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[laura-ess]

The singular case of the Three Holmes

This is some Sherlockian fan art. I loved all three modern versions of Holmes and wanted to reference them in one drawing. Then, it started to grow, because it seemed a shame that others who'd played Holmes, and the Watsons, and even Moriarty, weren't in the drawing. And this is the result. This, for one reason or another, took me just under a year to create. I was going through some issues to do with age, with arthritis, and confidence. I also had a huge detour of six months working on train scripts for Open Simulator, which sort of knocked my visual creativity out of me for the duration (I even missed this year's Jenny Everywhere Day artwork).  I restarted this after turning 66. Arthritis is creeping up on me in my hands, feet, and knee. But, I'll draw for as long as I can. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The characters/actors shown are...

Framed Pictures:

Top Row (Sherlock Holmes, in order played in films): William Gillette; Basil Rathbone; Peter Cushing; Tom Baker; Jeremy Brett; and Sir Ian MurrayMcKellen.

Centre Row (Moriarty): from Elementary, by Natalie Dormer; from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Jared Harris; and from Sherlock, Andrew Scott.

Next Row (Inspired by Holmes): From McGyver, Richard Dean Anderson as Angus McGyver; from House M.D.: Robert Sean Leonard as James Wilson and Hugh Laurie as Gregory House; from DeathNote, Kenichi Matsuyama as  L / Ryûzaki; and from Forever, Ioan Gruffudd as Doctor Henry Morgan.

The Floor (Holmes Pretenders): From Doctor Who, Matt Smith as The Doctor pretending to be Holmes; from The Zero Effect, Bill Pullman as Daryl Zero, "the world's most private detective" (but not Holmes as such); and from Star Trek: Next Generation, Brent Spiner as Data, who is acting as Holmes on the Holodeck.

Standing (Doctor Watsons): from Guy Ritchie films, Jude Law; from Elementary,  Lucy Liu; and from Sherlock, Martin Freeman.

Seated (The Three Holmes): from Elementary,  Jonathan Lee Miller; from Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch; from Guy Ritchie films, Robert John Downey Jr.

The Hats (as worn by Holmes):Top Hat; Trilby; Walking Hat, and Deerstalker. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Drawn using Affinity Designer v1  and 2!

[fishfilletinacan]

Streaming services should put old shows from the 60s-80s on there. I think it would uhhhh be cool haha (SOMEONE WATCH THESE OLD SHOWS WITH ME PLEASEEE J NEED THERE TO BE A FANDOM)

[violettavirus]

[historyaccordingtosnark]

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[wrdlbrmpfd]

25+ years of Jared

[lilamala]

my gay son

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

I was annoyed at how gloomy one corner of our guest room gets, so I had the idea to put my old bedside lamp in the darkest corner.

The lampshade disintegrated the second I picked it up, because it turns out that's what happens 12-14 years into the life cycle of the cheapest lamp Ikea had at the time. The rest of the lamp was fine. The original LED light bulb I put in when I got it is still fine. Ikea still makes the lamp, but it's so cheap, you can't get replacement shades for it.

There's a free STL to print a one, but the base is, annoyingly, one cm wider than my printer's max dimensions in every direction except vertical. So. Either I pay someone to print a piece to repair a lamp I paid four bucks for. Or. I drive 4 hours with a roll of filament to a friend who has a bigger printer. Or. I cut up a model that is too thin to feasibly accept connectors of any kind, and think outside the box.

My roll-o-random-miscolor-for-a-rock-bottom-price rPLA had come up beige, so I figured I had something that would work but with which I could afford to goof up a little. And I did. A weird seam placement ruined my first print. The third randomly failed (I was too lazy to clean my print plate) by the second layer.

But 13 hours and a bit of ribbon later, I have used three decades' of 21st century design and technology and advancement to... make an early 1980s lampshade.

The total price in filament is below that of any table lamp Ikea currently sells, and I didn't have to drive or travel or pay shipping or trash a perfectly functional lamp. If the base breaks, I did not use glue on the two halves, so they are fully recyclable, and... There's a print that fits my print bed to reuse the guts of this.

[mayra-quijotescx]

ok. pay no heed to the fact that I should have been asleep an hour ago shhh it's fine

I have, after several hours spread out across several weekends, made one (1) hopefully wearable pair of pants, by the grace of God.

yeah yeah it's a '2 hour easy pattern,' yeah I didn't technically completely finish it (the leg hems will be done by someone else because the person I made them for* is 2 time zones away), yeah I gotta make 4 more, shhhhhh let me have this ok because it is the first garment that I have ever completed. Eleven years ago I walked for my college graduation on Sunday in a dress I'd started that Friday with raw edges for armholes, no sleeves because I simply hadn't cut those pieces out, no finishing, and held together in the back with a paperclip because I couldn't find the safety pins; I then took the poor half-finished thing back to my parents' place, abandoned it in the garage, and spent the subsequent eleven years not even getting that far on anything else. This is a win for me, and not a small one either. Things feel possible now in a way that they didn't before I figured out Pants Assembly Geometry (something which by itself took me probably a solid hour of rotating the pattern tissue and cut-out pieces and going "?? ??? ???? ? ???? ??" until that part of my brain got unstuck. but now it's in there and I can use that info again.)

*inb4 'oh you're making pants for people now?': nope! sorry, beloveds, but the list of people I am making pants for starts and probably ends with my godmother. And maybe my wife and me if I can find a decent pajama pants pattern since APPARENTLY NO STORE SELLS PAJAMA PANTS OFF THE RACK ANYMORE (and I have looked! I swear to you I have looked! Am I just losing my mind, or am I in some weird pajama pants desert, or what? This wasn't the point of this post, but it's been driving me bonkers for weeks now. If you know of a good pajama pants purveyor, especially if the pants in question have pockets, my DMs are open.)

[tortademaracuya]

Quedé encerrado en el cuarto oscuro y por unos segundos tuve 10 de nuevo jugando juegos flash de escape

[bmpmp3]

MAN i need to learn soldering properly i took computer tech for like 3 years in highschool but we learned to get rid of flux residue by going at the pcbs with a barbecue wire brush which makes every electronics nerd i know physically recoil to think about which is very funny but also. maybe i should. learn to use a solvent

[himboniall]

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[secondhand-sonder]

"Came back wrong" but it's about a show you watched and enjoyed a long time ago and randomly remembered only to find that it had a remake and it looks. so bad

[kayspaceprince]

My local library system has the og mythbusters on dvd let’s fucking GOOOOO

I fucking love public libraries