#Always 1895

[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.

[stilettochat]

SO COMFORTING.

10-3-23

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

[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.

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

@giftober 2024 | Day 9: Numbers.

And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

[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

✧.* ♡ *.✧

[meetinginsamarra]

Always and Forever

Who still like johnlock in 2024 🥺😢🤲🏻

[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

[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.

[keepthemacramesecret]

not to complain abt bbc sherlock in the year of our lord 2k23 but does anyone else remember how s1 had those in-character blogs that were on some level the most interesting thing they were doing and then they just. abandoned them. did absolutely fuck all with the whole concept for the next 6 years.

[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:

[scientistofdeduction]

Join The Friends of Sherlock Holmes! An inclusive friendly discord group with a fandom focus! Here to talk and get excited about all versions of Holmes, from the massive to the obscure, talk fic, fanart, queer inclusivity, and more! Non-traditionalist focus-although scholars are free to come too! No elitists need apply, although ghosts may!

[marzipanandminutiae]

climate change is real and terrifying, and materially altering winter, but also a 60-degree (F) day in December in Boston is not "apocalyptic"

guys

there was not a single December in Boston from 1893-1903 without at least one day in the upper 50s, acording to NOAA data. usually several days. multiple years had December days reaching 60 or above- not always just one, either. December 1895 had more days in the 60s than December 2022 (it also had more days in the 20s, so that's not to say the pattern isn't changing, to be clear!)

(source- there's a dropdown menu at the top for different years)

I recently read a description of the Autumn Grand Prix in Paris c. 1909 that mentioned it being so weirdly warm that the trees started blooming again, and thought I was losing my mind. that NEVER happened in the past, right? but this was an eyewitness account written by a journalist who was there. I think we're all afraid of being labeled anti-science if we acknowledge what any climate scientist would likely tell you: that it's far more complicated than just Winter Is Dead And Every Diversion We Experience From Seasonal Averages Is Completely New Territory

I am not denying climate change. I am gently taking the hand of everyone who's just as (rightly!) scared as I am, just as stressed out by warmer-than-average winter days, and reminding you that climatological history does not begin with your childhood, and that climate change does not mean "every place is going to get hotter at a steady pace forever and there will be no more intense winters." they will change and become less frequent, but they will still be there! we can still act to preserve as many snowy days as possible, now!

we need hope to get through this. and sometimes part of hope can be contextualizing things for ourselves

[oul2001]

Good to know the art of fanfiction hadn't changed much the last century and people always knew their favorite characters aren't dead.

this pastiche from 1895 is indistinguishable from any hiatus brain crackfic you’d find on AO3 today

[hesagoodone]

Perhaps I'm really late in noticing this, but no matter:

While looking for watches online, I came across Sherlock's Rotary wrist watch; he wears it throughout the show.

It's stunning, but more so because of a little detail that I saw by chance among the reviews:

Since 1895

1895!

Seemed like a lovely little coincidence, but Mycroft would say that the universe is rarely so lazy! Therefore, I'm assuming it's a deliberate easter egg and such a fitting one.

To have a watch - the keeper of time - be a reminder of the eternal constant in the Holmesian universe that is 1895, is perfect. It is indeed, always 1895. <3

[consult-sherlockholmes]

I think I found the answer to the sequence of numbers which seems to stick in your mind.

The answer lies in the poem by one Vincent Starrett, aptly named '221b', where in particular the last two lines hold interest:

"Here, though the world explode, these two survive,

And it is always eighteen ninety-five."

A poem called 221B? That seems rather significant, and could most likely relate to us. Why did this man write a poem about us?

Although what he writes is correct, the world did explode around us (or more accurately our flat) but we survived. However, it's not always 1895, it's 2023 right now. But why should it always be 1895? How far is this year significant? Well x-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895. In 1895 the trials of Oscar Wilde occured, and he was imprisoned because of his homosexuality.