#mycroft holmes scenes

[aziraphalianfangirl]

All the Mycroft Holmes scenes from Season 3 of BBC Sherlock (this one has to be a google drive link because dailymotion deleted the video for copyright) Season 1 Season 2

[queerholmcs]

4x01

[anerdynerd]

The Holmes brothers

wanted to challenge myself with this one a bit so this is the result lol I‘m not the biggest fan of how it turned out but I wouldn’t say it‘s bad either🦧

Have I mentioned how intrigued I am by their altering dynamics across the different iterations yet????🥸

[mr-nauseam]

Im always saying why adaptations give the brothers fucked relationship to Holmes when Watson is RIGHT THERE!

[onceinawhilemoon]

On the Train to London, 1869

That must have been the longest and hardest trip they had to make. After everything—the death, the trauma, the trial, the funeral—they still had to endure the long journey.. I can only imagine how physically and emotionally draining that was for them, stranded for weeks between two places they once called home.. They left with nothing, no one—only grief, and each other.

For @fwfanweekend , Theme: Comfort 💛

[bettercallcohen]

"'This is family' what do you mean my husband is not our family." - sherlock probably after that

"The Final Problem" S4E3 - Sherlock (2010 - 2017)

[illamda-spaminations]

I find it so interesting that during the Twisted Hearts OP, when the song goes "I feel you sins all the time", they showed Mycroft and Albert respectively. While Mycroft does not understand/know everything that's going on with the LOC and Moriarty & co., I do believe he understands how Albert feels, especially about taking the punishment on himself.

For example: This scene in MTP, post-Final problem

He understands because he knows Albert and, more importantly, he has been there, it's just the circumstances and the consequences of the decision is very different. The reason he dedicated his life to working for the government was because of his father's involvement in the French Revolution. He wanted to repent on behalf of him, so he decided to take on that punishment, protecting Sherlock in the process. Albert does something very similar, he takes on the atonement so Louis doesn't have to. He believes Louis deserves so much more than punishment; he deserves a fulfilling life, a happy one, or at least as happy as it can get, and above all, the one who should reap the crops William sown [I should REALLY make a separate post on Louis ye gods-].

Mycroft could've let the Moriarty brothers do what they saw fit, as long as he was spared from the brutality, but instead he threatens them. If they don't put the country's future and prosperity first, Mycroft will personally "annihilate" him [his words not mine].

This scene really goes to show that Mycroft is genuinely dedicated to the Empire, he is very intent to serve for the country's future, but it's not blind loyalty, it's him being bound to it, it's the least he could do to make up for his father's sins [sins of the father am I right?] and it's the same for Albert. He and Mycroft love their younger brothers, to the point of sacrificing themselves in order to protect them, to make sure they live as they please, free of guilt. The difference is that Mycroft changed over time, he started to loosen up. The first time we see him outside of his office for non-work related matters was with meeting everyone in the dinner party. And for Albert? Time stopped turning entirely. The moment he entered the tower was the moment he couldn't go back. It was him, his thoughts and the messages from Mycroft to distract him. The only person who could convince him to come out of his prison and start living was William; because William's actions, sins, guilt and will to die was the very reason why Albert chose his punishment.

In comparison, Mycroft's self enforced punishment was lighter to Albert's. While Mycroft has to deal with constant stress [this is not really canon, but considering that he's referred to as the government, yeaaaaa I think he's gonna be stressed af] and grief, Albert had to deal with a spiral towards insanity, grief, religious guilt for the Moriarty plan and his compulsive thoughts. And he's sure as hell isn't going to stand on his own for a while after that.

Another thing [this time it's actually related to my point :0] is exactly when the two show up. Mycroft shows up around the lyrics "I feel your sins" while albert shows up around "all the time", which further proves my point. Since Sherlock and William showing up around the point of "I can't feel your love but I can give you love" basically describes Sherlock's goal of saving William and their relationship in a nutshell.

"I don't know if you see me as a friend but I'll see you like that anyway, and save you, just like what I would do to another friend."

What's not to say the same can be true to Mycroft and Albert?

"I can never truly understand what you are going through, but I will always understand how you feel."

[lokijiro]

I think Sherlock snorting in TGG when John tells Mycroft that he wouldn’t have come if there wasn’t more to the Andrew West case confirms that he believes (correctly) that his brother has actually already figured out what happened. He just doesn’t have the time (or inclination) to do the necessary legwork to prove his theory, and most of all he wants to give a case to his little brother who is bored enough to shoot the wall. Hence Sherlock’s attitude; he is annoyed that his big brother is being smarter than him and is being mother, as always.

But of course, he also seems to actually appreciate Mycroft correcting him about the sofa, and despite his protests he treats the case as the most important thing that is happening. And let’s not forget that when John arrives and stares at Mycroft, what we see behind him is the framed bullets set that was a gift from Mycroft to Sherlock (according to the casebook), displayed on the wall. Another scene showing that at the end of the day Sherlock idolises and adores Mycroft, underneath all that.

[oxalisvulcanicola]

Excerpts from The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans:

In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had spent in cross-indexing his huge book of references. The second and third had been patiently occupied upon a subject which he had recently made his hobby—the music of the Middle Ages. But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer. He paced restlessly about our sitting-room in a fever of suppressed energy, biting his nails, tapping the furniture, and chafing against inaction.

***

“Well, well! What next?” said he. “Brother Mycroft is coming round.”

“Why not?” I asked.

“Why not? It is as if you met a tram-car coming down a country lane. Mycroft has his rails and he runs on them. His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle. Once, and only once, he has been here. What upheaval can possibly have derailed him?”

***

“This must be serious, Watson. A death which has caused my brother to alter his habits can be no ordinary one. What in the world can he have to do with it? The case was featureless as I remember it. The young man had apparently fallen out of the train and killed himself. He had not been robbed, and there was no particular reason to suspect violence. Is that not so?”

“There has been an inquest,” said I, “and a good many fresh facts have come out. Looked at more closely, I should certainly say that it was a curious case.”

“Judging by its effect upon my brother, I should think it must be a most extraordinary one.”

***

Holmes gave an exclamation of satisfaction.

“There we have it at last, Watson! British government—Woolwich. Arsenal—technical papers—Brother Mycroft, the chain is complete. But here he comes, if I am not mistaken, to speak for himself.”

***

“A most annoying business, Sherlock,” said he. “I extremely dislike altering my habits, but the powers that be would take no denial. In the present state of Siam it is most awkward that I should be away from the office. But it is a real crisis. I have never seen the Prime Minister so upset. As to the Admiralty—it is buzzing like an overturned bee-hive. Have you read up the case?”

“We have just done so. What were the technical papers?”

“Ah, there’s the point! Fortunately, it has not come out. The press would be furious if it did. The papers which this wretched youth had in his pocket were the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine.”

Mycroft Holmes spoke with a solemnity which showed his sense of the importance of the subject. His brother and I sat expectant.

“Surely you have heard of it? I thought everyone had heard of it.”

“Only as a name.”

***

“You must drop everything, Sherlock. Never mind your usual petty puzzles of the police-court. It’s a vital international problem that you have to solve. Why did Cadogan West take the papers, where are the missing ones, how did he die, how came his body where it was found, how can the evil be set right? Find an answer to all these questions, and you will have done good service for your country.”

“Why do you not solve it yourself, Mycroft? You can see as far as I.”

Why do you not solve it yourself, Mycroft?

[pocket-lizart]

It's been over a week and I am still thinking about Sherlock hugging Mycroft qwq

[aveline-amelia]

Guys. Guys!

In the original version of TFP, Sherlock says "do be quiet, dear" and it's John who tells Mycroft to shut up. Meaning the 'dear' was always intended to be there and they have rewritten it to sound harsher.

[aziraphalianfangirl]

Everytime I search "Mycroft Holmes scenes" on youtube almost nothing shows up and that makes me sad. So here, have all the Mycroft scenes from Series 1 of BBC Sherlock.

tumblr has a 500 mb limit and youtube would copyright it so i'm posting them on dailymotion. hopefully they won't be taken down. It took me two days to go through all the episodes and I’m now compiling them into videos by season. I’ve never edited a video in my life so I apologize if the quality sucks. if you download it to post somewhere else a shoutout would be appreciated! Enjoy <3

Season 2 Season 3

[toyboy-molloy]

john: *ripping mycroft a new one .5 seconds after meeting him*

sherlock:

[sherlock-holmes-is-a-cat]

Stuff that made me think of my favourite Holmes adaptations part 3

Is it custom to cite your sources on tumblr?

(most stuff I forgot where I got it, I would need to use a citation management program for this)

The earring quote was originally used in a text post by @angrylasagna . I usually find my tweets on cheezburger, boredpanda and @mostly-funnytwittertweets because I am not much of a twitter user. (Never had a twitter account, certainly won't get one now. Insert bad word Elon Musk.)

[lesbonoi]

literaly have to get up for work in five hours but my brain eonr fucking slow down. its insane that “moriartu the patriot” expected me to give a fuck about that self righteous blond dickhead when they gave me sherlock holmes that has a ponytail and is perpetually broke and barks at his landlady and gave her an apple he already bit into and gets his ass kicked by his brother over 670 times and took all his clothes off to give to irene/james in public and literally was just in his stupid little 1800s underwear for the whole day and chainsmokes. but im supposed to be seriously rooting for and care about the guy whos solution to ending the class divide is setting london on fire to make people work together to put it out. or whatever.

[onceinawhilemoon]

sure, sherry. your brother would just let M walk free after he literally checked every single box under Ways to Antagonize Mycroft Holmes by: killing his agents, actively fucking with intelligence and national security operations, being a literal threat to the nation, and committing the cardinal sin of stalking and threatening to hurt an overprotective mama bear’s cub (aka YOU), a crime easily punished by imprisonment, death, or worse (see: otto richter). but sure…