lowkey i feel like we don’t appreciate the subtle beauty of the concept of media like night and the museum and ghosts. like literally just imagine: a place where history, and its people that are a part of it, comes alive. not exactly literally, but it’s there in a way that people can not just see, but have the chance to interact with. and yet no one really sees it until a special person comes along who doesn’t seem all that special until something happens that brings them a connection to that history (having watched natm and ghosts it seems like the more traumatizing the introduction the better ehl oh ehl) and it takes a while for them to get used to it but then they do. and they think “oh, well, great, i gotta live with the fact that i’ll have concerned citizens from 6th century A.D. asking me who daniel day lewis is” but then it becomes more than that. that person finds a family in the past, and they come to love it as much as it loves them. despite differences between people who lived decades and centuries and thousands of years apart from each other, they find hope and love and redemption, which sounds really naive but it’s not impossible. our past unites us, and we are all one and the same when it comes down to it.

history is not all that great. but it’s some thing to be no. 1: cherished, because we wouldn’t be here without it, no. 2: learned from, so we can get wisdom from the many fricked-up things we have done, and no. 3: remembered, which is the most important, because yes, our leaders sucked and were not who we are taught they were, our nations are not the picture of patriotism they are so often depicted as, citizens are not always happy or treated fairly, but at the same time we have shown the world that leaders, as much as they have brought nations down, have often times brought it to staggering heights, and different nationalities show just how different we all are and at the same time just like each other. if we’re aggrieved citizens, we can unite, and in our unity many find hope and family and love and redemption. we’ll never be perfect; we’re wrecks, history is painfully obvious in that, but that doesn’t mean there’s no goodness here, because there is.

supposed to be doing actual a/v tech and english assignments rn but i was messing around in premiere pro nd i realized putting some audio of toad singing chandelier by sia over the sped-up fight scene between brackenstall and crocker from the abbey grange episode really does something to your mind

headphone/volume warning (im not even kidding i was genuinely concerned whether the audio would make it lag or affect the speaker so be careful)

headcanon that sherlock played not just the violin but the electric guitar in the podcast intro impossible right but wouldn’t it be cool hahah dies after falling off a cliff