anyway Sherlock Holmes is public domain so catch me writing a story in which Holmes’ seemingly timeless nature is explained in canon as Holmes being a restless preternatural entity discovered (summoned?) by the original Dr. Watson, who acted as its companion/custodian as it careened around doing the only thing that could preoccupy its wildly inhuman mind, ie, getting all up in people’s business and freaking them out with how much shit it knows.
the Holmes entity can die, but always reappears within a generation and without fail seeking out the latest in the Watson line. the Watsons, grown savvy over time, now devote much of their time to a.) preparing the younger members of the family for Holmes’ inevitable return or b.) desperately trying to get the hell out of dodge and live a normal life before it can happen to them as well.
just uuuuh. like a very knowing story about the inevitability of the Holmes and Watson story, centered a creepily inhuman Holmes and the long-suffering family who have spent more than a century documenting it.
OP, please, please, please write this. I will buy and read the shit out of this.
let her kill more people! let her try to kill someone else we love! let her get her ass kicked in an epic showdown! let her show no remorse! free her!
honestly if jim moriarty was like “hang on guys i wanna be redeemed let me save john watson for no reason at all” it’d be just the same and it’d be Terrible
Real talk: I watched the FULL trailer for Sherlock gnomes tonight before coco (if you haven’t seen, go see it) and let me just say:
1). At one point Sherlock, Watson and other gnomes are being chased by lucky cat gnomes. LUCKY. CATS. I would like to speak to the writers, producers and literally everyone for WHY LUCKY CATS.
2). Sherlock is called an ass. But in pun form.
3). He’s the front half of a squirrel suit which I have to believe is either the carcass of a dead squirrel or a gutted stuffed toy.
And that’s not where I lost my god dang mind. Oh no.
4). Sherlock tried showing Juliet the proper way to “dance” which I can only describe as white people twerking poorly.
I had a nice little private chat with Arwel….. (my favorite moments at the con!!!)
I asked him about the end of TFP:
ME: I wondered about John’s chair at the end of TFP. I understood that his usual chair was burned and must be replaced. But why does he seem to look like the one from TAB???”
ARWEL: Probably because it’s the same??? *evil grin*
ME: Ooookaaayyyy….. but …. the chair in TAB was a product of Sherlock’s mind, isn’t it??? How could he probably appear in Sherlock’s real life???? *big question-y eyes*
ARWEL: Yeeaahhh…that’s the great question isn’t it???
ME: Indeed!! It is!!!
ARWEL: Oh… I guess Sherlock just remembered him in TAB….probably he saw it in a charity shop or something and after 221b burned down he just went there and bought it for John….. don’t you think?? *wink*
ME: Welllllll….dunno….
*he laughing*
(please be aware, that I recount all this from my memory and therefore bring it into my own words. I have no records, so this is not word for word what the people in question actually said!! I try to word the main essence of the sometimes rather ridicilous long monologues *eyeroll* :-)))
so apparently some people feel like it’s annoying when someone engages with a lot of stuff from the same person, like going through their ship tag and liking all the content there.
hearing about this, i was immediately paranoid about reblogging literally anything from anyone i don’t talk to on a regular basis.
so to save others from the same paranoia, i’m gonna say that if you like every single post on my goddamn blog it is okay. i might be kind of concerned about your level of time management, going through 23,000 posts, but it wouldn’t bother me.
@bbcthree as shipper on deck? Queerbaiting. “Sherlock’s back and is in love”? Queerbaiting. The show’s official YouTube channel referring to Sherlock and John as “the greatest love story”? Queerbaiting. Not to mention, of course, the endless list of romantic tropes.
Not in our minds, BBC & Hartswood. Don’t give us that filthy patronising bs.
the person who ran the bbc three blog was just a social media coordinator who shipped johnlock just like the rest of us, that was never ever a part of this so leave three out of it
It’s not against that person, that person was merely an employee, but that person was doing a job and the company that hired them, and Hartswood as well (because it was their show) allowed it knowing what was in store.
i know them personally and no, literally no one told them to do what they did, they were just having a good time on the tungle dot hell like the rest of us, so like i said, leave that entire facet of the fandom experience out of this
also bbc three, the whole of it, has absolutely NOTHING to do with hartswood or sherlock whatsoever
^ our frustration should be with BBC as a company, not with offshoot channels.
I see Johnlocky-BBC three posts going around again and some people may be confused as to why BBC3 was able to post such things. OR may think that it relates to something else major going on. (Namely the lost special).
Bringing this out of the archive for anyone who is confused at all.
In 1885, upon getting married, Conan Doyle purchased “an immense leather-bound scrap-book, inscribed [with the wedding date] for press-cuttings and notes of the hopeful future.” (The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Carr).
In A Study in Scarlet, which Conan Doyle wrote the next year, Watson started a scrap-book in which he pasted “numerous clippings and extracts” about the first case with his new flatmate.
“So spoke Sherlock Holmes and turned back to the great scrapbook in which he was arranging and indexing some of his recent material.” (The Adventure of the Red Circle)
The two dorks….. are they sharing a scrapbook? Imagine they bickering over where certain clippings should go……
Oh wait.
🤣 🤣 🤣
Love this! Is this where they got the idea for Sherlock’s ‘folder’ on John and the Vitruvian Man image? @darlingtonsubstitution
Maybe? Which means… could John have one of Sherlock, too? That’s cute.
(ok now I’m thinking “Mycroft has a file”…… the mirroring is getting out of hand)
OMG, the idea that they could BOTH have one in this verse hadn’t even crossed my mind??? Now, I won’t be able to forget it. I need this in my life.
I… would happily take a 2-hour special of just them giggling over the stuff they have on each other in those folders…… 😭
Absolutely! Sherlock would get stroppy about a photo of him with a soaking wet scowl-
“John, you can’t have that photo in there! Look at me. I look like a drowned rat!”
“Sherlock, if you think I’m not preserving, for posterity, the time you fell into the Thames thinking you’d seen a submarine periscope, you are nuttier than a fruitcake.”
“But, John-”
“A SUBMARINE, Sherlock. In. The. Thames.”
“Stranger things have happened, John.” Sherlock steps onto the table and over, stomping off to the kitchen in a snit.
“Yep. Like a consulting detective who believe he’d found a submarine. IN THE THAMES.” John collapses against the sofa in a fit of rib-cracking laughter.
YOU DID NOT JUST DO THIS. I CAN’T. WHY.
(then Sherlock starts humming yellow submarine and John nearly died laughing)
I’ve been reading a little about Richard Lancelyn Green lately. He wrote the introductions and the annotations to all my Oxford World’s Classics editions of the Sherlock Holmes books, and I have learned a great deal from him. He was a preeminent Conan Doyle scholar, fought to make unreleased material available, and was open to the ideas of all Sherlockians, at a time when different factions were somewhat hostile to each other.
He was also a gay man. Lancelyn Green died in 2004 at the age of 50, under mysterious circumstances. His death was ruled a suicide, although some clues point to his having been murdered for meddling with the Conan Doyle archive.
The media picked up the story as a manifestation of a “curse” on the archive.
A lot of what we know (and what Gatiss and Moffat know) about Sherlock Holmes is owed to Lancelyn Green’s work; I think he would have been very proud of what Mofftiss are doing with Sherlock, and particularly of the ensuing resurgence of the Great Game. I wish he were here to see it.
Here are a couple of stories about his life and death. The New Yorker story is particularly good:
Part of me also wonders whether the heavy emphasis that Mofftiss put on conspiracy theories and surveillance might be a nod to Lancelyn Green. According to Mofftiss, conspiracy theorists are always right, and our heroes are being watched. No one believed Lancelyn Green, and whether or not he was murdered, that lack of faith definitely contributed to his death.
Tagging a few people who might find this interesting under the cut (I’m sure I’m forgetting several). Sorry if this covers any old ground, but I haven’t seen anyone write about this before.
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