#boscombe

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Zodia's Book of Numbers - 1972 (cover illustration by Gene Billbrew)

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Coming soon...

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Shelley Protest

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21 July 24

Boscombe Pier

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Boscombe street art. July 2023.

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Was rewatching Granada’s Boscombe Valley with my dad yesterday and HOLY SHIT, they are somehow even MORE married in that episode than ever. The time that isn’t spent investigating is filled with banter, flirting, teasing, inside jokes, and sickeningly fond looks of blinding adoration. They’re squished into each other’s side constantly, and they can instantly read each other’s minds.

Anyway what I’m saying is pls add some gifs at your leisure because I need them for research purposes

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some stuff picked out from my tgaa sketch dump :) figuring out some faces,, memes,,, stuff based off of dialogue,,, exactly one sad,, gays,,,

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Very mindful, very demure

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what if I told you johnlock was real in 2024

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Poor Lestrade. He puts up with a lot 😂

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Sherlock Holmes | 5x04 The Boscombe Valley Mystery

– He has a daughter called Alice? – An only child and a most charming one. – We surmise that Miss Turner and the McCarthy boy are… friends? – 👀 – Great friends.

#HELP WHY DOES HOLMES GIVE WATSON THAT LOOK WHEN HE SAYS "FRIENDS"

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I can’t be bothered typing out this excerpt but I find it so interesting the way Watson is unfazed by his best friend acting so weird at crime scenes. He describes him multiple times as being like an animal, a running around like a dog. But it’s so normal to him. What does Holmes look like to other people bc he also doesn’t explain things as he does it so here he’s just scampering about with zero explanation

Anyway I just got reminded of this when reading the speckled band bc he just throws himself to the ground. Holmes seems to be depicted in pop culture as stiff but dude is just scurrying about

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29 July 23

Breakfast on/adjacent to the beach

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In The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Holmes is reading Petrarch on the train, and I only just thought to look up the kinds of things Petrarch writes about, and you get things like:

He makes sweet havoc in this heart of mine, And to my thoughts brings transformation high, So that I say, “My time has come to die, If fate so blest a death for me design.” But to my soul, thus steeped in joy, the sound Brings such a wish to keep that present heaven, It holds my spirit back to earth as well.

Holmes, are you having some big feelings, perhaps?

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"The Boscombe Valley Mystery"

The one where Sherlock Holmes wears his deerstalker cap for the first time.

This one almost falls into the trap of cliche. The murderer has a similar enough-backstory to the one in A Study in Scarlet, turns out to be dying, desperate and all that jazz. It is salvaged by the execution, in that an innocent man that the murderer likes is charged with the murder, and the tricky unentangling of motivations, justice and innocence is something that Sherlock Holmes has to unweave, and does so in a way that honestly feels pretty clever.

I think it's good. I don't know if it's one of my favorites, but I'm pretty sure it would be someone's favorite, and it stands well enough on its own.

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The amount of Lestrade slander in ‘Boscombe Valley’ is HYSTERICAL.

“Besides, we chance to hit upon some other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Mr. Lestrade.”

“And yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted even so self evident a thing as that!”

(Watson describing him)- ‘A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly looking…’

We can’t forget about this absolute KILLER of a roast:

‘“I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies.”

“You are right,” said Holmes, demurely; “you do find it hard to tackle the facts.”’

And last but surely not least:

“I gained the trifling details which I gave to that IMBECILE Lestrade,”