#kitty winter

[di-daynamic]

Not a fan of how Elementary gave all three main women (Joan, Moriarty, Kitty) children, but definitely am a fan of how each woman got them, dealt with it, and was never villainized for it.

Moriarty has a daughter, but that doesn't mean she stops her criminal masterminding. She can't be a proper mother, but she gets her child adopted by a nice, well to do family. No one who watched that episode can deny that she loves her kid, or that her daughter at least knows her mother.

Kitty has a son by accident, with a man she doesn't want to be in a relationship with. And that's okay! She coparents with him. She loves her son. She steps back from her job, and that's also okay, because that happens. People change their lifestyle when they have kids. It wasn't in an 'all women must step back from careers, especially risky ones, when they have children' but in a 'it was time and healthy for me' way. She's clearly still the amazing badass she was in S3.

Joan's progression to motherhood is gradual and deliberate. She wants a child. And after getting him with a lot of effort, she rearranges some of her life for Arthur, but is still on the job. She has friends to care for him. She hires an ex-military nanny. She has a personal assistant. She is a single mother via adoption who has a dangerous lifestyle.

All three of their motherhoods are at least somewhat unconventional, but all of them love their kids and yet still work, which I think is pretty good rep even if I would have liked a couple of childless women in the main cast.

[tremendously-crazy]

there are unexplored levels of awe-inspiring feminine rage energy in Kitty Winter and she does not get enough love and appreciation

[happygirl2oo2]

Elementary as textposts part 52/?

[astudyinimagination]

Truly, the women of the Sherlock Holmes canon and the surrounding media are beautiful and excellent and messy and awful and human, human, human... and the fandom does not deserve them.

[rknchan]

new important poll just dropped

my personal silly thoughts under the cut

i think that after realizing gruner's true intentions, violet would feel guilty for 'mistreating that long-suffering woman who was so unfairly slandered' .. she'd meet with kitty after she's released from prison, violet would apologise and admit that she was 'an unutterable fool' (kitty: "indeed you are") and they would talk and talk about how vile gruner was ... violet aka the ultimate "i can fix them with the power of love" truther will try her best to help kitty financially ... maybe to make kitty her protegée even ... she'll grow obsessed with kitty as fanatically as she was with gruner ... kitty will reject all her offerings bc "i don't need your apologies i don't need your help all i wanted was revenge"... that would be a very complicated relationship bordering on toxic yuri even

[variouspolltournaments]

[chronicsheepdrawing]

Watson continues to be surprised at how this man is still living considering the shit he regularly gets up to and the lack of self preservation he exhibits.

[vargamornight]

kitty winter, survivor of a brutal kidnapping and assault, being mother hen'd by sherlock in the form of him giving her busywork to keep her away from her first male suitor since the attack, says his behavior made her feel protected and loved. i'm not crying. YOU'RE crying.

[possibility221]

Inktober 2024, Oct. 26 prompt: camera

Elementary episode: 3x07

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[haybalemaze]

Elementary S03E03 Just a Regular Irregular

[writergeekrhw]

Hi! I love Elementary, and specifically the addition of Kitty Winter in season 3. I feel like that arc was a fairly unique addition both for a procedural and for a Sherlock Holmes adaptation (so much so that I actually wrote my undergraduate thesis about it!). Having also read The Illustrious Client, I know that Kitty isn't necessarily an obvious choice to turn into the character she became. Or, at least, no more so than any other client Holmes and Watson helped in the ACD canon. The original story is honored and used, but Kitty also has a strong presence of her own. Do you know why Kitty was picked, specifically, or what about her story felt the most compelling way to follow up the season 2 finale?

We discussed using Kitty for a while. To us, and especially to Rob, she really stood out in canon, and she left a much bigger impression than "any other client." She throws acid in Gruner's face! We also were interested in the idea of a "ruined woman" and what it would mean to update that patriarchal Victorian concept to the modern day while preserving the fiery nature of ACD's original character.

We played with several different ways to bring Kitty into our story, then Rob hit on the idea of making her a new apprentice to Sherlock, as way to show how much he'd progressed through his relationship with Joan. His idea was also that she'd be a bit of a surrogate daughter to Sherlock and Joan, with the accompanying conflict brought on by their coparenting. We were extremely fortunate to get the wonderful Ophelia Lovibond to play her and the rest is history.

[happygirl2oo2]

Season 5, Episode 16 (top two gifs) and Season 6, Episode 21 (bottom two gifs)

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[rknchan]

ladies from ‘the illustrous client’

rip violet de merville you would love ‘criminal’ by britney spears

[kasinonightlife]

*After the Squad's plan goes horribly wrong*

Sherlock: Now it seems we're back at square one: Finding Kitty.

Moriarty: For the record, I already found her.

Watson: And then you let her get away before we could have a meaningful conversation!

Moriarty: She stabbed me!

Sherlock: I'm surprised she waited this long, Moriarty. We've all had the urge.