#since i first saw your face

[forever-1895]

How Since I First Saw Your Face was made:

A jugful of Holmes pining for Watson like there's no tomorrow and being HORRIBLY lovesick

A jugful of Watson pining for Holmes like there's no tomorrow and LOVING Holmes

A bowlful of Victorian society's homophobia

A bowlful of historical figures who were queer

A bowlful of angst

A sackful of Holmes solving cases with his smarmy brain and hot friend and associate, Dr. Watson

A sackful of crazily well researched history and politics

A pound of Watson being the most benevolent of angels to the poor, weak or injured

A few packages containing Moriarty, Adam Worth, Milverton, Labouchere, Moran, (even Inspector Gregson) and much more being little shits

A packet of Lestrade & Mycroft being amazing

A packet of Holmes trying to get over his drug addiction

A world of Holmes & Watson being unconditionally devoted to one another

Read the fic here:

also, @artemisastarte, love you and your work - now where's pt 19? - hope you're doing well 💗

[hattersarts]

have i ever fully watched or read an acd era story? no. will that stop me from being menaced by them? also no.

[forever-1895]

And it has updated 💜! Gorgeous illustrations, and poor Watson, how very ill he looks. Ah, well, at least he gets lots of rest in the care of an awkward but well-meaning and affecton-overflowing detective!

"I had been working for some months before I succeeded in perfecting the formula: a few crystals of sodium, not potassium, chloride, and a quantity of glacial acetic acid proving to be the correct combination. Pyridine I had tried, of course, instead of the acetic acid, but it was less reliable, and only the most reliable of tests would do for me. It was important, too, that the test proved the presence of only human, not animal, haemoglobin. As I watched the reaction occur for the fourth time that morning, my mind was suffused by the keenest of pleasures: a pure, a delicate, mental, nay, cerebral, joy. A joy which, I believed, would always surpass in quality the lesser joys of the flesh in just such a measure as the tone of my own violin, its quivering strings eloquent in their passion, would surpass the discordant scrapings of the street fiddlers of London.

Steps roused me from my happy contemplation. Two people. One was Stamford, my colleague, a rotund, inoffensive man, much attached to the pleasures of the table, although not yet prey to the cold sensuality of the glutton. The other . . . a smaller man than I, the length of his stride told me, stepping more heavily to one side than the other. The hint of a drag in a militarily precise pace: wounded on the right, high on the limb."

Entry from the fic that keeps on giving and my visual depiction of it :

I just wanted to show my appreciation for the fic and it's creator @artemisastarte , the only other thing that keeps me waking up is knowing it will update eventually.

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

This late March truly keeps on giving to the Holmes and Watson enjoyers!

@contact-guy continues Watson's Sketchbook yessssssss

The @beekeeperspicnic launches and it's so good I can NOT express it in a bullet point

Apparently @ghostbees will soon make more comics too??

After this difficult winter I feel like there's finally some true joy returning to my life. :)

[derangedrhythms]

I say less. Perhaps because—I suspect—I feel more. If I were to put words to it, we’d be in deep waters indeed. 

Emma Donoghue, Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre; from ‘Since First I Saw Your Face’

[heraldofsomething]

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey Goddess of the Hunt

Delians have suffered for so long. This is the first time I've felt happiness since the war began.

[forever-1895]

BREAKING NEWS! 😆

Since I First Saw Your Face by Stavia Scott Grayson (@artemisastarte) has not been discontinued!

Source: The fabulous @sherlockianscholar reached out to the author about a month ago and asked whether the author was still working on Since I First Saw Your Face.

The author said that Pt. 19 has been written though not posted, and the hiatus is due to the fact that they've been going through some rough times.

The author also said they didn't know whether anyone still cared about the fic, so let's send our love and support! 🥰

[churchofthecomet]

is it unhinged to say that Since First I Saw Your Face is like, my favorite transformative Sherlock Holmes thing ever? for an (insanely) period accurate setting + story, idk if you can do better. granted, since it's a huge slowburn romance novel, there aren't a bunch of mysteries. it isn't trying to fill that niche. but when there is an original mystery, it's compelling and fits the themes of the story, while ALSO being based on real historical events from newspaper clippings. this makes my soul happy.

i think i should watch Elementary before making grand sweeping claims about favorites, but SFISYF is up there no matter what.

[kikwibird]

Episode 5 spoilers

Dale: "You can thank me later"

*gets ported inside a wall from the tree and dies*

Thank you, Dale!!!

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

So @tyrannosaurusnacks and I talked about that one scene after Speckled Band in @artemisastarte's brilliant Since First I Saw Your Face, and I could not keep myself from making this meme for a target audience of 5 people

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

taking suggestions for a lonan and harrison's favourite movies list!!!!! preferably 2006 & before!!! any genre!!!!!

[icantalk710]

🚆

[aromanticasterisms]

no but literally. why does he do that

[forever-1895]

CALLING ALL Since I First Saw Your Face fans

Let's work together and post as many supportive things about this story so hopefully the author sees and feels motivated to update!

In case you don't know, Since I First Saw Your Face by Stavia_Scott_Grayson on ao3 (@artemisastarte on Tumblr) rewriting the Sherlock Holmes books from the point of view of Holmes. It very realistically develops the relationship between this iconic duo, taking into account the events which would have happened at that time in history (e.g. Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, Jack the Ripper 1888, etc), and the period typical homophobia is shockingly well researched. Even the concerts Holmes & Watson go to actually happened at the times stated in the story.

At the start of each chapter, there is a painful (3rd person) recording of the time Holmes spent abroad toiling after Moran (the late Moriarty's right hand man) during the hiatus (after faking his death at the Reichenbach Falls); about how he wishes above all to return to England and see Watson again, whom he misses in extremity.

Holmes receives news from England via Mycroft (his brother), which updates him about the state of affairs in England. Apparently, Watson has been wasting away after his wife's & Holmes' death. Mycroft tells Holmes that if he doesn't return quickly, Watson may be no more.

However, Holmes cannot return, as some things still need sorting out. He does however, ask Mycroft to send Watson The Sigerson Papers, an account written by Holmes under the name of Sigerson about the things he experienced in Asia. Watson notices that Sigerson is a lot like Holmes, and asks Mycroft whether his beloved is still alive.

However, even after finding out Holmes is still alive, Watson's condition doesn't improve. He feels betrayed. 3 years of hell, and Holmes was lying to him the whole time. He still loves Holmes, but all the same, he is not pleased.

Mycroft sends to Holmes about this, and Holmes is torn between homesickness and the fear that Watson will no longer like him. Holmes bides his time in Asia, until one day a letter from Watson arrives, telling him that he knows that Holmes is scared to return for fear of how he might react, and that though he is angry, he still loves him and wishes more than anything to have him back.

After a section detailing Holmes in Asia post-hiatus, there will be a recounting of events years ago, starting from when Holmes first met Watson, who was very weak and ill after returning from the army. Holmes takes a liking to him almost instantly, though he tries not to show it. Holmes describes moving in together, and even pays their landlady (Mrs. Hudson) to provide extra nutritious food for Watson so he might recover faster.

Holmes helps Watson get over his Soldier's Heart (PTSD, I think), Watson accompanies Holmes to cases, Holmes plays the violin for hours on end just for Watson's enjoyment, they go to concerts together, and support each other when one is feeling depressed.

All while this happens, Holmes tells us of his struggles of hiding his sexuality and desire from Watson, the struggles he has fighting his drug addiction, and the struggles of being an invert (homosexual) in the late 18th to early 19th century.

We also have some VERY tense scenes for when Watson is being too kind to Holmes and Holmes is about to let his feelings pour out his mouth like a waterfall, but fear of rejection holds him back.

It builds up to Holmes & Watson first meeting Moriarty at a concert, and then all the trouble starts from there.

Moriarty is constantly trying to cause distress for Holmes, first sending an anonymous letter to the police accusing of the two of sodomy, a terrible crime at the time period, taking advantage of multiple female murders and framing Watson for having committed them, and though disproved, it shows how close Moriarty can get to Holmes without even appearing; it's always one of Moriarty's goons who does it for him.

Moriarty threatens Holmes to end his association with the good doctor at another concert some years later or he will never cease trying to condemn Watson, and sooner or later, he'll succeed in ruining him.

All this unfolds while Watson is chatting animatedly to a Mrs Forrester and a Miss Mary Morstan in another area of the concert hall...

And that's what's happened so far. There's a LOT more, but I don't have time to write it all 😝.

In conclusion, post-hiatus: Holmes is still in Asia pining for Watson, Watson is pining for Holmes in England, and pre-hiatus: Watson has just met Mary, and Moriarty is stirring up a ruckus. SO NOW DO YOU SEE WHY WE NEEEED AN UPDATE? IM DYING HERE!

and to make y'all feel better, in case you haven't read it yet, Watson does reciprocate Holmes affections

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

Not a day passes by on which I don't think about this in one way or other ...

i think a period piece sherlock holmes that portrays him as gay (which i find a plethora of support in the text—not just in an attraction to watson, but through complex connotations and contexts contemporary to victorian gender and sexuality) could do so much on the topic of criminality. 

what does it mean to be a criminal? what does it mean to police, but not be police? to dole out justice on your own terms? to be born a criminal? to be a detective in a period that collapsed the gay man with the criminal with the gender dissident, all of which were considered innate degenerative biological categories? how does someone deal with being born a criminal while also working within and outside the law as holmes does?