#sherlock holmes adaptation

[karl-von-moor-official]

okay guys, give me your favourite lesser-known Sherlock Holmes adaptations. And I'm not talking granada holmes or sth, I'm talking real niche. I'm talking Sherlock Gnomes type under-the-radar adaptations!

gimme.

[dantemegau]

This is going to sound very Grew-Up-On-Superwholock-Tumblr of me , but:

The copyright of the Sherlock Holmes novels has expired. I somehow expected there to be a main stream canonically queer Sherlock Holmes adaptation by now?

[jenijro]

Edit: I should have specified that you can go based off your own headcanons, if you have your own headcanons for this, that is.

[tremendously-crazy]

i genuinely don't know how to phrase this but like

i need to see more ACD Holmes adaptations. I want to see a series that's huge like how BBC Sherlock was, but one that doesn't mess with the story so much. In my opinion, BBC Sherlock doesn't accurately capture the iconic essence of the original Holmes. It's a decent show in it's own right, but it's just nowhere near as good as the original stories, especially when it comes to representing how Sherlock Holmes actually behaves in the original tales. (Not to mention the obvious queerbaiting).

I want to see the REAL Sherlock Holmes get famous. Yeah, everyone knows who Sherlock Holmes is, but it's usually a very general idea full of stereotypical detectives, huge pipes, and "elementary, my dear Watson!" (which is not an actual line in the original stories, anyway)!!

Like imagine some kind of tv show/movie for the stories. A fully-fleshed visual representation of all the stories. (while fixing problematic parts, obviously, because there are MANY problematic parts) with an actual PLOT to keep the masses entertained, while still showing the original, enthralling character of Sherlock Holmes.

[girlsin221b]

Jade again.

First off---it's really cool that there's a couple of you here already. Seriously, I haven't even started adding art yet, I thought it'd be dead until that happened.

But anyways, I promised I'd include the list of what Shirley's into, so... here ya go.

Shirley’s Incredibly Niche (or not-so-niche) Interests:

Fiction podcasts (favorites are Welcome To Night Vale, The Magnus Archives, Midnight Burger, Wolf 359, The Amelia Project, and The Case of the Greater Gatsby)

Goth cabaret/folk/generally weird music (favorites are Aurelio Voltaire, Charming Disaster, Tom Lehrer, Twin Temple, the Crane Wives, the Oh Hellos, and Fish In A Birdcage—when it comes to classical music, it’s Saint-Saëns, Chausson, and Philip Glass)

Indie animation—the more obscure, the better (favorites are Vampair, Lackadaisy, Monkey Wrench, Spice Frontier, Far Fetched and Who Is Olive McGuire)

Cult classic films (favorites are The Princess Bride, Rocky Horror, Labyrinth, Repo: The Genetic Opera, Clue, and Treasure Planet)

Old-school mystery novels (favorites are Miss Fisher and anything by Agatha Christie—I’ve been debating introducing her to Knives Out, which she somehow has never heard of)

The Addams Family (specifically the OG Chaz Addams comics, the 1960’s sitcom, and the 1990’s movies)

Shipwrecked Comedy (it has some Starkid actors and big D&D names in it from time to time, so there’s an instance of my interests and hers colliding in a weird way)

Jane Austen, Mary Shelly, and Anne Brontë (not Charlotte or Emily Brontë, though, she gagged when I asked her about them)

This TV show called Leverage (she promised she’d show it to me, but she hasn’t told me what it’s about, just that she’d think I’d like it)

Art history (I don’t mean, like, gothic art history, or Asian art history, or whatever—I mean art history, period)

Botany (she has a Venus Flytrap named Cleopatra)

Dead bodies (for some ungodly reason)

Anthropology (something about unraveling the ongoing mystery of the human condition, I dunno, I wasn’t fully paying attention)

Lots of stuff she learned for her criminology degree, forensics especially (she doesn’t believe in criminal profiling, though, which I guess is a good sign)

Puzzles (the girl’s phone is ninety percent puzzle apps of ranging difficulties)

Math (she sees it as a puzzle on its own, I do not get that, I am dreading all of my math classes)

Cyphers (I’m pretty sure that one of her goth rings is a decoder)

Zoology (mostly when it comes to animals that have some sort of poison in them)

Archeology (she won’t admit it, but I’m like 99% sure she was a dinosaur kid)

Museums (art, history, and science are all fair game, and I’ve promised to take her to OMSI if she ever visits Portland)

Learning new things in general

[theadventuresofjamiewatson]

ANNOUNCEMENT: TAJWASH Season 3 Is Happening

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[wrenmkingsley]

You know how you set out to write a nice normal horny romantasy series and it works alright for one book (well, kinda alright, most romantasy books don't feature anthrax) and then you blink and you're writing a sherlock holmes adaptation trilogy set in 19th century fantasy italy with political intrigue and murder and disability and drugs and they don't even get together in it, at least not in the first book, instead there's early 2010s TV levels of men yearning after one another totally platonically and you're breaking all the rules of genre and publishing, because weird unclassifiable books like that don't sell, but that's okay because the idea gripped you by the throat and refuses to let go and there's nothing you can do about it now so why bother?

You get it, right? Happens to everyone, right?

[deconstructthesoup]

Well, the poll only got two votes... but I'm in the mood for some sapphic sleuthing, and I have a feeling that if I play my cards right, people might actually care about this. So---

The Girls In 221B: A Modern, Sapphic, (Mostly) Genderbent Sherlock Holmes Adaptation*

*This is only what I've figured out so far, and some details might be subject to change as I make my way through the OG novellas

I've been vaguely wanting to do my own take on Sherlock Holmes since my early teens, and three things inspired me to do it now---watching Elementary with my grandparents and falling head over heels for Joan Watson and Jamie Moriarty, watching Psych with a friend of mine and immediately getting addicted to the impeccable character chemistry, and listening to the wonderful podcast Sherlock & Co. as it releases in real time. I highly recommend all of those adaptations---especially Sherlock & Co, it's underrated as hell---but I do also hope that you'll give mine a shot... or, at least, hear my early ideas out.

Let's start with showing you my designs for our Watson and Holmes (done in HeroForge, of course, because I cannot draw):

(Shirley's hair isn't accurate, by the way---she's supposed to have Wednesday-Addams braids, but that's not an option in HeroForge, apparently)

The story is set in Vancouver, Canada, and both girls are twenty-year-old students at UBC---Jade is an American kineseology major who's just transferred from Portland State, and Shirley is a British mortuary sciences major who, due to having skipped four grades as a kid, already has a criminology degree under her belt. After they're introduced via their mutual friend, they wind up becoming roommates out of necessity more than anything, renting an apartment above a bakery called Hudson's. Jade quickly learns that Shirley is attempting to start her own P.I. business... and things escalate from there.

(More details underneath the cut, please read if you're interested!)

Putting My Own Spin Onto Watson And Holmes

To start---yeah, I know that "Jade" isn't exactly the first name you'd pick for a genderbent version of a character called "John," but "Jane" felt boring and there's only one Joan Watson in my heart, so... Jade it is. Plus, it basically handed me a color scheme on a silver platter.

I decided that Jade would be a kineseology major because my very dear friend, who draws character art for a lot of my stories, is also a kineseology major, and I could pick her brain for accuracy when the time came. However, this led to Jade slowly collecting traits from said friend---she became an artist and a D&D nerd, her job turned into a position at a climbing gym due to a love of bouldering, she got a well-loved car that's older than she is... hell, she even wound up with insanely long hair that she keeps on forgetting to cut. But unlike my friend, Jade is also a punk who's been struggling with anger issues and mostly-untreated ADHD for most of her life, as well as incredibly strict and overbearing parents who are both ex-military. She's had a lot of burnouts and crash-outs in her life, and her moving to Canada is partially motivated by a need to start fresh and stop putting the expectations of her parents above everything else. Also, all of the members of her D&D campaign live in Vancouver, so. There's that.

With Shirley... look, as much as I would've loved to give her a more original name, the name "Sherlock" really gives you no other choice but Shirley when you genderbend the character. I dunno if giving her the middle name "Lockwood" makes up for that, but I did my best.

Right from the get-go, I knew that I wanted Shirley to be a reflection of the Holmes found in the original Doyle novellas---which is to say, she is a very kind, polite, and overall well-mannered individual who nonetheless happens to be the most bizarre and unhinged person you'll ever meet. I also knew that I wanted her to be goth, so... Shirley wound up having the style of Wednesday Addams, and the overall personality of Morticia. Naturally, she's incredibly smart and has had a lifelong interest in crime, but I've expanded that to include both a deep-seated desire to understand the human condition and an incredibly strong sense of justice. Also, while I know it's all but an established fact that Sherlock Holmes wouldn't really be interested in fiction... I physically can't write a character who's capable of resisting the allure of fictional worlds. So, Shirley is a fan of horror and sci-fi podcasts, campy cult classic films, and obscure indie animation---as well as well-written mystery novels, of course, Agatha Christie being her favorite. All that being said, Shirley is ruled by her curiosity and her wits, to the point where she has little-to-no self-preservation skills... and though she dresses well, she doesn't really do a good job of taking care of herself, often forgetting to eat, sleep, or drink anything other than coffee, which she's low-key addicted to. And the fact that she has a triple dosage of autism, OCD, and anxiety means that Shirley can be very hard on herself when she fails at anything.

The Girls In 221B, as a private detective agency, is meant to cater to those who don't have anywhere else to go---people who've been wrongfully accused, people who the police have ignored, and people whose cases are just too... weird to take to anyone else. More often than not, Jade and Shirley wind up butting into police investigations, and their shared hatred of cops shows up on full display. The girls have an ongoing bet going on about how much they can piss off the local law enforcement.

And speaking of that... that's a nice segway into our next segment:

Characters I've Adapted

While there are plenty of ways for Holmes and Watson to meet---like, say, Elementary making Joan start out as Sherlock's sober companion, or Psych having Shawn and Gus be childhood best friends---if you're aiming to be close to the novellas, you need a Mike Stamford to introduce the duo. So, naturally, the first character that I made was one Mika Santos, who knows Jade due to being her Discord DM and knows Shirley due to having shared a couple of classes with her when she was still working on her criminology degree. Mika's twenty-five and fully graduated from university, and while they have a pretty thriving YouTube channel dedicated to D&D tips, homebrew ideas, and crafts, their "day" job is a lighting technician for a local theater. By nature of being one of Jade's closest friends and just an overall bright person who likes to get involved, they're probably gonna be a lot more active in the story than most other versions of Mike Stamford, and... yeah. I'm excited to see where they go.

You already know that the girls live above a bakery called Hudson's, and yes, there is an actual Hudson involved---namely, Hudson Tremblay IV, a very large, very bombastic, and very slightly overworked man who's recently inherited his family's bakery and is doing his level best to keep it afloat... even if that means also becoming a landlord. Hudson's a pretty cheerful and sweet guy, but he is also juggling fifty different plates at once, and he has a stubborn streak to rival Shirley's, which is definitely saying something. He definitely has a soft spot for Jade and Shirley, though, and they get no shortage of free pastries.

I wound up splitting the character of Lestrade into two---obviously, there's Captain Gordon Lestrade of the VPD, who is a hardass and hates the fact that there's a couple of amateur sleuths barging in on his investigations, but featured more prominently is his daughter, Georgina "George" Lestrade-Narakuma. George was Shirley's roommate when the two of them were freshmen (well, when Shirley was a freshman the first time around), and she wound up adopting a kind of big-sister role out of concern for this shrimpy little girl genius who seemed hell-bent on getting herself killed. She and her dad don't really get along for a number of reasons---George decided to live with her mom after the divorce, she dropped out of university and switched to trade school instead of becoming a cop, she doesn't exactly approve of her dad's methods or his job in general---but he does update her on his cases as a way of reaching out, and occasionally, George will pass those updates along to Jade and Shirley if she feels like they'd be better suited for it.

Speaking of cop characters---or, well, characters who were originally cops but are not cops in my version---we also have Tabitha "Tabby" Gregson, George's anxiety-riddled paralegal girlfriend. I don't know that much about her yet, but I do know that she's a bit distrustful of Shirley when the story first starts, seeing her as a bit of a bad influence on George. This isn't a view that's going to stick throughout the whole story, of course, and Tabby will definitely soften towards Shirley---in no small part due to her and Jade getting along like a house on fire. I'll probably have more ideas surrounding Tabby as I make my way through the novellas, so stay tuned.

Though we don't meet her until a little later in the story, Shirley does, in fact, have an older sister---Miranda Holmes, a once-rising political star who has inexplicably decided to quit politics and live a quiet life... a quiet life that happens to take place in a suspiciously nice townhouse, and all of her highly expensive tastes are met with seemingly no trouble at all. Shirley is dead-set on somehow confirming her suspicions that her sister is involved with something illegal, but the truth is, without giving too much away, kind of the exact opposite. In the meantime, Miranda often calls Shirley up to check on her, and the conversation almost always ends in them arguing and Shirley hanging up on her midsentence. They've got some stuff to work out.

I'm going to have to read more of the novellas to learn more about Wiggins and Langdale Pike, but I do know that they're kind of a duo in this story---Wiggins is a formerly-homeless hacker who was one of Shirley's first-ever clients, and Langdale is a plucky young journalist who's managed to write quite a few stories about Shirley's exploits. They're roommates, they may or may not be dating or queerplatonic partners, and Shirley calls them whenever she needs their expertise. (Oh, also---Wiggins uses he/they, and Langdale's a trans dude.)

Lastly for our non-antagonist adapted characters, we have Marty Morstan, Jade's old elementary-to-middle school friend who she lost touch with after they went to different high schools (and, uh, quarantine). I'm still figuring out his exact role in the story, but I do know that while Jade does have a "holy shit, the guy who talked me out of eating paste in kindergarten grew up to be super hot" moment, I'm not intending for their relationship to be romantic---in fact, I think Marty might be the one who initially points out how Jade feels about Shirley. From what I've figured out so far, Marty's a very chill, easygoing guy who gets in over his head pretty easily, and definitely doesn't expect to discover any secret family history when he contacts the girls about a problem he's been having. Honestly, I might tie him into this story's version of Sebastian Moran, just because... look, it's absolutely ridiculous that there are three characters in the Holmes stories with last names that start with "Mor," and I'm going to do something about that.

Characters That Are Entirely Mine

Just to pad out the cast---and to give Jade some actual friends---I created a few characters that are gonna show up a lot, so... here they are.

First off the bat, we have Mika's longtime girlfriend turned fiancee, Daria Lisowski. She's a cosplayer by night and an accountant by day, and she's famous for her dry wit and her allergic-to-BS-attitude---both of which make her come across as a bit abrasive when you first meet her, but she is a very loyal friend to have, and she's got kind of a cool-older-sister vibe to her. Daria's also pretty damn passionate about everything she does, and when she and Mika collaborate on something together, you can't help but get swept up into their energy.

The other members of Jade's D&D campaign are named Katie and Anoosh---I don't know a lot about them yet, just their names and vague impressions of their general vibe, but I will be coming up with more as I write this story, so... yeah.

And with probably the most frequently-seen original character in the story, we have Lawrence Chen, Hudson's husband. He's a criminal defense lawyer who mostly does pro bono work, and he winds up bringing a lot of his cases back to Shirley... usually unintentionally, but that's what happens when you have a practically fearless private detective living across the hall from you. Lawrence tends to present himself as a fairly calm and levelheaded individual, but anybody who knows him well knows that he's got a truly wicked sense of humor and a hidden sense of chaos that rivals Hudson's. He's frequently informed Jade and Shirley of legal loopholes that they can use to conduct their investigations. Of course, Lawrence is also constantly trying to convince his husband to reach a better work-life balance, which... is a bit of a struggle.

Antagonists (At Least, Those I've Figured Out)

Honestly, for spoiler reasons, this is mostly just for my version of Irene Adler---who becomes an ally eventually, anyway, but they deserve their own little spotlight.

In public, Ira Adler is most well-known by their drag persona The Woman Irene, famous for their campy, over-the-top opera renditions, cutting social commentary, and incredibly extravagant wigs. In private, however, Ira is a thief, and they exclusively target the incredibly wealthy---kind of like Robin Hood, except that they don't exactly give what they steal away when we first meet them. They're very much a "look out for number one" kind of person, and it's only after they meet Shirley and Jade that they decide to expand their horizons and do some good deeds... and even then, it does take a while for the girls to fully trust that they're attempting to turn a new leaf. Ira's just the epitome of that fun, morally grey, maybe-they're-not-trustworthy-but-they're-such-a-vibe character that I personally love to see in fiction, and they also happen to be one of the few people out there who matches Shirley in terms of wit. Which is partially the reason why Shirley decides to start trusting them later on.

I don't know if I'm gonna include a version of Milverton (and if I do, trust me, I'm killing him off quick), but I do know that there's gonna be a version of Sebastian Moran. I just... haven't figured out the details.

And as for Moriarty... I split the character into two like I did with Lestrade, and that is all I will say about it. For now.

Uh... yeah! That's what I got so far!

[beatophonecalls]

Careful, he bites.

[ladyarthem]

I need an all fem Sherlock Holmes movie directed by Greta Gerwig and I need it now.

[fei-rest]

The Baker Street Irregulars in my Sherlock Holmes adaptation project playing Jianzi, a traditional Chinese game. The one on the left is Wei Guanyi (Wiggins) and the one on the right is Archie Remington.

[studyinspectrum]

Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse, 1983 Animated film, directed by Eddy Graham

2024 edit: here's the trailer for the movie. the movie is easy enough to find online otherwise but i can't directly link to it because it could be taken down for any reason.

what's up? been a bit. i've been busy. turns out while i can consume a sheer metric ton of sherlock holmes and mystery content, doing the research and writing for my review essays can take up a huge amount of time.

that huge amount of time was instead spent finishing up the rulebook and playable mystery for a mystery tabletop rpg i wrote, called FICSion: Episodic Mystery RPG. this is one of the projects i alluded to in my "productive" mission statement for A Study in Spectrum. i want to write mysteries, and mysteries people can play as games! so i did that. there will be more of that.

i have been working on more reviews, but now that it's been a hot second since i consumed the media i was gonna review i might have to give myself a refresher again. could be a bit before the next post, this one was something that just caught my attention.

last night youtube recommended me the video at the top, an animated adaptation of Hound of the Baskervilles. so i watched it. and it has consumed my thoughts since then. up top i'll frankly admit this is not a particularly good movie, it doesn't have that good of voice acting or animation, it's more or less a direct adaptation of the story and you'd probably have a better time reading the book than watching this, and yet. there's a quality to it. i don't know what it is. maybe we can figure it out. Content Warning for Hound of the Baskervilles is as follows: animal neglect, animal abuse, animal death, domestic abuse, lying about being married

check out the rest of the review on my bearblog here!

[dangcrabbit]

When they make Sherlock Holmes and Irene Norton née Adler have sexual tension I get so angry that steam comes out of my ears. First of all that woman has a lovely husband whom she risked her well-being and outsmarted royalty for. Second of all, she’s like Lana Del Rey to Sherlock Holmes. He keeps a photo of her in the way stan twitter has screenshots of their fav artists. This is not a heterosexual dynamic.

[theadventuresofjamiewatson]

A sizzle reel + an announcement

[deconstructthesoup]

To my followers who have any interest in my oc/D&D content (which I know is not a lot of you, and that's okay, I'm not an artist and I know that's a hurdle when trying to get folks interested in your ocs):

The Damsel & The Damned: An elven maiden trapped in a tower decides to make a deal with a demon in order to escape, the demon has to make a pact with someone or else they're literally gonna die. The main ship is ace4ace, it's got a lot of fun gothic fairytale tropes, it's set in a steampunk-meets-D&D world, and I'm very attached to all of the characters.

Altered: A former teen-vigilante superhero has been in prison for 20 years for supposedly murdering her mentor, but then she's let out by an agent of a superhero-monitoring organization who's determined to help her prove her innocence. Lots of found-family vibes, exploration on how superheroes and supervillains would almost certainly be exploited on both sides if they existed, the two main characters are an aro lesbian and an enby ace with a fairly solid partners-in-solving-crime dynamic.

The Girls In 221B: I try my hand at a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, and I of course make it sapphic. Watson (Jade) is an artistic punk who's finally making steps to get away from the influence of her ex-military parents, Holmes (Shirley) is a goth genius who's attempting to start her own P.I. business despite only being twenty and still in university, and whoops they're now roommates. (I have a feeling that this might get the most votes)

[holmesunenthusiast]

I feel like no one ever talks about the one scene in Study in Scarlet where we find out that before Watson met Holmes he was, in fact, a FAN OF DETECTIVE FICTION?? He got insulted when Holmes started hating on Dupin and Lecoq. He had faves. The FIRST thing he told Holmes when old dude said he was a detective was "oh like my blorbos! :D" and Holmes told him "your blorbos are shit". Like we talk about Watson being enamored and a d1 glazer all the time but we don't talk about the fact that he MANIFESTED ts into his life. Soulmated so hard that Holmes was his favorite genre before he even met him.