#that if you play sherlock holmes

[chaoticpoetic]

Given that Benedict Cumberbatch, RDJ and Henry Cavill have all played both Sherlock Holmes and an actual superhero, I have to ask... 

What the hell are the MCU/DCEU playing at, and why haven’t either of them cast Johnny Lee Miller in a role yet? 

[flowersandfashion]

the fact that Jeremy Brett played both Dorian Gray and Basil Hallward AND both John Watson and Sherlock Holmes throughout his career. he has the range.

[fluffyartbl0g]

Everytime I go into the Zosopp tag, I just see people SCREAMING CRYING SOBBING about the lack of posts IN the Zosopp tag. THE ZOSOPP ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBLES

[unluckedtj]

something bad’s about to happen to me

why i feel this way, i don’t know maybe

[buckingham-ashtray]

hey do you think if sher-[gunshot]

[wistfulpoltergeist]

Created Mrs Hudson, a landlady for these two dorks. She lives on the first floor with her cat Butter. There are no more things in this world that can surprise Mrs Hudson, and even less can impress. But she's good hearted. She agreed to rent the apartment to Sherlock because she believes he's a poor gay boy deserted by his family. Though, she disapproves his taste in men. (I'm looking right at you, John)

They don't look like having any fun just yet. But they will ;D

[bamboo-bees]

Where were you on that one, John 🤷

[johnhwatsonblogs]

Big News!!

Only three days ago I posted about how we have twenty followers. Now… we have a whopping 51! Another milestone reached! I want to thank everyone who reads this silly little blog and who supports me and Sherlock. It means the world to both of us even if he won’t admit it and I wanted to thank all of my followers again! Good job everybody!!

[flos-obsessivus]

Maleficus and Lilian get along? I didn't get that impression from the introduction post for Lilian. Have things changed as you've been writing for them?

It has been planned from the start for them to get along actually! There could be changes here and there but I think I have dropped hints about their relationship, the only reason why it's not directly mention is because at that time Maleficus was in OC jail and I like to make things mysterious you know? But if you like doing detective work, you'll notice there are some clues that directly tie to the lore.

And as for the introduction post, it's mostly Lilian centered so it's unclear what type of person Maleficus is other than him being a dragon fae and is very powerful.

The biggest clue that I have dropped though is the fact that Lilian is willing to go to Maleficus for help, because if Lilian hated Maleficus why would he ask for his help, and why would Maleficus help Lilian if he hated him?

[mantra4ia]

"Reichenbach Fall" x "A Study in Pink" — a delightful, dystopian, Alice in Wonderland tale

Sherlock Holmes: [2x3] I don't like riddles.

Jim (James) Moriarty: Learn to.

DI Lestrade: Sherlock is a great man and someday...

Moriarty: May I?

Sherlock: Please.

Moriarty: Johann Sebastian would be appalled. Bach couldn't cope with an unfinished melody.

Sherlock: Neither could you, that's why you've come.

Moriarty: We're just alike, you and I. Except you're boring.

Sherlock: Why are you doing all this, what is it for?

Moriarty: Have you worked it out yet? What's the final problem? I did tell you, but did you listen?

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Cab Driver #71126: [1x1] No one ever thinks about the cabbie. It's like you're invisible. Proper advantage for a serial killer.

Moriarty: No charge.

Sherlock: Is this a confession?

Cabbie: I didn't kill those four people...I spoke to them. If you call the cops now I promise you one thing, I will never tell you what I said.

Sherlock: No one else will die. I believe they call that a result.

Cabbie: You won't ever understand how those people died. What kind of results do you care about?

Sherlock: If I wanted to understand...

Cabbie: Let me take you for a ride.

Moriarty: Are you ready for the story?

Sherlock: So you can kill me—

Cabbie: I don't want to kill you Mr. Holmes, I want to talk to you and then you're going to kill yourself.

Moriarty: This is the story of Sir Boast-a-lot.

Cabbie: Someone out there noticed you...got yourself a fan —

Moriarty: Sir Boast-a-lot was the bravest and cleverest knight at the round table. But soon the other knights began to grow tired of his stories of how brave he was or how many dragons he'd slain.

Sherlock: There are two types of fans. "Catch me before I kill again" Type A—

Moriarty: Hi.

Sherlock: Type B my bedroom's just a taxi ride away—

Moriarty: Suddenly I'm Mr. Sex.

Cabbie: —And that's all you're going to know in this lifetime.

Moriarty: Oh no...that wasn't the final problem.

Cabbie: One thing about being a cabbie. You always know a nice quiet spot for a murder. I'm surprised more of us don't branch out.

Moriarty: I'm a specialist, like you... consulting criminal.

Sherlock: You can't make people take their lives at gunpoint.

Cabbie: I don't need [a gun] because you'll follow me. You're the one who's going to die here.

Sherlock: No, I'm not.

Cabbie: That's what they all say.

Moriarty: It's going to start very soon, the fall.

Cabbie: You're going to love this. You're brilliant, a proper genius. The science of deduction, why can't people think...

Moriarty: Aren't ordinary people adorable —

Cabbie: ...Did I give you the good bottle or the bad bottle?

Moriarty: How hard is it to say you don't know?

Cabbie: Together we take our medicine. Take your time, get yourself together. I want your best game. It's a game of chess, one move...you're not playing the odds you're playing me. I know how people think, I know how people think [that] I think.

Sherlock: Either way, you're wasted as a cabbie.

Moriarty: Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.

Sherlock: You're a dead man walking.

Cabbie: So are you.

Sherlock: I think I'm going to die.

Cabbie: Any breath could be my last.

Moriarty: Falling's just like flying except there's a more permanent destination.

Cabbie: I've outlived four people. That's about as much fun as you can have.

Sherlock: Bitterness is a paralytic. Love is a much more vicious motivator.

Moriarty: I will burn the heart out of you.

Cabbie: You could take a chance, 50/50, or I could shoot you in the head. Funny enough no one's ever gone for that option.

Sherlock: I'll have the gun, please.

Cabbie: Are you sure?

Sherlock: Definitely.

Cabbie: You don't want to phone a friend?

Sherlock: The gun. I know a real one when I see one.

Moriarty: You're on the side of the angels, Sherlock—

Sherlock: You want me to shake hands with you in hell and I will not disappoint you. I may be on the side of the angels but don't for one second think that I am one of them.

Moriarty: — and I owe you a fall.

Cabbie: Before you go, did you figure it out—

Sherlock: Of course, child's play.

Moriarty: You understand?

Sherlock: Obviously.

Moriarty: Off you go then.

Sherlock: You want me to tell you what you already know?

Moriarty: No, I want you to prove that you know it.

Cabbie: Which one, then, would you have picked? Just so I know if I could have beaten you.

Moriarty: Did you start to wonder if I was real?

Cabbie: Play the game. Are you clever enough to bet your life?

Moriarty: That's your weakness. You always want everything to be clever. Now shall we finish the game —

Cabbie: What's the point of being clever if you can't prove it? Still the addict. You'll do anything, anything at all, to stop being bored.

Moriarty: Staying alive, so boring...

Sherlock: You don't have long though, am I right?

---

Moriarty: I'll burn you. [2x3] You're me.

Cabbie: — which one is the good bottle?

Sherlock: Am I right?

Lestrade: ...he might even be a good one.

[bam-monsterhospital]

Verner Vogel thoughts...

verner vogel is such a great villain. like yes, a good character in general, but agh what a fantastic villain.  let me try and parse it into words and coherent sentences hang on.  (obviously, spoilers for the game “Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One” below)

I think what struck me first about him, realizing his danger, is that he is competent.

He’s an art snob that waxes poetic about philosophy-

Wait come back, i see you rolling your eyes and getting up from your chairs, hold on though.

He’s an art snob that waxes poetic about philosophy, and he actually knows his shit.  I’m not talking just art-shit, techniques and people and style and all that, but the sociopolitical movements behind the art; y’know, the world-feelings art reflects and inspires.  He curates art, he paints, he has a vast collection of pieces and network of people he knows in and around the industry.  He fulfills every vapid (no shade, i myself am also a visual artist) norm and requirement for involvement in the art world... but there is substance underneath.  The aesthetics, the surface-level existence of the art world hollows out a person; it cares only for what is shown up front but fails to delve deeper. It does not care about ‘deeper’, has no use for ‘deeper’.  As much as individual creators might want their works to inspire further critical thought and introspection, at the end of the day art is most valued for its ability to entertain.  All flash, no substance.

Of course, Verner knows this, seems to have made that discovery a LONG while ago (the air he carries feels tired and familiar with his world) while passing through the jaded artist phase that tends to result right after, and has taken to this superficial existence like wildfire, embracing the decadence of it all.  And yeah here we get into an actual artistic, literary, and as such technically philosophical movement that happened in the real world with its own critiques that people to this day continue to misinterpret (even the word ‘decadent’ itself is grossly misused. constantly), so go wiki the decadent movement as i’m trying to hold back writing a gaddamn novel, adhd-brain-spiraling out of control about it.

Verner delights in rot and decay.  Verner embodies rot and decay, but specifically the parasitic rot and decay of those who abuse their power: he is (yes i know he’s german) british colonialism and how it has left cordona, he is the waste from kurt manchios’ excessive parties as manchios’ son starves, the culture of (white, cismale, british) entitlement that led to the rape of a refugee woman with no consequences, the apathy towards an animal’s suffering at human hands, and so on and so forth.  Verner is a representative of this rot and also a curator of it, literally AND figuratively.  He is self-aware.  As I’ve said before, Verner is not mindless, he’s not a fool.  He’s competent.  Unlike most willingly and inadvertently partaking in a decadent lifestyle, Verner knows full well what’s left in the wake of such excess.  He’s not horrified by it; it might at first seem like he doesn’t care at all --like most who partake in it-- and just hopes to gain small glints of fulfillment from a shallow wasteful lifestyle.  But as i already said, he does care: the process fascinates him.

And i’m not just talking physical degradation. I’m not even talking just about waste.  Vogel also delights in corruption; in the rot one person can influence in another psychologically.  This what his relationship with Sherlock boils down to: Verner Vogel wants to know how far he can push and nudge and influence a psychological breakdown.  He wants to take the shiny surface of a person that is barely keeping back turbulant waters underneath, and poke some holes, allowing gradual leaking and eventual overflow.  The historic tie between Vogel and Holmes’ families being a poetic bonus.

I’m gonna stop there, because i wanted to go into the thematic counterbalance Verner provides against Sherlock’s worldview and relationship with ‘truth/reality/information’, but things are long enough and this has sat in my drafts for way too long as is.  Maybe I’ll do a part-2 or something later.

[wolfsbanesparks]

I thought the serial killer in "pretty little thing" would just be one person, but now I'm doubting everything and scared of every chapter! The water was drugged!! And the fact that the streets are so empty to Billy means that a lot of kids have gone missing, and that's not likely a job a single person can do on their own, unless they're like a proffesional crazy idk. And another thing! I love what you're doing, take your time writing, you special angel 😇 I can't wait to see who the Justice League interrogates next!!

Thank you much! I love writing this fic, even if life seems to get in the way sometimes. Glad to know that y'all are enjoying the ride even though my update schedule is all over the place lol.

And I saw several people theorizing in the comments that the killer might in fact be multiple killers working together! Y'all make some compelling arguments too! We're getting close to the reveal too so I can't wait to see your reactions!

[sherlock-is-ace]

I don't adore The Adventure of the Abbey Grange as a story, it's just fine. But I do love the feeling it gives me, cause before I read that particular canon story or even watched it in an adaptation, I played through the case in Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments so I feel like I'm right out there with Holmes solving the case lol

[allsortzofcrap]

i feel like for the rest of my life i will be walking around totally normal and then periodically, i will be absolutely brained with a metaphorical anvil falling off the side of a building that represents the absolute bafflement i have towards modern adaptations of sherlock holmes and their treatment of irene adler. bbc's most recent adaptation in particular.

im so sorry. please repeat. she was stupid u say??? and i'm sorry, IN LOVE with him u say??????

i'm a feminist so i think women are capable of being in love and also of being stupid. they can do anything they put their minds to ofc ❤️. but this is too far even for me.

it's just that i can't understand why you would choose to write a narrative that is more mysoginistic than the source material when the source material was written in 1891.

was it intentional? did they somehow not pick up on the implications? was it random?

i can't fathom it. it keeps me awake.

[themarvelliteraryuniverse]

THAT'S NOT FUNNY UNIVERSE FUCK YOU

[skyriderwednesday]

> You are Dr John Watson. You have just gotten home to find a large cardboard box sitting in the middle of your sitting room. Peering into the box, you find your best friend Sherlock Holmes sitting in it. > Ask Holmes why he is in a box?