#Holmes Straight

[jenijro]

You can’t tell me this wasn’t the hottest shit ever for Watson

[ponkydraws]

I’ll never get people who think Sherlock is a straight man. Gay? Sure. Aro and/or ace? Sure. But straight?????? There’s no universe where he’s straight. There’s barely any where he’s interested in women at ALL. He’s been queer since ACD created him, we may never know in what way, but he’s queer. Always has been. That’s not even a theory, that’s just canon from the literature itself lmao

[holmesunenthusiast]

You think Watson ever felt guilty when Mary died as he was mourning Holmes, wishing he'd spent more time with her instead of grieving someone already gone? You think he buried her close to the honorary grave he made for Holmes, or separate so he could properly give each of them his attention when he came to visit? You think he buried them with a single plot between them, waiting for his own turn? You think he spent time creating checks and balances of who he was meant to be hurting over more?

You think when it was all over he ever went back to Mary's grave and begged her to come back too?

[reversednix]

Not even my bisexual friends can compare and that’s saying something!!!!

[sherlockholmesart]

Book-accurate Holmes I guess

[lesbian-aunt]

Sherlock: *gets engaged to a woman*

John: nobody believes you're straight, mate

Sherlock: *laughs at a text message from a handsome policeman*

John: now whAT THE FUC-

[buckingham-ashtray]

Not Them still haunting me even on my hike.

More than one hundred miles away from home and I am still unable to escape Them. Not even physically.

I can't anymore. THEY WON’T LEAVE ME ALONE.

(keep away from my tags

[duusheen]

Together

🥺💕

[queerclarkkent]

Watson Looking at Holmes like he is the whole world tm moodboard

Images: Watson looking at Holmes smoking, from afar

Watson looking at Holmes smoking, from up close

Watson watching Holmes think

(A three pipe problem)

Watson tending to Holmes' minor head injuries

Text: say that again? I'm sorry. I got distracted by your little manerisms, how you pronounce certain words, and the way your eyes light up when you talk about something you're passionate about, and started my day dreaming about spending my life making you laugh, and feel loved and cherished

They are beautiful, and gay, and I will hear nothing against on it

[lannaart]

needed some joy in my life

[unfamiliaris]

everyone keeps comparing helena to the likes of elon musk or jeff bezos purely because those men are everyone's first connotation with "billionaire" or "out of touch person" but I think you're all truly missing the mark. listen. helena eagan is the female front face of a fraudulent biomedical company lying about its practices, who despite having seemingly zero social awareness or tact, keeps making public appearances where it's obvious she's putting on some sort of unnatural affectation. she has that lame sort of mark zuckerberg "hello fellow humans" vibe about her but can at least make herself appear to be passionate sometimes. helena eagan isnt musk, she's not bezos, she's elizabeth holmes.

[leniisreallycool]

Since you're taking fic request can I get some platonic emotional hurt/comfort of Dazai x reader? Bulletpoint/headcanon list format is good. The context would be that you've been in the agency for a few weeks now, and Dazai see you crying for some reason one day

YAYAYAYAYAY ABSOLUTELY

You were having a MONUMENTALLY bad day

To be fair, it didn't start that way. You woke up actually feeling refreshed for once

That is, until you grabbed your phone to see why your alarm hadn't woken you up

Only to realize you hadn't set one last night

*cue panic*

This was still a new job! You hadn't been a clerk for the Armed Detective Agency long enough to feel comfortable being late even by a few minutes!

Still, you had time to grab your morning coffee from your favorite cafe

Only to receive the wrong order and ended up with a drink you hated

It wasn't the barista's fault the cafe was so crowded but damn you did NOT need another reason to wish you hadn't woken up this morning

And to make matters worse, someone on the sidewalk accidentally stepped on your shoe, breaking the sole away from the heel

Now the sole clicked irritatingly every time you took a step

So you're annoyed and anxious

And you manage to slip in just seconds before you would have been late, yet for some reason Kunikida decides it's a good idea to lecture you on punctuality

"A proper member of the Agency is always five minutes early. Anything else is late! Do you want to end up like that deadbeat Dazai?!"

As if you need anything else to make your day worse

Luckily for you, Ranpo drags him away to coerce him into helping him take the train for a case

That's the first good thing that's happened to you today

You think you see Ranpo wink at you but it could have been a trick of the light

He also mentions that it's Atsushi and Kyouka's day off

And then. The final straw

You sit down to work, drag a massive pile of paperwork over to the middle of your desk and begin to work

And immediately get a papercut

That's it. That's all you can take.

You push your chair back from your desk and fetch a bandaid from Yosano's office

You plot back in your seat, cross your arms over your desk, and bury your face in your arms

You've never been so glad to be alone in the Agency but in the back of your mind you're grateful for it

For once, you just let yourself cry

Tears soak your sleeves and your shoulders shake a little

It feels stupid to be so emotional when nothing dramatically bad happened

Just a series of little annoyances that built up

You haven't even been awake for two hours yet, but you're already ready for the day to be over

So of course that's when the Agency's door slams open

It's Dazai, twenty minutes late, as usual

Dazai yoinks a chair from a nearby desk and props his bandaged elbows on your desk, knocking a few of the papers off

He doesn't seem to care care but it offends your soul

"So, my dear accomplice, what are we going to annoy Kunikida with today? Steal his paperclips? Ooh, maybe this time we could replace his notebook with an empty replica!"

You don't answer. He'll see the tear tracks if you lift your head

"It's so easy to pickpocket him and he'll never guess it was us!"

You know for a fact Kunikida would figure it out immediately but you still keep silent

"What's wrong? Do you want to decide today's prank?"

When you still don't answer, he pokes your cheek playfully

"Hon?"

You never responded to cutesy pet names

"Honey?"

And definitely never one that could be construed as romantic

"Honey bunches of oats?"

That one pulls an ugly snort from you

You don't have to look up to see his triumphant smile

"Go away"

He doesn't

You lift your head enough to glare at him

"Go. Away."

He still doesn't

He has a strangely blank expression

The out of nowhere, he kicks your chair backwards and knocks you off balance

You shriek and throw your arms out to grab the desk before you fall

He catches you by the wrists and twirls you like a ballerina

"Dazai, what the hell!?"

He ignores your protests and leads you in a ridiculous dance around the room

Spinning, twirling, even hopping onto Kunikida's desk to kick his paperwork everywhere until you're breathless with laughter

With one last bow, Dazai returns you to your desk

"Much better," he says and pokes your cheek again

You give him a warm smile

"Thanks, Dazai, I didn't know I needed that. You're the best"

You thought he was just going to blow it off like Ranpo always does

Nope

He just kinda malfunctions

He wears a look of shock and takes several rapid steps backwards

Then dives out the door like death itself was chasing him

He'd be slower if it was death actually-

Crazy man

Somehow without asking you what was wrong or what he could do to help, he managed to turn your whole day around

this kinda got away from me lmao

[fruitviking]

I'm a bit annoyed about the wasted potential of the Sherlock & Daughter finale, so here is my pitch for:

Surprise! Sherlock Holmes Has A Secret Daughter (Kind Of)

A young woman arrives at 221b claiming to be a client. She's alone, in her late teens/early 20s, and looking for her missing father.

Holmes can tell that she's lying. After some discussion where he states, calmly and frankly, that he cannot help her if she won't be honest with him, the truth comes out.

The girl - let's call her Violet, why not - believes that her father is Sherlock Holmes. She's absolutely convinced of it, in fact.

It turns out that her mother used to read the stories from The Strand to her, claiming they were her father's adventures. If Violet ever asked why Mr Holmes couldn't be with them, well, "He lives a very dangerous life, darling. He has to stay away for our own safety..."

Anyway. Violet's mother is now dead, and she's come to find her father and tell him.

Of course, Holmes isn't actually her father. Violet's mother lied. She never even met Holmes, let alone got pregnant by him. Violet has been lied to her entire life.

Violet is in great distress, and for a long time she refuses to believe it. Why would her mother lie like that? What is the truth? If Holmes isn't her father, who is?

Holmes - and Watson, of course - agree to help her solve the mystery of her parentage, because they also feel there must have been a reason for her mother to pick Holmes specifically as Violet's "real" father. Once Holmes understands that Violet doesn't really want anything else from him, just the truth, their uneasy alliance begins to develop into a real - if somewhat unlikely - friendship.

As they work the case, some hard truths come to light. Violet's opinion of her mother changes; she begins to understand her in new ways, and wishes they could reconcile, though sadly that opportunity is now past.

Violet's mother was trapped in a loveless marriage to a notorious criminal. While pregnant, she ran away, and managed to eventually build a life for herself and her daughter that was, yes, humble, but entirely theirs. She never confessed who that man was, but spun the tale of Sherlock Holmes as Violet's father to keep her safe. If Violet ever sought him out, she would go directly to a good man who could protect and help her.

However, in asking after Violet's father and investigating events that occurred around the time when her mother made her bid for freedom, they gain the attention of That Man. He doesn't like the questions being asked about him. He has them followed. He watches them, watches Violet, and thinks that maybe he's entitled to knowing his child after all this time. Maybe her mother had no right to keep her from him. Maybe he ought to take her back.

The story would have a suitably dramatic climax which culminates in Holmes admitting he has come to care for Violet, but he wouldn't do it under duress or because he feels he has to take responsibility for her. He wants to. He and Watson both respect her intelligence and skills, and they make sure she is able to carve out a place in the world as a free woman, like her mother before her.

[holmesunenthusiast]

Adventures has so many good stories but I will ALWAYS be biased towards The Copper Beeches... Not for any reason in particular

[tremendously-crazy]

"You can't hate on an entire Sherlock Holmes adaptation just because of how they interpret Irene Norton (nee Adler)-" SHUT UP.

I will hate on an adaptation if it does the following:

makes Irene a love interest for Sherlock Holmes (whether realized or not).

First of all, Holmes is NOT attracted to women, and never experiences a smidgen of attraction towards them in the original stories. ACD could have very easily written him a love interest, but CHOSE NOT TO because it went against the idea of his character. He was never attracted towards women.

Second of all, Irene Adler isn't even Irene Adler. Her name is Irene NORTON. Do you want to know why? Because she's LITERALLY MARRIED. TO A LAWYER NAMED GODFREY NORTON. She already has a husband who she loves very much! She does not love Holmes!

Thirdly, a man can feel admiration for a woman without being attracted to her. Watson literally says in the first part of A Scandal in Bohemia that he didn't feel any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler!!

2. makes Irene into some sort of femme fatalle/sexually appealing

This implies that women can only be smarter than men if they are attractive/hot. That, in order for a woman to be successful, she has to provide something for a man.

Edit: this doesn't mean that she ISNT attractive. She is beautiful and enthralling, which is what makes the king fall for her in the first place. What I mean is when Irene becomes a SEXUALIZED character.

Doing this means she can't just be a smart woman, but that she has to be sexually attractive and mysterious, too! DOING THIS REDUCES HER INTO AN OBJECT OF DESIRE!!!

3. makes her weak/makes her get outsmarted by Holmes

Im not sure if any adaptations have actually done this. But if so. Absolutely not. She challenges Holmes's misogynistic ideals and to reform his views. Because Holmes views women as softer, weaker, and less intelligent (when they are NOT!!) And Irene helps to teach him this. Her lesson is effective!! Because Holmes stops making fun of women. And he changes his ways. Why would you make her weaker? She's SUPPOSED to beat Holmes.

If it does this or anything else I will NOT view the adaptation. You can tell a lot about the adaptors, their respect and accuracy while depicting the original stories, and how they view women, through their interpretation of Irene Norton. She is the most famous female character in the series, after all. Do her RIGHT! READ A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA BEFORE YOU ADAPT! And if you still make these amateur mistakes, you shouldn't be adapting Sherlock Holmes at all.

[nanowatzophina]

Some characters from @doriana-gray-games’s Sherlock IF

I’m still holdin’ out for Irene Adler for my main Sherlock, Amelia… but… that isn’t stopping me from making alternate Sherlock’s for all these fine options I’ve been given. Especially considering the different flavors of autism gremlins I can make to compliment each option so differently.

Hate to say I have a preference for Lestrade and H as guys but— I do. 😔 idk. Maybe it’s just the way my biromantic brain is wired. But both these gentlemen are SO FINE.

So I will probably only ever draw them as dudes…

Sadly the only reason I may not be able to actually romance Adler with my main is… I’m playing her as more of a persona and I am incredibly ace… but— like— Irene tho— idk. Things to consider.