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FIRST step to enjoying any media is getting attached to the character whose suicidal tendencies are the most obvious

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perhaps i should not hav engaged there but its literally so annoying to go out of your way to anonymously um-actually TAGS that were clearly A BIT and then not even be correct lmao???

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hello did u make a burner account just to reply to two yr old tags on a post from 2017 which you didn't even read fully?????

I recently reread “The Boscombe Valley Mystery” and realized how hilariously different Holmes’ and Watson’s reading tastes are. Exhibit A, Holmes in the train:

“And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the scene of action.”

Petrarch basically invented the sonnet form, and would also probably take credit for inventing the Italian Renaissance as A Thing. He was very Extra. And Sherlock Holmes apparently keeps a pocket edition of his works (knowing Holmes, probably in the original Italian) for beguiling train journeys with. As far as Watson tells us, Holmes continues to happily read Petrarch for the next four hours. Does he translate Petrarchan love sonnets for Watson? Shippers, make of this what you will.

What does Watson read on the train? He doesn’t say. When Holmes has left him at the hotel, however:

“I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were groping, and I found my attention wander so constantly from the fiction to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room.”

Oh, Watson. Yellow-backed novels were sold at train stations; they were designed for light railway reading, and so the contrast with Holmes’ earlier occupation may be intentionally pointed. Yellow-backs were cheaply issued, garishly illustrated, and intentionally sensationalist (sex! violence! murder! adultery!) Watson’s choice of reading material may slyly foreshadow the soap-opera plot of BOSC itself. Such metafictional reflections aside, I now plan to enjoy imagining Holmes and Watson teasing each other about this more or less constantly, and also going to great trouble to find presents for each other, while explaining to booksellers, with passionate fervor, “It’s not for me…”

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i couldn't not put narvin in this meme

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When the setting’s romantic but he won’t stop reading twilight: breaking dawn :^(

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he flirts…….???

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Bunny in the middle of every story: I’m getting pretty sick and tired of all the crazy things that go on around here. I’m feeling great animosity towards Raffles right now. I’m mad.

Bunny at the end of every story: I love AJ Raffles fiercely, recklessly, without provocation, unconditionally. He could not shake me off with a broom.

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i keep hearing the voices of all the people i've killed #myvoices

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Boredom

I’m sorry if the quality is low, I am not sure why that is.

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stress relief ham commons based on this picture !! ,,i love them marrieds

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ok apparently 'how many miles to babylon' is the title of like at least 7 novels. so sorry to anyone i ever reccomended it to with no further info bc i forgot the author of the one i mean

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Oh yeah here's another place from my work place

It's stairs that no one uses

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i hear a good lyric and start mentally holding up blorbos like im in the home depot paint aisle comparing swatches

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environmental storytelling

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what if a creature was both strange and hilarious. multifaceted.