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Book: Irene Adler “The Woman” is a famous opera singer and actress, and one of four people to ever beat Sherlock Holmes in a battle of wits. Adler loves her husband dearly and only keeps hold of the blackmail she has over the Duke in order to keep herself safe, and will never reveal the photo to the public as long as he leaves them alone. Holmes never shows any romantic interest in Adler, or anyone for that matter, and only ever admires her for her wit and cunning.
Every adaption after: Irene Adler is a femme fatale, hopelessly in love with Sherlock Holmes, and some combination of a wanted criminal and dominatrix. Adler is allowed to beat Holmes ONCE, in order to teach him humility, but after that he needs to beat/save her in order to adhere to the status quo, and undo the lesson Book!Holmes learnt in the first place. This is somehow more feminist.
#Adler you were done so dirty#although her case is so funny#Holmes knows he can’t force Adler to reveal the location of the photo#but deduces it must be in the house so she can collect it at a moments notice#so his big plan is to get HER to reveal it for him#by executing the most fucked up plan I’ve ever read#orchestrating an audience to bombared Adler as she gets out of a carriage#have them pretend to start a fight#get ‘injured’ protecting her and taking arvantage of civil hospitality that will require her to let him into her home#and while he’s lying on the sofa he has Watson throw a cracker through the window#shout FiRE at the top of his lungs#where Holmes will immediately chase after Adler in the middle of the chaos#because in his own words ‘people instinctively grab what they value most when there’s a house fire’#spots Adler grabbing the photo#then runs out the door explaining to the staff he feels much better know and thanks the host for her hospitality#then the next morning they go back to the house to grab the photo while she’s out#only to find out she and her husband already fled#because Adler was smart enough to realize#something batshit insane happened last night so maybe they should move their plans forward and just runaway to America already#good job Holmes#that was your most subtle work to date
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Not Them still haunting me even on my hike.
More than one hundred miles away from home and I am still unable to escape Them. Not even physically.
I can't anymore. THEY WON’T LEAVE ME ALONE.
(watch me lose my absolute mind in the tags💀
#this is literally the physical manifestation of my subconscious. or consciousness more like.#can you imagine how utterly dumbstruck and BEWILDERED I was when this first whizzed past the car??#I was physically frozen in my seat cuz WHAT THE HELL IS THIS#WHAT DO YOU MEAN HOLMES LAW&WATSON LAWYERS???#WHAT DO YOU MEAN HOLMES BEING THE LITERAL LAW AND WATSON BEING THE LAWYER FIGHTING FOR HIM#like sksjskskdjsksksk HELLO?!?!?#there’s me losing my mind over this existing and actually happening to ME and also just how mind bogglingly funny this is#(and yeah no we’re not talking about those two morons breaking the law for each other and being literal partners in crime on a daily basis.#I can’t do this anymore.#I actually want to walk in and straight up tell them GOOD JOB ON THE SIGNBOARD#consulting. lawyers.#somebody write a fic please.#bbc sherlock#sherlock bbc#sherlock#sherlock holmes#john watson#johnlock#acd holmes#acd watson#acd johnlock#johnlock headcanon#buckingham-ashtray
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Time to give our client a status update.
#elementary#elementaryedit#elementasquee#rjs*: new#joan watson#sherlock holmes#brotp: you and i are bound#ele s2#we are everyone#ways sherlock says good job joanie#and her smiling after :')#babyyyyyyy girl
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an old comic from 2021 that i never posted here :)
william and sherlock got invited to a dinner as a thank you but the client's daughter kept playing with sherlock's hair and william couldn't stop laughing
#sherliam#william james moriarty#sherlock holmes#yuukoku no moriarty#moriarty the patriot#yuumori#my art#this was from almost 2 years ago and my art changed a lot so i don't like how this looks anymore but#I STILL LIKE THE STORY OKAY#i think i did a good job with the execution as well lol like the paneling and all#this month's chapter with helena reminded me of this somehow so
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I've completely forgotten how to make friends online and would like to start again after a years long tumblr hiatus.
In an attempt, I am going to try and list every one of my favorite shows, games and so on and have my DMs open for people to say hi if they'd like. No pressure to message, of course. You can also comment on or reblog this post if you're more comfortable with that!
-J
Shows: Hannibal, Moral Orel, Loki, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Sherlock, Good Omens, The Boys, Invincible, Legend of Vox Machina, Gravity Falls, Inside Job, Bojack Horseman, Futurama, Over the Garden Wall, Cowboy Bebop, Shameless
Games: Baldur's Gate 3, Disco Elysium, Cult of the Lamb, Hollow Knight, Detroit: Become Human, Rimworld, Scarlet Hollow, the Stanley Parable (and sequel), Terraria, Transistor, Vampire Survivors, Hades, Oxenfree 1+2, Slay the Spire, Little Misfortune, Detention, Legend of Zelda, Geometry Dash, Norco
Podcasts: Malevolent, The Magnus Archives, Old Gods of Appalachia, the Silt Verses
Hobbies/interests: Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons (and PF2e), hiking, walks in nature, music, podcasts, Norse mythology, eldritch horror, writing, reading, pirates, the Salem witch trials, birds and plants
Music: MGMT, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Tame Impala, Ween, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Marina, The Amazing Devil, Fish in a Birdcage, Half Alive, AJR, Will Wood, Tally Hall, Cosmo Sheldrake, I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, SEATBELTS, SKÁLD
#moral orel#loki#superwholock#good omens#malevolent#bojack horseman#invincible#cowboy bebop#over the garden wall#dnd#old gods of appalachia#inside job#eldrich horror#cult of the lamb#scarlet hollow#legend of vox machina#the silt verses#sherlock holmes#hannibal#mr robot
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My obsessions don't go away, they just hide in a corner until someone mentions them again.
#hyper fixation#obssesion#idk how to tag this#bbc sherlock#ghostbusters#toh#the owl house#cornetto trilogy#the simpsons#rick and morty#good omens#sherlock holmes#inside job#las leyendas
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so my friend and i just wrote a johnlock fanfiction without knowing a single thing about them. real friends will read it <3333 PLEASE !!!!!!!!
#read it and tell us we did a good job#otherwise no one else will.........#johnlock#sherlock holmes#john watson#sherlock x john#john x sherlock
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no thoughts head empty only enola holmes
#i rewatched the movie and I FORGOT HOW GOOD IT WAS#it did such a good job of weaving all the clues into the plot#also one of my friends looks EXACTLY like tewkesbury which is very amusing to me#enola holmes
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#sherlock holmes the awakened#frogwares holmes#sherlock holmes#video games#spoilers#they did a good job on his eyes#they’re very striking
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Gahagahaj i was wondering if and how they were gonna get john to investigate on his own and this is perfect 😭
#sherlock & co#the part in soli where watson is all 'i did such a good job didnt i :)' and holmes is just like. 'no.'#is so funny
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I don't think its true that in universe Jago & Litefoot are an inspiration for Holmes and Watson- I think they might be vaguely involved, and the paternosters also Vaguely Involved, but mostly that is just Shit Jago Says tm / Shit The Doctor Says.
It is very funny though to look at Litefoot's s5 situation through the lens of. By all means this man is the prime candidate for this universes real life person at least watson is based on, if not both- who got stuck in the 1960s, no longer has a Medical Certificate, and now works selling first edition holmesian memorbilia and other victorian books.
#at least watson KNOWS something about books/writing litefoot is like.#he couldve been a normal antiquarian general if not for The 70 Years gap#but idk george litefoot was born to be a mad scientist. the thign about him is hes a v normal victorian gentleman but if you dont let him#solve a murder he will start tearing out the stuffing from the furniture. which is to be fair kind of holmes coded. but hes.#not that good at it. and also it is his day job.#and also v much not his day job. why your pathologist doing all that
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Holmes... my dear man. Watson already loves you. You don’t need to flex those deductions extra hard just to impress him (and also Gregson, i believe?). Let poor inspector Baynes have his moment of glory 🤣🤣🤣🤣
#letters from watson#Holmes flexing deductions JUST BECAUSE#the inspector had done a good job#but our one and only consultive detective HAD to show off#sherlock holmes#john watson#aka the person Holmes wanted to impress#wisteria lodge 2/4
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The Copper Beeches pt 3
I hope you are anxious to hear the conclusion of the case of ‘The Copper Beeches’.
Yes. Yes I am. Because while it's now pretty certain that the Rucastles are not part of a sex-trafficking ring, they're still really fucking creepy and now I also have to worry about the poor dog who is also being abused.
Family of serial killers, I swear.
"Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "Yes, the wine-cellar."
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"You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not think you a quite exceptional woman."
Leeeeeeettle bit condescending there, Holmes. Although I feel like I am just more sensitive to that because modern perspective and experience. However, I do think think this section needs noting, if only because of all the people who are determined that Irene Adler is the only woman Holmes ever saw worthy of a compliment. Nothing against Irene, she's great, but Violet Hunter deserves better. She's been doing all the legwork herself this case, and she's made a pretty decent detective.
"If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely."
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"Of course there is only one feasible explanation."
I still want to know what the other six possibilities were, Holmes. I want to know.
"Miss Alice Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of course, yours had to be sacrificed also."
Miss Alice Rucastle is having the worst year. First she's sick so badly she has to cut her hair off. Then her father imprisons her in her own home. And on top of all of that her stepbrother is a serial killer in training. Worst. Year. Ever.
"The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child."
Really? That's the most serious point? Like, I agree it's not good. He's clearly showing signs of anti-social behaviour, aggression, and a worrying taste of having the power of life and death over other living beings, but I'm not sure I'd say that was the most urgent thing right now. I think getting Alice out is the most important thing. You can get him some serious therapy later.
"This child's disposition is abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their power."
Ah, okay, you're saying that it's serious because it indicates the level of danger involved. Sure, yeah, okay.
Can't disagree on this point. It's certainly not a good sign.
ALSO, one other thing that has been bugging me since part 2. Does the kid know where his half-sister is? Is he aware she's locked up? He can't be, right? Because there's no way he wouldn't have let something slip. But at the same time, he's just unaware of a whole ass person being imprisoned in his home? It's weird. He's weird.
Dear Little Edward the murderer in training is either oblivious or very good at keeping creepy secrets.
I'm not sure about the stepmother. On the one hand, the crying and the quiet indicate that she's also being abused. But on the other hand she was the one to catch Violet with the mirror and then use it to further the scheme. Although she didn't say 'she has a mirror', which would have made Mr Rucastle angry. That whole bit is weird. Was she trying to stop Violet from getting into more trouble, was she trying to save their scheme? I don't know. But then, if she's living with Rucastle and her darling son all day every day, she's probably been ground down pretty far.
A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is Mrs Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring on the kitchen rug."
Suddenly there came a clanging As of someone wildly banging, banging at the cellar door.
And Mr Toller didn't even make it to bed? He's just passed out on the kitchen floor? He's lucky there's a rug in there and it's not just flagstones.
Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence Holmes's face clouded over.
Not a particularly good sign...
"Now, Watson, put your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our way in." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty.
Breaking down doors! Love a bit of action with my mystery.
"Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did it." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not there when the Rucastles went away." "He has come back and done it."
But why would he climb up a ladder when he could just open the door?
I mean we know of the existence of at least one other person who would want Alice Rucastle out of that house and who wouldn't have a key to her room.
I'm just saying, Holmes.
"He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "I have my revolver," said I.
Oh no... poor doggo.
Please don't kill the dog, Watson. Please.
We had hardly reached the hall when we heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out at a side door. "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!"
Two days?! Two fucking days? Seriously.
But it kind of sounds like the doggo is getting revenge. Good boy. Good boy! You eat the bad man.
There was the huge famished brute, its black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great creases of his neck.
Holy fuck this action escalated quickly. That is graphic and also... poor dog. I mean... I doubt it could have been rehabilitated at this point, but still. Poor thing never had a chance.
I do not remember this story being this brutal. Holy shit that guy's throat was ripped out.
Can't say I'm sorry. Glad the dog got its revenge before it died.
"Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains were wasted."
I mean, you didn't exactly give her reason to trust you? Why on earth would she? This is the most ridiculous 'you should have talked to me' ever.
"If there's police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend too."
I mean, were you? Were you? Alice's friend, sure. But were you Violet's friend in all this?
"He knew he was safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use her money."
It's Mary Sutherland all over again, just with more violence. Hey, Holmes. Holmes! You remember how you sent Mary Sutherland back into that life and didn't warn her about it? Huh? You remember that? Maybe thinking that wasn't such a good idea now? Huh? Are you?
I've had it with these men and their refusal to let their daughters have their own goddamn money.
"When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door."
I know this is like a common Victorian cause of illness and all that, but I'd be real suspicious about that brain fever, because it feels like poison is a real possibility rn.
"...that didn't make no change in her young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be."
Good for him. Basic minimum achieved. I mean, also he's been trying to get her out of this house, so he's also gone above and beyond. I'm glad he and Alice got away in the end.
"But Mr Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your interests were the same as his." "Mr Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said Mrs Toller serenely.
Oh, she did it for the money. Not such a good samaritan. But then if she were, she would have just smuggled the girl out.
Mr Rucastle survived, but was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it difficult to part from them.
I will admit I am sad the guy survived that. I'm not sure how he survived it. He had a mastiff's teeth 'buried in his throat'. He's insanely lucky his carotid wasn't torn open. But I suspect he doesn't do a lot of laughing anymore. So sad.
You couldn't have waited a little longer before shooting the poor dog, Watson? Let it get its revenge?
Also, that household sounds utterly terrible to live in still. Just a lot of horrible people being horrible to each other because they literally can't get away. And what about the child? What about dear little Edward? Is he still in there with them? I can't imagine that this made him less of a serial killer.
And the man doesn't get arrested for imprisoning his daughter?
Justice has not been served this day.
And that kid is going to grow up and kill a lot of people. I'm just saying. This isn't so much an ending as a 'to be continued'.
As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success.
Good for her.
Also, Watson, leave Holmes alone. He doesn't need a wife. He's fine. It is amusing to see that commentary, though. Like... there were 0 vibes of Holmes being into her. He complimented her a couple of times and was concerned for her safety. But he kept comparing her to a sister and there was no hint of romance in the whole thing. Watson is a bit delusional sometimes.
#Letters from Watson#Sherlock Holmes#The Copper Beeches#long post#animal death#Dear Little Edward probably ends up in an Agatha Christie#He'll probably murder his parents first#I suspect Mrs Toller will make a point to stay in his good graces#Really the sequel writes itself#So after Mr Rucastle has died of 'natural causes'#Alice's daughter comes to visit her Uncle Edward#who these days is doing a far better job of hiding his murderous desires#And it all goes from there#as Miss Marple looks on and worries
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watching shows from the 80s is a great reminder that iphone face is a time-independent phenomenon. like yes this woman is playing irene adler but that face has seen a walkman
#to be clear i think she did a very good job!#but she was also in dallas which is not surprising#a scandal in bohemia#granada holmes liveblog#e
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i've been trying to figure out how everyone in good omens would translate as a dungeons & dragons character and so far i've got:
heaven vs hell = fey vs infernal. 'but why wouldn't heaven be celestials?' you ask. excellent question. that's for aziraphale and crowley to question, and no one in heaven to know for certain.
heaven, of course, assumes they Are celestials, because they've never met an actual celestial in person and have no reason to think otherwise, and if you so much as think that they might not be you're getting smited/smitten/smote, buckaroo.
adam young is a tiefling but his parents assume he just takes after someone way back on his dad's side.
the Them are a fighter (pepper), a wizard (wensleydale), and an artificer (brian). they are all still kids.
one of crowley & aziraphale is an oathbreaker paladin and the other one is a twilight cleric. so far i Think it's book aziraphale = cleric / tv aziraphale = oathbreaker, and book crowley = oathbreaker / tv crowley = cleric, but it could be the other way around. or they're both multi-classed. i have to think more about that before i decide.
#my argument for cleric aziraphale is: it would be Extremely funny if he's the odd angel out bc he's the only one Actually worshipping god#& one of the descriptions of twilight clerics says 'gods of twilight guard against the horrors of the night' which feels very angel of him#and my argument for oathbreaker crowley is that it would account for his profound sense of loneliness to have broken that oath#and ditching your oath feels a lot more like quitting a job than say. forsaking a god as a cleric#but Also cleric crowley is poetic if he's the odd man out in hell because he still loves god#& twilight clerics ensure that 'the darkness is a comfort not a terror' which feels like crowley shielding humanity from hell#and Also paladin aziraphale fits the flaming sword and it would be poetic to see his oath break when he decides to stop the apocalypse#i'm very devoted to paladin aziraphale as a concept bc i like to remember that he is a warrior. he just doesn't Want to be#anyway i love trying to transpose characters into their dnd versions it's always Such a challenge#i've done it with sherlock holmes. john constantine. and the triumvirate from star trek: tos so far and it's been immense fun#good omens#aziraphale#crowley#oxly hollers
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Sherlock Holmes belongs to the people now.
Go forth and cause chaos, my gremlins!
#sherlock#sherlock holmes#I don’t actually know that much about Sherlock Holmes#detective dude who is good at his job and has a partner named Watson#that is pretty much the extent of my knowledge
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