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Something so gay abt writing a book about how amazing your best friend is

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Just thinking about this scene from Three Gables again, a very normal thing to do

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sorry i was researching the author of a victorian book about raising children and now i'm fascinated by her. clear my schedule we're talking about lydia maria child.

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Sherlock Holmes (2009)

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If I was John Watson and this was my roommate and our first interaction was him grabbing my cufflinks and pulling me to his desk to show me his experiment, and he’s giggling and jumping around as he does so.

I’d kill myself…like I can’t handle all that I just got out of Afghanistan

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Holmes is a sweet and kind man who cares about the well being of other people

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Holmes does not appreciate Watson paying attention to anything that isn’t him for over a minute. Including:

1) Fictional characters

2) His wife

3) His patients

4) An actual corpse

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JB Holmes study

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Watson opens The Copper Beeches by going 'we were having a perfectly normal and nice morning when Holmes decided to bully me out of no where and for no reason, calling my writing trivial garbage which wasn't worth his massive ego, and then went on to lament that the criminal classes were awful at being criminal and that there was nothing interesting happening'

And all I can think is god, Holmes please apologize for whatever it is you did to make Watson so mad at you, he's in complete control of your public image

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"The Dancing Men"

Another one of those "what seems innocent at first actually turns out to have sinister connotations" mysteries that Doyle and Holmes are both so fond of. A series of dancing men, would appears to be children's drawings, is causing no amount of endless stress to a man's newlywedded wife, and it is up to London's premiere consulting detective to determine what they mean.

I would call this one solid. It has a nonchalant introduction that ramps up into something tragic, an explanation that makes perfect sense, and a methodology that proves Sherlock Holmes is quite genius. I think for the novelty alone of Sherlock Holmes being a code breaker, I would recommend that you read it, but amongst the other mysteries I think it pales in comparison to some of the good twists out there.

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I'm watching Elementary for the plot

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“We had a pleasant little meal together, during which Holmes would talk about nothing but violins, narrating with great exultation how he had purchased his own Stradivarius….this led him to Paganini, and we sat for an hour over a bottle of claret while he told me anecdote after anecdote of that extraordinary man”

SOOOOO many things to unpack here. Most obviously: AUTISM BABY. Holmes’ most prominent special interest (besides ash, of course) is music, particularly violins. He talks about this stuff for an hour straight (also he’s probably a little tipsy, I love the idea of drunk Holmes just infodumping about his special interests)

I also LOVE thinking about how SHERLOCK HOLMES IS OBSESSED WITH PAGANINI IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE ARE OBSESSED WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES.

And the fact that Watson LISTENS to all this. Not only that, but he ENJOYS it. He finds spending time with Holmes pleasant, not a chore to get to the cool deductions. He’ll listen to Holmes talk about violins for hours BECAUSE HE WANTS TO. And that warms my heart.

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LET HIM IN HES A VINTAGE QUEER

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even if that means violin concerts at 4am and fights about cocaine on a regular basis