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Happy belated summer solstice! Which means another glorious round of @holmestice! I got to draw something for the inimitable Coat who requested a @beekeeperspicnic fanwork, which I had very conveniently just finished playing. The text is a quote from an E. M. Forster letter.

There were just so many great offerings this round, as always, so you should have a nosey yourself and maybe... join us in the winter round? I very much enjoyed this other Beekeeper's Picnic piece by... also Coat, you can never get enough of a Lion's Mane remix. Obviously, I am still not over my incredible gift, a beautifully written The Case of the Silk Stocking story by @althusserarien. Other favourites of mine were this neat G&S crossover, a gorgeous Abbey Grange rewrite, a dreamy Rathbone scene, and this amazing post-Hound Granada story with a touch of later Raffles.

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Watson art by the phenomenally talented lovely person @haedraulics

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A hundred kisses on Baker Street stairs 💕

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It’s 2025. BBC Sherlock ended 8 years ago. The last season was so bad the fans didn’t even want to talk about it when it came out. Occasionally a post resurfaces where we all laugh at struggling to plug our phones in and being called alcoholics. Every time, there are more and more people in the comments who don’t get the joke. There are two currently airing Sherlock Holmes audio dramas that both portray a queer Holmes (as well as several other excellent queer characters), and one of them now has Holmes and Watson in a canonical romantic relationship. There’s an adorable crowdfunded short film where Watson plans Holmes’ birthday party and they flirt with each other, share a bed, plan their retirement, and kiss on the mouth. A video game about retired beekeeper Holmes just released where he arranges a romantic picnic so he can finally tell Watson how he feels. A popular graphic novelist just released the first part of a queer comic book retelling of the complete Holmes canon and had to do several rounds of preorders because she kept selling out too fast. Sherlock is garbage and here’s why has 15 million views on YouTube. Nature is healing. ❤️🐝

Edit bc I forgot to drop the names: The podcasts are Sherlock & Co and Fawx & Stallion aka @224bbaker (the one with the canon gay relationship.) The short film is called The Adventure of the Furtive Festivity and it's on youtube. The video game is @beekeeperspicnic and it's on Steam. The graphic novel series is by Molly Knox Ostertag, aka @contact-guy) Please feel free to drop any other queer Holmes adaptations I may be missing.

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Would you buy a t-shirt with this design:

H-O-T-T-O-G-O

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Happy 164th Birthday, Arthur Conan Doyle!

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Happy Sherlock Holmes Day Everyone!! 🔍💚

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And no surprises please

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Got this super cute commission from @baruyon, thanks again Baru!

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Such a pretty house

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A night in 221b Baker Street - The observer and the observed

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This piece was created with all the love I have for Sir Conan Doyle's detective and his biographer. Over the last six months my knowledge of Sherlock Holmes went from barely there to quite extensive (including but not limited to the stories themselves and the real life of victorian middle class people)

I'm quite aware this piece is anything but perfect but I've poured a lot of love (and time) into it.

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Fav Screenshots 2/?? Granada Holmes - Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes

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New Sherlock Holmes adaptation idea: Watsondoes a voiceover narration of the story and it frequently contradicts what’s happening onscreen. Sometimes it’s literally just blatant lies. Watson also frequently looks into the camera like he’s on the office. It’s set in the original Victorian era so this should not be possible. He’s the only character who does this.

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New Sherlock Holmes adaptation idea: Watsondoes a voiceover narration of the story and it frequently contradicts what’s happening onscreen. Sometimes it’s literally just blatant lies. Watson also frequently looks into the camera like he’s on the office. It’s set in the original Victorian era so this should not be possible. He’s the only character who does this.

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Watson Wednesday: That thing he does when he’s thinking.