeing…. and by people I mean Sherlock and Mariana

Ooooooh! Beautiful artwork by @abstractfrog , just the image alone is getting me excited for this case!😍😍

The Lion’s Mane Pt. 1 (SPOILERS)

Alright, here are my notes!

1. Starting off with some beautiful angelic music, mixed with coastal ambience (be still, my Californian heart🌊)😍✨

2. Maude is a cutie!! She’s so fr for gushing about meeting the Sherlock & Co trio irl. I love her Scottish accent!

3. Speaking of Scotland, I was SO EXCITED to hear that this whole case is gonna take place in Scotland!! I just love Scotland and would love to go in the future, so any content about that I’ll take it!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

4. John: “I’ll make sure this chat is light” Sherlock: *talking to Maude* “LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR HUSBAND’S CORPSE, HOW THICK WAS THE BLOOD??” oh Sherlock😂

5. Really cool background info for Maude and the town of Fjara! It really lays out the kind of place we’ll (John, Sherlock, Mariana, and yes us listeners) be exploring.

6. John sang “Chasing Waterfalls” while brushing his teeth again. Last time he did that was in Silver Blaze Pt. 2. I didn’t think much of it before until Shoscombe Old Place Pt. 2 had Sherlock mention waterfalls and Moriarty getting a canon shoutout by John…oh God it’s so foreboding…I love it😈

7. Oh no John, why??? Why did you have to say that out loud to Sherlock and Mariana?? Now you’ll never hear the end of it from them (especially not from Mariana)!

8. Speaking of Mariana, she’s a Harry Potter nerd🦉🪄! I used to be one as well, so I loved their full argument about Quidditch with John and Sherlock saying it’s ‘rubbish’ (they’re not wrong, tho😂)

9. I just loved the small quiet scene with John talking to the microphone while everyone else was asleep. It’s so peaceful listening to his voice and even his yammering is so philosophical. It felt like a pure “stream-of-thoughts” moment that some people have had while traveling far away to someplace new (at least I have) 🌙✨

10. Mariana borrowed the mic while John was asleep!!

11. Local: “oh yeh these waters be DANGEROUS, here’s a list of all the possible dangers: razor sharp rocks, darkness, strong tides, and freezing cold”…um sir we just met, why do we need to know how dangerous the waters are?????

12. And the episode closes off with the same beautiful music from the beginning!🥰🥰

Overall:

- I’m excited for this case! I wasn’t expecting too much to happen in Pt. 1 since I knew it would be mainly a “introduce case, travel to location” kind of episode. But honestly what a strong start to it! I saw on the website for transcripts that we’re gonna be getting three parts for this case, so yeah I’ll be super excited when those come out!!

Until next week!😜

The Lion's Mane Pt. 2 (SPOILERS)

Alright part 2 notes, let’s jump in!

Oooh, Fjara’s got a small-town myth! I like it when towns have local legends and history that they’re proud to talk about, like when certain towns are known for famous cryptids!

Same John, I too would react the same way about whiskey (I’ve never even had it)

Once again, I love hearing John go into the logistics of injuries the victims acquired before they died by just examining them. Always here for the Dr. Watson content!

Sherlock wants to go in a submersible! Great that he had a pamphlet ready to go 

3,000 POUNDS?! Sherlock, Mariana has every right to not find that ‘lovely’!

Sherlock: “What are you afraid of?”, John: “Death…sharks”; of course you’d say that John you Jaws fan

Maude’s family is quite a powerful empire on the island…interesting

Sherlock with his trousers rolled up walking around the rock pools holding a children’s bucket and shovel is fan art I need to see NOW (it’s like Sherlock in the swing all over again)

Sherlock: “Even a best friend isn’t immune from a physical assault”, oh shit John watch your back I guess

John and Mariana freaking out about making up a story on the fly is hilarious

Interesting how Mariana would, in some way, believe in the myths. Her and I both have the same fascination with how people in ancient history would use legends and myths to explain the unknown before they did their research and found their answers! 

And a VERY dramatic cliffhanger to finish off the episode!

Okay, now we’re getting somewhere with the case! Very much a full investigation episode, getting all the facts about the island and the people around it. Interesting how Maude’s family has a much bigger part in the whole case, yet you can tell that she genuinely wants answers for what happened to Harry. Speaking of answers, we won’t get those until the last part next week! Stay tuned

This ^^

I loved when John had this little moment in Lion’s Mane pt 1 because he had such a profound and introspective way of seeing something as simple as a long train ride at night. It was such a humanly vulnerable moment that he shared with us (the listeners) and I think it says a lot about his character.🥹🥹

John monologuing on the train in The Lions Mane Part One is such a vulnerable and intimate moment with the way he describes his surroundings. Same with the time he did it in Silver Blaze Part One.

He became an army doctor, but he has the mind of a poet and the words of an author, and it just really touches me.

I loved this too!

I mentioned in my lions mane pt. 1 notes that this was a cute detail because it opens up so many possibilities for the podcast! Not saying I’m sick of John being our main podcast host (far from it), but I love the idea of more than one person handling the mic!

The Lion's Mane has been so good so far. I love the interactions between the main trio and cannot wait to see fannart and shit. I mean part one is like perfect for animations and shit its full of great clips lol I love the part where Mariana takes the microphone when Watson is sleeping. It is cool to see her take the focus for a bit. She stutters a bit more because she isn't as used to being a narrator and I think that is a nice addition.

The Lion's Mane Pt. 3 (SPOILERS)

Final part notes are here, let’s get to it!

Maude joined Sherlock for rock pooling! 

Sherlock: “She’s rock pooling with me”, aw she certainly is buddy!

Same Mariana, I too would be pointing out all the sea creatures I see 

Maude: “Living in solitude with one another. Dumped in here by the big sea that left them behind”, John: “Uh…it can be difficult to share a flat with somebody” THE WATER-BASED ANALOGIES STRIKE ONCE AGAIN!!

It’s interesting how complex of a situation Maude has put herself in! Her family has secrets that she knows she needs to keep hidden, but she really just wants to figure out how her fiancé died 

The tooth! Sherlock found Harry’s missing tooth (completely normal thing to whip out in a pub Sherlock, SUPER normal)

Balsanna, or ‘death in the soul’ is a really cool phrase to describe the weight an indirect death can have on someone’s mind and soul; you may not have meant for them to die, but you still feel guilty for indirectly killing them

Sherlock: *referring to the listeners* “You are not a priority”, John: *to listeners* “Isn’t he lovely?”, yeah John like a rose with thorns; prickly but lovely

Sherlock’s still on about that submersible, and John is still full on nope-ing on that plan

Aw poor John, why doesn’t anyone wanna hold his hand??

Wow, the Bellamy’s big company secret is revealed! Using growth enhancement chemicals and claiming they’re organic is some shady shit indeed

Bringing in Balsanna is a perfect way to describe this whole situation: the Bellamy family company didn’t directly kill anyone, but their actions still resulted in those deaths

Neat callback to how John is still dealing with that Urea Nitrate fertilizer in his leg!

Sherlock got his submersible!! Poor Mariana is stressing so hard about that fee being paid. Hilarious that Sherlock was so disappointed about not being able to pilot it

The big moment I’ve been waiting for…the reveal…of the LION’S MANE JELLYFISH! Honestly, I think the they did the reveal justice. I felt like I was in the submersible seeing the beautiful scene as well! 

…wow, poor Fitzy. Good on you John for bringing him back home

Aww, now John and Mariana are having their own little moment on the train! And once again John makes fun of Mariana being a Harry Potter nerd (as he should)

Honestly this was a great case! We had the whole gang working together, they got to travel to a small island in Scotland, and there were so many layers to the case that I was intrigued by! I think the podcast itself is getting a lot better about immersive story telling. I’m not gonna say it’s the BEST case (as I imagine there are many more to come) but it was interesting all the way through. I can't wait so hear what they’ll do next…