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Some pages from my book of pressed flowers

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19th c. book cover with mother of pearl

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the Illustrious Client - part 4

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

meanwhile, with Holmes and the estimable Miss Winter...

"I knelt by the injured man and turned that awful face to the light of the lamp. The vitriol was eating into it everywhere and dripping from the ears and the chin. One eye was already white and glazed. The other was red and inflamed. The features which I had admired a few minutes before were now like some beautiful painting over which the artist has passed a wet and foul sponge. They were blurred, discoloured, inhuman, terrible. ... I could have wept over the ruin had I not remembered very clearly the vile life which had led up to so hideous a change."

As the story goes, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle had dinner together once in 1889. Doyle left with new inspiration for his detective character, and wrote the second Holmes story, the Sign of the Four (in which we see a much more languid, witty, cocaine-using Holmes...Wilde's influence?). Wilde left with inspiration to write The Picture of Dorian Gray, a story which uses very similar language to the above passage to tie together ideas of beauty and sin with horror and portraiture. I like to think that this passage in the Illustrious Client was Doyle paying homage to his old (and long-dead at time of publication) friend.

One (or maybe two, can't decide) more part to come!

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

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‘“Who’s Teddy?” Asked Holmes.

The man leaned over and pulled up the front of a kind of hutch in the corner. In an instant out there slipped a beautiful reddish-brown creature, thin and lithe, with the legs of a stoat, a long thin nose, and a pair of the finest red eyes that ever I saw in an animal’s head.

“It’s a mongoose!” I cried.’

Watson is so absolutely delighted by seeing a mongoose, it’s adorable.

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ACD straight up giving up on trying to remember whether Watson was shot in the arm or in the leg:

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Apple of my eye

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Devil’s foot guy being like “if you’ve ever loved you would understand why I did what I did” and Holmes having flashbacks to earlier when he must have thought he’d killed Watson by accident with his stupid poison burning before letting the guy go is actually so special to me

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Can you draw Holmes in pajamas... pretty pretty please

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continuing the they’re so in love it’s making me ill saga. i don’t even have words anymore look at holmes’ smile y’all

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they love each other so much im SICK

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the Illustrious Client - part 3

Part 1

Part 2

He gave no explanations and I asked for none. By long experience I had learned the wisdom of obedience.

Next update, we will have the displeasure of meeting......

On the shorter side this week, sorry! Come see me at SDCC if you're so inclined...I'll have a few copies of the Sketchbook Volume 2 to give away at my signings.

"I am here to be used" is a canon line which makes me dizzy every time I read it.

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

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the Illustrious Client - part 2

Part 1 here. Holmes has been investigating the (allegedly!) murderous Baron Gruner...

The blind was three quarters down, but one ray of sunlight slanted through and struck the bandaged head of the injured man. A crimson patch had soaked through the white linen compress. I sat beside him and bent my head. “All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.”

forever obsessed with the way in which this story stands in conversation with THE DYING DETECTIVE. More to come!

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

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“Really, Holmes… you could at least open the curtains.”

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figuring out how acd sherlock holmes looks like to me…. and some granada holmes too