Just Started Reading Sherlock Holmes And All The Adaptations Are Wrong. This Man Is A Delight. He Gets

Just started reading Sherlock Holmes and all the adaptations are wrong. This man is a delight. He gets excited about hemoglobin and is ecstatic at the thought of Watson as a roommate. He purposefully forgets how the solar system works so he has more room in his brain for crime. He shows Watson the dirt stains on his trousers and he can tell what part of London they come from based on color and consistency. (As far as i can tell Watson didn't ask, Sherlock just gets back from walks and tells Watson about the stains unprompted.) The text specifically says "Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to live with." Why does every adaptation make him unpleasant and rude, he's literally just eccentric. He's such a goober, I love him.

i’m so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i’d have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom

ALSO Holmes is like book accurate in that he’s cold and distant sometimes but can be incredibly kind when needed, and is deeply caring once he’s close to someone. He’s like a stray cat, it takes a long time to build his trust but once you’ve got it you’ve Got It. He’s not just Rude and Mean and Unfeeling because that’s just…not accurate…ESPECIALLY not towards clients, he was remarkably good at talking to and reassuring clients

They should let ME be the next one to adapt sherlock holmes into the modern day. I understand these stories on a levels that Steven Moffat could never, because i’m Gay and Autistic.

Anyway Holmes wouldn’t be a cocaine and morphine addict he’d drink an abhorrent amount of energy drinks and like vape a bunch because i feel like they’re the modern equivalents (we know they’re kinda Bad but like they’re still really very common)

Holmes and Watson would have a Very queer relationship. Pre-Mary they’re both like in the trenches of denial, during-Mary I have a feeling they both Know but there’s the tension of like one of us is Married we can’t do this, post-Mary it’s full Gay Middle Aged Men. But this is a very secondary aspect of the adaptation. It’s there, but the focus is the fun murders!

Holmes is cannonically autistic and Watson has chronic pain from his leg injury (he also uses a cane).

And where possible when adapting the Full Novels I wouldn’t be a Coward and I would maintain the interlude of backstory. The adaptations would be as close as humanly possible while still having a fun modern spin!!!

Watson is a podcaster

A list of books I think Davey really likes (selected so that they could work for both modern aus and 1899)

- Sherlock Holmes! Bro was Devastated by the Reichenbach Falls Incident, and gets every new book as it comes out

- Dracula - he really loves the epistolary format and he also just thinks vampires are Cool!

- Frankenstein - Moral dilemmas are this guys Jazz

- Austen (his favourites are Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility) - he likes the social commentary but he also just loves the romance, it makes him smile

me, watching my mutuals post ceaselessly about a fandom i’m not in:

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