#Always 1895

[stilettochat]

SO COMFORTING.

10-3-23

I just learned about this passage from The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (book) I'm so sick

[nessahero]

[alexanderwales]

There are certain very specific, unsustainable periods of history.

The Golden Age of Piracy lasted from the 1650s to the 1730s, and was really three different waves of piracy that all had their own specific causes and characters. My personal favorite has always been the post-Spanish Succession period, when a bunch of sailors and privateers were left unemployed and turned en masse to piracy since those were the skills they'd picked up during the war. This supply of pirates was obviously non-renewable.

The Wild West lasted between 1865 and 1895, depending on who you ask, not even a full human lifetime. It's a very narrow band of time, and of course it wasn't sustainable, there was only so much land to colonize.

There are lots of these times of change, conquest, colonization, and war, particularly in the last three hundred years. I always think they're interesting, mostly in how quickly the course of history moves on to some other relatively more steady state.

There's a thing that speculative fiction does where it stretches specific periods out to extremes, most notably with Medieval Stasis, but I think it's far funnier when applied to these tiny slices of history that have ballooned in the public consciousness. Either it takes heroic feats of worldbuilding to make it make sense, or everyone is just sort of okay with the idea of a Golden Age of Piracy that's implied to have lasted for a millennia.

[abandonedquishe]

OMG OMG OMG AHHHH #$%/&/

Always 1895

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

[nessahero]

I had to think about the void left by Watson when I read A Scandal in Bohemia... He writes that he hasn't seen Holmes in a while bc of "his complete happiness" after getting married. Honestly, guys, I'm pretty sure it was all pretending on his side. He married Mary to shield himself from the feelings he had for Holmes, to try to tell himself that he was not in love with him.

And he ended up breaking two hearts that way...

Do you ever think of Holmes alone at Baker Street after Watson's marriage and. And. And Watson's things are gone. Watson is gone, and there is just this aching gap around Holmes in the flat. The dust has not yet covered the space on the shelf where Watson's books used to be. Half of Holmes's home is gone, and he cannot even run his finger along the edge of the pain because there will only be one plate on the breakfast table tomorrow (and tomorrow and tomorrow), but you can't cut yourself on empty space.

[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.

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

@giftober 2024 | Day 9: Numbers.

And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

[julienbakerstreet]

happy 221b day from me and my holmes stuffies! ft. the fabulous canon lamp shade my lovely and talented gf made me :)

[nessahero]

Yes! Yes, exactly! Bring back the Canon!

Bbc shitlock did irreparable damage to the general public’s understanding of Sherlock Holmes

[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

✧.* ♡ *.✧

[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

[nessahero]

[meetinginsamarra]

Always and Forever

Who still like johnlock in 2024 🥺😢🤲🏻

[consult-sherlockholmes]

1895

1895 followers. This number seems somehow significant. The final follower count has been reached finally. This means this social experiment is now concluded. To keep this follower count, the blog shall be archived.

[here-on-occasion]

of course multiverse theory was founded in 1895. of course it was.

[somecunttookmyurl]

mostly stopped responding to this post because it's so old like ive been living here almost 3 years but i love it when architects are wrong on this post. i do not live in a circle sorry that person's aunt

also @wanderer-chronicles it wasn't anything before. it was built to be flats. it's always been like this.

me standing in the living room: this room does not look.... straight

the room: