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I know that Baring-Gould was a master bullshitter (honestly, props to him for his... inventive imagination) but I find it so hilarious how this guy, famous and well known in his own right, decided to find the most famous character at least in Britain and rechristen him so they had the same name.

William? Who? William Holmes- oh, like... William Baring-Gould? Fucking hysterical.

And he doesn't actually give a reason (at least, not to my knowledge). He just claims that, coincidentally, they have the same name and that just Is How It Is. William Sherlock Scott Holmes. Unreal.

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Does anyone else ever think about just how QUIET Watson is? He talks much more in later canon, but he’s mostly very silent, soaking everything in.

Maybe it’s just that he doesn’t write his own reactions very often, because he thinks that he’s less interesting to the reader than Holmes.

But Holmes mentions that Watson has a “grand gift of silence” so I think he’s just a quiet guy.

It does add to the idea that I’ve built up in my head of him, that he’s this strong silent man, very stoic and very steady.

Which is a really interesting contrast to Holmes, who is constantly MOVING and TALKING. In fact, I think that it creates a conflict within both characters’ personalities. Holmes’ mannerisms are loud and hyperactive; but he’s the one who notices things, and is the thinker. Meanwhile, Watson is a quiet listener, but he’s also the man of action. He is stubborn and passionately emotional, as opposed to Holmes who is more calm and calculating.

I literally have no clue where this whole essay came from lol

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john watson: holmes was cold and unfeeling, with a deep scorn for any human emotion jeremy brett as sherlock holmes: *is the most emotive drama queen to ever flash a code in giddy abandon in the history of theater*

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'Holmes is heartless' 'Holmes has a bit of empathy' 'Holmes is a cold thinking machine' 'Holmes is vicious'

Holmes is playing lullabies on a violin to help his (boy)friend fall asleep and he's obsessing over bees and ash whilst adopting virtually every woman he meets. Leave him.

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The Inversion of Hope and Sin in A Study in Scarlet

Thank you again to everyone who came to my talk on John Watson’s rhetorical mastery in A Study in Scarlet! For those who couldn’t make it, here’s the recording ♥️💍✍️

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“Excellent, Watson! You are scintillating this evening." - Sherlock Holmes, the Missing Three Quarter

EXCUSE ME?? SCINTILLATING?? AS IN

I am most decidedly NOT normal about this

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It’s over! it’s done! Quick recap: so basically I uploaded the blu-ray rips of the whole series to Google Drive (36 episodes and 5 movies) so everyone can enjoy them and marvel at the beauty of the cream-colored suit in HD. For now the episodes don’t have any subtitles, none of the subs available out there are synced for the blu-ray rips, so if someone wants to contribute with that please let me know! and that’s all there’s to know about it for now. I really hope you have a nice time watching it whether is the first time you watch the series or the 1000th time :) here are the links:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A Scandal in Bohemia

The Dancing Men

The Naval Treaty

The Solitary Cyclist

The Crooked Man

The Speckled Band

The Blue Carbuncle

The Copper Beeches

The Greek Interpreter

The Norwood Builder

The Resident Patient

The Red-Headed League

The Final Problem

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Empty House

The Abbey Grange

The Musgrave Ritual

The Second Stain

The Man with the Twisted Lip

The Priory School

The Six Napoleons

The Sign of Four

The Devil’s Foot

Silver Blaze

Wisteria Lodge

The Bruce-Partington Plans

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

The Problem of Thor Bridge

Shoscombe Old Place

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

The Illustrious Client

The Creeping Man

The Master Blackmailer

The Last Vampyre

The Eligible Bachelor

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Three Gables

The Dying Detective

The Golden Pince-Nez

The Red Circle

The Mazarin Stone

The Cardboard Box

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THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 10

THE FINAL PROBLEM - a broken promise - part 10 of 11 - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8 - part 9. This is picking up a few days after Pat 1, and there's one more update after this.

I've wanted to redraw this little scene from way back in a Study in Scarlet for ages. That part is all canon, as well as Watson's final line in his account of Holmes's death.

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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Arthur Conan Doyle in 1893: Yes! Yeeeeesss, he's dead, finally some peace! Time to move oooooonnnnnnnnn

Tumblr Girlies (gender-neutral) 131 years later: he's my baby boy he's my husband he's my poor little meow meow omg he's exactly like meeeee

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The simple explanation is that John was a popular name back in the day (and now, really) but the cooler, more sexier theory is that Watson kept forgetting (purposefully omitting/censoring?) names and would just call them John instead.

Or OR, the secret third option which makes my brain hurt is the potential of the Johns being Watson mirrors. That can get too meta, but let's be honest, most things about the Holmes canon are.

What was up with ACD and the name John?

Like

'Course John Watson..then there's John ferrier, John small, John openshaw...

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something that I feel like is missing from fandom nowadays is the idea that you dont have to have a unified, chronologically/tonally consistent interpretation of your favorite work. your fics dont have to fit within the same version of canon, even if theyre all canon-compliant on their own. your headcanons can contradict each other. be a multishipper. write metas that take two totally different interpretations of the same plot point. write a character as a villain and then write them as the hero next time. write a character as a lesbian and then write them as straight next time! engage in hypotheticals and drop them when you get bored! make up the rules as you go!! have fun with it!!!

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thank you guys for reading my ridiculous sherlock holmes comic i love making comics so muchhhhh

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I'm rewatching Granada Holmes and I know everyone talks about this so I'd like to add my voice to the crowd: Jeremy Brett is magnificent.

Tempted to just leave it there but seriously, I'm in awe of his performance and I must find out if he won any awards for it because, as someone training to be an actor, I'm absolutely mesmerised by his facial expressions, his line delivery, his body language... it's so exact and everything is so meaningful and tells us so much that it comes to a point where it seems to come to him too naturally.

I'll admit, I don't find some of the other actors very believable, but it's fine because it's still entertaining.

But Brett just...shines. He does these quick flash grins, those hand flourishes, he enunciates specific words and rolls his 'r's, he never drops the act and it's unbearably impressive because, despite the theatricality, it still feels real.

As well as being an incredible person, I think he's an incredibly inspirational actor, and I'll be shouting about this to my grave. I'm obsessed.

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He is NOT. SKINNY!!! (picks up a chair and throws it at the wall and it splinters into a hundred pieces of wood) AAAAGGHGGGHHHGGGH (rips the glass pane from the window and smashes it over a vase causing both items to shatter into shrapnel) (and the ground is covered in sharp fragments of wood and glass and ceramic and I use my powers to swirl them all into the air launch them directly towards you. For drawing him skinny)

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man this guy is my favourite character (throws rocks at him) (throws rocks at him) (throws rocks at him) (throws rocks at him (thr

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When we have this context, it makes any non-queer reading of the books very difficult, as it almost seems like ACD is leaving space for the readers to figure out the true underlying narrative.

First of all, as is well established in this fandom, Watson is an unreliable narrator. Not only is that known through shaky details in the stories which can't be explained- for example, his wound which magically changes places- but Watson explicitly states on multiple occasions that he has changed aspects of the cases (names, dates, etc).

Then there's the wife, which I'm purposely addressing as 'the wife' because Mary Morstan was introduced as an orphan (an integral detail to TSoF), so how can she visit her family in later stories? Watson doesn't go out of his way to explain his marriage -or divorce, if that's applicable (it's not)- and seems to forget the wife entirely. Ultimately, the wife becomes a phenomenon... a plot device. (She's not real, basically)

So, ACD is aware that he couldn't write a homosexual relationship into his stories due to the potential consequences of that (as evidenced above) but he's not denying it. Well, if he is, he's not doing a very good job. Watson is known and caught red-handed of hiding or changing details- his true relationship with Holmes is one of them. And ACD wants the correct people to know this- homophobic readers can think of multiple explanations for the bachelors on Baker Street and their true nature (cough cough Rex Stout), but queer readers will recognise the implicit suggestiveness of, for example, The Three Garridebs.

And we can't know for certain, because ACD never had the opportunity to tell us what he really imagined went on in 221B behind closed doors, but perhaps he thought -and hoped- that one day, the true story may be told.

i’ve always found it interesting that acd wrote a study in scarlet about the start of this great relationship between holmes and watson, and then followed it up with a story in which watson finds a wife. 

it’s almost as if people immediately picked up on the queerness of their relationship and acd had to protect himself and his characters by introducing plausible deniability.