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*Sherlock&Co Wisteria Lodge Spoilers beneath the cut, you have been warned*

Quick check that I'm not making shit up, but we all realise that Professor Moriarty was the potential 'client' at the start of the case?

He's called James… [Moriarty]

I can’t remember the exact case, but he was name dropped as one of the listeners too (one of John’s shoutouts) and I can’t describe how unsettling this whole thing is. He’s literally lurking on the background.

I hear a waterfall in the distance.

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I give William Baring-Gould a LOT of shit (his name is mentioned and I immediately generate a thousand new insults) but nothing boils my blood more than when he calls him 'Sherlock'. No, don't invoke his name like that, despite what you say, you don't know the man and he doesn't know you.

Also, WILLIAM, he's called Holmes, not fucking William.

Have some respect- it's MR Holmes to you.

I find it hard to call Holmes and Watson by their first names because. Like. They aren’t my friends. They’re my strange little creatures that I observe in their little environment with a magnifying glass.

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Now that all of the Holmes stories are in the public domain, I think it would be really funny if someone uploaded all of the stories to Ao3 in character as Arthur Conan Doyle.

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One thing that so many people get wrong about Holmes is saying that he’s anti-social and bad with people. He’s awkward, of course, in a very classically autistic way, but when it comes down to it, he’s actually pretty good with people a lot of the time. How do we know this? He has a shocking number of acquaintances who are fiercely loyal to him.

There’s Watson, obviously, but then there are the Baker Street Irregulars, who are clearly in it for more than the pay he gives them - they always seem delighted to help him. Across various stories, Watson runs into a number of people who do whatever he wants as soon as he so much as mentions Holmes’ name. Many of their cases could only be solved because Holmes has a network of convenient people who will do basically anything for him. We don’t know what Holmes did to earn such loyalty, but we can guess - he helped them. He was kind to them. We know that he is often much kinder to the outcasts and downtrodden of society than anyone expects him to be, because we see it in his behavior.

I think that this really ties in so neatly with Holmes being both autistic and queer (however you choose to read his queerness). He doesn’t care about the rules of “polite” society, so he often insults people who consider themselves his superiors. But he is always kind to those who aren’t used to receiving kindness from the world, because he knows what that feels like. That’s why the Irregulars love working for him - he makes them feel important! Honorable! Invaluable to his heroic work! He treats them with respect that no one else in the world gives them, and it’s not just because he’s trying to get something out of them. He actually respects them.

And above all, we know that he isn’t antisocial or bad with people, because Watson loves him so much. Watson, who is by all means a much more well-adjusted member of society, is more loyal to this weird little man than he is to his own country, which he literally got shot fighting for. Because Holmes has earned his love and loyalty. Because he’s a good person. And even if he’s bad at the official rules of polite society, he’s good at being kind. And that’s what really matters.

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I visited home yesterday (stood outside of the Sherlock Holmes museum) and I honestly think my life is complete, and I didn’t even go inside. I just. Stood. Across the street. Like a vampire told they couldn’t enter.

[Faces blurred for anonymity, there’s nothing wrong with your screen I promise]

I was fortunate enough to be in London to watch Much Ado About Nothing (I don’t talk about it on here, but if you know me in real life you know I am nearly as obsessed with Shakespeare as I am with Holmes) and it was AMAZING.

But obviously I had to visit the relatives (stand across the street and stare through the window of the Sherlock Holmes museum).

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Awwlba made this cute Johnlock art

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their asses are NOT making their valentine's day dinner reservation

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hyperfixating on one of the most well known fictional characters of all time is really funny because every time i see anything referencing him, which is very frequently, i will still react like

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oh he’s pining

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THE GLORIA SCOTT - now all in one place ! once again thank you to candy and also owl for yelling at me 💛

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"You OUTWIT Sherlock Holmes? You outwit Sherlock Holmes in front of the King of Bohemia?! Oh! Oh, great respect for Ms Adler! Great respect for Ms Adler for One Thousand Years!!!!"

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hey man i think your twink is disturbed. On a very deep fundamental and psychological level

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“lol Arthur Conan Doyle clearly didn’t know anything about drugs. Sherlock Holmes did cocaine but it calmed him down. That’s not how cocaine works!”

There are two options: Arthur Conan Doyle had never met someone addicted to cocaine or he met some with ADHD who was addicted to cocaine

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the Final Problem - part 11

THE FINAL PROBLEM- part 11 - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8 - part 9 - part 10. This is the last part of the final problem, a bit of an epilogue. I’ve loved telling the story of the Final Problem and I hope you enjoyed reading it! This short story absolutely destroyed me when I first read it last year, and ever since I have been determined to tell my own version. I’ll be taking a small break from Watson’s Sketchbook as I go on book tour, deal with the multitudinous horrors of 2025, and put some work into a new original graphic novel that needs a little attention - but it won’t be long and I (and Sherlock Holmes) will be back with THE EMPTY HOUSE!

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

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Despite the fact that I've never actually posted any of my fics so I don't really have the credentials to give advice, I'll try to answer this.

As much as we want to be logical, precise and realistic, we have to remember that major crime writes (including Sir Doyle himself) might fumble details slightly for the sake of drama or just making life easier. It might seem a little bit lazy to rely on the audience suspending their disbelief but writers do that all the time, and it can mean that the plotline won't be bogged down by overbearing details (one example being The Speckled Band- snakes can't actually climb up rope, but for the sake of the story ACD said his could). So, if you do want a character to come back to life by the mere thought of their friend (cough cough Moffat) it's still reasonable as long as you it with confidence.

Outline a distinct plan as to what you want to happen to the story, step by step, even down to specific lines of dialogue you want to add in. I like to do this 1) because my autistic brain automatically loves and follows lists 2) it'll keep you organised so you hopefully will know what to do next and 3) the satisfaction of ticking off an item on a list is unmatched.

And lastly, research research research! (Data data data- I can't make bricks without clay!) This is controversial to my first point, but researching so you get a good outline of what you want to happen is still important, and can help you discover certain plot points you mightn't have realised were a possibility. Sometimes, in very special moments of course, you unintentionally added a detail which perfectly slots in with a real life circumstance and allows the work to become more cohesive. Also, and this one is whispered, this is a good way to be productive when you have writer's block (me saying I am still working whilst doing a deep dive on different types of butterfly wing patterns).

Again, never published a fic, so this could be absolute horseshit, but there might be something of value here.

Hello hello!

Does anyone here have any tips and tricks for writing case fic?

How do you figure out the plot for a case? Is there a model or "recipe", or do you know any helpful resources?

I'm not trying to write a best-selling crime novel (yet xD), but I would like to get better at including cases and the process of solving them into my writing!

If you don't have any ideas, please consider reblogging for reach. :)

Thank you! :)

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When they make Sherlock Holmes and Irene Norton née Adler have sexual tension I get so angry that steam comes out of my ears. First of all that woman has a lovely husband whom she risked her well-being and outsmarted royalty for. Second of all, she’s like Lana Del Rey to Sherlock Holmes. He keeps a photo of her in the way stan twitter has screenshots of their fav artists. This is not a heterosexual dynamic.

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I think a lot of modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations (as in, Holmes in the modern era) miss out by having Holmes work so closely with the police. A lot of people forget that Holmes was one of the original ACAB bitchies in fiction; he did not like the police. Yes, he worked alongside them sometimes, but he often talked about them with open distain. Sometimes he even worked directly against them (think of The Norwood Builder).

Granted this was mostly because the police lacked a lot of the skills they have today, such as forensics, something that Holmes was an advocate for, and tended to draw conclusions that did not fit the obvious facts. This has obviously changed - the police have a lot more resources at their disposal nowadays, but they are not a perfect institution - far, far from it, and if he were alive today, Holmes would have a lot to say about that.

I wish modern adaptations stayed true to the fact that in canon, Sherlock Holmes was the man you went to if you could not go to the police. If you had, perhaps, a criminal record, were homeless, were POC, were queer, were neurodivergent, an abuse victim, reliant on illegal substances, or even wrongfully accused, Sherlock Holmes would be the man you went to, and he would help you to the best of his ability.

Also, Holmes had his own unique sense of justice. Think of The Abbey Grange - a man murders the abusive husband of an old lover, and the wife is complicit. Holmes and Watson ultimately decide to let them go - Lady Brackenstall was being horribly abused, she was trapped in a loveless marriage with a violent husband. Captain Crocker murdered Sir Eustace, freeing Lady Brackenstall and perhaps saving her life. If the police had arrested Crocker, it would be very likely he would be hanged for murder, regardless of the circumstances.

Then there is James Ryder in the Blue Carbuncle. He, after Holmes pesters him, freely admits to stealing the jewel, but Holmes does not hand him over to the police and instead lets him walk free. It was Ryder's first offence, one he was manipulated into committing, and Holmes and Watson see him as a, quite frankly, pathetic little man. Holmes realises that if he were to turn Ryder in, it would destroy his life - he would be 'a jailbird for life'. Ryder committed a crime, but he is no criminal. Prison would turn him into one.

Holmes takes justice into his own hands, and in a way, it turns him into an anti-hero. But I think this a part of what makes him such a loveable, iconic character.

Holmes has created a 'safe space' within 221B Baker Street. I think this would be extremely intresting to explore through a modern lens.