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Art Drama is in the blood

“What are we here for at all? I really think that you might treat us with more frankness.” Holmes laughed. “Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life,” said he. “Some touch of the artist wells up within me, and calls insistently for a well-staged performance.

Come on, Holmes! You live for drama, you breath drama, you eat drama, you are the drama!

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TBH, if I had a leather bound and gold embossed copy of anything I've ever written, I'd read it at the breakfast table too

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So in the 19-20th century Conan Doyle published his Sherlock Holmes books with this super smart detective and in France  Maurice Leblanc was writing about a gentleman burglar, Arsène Lupin. Both characters were very popular but the two writers kinda hated each other and that’s the cutest thing because one day Maurice Leblanc sent a letter to Conan Doyle and asked if they could write something together since their characters were obviously made to meet each other. But Doyle said no and he didn’t allow him to use Sherlock Holmes’ name in his books. So Leblanc was like okay lol and he wrote this novel “Arsène Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes” and he called Watson “Wilson” and Doyle was so pissed! He sent letters saying how furious he was and stuff and Leblanc sent letters back like come on I didn’t use his name just like you told me let’s be friends Doyle was like this grumpy talented writer who didn’t really like how famous his books were and Leblanc was this happy and creative guy GUYS IM 900% SURE THAT WAS SOME 1900’s TEENAGERS OTP OKAY

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screaming crying throwing things

[ The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - 5x05 - The Illustrious Client ]

- “What can I do, Holmes? Give me the word, and I’ll go thrash the hide off him.” - “Good old Watson… No.”

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Idk who needs to hear it, but in Granada Holmes episode The Illustrious Client, when baron Gruner adds the photo of Violet Merville into his diary, the music playing in the background is an aria from W. A. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni sung by Leporello, who is at that moment showing a book to Donna Elvira, a former mistress of Don Giovanni, basically trying to make her resent him. The book contains a list of all Giovanni's former mistresses. This is such a great reference and I want everyone to appreciate it, since I am still not over it myself. Also there are more Don Giovanni references, but this one is my favorite.

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As a gay girl, I approve this message.

jeremy brett really DID do it for the girls and the gays huh

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It feels fitting that we all go through our own Great Hiatuses at some point, all things considered—I've just wrapped up a 6-ish year one myself, lol.

Getting back into really old fandoms that you dropped off the face of the Earth from is strange, it's both being dragged back into an old Rabbit Hole that you left, or just... come back to.

So. If you know me from Ye Old Fanfiction stuff... perhaps Hades Lord of the Dead's December Calendar Challenge from the Sherlock Holmes fandom... Or otherwise...

Hello again! Blue's back. Or you may have known me as Fractals Parade.

It's good to be back.

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I'm imagining Brett!Holmes endlessly screwing with Fraser!Watson and it's cracking me up to no end.

I feel like Hercule Poirot and John Watson would work very well with each other, but Sherlock Holmest would hate having to work with Hastings

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this pastiche from 1895 is indistinguishable from any hiatus brain crackfic you’d find on AO3 today

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Losing my mind a little over this Sherlock Holmes stamp, which was created in 1993 and depicts a scene from 'The reigate squire' short story. It's such gorgeous art. And I absolutely adore how fiercely protective Watson looks here, all like "Don't you DARE bother my friend, he's been seriously unwell, he needs REST". And his hand on Holmes' back, hello?!?!

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Pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest. Nothing has more individuality, save perhaps watches and bootlaces. —The Yellow Face

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🦇 Quote from Dracula, Bram Stoker 🦇

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For All Your ACD Canon Needs: The Agony Column.

Today in Adventures in Victorian Fic, I learned about the agony column from this book here: Alice Clay’s The Agony Column of the ‘Times,’ 1800-1870. This book was published in 1881 and it’s available on GoogleBooks and HathiTrust (where you can download the whole thing for free). Regardez:

If you are an avid reader of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, as you probably are if you made it this far, you will remember that in many stories mention is made of Holmes reading the “agony columns.” The agony column was a nickname given to a feature of the London Times for which the closest equivalent in modern American print culture would be the personal or “classified” ad sections you used to see in local papers before the advent of Craigslist and e-dating. For a small fee, anyone could place an anonymous advertisement in this column of the Times, where it could be read by anyone who bought that day’s Times. 

In a fic I just posted (entitled “The Agony Column”), Holmes and Watson have to use the agony column to communicate with each other while he’s hiding out during the hiatus. I must thank @oldshrewsburyian and her lovely and poignant story “In The Time of This Mortal Life,” in which she imagines Holmes trying to get word to Watson of his survival during the winter of 1891, for giving me this idea. In my “Missing Pages” series the hiatus plays out very differently, but there’s still a period of time when they’re stuck in London but can’t see each other. I was thinking about how they would handle that and suddenly it occurred to me: they’d use the agony column. 

Because I’m me, I decided I had to find out more about this form of nineteenth century social media, and a little Googling pointed me to Alice Clay’s anthology of agony column advertisements from 1800 to 1870. I found it online and…

Wow.

It was nothing like what I expected. It was far, far weirder.

Keep reading

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Being in a fandom for 20+ years is weird because you’ll see posts like, “How come I never see people mention x” and it’s like. We did. We talked about that a lot, actually. Actually it’s something that came up. And it’s hard not to be like, “Yeah, we discussed this fifteen years ago.” Half of this fandom wasn’t even born when these discussions happened. Wild.

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