#sherlock holmes characters

[queerclarkkent]

Watson Looking at Holmes like he is the whole world tm moodboard

Images: Watson looking at Holmes smoking, from afar

Watson looking at Holmes smoking, from up close

Watson watching Holmes think

(A three pipe problem)

Watson tending to Holmes' minor head injuries

Text: say that again? I'm sorry. I got distracted by your little manerisms, how you pronounce certain words, and the way your eyes light up when you talk about something you're passionate about, and started my day dreaming about spending my life making you laugh, and feel loved and cherished

They are beautiful, and gay, and I will hear nothing against on it

[laurenillustrated]

Mystery Inc. meet Holmes and Watson!

I am having a lot of fun with this Victorian Scooby Doo au!!

[contact-guy]

The Empty House - part 4

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

Holmes is quoting Dante's Inferno - there were so many good lines to choose from, but this one had a little bitchiness to it that felt character appropriate.

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

[d3ad-squid]

Every single fucking time… can’t you allos just be happy with what you’ve got????

[nexomy]

Listen I know John Watson was originally ACD's self insert or whatever, but let's be real, Watson and Doyle would fucking deck it out. Like "WDYM YOU KILLED MY BOYFRIEND?!"

"HE'S AN ANNOYING PRAT!!"

"AND??? I LOVE HIM???"

"YOU SHOULDN'T! I HATE WRITING ABOUT HIM!!!"

"WRITING ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES IS MY GREATEST PRIVILEGE YOU UNGRATEFUL FUCK!"

[kugisakiss]

Furuya Rei's friends and the (bad) examples they're still leading from beyond the grave

I was debating a different ending and ended up going with this one, but here's the other one too for fun:

[kagilasgilas]

Little 221B Baker Street character line-up but it's slightly different every time I cross-post.

Quite satisfying to see them side-by-side like this 🙂‍↕️

[tsukihasnolife]

The Blue Carbuncle 🪿

[moroniccats]

Does anyone else ever think about just how QUIET Watson is? He talks much more in later canon, but he’s mostly very silent, soaking everything in.

Maybe it’s just that he doesn’t write his own reactions very often, because he thinks that he’s less interesting to the reader than Holmes.

But Holmes mentions that Watson has a “grand gift of silence” so I think he’s just a quiet guy.

It does add to the idea that I’ve built up in my head of him, that he’s this strong silent man, very stoic and very steady.

Which is a really interesting contrast to Holmes, who is constantly MOVING and TALKING. In fact, I think that it creates a conflict within both characters’ personalities. Holmes’ mannerisms are loud and hyperactive; but he’s the one who notices things, and is the thinker. Meanwhile, Watson is a quiet listener, but he’s also the man of action. He is stubborn and passionately emotional, as opposed to Holmes who is more calm and calculating.

I literally have no clue where this whole essay came from lol

[sekaithemystic]

i call them the autistic adhd trio, or police nightmares, whatever works best

[queerclarkkent]

You have to be at least slightly sympathetic towards Gregson and Lestrade, because he's like, yes I'm a detective, I solve cases, and maybe even save some lives doing it, and that's the day to day, that's the job

And then Sherlock Holmes snorts a line of coke, jumps up on the table, starts posturing about how deduction and detective work is in his blood and how he will literally due without it, claims detective work is better than food, sleep and love, and comments about how Lestrade clearly hasn't used laundry detergent as thoroughly as he ought, based on the state of his cuffs, and solves every case on Lestrade's desk without looking at them, by the set of Lestrade's shoulders and the pinch of his eyebrow, and then tells all of Scotland yard that they are stupid, and they are children, and they are stupid children, and, like an aristocrat, who has his own cane shoved where the sun doesn't shine, flirts minutely with a cute veteran doctor, and then collapses and complains how he's bored, and Lestrade is left to deal with the woes

[foenixed]

Media: Here's an aroace character! We didn't use the word aroace because it didn't exist when our media was made but we did explicitly say this character has never been attracted to anyone and does not possess any emotional feelings attached to sex or relationships.

Fans: Well actually since they didn't use the word aroace (which didn't exist when the media was made) this means that their lack of attraction is somehow not innate and can be fixed by meeting the right person (please ignore how this perfectly mirrors homophobic "you're not gay you're just struggling with same sex attraction and you'll meet the right one someday" rhetoric) and that right person is (looks for closest friendship this character has) is someone of the same gender so this character is gay and if you disagree you're homophobic.

[dangcrabbit]

Do you like my creatures

[queeringclassiclit]

Which adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is the most queer?

*not including House M.D. because it's not really an adaptation, or any overtly queer pastiches like My Dearest Holmes or The Adventure of the Furtive Festivity because that's not really a fair contest

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

Holmes and Watson / Tristan and Isolde

BBC Radio 4's Sherlock Holmes, The Devil's Foot (radio drama transcript) /// Granada's The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Red Circle /// Metafictional Monday: Tristan und Isolde, @teaformrholmes /// Brayton Polka, LIEBESTOD: On Love and Death in Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde", p. 246 /// The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett /// BBC Radio 4's Sherlock Holmes, The Devil's Foot (radio drama transcript)

[ghostbees]

The Red-Headed League

After Watson’s statement in “A Scandal in Bohemia” that he had both married and settled in practice, the rest of the stories create a very contradictory entanglement of facts. The Doctor’s marital affairs are confusing, to say the least. In “The Five Orange Pips”, he refers to a wife, although the events take place before their first meeting. Mrs Watson is then granted a few occasional scenes but is more often conveniently out of the picture, and she disappears completely post-hiatus, although a later mention of an unnamed wife is made in the Holmes-penned “The Blanched Soldier”.

Watson’ medical activities are even more puzzling than any number of wives we choose to marry him to. In “The Stock Broker’s Clerk", he tells us he purchased a small practice shortly after his marriage that he dedicated himself to restore to its former glory, as by the time of the Boscombe Valley case he has a “fairly long list” of patients. But the events of the League take place shortly after, and he confesses his work “is never very absorbing”. The Doctor’s habit of pawning off his patients to his neighbour(s) when Holmes engages him on a case of interest surely did not help to retain them. Watson might have found, like his literary agent Dr Doyle, that it is difficult to pursue a career as a doctor while trying to gain success as a writer.

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