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By popular request ;D Holmes being neurodivergent was something I thought about a lot while writing the game (channelling my own experiences a lot of the time!) and I know that our director discussed it with the actors, too. This is definitely not all the scenes or even the most prominent examples, but they're the ones that felt non-spoilery!

This is from my Sherlock Holmes point and click game The Beekeeper's Picnic which releases March 26th 2025!

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The Time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Had A Pet Sea Snail

I've been reading the diary Doyle kept of his time as a ship's surgeon aboard an Arctic whaling vessel in 1880, and you all deserve to hear the tale of John Thomas, Doyle's pet Clione limacina, which he drew in the above picture.

Doyle, then 21, found John Thomas on June 3rd, 1880:

Brought up a most beautiful Clio or Sea Snail, a couple of inches long, looking like some weird little fairy. I have stuck him in a pickle bottle and christened him "John Thomas." I hope he will live, we have put some butter and pork into his house.

The following day, Doyle attempted to feed John Thomas and wrote a short poem about the snail:

John Thomas is in an awful passion. We left the pickle bottle far from the fire, and as there are 11 degrees of frost it froze up and John has caught cold. He is sitting in a corner with his tail in his mouth, just as a sulky baby sticks its thumb into its potato box. I have drawn John's attention to the butter & pork and he took a hurried breakfast, but seems to have business of importance down at the bottom of the bottle. He's thinking perhaps of Where his rude shell by the Gulf Stream lay, There were his little Sea Snails all at play, There their Amoeboid mother, he their sire Butchered to make a whale's holiday.

On June 5th, Doyle reported that "John is well and hearty," and on the 6th, he wrote:

John was up before me and took a heavy breakfast. He is now gyrating round the top of his bottle surveying his new kingdom apparently and meditating a map. I put him in a bucket every evening where he wanders fancy free for an hour or two.

Unfortunately, on the 10th, Doyle reported that John Thomas had departed the mortal plane.

John Thomas died on the 8th of June, regretted by a large circle of acquaintances

He wrote a touching eulogy for his tiny friend:

He was a right thinking and high minded Clio, distinguished among his brother sea snails for his mental activity as well as for physical perfection. He never looked down upon his smaller associates because they were protozoa while he could fairly lay claim to belong to the high family of the Echinodermata or Annulosa. He never taunted them with their want of a water vascular system, nor did he parade his own double chain of ganglia. He was a modest and unassuming blob of protoplasm, and could get through more fat pork in a day than many an animal of far higher pretensions. His parents were both swallowed by a whale in his infancy, so that what education he had was due entirely to his own industry and observation. He has gone the way of all flesh so peace be to his molecules.

John Thomas' descendants still live in the Arctic Ocean today, and they look pretty cool!

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Made this post bc of this homumiko artwork that wrecked me on twt

Guys NEVER imagine homumiko while listening to 'It’s Over Isn’t It' you will DIE ‼️‼️⛔️

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Guys NEVER imagine homumiko while listening to 'It’s Over Isn’t It' you will DIE ‼️‼️⛔️

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so the voice who reads all the prologues of excerpts from the herlock sholmes serial is definitely yujin mikotoba's right

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Happy Aro Week!!! 💚🤍🩶🖤

Have this meme I made bc I REFUSE to believe that this is just me sksk—

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Also its always the same right wing, blue checkmark, AI bros that say this type of thing. Like you are actively against people who are creating the thing you want to “see more of”. You don’t want artists to have a liveable wage or reasonable working hours and yet you want to see more beautiful paintings in galleries??? Be so fr 😭

Always PISSES ME THE FUCK OFF when I hear people look at like paintings in art museums or wherever and say some shit like “sad people don’t make things like this anymore” First Of All the last time you actually gave a shit about art beyond a surface level was when you were finger painting in second grade. I don’t think you have the expertise to talk about what is and isn’t going on in the art world. And Second Of All there ARE!!! THERE ARE PEOPLE MAKING BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS AND MASSIVE SCULPTURES AND SHIT THAT DESERVES TO BE IN MUSEUMS!!!! I’m FRIENDS with those people!!! I’m in classes and I get the privilege of SEEING THEM MAKE IT!!! But like with 90 fucking percent of artists in all of history theyre incredibly poor and overworked and undervalued so they get no visibility!! So either start appreciating the people who make the things you would want to see in museums or SHUT UP!!!!

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important thing to remember. the amount of notes on your art or writing doesn't matter as long as your friends and mutuals are insane about it. that's way more important

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A single sholm who works two jobs

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Idk guys

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The downside of shipping homumiko is that it doesn’t have the most content in the world, but the upside of shipping homumiko is that it actually has the most content in the world (johnlock)

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MARVELOUS DETECTIVE MR HERLOCK SHOLMES!

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FUCK ITS 221B DAY AND I TOTALLY FORGOT TO MAKE SOMETHING

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1920 c. Pals. From America in the 1920s, FB.

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I’m so art blocked rn oughhhhh

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Devil’s Foot and whatnot

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