Ooooooh! Beautiful Artwork By @abstractfrog , Just The Image Alone Is Getting Me Excited For This Case!

Ooooooh! Beautiful artwork by @abstractfrog , just the image alone is getting me excited for this case!😍😍

Didn’t even think of this way, I love it so much!😂

Shoscombe pt 2

The Lion's Mane Pt. 3 (SPOILERS)

Final part notes are here, let’s get to it!

Maude joined Sherlock for rock pooling! 

Sherlock: “She’s rock pooling with me”, aw she certainly is buddy!

Same Mariana, I too would be pointing out all the sea creatures I see 

Maude: “Living in solitude with one another. Dumped in here by the big sea that left them behind”, John: “Uh…it can be difficult to share a flat with somebody” THE WATER-BASED ANALOGIES STRIKE ONCE AGAIN!!

It’s interesting how complex of a situation Maude has put herself in! Her family has secrets that she knows she needs to keep hidden, but she really just wants to figure out how her fiancé died 

The tooth! Sherlock found Harry’s missing tooth (completely normal thing to whip out in a pub Sherlock, SUPER normal)

Balsanna, or ‘death in the soul’ is a really cool phrase to describe the weight an indirect death can have on someone’s mind and soul; you may not have meant for them to die, but you still feel guilty for indirectly killing them

Sherlock: *referring to the listeners* “You are not a priority”, John: *to listeners* “Isn’t he lovely?”, yeah John like a rose with thorns; prickly but lovely

Sherlock’s still on about that submersible, and John is still full on nope-ing on that plan

Aw poor John, why doesn’t anyone wanna hold his hand??

Wow, the Bellamy’s big company secret is revealed! Using growth enhancement chemicals and claiming they’re organic is some shady shit indeed

Bringing in Balsanna is a perfect way to describe this whole situation: the Bellamy family company didn’t directly kill anyone, but their actions still resulted in those deaths

Neat callback to how John is still dealing with that Urea Nitrate fertilizer in his leg!

Sherlock got his submersible!! Poor Mariana is stressing so hard about that fee being paid. Hilarious that Sherlock was so disappointed about not being able to pilot it

The big moment I’ve been waiting for…the reveal…of the LION’S MANE JELLYFISH! Honestly, I think the they did the reveal justice. I felt like I was in the submersible seeing the beautiful scene as well! 

…wow, poor Fitzy. Good on you John for bringing him back home

Aww, now John and Mariana are having their own little moment on the train! And once again John makes fun of Mariana being a Harry Potter nerd (as he should)

Honestly this was a great case! We had the whole gang working together, they got to travel to a small island in Scotland, and there were so many layers to the case that I was intrigued by! I think the podcast itself is getting a lot better about immersive story telling. I’m not gonna say it’s the BEST case (as I imagine there are many more to come) but it was interesting all the way through. I can't wait so hear what they’ll do next…

I’m trying to get into more romance novels, but it’s hard narrowing down ALL the options! Any recommendations?? If it helps, I’m currently reading Love & Other Words by Christina Lauren and I’m loving the wholesome love story with all the cozy vibes!

One last thing: please, any book rec but Colleen Hoover, I’m tired of seeing those books EVERYWHERE and I have no interest in reading them at all!!

I get what you mean. I wasn’t immediately hooked on the podcast when it first started mainly because I was a bit iffy about this John Watson. I also thought he would be an annoying person to meet irl, but as I’ve continued listening to the episodes I’ve realized that maybe that was the point.

People that come across like John does in the earlier episodes tend to have personal baggage that they aren’t handling well, thus they act out in ways that the rest of us hate. He was NOT in a good place mentally at the beginning. In fact, as the show progresses you understand more and more what led John to being the way that he was in those first few episodes (and to be fair, Sherlock wasn’t making the best first impression as a flatmate). But he grows over time! He’s more sure of himself, 221B starts feeling more like home for him, and eventually he gets moments to remind us that he is a DOCTOR and a smart one at that!

Unfortunately the awkwardness is there to stay, but it almost becomes endearing when it doesn’t come across as him desperately needing people to like him. What I’m saying is that I really like this John Watson because he feels like a full character changing and improving over time instead of just being an observer like in most adaptations. Personally, I say give John Watson a chance.

Listening to Sherlock and Co

It's good, the writing is really solid, the humor is cringe sometimes, but mostly it's John that's cringe

He is such an annoying whiney little bitch sometimes, not a bad written character, just if I knew him in real life I would want to punch him

Anyone else feel this way ??

Congrats @paperleef for getting your amazing art to represent the next Sherlock & Co case: The Three Students!

I’ve already read the acd canon story for this case, but I’m excited to see what the podcast does for this one!