#sherlock holmes discourses

[thefisherqueen]

He brightened and rubbed his thin hands together as he listened to the meagre but remarkable details. A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction. Sherlock Holmes's eyes glistened, his pale cheeks took a warmer hue, and his whole eager face shone with an inward light when the call for work reached him. 

'His whole eager face shone with an inward light' oh Watson you besotted darling

[who-always-pays-their-taxes]

Why do you (as in the royal you) as a member of a fandom,, seem to believe that things need to be,,, canon??? in fanfiction??? why would? that ever be? if you wanted to read pure canon, you could,,,, idk,,, read canon? pick up the source material,,, and if you wanted to read pure canon fanfiction just search the ‘canon compliant’ tag. that’s how ao3 works. so silly.

[tremendously-crazy]

sometimes, i forget that people ship sherlock holmes with characters other than watson. genuinely startles me

[moonlightandpalmtrees]

shout out to Sherlock Holmes the most aspec character to ever aspec. And shout out specifically to people who view his and Watsons relationship as a qpr I am kissing your forehead

[chamerionwrites]

Aimé Césaire saying that colonization works to decivilize the colonizer truly lives in my head rent-free

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Reblog for bigger sample size! Based on this post by @rigorwhoring

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

[eliasorchard]

ALSO, since i've already begun ranting anyway and in regards to my previous post. can we maybe not ,,, be negative(?) towards people i guess for their likes and dislikes?

just a thought idk lololi've been on this app for a year and something-something months (i think) and i've come to terms with the fact that you will find posts that are for you, and aren't for you. the posts that aren't for me, i block the tags and the keywords and simply scroll.

it would be nice if we all do the same rather than just clash for our varying opinions 😭

im all for debate, but as long as it's, y'know, positive and in good sense AND we aren't at each other's necks for things that align with our interests and things that don't align with our interests. me personally, im not a fan of sherliam. (i DO understand that their meeting was important and they've helped each other grow and thrive, don't get me wrong. i love you sherliam shippers) hell, my embarrassing ass used to even get jealous when i saw posts related to it 💀💀

but, like i said, i've understood that it's not for me — which is why i've blocked the tag and just don't interact with them in general. maybe everybody else could do the same?

see, i'd prefer not to see arguments like that if i could, but i can't cause mtp is one of my main interests and blocking the tags would mean blocking mtp content altogether. and i don't really want to lose it in the process :(

i don't think im the only one who shares this view. so maybe for people like us, if some of you are going to debate nonetheless, you could create a separate tag for it and not put in 'moriarty the patriot' in the tags? maybe like, 'moriartythepatriotdiscourse' and stuff idk im just frustrated, mb guys. have a good day or night ahahadjfjf

[loweya-blog]

Character A is brilliant and clever and a bit arrogant.

Character B always calls character A out on their bullshit regardless of how smart they are.

BONUS: after a few years of being together, character A only respects character B's opinion in a sea of people.

(My favorite example of this type of ship is Sherlyn Holmes and Siân Watson from A Study In Garnet)

[jay-wasreblogging]

Ah, yes. The classic ex sex worker who didn't like what they were doing and had to think of their future children. 😭

[jeannetterankin]

Last night I dreamed an episode of the original X-Files. Sherlock Holmes was there. He was immortal/reincarnated (?) and apparently Mulder and Scully had thought that was the mystery of the week that they were there to solve.

But the episode ended with Sherlock Holmes giving a long monologue where he pointed out all the subtle clues of the case they had missed, and thereby solved the actual mystery.

During his monologue, it was strongly implied (by references to seemingly innocuous incidents earlier in the episode) that he was also simultaneously deducing that Scully was a lesbian.

[thefisherqueen]

Now, presuming that the source of the crime is as we suspect it to be, there might be two different motives. In the first place, I may tell you that Moriarty rules with a rod of iron over his people. His discipline is tremendous. There is only one punishment in his code. It is death. 

It's slightly horrifying to learn more about Moriarty - about what a dangerous, merciless kind of man Holmes choose to atttempt to have arrested

[taonpest]

I am SO done with people going "the main character was not relatable therefor I think this story is bad". Sorry you can't enjoy a story in which you're not the main character, you weakling.

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

This is an ancient Sherlock (book!) fic I read when I was 12 and it never left me. It's moved me more than a lot of "legitimate" fiction I've read (albeit I should read more.) This person hasn't updated since 2011 but I wanted to share because I think about it all the time.

I joke a lot about how goofy and bad most fanfic is and how it's not real art (love a good crackfic/ 13 year old who can't write), but there's so much amazing stuff out there and it really is such an artform that doesn't get respect because it isn't "legitimate." I've gotten a lot of joy and my creative juices flowing from getting back into fic after being embarrassed about writing it when I was a preteen.

Write your freaky omegaverse FNAF/OFMD crackfic, baby. You've earned it.

[gibbearish]

anyone else experience the thing where you have like. ships in law. like someone you follow is turbo into a pairing from a media you know nothing about so youre like. well guess this is our ship now

[holmesoldfellow]

"Mr. Punch's Personalities, XII. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" poem with Bernard Partridge illustration (Punch magazine, May 12th 1926)