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I finished the blanket I'd been working on. I'd misjudged when buying the yarn (from 2025 black friday sale) for size son wanted and have two skeins left but oh well. Blanket!

the pattern was "textured groove" and that was very valid, it has a great texture to it. 45"x60" give or take

David Burke died earlier this week. He was the original Watson in the Jeremy Brett Granada Sherlock Holmes series. Most of the obits talked about how he brought a competent, strong, true-to-canonness back to the character which I didn't think was quite fair since while Nigel Bruce (Basil Rathbone's counterpart for those movies) was a bit of an audience insert bumbler, H. Marion Crawford's Watson in the 1954 Ronald Howard's Holmes tv show was lovely. That said, Burke's Watson was absolute excellent! Granada!Holmes has the reputation it does for a reason and I loved that the Burke->Hardwicke switch was timed perfectly with Burke's last episode being The Final Problem and Harkwicke's first The Empty House and Burke's Watson had a young, twinkle-in-the-eye energeticness to him while Harkwicke's was more world weary and brokenly gentle which was perfect way to show how the character might have changed post-Holmes' and Mary's death.

RIP David Burke, may his memory be a blessing.

I may do a rewatch of my favorite Holmes' this weekend. Youtube has so much of it: the Rathbone movies, the Howard and Crawford series and, of course, all the Granada episodes. I don't think my favorite version of Hound is up there anymore (Ian Hart's 2002 with Richard Roxburgh as Holmes) but oh well, lots of other great Watsons and Holmes to spend time with there.

Have *sighs* three weeks of recthething recs (lots of tumblr art and one MDZS/Untamed fic)

Daredevil:
- Ben Urich (love the coloring on this)

Discworld
- Death and Binky (really nice)

Heated Rivalry
- the only place worth sleeping is one right next to you (adorable hollanov comic)

MDZS/The Untamed
- No one struggles like teenji (no he was not trying to make the rabbits kiss, Lan Xichen, that would be silly :D )
- portrait series by echo-bleu - Jiang Cheng, Wei Wuxian, and Nie Huaisang so far (all gorgeous with amazing use of lights/lighting)

Star Wars (a whole bunch of art was posted for May the Fourth, here's some I really liked)
- You Will Be A Jedi, I Promise (prequel art, Anakin and Obi Wan)
- chewbacca (adorable chibi)
- Han and Chewie (so cute)
- Skywalker twins and force ghosts comic (utterly hilarious)

Word of Honor
- something changed (absolutely lovely zhou zishu art triptych)

MDZS/Untamed fic:

Written, never said by sandorara (6.6k)
Summary Snippet: Thirteen years of correspondence, understanding and friendship. (loved this mostly epistolary Luo Qingyang&LWJ fic)