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The boys recreate my favorite canonical line: "Mycroft Holmes absolutely and indignantly declined to climb the railings" so Watson has to break in and open the door for him in The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans. No Watson here, just Greg playing around.

"Gregory, there is not room for two of us in this phonebox."
"Sure there is, we'll just have to snuggle."
As my Brit friend told me, "that's why they made them glass, you know, so people couldn't shag in them."
Here you have entertainment AND history!
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Case Prompts for John
By KathyG.
Summary: In this sequel to “A Chance to Practise,” that is set in the first-season episode, “The Great Game,” Mycroft suspects that Sherlock has passed the Bruce-Partington case to John. He decides to help him out. Thanks to BesleyBean, from the BBC Sherlock Fan Forum, for beta-reading and Brit-picking my story!
“Then how did he end up with a bashed-in brain on the tracks at Battersea?” Mycroft asked. He was referring to the deceased Andrew West, whom he suspected of having stolen a memory stick containing plans to a missile defence system. John sat in the chair facing Mycroft’s desk in the latter’s large Whitehall office, looking up at him and taking notes; he was wearing a two-piece suit that he had evidently bought off the rack. Night had fallen outside, and two table lamps shed a soft light throughout the room. Leaning against his desk with his legs crossed and his arms folded, both shoes flat on the carpeted floor, Mycroft continued, “That is the question—the one I was rather hoping Sherlock would provide an answer to. How’s he getting on?”
“He—he’s fine, yes. Oh, and—and it is going…very well. It’s, um, you know—he’s completely focused on it.” John grinned at Mycroft unconvincingly.
Yes, sure, he is, Mycroft thought, biting back an amused smile. You have your share of talents, John Watson, but lying is clearly not one of them. Out loud, he said, “Well, I’ve told you everything I know, John.”
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Holmes and Watson just invented a new love language and it is terrible
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
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#holmes x watson#BRUC#DEVI#The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans#The Adventure of the Devil's Foot#letters from watson#love to peer pressure my partner into doing the dumbest shit possible and then get swoony when it works#sherlock holmes
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Absolutely cackling at Holmes being upset that there haven’t been any crimes lately and then immediately following it with
“it’s fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal,”
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“Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion. But to run here and run there, to cross-question railway guards, and lie on my face with a lens to my eye—it is not my métier. No, you are the one man who can clear the matter up.”
Sherlock: You’re smarter than me, why do you need me?
Mycroft: Because you actually ENJOY floor time :/ and talking to people :///
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Oral surgery is made so much more pleasant when one's drug addled brain is filled with soft images of Sherlock Holmes snuggling down into his chair. Just put him on Watson's lap and have him stroke his back and scritch behind his ears while you're at it Sir Arthur..... holy shit
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Holmes tapping his fingers on things such as a book, his lip, his tummy, a piece of paper, a picture frame, his thigh, plus tapping his pipe on a map.
Holmes in the books by Arthur Conan Doyle also taps his fingers on things a lot:
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans: “He sat lost in thought, tapping his fingers on the table”... “ tapping the furniture”
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax: “his long, nervous fingers tapping upon the arms of his chair"
His last bow: “Holmes, tapping the valise”
The Adventure of the Empty House: “More than once he fidgeted with his feet and tapped rapidly with his fingers upon the wall”
A Study In Scarlet: “He gnawed his lip, drummed his fingers upon the table, and showed every other symptom of acute impatience”
The Problem of Thor Bridge: “in his nervous restlessness, he could not sit still, but paced the carriage or drummed with his long, sensitive fingers upon the cushions beside him”
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Lestrade and Mycroft met us by appointment at the outside of Gloucester Road Station. The area door of Oberstein’s house had been left open the night before, and it was necessary for me, as Mycroft Holmes absolutely and indignantly declined to climb the railings, to pass in and open the hall door. By nine o’clock we were all seated in the study, waiting patiently for our man.
Asdfghjkl, what did you expect asking Mycroft to climb over railings????
I can only imagine that he and Sherlock got into an argument about it, which Watson and Lestrade stood awkwardly witnessing for a while, before Watson got fed up, forced Lestrade to help him over the railing, and went in to open the front door.
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Last poll of His Last Bow!
#sherlock holmes#letters from watson#acd sherlock holmes#sherlock holmes canon#acd sherlock#Sherlock#tumblr polls#tournament#Watson#the Devil’s foot#Bruce-partington plans#his last bow
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If any of you can't be bothered to read today's letter, don't worry, Shaggy and Scoob have you covered.
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Holmes making animal noises part 4:
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Excerpts from The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans:
In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had spent in cross-indexing his huge book of references. The second and third had been patiently occupied upon a subject which he had recently made his hobby—the music of the Middle Ages. But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer. He paced restlessly about our sitting-room in a fever of suppressed energy, biting his nails, tapping the furniture, and chafing against inaction.
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“Well, well! What next?” said he. “Brother Mycroft is coming round.”
“Why not?” I asked.
“Why not? It is as if you met a tram-car coming down a country lane. Mycroft has his rails and he runs on them. His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle. Once, and only once, he has been here. What upheaval can possibly have derailed him?”
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“This must be serious, Watson. A death which has caused my brother to alter his habits can be no ordinary one. What in the world can he have to do with it? The case was featureless as I remember it. The young man had apparently fallen out of the train and killed himself. He had not been robbed, and there was no particular reason to suspect violence. Is that not so?”
“There has been an inquest,” said I, “and a good many fresh facts have come out. Looked at more closely, I should certainly say that it was a curious case.”
“Judging by its effect upon my brother, I should think it must be a most extraordinary one.”
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Holmes gave an exclamation of satisfaction.
“There we have it at last, Watson! British government—Woolwich. Arsenal—technical papers—Brother Mycroft, the chain is complete. But here he comes, if I am not mistaken, to speak for himself.”
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“A most annoying business, Sherlock,” said he. “I extremely dislike altering my habits, but the powers that be would take no denial. In the present state of Siam it is most awkward that I should be away from the office. But it is a real crisis. I have never seen the Prime Minister so upset. As to the Admiralty—it is buzzing like an overturned bee-hive. Have you read up the case?”
“We have just done so. What were the technical papers?”
“Ah, there’s the point! Fortunately, it has not come out. The press would be furious if it did. The papers which this wretched youth had in his pocket were the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine.”
Mycroft Holmes spoke with a solemnity which showed his sense of the importance of the subject. His brother and I sat expectant.
“Surely you have heard of it? I thought everyone had heard of it.”
“Only as a name.”
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“You must drop everything, Sherlock. Never mind your usual petty puzzles of the police-court. It’s a vital international problem that you have to solve. Why did Cadogan West take the papers, where are the missing ones, how did he die, how came his body where it was found, how can the evil be set right? Find an answer to all these questions, and you will have done good service for your country.”
“Why do you not solve it yourself, Mycroft? You can see as far as I.”
Why do you not solve it yourself, Mycroft?
#acd canon#sherlock holmes#mycroft holmes#The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans#i love how it's canon that Holmes was running up the walls for activation but still told his brother to solve the case himself#i don't think doyle meant it as a show of rivalry between them but rather made him ask this for exposition purposes#mycroft barely even reacts to it just says i'm too busy and lazy for this stuff#i love how moftiss picked up on this detail and made it come to the forefront of the scene#like moftiss did so many clever things that people miss and they need so much credit for this
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#this whole video is very chaotic and I love it#daily dose of granada holmes#daily granada screencap#*video#victorian husbands#poor ms hudson#mrs hudson#sherlock holmes 1984#the bruce partington plans 1988#jeremy brett holmes#edward hardwicke watson#granada holmes#sherlock holmes#jeremy brett#edward hardwicke#sherlock holmes granada#dr john watson#john watson#acd holmes#acd sherlock holmes#acd watson#acd john watson
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the cockiness of him 😂
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