#victorian holmes

[werrrrrrrrrrrrrrrcat]

Happy late birthday to our little fictional gay detective

[spooksicl-e]

various personal references for funzies!

mockups refs for various war wound circumstances ^^

[friday411]

That is the face of the man who took down the most dangerous man in London.

[zingaplanet]

Here dwell together still two men of note

Who never lived and so can never die:

How very near they seem, yet how remote

That age before the world went all awry.

But still the game's afoot for those with ears

Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:

England is England yet, for all our fears—

Only those things the heart believes are true.

A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane

As night descends upon this fabled street:

A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,

The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.

Here, though the world explode, these two survive,

And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

- 221b, poem by Vincent Starrett

[holmesxwatson]

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Tags

Posts from me

Jeremy Brett pictures tag (bonus, that will make your life a little brighter and deserves its own tag: Jeremy Brett's little hoop earring)

Fanart reblogs

Fanfic recs tag

Book recs tag

Fanvid recs tag

Granada Holmes clips & gifs tag

Merrison Holmes audio drama tag

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes movie tag

Howard Holmes tag

Links from me just being a Sherlock Holmes nerd

My Sherlock shelf on Goodreads

YouTube playlist of my favorite Granada fan videos

A Centenary Celebration of Sherlock Holmes 1887-1987, Granada companion magazine pdf

My Spotify playlist of Jeremy Brett's Desert Island Disc songs + poetry (and here's the audio of his Desert Island Discs interview)

Links

Wessex Press

watson’s sketchbook by @contact-guy (continuing series of canon Victorian Holmes and Watson drawings with occasional headcanon <3)

The Lost Cases: The Private Diary of John Watson (Victorian Holmes x Watson ongoing romance series) by Ruth Hanson

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes play

Sherlock Holmes magazine

MX Publishing

Sidney Paget illustrations

Granada Holmes Christmas Carol special 1984

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Furtive Festivity - short film

Hope you find something here that's your favorite thing ever. Enjoy!

[itslucyhenley]

🚨 Holmes x Watson story rec 🚨

hey fellow nerds, i just found this Holmes x Watson romance series of short stories called: The Lost Cases: The Private Diary of Dr. John Watson by Sage Boscombe.

You can read a sample of part one here (x) or purchase it on amazon for $1.99 (x). So far there are five parts all released since January 1, 2023.

This is not a drill, this is Victorian times/Granada times Holmes x Watson and it is lovely!

Hope you enjoy and come back to let me know what you think.

Here’s a teaser:

[laurenillustrated]

Mystery Inc. meet Holmes and Watson!

I am having a lot of fun with this Victorian Scooby Doo au!!

[friday411]

Summer is for reruns!! 🍿

JEREMY BRETT RULES!

They've played Sherlock Holmes it is true Basil, Benedict, Lee, and O'Toole But Jeremy Brett's As good as it gets He IS Sherlock Holmes through and through!!!

-=<+>=-

Thanks for reading, rebloging & leaving the love!!

Read them all at Archive of Our Own (AO3)

[jobooksncoffee]

Why is Watson so tiny? And so juicy? 😆

Hey May 31 anon!! Here is your third picture! I can’t believe that another year has passed already. I hope that it was a good one for you and everybody else! (۶* ‘ꆚ’)۶”

[zingaplanet]

Letters to Juliet but make it letters to Holmes. When I went to Baker Street, the museum there boasted a vast collection of handwritten letters from people all over the world, of all ages from children to seniors, men and women, from as early as the 1800s all the way to 2020 who wrote to Holmes and Watson with their problems, as they believed the consulting detective and the good doctor still live in 221b.

Holmes has been asked for help with cases from trivialities of one's lives to international incidents. The governmental address holder received so many letters that they decided to hire a secretary to reply to these letters for almost more than 100 years now. ''Mr. Holmes has been asked to help with Watergate and Irangate, to solve the murder of Olaf Palme, the Swedish Prime Minister, and find lost homework to prove to the teacher that the student really did it,” Holmes’s secretary Nikki Caparn told The New York Times in 1989. 

They say a fictional character is only as real as those who believe them to be. Holmes is a centurion enigma, a man who never lives yet is never outlived. With every letter written to him, every story of his a child discover, every actor's new interpretation of him, every rewriting of his life, he is reborn.

Sherlock Holmes is one of the oldest characters mankind has known that has constantly graced our books, tv, the big screen continuously for more than 100 years. Research shows that his character has been so constantly redeveloped that the 'true' Sherlock Holmes, no longer exist. He is, whoever you want him to be in your head, the greatest mind of his era, the drug addict, the good doctor's friend, the cold-hearted bastard, the deer-stalker detective, or any stranger you pass on the street. But who's to say that what's in our heads isn't real?

Our consulting detective knows no one yet is known by everyone. Through centuries, through time, he lives on and on and on...

[petite-madame]

Sherlock & John portraits - (2025)

It seems it's the right day to post this 🥳

[holmesxwatson]

The Lost Cases: The Private Diary of John Watson, new stories by Ruth Hanson

The Lost Cases: The Private Diary of John Watson is a set of new, ongoing short stories about Holmes and Watson solving cases in Victorian times with a romantic twist. As of this writing, there are 6 chapters published out of a planned 20.

Real talk, the whole idea about making this sideblog came to me while I was reading these stories and wishing that more people knew about them. You guys, they are so good and I love them a lot. It's exactly what I hoped to read while anticipating the public domain date. Holmes and Watson are still solving crimes, hailing cabs, drinking tea, and smoking in their sitting room, but they're also pining for one another, talking about their feelings, meeting and helping other queer characters, and struggling with the secrecy they have to maintain in order to stay together. Listen, it's got all those good, satisfying, and angsty romance tropes while still staying true to the storytelling and language of the canon.

Hoping that you'll consider giving these stories a try and if you're in the US, I have a few Kindle redemption links for the first story, just send me a dm :)

I'm just a nerd standing in front of some other nerds hoping they'll read these soft, beautiful, romantic stories.

Links below ❤

And here's the pitch from the author's website:

Recently unearthed from the Watson estate, The Lost Cases is a collection of private journal entries that had gone unpublished by Dr. John Watson about the world's greatest detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. New mysteries, murders and mayhem await only the most devout Holmesian detective. But there are more than just clues to be followed in these far more intimate entries. Beyond the obvious excitement, The Lost Cases also brings to light the true nature of the relationship between Holmes and Watson. A relationship that, at the time, came with it an ever present threat of imprisonment, physical harm, and even death. Yet in the face of the enormous risk, both John Watson and Sherlock Holmes find happiness and contentment with each other as they work together to thwart the darkest players of London's criminal underworld. We invite you now to come along on this journey of love, murder, and afternoon tea. This is the private diary of Dr. John Watson.

Read a preview of each chapter (x)

Buy the stories on Kindle for $1.99 each (x)

Author links (x)

[friday411]

Go Go Go!!! Now Now Now!!!

Anthony Andrews Vs. Jeremy Brett

Propaganda

Anthony Andrews - (Brideshead Revisited) - No text propaganda

Jeremy Brett - (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Three Musketeers, BBC Play of the Month) - "Listen, I fell in love with One Man when I was 16 and have never regretted it. Jeremy Brett is Everything. Handsome, charming, sweet, amazing voice, delightfully eccentric. Shakespearean actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 80s, he is widely considered the definitive Holmes and for good reason. Bisexual and bipolar, devoted husband, he was known to serenade friends at restraunts and hold scavenger hunts in his home, where he hid the plunger in a chandelier. Often pigeonholed into period pieces, he owned them. He was a pretty young man who became not just handsome but arresting. He was one of those people who walked into a room and instantly commanded attention, and I for one have never regretted giving him my attention." Full text propaganda included below the cut

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Anthony Andrews:

Jeremy Brett:

“The superbly handsome Jeremy Brett, the regularity of his features made dramatic by a broken nose, the mellifluousness of his voice made arresting by a slight vocal impediment, presented a ravaged and romantic Holmes, a man who had suffered deeply and whose recourse to the syringe was the compulsion of a self-destroying temperament. His relationship with Edward Hardwicke’s transparently decent Watson was that of a drowning man clinging to a raft. The authenticity of the performance was unmistakable.” — “The man who created a monster; Conan Doyle hated the fame of his suave hero, but he couldn’t kill him”, Simon Callow, The Times, 18 December 2009.

Listen, I fell in love with One Man when I was 16 and have never regretted it. Jeremy Brett is Everything. Handsome, charming, sweet, amazing voice, delightfully eccentric. Shakespearean actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 80s, he is widely considered the definitive Holmes and for good reason. Bisexual and bipolar, devoted husband, he was known to serenade friends at restraunts and hold scavenger hunts in his home, where he hid the plunger in a chandelier. He also practiced archery in the middle of London. He could sing, he acted alongside Audrey Hepburn twice. He wanted to be a jockey when he was young but then grew a foot too tall. He had rheumatic fever as a child and was told he would never climb stairs. Dear Reader, he jumped over couches on film. In War and Peace he is very clearly the only actor riding a real horse, and is one of few actors who played both Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Often pigeonholed into period pieces, he owned them. He was a pretty young man who became not just handsome but arresting. He was one of those people who walked into a room and instantly commanded attention, and I for one have never regretted giving him my attention.

[bunnyryuz]

nerds

[hattersarts]

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

[tremendously-crazy]

realized a lot of people probably think sherlock holmes is some logical, melancholy, serious guy. like no he's not, he shook hands with a baby and once let a criminal go because it was christmas time