#Basil of Baker Street

[julienbakerstreet]

It’s come to my attention that many people don’t know about the Basil of Baker Streets books, nor the insanity contained therein. With this in mind, please enjoy some details from Eve Titus’s Basil of Baker Street books

Basil is consciously copying Sherlock Holmes

Basil and Dawson get tired of trekking to spy on Sherlock Holmes in the snow, so they construct an entire town in the cellar of 221B and move in along with no fewer than 44 families

The town is called Holmestead, and it has shops, a school, a library, and a town hall

Basil and Dawson live together with their mousekeeper, Mrs. Judson

Basil has a tailor copy Sherlock Holmes’s entire wardrobe so he can dress like Holmes

Basil tried to make a mouse-sized violin, but it sounded so bad that Dawson made him stop and he stuck to playing the flute. He uses the flute to charm snakes

Basil keeps a collection of Holmes souvenirs, including “scraps of paper his hero had written upon, old pen points he had used, a torn blotter, a broken pocket lens, a whittling of Holmes done by Basil himself, and other odds and ends.”

Basil practices his archery indoors

Basil has a mouse-sized microscope

Basil dresses up as a sailor by the name of Captain Baker, and Dawson disguises himself as his first mate, Mr. Street. They practice talking like sailors together

Instead of Scotland Yard, they have Mouseland Yard

Dr. Dawson heals the niece of the Loch Ness Monster, who was suffering from a cold.

Basil leads an expedition up Mt. Emmentaler, past the Bachenreich Falls, and discovered the Adorable Snowmouse

Professor Ratigan is a mouse, not a rat. Ratigan has a Moran, whose name is Doran

Basil solves the theft of the Mousa Lisa

Basil visits a remote island, uncovers artifacts, and takes them back to the British Mousemopolitan Museum

There is a mouse Irene Adler. Her name is Mademoiselle Relda, and she disguises herself in drag to adventure with Basil when he says women can’t climb mountains

Basil discovered penicillin and communicated this to Alexander Fleming

Basil is an amateur archaeologist

Basil and Dawson are both strongly pro-women’s suffrage, but Basil is generally sexist and Dawson is more progressive

Dawson thinks that Holmes knew Basil was listening to him, and “that it pleased him to pass his methods on to a mouse.”

[ramigir]

[housesofmouses]

#fellas is it gay to keep a framed oil painting of your nemesis and talk about what a genius he is

[cafenervosa]

Kicking off the holiday season with some Christmas mice! Basil of Baker Street would be on my hear me out cake

[ID in alt text]

[rechicken-and-waffles]

Been thinking about this movie again so I made art of it 🐭🔎

[selcouthself]

in all timelines

in all possibilities

only you

[darkwingsnark]

"Wouldn't want you catching a cold now, would we Basil?"

Aggie collab between @micaxiii and myself. Been rough these past weeks getting iron infusions, so it was nice to be able to hang and draw some ex-lovers.

[nonsensology]

I was rather disappointed that last year's Disney100 celebration didn't feature Gravity Falls (or any other TV-originals, for that matter), so I drew this as catharsis.

More Disney100 stuff.

[nothingofpracticalgardening]

20 Versions of Sherlock Holmes Ranked from Most to Least Likely to Set a Building on Fire in a Fit of Rage

[lexie-squirrel]

“The Great Mouse Detective” concept art

[romancemedia]

BASIL THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE (1986) BASIL & OLIVIA: GROWING AFFECTION

[ramigir]

[im-on-speeeeeed]

Alright you guys

[mochiango]

Oouggghhhhh these mice have been the only thing on my minddd

[rechicken-and-waffles]

The best detectives in town 🔎

[ninjadoodleduck]