Because of its explosive nature, not all applications of nitrocellulose were successful. In 1869, with elephants having been poached to near extinction, the billiards industry offered a US$10,000 prize to whoever came up with the best replacement for ivory billiard balls. John Wesley Hyatt created the winning replacement, which he created with a new material he invented, called camphored nitrocellulose—the first thermoplastic, better known as celluloid. The invention enjoyed a brief popularity, but the Hyatt balls were extremely flammable, and sometimes portions of the outer shell would explode upon impact. An owner of a billiard saloon in Colorado wrote to Hyatt about the explosive tendencies, saying that he did not mind very much personally but for the fact that every man in his saloon immediately pulled a gun at the sound.
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I find it hard to call Holmes and Watson by their first names because. Like. They aren’t my friends. They’re my strange little creatures that I observe in their little environment with a magnifying glass.
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CHRISTMAS EVE, 1890 - a bit of a short one, this is the first of a 3-part interlude leading into THE BLUE CARBUNCLE! It's been about a month and a half since the events of THE DYING DETECTIVE.
Ed is previously mentioned here, forgive me for going fully off canon and inventing a new character, but I had a Vision
"what even happens in the magnus archives" Everything Happens In The Magnus Archives. it's all in there. you name something that is in any way scary or unpleasant and it's in there somewhere. if you have a niche phobia or recurring nightmare of any kind, no matter how obscure you may believe it to be, then one day you are going to queue up an episode and listen to the intro music play and then they'll read out the title "episode 42069, catching you in 4k" and recite your own personal worst fear Directly into your ear canals, in exactly the words you would use to describe it. the sixth episode is about exploding worm sex that kills you. and then there are 194 more episodes after that.
Hello! I really love your Holmes art! Can you please give some tips of how you draw Holmes and Watson?🥺
Absolutely! Sorry this took a while to answer! Also this is only how I do it!! You don’t have to follow these rules AT ALL!!
Also sorry for my dogshit handwriting if anybody wants to try and translate it please go ahead 😭
eating pastries is so humiliating cause you'll be having the time of your life having it and then when you're finished you look down and you're covered in flakes and sugardust like fuuuck now everyone is going to know i'm a messy pastry whore
"he was a cold, unemotional, calculating machine" yeah and he also reads tragic poetry about forsaken love maybe you don't know what you're talking about
Forget about torturing your blorbos, putting them through the ringer. I'm putting my blorbo in perfectly ordinary, pleasant situations. Their tortured personality will cause them anguish anyway, making an absolutely mundane scene into the most dramatic, agony filled affair as though the world is ending and it's all their fault
im not really sure what im gonna post here probly just random art and stuffs
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