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Sherlock: [little mermaid voice] DADDY I LOVE HIM

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If anyone is still upset about feeling queer baited by BBC Sherlock, may I suggest the antidote of watching Granada's Sign of the Four, because they seriously just het baited us with Watson and Mary.

Like seriously. She shows up. Wistful gazes are exchanged. He sits way too close to her. He touches her shoulder. She calls him my dear doctor Watson. He stares after her every time she leaves. He calls her an attractive woman. Holmes seems tense around them. ...and the case is solved, and they say goodbye fondly, and she returns to her life, with Watson looking out the window after her, perhaps slightly sadly, wondering what could have been if he had said something, as Mary Morstan rides out his life forever.

And then goes back to living as a bachelor solving cases with Sherlock quite happily for the rest of the series.

I stg we got het baited and I love it.

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Fuck this guy, honestly

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doctor who art dump

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Darling Davina! I've loved Davina since I laid eyes on her, but never drew her because I didn't think I could do her justice. She's got those Bambi eyes ❤

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The 1979 Comedy Musical Soviet Adaptation of The Blue Carbuncle, no seriously.

Nobody is going to see this through the tags because this account is shadowbanned, but I don't care because I have to share an important discovery. I'll have to rely on reblogs to Share the News/

While browsing an obscure website full of Soviet-era media looking for episodes of the famous, beloved Lenfilms adaptation of Sherlock Holmes staring Vasily Livanov, one of the most beloved iterations of the character ever commited to film, I came across...

The 1979 Comedy Musical Soviet Adaptation of The Blue Carbuncle.

Just bask in that sentence a moment. It's a comedy. It's a musical. It's very, very much a product of the Soviet Union.

So, what's it like?

Further detailed information under the cut.

Well, for starters i'd like you to look at this poster and decide which of these characters is Sherlock Holmes.

It's probably that guy in the centre with the spotty cravat, right? Wrong, it's this guy, waaaaay down at the bottom:

His Watson is looming over him. I think this must be because a lot of the musical actually focuses on the hijinks of the villains of piece.

You know how Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective is objectively the best version of Moriarty?

This man. He is effectively Human Ratigan.

He keeps a cameo of Holmes in his pocket at all times. He takes it out sometimes to stare at it.

What about Holmes, then? I actually really enjoy him. He's the kind of Holmes I think Rowan Atkinson would probably play, blending together moments of severe biting wit with boggle-eyed bafoonery.

It's a comedy so you can imagine that his Watson is the butt of plenty of jokes, but I actually really liked that they emphasise often that he's a famous and competent writer.

Also keep an eye out for the subtle underlying thematic elements which suggest that the middle class English characters are idiots, blind to the inequality in their unjust capitalist society. ... it's not very subtle.

If you don't have time to sit and watch an entire musical, then this is the best bit, ie. the bit where Holmes and Watson break out into a surreal musical number:

If you DO have time to watch it... enjoy :D

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I don’t want it to end.

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Hope you guys like wips

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by @lazzzyscummm

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In The Flesh (2013) is a good show

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Andrew Scott as ‘The Hot Priest’ in Fleabag (2019)

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Inktober #11 - Deadly

Inspired by @scrub456’s marvelous fic series A Specific Set of Skills.

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the lack of a pomegranate emoji speaks volumes

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“You just leave us behind. Is that what you’re going to do to me?” “No. Not to you.” “But Sarah Jane? You were that close to her once, and now you never even mention her. Why not?”