#arthur conan doyle

[kinsey3furry300]

Houdini desperately trying to stop Doyle giving all his money to a famed mesmerist who talks to ghosts...

(swinging a pocket watch back and forth in front of your face) you are getting verrry skeptical that this does anything at all.... when i snap my fingers you will wake up and act as though you never believed in hypnosis.....

[thehmn]

“lol Arthur Conan Doyle clearly didn’t know anything about drugs. Sherlock Holmes did cocaine but it calmed him down. That’s not how cocaine works!”

There are two options: Arthur Conan Doyle had never met someone addicted to cocaine or he met some with ADHD who was addicted to cocaine

[skipppppy]

shoutout to gay detectives and their husbands across history

[unreformedcarrots]

[el-ffej]

It IS a cool line! (Absolutely one of the best.)

THE BLUE CARBUNCLE part 3 - part 1 - part 2 - with one more to come! MR. HOLMES it is very difficult to conceal injures from a trained doctor (who happens to be obsessed with you)!!

also just wanted to say - I'm so sorry to all the folks who couldn't get copies of Volume 1 of the Sketchbook - I'm working on a much larger print run and a pre order system so everyone can get one :) your support truly means the world to me, stay tuned!

(this is the Watson's Sketchbook series!)

[swamp-adder]

I just finished reading ACD's memoir and one thing I picked up from it is that apparently he only became a doctor because his mother told him to get a medical degree so he could make money, he was never successful at it, and he was thrilled when he was finally able to quit medicine and become a full-time writer. Reading between the lines, it's possible he never actually liked being a doctor very much, and I feel like that kind of puts a different spin on Watson constantly ditching his practice to go run around with Holmes... like the idea of having this manic pixie dream detective come and snatch you away from your boring job that you hate and into a life of ~adventure~ is totally wish fulfillment lol.

[lumilescense]

Holmes: You neednt worry about Watson being here. He is the very soul of discretion.

Client: um...

Watson: *staring at client intently and writing down everything they say*

Client, knowing that one of the first stories that man published was about how the king of bohemia was fucking another lady: UMMM

[prokopetz]

Serialised Sherlock Holmes adaptation which meticulously reproduces all of Arthur Conan Doyle's continuity fuckups, at first seemingly out of excessive concern for fidelity to the source material. Eventually, it's revealed that we're actually looking at a pair of extremely similar parallel universes, each with its own almost-but-not-quite-identical Holmes and Watson duo, played by the same actors.

In the back half of the series, a plot by Time-Travelling Omni-Moriarty threatens both universes, obliging the Holmeses and Watsons of each universe to team up with their counterparts to stop him; the particulars of this portion of the story are such that understanding what the hell is going on critically hinges on the audience's ability to keep track of which nearly-identical Holmes or Watson is which.

The ultimate resolution involves outsmarting Moriarty by having the Watson with the war wound in his leg and the Watson with the war wound in his shoulder secretly switch places, deliberately framed in such a way that, as far as the audience can tell, there was no conceivable opportunity for them to have done so.

[future-crab]

After studying three of the greats — Holmes, Poirot, Columbo — I have determined that in order to be a popular fictional detective you MUST be autistic you MUST be a nosy bitch and you MUST have a boybestfriend to bounce your theories off of.

‘But op, what about Columbo? Columbo doesn’t have a boybestfriend!’ You fools. His boybestfriend is the murderer.

[moonlightandpalmtrees]

Found this in my drafts and giggled for like a minute

[jay-wasreblogging]

Funny how in many adaptations Watson carries but never shoots, not even when Sherlock tells him to for 'moral' reasons lol.

Whilst in the novel Watson was shooting anyone and anything Sherlock told him to.

[queeringclassiclit]

Which adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is the most queer?

*not including House M.D. because it's not really an adaptation, or any overtly queer pastiches like My Dearest Holmes or The Adventure of the Furtive Festivity because that's not really a fair contest

[always-too-many-daisies]

Holmes buying a Christmas gift for Watson in the Cardboard Box made me so happy!

[224bbaker]

Happy New Year to all but especially Sherlock Holmes! 🎉🎈🥳🪩🍾🏳️‍🌈

[milquetoast27]

I know it's common knowledge around here that Doyle "hated" his creation, Sherlock Holmes. But let's be precise, “I have had such an overdose of him that I feel towards him as I do towards paté de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to this day.”

The character of Holmes himself was not conceived without love and I personally find it hard to see such a complex and detailed character as so very hated by his author. The comment Doyle made is so unserious in its tone it leans more to a joking, superficial manner than to any strong feelings. I don't feel that connection so strongly as generally might be

[sir-looni]

"Sleep, Dear" by me

i love soft ACD Johnlock and i really want to draw them more often!

Go read the books!!!