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i think a period piece sherlock holmes that portrays him as gay (which i find a plethora of support in the text—not just in an attraction to watson, but through complex connotations and contexts contemporary to victorian gender and sexuality) could do so much on the topic of criminality. 

what does it mean to be a criminal? what does it mean to police, but not be police? to dole out justice on your own terms? to be born a criminal? to be a detective in a period that collapsed the gay man with the criminal with the gender dissident, all of which were considered innate degenerative biological categories? how does someone deal with being born a criminal while also working within and outside the law as holmes does?