#milverton be like

[contact-guy]

THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON - part one of several, because this is one of my favorite Holmes stories! Ever since I read it I had a feeling there was something more...personal...going on with Holmes's hatred for Milverton than simply a principled stand against blackmail. A lot of this is directly pulled from the books but of course I took it in my own direction!

This is in the Watson's sketchbook series, and specifically references the Hound of the Baskervilles entry in that series :)

also thank you to my friend Phoenix for reading this when it was in sketch phase and reassuring me that it made sense!

Milverton design under the cut:

watson says he has a 'touch of Mr. Pickwick about him' so I tried to do Pickwick but...scary

[eteledhasanaxe]

Every fucking time he was on-screen I could not stop thinking about this

Oh Ashley Graydon the man that you are

[pavodence]

set 3 done! close ups under the cut

[mtp-posting-ld]

OMG I'M POSTING ACTUAL MEMES?? INSTEAD OF REEDITED MTP PANELS??? More likely than you think

Tiny rant about Milverton:-

From a characters stand point, I hate this guy. If I could, I would make his death day an official international happiness day for everyone to enjoy, because this man's death is a net positive to, not only the whole country, but also, this world.

But also:-

As a deranged villain fan, I LOVE HIM. Omg he's so much fun I can't help but think "this guy is such a bitch... I love him". Sure, like I said, I would celebrate during his funeral and throw a massive party right afterwards, but then this guy is so goofy literally all he does is plot intricate crimes, blackmail someone, driving someone to murder by orchestrating the murder of his family, digging up dirty secrets about their past just to use it against them when they finally forgot about it, and not to mention the fact that this guy is smart enough to connect the dots and find out that William is the Lord of Crime [which, mind you, the only other capable person to get this answer was London's greatest detective] and all of this shenanigans, just because he was in silly, goofy mood?? I love that SO. FUCKING. MUCH.

In short, as a villain, love him. As a character, hate him, even Satan flinches at the sight of this guy.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk :]

[miwhotep]

For a long time now I have this post in me, but I always wanted to analyze what the colors of Milverton and Ruskin's clothes could mean. This will be just a bunch of ideas instead of a proper analysis, because I have lot of different ways to look at it.

Milverton has a purple suit in the anime while Ruskin has green. Unlike most of the cast, Milverton doesn't wear his eye color as his tie, he wears a black one - on the other hand, yellow's complementary color is purple. Ruskin has a similar tie to his eye.

The color purple generally symbolizes ambition and power while green is peacefulness and order.

If we talk about the symbols of the colors when it comes to outfits, purple was the color of royalty while green (the muddy type what Ruskin has) was worn by the lower class in the Victorian era England (another hint of Ruskin being lower class beside his brownish skin and his behaviour around violins).

And purple and green combined are generally villain colors - think about Maleficent or the comic book designs of Lex Luthor or Green Goblin's outfit.

Or Joker. I am highlighting him because the White Knight arc where we actually see the color of Milverton's suit is based after The Dark Knight movie and Milverton has the role of Joker (who turned the white knight Harvey Dent into the villain Two-face). The anime drew even more attention to the similarities between the Batman movie and the arc - Whiteley, unlike the manga, here gets blooded to half of his face after he commits the murder to look more like Harvey Dent after he became Two-face. And Milverton's suit is purple like Joker's was. But Joker also wore green - and Milverton's missing green from the Joker outfit is found at Ruskin.

And there's a really simple explanation, too - they look good in purple and green! ❤️

[theancientwonder]

Moriarty the Patriot be like “ayo here is one of history’s most notorious villains, lets make him three people and have him and his little gang actually be very much redeemable “villains”, if you could even view them as such” and my gay ass will see the actually irredeemable villain of the series and be like “yes I want him”

[july-19th-club]

letter from watson i read to day (retired colourman i believe) in which watson went out on the case alone for once & when he got back holmes was like watson i cant believe you didn't interview more female witnesses with your ~natural advantages~ you could be pulling clues left and right they'd be falling all over you watson and watson was like. holmes you know that didn't occur to me stop insulting my bad detective skills and holmes is like what about natural advantages do you not understand im complimenting you

[dathen]

Watson writing this case: I’ve changed all the dates and all the names so no one can trace the matter!

Watson: This man shall be….Colonel Dorking

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

Liam in my vampire fic: super careful to never outright lie to Sherlock, though he certainly does so by omission/implication/suggestion.

Albert in the companion piece I'm writing:

[hechiima]

ACD might not have believed in women's rights but he sure seemed to believe in women's wrongs.

[eteledhasanaxe]

I cried so hard while I was trying to VA Ashley's confession, I actually feel really bad for him. His whole backstory made me feel really sympathetic, you know? It gave me the same feeling I had when reading Nikolina's Reminiscence and Mimi's as well like ughhhhh... It killed me so bad. He didn't know that's how it would go down, he didn't know that's how his father would meet his end, he didn't realizehow truly awful McGilded was until it was too late, and it was heartbreaking. I think he takes my place as my new favorite culprit. Like, he didn't even mean to kill Windibank, either. It just... Happened. And he truly regretted it. God I hope he doesn't get the death sentence, but considering he committed murder and high treason, it's... Unlikely. But one can hope, I suppose.

His revenge was uhm. Justified tho. As the resident number 1 McGilded hater. Oh Ashley Graydon, the man that you are. I can't believe I hated you when I first started 1-5...

[hergan416]

Evil!Albert (who might not have ever met William & Louis) / Milverton when?

Sorry it's a thing I thought of and uh.

I might write it if I can get through ALL my ideas (Working title: Original Sin)

Put Milverton around the same as Albert. Make them interact in school. Make Albert the first person Milverton corrupts. It's so easy when the world is so wrong and Albert wants so badly to do good. It's so easy to turn those impulses towards destruction.

Albert and Milverton actually have very similar MOs, they'd be very powerful together

It would be sexy

And fucked up

And I'm here for it.

[yuri-is-online]

So I get Code Realize is an otome so I shouldn't expect like, 100% in line characterization with the fictional characters the ROs are based off of (thank god for that actually) but it did hit me with a massive pet peeve of mine regarding a certain someone:

Sherlock Holmes, at least in ACD cannon would not fucking say that. There are multiple stories where he says the main reason why he doesn't work for the police is because he enjoys not having to abide by the letter of the law. He regularly lets people off the hook (even if he maybe should not, read Hound of the Baskervilles) and generally dislikes the idea of harsh punishment for any crime that's not murder.

Now granted this is Herlock Sholmes, not Sherlock Holmes, but they are both literally the same character. No really, the creator of Arsene Lupin wrote several stories featuring his thief one upping Holmes that Doyle sued him for so he just... came up with that name and continued clowning on him.

Anyway rant over. But if you are interested in the original Holmes stories I would highly recommend the YouTube channel Magpie Audio. They are all there in wonderfully narrated audio book form for free, novels and short stories included.

[miwhotep]

Sometimes even Ruskin can be tired...

Ruskin: If I find more information about William James Moriarty, Milverton-sama will surely be happy.

At the office: Evil laugh practice. Do not disturb.

Ruskin: Sometimes I wonder what it's like to have a normal boss...

[applealchemist]

first off!! i fucking HATE sherlock holmes and his stupid fucking hair why is it so difficult!??! the universe blessed me with being able to draw the hair though so there's that

also!! i recently got into black butler! the anime of course because i am a broke bitch and all my money is going to yuumori stuff ANYWYAS- grell is my favorite. as well as the undertaker and tanaka!! i tried drawing sebastian in the corner, but i might've messed up the hair a bit?? i also forgot what the design on grell's coat looked like so,, random bullshit ensued-

and finally we have a little vincent edgeworth in the top corner with his margarita:]

[starpros-sunshine]

no yeah i am familiar with the source material i read all/most of the og sherlock holmes stories a few years ago and i think moriarty the patriot is a very cool and interesting adaptation. and also on a meta level i think it’s very funny that somebody looked at the Big Bad Final Boss Of Sherlock Holmes Stories and went “but what if he was a pretty anime boy who was gay for sherlock” and then just ran with it

It's everything to me it's wonderful. Afaik the og Moriarty also didn't do identity theft and arson as a kid but as far as I'm aware that also never got brought up so who knows really but I it is very funny you're absolutely right about that.