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whats you're favourite Sherlock Holmes media of all time?

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My personal interpretation of the engineer's thumb is that Watson really wanted to try out writing a thriller/horror but knows that the only ways he gets his writing published is if it's a Sherlock Holmes story, so he decided to just write his little thriller anyway and then dress it up as a Sherlock Holmes story, which is why the detective does jack all

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

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unpopular opinion but i think a ship that's not canon but both halves are canonically insane about each other is infinitely better than a ship that's canon and boring

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sherlock’s drag name would be miss tery (mystery)

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Oh I'm sure

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LMFAO I love that your immediate assumption of the work is just

Watson, medically working on a client's finger: you know who else has fingers? Holmes 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Client: ... Well yeah I sure hope so 😟

Okay but of all the stories Watson could pen why tf would he choose The Engineers Thumb 😭😭 absolutely fuckall happened. Dude showed up without a finger, told them an insane story from the POV of one of those ugly stress toys that get exploded in hydraulic press tiktok bot videos, and...? That's it 💀 they tried to find the criminals and the MFS already burnt the house down and escaped. The only thing Holmes deduced was that the murderers don't live eight miles from the station but actually just two feet. No payoff. Victor didn't even get his money. 90% of it was a grwm storytime while my doctor sews up my finger and I tell you about the time I almost got flat stanleyed. The titular thumb wasn't even there.

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this pastiche from 1895 is indistinguishable from any hiatus brain crackfic you’d find on AO3 today

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Raffles and Bunny are such a mess, my god. They're the perfect disasters for each other. Their relationship is like a train wreck in slow motion stuck playing and rewinding on loop.

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really saddening to me how much disservice people do to sherlock holmes as a character by trying to make him cool. hes a fucking dweeb, put some respect on his name

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yeah that’s probably what he means

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being queer and seeing historical queer love is like a punch to the gut in a good way every time

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Something about the resolution of Holmess best cases always bringing people together (Sign of Four, Boscombe Valley, the Yellow Face, etc.) but for him they only ever drove people away.

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Shihori Kanjiya as Wato-san, for the next issue of The Watsonian.

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Target audience reached at unprecedented speeds @eccentric-stingray

Do you ever watch a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, and the moment John Watson comes on screen go:

"Yup. That's a John Watson. That is, 100%, no doubt, a John Watson."

YES ABSOLUTELY, personality aside Watson's appearance is super important for me to get immersed. I just become so hyperaware of the fact that it's an ACTOR when he doesn't look like Watson. For a specific case, one of my fave Watsons (outside of 1 to 1 depictions) would have to be Himesh Patel in Enola Holmes. As SOON as I saw that guy I was like 😮😮😮🫵🫵🫵🫵 YOOOOOO WAAAAATSOOOOONNNNNN

But in general, my criteria is as follows:

Have kind eyes. Not sure if it makes much sense but you've got to see some zest for life and love for humanity in Watson's eyes. Yeah, it can be tinged with sadness, but it's GOTTA be there (I think BBCs Watson failed on this front, but Miss Sherlock's Wato-san nailed it).

Be well dressed. Watson is always describing what people wear and how they look, he's a very aesthetically involved man. He once said he was happy a dude got murdered cuz the guy was just THAT butt ugly. If he's wearing some wack ass clothes im NOT watching 🤦🤦 Holmes can look crazy, but Watson absolutely cannot

Be handsome, but fluffy. I feel like CBS especially has a problem with the second half because Elementarys Joan and Watsons Watson are literal supermodels and I just can't get past it. (I haven't seen either, but a gif of CBS Watson came across my dash and in it he was literally like flexing??? In his SLEEP 😭😭?? enough is enough). I appreciate the effort to overcorrect after years of goofy, cartoonish Watson depictions but I'll take that over this tall mewing gigachad any day of the week.

THE FUCKING MUSTACHE Oh my god why the fuck would you even adapt Watson at all if you're not gonna give him a mustache 😭😭 it's the EASIEST FUCKING THING TO DO. GET A MAKEUP TEAM THAT CAN DO A WIGSTACHE I SWEAR TO GOD I dont wanna see some bald lipped hoe come onto my screen and try to tell me they're Watson get out get out GET THE FUCK OUTTTT

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Do you ever watch a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, and the moment John Watson comes on screen go:

"Yup. That's a John Watson. That is, 100%, no doubt, a John Watson."

YES ABSOLUTELY, personality aside Watson's appearance is super important for me to get immersed. I just become so hyperaware of the fact that it's an ACTOR when he doesn't look like Watson. For a specific case, one of my fave Watsons (outside of 1 to 1 depictions) would have to be Himesh Patel in Enola Holmes. As SOON as I saw that guy I was like 😮😮😮🫵🫵🫵🫵 YOOOOOO WAAAAATSOOOOONNNNNN

But in general, my criteria is as follows:

Have kind eyes. Not sure if it makes much sense but you've got to see some zest for life and love for humanity in Watson's eyes. Yeah, it can be tinged with sadness, but it's GOTTA be there (I think BBCs Watson failed on this front, but Miss Sherlock's Wato-san nailed it).

Be well dressed. Watson is always describing what people wear and how they look, he's a very aesthetically involved man. He once said he was happy a dude got murdered cuz the guy was just THAT butt ugly. If he's wearing some wack ass clothes im NOT watching 🤦🤦 Holmes can look crazy, but Watson absolutely cannot

Be handsome, but fluffy. I feel like CBS especially has a problem with the second half because Elementarys Joan and Watsons Watson are literal supermodels and I just can't get past it. (I haven't seen either, but a gif of CBS Watson came across my dash and in it he was literally like flexing??? In his SLEEP 😭😭?? enough is enough). I appreciate the effort to overcorrect after years of goofy, cartoonish Watson depictions but I'll take that over this tall mewing gigachad any day of the week.

THE FUCKING MUSTACHE Oh my god why the fuck would you even adapt Watson at all if you're not gonna give him a mustache 😭😭 it's the EASIEST FUCKING THING TO DO. GET A MAKEUP TEAM THAT CAN DO A WIGSTACHE I SWEAR TO GOD I dont wanna see some bald lipped hoe come onto my screen and try to tell me they're Watson get out get out GET THE FUCK OUTTTT