#acd mary morstan

[tremendously-crazy]

Maybe the real agra treasure is the friends we made along the way

[contact-guy]

the Final Problem - part 11

THE FINAL PROBLEM- part 11 - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8 - part 9 - part 10. This is the last part of the final problem, a bit of an epilogue. I’ve loved telling the story of the Final Problem and I hope you enjoyed reading it! This short story absolutely destroyed me when I first read it last year, and ever since I have been determined to tell my own version. I’ll be taking a small break from Watson’s Sketchbook as I go on book tour, deal with the multitudinous horrors of 2025, and put some work into a new original graphic novel that needs a little attention - but it won’t be long and I (and Sherlock Holmes) will be back with THE EMPTY HOUSE!

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

[lannaart]

Pov you're Mary Morstan and you wanted to take a look at your husband's writing in The Strand only to find shit like "he had a delicate touch" "his long legs" (approximately 700 times) "his lithe frame" "the fire in his eyes" about the best friend he's been seeing a suspicious amount and that he drops everything he's doing for everytime he vaguely suggests at an adventure

[moroniccats]

The sign of four starts with Holmes injecting cocaine, feeding his addiction and upsetting Watson, who both knows the consequences better than most, but has recently had a brother who died from addiction.

He proceeds to ridicule and insult him about his writing, and then, while not maliciously, very callously talks about Watson’s recent loss.

There are a few things to take note of here:

Holmes and Watson had been living together for some time, and Holmes is no longer the perfect roommate he tried to be.

He’s lashing out at Watson because he’s under-stimulated, and over the years I’m sure the drugs no longer give him the same high.

It shows us an almost cruel side to his nature that wasn’t as prominent in the first book.

I wonder if Holmes just isn’t used to having friends, and therefore boundaries are difficult to navigate.

But this changes when Mary Morstan enters the picture.

I firmly believe that Watson’s instant attachment to her is partially because he’s hurting, and feeling unappreciated. And Holmes seems to recognise this, because his first instinct is to warn him about the dangers of women and falling in love. When that clearly doesn’t work, he switches tactics.

Throughout the rest of the book, Holmes is far more amiable, even kind to Watson. He includes him in investigating whenever he can, praises him, plays him lullabies on the violin…

But by the end he’s realized that it won’t work, and that Watson will marry and leave him anyway.

So he turns back to the cocaine bottle.

And that’s how the story ends.

WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS THIS SO SAD?????

[l0ud3r-ch33ps]

WAAAAHHH WATSON FAMILY 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

have some colours and crazy watson kid timeline concept-ing. all based on canon/headcanon from original acd AND rubin gareth’s sherlock novel (Holmes and Moriarty: The new official Sherlock Holmes novel 2024) 😍😍😍😍 which u absolutely HAAVEED TO REEADDDD i cant start talking abt it rn because i wont ever stop but it is GOOD like ACD GOOD imho hehehe

[rknchan]

you all are saying that watson is not "just a normal guy" in the slightest and his levels of romanticism and drama are insane and he fell in love with their client from the first sight and literally married that woman after knowing her for a few days

this is all very correct and true but consider

these feelings are very mutual and mary morstan wholeheartedly agreed to marry watson after knowing him for a few days she IS on the same level of insane romanticism as him

[chazchaschad]

just some Holmes. Messing with Mary’s design a little because I haven’t settled on one yet

[sherlocks-c0ffee]

Godfrey Norton 🤝 Mary Morstan 🤝 Sebastian Moran

Getting mistreated by Sherlock Holmes adaptations by being mischaracterized, replaced, killed off, or removed completely.

[sssrha]

Yk I’m reading through ACD Canon and I’ve only gotten to about halfway through the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes but I find it extremely amusing how little Mary Morstan appears.

Like John Watson really married this woman and then spent the rest of his life making vague allusions to her before going “ANYWAY now onto my much more interesting and very close friend and companion Sherlock Holmes, who is the light of my life” and I respect him for that.

[friday411]

Addicted to what?

"Holmes how can you risk psychosis? The risks you run are enormous! Morphine and cocaine Will both rot your brain. The damage that's done is atrocious!"

-=<+>=-

"Dear Watson, have you not noticed? My eyes are bright and in focus My cravings erased Since I have a case. You've made the wrong diagnosis!"

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[fogdraws]

Just like Watson's marriage is changing Sherlock's habits :(

(excerpt taken from "A Scandal in Bohemia")

[tremendously-crazy]

I've actually been thinking about the three gables all day. John was so sad, it broke my heart.

[contact-guy]

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 10

THE FINAL PROBLEM - a broken promise - part 10 of 11 - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8 - part 9. This is picking up a few days after Part 1, and there's one more update after this.

I've wanted to redraw this little scene from way back in a Study in Scarlet for ages. That part is all canon, as well as Watson's final line in his account of Holmes's death.

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

[carneliancorax]

I finished the Sherlock Holmes fic!

A Reason to Call

Watson is working himself to exhaustion, so his wife encourages him to take a day off and check in on his former fellow-lodger.

Hurt/Comfort where they're both not doing great and they comfort each other, facilitated by my beloved Mary Watson, née Morstan.

[moroniccats]

I actually really like Mary Morstan. She’s been through a lot, but she maintains her composure throughout the whole thing. She’s sensible and straight to the point, and Holmes even says THAT SHE WOULD MAKE A GOOD DETECTIVE.

If anything, I think her marriage to Watson is detrimental to HER character far more than his. With most of the other clients, their stories are solved and closed, and we are content knowing that they continued their lives. But as long as she’s Watson’s wife, WE know that she’s there, but she is no longer able to contribute to the story. She is delegated to a faceless woman only there for the plot (and possibly for covering Doyle’s ass).

And after all that we learn about her throughout the story, it’s hard to imagine this practical woman getting engaged to a man she JUST MET. Watson proposing makes perfect sense, he’s a very emotional, passionate and impulsive guy. But I just can’t fathom why she would say yes.

[ogsherlockholmes]

Mary Morstan reading The Sign of the Four and seeing the passages where Watson was professing her love to her despite the fact that her version of it was watching Holmes and Watson gaze into each other’s eyes lovingly and sneak off on their own then living together again afterwards and having very little contact with her again, connecting the dots and realising she was a plot device.