#ladies of sherlock

[contact-guy]

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 6 of many - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5.

A short update, however it is CHRISTMAS and you have all been nice this year and deserve homoerotic cigarette activity some art :)

There's a reference to this conversation from earlier.

also I would be remiss not to credit @haedraulics for inspiring a specific visual in this, check out his Holmes art!

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

[ijsthee]

Unhinged

[loonylupin2]

If I was John Watson and this was my roommate and our first interaction was him grabbing my cufflinks and pulling me to his desk to show me his experiment, and he’s giggling and jumping around as he does so.

I’d kill myself…like I can’t handle all that I just got out of Afghanistan

[lestradelurkshere]

"Queer people can't sit properly" well i'm not sure about others but this one right here certainly cannot.

[mayhasopinions]

//Lady Carfax pt3 spoilers!!

that one scene that won't leave my mind

[icarusdiesatdawn]

well neither can I the fuck???

[make-way-for-the-homo-superior]

One little detail from Granada's version of "The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" that I really love:

It's kind of difficult to see in this photo, but the cameo brooch that Lady Frances Carfax is wearing depicts a woman with a crescent moon on her head. Does that ring a bell?

Exactly, the woman on the brooch is definitely Artemis/Diana!

Greek/Roman goddess known for her independence and refusal to get married? Yeah, that's the one. Lady Frances probably really relates to her and I just think that's neat :)

[raingoddess214]

Such divas

[sesamestreep]

I really feel like one of the best details in “A Scandal in Bohemia” that I never see people fixate on enough is that the story starts with Watson stopping in to see Holmes at Baker Street on a complete whim, because he happens to see that he’s home (and Watson is now married and living elsewhere). Like he doesn’t send word first, he’s not invited, he just shows up and surprises Holmes. Which is not that weird but then Holmes is like “oh good, I’ve got a case anyway, you might as well hang out!” which just makes it funnier when the King shows up and is like “I’d really rather speak to you alone, actually” and Watson tries to leave and Holmes is just like “anything you can say to me, you can say to my best friend John Watson, and if you ask him to leave, I would consider it a grave insult, you would be my enemy and I will not help you ever!!” And the king is like “…ok” and just moves on.

like, that is crazy behavior. Holmes is talking about how there’s probably lots of money in this case, and then almost turns away the client for…not knowing who the fuck Watson is?? He’s not even supposed to be there?? He just came to say hi?? “It is both or none”… girl, GET UP.

[baby-doll95]

This scene lives in my mind rent-free.

John, your gay is showing.

Sherlock, your love is showing.

Sherlock definitely kept this locked in his mind palace.

"I can't keep my hands to myself, I mean, I could, but why would I want too?" - is so John Watson coded.

[elinordash]

PURSUIT TO ALGIERS (1945) Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes & Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson

[poppypirate]

I'm listening to lady carfax part 3 again, and some follow-up ruminating...

1. The argument is INCREDIBLE in terms of character revelations and development, though I tear up every time I think about it. I feel like this was the healthiest representation of how hard being Sherlock is for Sherlock, and the fact that Watson is always there, constantly dealing with it, while trying to be true to himself

3. Sherlock's rant about addiction definitely seems to colour his frustration at the case, but he isn't ranting ABOUT addiction - he's mad at the way Penny's creditors and lenders were, in a way, exploiting her very harmful vulnerability for their gain. And that is a very interesting new dimension, because I wonder if Sherlock is speaking from experience and has been taken advantage of before? It's very typical of Holmes to have a soft spot for the "weak," but still, I'm just very curious about Sherlock's life before he met John (and about his relationship with Lestrade!) and I wonder if this has anything to do with it

4. The ups and downs in poor John's character growth are killing me because it keeps making me dread that the Final Problem is drawing closer, and I'd much rather pretend that particular elephant in the room didn't exist. Because like, John's silliness was getting to me till the last episode, but at least he was happier and more secure than ever. But now, with the arguments reigniting his insecurities, and the reference to people who loved him always dying in the past, the reinforcement that Sherlock really loves loves him, and then that dAMN VOICENOTE... JUST KILL ME WONT YOU

5. Is that Indian classical fusion music I hear in the background at the Egypt cafe :))

6. I listened to them making up like five times in a row and I'm sobbing dont ask whats wrong with me I don't know

7. John showing a bit of his bamf side when they're confronting Peters is giving me life. Also Sherlock has such a good criminal-threatening voice jesus (its hot im sorry)

8. The voicenote made me cry again. Also idk if im reading too much into this, but the final sound is that of a door closing and i dont like it. I just do not want John having any more voicenotes from people he loves wasnt sign of four enough

[colonelmajorkepler]

i too was like john in that i couldn’t stop smiling listening to his voice note

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

Oh I'm sure this exchange won't come back to haunt John after The Final Problem when that number becomes 3!!!!!

[sygneth]

just a bunch of doodles from the past weeks

figuring out how to draw them again

[icarusdiesatdawn]

in tears