Sherlock Holmes - Blog Posts
You can argue that the first modern novel was one of these. 'Ivanhoe' has hella issues, obviously, but when I read through it in grade school you better believe my Robin Hood loving butt was psyched to see my hero show up in the middle and set things straight.
Given the proliferation of the various Herlock Sholmes style expies, that pretty much already exists.
And OCs for various fandoms are just another way of putting your own dolls in someone else's playhouse.
It all comes back around.
A recurring theme in late medieval literature is stories which are ostensibly tales of King Arthur or Robin Hood or some other popular or legendary figure, except in practice the narrative mostly concerns the tribulations of wholly original characters, with the figure the story is purportedly about appearing only briefly, often in a peripheral or supporting role, essentially as an excuse to use that figure's mythos as a framing device for original fiction.
You occasionally bump into a similar conceit in contemporary fan-media, but I have to wonder how widespread the device would be if it weren't for the warping influence of copyright on popular culture. Imagine if there was an entire body of respectable mainstream fiction, spanning a wide range of genres and mediums, unified solely by the fact that somewhere in the middle Batman shows up.
The Empty House - part 3
-Part One
-Part Two
"I moved my head to look at the cabinet behind me. When I turned again Sherlock Holmes was standing smiling at me across my study table. I rose to my feet, stared at him for some seconds in utter amazement, and then it appears that I must have fainted for the first and the last time in my life. Certainly a grey mist swirled before my eyes, and when it cleared I found my collar-ends undone and the tingling after-taste of brandy upon my lips. Holmes was bending over my chair, his flask in his hand. “My dear Watson,” said the well-remembered voice, “I owe you a thousand apologies."
(this is in the Watson's Sketchbook series! but it's also a great standalone to send to your friends to illustrate why sherlock holmes is gay)
also - shoutout to @haedraulics for doing a sketch of mid-hiatus Holmes with long hair that captivated my heart so much I needed to include that idea!
The Empty House - part 2
"I struck against an elderly deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. ... I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects in the eyes of their owner. With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel."
THE EMPTY HOUSE, part 2 - (part 1) - Several reunions, which do not go exactly to plan.
This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!
IT'S BACK! Oh man I never even considered the possibility of SH bumping into Watson as an accident 🤩
the Empty House - part 1
It is the spring of the year 1894, and Sherlock Holmes has been dead for three years. Watson's Sketchbook returns with THE EMPTY HOUSE - part 1! Bonus points to whoever recognizes what classic of Victorian literature Holmes is quoting on the first page.
notes under the cut:
Holmes references dressing as a woman in the Adventure of the Mazarin Stone - I always wanted to see more of that disguise:
Watson is in mourning. Men did not wear as elaborate mourning as women in this era, but the extra wide hatband was one way to convey a deep personal loss. Who that loss is referring to is probably not something that Watson is entirely honest about, even to himself:
There's a theory from Madeleine B. Stern that Holmes's bookseller was a real life person named Alfred B. Clementson, and that he impersonates him in Empty House, so I nabbed that name.
Looks like these guys are okay, after all :)
That's a real Watson Vibe, alright
Also I found this picture of Watson (Edward Hardwicke) holding a gun like that with that look on his face and it is one of the most perfect Doctor Watson images ever produced.
He looks like Sherlock Holmes either asked to borrow the gun, or just handed it to him and hasn't acknowledged that it's a loaded gun.
Even leaving aside how amazing the rest of the comic is, it is so refreshing to see Holmes respond to a villain threatening Watson with basically 'bitch, you could TRY.'
THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 9
This update comes with a content warning, which you can read here if you're so inclined.
THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 9 of a few more - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8.
This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!
She says, as though we are respectable patrons browsing for media, instead of ravenous hounds baying for more.
(Seriously tho no pressure, love the comics)
thank you guys for reading my ridiculous sherlock holmes comic i love making comics so muchhhhh
This series has singlehandedly cured me of my tendancy to roll my eyes at canon divergences...
Update: just listened to the suggested soundtrack and hey guess who just solved a lifelong mystery about what song is in a heirloom musicbox. This series, HONESTLY.
THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 9
This update comes with a content warning, which you can read here if you're so inclined.
THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 9 of a few more - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8.
I love a good metanarrative and this is a 15 layer chocolate cake of a media experience
"It is indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. The shaft into which the river hurls itself is a immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip. The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamor."
THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 7 of many - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6. Another scene I've had written in some form for months. Getting close now...
This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!
SOMEHOW (via the impeccable gay vibes) you have made this EVEN MORE tragic. I love it and also How Dare You?!
THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 5 of many - For Tonight. part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4.
This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!
A master class in Menace. It's so light and lovely, but we KNOW...
After several train changes, Moriarty chasing them on his own personal train (??) and a boat ride, they arrive in Brussels to news:
THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 3 of many - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - bits from the next part of the chapter - the canonical moment where Holmes accidentally refers to Baker Street as "our rooms" and then corrects himself will haunt me forever.
This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!
THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 1 of ??many. If the context is confusing, please check the date and remember that we last saw Holmes in early 1891 - or better yet, read the original story!
This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!
cursive text (which is all canon, btw) under the cut for those who need it:
4 May, 1893
It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these, the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequate fashion, I have endeavored to give some account of my strange experiences in his company. It was my intention to have said nothing of that event which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two years has done little to fill. My hand has been forced, however.
It lies with me to tell for the first time what really took place between Professor Moriarty and Mr. Sherlock Holmes...
Mystery Inc. meet Holmes and Watson!
I am having a lot of fun with this Victorian Scooby Doo au!!
The House of Secrets #112 (October 1973) from DC Comics.
"The Case of Demon Spawn" by Writer Gerry Conway and Artist Luis Dominguez.
Roderick Doyle and Professor John Winston thinly veiled parodies of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson, find themselves taking on the Vampires in this strange 70s comic story.
MY TYPE
MY MEN✋🏻😮💨
(wanted to go with a dark theme but couldn't stick to it so bear with me)
will my EE most likely be about ACD's queer coding? Yes, fuck you. My country may hate gay people (esp in education) but if no one's got me I know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's got me
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(Tagging with as many medias as I can remember so it gets to more fandoms)
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Roses are red His scarf was blue If he doesn’t turn up soon I might have to jump, too -JW
Talking to my mom about BBC Sherlock and having to pretend I didn't binge through three seasons of it, retain knowledge about every episode, have read a few metas at this point and ship Johnlock
Sherlock meta time: 1895 counter on John's blog = gay
So I was scrolling on Pinterest - as one does - and I came across a post stating that the number John's blog is stuck on in I believe ASiB was the same as the year Sherlock Holmes fell into the Reichenbach falls in the ACD canon, 1895.
Now, this in itself is wild, but then my mind brought up another thing I saw a few days ago, a meme on Tumblr (if someone wants the link I can send it)
So
The reason they left London in 1895 (I assume in the same story with the Reichenbach Falls but I can't know for certain) was described as 'circumstances in which I need not enter' or something and people in this thread connected it to Oscar Wilde's trial for 'gross indecency' (aka being gay) which took place in the same year.
N o w, as a reminder, John's count on his website froze on 1895. In this year, Oscar Wilde was sentenced for gross indecency, Holmes and Watson went out of town presumably for that reason AND the Reichenbach Fall of the original stories.
While the number could stand for the original Reichenbach Fall, I don't really see where that would go BUT what if it stands for Oscar Wilde's trial? And for ACD Holmes and Watson being out of town because of it?
In my opinion, if we combine this with the 'Irene ships Johnlock' theory I read on @inevitably-johnlocked 's blog (it's a lot more complicated than that but that she basically knows something is going on), this could be her doing, trying to make fun of them or give them a hint in the right direction. Who knows? Not me, I'm just here to collect the puzzle pieces.
I just finished Sherlock S4/1
What the actual fuck was that
Huh????
It's like... Sherlock and Mary, featuring John as a side character who is stupid every now and then but otherwise unimportant
And the finale?????? It felt so... staged and John didn't even help? Just call her an ambulance for fuck's sake
OK BUT
So we all know Sherlock was very sad and in love at John's and Mary's wedding.
So
I propose: The melody he made. Surely, the one Sherlock Holmes would have given this one more thought.
I've read the idea that Sherlock taps 'I love you' in Morse code so he doesn't have to say it and gets it off his chest which inspired me to think: Did he, somehow, in some code, some form, include a hidden love confession for John in that melody.
Like
How cool would that be???
Maybe he wove the Morse code for 'I Love you' into the melody, or used a much more personal manner
Just-
These idiots I swear
I JUST FINISHED THE GREAT GAME
What the fuck
First of all how DARE they end a whole season on such a cliffhanger, that's so rude
second of all, why the fuck is Moriarty so goofy? Like... I don't even know. I like him, that much I know lmao. More than fuckin' Magnussen, he's more like the Umbridge of the Sherlock universe, Moriarty is so much better compared to that
(has he threatened and killed many many people? Yes, but at least he has manners)
Anything else... ummmmmmmmm... yea Sherlock go back to elementary and learn the solar system idiot
ooooh oh no i fear my trip to london made me drop so deep into my sherlock obsession again woops
god I’m so high but I hope this makes sense. I think more people need to realize there is not a Sherlock Holmes. There are many Sherlock Holmeses. And I don’t mean the different adaptations. I mean that every time a kid picks up a book or a grown adult rediscovers the stories, a new Holmes is born. And every person has their own flawed yet invincible hero that lives in our heads and helps us with life’s little mysteries. There is not a Sherlock Holmes; there’s your Sherlock Holmes
Happy birthday to my favorite fictional detective <3
Imagine Henry De Baskerville as a very very sexy men ! And John wondering how Sherlock reacting ?
Imaginez si Henry De Baskerville était un homme très très sexy ! Et John se demandant comment Sherlock va réagir ?
I imagined with this fake the season 5 of Sherlock with Leonardo Dicaprio as a guest (playing a US Marshal). He called Sherlock Holmes for help to catch a serial killer in New York.
J'ai imaginé avec ce montage un épisode de la saison 5 de Sherlock avec Leonardo DiCaprio en guest jouant le rôle d'un US Marshal. Ce dernier aurait appelé Sherlock Holmes pour arrêter un serial killer à New York.