#Holmes And Watson
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oldfashionedbooklove · 3 days ago
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I hate when people say Sherlock Holmes doesn’t care about anything but solving problems. This is not an essay on Sherlock Homes (although the temptation is immense!), but I honestly admire him as one of the best characters in all of literature—not only as a fictional character, but as a person. As a character, he is fantastic because he LIVES and has lived for over 130 years. Sherlock Holmes is a man who seldom shows his real self, having learned how to hide his emotions and thoughts partly out of policy (a detective can’t get bound up in every person he comes across), partly for professionalism, and partly because he is a rather reserved man and doesn’t trust easily (which trait was deepened by his work). However, Sherlock is no ice-cold, emotionless detective. He becomes immensely wrapped up in his business. He grows anxious, angry, eloquent, amused by turns. He plays well, but anyone who studies him will see humanity break through his façade. What passionates Sherlock is Justice. He has an intense desire to make sure everyone is having a fair chance and is not being victimized. Sherlock likes to play indifferent and purely analytical, but his whole career is built for others. Of course, Sherlock also works because it is his art, his passion, and this also fuels him. He enjoys pitting himself against difficulties and overcoming by his brain-power. He will take a case because it has “interesting points” and to match his wits against other men. But he also takes cases simply because the person requiring appeals to his kind heart, even if it’s an “elementary problem.” I think both forces are strong in Sherlock, and while he downplays the one and lifts up the other, Watson saw, and knew, and so did others—they felt he was a man of honour and kindness, and trusted him when everyone else was frightening. This character does not immediately show in this book. It is by reading the entire series that one sees it—and that one sees Watson’s real character too—that deep, trusting friendship and loyalty he gives Sherlock, the love that helped Sherlock ease up and mellow because of the implicit trust he could place in Watson.
Thinking about the Holmes story where a blind girl goes to him and is like "My fiancé is missing and he kept telling me the week leading up to his disappearance that he would always love me and come back for me,were anything to happen so I think he knew he was in trouble and I love him so much and I'm going to wait for him but I'd like to find him faster,ya know?" And Holmes figures out that it was this girl's parents to scam her out of money she was owed from an estate which she gave to them because she was still living at home,which she wouldn't be if she ever married,so her step father PRETENDED TO DATE HER for MONTHS to keep her from ever getting engaged to a real person and when Holmes finds out he confronts this man and this man is like "Well,you caught me! But it wasn't illegal:) so:)" and Holmes is like "No,but it was sickening and cruel and if she had a brother or good male friend he should post you up and whip you but she doesn't." And the man is like "No,she doesn't." And does the Victorian version of sticking his tongue out and Holmes is like "Well,I guess I'll do then!" And HE PULLS OUT HIS HUNTING WHIP.
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s-u-w-i · 3 months ago
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First three inktober requests! 🦇 Vampire Grandma and her familiar for lotee.o and @sythesizeher Holmes&Watson as burglars for nearlyartistic and shortandnotblonde Young Sam Vimes & the swamp dragons for @usuallysublimepenguin and @hollow-head (who asked for crocodiles but hopefully these guys will be acceptable too)
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lovenstein-holmes-scholar · 1 month ago
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7552locked · 2 days ago
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Reblog if you’re still an active member of the BBC Sherlock / Granada holmes / acd community
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mouse-of-mischief · 5 months ago
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Since Watson is canonically an unreliable narrator, anything could have plausibly happened behind the closed doors of 221B. He doesn't tell us readers everything. Any sort of twist could have happened during a case that he couldn't write for the public... Like all those times he kissed Sherlock Holmes.
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1895locktva · 1 month ago
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"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
– The Valley of Fear
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bisclavart · 26 days ago
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My Holmes and Watson for this year's Xangô collab!! ✨️ Thank you once again for having me!
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browsethestacks · 5 months ago
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Tintin Meets Holmes And Watson
Art by Adam Murphy
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happygirl2oo2 · 11 months ago
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saw this textpost and got inspired
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vampyrholmes · 4 months ago
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imagine your roomie starts singing the opera you want to take him to and then yall do this
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trashdumper · 4 months ago
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Idk the content of this I just drew it I just drew my ship
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cardiganbear · 6 months ago
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rip sherlock holmes the original 365 party girl... you would have loved brat although I think you would get overstimulated in a modern gay bar
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tremendously-crazy · 2 months ago
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what i would give for a tall, lean (yet incredibly strong), eccentric detective genius with serious communication issues to follow around like a lost puppy and adore and write stories about all their exploits and be their devoted companion and the one who understands all their little ways while simultaneously being cared for and comforted and loved and understood by them in a way that's more special and unique and effective than anything I've ever felt before (yes my name is john watson why do you ask)
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lovenstein-holmes-scholar · 4 months ago
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Holmes in "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" - so handsome...
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mouse-of-mischief · 2 months ago
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I find it so funny how modern adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories make the first meeting of Holmes and Watson so dramatic. In the original ACD canon when Watson meets Holmes, the silly little guy was just experimenting with blood samples. But in BBC Sherlock, it's a cold open to him whipping a corpse with a riding crop. And then in Sherlock & Co., perhaps the best example of what I mean, Holmes is running on a treadmill after stabbing himself and is still bleeding. Poor Watson is just constantly never getting a break after meeting this man.
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