#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]

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.

[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]

[n4c9s]

"I'm sorry." "There's nothing to be sorry for."

~

Some post-Mazarin Stone thoughts

[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!

[amypihcs]

So, i was thinking.

Sherlock Holmes obviously HATES 'passion crimes', as they are sometimes called (eg, cardboard box). One spouse kill the other and the person the other cheated with, or kiss one for baseless jealousy etcetc, and this might also be one of the reasons why he has such a low opinion on romantic (how to find any fault in it!).

But also, Sherlock Holmes, a man who cares so, so, so much and has an incredibly big heart, doing cocaine to cleanse the details of those cases from his mind, when he's young and when he's still not so sure of Watson and his affection towards him and exactly how much he can tell the good doctor. And then they get together and start aging together. Holmes dies and comes back and quits cocaine. And Watson is always there to remind him that life is much better than the awful, ugly case they just solved together. Watson is there to kiss him and hug him tight, shielding Holmes from his own thoughts going always back to what he just solved.

Watson is there instead of his 7% solution, much more stable and reliable than the injection. Holding him tight and keeping him together when all the awful things they saw in the cases come back to Holmes' mind.

Holmes starting to jokingly call Watson his 100% solution, since he has no need to dilute him.

And of course, whenever the thunder has the voice of the cannon or Watson is also having a hard time with memories Holmes is there for him, playing for him, reading for him, holding him close, making him listen to his heartbeat, bringing Watson back to the safety of 221b first and then to that of their cottage.

Don't come for my head <3

[moroniccats]

‘“What is the meaning of it, Watson?” Said Holmes, solemnly, as he laid down the paper. “What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance…”’

This monologue always breaks my heart. He sounds so resigned and sad.

I wonder if that’s part of what drives him, that he knows that even if he can’t prevent the cycle of violence, maybe he can at least bring it to some closure.