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Finally I’ve finished reading Rasputin’s Revenge and when I say it was wild from start to finish, like, Rex Stout levels of insane fanfic.

Major spoilers ahead, not too much about the actual plot but the links to the canon.

Holmes’ son, who was originally called Auguste Lupa (no idea where that name came from) is revealed to actually be called John Hamish Adler Holmes. In other words, he’s called John Holmes.

John.

Holmes.

So. Even in a forced heteronormative AU where Holmes and Irene Adler (NORTON) have a child, there’s still a slight sense of Johnlock? Interesting, very interesting. Almost like. It’s unavoidable. And an integral part to every Holmes story. I don’t know, maybe.

But here’s the insane bit.

Wondering why Rasputin wants revenge on Holmes’ son? Me too. For the entire book until the last ten pages where it’s revealed that Rasputin is Moriarty’s SON. ??????

We also get a nice bit of actual Holmes and Watson, and they’re surprisingly canon accurate considering Holmes is… straight. Another important bit is that they’re living in Sussex together. Again with the unavoidable Johnlock implications. Also, when sharing a hotel room, Holmes insists Watson sleeps on the couch and he’ll take a chair, and to be perfectly honest, if ACD wrote that, I would of course assume he was lying and Watson was covering up the fact that he and Holmes slept on the couch together but it wasn’t written by ACD so I’ll… try to ignore it. And, since that section includes an attempt at a heartfelt conversation between Holmes and his son about him being an absent father, it is probably important that Holmes isn’t spooning Watson (or vice versa).

Excuse the bad photograph but I complete forgot that I owned this pastiche (or, as I like to call it, glorified fanfic) so I’m starting to read it now.

I’m going to be perfectly honest, just the titles alone read like crackfics so naturally I’m very… intrigued.

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I find it funny that there's a bunch of books about Sherlock Holmes having a daughter and now there's going to be some television show about Sherlock Holmes having a daughter and all I can think is Irene Adler would never stop vomiting.

Also, can anyone grow a pair of balls and just let the character be gay? I mean come on. 😂

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‘Dr. Watson Speaks Out’, A.A. Milne, 1929

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Watson: Holding hands at times of crisis means love. Got that? Holding hands is love

Watson: So Holmes and I were nervous or scared on a case and we held hands.

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Update: I have now read Son of Holmes (the book is split into two novels) and it was… interesting. Augustus Lupa, who is the son, is probably not my favourite character as he reads like an inaccurate version of Holmes, being very misogynistic and rude, but other than that the actual story was quite enjoyable. It was an espionage story, with a strangely heavy focus on beer, and it didn’t always make a lot of sense, but that’s quite accurate to ACD’s style.

Also- unfortunately I think the son is Holmes’ and Irene Adler’s, which I don’t love since… she was already married and had no interest in Holmes but anyway.

Excuse the bad photograph but I complete forgot that I owned this pastiche (or, as I like to call it, glorified fanfic) so I’m starting to read it now.

I’m going to be perfectly honest, just the titles alone read like crackfics so naturally I’m very… intrigued.

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Holmes: my dear Watson :c i'm so sorry i put you through an extremely dangerous situation (again)

Watson: that was the best day of my life and I'm going to write about it in my diary with a glitter pen

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Today would have been Jeremy Brett's 91st birthday. Happy Birthday, Jeremy.

In honour of the day, I'm going to share a lovely story from Edward Hardwicke that was included in Bending the Willow:

"Jeremy's favourite outfit in which one usually found him was a black cashmere sweater and white cotton trousers. One day I was arriving at the studio and Jeremy was getting out of a taxi. As he leant forward to pay the cabby, the waistband of this particular much-laundered pair of white cotton trousers parted conpany with the legs, which fell to the floor. Jeremy then struggled into Wardrobe where his laughter could have been heard in Liverpool. Whenever I think of him - I think of him laughing. I cannot pay him a greater compliment than that."

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Holmes’s and Watson’s pet names

(How Holmes and Watson call each other)

Watson’s for Holmes

“My dear Holmes”: 16 times

“My companion”: over a hundred times (I’m refusing to count any further)

Holmes’s for Watson

“My dear Watson”: 94 times 

“My dear boy”: two times (this means exactly what it sounds like)

“My boy”: nine times 

“My dear doctor”: two times

“My Watson”: three times

There is an awful lot of possessive pronouns here, if you start to think about it…

Could they appear more married if they tried??

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*average chronicler lies three times in their entries* factoid actualy just statistical error. average chronicler lies 0 times in their entries. Dr John Watson, who lies all the time and can't keep track of his lies which leads to a series of inconsistencies which can only be explained by his being an unreliable narrator and has lied One Thousand times, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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i was supposed to be cool and mysterious like sherlock holmes but instead I can't stop yapping about anything and everything that interests me in the slightest. like sherlock holmes

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do you all see my vision here

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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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The reason the general public nowadays cannot see Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as a romantic couple is because romantic relationships in real life are not nearly as good as theirs is. The characters come from a time when men and women had a very different power dynamic in society – many can argue there are still remnants of that dynamic resonating today. The man ruled the roost, the little woman attended the home but made no actual decisions in her life. Can you imagine being a Victorian, used to that lifestyle, that unfair power dynamic, and getting your hands on a Sherlock Holmes story? Two people live together, work together, care about each other more than anything in the entire world, and each person is equal to the other? One is an army doctor, the other a detective, and together they kick ass… until it’s time to go to dinner and the Opera together. They vacation together, wake up and eat breakfast together, they know each other’s sleeping habits. They walk together in the park and don’t feel pressured to speak because they know each other “intimately”. They stay living together long into old age. What a romance! What an exceptionally high bar for romance! A bar everyone wants to meet but most don’t. Who doesn’t want to be in a romantic relationship where you and your partner love and care about each other most in all the world? Where you two spend every day together and you’re glad for it, and days you’re apart you wait impatiently for a reunion? Where you build a life together? Where you literally take to Journaling about how great your partner is? Where each person is equal?

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson have had an 130-year romance and that’s precisely why people love them. If someone does not understand that those two men were as intimate as lovers, it’s because that person does not grasp what a romantic relationship should be.

Have i ever had a romance as great as that of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson? No, not by a long shot, but i hope that one day I’ll be lucky enough to experience it myself.

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Excuse the bad photograph but I complete forgot that I owned this pastiche (or, as I like to call it, glorified fanfic) so I’m starting to read it now.

I’m going to be perfectly honest, just the titles alone read like crackfics so naturally I’m very… intrigued.

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deeply obsessed with this

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"You don't have all the facts."

"Which are?"

"I love him."