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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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i can't imagine saying my son became a car seat and blew up and died but he really died becoming a car seat last week i just can't

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He said that he’d rather have anyone but you. Anyone.

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sorry

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molly and greg to are the token heterosexual ship of bbc sherlock tm and i blame the sign of three because they’re actually so sweet in this episode

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Sometimes a picture speaks a thousand words

[Image ID: a screenshot of the Wikipedia for queerbaiting. The first picture on the page is of Sherlock and Watson from BBC Sherlock. End ID]

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merry sherlock shooting magnussen out of his love for john and being willing to sacrifice himself to ensure his safety and a happy new year 🩷

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you don’t have a girlfriend then🙋❓💁🏼‍♀️ no ❌ not really my area 🗺️🚫 oh right 👀🤨 do you have a boyfriend 🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓ which is fine by the way ✅✅✅🙂‍↕️✅🌈❤️ i know it’s fine 🤨😶🫢🫥 🫠👀😶🧍🧍so you’ve got a boyfriend then ✅👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 no ❌🙅 right ➡️ okay 👌🏻 you’re unattached 🫵🏻❌💍 like me 🥰😅👀🫥 good 🙂‍↕️👌🏻

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“It says everything about their relationship: it says what the bond is and the care is, and it’s everything they don’t say to each other but [John]’s allowed to say thinking that [Sherlock]’s not there. That’s where, as a romance, it’s an incredibly British affair. There’s an awful lot of beautifully understated subtlety and nuance to it.” —Benedict Cumberbatch (ASiB DVD commentary)

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john being so down bad for sherlock after the first meeting was really throwing us in at the deep end of his danger kink. he meets a stranger who inexplicably knows everything about him and goes home and writes "So tomorrow, we're off to look at a flat. Me and the madman. Me and Sherlock Holmes." like hes doodling their initials together in a diary. full government names because he means business. i know he got hard typing each letter of that mans name individually with his index fingers. outrageous

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before i watch tfp tonight i want to make sure you all know that the single most absurd frame of the entire show is this shot right here from trf:

how did you get an E in there???? that's not even an element!!!! why are the names glycerol and glycine in different fonts, in different places? (no factual errors there, though, those are both common names for the same molecule.) "propane 1,2,3, triol" ok mostly correct but you're missing some hyphens. "3 hydroxyl (OH) functional group"? there is no reason to further specify that after both showing the structure and giving the iupac name. also you forgot a "s" at the end there. you're just throwing chemistry jargon on the screen. how did you replace an H with an E, i just want to know. never mind sherlock's dialogue later of mentioning how there was "the glycerol molecule" sdlfkjsdj no-one talks like that! just say you found traces of glycerol! WHERE DID THE E COME FROM?????

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helloooo this is a MASTER POST of my Sherlock Holmes annotations, aka shitpost doodles of my favorite parts with occasional headcanons. I will pin this so it's available and update it as I go because this feels like it's becoming a full series, god help me.

I'm reading the stories in the order they occurred (according to Baring-Gould, who I am currently arm wrestling in the astral plane over how many wives Watson had) so that's how I will present them!

EDIT: decided to draw them in the order that makes sense to me, Baring-Gould you’re too silly

EDIT 2: this is basically a webcomic at this point, with ongoing continuity and a romantic storyline that can be enjoyed if you read in order. I did not intend this, but I have Sherlock Holmes disease and there's only one cure (doing this)

EDIT 3: content warning/advertisement depending on your temperament: this series gets into one of my big interests, historical queerness, period accurate homophobia, and how laws around queerness affected lived experience. it also has things that you can expect from a Sherlock Holmes story like: drug use involving needles, violence, flagrant use of old timey guns, and people dying in shocking and mysterious ways!

Copies of Volume 1 can be purchased here! (restocks coming soon)

A Study in Scarlet 🩸

The Speckled Band 🐍

The Resident Patient 🩺

The Noble Bachelor 👰

The Second Stain 📮

The Reigate Squires 📝

The Dancing Men 👯‍♂️

Silver Blaze 🏇🏻

The Six Napoleons ⚫️

The Red Circle 🕯️🪟

The Greek Interpreter 🩹

Mycroft Interlude 🎩

The Beryl Coronet 🥪

The Yellow Face 🙂

The Hound of the Baskervilles 🐺

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

-Part Six

-Part Seven

The Gloria Scott ⚓️

The Valley of Fear 🏰

-Part One

-Part Two

Shoscombe Old Place 🎣

Charles Augustus Milverton 💌

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

The Copper Beeches ✂️

-Part One

-Part Two

The Sign of the Four 💉

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

-Illustration

-Part Six

-Part Seven

The Cardboard Box 📦👂🏻

Second Interlude 💒

A Scandal In Bohemia 💃

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

The Stockbrokers Clerk 🦷

The Engineer’s Thumb 👍🏻

The Crooked Man 🦝

The Naval Treaty 🌹

The Five Orange Pips 🍊

The Man With The Twisted Lip 🧽

-Part One

-Part Two

The Boscombe Valley Mystery 🪨

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

The Dying Detective 🦪

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

Christmas Eve, 1890 🎄

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

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must a piece of media be “good?” is it not enough to first encounter it aged thirteen and have your brain completely rewired forever?

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Old Man Yaoi Tournament Round 2

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You know the drill: genderqueer!Holmes (after a night with Watson...) wearing eyeliner and lipstick