#acd mary watson

[oldkamelle]

dubiously legible sketches #15: mary and john watson

[tremendously-crazy]

new sherlock holmes headcanon just dropped

This text is from The Man with the Twisted Lip

First of all I love imagining this little face of disappointment that Mary (because I'm assuming it's Mary) is making here. ☹️

John being tired :( because he just wants to chill out with his wife

First of all we love mary for this ❤️😍 she is such a supportive loving queen

Second of all THESE TWO ARE WIVES END OF STORY

Who is James yall 👀 🤔 not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle forgetting the name of his own character 😭

Mary be like: "I can send my husband (who is gay for Sherlock Holmes) away and we can have some alone time (good luck babe is playing in the background)

(good luck babe gets louder) "old friend and school companion" come on guys we all know what THAT means

Kate: "My husband (who I married because I'm in denial about the fact that im in love with you mary) is being a druggie and I'm worried about him. Can you help me??

Anyway that's pretty much it. Mary Watson and Kate Whitney guys.

[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]

I saw an essay here a while ago that talks about how the first time Holmes and Watson move in together, it’s out of necessity, and while Watson admires Holmes a great deal, he’s still shocked by Holmes’s methods and impropriety. When he first proposes to Mary, he tells Holmes that he will no longer be going on adventure with him. I view that as an attempt to try to build himself a “normal” life. To try and blend in with society, to have a semblance of the stability he had before he went to war.

The thing is, he keeps coming back to Holmes. At first, in A Scandal in Bohemia, they haven’t seen each other in a month or so. But they instantly click back together. Watson stays at Baker Street once again, and takes part in the harrowing, law bending adventures once again. And again. And again. Visiting Holmes more and more frequently, living in excitement and close companionship with him once again. There’s still the normal side of his life, but it’s in the background.

After Holmes’s “death”, Watson might have realized that he doesn’t WANT “normal”. He wants the life he had with Holmes, but it’s too late.

Then he returns. Watson sells his practice and moves back in with him, and the adventures continue until they grow old.

[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

[carneliancorax]

Thinking about the Baker Street Irregulars and Holmes shaking hands with a baby.

Thinking about Watson joining in the little girl's laughter in The Yellow Face.

Thinking about how Holmes gives "paternal advice" to the young couple in The Noble Bachelor.

Thinking about how they're both good with kids and Holmes sees himself in a fatherly role to the younger people he's helping.

Thinking about Watson seeing Holmes being good with kids.

Thinking about how maybe one of the reasons Watson proposed to Mary Morstan, a woman with a lot of similarities to Holmes, after less than a week of knowing her is because maybe he really wanted to have kids -- and he couldn't conceive of how that would be possible with another man.

[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

[detectivejay]

Here's a new poll I thought up over the weekend, after discussing a few Sherlock Holmes adaptations with friends.

Bonus points for if you answer as to whether a poor adaptation of said character would be a dealbreaker for watching/reading/etc. as well.

[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.

[tremendously-crazy]

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

[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!

[angryducktimemachine]

Nothing bad will happen to them in the Alps. Ever.

[ID: a digital drawing of Holmes and Watson walking along a stoney path. They're both carrying hiking sticks and Watson has a backpack. Holmes is leading them and pointing forward with an enthusiastic smile, pulling Watson along by the wrist. Watson looks up in awe at an off-screen waterfall. /End ID]

[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?????