#the basile tag.

[ch0c00n]

that one speech bubble thing thats been going on twt

[startagainaprologue]

Your friend Isabeau!!

[filibusterfrog]

MY BASIL!!!!!

[shewaslikeasunflower]

The truth can’t stay locked away forever, dreamer.

Will you face it, or will you run away once more?

[zarla-s]

the basil boss rush (spoilers) is so funny to me

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[clearwingedmaven]

Alright, so. I've got little time and some ideas, so I'll do a brief thought process on the death of Sherlock Holmes in 1893, and the fandom as a whole.

Firstly, getting this out of the way. Sherlock Holmes was not the first modern fandom. That honor most likely goes to Charles Dickens and his work, especially the Pickwick Papers. There is evidence and record that fan merchandise, like joke books, tobacco, and shoe horns, were made with Pickwick Papers characters, especially Sam Weller.

However, Sherlock Holmes is probably our first instance of a global fandom where consequences quite literally created a literary and cultural firestorm. This isn't an exaggeration.

ACD's relationship with Holmes is... strange. Of course, he wanted to kill off Holmes, and move onto other books. (Historical novels, mainly, or Spiritualist manifesto), but there was always a love hate relationship, and we see that most predominantly through fan letters.

Almost immediately after Holmes’s death in 1893, there was shock. Scandal. Mourning. Fans exchanged letters in newspapers, trying to reach out to other fans to figure out what just happened, and what to do next. Holmes was dead. And for all anyone knew, so was the series.

So how'd they cope?

By creating communities. Discourse communities, to be more apt. They exchanged letters, asked questions, and talked through newspapers. Each one plucked from 1893 and 1894 show grief and confusion: for a fictional character.

People even started seeking out Joseph Bell, the man who inspired Holmes, in order to try to fill the void. There's even record of fans venturing to Reichenbach Falls in costume to pay tribute to their fallen hero. And this kept happening. For years. The world lost not just a character, it was their friend.

Keep in mind! Victorian literature was a family affair. Many people would gather around and read stories and books together, so the firestorm went further.

Until, it made ACD change his mind, and bring back Sherlock Holmes. (Can we call it bullying? Perhaps. I call it a unique circumstance of cultural phenomena.)

So where does it leave the fandom?

Ah, that's the question. This fandom, uniquely, has a distinct honor of being one of the oldest living discourse communities, an exchange of reader response, engagement, and including even more material.

So to the fans: from the fanfic writers, to the game makers, to the cosplayers, to the fans of adaptations near and far, to the editors, to the artists, to the dreamers and thinkers...

It is, given the nature of the fandom, that you are all a part of history, as part of one of the oldest(and still going!) Fandom discourse communities.

Keep that in mind. And keep going. 🙂

[starxource]

redrew another Omocat drawing

[kamabokobun]

Old rough gijinka raidon designs

[naonap]

i saw an old photo of me hiding in a basket and i thought it was a very sunny thing for me to do so i

[ziekkfreak2-0]

Pls go play "In Stars and Time".

[kiisaes]

what to do about aubrey's hair...? (catholic school au)

[trashdumper]

[orbtus384]

Doodles I haven't posted in here!! (Long post)

[weepingalaxy]

everything's gonna be okay... everything's gonna be okay...

[daily-basil]

[floofery]

Happy birthday, our dearest Mari...

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ermm I like hellmari and stranger a lot did I tell u guys that theyre quite the critters for me... anyways art post! I hope y'all don't mind traditional art I can't draw digitally for a while ,,,, thank you!