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Listen I love a Sherlock Holmes with self-worth issues and difficulty verbally expressing his deeper emotions as much as the next person, but consider: a Sherlock Holmes who knows he's in love with Watson -- a Watson who hasn't worked out his own feelings yet and who then goes and marries a woman. Consider, a Holmes who, when Watson finally does figure out his own feelings for Holmes, throws himself fully into showing his love for Watson. Consider, a Watson who is more hesitant to verbally express his love for Holmes -- to speak poetically and romantically of Holmes the way Holmes speaks of Watson (conductor of light, etc). Consider, a Holmes who makes Watson feel safe to step outside the strictures of expected Victorian gentleman behaviour, who does not think less of him for his disabilities, or for his softness.

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Brainstorming something retired (and transgender) for @very-sincerely-yours-zine

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doctor, soldier, poet, lover

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“My dear Watson,” said the well-remembered voice, “I owe you a thousand apologies.”

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i cannot fucking believe that my victorian literature course gave me a hyperfixation. i feel like i'm accessing the primordial core of all yaoi

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The Sign of Four

If we take a Watsonian approach to events, he and Doyle must have met before 1886, as by then the latter had sold the publishing rights to A Study in Scarlet. In light of Holmes’ subsequent international fame, that £25 doesn’t seem like much, but for a novel that had limited success, it is still a welcome addition to Watson’s small pension of 11s. 6d. a day.

Readers had to wait six years between the events of this first adventure and their publication, and they would have to wait over two years to hear of Holmes again. Perhaps, once split between the two doctors, the money wasn’t really worth the effort, or maybe Watson was too busy between getting married, setting up a practice and assisting Holmes on hundreds of cases to sit down and write anything up. The next story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", was released in the newly founded Strand Magazine only a few months after Holmes' disappearance.

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A Study in Scarlet

Wilhelmine Norman-Neruda (1839–1911), later known as Lady Hallé, was a virtuoso solo violinist who, like Holmes, played on a Stradivarius. She was an international star at a time when the instrument was still seen as ‘unlady-like’.

As many have noted before, Chopin never wrote any pieces for solo violin, nor was he part of Norman-Neruda’s usual repertoire. If she did perform a Chopin piece, it would most likely have been as an encore or during a private concert, and would have to have been arranged before the events of A Study in Scarlet.

Theories range from assigning specific Chopin (and controversially non-Chopin) pieces to the vague “Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay”, to suggesting that Holmes never actually said “Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay”. In Vera Mazzotta’s extensively researched article for The Watsonian (Vol. 5 No. 2), she selects Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 34 No. 1. In the 1989 BBC Radio adaptation, the problem is solved by removing any reference to the composer and using a piece from the more recent Carmen.

I’ve always been content to think that Watson would remember the composer but not necessarily the tune, and the “little thing” could be, well, anything Chopinesque, yet there still remains a probability that Holmes himself, who has been guilty of misquoting once or twice, could as easily get it wrong.

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i can't believe arthur conan doyle wrote this scene

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Breaking into Milverton's house

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Covers of some of Sherlock Holmes’s works. ✍️

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At the beginning of this year, I felt that I was due for a Holmes refresh, as I had become a bit rusty about some canonical points. So I picked up my Annotated and decided that I would go though it again, and perhaps take some notes, or even do a comic if the mood strikes me. Well, the mood did very much strike me, and I thought I should do one comic per story to make a neat series of sixty-ish. A bit out of nostalgia, mostly to brush up my knowledge, retrain my hand, re-engage with scholarship, and have a project to work on that is methodical and self-contained. 

They’ll be posted, as usual, here, vaguely weekly. I've also set up a substack newsletter for people outside of Tumblr, so I’ll be crossposting between the two.

The new comics will exist separately from the ‘original series’ (2012-18), as I'll be changing some character designs, sticking to a template, and editing them in a cohesive way. I am also planning to collect them in printed form when I am done.

I want to thank everyone for your continued interest and support. I’m always so happy that my little sketches have such an appreciative audience and to have made so many friends through them. I do hope you enjoy this fresh take on some old adventures!

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But you will come with me tonight?

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Before whom you may speak as freely as before myself.

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Eep

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“You will not apply my precept,” he said, shaking his head. “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” —The Sign of Four

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“An epiphany, Watson!”

i seem to cant help but draw watson’s loved ones all over him

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their asses are NOT making their valentine's day dinner reservation