phoenixhowl:

So there is a post floating around Tumblr which I have seen many times, saying that if you translate Moriarty from Latin into English, it would mean ‘to die is an art’. And while it’s clever, it bugged me enormously, because Moriarty isn’t a Latin name. It’s an Irish name, a Gaelic one, so it has absolutely nothing to do with Latin. While they’re both Indo-European languages, Latin is an Italic language, and Gaelic a Celtic one. Seeing the Romans never reached Ireland, they didn’t even spoke Latin there.

Moriarty was probably a personal or perhaps occupational name; ‘Muircheartach’, meaning “The navigator”. It is a developed form of the Olde Gaelic pre-10th century surname O’Muircheartaigh.

One explanation for the many variations is that scribes and church officials frequently spelled the name as it sounded; an imprecise method at best. Understandably then, various spellings of the surname Moriarty can be found. These includes Moriarty, O’Moriarty, Murtagh, Murtag, McMoriarty and many more.

The abbreviations of Mc in front of a name, meaning ‘son of’ is popular in Irish names, although this is no guarantee that the name is Irish. Many Scottish names also prefer Mc instead of Mac. Officially in both countries, the abbreviation is Mac. In Ireland, frequently O’ is also used instead of Mc but the meaning is the same.

And seeing I ship MorMor till death and beyond: Moran is an Anglicized form of two distinct Gaelic names – O’Morain and O’Moghrain of Connacht. The personal byname Morain, from ‘mor’, meaning ‘great’ or ‘large’, which would make Moran’s meaning “descendant of a great one”, or “son of a great one”. With this name you can also find different spellings, such as O’Moran, Murrin, or Murran.

I take things like this way too serious, maybe, but I just really like the origin and meaning of names, okay.

katzensprotte:

S: Boss…

J: Kitten…

S: I really don’t want to do this.

J: I know. Now be quiet and look cute while we have these pictures taken.

A few days later Sherlock and John find the whole sexy photo shoot in their mail box and are like lolwut JUST LIKE ME WHILE I WAS DRAWING THIS GOD JIM WHERE DID YOU EVEN FIND THESE PANTS!

Buzz Buzz Motherfucker pants are from this super cute comic by infinite-mirrors. Just added the target to Moran’s pants, because I thought that it’d be hilarious. I’M CERTAINLY LAUGHING!

jim-is-fabby:

savagesundown:

dragoninatrenchcoat:

queasyillustrator:

jim how did you even

jim just lost all faith in humanity

Seb stared at Saint Peter in disbelief, and then anger. “What? No, I can’t go in there!”

The taller man— angel?— gave a sort of shrug. “You’re good at heart.”

“Bullshit,” Sebastian growled, crossing his arms. “I mean, I’ve spent half my life making /sure/ I didn’t….”

The angel cocked his head. “And why’s that?”

Sebastian grew quiet. A moment of silence passed between the two of them, outside the golden gates. “Because of him.”

Peter opened his mouth to answer, when a shoe- a very fucking expensive shoe- flew over Sebastian’s head. It’s thrower stood on the other side of the gates wearing Westwood and aviators, and something between a scowl and a maniac grin. “Oi, over here, you dolt!”

Sebastian forced himself to drag his eyes away from Jim for just a moment to throw an accusatory glance at the saint. “How the fucking hell did /he/…”

Peter chuckled. “Apparently, he’s got some dirt on The Big Guy.”

PERI I LOVE YOU

Oh god, the ficlet! 😀 (Well, if anyone, Jim. *snickers*)

Minutes (Beeblock Fic)

random-ficcery:

Title: Minutes
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: James Moriarty/Sebastian Moran, Misc Short-lived OCs
Word Count: 2,294
Disclaimer: Not mine, don’t claim they are, not making money at this, no offense meant, promise to return them when I’m through with them.
Spoilers: Nope.
Warnings: This time, yeah. Somewhat graphic descriptions of violence, Strangulation, Male homosexuality, Men having sex.
Summary: Sebastian Moran on a job,the events of and following, all broken down in rough increments by minutes.
Author’s Notes: So, I had this mental image and shared it with Lady-Karasu, of Jim and Seb sexin’ it up and Jim being evil and a bit rough and Seb being all sarcastic afterward. She, not surprisingly – she ships them like woah – flailed and did many things to convince me I should write that up. So I was going to make it a little ask-box ficlet thing for her on Tumblr or something. Yeah. About that. *sigh* Do I even need to say it anymore? So, Lady-Karasu, this is for you, my dear. Founding member of the Professional Enabler’s Club, that you are, I shouldn’t even be surprised for an instant that you got me to do this. *grin* Try to use your powers for good… or at least good porn, yeah? ;D

Aww, you shouldn’t have— I LIE, OH YES YOU SHOULD!  o/  I fully support this behavior; what do I need to do to get more?  Baking?  I can do that – I can have double-chocolate brownies to you in – well, I’d say in a few days, but the post office does not apparently like to deliver to you so maybe more like a week.  XD

Hehe – I see I have leveled up in my enabling powers if it gets me this lovely, lovely thing (I told you ‘it’ll be short’ – famous last words XD)  Seriously hun, thank you so much – the amount of flailing I did while reading was completely unseemly *snicker*  I adore it, and it just makes me want to work on the other two mormor storylines we’re working on. *grins suggestively*  Thank you~!