#Always 1895

[granadahvlmes]

so domestic 😍

[granadahvlmes]

Jeremy and David clowning between takes on The Solitary Cyclist

[abandonedquishe]

OMG OMG OMG AHHHH #$%/&/

Always 1895

(God, even the name is perfect. Thanks @friday411 for the recommendation.)

[scientistofdeduction]

A spoiler free review of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened 2023 from the perspective of a Holmesian gamer.

No secret that Frogware’s Holmes has been one of my favorite incarnations ever, even as they change him up from time to time. This game got its hooks (er… tentacles) into me and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. Finished it on launch day in about 10 hours and then went back for achievements. I still need to max out the bonuses and do a full replay on hard mode (I’ll be posting that one in full).

In short: awesome game.

[granadahvlmes]

Only took me seven years, but I made a little something.

Haha you asked for it XD  (This is in reference to this post btw.)

TW for abuse mention

So in my head Watson didn’t really have the best childhood?  His father wasn’t abusive to him or his brother directly, but he treated their mother so poorly that she ended up leaving when Watson was young, all of which led to Watson developing PTSD before he even joined the army.  This partially manifests as an aversion to loud arguments, which I think was mentioned in A Study in Scarlet.

And then of course poor guy gets grievously injured in, what was it, his first battle ever?  Like he’s barely arrived in Afghanistan when bang, shot to the leg (I stick with the leg injury as opposed to the shoulder).  So now on top of the childhood PTSD he’s got wartime PTSD.  And also a permanent limp.  For a man who was previously so active–he used to play rugby in addition to being a soldier–that must have taken some adjustment.

But he did adjust.  And yeah, sometimes Watson just physically cannot keep up when Holmes is running around like a chicken with its head cut off, but Holmes never once reacts badly and makes him feel bad about it.  In my head, Holmes is autistic and has bipolar disorder, so he knows what it means to be in situations that are too loud or too much.  Depending on if it’s a Victorian-based or modern adaptation, they may not fully understand why they have these limitations, but they know and accept it and so they work out compromises: Holmes makes sure that when Watson’s leg is acting up he gives him something sedentary to do (like research at the library) and Watson looks after Holmes when he’s too depressed/too manic to do it himself.

While we’re on that subject, Holmes stims a lot with his hands (in the books, he’s frequently described as clapping and rubbing his hands together).  That previously included occasionally banging his hands on the table when he got excited about something, but the sudden loud noise made Watson deeply, deeply uncomfortable–like not fully-blown panic attack but kind of twitchy and nervous–so Watson’s just like, hey, I know that makes you happy and everything, and I don’t want to be rude, but you’re freaking me out a little, please stop?  And Holmes is immediately apologetic and understanding and makes a point of sticking with quieter stims when Watson is around.  They make it work.

Do the leg and the mental illness annoy Watson sometimes?  Yes, but he’s far happier now with Holmes than he ever was in the past.

Anyway, thanks for letting me throw my headcanons at you.  Sorry it’s a bit rushed <3

[watsonsdetective]

Just learned about the existence of this poem written by Vincent Starrett in 1942. I'm always so happy when I can learn more about the Sherlockian fandom and discover more of Sherlockiana.

[granadahvlmes]

Jeremy and David strike a pose on location for The Naval Treaty

[scientistofdeduction]

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[granadahvlmes]

You can hear the groans lol

Holmes: so done

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

@giftober 2024 | Day 9: Numbers.

And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

[mediapen]

👬

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

~ ❦ Happy 129th Birthday to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia! Born: November 16th 1895 ~

~ To celebrate her birthday here is an edit (made by me using CapCut Pro) and some of my favorite quotes said by her ♡

❦ “Sleep well and have a good dream, i.e. Nik[olai]. Dm. [Demenkov - Maria's crush] (idiot)…Well, good night, I kiss you and pat you on your chubby, appetising cheeks.” - O to M, 13th Nov. 1914

❦ "I am sitting in Mr. Gilliard's rooms near the door of his water-closet where Trina's little nasty girl Katya is sitting locked in by Anastasia and myself. We've just drawn her along the dark passage and pushed her in." O to Nicholas, 9 Oct. 1915

❦ “… Austria declared war on us. Bastards” - O’s diary, 24 July 1914

❦ “…Regards to Nikolai Pavlovich. Tell him that he is because he did not even write once…” - O to Nicholas, 21 June 1915

❦ “Olga Nikolaevna threw all her things around from delight, and threw a pillow up on a top shelf. She felt feverish and she jumped around: “‘Can someone have a stroke at 20 years old? I think I am having a stroke!’” Memoirs of Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva

❦ “…all (was/ as usual, a lot of running around, but I love it. Makes me feel like I am accomplishing something…” O’s diary, 11 Sept. 1916

❦ “Father asks to have it passed on to all who have remained loyal to him and to those on whom they might have influence, that they not avenge him; he has forgiven and prays for everyone; and not to avenge themselves, but to remember that the evil which is now in the world will become yet more powerful, and that it is not evil that conquers evil, but only love.” - Olga basically writing NAOTMAA’s last will and testament 1918

✧.* ♡ *.✧

[granadahvlmes]

While it's definitely not the most accurate adaptation of Hound, Peter Cushing's is still one of my favorites just for his mannerisms.

Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of The Baskervilles (1959)

“This is remarkable!” “Superficial. There’s nothing remarkable about using one’s eyes.

[cowardlykrow]

After Cyn's done tryna kill him, she'll eventually relent and they can get to work... whatever that is. I didn't do the outfit any justice, but the second i saw the Cowboy!Curt mega @ricky-mortis made i was literally like, "yes, that is IT."

This is, in my heart, a cannon fit for this au

[granadahvlmes]

Jeremy with his first five leading ladies on the occasion of the London press preview of "The Adventures" in 1984.

Gayle Hunnicutt (A Scandal in Bohemia)

Barbara Wilshere (The Solitary Cyclist)

Rosalyn Landor (The Speckled Band)

Alison Skilbeck (The Naval Treaty)

Betsy Brantley (The Dancing Men)

[devouringyourson]

i truly believe that every holmes adaptation, however loose, is inherently a love story. whatever form that love between the 'holmes' and 'watson' figure takes idm but they're narratively, spirituality, culturally and quite literally soulmates in every universe