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hes the silliest guy ever. he represses every feeling known to man. hes like. the 2nd smartest man in london. hes a chainsmoker. he loves pillowforts. and cocaine. he keeps getting hyper-realistic wax figures of himself from somewhere?? hes gay. i didn't say a name but he popped into your head didn't he

[ID: a digital drawing of sherlock holmes casually lying on his settee in his dressing gown. his cheek rests on his left hand and his right holds a smoking pipe. his expression is casually smug. the art has a warm hue. /End ID.]

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When you're overstimulated and want to go home but the game is STILL afoot.

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But imagine you are Dr Watson coming home from Switzerland and suddenly standing in a sitting room that used to be yours, and there is a book he bought and did not bring along and sheet music for a composition you will never hear him play and there are the notes for a case he will never solve and a new summer coat he will never wear and the flowers that Mrs Hudson placed on the table which faded unseen by him and the tobacco that he will never smoke and the concert ticket that expired because when the curtain rose, he stood at the brink of the Reichenbach Falls and you were not there.

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So many modern detectives have tried to emulate Sherlock Holmes, and none of them have even come CLOSE to touching Benoit Blanc. That man is Holmes' true spiritual successor. He's a silly little guy. He's gay. He's a drama queen. He has impeccable fashion sense. He loves music. He works with the cops but refuses to work for them. His voice is both goofy and incredibly fun to listen to. He sucks at playing Clue and Among Us. He mopes in the bathtub for weeks when he doesn't have a case. He loves hanging out with The Girls but gets incredibly uncomfortable when women flirt with him. The only reason he can afford his gorgeous downtown apartment is because his husband works a real job.* The only thing he hates more than Rich Assholes are Stupid Rich Assholes. He solved a double (attempted triple) homicide and the thing that made him most upset was plagiarism. He supports women's rights and women's wrongs. He refuses to break the law himself but actively encourages his client to commit arson.

And, most importantly, he and Holmes would fucking love each other. If most of the modern day detectives inspired by Holmes ever met him, he would probably want to kill them with hammers, but he and Blanc would probably end up being penpals and sending each other newspaper clippings about crime or some shit. And I can absolutely envision a teenage Blanc reading the Holmes stories and being like, "Wait, being a silly little gay private detective is a viable career option? Well, I guess I've finally found my calling in life."

Anyway I love the Benoit Blanc movies and I hope they make a million of them

*confirmed by Rian Johnson

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Projecting my period cramps onto Sherlock Holmes

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One thing about me that I very rarely mention on this blog (surprisingly) is the only other thing that can possibly match my obsession with the Holmes stories are the Shakespeare plays- literally my brain jumps between which I'm currently constantly thinking about. Sometimes (like now) they manage to blend together, so when I reread Hamlet, the final scene, particularly, these lines:

"Horatio...report me and my cause aright  To the unsatisfied."

and

"And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain  To tell my story."

Remind me of a certain detective/chronicler duo... one who could be misunderstood so the person who tells their story must do so correctly... one character dealing with morality issues, the other almost dangerously loyal with potential homoerotic undertones... am I making sense?

ACD wasn't one to shy away from Shakespearean connections (journeys end in lovers' meeting, anyone?) and honestly, it would be very difficult to write so many stories and avoid one the Bard hadn't told before. So am I taking too much of a leap to suggest that ACD might have taken elements (few but some) of Hamlet and Horatio's relationship for Holmes and Watson's, or even Hamlet's character for Sherlock Holmes? Hamlet's erraticity (is that a word?), but logical pondering, and his humour... it's a stretch but it's fun to entertain the idea.

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“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.”

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I find it kinda hilarious that Holmes randomly starts referring to his detective practice as an agency in sussex vampire, never having called it that before and never doing it again. Did he have a brief hyperfixation on marketing or something

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In his introduction he's jumping around and giggling because he's pleased with the results of his science experiments and somehow (i.e. forced heteronormativity) that's translated into emotionless cynic. Yes, he was talking about blood but the point stands that Holmes is not a serious guy.

realized a lot of people probably think sherlock holmes is some logical, melancholy, serious guy. like no he's not, he shook hands with a baby and once let a criminal go because it was christmas time

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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Perfect opening lines to The Valley of Fear. 11/10 no notes

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Someone: So what did you do today?

The hallucination of John Watson I keep on my shoulder at all times: Lie.

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- Dr Watson, at some point

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sunset/sunrise and the Victorian intimacy of a first name

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*Episode 3 spoilers now*

Either we're in it now (as in Professor Moriarty's on his way) or 'M' is just Mycroft being extra.

They dropped the first hints of Moriarty a long time ago -I really need to find out which episode his shoutout was- so I'm stuck as to whether they are moving forward or teasing us. It wouldn't be the first time an adaptation tricked us into thinking Mycroft was Moriarty, looking at you TPLoSH (I say whilst hiding the secret Moffat and Gatiss who live in a box in the back of my mind).

Sherlock definitely knows so much more than he's letting on, which is why the podcast format is so interesting because we genuinely have absolutely no idea what he's doing if John isn't with him (and has the microphone turned on).

Relistening to that last section (the static), it definitely sounds like someone humming/singing incy wincy spider, which is creepy as fuck, and I'm racking my brains to try to remember any canon story relating to spiders? The closest I can get to is (prepare for a leap) Jack Stapleton (THoTB) being an entomologist. In other words, I have no clue what it means, and I'm annoyed a week is seven days long.

*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.