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GLASS ONION IS SO GOOD. JANELLE MONAE IS SO AWESOME. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
#glass onion#original#I recommend watching knives out first but you definitely don't need to#the only reason I'd recommend it is because if you haven't seen Knives Out it is really good and also part of the fun is#not knowing anything about the detective character going in. in knives out I mean. part of the mystery is what kind of man he is imo#but yesterday my friend said that all of knives out was spoiled for her before seeing it#and she still really really enjoyed the film because it's just that good.#Glass Onion might be even better. and you really don't need to know anything about the plot of knives out to enjoy it.#like a Sherlock Holmes mystery.#except with way more Janelle Monae and therefore better#this is definitely the kind of movie where if you did know every plot twist it would still be an incredible watch#and I definitely will be watching it multiple times in the future#but I'm going to try not to spoil anything for y'all#janelle monae
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Everytime I go into the Zosopp tag, I just see people SCREAMING CRYING SOBBING about the lack of posts IN the Zosopp tag. THE ZOSOPP ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBLES
#one piece#op fanart#zosopp#roronoa zoro#usopp#this was also just an excuse to play dress up with zoro and usopp XD#oh why is usopp wearing a detective outfit???#well im so glad you asked!!!#The gang stopped at this town on an island and there seemed to be some mysterIOUS shenanigans going on#robin and usopp formed a watson and sherlock holmes duo!!! but only usopp dressed for the part LOL#cue usopp getting super into his role and interviewing whoever he can while robin solves the whole mystery with just a few clues#she likes watching usopp have his fun tho wahah so she follows him around and nudges him in the wrong direction for funsies#the ultimate reveal ... usopp: MS BAKER IS THE ONE WHO STOLE THE COOKI- Robin: yeah they're all trading addictive drugs#Ms baker: DRATS and i wuda gotten away with it too if it werent for u two meddling kids!!!#am i talking about usopp and robin on my zosopp post? yeauh#anyways usopp is like wauwah ROBIN!!!!!! UUUU >:((((!!!!!#then he trots off to zoro because he hasnt seen him all day and he wants to tell him about the fun adventure he just had XD
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can we get a snippet of Dr Watson taking care of Sherlock? :>
“You were foolish—“
“Calculating—“
“Foolish!”
“I miscalculated,” you correct. “Or missed some variable. Being wrong, in some small way, is not the same as foolish. Truly Watson, to think you so against learning, improving oneself by accepting failures—“
“YOU BROKE YOUR TOES!”
“Just the one toe…”
“The important one.”
“I don’t discriminate on such things.”
Watson pushes you down to remain on the bed. “I need to bind it. How’s your pain?”
“Tolerable. Unless…”
“No—“
“Then do not ask.”
Your good doctor had kept you in bed, elevated foot and everything for far too long now. It had been nearly an hour.
There’s tea on your cupboard. Extra sugars. And the very best biscuits, the one Watson hoards for the longest of days.
“Watson?”
They hum a soft sound, an acknowledgment, as they bind your broken appendage with steady and careful hands.
“If I am forced to endure monotony, I shall demand you do it with me.”
Watson looks at you, over those steady shoulders. A small smile across their lips. “I shall remain by your side. For as long as… as you need me, Sherlock. I can promise you that.”
#… uh I don’t know why this isn’t just Watson taking care of MC…#my brain works in mysterious ways (after midnight)#u there#yes you#if it’s past midnight#do one thing that prepares you for bed#so you’re one step closer#when sleep comes#(also. is a toe an appendage? like… it makes sense no?)#(eh. what do I know.)#(I’ll go with it)#watson#sherlock holmes#doctor watson#john watson#jane watson
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"Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Room Full of Clues" by Scott Gustafson (oil on panel, 2022), with 28 hidden references to cases or details in ACD canon
#the link has a breakdown and explanation of each reference#also bro is curled up and anguished just like me#Illustration#sherlock holmes#holmes#sherlock holmes illustration#scott gustafson#sherlock holmes and the mystery of the room full of clues#acd#sir arthur conan doyle#arthur conan doyle#holmesian#oil painting
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Big Dumb Hot Cop & Effete Possibly Sociopathic Genius Consultant: A Manifesto
So it has recently come to my attention that this, my archetypal pairing formulation, has broken containment, probably because I've been flinging these terms around like a deranged person wielding a blunt instrument. Therefore it behooves me to explain what the hell I mean by all these adjectives, and who are some classic and contemporary examples of the idiots under discussion—who are by the way extremely in love with one another whether they realize it or not. (Don't you say "bromance." Don't you dare SAY that word to me.) I will use blorbo from my shows to illustrate.
I first realized that I am in fact a Big Dumb Hot Cop whisperer thanks to Chinese police procedural 猎罪图鉴 | Under the Skin (2022). Right away, it's very important to note that Big Dumb Hot Cop is NOT in fact all that dumb. He's only less intelligent IN COMPARISON to his Effete Slightly Sociopathic Genius Consultant, who is, as already stated, a genius. Big Dumb Hot Cop is in fact ruthlessly good at his job. He's driven, he obsesses about cases, he can walk into a crime scene and pick up on the one thing everyone else has missed. There is no suspect he cannot intimidate upon investigation. And he's even better when he's working with (or against, depending on what stage they're at) the genius consultant. They need each other, whether they're fighting or collaborating. They can only clear cases together.
Here are, then, police captain Du Cheng and his genius consultant, sketch artist Shen Yi, eyeing each other significantly as some witness is, I think, lying his face off? Honestly I can't even remember what's happening because the important thing here is their nonverbal communication. This is crucial for this pairing. They can think circles around each other without saying a word. Love that for them.
Effete Possibly Sociopathic Genius Consultant has two levels of Possibly Sociopathic. Most maddeningly of all, he has secrets. Sometimes many secrets. So at first, Big Dumb Hot Cop is going to think he's the criminal, or in some way involved in the wrongdoing. The second level is that he'll find Genius Consultant just worryingly, disturbingly good at predicting criminal behavior. And he will continue to be suspicious of him for exactly one or at most two episodes, until he's then swept off his big dumb feet by the rapidity and correctness of Effete Genius's deductions. There's nothing Big Dumb Hot Cop loves more than solving cases. Well, maybe beer. He also loves beer. Once he sees that Effete Consultant is useful, he'll do a 180º and stop complaining to his chief of police, and instead start demanding that Effete Consultant be his forever. He'll start hanging out in his office. He'll literally drag him to crime scenes by the wrist.
(And did I mention Effete Consultant must be very pretty? Did I mention that? He is lovely. Long, thin fingers to steeple while he thinks. Delicate features. Haunted dark eyes. Never sleeps. Shocking self-neglect. You may see where I am going with this.)
Another important attribute of Big Dumb Hot Cop: he's big. Or anyway strong, or a gifted fighter. Let's face it, he has to be, because Genius Consultant is going to be reckless with his own personal safety to the point of stupidity (now who's dumb, huh?). For example, consider another Chinese procedural, S.C.I. 谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (2018). Captain Bai Yutong is sort of impossibly physically talented (former fighter pilot! national sandu champion! runs over moving cars and then shoots at them, like some kind of weird urban biathlon!) and, like all good Big Dumb Hot Cops, his entire life is thrown upside down because he now has to drop everything to protect his effete consultant, criminal psychologist Dr. Zhan Yao, who's so careless with himself that in any another drama he would probably be driving Bai Yutong to drink. Thanks to the danmei on which SCI Mystery is based, however, we can safely assume Bai Yutong is taking it out on Zhan Yao in blow jobs.
Note that Bai Yutong is the cook, even though he's the gong, and that he moves in with Zhao Yan to "protect" him from...something, I can't ever remember what, and then just sort of forgets to move out again. For the length of the entire series.
I would argue that 镇魂 | Guardian (2018) is a procedural, even if it also has ghosts, a talking cat, snake lady, eerie dark energy that gets flung around like paintball splatters, and a whole bunch of other supernatural stuff that was not approved of by Big Red (it's based on a danmei of the same title by Priest, a novel which has been pulled from circulation for censorship). Further confusing matters, Zhao Yunlan isn't particularly Big or Dumb, nor is he even really a Cop, technically; but I'm claiming him for this genre not least because of his Effete (drop-dead gorgeous) Possibly Sociopathic (Chief Zhao thinks he's a suspect for a good third of the story) and Definitely Genius, Later Gangpressed into being a Consultant, chock-full of secrets Professor Shen Wei.
Once they finally team up, though, they do this genre/pairing proud. Why, there's nothing they can't solve except how to stay alive. Look at them here enjoying some fine nonverbal communication: "Oh my god, you're just like me—you too will fling yourself directly into bodily harm in order to save a clueless civilian. Okay this could be inconvenient for both of us. Also wow for a genetics professor you're really fucking built, do you lift my bro." (Yes. Yes he does lift.)
A final example: the cruelly short-lived 光渊 | Justice in the Dark (2023), which like Guardian is based on a danmei by Priest, 默读 | Silent Reading. I got baited into watching the eight (8) existing episodes by seeing a cut of Captain Luo Wenzhou taking on like forty guys with a champagne bottle, a pair of curtains, an axe handle, and a birthday cake, like some kind of cultivator. He's so big and hot, and he's so very dumb. He's also a cop, and ACAB (which is sort of the plot of Silent Reading); and Fei Du is possibly using him for his own nefarious ends (cf. possibly sociopathic and secretive). But underneath all of Fei Du's "I am the abyss, fear me, rawr!" scary posturing, like a puffed-up kitten, he's just a very pretty tender-hearted effete genius, and you can watch Luo Wenzhou melting, and practically pinpoint the exact moment when his whole heart flies out of his eyes and he decides: Yeah, okay, that's it for me. That one. The annoying little traumatized fuerdai with some kind of a death wish that I do not understand. I'll be throwing myself in front of bullets for him and/or cooking him dinner for the foreseeable future, thanks.
Priest is gonna mess with this dynamic of gong/shou caregiving and safeguarding, because that's what she does; but the fundamental beats are still there. Look at these ninnyhammers, just this second figuring out they're actually kind people who belong to each other.
Here they are confronting a suspect together. (You will notice the large butcher knife wavering in the foreground.) Luo Wenzhou, highly trained, nonetheless cannot de-escalate the situation. It takes a pretty playboy in an arm sling to come wandering into the room, and then, using his superb personal knowledge of what it's like to be traumatized to the point of insanity, getting the suspect to disarm. I just love the way they look at each other, incredulous (Luo Wenzhou) and mock-fascinated (Fei Du). If I ever meet the person who directed this scene I'm going to need to kiss them on the mouth.
Once you accept the gospel of Big Dumb Hot Cop and Effete Possibly Sociopathic Genius Consultant into your media-based life, you'll find it has many applications, not all of which have to be procedurals. Consider: characters from the Daomu Biji franchise, possibly (Hei Xiazi is the biggest dumbest hottest not-a-cop I've ever met). Leverage, in a weird OT3 way. Assorted combinations of Avengers. Teen Wolf fic, absolutely. Various Stargate incarnations. Several other Priest danmei, not only procedurals. Definitely Mysterious Lotus Casebook. Et cetera. (You're on your own with MXTX, though.)
This has gotten long and there are still so many nuances and features and wrinkles and problems with the theory that should be ironed out, but it'll have to do for now. I'll simply close by saying: yes, there is also a classic example and you already know exactly who it is.
#big dumb hot cop#effete possibly sociopathic genius consultant#a rubric for blorbo from your shows#you may use it if you like#or disagree with it if you prefer#or just yell at me#i don't mind#either way i'm kind of a dumb cop myself so#i won't take it personally if you hate this#under the skin#justice in the dark#镇魂 guardian#猎罪图鉴#S.C.I. 谜案集#s.c.i. mystery#光渊#mo du#默读#dmbj#盗墓笔记#and yes wait for it:#sherlock and john#watson and holmes#the original archetype of this pairing
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discovered the Sherlock and Co. podcast randomly on Spotify yesterday (hey sometimes the algorithm’s not so bad) and my god is it beautiful perfect everything to me, I mean Sherlock is my one definite special interest so it’s hard to go wrong with anything even adjacent to that, but when you then have Sherlock pretty immediately list all his diagnoses importantly including ADHD and Autism I was pretty much as happy as I can be, literally spent a good chunk of my final year of uni being frustrated at all the ways people elect to just not acknowledge Sherlock’s autism/variable diagnoses nor sexuality despite like clearly making choices about how to portray him/writing some very undeniable traits for him, so I don’t think I can even express just how much I enjoy canonically autistic Sherlock
#not kidding wrote my bachelors on gay Sherlock#and a whole entire essay in a different subject on elementary’s portrayal of Holmes and Watson#including the fact that he’s pretty clearly autistic but they’re like no he’s a ~mystery~#which is stupid#and then I also wrote a Sherlock short story on top of all that#so this is my main area of expertise lmao#oh and also wrote some shit on Holmes and Watson before uni as well#I have spent years studying this shit lol#didn’t even have my own autism diagnosis when I did all that but like I knew though lmao#sherlock and co#is there even a fandom for this??#whomst knows#sherlock holmes#john watson#personal autistic ramblings#sherlock & co
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When two interests collide...
#I guess they both like mysteries?#Sherlock Holmes#sh#acd sherlock#Sherlock#acd john watson#john watson#watson#holmes#gravity falls#stanford pines#ford pines#grunkle ford#bill cypher#johnlock
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Victorian Holmes/Watson Murder Mysteries Fic Rec
aka people are DYING and you two are making out??? actually i just noticed that all of these have the explicit rating so not only are they making out they're getting busy while people are, again, DYING.
enjoy <3
The False and True by Rhuia 9k | Rated E Summary: Dead men tell no lies. The living do it for them. Based on a real murder. And just plain based.
Witness and Testimony by Violsva 11k | Rated E Summary: Men of certain dispositions should not take up residence with consulting detectives. Having done so anyway, Watson is finally forced to face the consequences. Not quite the consequences he expected, however. TFW your best friend’s boyfriend is framed for murder so you prove his innocence then take his man
The Case of the Kidnapped Corpses by Ferryman 10k | Rated E (No Summary) Holmes can you please stop almost killing yourself for the sake of a case you’re going to give your doctor a heart attack.
To see ourselves by Citrine (orphan_account) 9k | Rated E Summary: Victorian London - Odd notions of sexuality, Holmes' fetish and some unsolved murders. And men falling in love, even if they won't admit it. Me *opening this fic*: what is it finna play-- WOAH
#idk why i made this but if you like murder mysteries and old men shagging then this is the post for YOU#happy april everybody come and get yall's shmut#sherlock holmes#acd holmes#granada holmes#granada johnlock#acd johnlock#fic rec#acd johnlock fic rec#granada johnlock fic rec
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I had always been under the impression that the Franky Family planned the Great Trunk Heist well out in advance, but I guess not. Not sure if the fact that it was an impromptu decision is better or worse, to be honest.
#opbackgrounds#one piece#ch436#franky family#the great trunk heist sounds like a sherlock holmes mystery#specifically the ace attorney sherlock holmes
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Potential September Reading
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (ideally in audio)
An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge
A Sherlock Holmes story (and/or a screen adaptation)
C.S. Lewis nonfiction
A sensation or mystery novel
A piece of one of the Psmith stories
Some kind of nonfiction book
#monthly reading lists#books#a nicely restrained list#mostly made up of my strong september associations#of course it's psmith pseptember so i must read at least a chapter or two#(i know too well that i don't have the discipline to expect more but i would like a taste)#sherlock holmes audiobooks made great commute reading during several septembers and now it's a vital part of the season#(i'll prob only read one or two short stories rather than try for a whole volume)#i've vaguely been feeling i'm due for a hobbit reread for a few months#but now it hit me strongly that i must read it in audio#(if i can't find a good audio version i'll have to skip that item)#i read 'surprised by joy' one september while my sister was in ireland and i was missing it#and now it feels right especially because there's an oxford academia vibe that's great for back-to-school#i want to read some kind of female-written mystery#but yet to decide if i want victorian sensation novel or agatha christie#or if i'll just try a vaguely gothic christian novel#an english squire gets on the list thanks to thatscarletflycatcher and it just feels right to have that be my next obscure classic#i wanted something for back-to-school but i didn't know if i wanted a non-psmith school story or what#so i just went with nonfiction because it's about me learning new things#also several things that didn't make the list but may be read#i was very close to putting the tenant of wildfell hall on the list#but i don't want the pressure#if i do read it it needs to be something i'm not required to do#i will probably try to finish chesterton's 'varied types'#and prob read more emma m lion#and maybe pride and prejudice on audio?
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Sherlock Holmes in the free domain, it’s Sherlock posting time.
Sherlock being autistic, but not uncaring? Yeah I’ll have a few of those.
And here’s some older Sherlock art:
#I love murder mysteries#they’re genuinely such a fun time#I should really do like a big drawing of all my fav detectives#we got Jessica Fletcher. Columbo. Hercules Poirot.#monk. Sherlock Holmes of course. father brown. I’m sure I’m missing some#anyway time to rewatch monk.#my art#Sherlock Holmes#Watson
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woke detective literature be like
SHE/HERlock holmes
hercule POLYrot
john watson
#detective#noir#mystery#detective literature#detective fiction#sherlock holmes#john watson#hercule poirot#arthur conan doyle#agatha christie#woke x be like#is that the tag for it
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Wishlist the upcoming mystery game Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn on Steam!
#mystery#game#games#pointandclick#indiedev#female protagonist#adventure#upcoming#games like#nancy drew#sherlock holmes#agatha christie#pc games#indie game
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Some food for fanfic:
So "James Mallus" aka "M" (aka James Moriarty even though it's not canonically confirmed, yet) arrived at Il Palazzo del Lusso on the same day as Sherlock and checked in just before him... hm.
There’s no recorded time of arrival for any of the guests, so we can only speculate. But what are the chances that M was also on the same train/ferry as Sherlock and had been following him closely since he left his home in London?
I looked up Nelson's Monument and Trafalgar Sqaure to see if they held any significance in the ACD canon. The only relevant detail I was able to find was that the square falls within close proximity to Pall Mall and the Diogenes Club.
Frogwares might have had an entirely different plotline planned for M and Sherlock involving this specific location since the Diogenes Club is never mentioned in CO and TA and it doesn’t seem to exist in this universe, but still I couldn't help but have a little freak out session at this info because WHAT IF M WAS KEEPING TABS ON MYCROFT TOO? WHAT IF HE WAS IMPLICITLY THREATENING SHERLOCK WITH HIS BROTHER'S SAFETY?
What if M knew that Sherlock would seek Mycroft’s assistance and left this photograph as a way to say, "You think you're being clever and playing it safe by leaving this matter in your brother's hands, but guess what, I'm watching him too, and I'm several steps ahead of you both."
#feeling conspiratorial today#also nevermind the fact “mallus” is pronounced exactly like “malice”#m sure has a way of choosing aliases#sherlock holmes chapter one#frogwares holmes#frogwares sherlock#m for mystery#shco diaries#shco spoilers#just in case#food for fanfic#thoughts & rambles
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M for Mystery
#Sherlock Holmes Chapter One#Frogwares Holmes#M for Mystery#Sherlock Holmes#James Moriarty#(I presume?)#I'm going through the press release kits and I wanted this on my blog given the pic on the dlc is small#I wonder whose character model they used as the other player; it looks like a unique costume#unless they've already made M's character model?? in which case: drop the goods Frogwares lemme see my boy T-T#edit: I think that's the wind coat actually; so Sherlock's character model is probably M's in the pic
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Back to watching Elementary again, another aspect of the show I enjoy is Sherlock’s open adoration and appreciation of Watson both as a person and a fellow detective. I think that’s something that has been lost in a lot of Holmes adaptions - started mainly by the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce movies - of Watson being a comedic foil to Holmes, an inept bungler that Sherlock puts up with.
I feel like even in adaptions that have Holmes/Watson having a good relationship, there is this sense of exasperation coming from Holmes about some of Watson’s behaviors (BBC and RDJ come to mind). In Elementary, once Sherlock accepts and embraces his love for Watson, he never really backs down from it. We rarely see him frustrated with her, and if so it’s because of her actions not personality clashes. He knows he’s weird and obnoxious and adapts to Watson’s habits without making a big eye rolling deal out of it.
#cbs elementary#i dont think I'm explaining myself well#but like elementary sherlock LIKES his watson#and even when he is frustrated with her its not like a 'ugh watson you moron'#its always from a place of love and concern#idk we were talking in sherlock club a few weeks ago on how the sherlock/watson relationship has changed over adaptions#how some believed holmes being fondly exasperated of watson was part of the charm#but i argued even in the books holmes treats watson like his lil buddy#he fucken loves solving mysteries and going to the opera with him#he isn't as accomodating as Elementary Holmes (an improvement) but he genuinely cares for watson#idk something something mutual respect and acknowledging someone asthey are without fanfare#im very tired rn idk why i felt the need to put this into words
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