ebaeschnbliah:

gosherlocked:

monikakrasnorada:

impossibleleaf:

sarahthecoat:

sherlock holmes in 1893

i happened to have @possiblyimbiassed ’s excellent meta open in a tab (https://possiblyimbiassed.tumblr.com/post/167502076748/what-happened-to-sherlock-the-game-is-on) and noticed in the “blog jpeg” that the counter, formerly and famously stuck at “1895”, is now showing “18493”. OK, the 4 may have been dropped in to signify s4, but why 1893?

A very cursory search on “sherlock holmes 1893” shows me that FINA (the final problem) was published in the strand that year, as well as CROO, GREE, RESI, and NAVA. Having recently read all of those with the @astudyincanon book club, each of those stories mirrors or highlights some aspect of the central relationship. A love triangle, self sacrifice, betrayal by a close family member or crony.

I’m guessing the FINA connection is the most important, maybe another indication that “reichenbaching the show” is part of the plan?

Tagging some of the usual suspects, hope that’s ok.

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That picture is full of contradictions.

The bloh jpeg, the picture of John they changed, the adress isn’t the same as the real blog’s from what I would see, the 18493. Even reading the post is horrible because nothing in here makes sense.

Even when you compare how John updates his blog, you see it’s not the same:

It’s obvious in the second one that he’s definitely not writing anything on his blog.

The Hit counter is definitely suspicious because it vanished before S4 began.

As for what it means, I don’t know. I get the feeling that we’re not supposed to see the date is wrong from the get go.

It’s like, you know that poem, it’s always 18… what year is it again? 18 something? And there’s a 9, right?

If you tell me it’s always 1894, 1893 or 1895, I wouldn’t be able to tell you which one is the right one.

Emelia Riccoletti died in december 1894. It’s always 1895.

But for someone who glances at it, when you always know it’s 18 something+ a 9, when you don’t pay attention, you go past this.

It’s because there’s one number too many you can’t help but look back. Like the funny gravestones in TFP.

John isn’t writing his blog. In fact, the blog is the fakest fake to have faked this world.

The only one writing anything here is Sherlock.

You think he’s texting, but he always has his phone when we see the case file, from that, you can wonder if he’s not tapping what we’re seeing as we speak.

There’s no John, but it’s only him there. Who else would write this case?

He never stops!

And yes, John wrote on his blog 221Back! But Sherlock wrote to twitter 221BringIt.

We may even speculate that, because this is nothing but infos on the case and none of the little things John says like, oh Sherlock was so baffled, or Lestrade came and gave us that case, that this isn’t John’s style. He rarely goes straight to explain what the case is about without telling us how he and Sherlock are. Look, not once can you know who wrote it! Sherlock’s name never appears!

NURSE CORNISH: I love his blog.

You believe in EMP from Sherlock’s POV? You think EMP’s John knows this isn’t real?

The blog is an utter fake, and Sherlock knows how it’s supposed to look but missed a few precious details. 18… something 9. 18493, that’d do. It’s 1895, but he forgot it was a 5 and hesitates between a 4 and a 3. So 18493.

I mean… that’s literally how I remember the number. I can’t unsee it now.

It’s not 1895. It’s… well not a 5, a 4 or a 3? Oh, let’s put both, that way I’m right! 18493. Nailed it.

Because it’s Sherlock’s EMP, he is the one writing the cases and John’s blog is only a facade and because John isn’t real, he can’t modify his blog.

Sherlock is using his phone/heart to write what happens next. It’d do for now. Sorry John, Sherlock has taken over your blog. And Nurse Cornish is right.

The blog we see in S4 is Sherlock’s.

I have been pointing out the exact same things about the blog for months now, @impossibleleaf. (X) (X) (X) There is literally no doubt in my mind that we are meant to understand the blog is now being ‘written’ by Sherlock, as we are in his head still from HLV.

I love your explanation for how he got to the number 18493. That is the most Sherlockian idea I have ever read and makes so much sense in his head.

Wonderful explanation, @sarahthecoat, @impossibleleaf and @monikakrasnorada. And isn’t it exciting that we get such a blatant signal? We all wondered about the exchange with Nurse Cornish in TLD although in TST we already saw that John technically did not write his blog. Love this. @ebaeschnbliah

Yes, this is a very good explanation. It makes sense that Sherlock views certain things as highly important and others as trivialities …. decorations for his mind-stage its main purpose. :)))

@sarahthecoat @possiblyimbiassed @monikakrasnorada @gosherlocked