#Elementary as textposts

[happygirl2oo2]

Elementary as textposts part 4/?

[celestabelbethabelle]

[murdermostace]

Elementary (First half of Season 1) Textposts

[murcielagatito]

we're so back

[tommyssupercoolblog]

Anyone else constantly leaving a space open in your heart for the friends who left or got tired of you or grew apart from you because the thought of "what if they come back" keeps you up at night when you try to fully get over it so instead you let that rotting decayed corpse of your friendship grow mushrooms and moss that take root inside your heart and live there even after years have gone by. And you could uproot it, but the chance of them coming back is only almost zero. Not zero. So you let it live there and it festers and sometimes you cough up spores and pollen from the decay that's still living inside you.

You're always waiting subconsciously, like the dog who died at the train station waiting for it's owner to come back. You don't declutter, you save space for them. You wait. And you wait.

And you make new friends. But you're still waiting.

????

[gordonstanheight]

AVA’S DAD IN ABBOTT ELEMENTARY IS KEITH DAVID????? guess who is now catching up

[the-kennsterrrr]

Dude Greg on Abbot Elementary has such autistic swagger. I want him carnally.

[mushr00m-collective]

Yo, if you live in the Kingston area you should come up to Mount prospect for the health fair! There’ll be health checkups for adults and games for kids, I’m working there too

It’s from nine am to four pm, Sunday the 21st of June, 2025

Hope to see everyone there!

[sopheadraws]

Sometimes a assignment is your personal academic hell and it's never going to happen, and that's okay!

[happygirl2oo2]

We really don't talk enough about Sherlock's habit to show his deep love and respect for his friends in the most bizarre times/sentiments and we should 'cause it's amazing

"I'd do the same for you if you lost all your teeth in a prison fight." FRIENDSHIP! LOVE!

[happygirl2oo2]

saw this textpost and got inspired

[celestabelbethabelle]

[lakesbian]

Actually do you have any other game recs like Naidsancee? Give me some funk architecture to get lost in. Don't even have to be a platformer I love me a good walking sim

unfortunately i am not so good at knowing games that are like other games :( i'm sure there are some other games that are really notably naissanceesque out there but i do not have a record of them. my closest comparison/one that i like for similar reasons is the complex: found footage. it's free like naissancee, and probably the only commendable game anyone's ever made about the backrooms.

the problem with virtually all video games about the backrooms is that they're trying to capture a feeling they fundamentally can't translate into a game using the resources they have available. the original textpost & ensuing inspired "liminal space" communities are trying to capture a very specific vibe: usually-vintage photos from abandoned, ill-frequented, transitional, or otherwise empty locations that are presented as out of both time and space. the original backrooms textpost in particular conveys, imo, the "wrongness" that people can feel while in regular locations that people rarely traverse. it is literally called the backrooms, rooms that are ubiquitous and normal but simultaneously unfamiliar to spend extensive periods of time in. i think the liminal space community also mixes in feelings of eerie childhood nostalgia by presenting familiar environments in a decontextualized way--a hotel pool without your family, a childhood bedroom empty for moving day that you linger on despite its normally transitional nature because it's in image form. when these elements are mixed into the concept of the backrooms, taking it from hundreds of miles of the same ubiquitous yellow environment to including other misplaced, sprawling structures, i do think what people are drawn to is in part the sensation of interacting with a location in a way that young kids do and adults don't. "at elementary school after-hours for some reason" type of sensation. "six years old and at the airport at 5 am" type of sensation.

none of that is why i like it to be clear. that's all just my speculation about why other people seem so drawn to it & seem to find it unnerving. i personally like it because of arbitrary aesthetic taste and also my personal enjoyment of when i go to locations and i'm the only person in those locations. not a fan of when other people are in locations. anyway.

most backrooms games look like this, and are a terrible user experience because "sprint around in a boring yellow map while doing shitty puzzles and/or being chased by a poorly designed monster" is an absurdly far cry from literally any of the ideas it's attempting to translate.

where the complex: found footage deviates here is that it understands that "backrooms" games are supposed to be about the environment. it's just a short experience of walking through gorgeously-rendered environments that look at times almost indistinguishable from '90s video footage. regardless of whether you think the atmosphere it's curating is interesting or not, By God There Is An Atmosphere. it's beautiful looking, and very easy to get lost in, and also indicates something quietly following you in a way subtle enough you can get through the entire game and never notice it.

anyway. my point is that if you're a fan of Locations you should go to this one probably

[murcielagatito]

for da teddies <3

[holmesoldfellow]

Directory

Hello! I figured its time to make a blog tag guide for all your post finding needs. All my posts are tagged with a shorthand tag, while original posts have more thorough tagging. I have also added a list of links to my various Holmes playlists, where you can watch adaptations and listen to themes.

Join the community @@holmesian-mantlepiece

All original posts: #sherlock holmes

#acd: posts referencing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, the original text of the ACD canon Holmes, or other mentions of specifically ACD Holmes. Original posts: #sir arthur conan doyle

#book cover: photos of book covers or spines (generally with the exception of comic books)

#newspaper: newspaper or magazine mentions of Sherlock Holmes

#advertising: advertising using Holmes imagery

#comics: comics or comic books referencing Sherlock Holmes. Original posts about the Dynamite comics: #dynamite holmes.

#museum: photos of the Sherlock Holmes Museum in London.

#location: Holmesian locations other than the museum, often referring to the Sherlock Holmes pub, various cafes, or statues.

#paget: illustrations by Sidney Paget

#illustration: illustrations not by Sidney Paget.

#meme: memes and textposts

TV Shows and Movies (in chronological order)

William Gillette in plays (1899) and "Sherlock Holmes" (1916): #gillette

"Sherlock Jr." directed by and featuring Buster Keaton (1924): #jr

"Sherlock Holmes" with John Barrymore (1922): #barrymore

Arthur Wontner films "The Sleeping Cardinal" (1931), "The Missing Rembrandt" (1932), "The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case" (1932), "The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes" (1935), and "Silver Blaze" (1937): #wontner

"Sherlock Holmes" with Basil Rathbone (1939-46): #rathbone

"Sherlock Holmes" with Ronald Howard (1954): #howard #ronald howard

Christopher Lee in "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace" (1962) and other productions: #lee

"Sherlock Holmes" with Douglas Wilmer (1964-1965, plus other appearances): #wilmer

"Sherlock Holmes" with Peter Cushing (1968): #cushing

"The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" directed and written by Billy Wilder (1970): #tplosh #the private life of sherlock holmes

Theater productions (1970s) and "Interior Motives" (1976) with Leonard Nimoy: #nimoy

"The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" written, directed, and featuring Gene Wilder (1975): #brother

"The Seven Percent Solution" written by Nicholas Meyer and featuring Nicol Williamson (1976): #seven percent

"Murder by Decree" with Christopher Plummer (1979): #decree #murder by decree

"Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" with Geoffrey Whitehead and Donald Pickering (1979): #whitehead

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson" with Vasiliy Livanov (Soviet Holmes) (1979-1986): #livanov

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" with Tom Baker (1982): #baker

Ian Richardson in "The Sign of Four" (1983) and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1983) and other productions: #richardson

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with Jeremy Brett (Granada) (1984-94): #granada #granada holmes

"Young Sherlock Holmes" directed by Barry Levinson (1985): #young #young sherlock holmes

"Detective Conan"/"Case Closed" manga by Gosho Aoyama (1994) and anime (1996): #case closed

"Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" (2011) directed by Guy Ritchie and featuring Robert Downey Jr.: #rdj

"Elementary" with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu (2014-2019): #elementary

#german: German productions of Sherlock Holmes, such as “Der Hund von Baskerville” (1937) and "Sherlock Holmes" with Erich Schellow (1967)

"Moriarty the Patriot" manga (2016) and anime (2020): #ynm

"Watson" with Morris Chestnut (2025-): #watson

#animated: Animated series and references to Sherlock Holmes, such as "Sherlock Hound" (1984), "The Great Mouse Detective" (1986), and "Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century" (1999)

#theater: Theater productions about Sherlock Holmes

#playbill: Playbills for Holmesian theater productions, including William Gillette's play

#radio: Audio series productions relating to Sherlock Holmes, including "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939-47), "Moriarty: The Devil's Game" (2022), and "Sherlock & Co." (2023)

#multi: posts that combine several adaptations of Sherlock Holmes in one.

Video Games- #video game: (mostly original) posts about video games

#frogwares: content pertaining to the Sherlock Holmes game series by Frogwares. Original posts are under #frogwares sherlock

#ace attorney: content relating to the game "The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles" (2021)

Merchandise- #merchandise: physical merchandise relating to Sherlock Holmes. A non-exhaustive list of subcategories:

#stuffed animal

#doll

#mini figure

#ceramics

#teapot

#ornament

#sweatshirt

#sweater

#tea blend

#playing cards

#other: Everything else! Usually non-listed adaptations or crossovers.

*Please note that none of my posts are intended to be advertisements or promotions, I just like collecting different interpretations of the great detective.

Links

My playlists:

Miscellaneous adaptations

German Holmes

Christmas with Holmes

Spotify playlist of musical themes

Other folks playlists I use for shows:

Granada Holmes

Howard/1954 Holmes

Douglas Wilmer Holmes (1964)

Young Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)

Sherlock Hound

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century

Sherlock Mondays (2023 verbal annotation of Holmes stories by the Rosenbach museum)

Sherlock Holmes audio dramas by Big Finish

My DMs, asks, and submissions are always open for those interested! Let me know if you'd like me to tag something for you, or find an adaptation for you. Ask questions, or just chat. See ya!

[gordonstanheight]

my fake enemy bradley cooper in the righteous gemstones…… i can’t escape. i could excuse abbott elementary but this is going too far 💔