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He is a little queer in his ideas—an enthusiast in some branches of science.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlett.
Queer he is, for sure 👀
I've recently watched the BBC adaptation of Sherlock Holmes and now I'm re reading all of the original Sherlock stories just to over analyze all the Johnlock moments because I can't get enough of those two ❤️
"His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments."
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlett.
Don't even try to convince me John wasn't gay for Sherlock.
The appalling travesty that was BBC’s Sherlock has infested the Sherlock Holmes fandom like a malignant tumour so I want you all to know how awesome the OG literary Holmes was:
The literary Sherlock Holmes was an autistic coded character before people knew what autism was.
The literary Sherlock Holmes was an explicitly aromantic character before people had a word for that.
Literary Holmes solved mysteries not merely for the intellectual stimulation but also out of a genuine desire to do good. He cared deeply about every client. HE WAS NOT A HIGH-FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH! He could definitely be insensitive and blunt but he was not callous or unfeeling.
Literary Sherlock threatened to beat a guy who was being creepy with his own stepdaughter.
Literary Sherlock learned to grow past his misogyny after a woman outsmarted him.
In particular, he was always respectful to Mrs Hudson, never belittling or talking down to her (the otherwise enjoyable Guy Ritchie films screw this up too). In fact, they got along so well that they were actually a very popular ship back in the day.
Literary Holmes would NEVER call Watson an idiot. He was his only friend who he loved and respected, even if he did get frustrated with him sometimes. He didn’t need to belittle others to feel powerful.
Literary Holmes and Watson broke into a corrupt man’s house and witnessed him being murdered by a woman he was blackmailing. They knew exactly who she was but they let her get away because they were chaotic good like that.
Literary Holmes had HUMILITY: something a smug prig like Steven Moffat will never understand. He could be arrogant but he had a sense of humour and was willing to admit when he was wrong. And he was wrong sometimes because he was a flawed human being, not some gross male power fantasy.
Literary Holmes respected the working class and was often disdainful of the rich. In Victorian England!
Literary Holmes indirectly caused the death of a guy who abused (and implicitly molested) his daughters and he didn’t give a single fuck about it.
At the end of the series, Holmes retires to Sussex to keep bees. Beekeepers are awesome.
Sherlock Holmes and the hound with a basketball or something I haven’t read that one
A STUDY IN TERROR (Dir: James Hill, 1965).
Fact and fiction collide as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary detective Sherlock Holmes pits his wits against infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper.
A mysterious medical kit with a distinct crest sets Holmes on the case of the notorious killer and of the prominent aristocratic family he suspects are involved. Taking in the back alleys of 1888 Victorian London and mixing with the lowlifes there in.
A Study in Terror presents us with a highly sanitised version of 1880s Whitechapel; the Ripper’s victims all beautiful with their 1960s coiffures. The movie does, on the surface, appear to be a bit of a romp and was misleadingly advertised as a Batman-esq spoof by US distributor Columbia Pictures. In actual fact the movie is, at times, a pretty grizzly affair.
Screenwriters Derek Ford and Donald Ford have crafted a tense, twisty thriller with moments of horror and plenty of jumps. Director James Hill’s innovative use of point-of-view shots give the murders an extra viscerality while keeping the identity of the killer a mystery. The movie does have a somewhat misogynistic tone, which is perhaps inevitable considering its subject.
John Neville has just the right austerity as Holmes while Donald Houston is an amiably bluff Watson. A fantastic supporting cast includes Brit acting legends Anthony Quayle, Robert Morley and Judi Dench. Best of all is Barbara Windsor as Ripper victim Annie Chapman. Slightly stepping outside of her Carry On... persona, she gives us an all too rare glimpse of her acting ability beyond the giggly, busty blonde stereotype.
With its misogyny and grim use of fictionalised real life murders, you can safely wave goodbye to good taste. Yet, in spite of my misgivings over content, I thoroughly enjoyed A Study in Terror. What, on the surface, threatens to be an exploitative, sensationalist shocker is actually a well produced thriller with a fine cast. Recommended especially to Holmes aficionados and fans of 1960s British cinema.
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you ever get hyperfixations but not in the sense that you picked up a piece of media and just kinda held on to it but more that you brushed up against a piece of media and it attacked you like a rabid dog out of nowhere? Cuz same
A gifted collection of all the cases of famed Sherlock Holmes; impeccable addition to the Autumnal mystery.
"I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather–that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times."
- Sherlock Holmes
A Study In Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle, sitting in front of a Ouija board on November 1st, 1926: Harry, I TOLD YOU—
Harry Houdini’s ghost, fuming: SHUT THE FUCK UP oh my GOD
“You know I cannot possibly leave London while old Abrahams is in such mortal terror of his life. Besides, on general principle is it best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.”
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
faeries are not real but i wish thwy were so i could spray one with raid
As a joke, Arthur Conan Doyle once sent five letters to five friends that read, “We are discovered, flee immediately”, to see what they would do. One of them disappeared and Conan Doyle never saw him again.
QI (E Series - Espionage)
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.
Sherlock "I'm married to my work and also this one man who found his way into my life" Holmes
Sherlock Holmes in the books is wild because I went from the TV show where you had like a small tiny chance of figuring out the end to the Conan Doyle novels where we're looking through the eyes of Watson so half the time when Holmes gets to explaining the story we're just like "?!??! I'm sorry she looked like what and it smelled like who"
I'm half convinced this is why most of the subsequent protrayals like to show John as a knucklehead because sometimes Doyle went apeshit on Holmes' Eye For Detail and just left Watson in the dust because I assume he got caught up in clever descriptive detective funsies
Ngl though I love the books a bit more than the show with one example why being that in one short story Holmes just kind of neglects to tell Watson that the reason they're on a stakeout in a woman's bedroom is to figure out if her (step?) father is sending a venomous snake through a hole in the ceiling
Like thanks Sherly I'm glad you solved the case here's a pat on the back but like tHE FUCK did you JUST GLOSS OVER telling your partner about the THREAT OF DEATH
Legit though Watson was more like "woah, gnarly Holmes that's an Indian species of snake we heard there and it be trained by that there bell" [the discrepencies in our responses to Sherlock's tomfuckery show why he is the Watson and I am the Concerned Onlooker]