#book: sherlock holmes

[malkaleh]

Just thinking about the Sherlock/John/Mary OT3 and like, genuinely I want the Sherlock and Mary BFFs regardless. He does not have to hate Mary! Mary is awesome! (Watson has two hands etc even without a triad) Also listen Holmes-Watson-Mortsan kids!

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

✨ Classic Novels Challenge ✨

🦇 Good morning, my beloved bookish bats!

💜 I saw @bookish.hope posted this #ClassicalLiteratureTag and figured it was perfect after winning this STUNNING edition of The Complete Novels of Jane Austen from @womanon and @canterburyclassics. Thank you so much for sending this my way! If you see this, consider yourself tagged.

✨ Why do you read classical literature? 🦇 It's a way to slip into simpler times; periods and places where today's problems don't exist.

✨ Classics you know little about: 🦇 Lol, there's a list. As much as I love classics, I tend to turn toward the same ones over and over again as comfort reads. To list a few I'm unfamiliar with...Tess of the d'Urbervilles, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men. I prefer classics (and contemporary fiction) written by women.

✨ Last classic you read: 🦇 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

✨ First classic you read: 🦇 That's actually difficult, because I devoured books as a kid, long before the days of Goodreads. I THINK it was The Secret Garden, Little Women, or Sherlock Holmes. Or Alice in Wonderland. Or Black Beauty. I can't remember! Although, if we count Aesop's Fables and Charlotte's Web, those were definitely first.

✨ Your least favorite classic: 🦇 Lol, this is also a long list. Disclaimer first: I read a number of these for school, and though English was my favorite course and I LOVED analyzing text, there's something about NOT reading a book for leisure that changes your perception of it. So...The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies (UGH), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Seeing a trend, here? Again, I prefer books about women written by women.

✨ Your favorite translated classic: 🦇 One Thousand and One Nights / Arabian Nights (also my all-time fave)

✨ Your favorite modern classic, 1900+: 🦇 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

✨ A classic for children: 🦇 Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan

✨ Classics everyone should read: 🦇 Anything Jane Austen, Arabian Nights, The Picture of Dorian Gray, anything Shakespeare, anything Bronte, Frankenstein, Dracula, Alice in Wonderland, The Little Prince, The Grapes of Wrath, The Odyssey, Anna Karenina, The Scarlet Letter, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Book Thief (see, I actually love classics).

💜 QOTD: What’s the last classic you read and loved? Or predictive text: I rather be ____

[malkaleh]

@geeoharee

Just learned about the existence of this poem written by Vincent Starrett in 1942. I'm always so happy when I can learn more about the Sherlockian fandom and discover more of Sherlockiana.

[t2316m]

Tim Drake has a hatred for Sherlock Holmes, has he ever read the books? No but his dad used to insultingly call him Sherlock as a kid when he was being too nosy or curious and now even when people say it as a compliment it just irks him

Jason being the resident classic literature nerd is dead set on at least having Tim read the books so he can either A. Actually like the books and accept that Sherlock is actually a pretty cool guy to be compared too, or B. Give actual tasteful criticism and insults based on the contents of the book

Jason could care less which happens he’s just tired of Tim ranting about his hatred for Sherlock despite not knowing a thing about Sherlock

——

Tim: Sherlock this, Sherlock that, I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that stupid hat

Jason: The hat really isn’t even mentioned in the books, You’d know if you read them

Tim: I’m not reading them, they really can’t be that good in fact Sherlock was so bad even his literal creator wanted nothing to do with him

Jason: Your dad wanted nothing to do with you and you’re still a pretty good detective

*Cue Dick yelling at Jason cause “that wasn’t nice”

[contact-guy]

 "Knowing how genuine was her regard for him, I listened earnestly to her story when she came to my rooms in the second year of my married life and told me of the sad condition to which my poor friend was reduced."

THE DYING DETECTIVE part one - the best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

If you're not familiar with this particular story I REALLY REALLY encourage you to read it (it's short!) because 1. it's really good and BONKERS and 2. this version is very close to the original but deviates in certain and important ways.

(this is in the Watson's Sketchbook series)

[noodles-and-tea]

John Watson is the BIGGEST hype man and that’s just canon

[ohno-wallace]

Sherlock & Co. but I redesign the logo and make it look like one of those investigation shows hehe

inbox open for S&Co. requests!

[carpet-snark]

after rewatching some of the bbc show (haven't watched it since i was into it ~2017) and reading some of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, i've made some observations

(obviously this is exaggerated for funny purposes)

[finehs]

ELEMENTARY | 1.02 - While You Were Sleeping You want a thank you? Fine. Thank you.

[aceredshirt13]

if there's one thing about classic literary detectives it's that they are not conventionally attractive. doyle told sidney paget to stop drawing holmes so pretty. christie was like "let me introduce you to this short pudgy balding man who is retirement age and i hate him." sayers compares wimsey to maggots on literally the FIRST PAGE

i love it. i love them. stop casting hot people in these roles. we need our detectives to be Charmingly Weird-Looking

[niccoguedes]

<3

INPRNT

[malkaleh]

Obviously I am a Sherlock/John/Mary shipper for life and I kind of adore the idea of them having children if only because I really think all of them would be like ‘Victorian Middle/Upper Class Ideas Of Childrearing Whomst?’ like their daughters are thoroughly educated.

[julienbakerstreet]

It’s come to my attention that many people don’t know about the Basil of Baker Streets books, nor the insanity contained therein. With this in mind, please enjoy some details from Eve Titus’s Basil of Baker Street books

Basil is consciously copying Sherlock Holmes

Basil and Dawson get tired of trekking to spy on Sherlock Holmes in the snow, so they construct an entire town in the cellar of 221B and move in along with no fewer than 44 families

The town is called Holmestead, and it has shops, a school, a library, and a town hall

Basil and Dawson live together with their mousekeeper, Mrs. Judson

Basil has a tailor copy Sherlock Holmes’s entire wardrobe so he can dress like Holmes

Basil tried to make a mouse-sized violin, but it sounded so bad that Dawson made him stop and he stuck to playing the flute. He uses the flute to charm snakes

Basil keeps a collection of Holmes souvenirs, including “scraps of paper his hero had written upon, old pen points he had used, a torn blotter, a broken pocket lens, a whittling of Holmes done by Basil himself, and other odds and ends.”

Basil practices his archery indoors

Basil has a mouse-sized microscope

Basil dresses up as a sailor by the name of Captain Baker, and Dawson disguises himself as his first mate, Mr. Street. They practice talking like sailors together

Instead of Scotland Yard, they have Mouseland Yard

Dr. Dawson heals the niece of the Loch Ness Monster, who was suffering from a cold.

Basil leads an expedition up Mt. Emmentaler, past the Bachenreich Falls, and discovered the Adorable Snowmouse

Professor Ratigan is a mouse, not a rat. Ratigan has a Moran, whose name is Doran

Basil solves the theft of the Mousa Lisa

Basil visits a remote island, uncovers artifacts, and takes them back to the British Mousemopolitan Museum

There is a mouse Irene Adler. Her name is Mademoiselle Relda, and she disguises herself in drag to adventure with Basil when he says women can’t climb mountains

Basil discovered penicillin and communicated this to Alexander Fleming

Basil is an amateur archaeologist

Basil and Dawson are both strongly pro-women’s suffrage, but Basil is generally sexist and Dawson is more progressive

Dawson thinks that Holmes knew Basil was listening to him, and “that it pleased him to pass his methods on to a mouse.”

[tremendously-crazy]

does anyone else immediately lose interest in a book when there's a romantic subplot or is that just me

[sherlock-is-ace]

Happy Birthday Mr. Holmes!! <3

(not to toot my own horn, but pls look at the whole art project, I worked really hard on it)

[contact-guy]

MORE...I said I didn't like this story but there are many charming bits, including new besties holding hands and Holmes backstory lore. Also I love how absolutely DONE Mary Morstan is when talking to Sholto...the thinnest veil of politeness drawn over exhausted bitchiness. Watson really vibes with a certain type.

This is part four for THE SIGN OF THE FOUR, (Part one), (part two), and (part three)

(This is part of the Watsons sketchbook series!)