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Meet Sherlock "patheticđ" Holmes and his husband, John Hamish Watson, who helped a man commit fraud once.
I don't know why, but these three men just make my gender. Honestly, just looking at them gives me the biggest slap in the face of gender envy.
Chubby Watson is the best Watson. I take no criticism on this.
I could not get over chubby watson
I can't decide if I want to squeeze him enthusiastically like a dog toy, or put him under a microscope for intense observation.
Ok you can get a little Watson. As a treat.
[ID: a digital drawing of Watson in his nightgown with a red smoking jacket on top. He's lighting his pipe. /End ID]
Shout out to John Hamish Watson!!!!!!! (he would give me the rudest and most insulting description in his published accounts if we ever actually met)
In The Man with the Twisted Lip, Holmes brings Watson to the St. Claire's home to spend the night. This wasn't planned, they meet in he opium den by chance and Watson joins Holmes in his adventure impromptu.
When they go to sleep, Watson is wearing a night shirt under his over coat, while Holmes is wearing his casual robe over his normal day clothes (ok cause he didn't actually sleep that night).
The only one who knew he was spending the night someplace else was Holmes, he's the only one who could have prepared.
Holmes let Watson wear his night shirt to bed <3
Sherlock laying on John because he's a cat humanized
Dr. Watson is just as important of a character as Sherlock Holmes. You cannot get rid of or replace him. He is the narrator. The stories are about Holmes, but it's through WATSON that we have them in the first place. He's not "just" the sidekick. He is the main character.
To me, Watson has always, and should always, have a little bit of dramatic poet in him. <3
"sherlock holmes is the dramatic one"
doctor john watson:
In The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, Watson is described as "a middle-sized, strongly built man with a square jaw, thick neck, and moustache". And in His Last Bow, he's called "a heavily built, elderly man with a grey moustache". So, I would say that Watson is a bear.
This excludes BBC Sherlock's Watson, who we all know is a hedgehog.
ACD said that Holmes looks like a hawk but i need to know what kind of animal Watson looks like.
Hear me out... Sherlock Holmes adaptation that takes place in the 1920s. Sherlock Holmes getting to wear, and absolutely slay a flapper dress. John Watson getting to take his detective out on a lovely little drive in their new Bently.
Sherlock is infact a softie, and I too despise it when adaptations make him a callous machine.
How can ppl ever characterize Sherlock Holmes as unfeeling when there are such sweet tender moments like this đ
I know we all like to laugh at Watson for taking such pains to conceal dates and people and events but being obviously obvious about his love for Holmes but like. hear me out. what if heâs not. what if itâs on purpose
Ok, so. Watson is an intelligent man. He is not stupid. He would not read his drafts and not notice the obvious romanticism. I think a lot of evidence supports the idea that heâs doing it on purpose. I mean, he even defends himself when Holmes accuses him of romanticising the stories by saying that the romance was there and heâs just reporting it the way it was. The interesting question is just, why? Why not be more careful?
Hereâs what I think: uhm. so. multiple things.
1. Imagine writing stories about the person you love above anything else in the world. The person who seems to you so incredible and unbelievable and wonderful that youâre in awe they even exist and even more that they have chosen you. How do you write about them without that bleeding through. Holmes isnât just a person that appears in the stories, the stories are completely about him and his personality. Of course Watson notices that the way he sees Holmes is evident in the loving descriptions. But what, really, can he do? Change or omit parts of Holmesâ personality? Make up a Holmes character for his stories? Invent a Holmes who he is not in love with and who does not inspire the same feelings of awe and admiration? He might as well just write a different story. The whole point of these stories is that theyâre about Holmes. Or alternatively, could he somehow describe every one of Holmesâ personality traits rationally and without emotion? No, he couldnât. âFascinatingâ and âwonderfulâ are just traits that describe Holmes to him. He never says that he loves Holmes. We can only infer it from those descriptions. How is he supposed to describe Holmes if he canât use them?
2. In extension of that: Watsonâs perspective is essential to the stories. He is the only one who understands Holmes. He is the only one who can tell us about the kindness and compassion and the silliness and the deep care for humans and the devotion to justice because heâs the only one who gets to see everything. Taking any other perspective would probably result in a much worse portrayal. Knowing that Holmes is by every standard very neurodivergent and queer and generally just absolutely not ânormalâ, that portrayal probably wouldnât be kind and it would miss all of those key features of his character that Watson understands. So Watson can not take another perspective that isnât his own, not just because heâs too in love but because it would just not work.
3. Perhaps most importantly: Hereâs what is actually my main point. What if⌠Imagine this. Youâre a normal Victorian person. You have the normal views of the time. You read the Sherlock Holmes stories. You read them because the cases are interesting and Holmes is a curious personality but, unconsciously, you also absorb everything else thatâs in the stories. The deep bond between these two men. The love. The fact that they would do anything for each other. The way that Holmes is someone who is so strange and abnormal by your standards but who is still deeply loved and who deeply loves and who is kind and funny and a good person. And maybe you donât realise it but in some way, it influences you nonetheless. Perhaps the next time you meet a person who acts âweirdâ or âabnormalâ, they remind you of Holmes and you have to smile. Maybe the next time people mention the unspeakable sin of love between two men, something doesnât sit quite right with you. Maybe, just maybe, you begin to think.
I think Watson knows this. I think this is why he writes. Of course he also wants to tell everyone how amazing his husband is, but mostly, he really wants to live in a world where he is actually able to tell everyone that thatâs his husband. And this is his part. Maybe only 5% of readers really begin to change their minds about what is âabnormalâ and what is acceptable. Maybe itâs only a dozen people. Maybe itâs one person. It all matters. Change doesnât come suddenly. Change comes when many people change their minds. And here is something he can do. Of course itâs obvious. Not obvious enough to be censored, that would defeat the purpose, but obvious enough to make his point. Of course itâs dangerous. Itâs a balancing act but itâs worth it. Even if just one person changes their mind, itâs worth it.
They say that people usually take on a little niche interest, or subtle personality trait, or similar quirks to their comfort characters that they grew up reading/watching.... Well, thank you, John Hamish Watson for giving me a life-long obsession with knitted jumpers, and a stubborn tendency to "hunt and peck" when I write!
I think people forget Watsonâs purpose in the stories isnât only to ask questions so that the case is revealed to the audience naturally. Watsonâs purpose is also to ask questions in a way that reveals the case to Holmes. Heâs not integral to Holmesâs work just to stroke his ego with the stories. He has weaved his way into Holmesâs mind so thoroughly that Holmes is at his best when Watson is able to lead the march.
granada holmes and watson are so married. holmes bought watsonâs favourite cigars as a welcome home present. watson sits beside holmes rapt as he de-disguises himself and tells him about his day. watson reads his paper as holmes conducts his experiments. watson tries to get holmes to eat supper with him. do you see how they are husbands??
Watson is Holmes' favourite hyperfixation, and most certainly vice versa...By that I also mean that they are deeply in love.
Holmes will be like âI only remember things that are functionally or practically important to my work and forget everything that isnâtâ then go out of his way to memorise all of Watsonâs habits and routines
Happy Birthday to one of my biggest comfort characters :)
Happy birthday to our favourite Boswell, Dr. John Watson, who was born on the 7th of August, 1852! đ He would now be 172.
This. I think about this constantly.
just thinking about holmes' inability to be chill around watson in private, and how much that means to watson when he comes inside from a world where sherlock holmes is the unfeeling machine, a world he helped to create, and is greeted by a smile that holds all the love you could fit into the stretch of a mouth
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