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inexplicably love the moments in Soviet Sherlock in which the actors start looking right into your soul

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Restarting my heart for John Watson

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EXACTLY what I thought when I read that yesterday. Also, how was the snake supposed to use the rope, precisely? Like dude, it's not a gecko lol

First of all, can't really train a snake, not how it works, especially not to a whistle. Second, what? What was the milk for? What was the snake doing with the milk?

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One of my favourite ACD stories has got to be The Speckled Band. You'd think it couldn't get any gayer, and yet it does every time you flip a page.

- "we were sharing rooms as bachelors..." Mhm mhm I see what you did there

- Holmes wakes Watson up, again, at crack-dawn standing at his bed like slenderman, and before Watson can really get annoyed he just goes "case" and his boswell immediately replies "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything"

- then Watson starts gushing about Holmes and his way of working

- meanwhile Holmes greets the female client essentially with "Hi so this is my boyfriend don't even try it with him"

- they go to investigate the place the client's sister died and Holmes declares: "both my friend and I must spend the night in your [single bed-] room", okay bro

- then they share *one* bedroom at a nearby hotel

- the entire conversation about Holmes worrying for Watson's safety

- them waiting in the bedroom for nightfall: "...and [let us] turn our minds to something more cheerful."

- the entirety of the following investigation

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Direct quote from A Study in Scarlet: "Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to live with. He was quiet in his ways, and his habits were regular."

And yet nearly every adaptation (especially the more modern ones) play into the 'arsehole genius' trope and make Holmes a bad housemate.

I cannot accept 'bad housemate' Sherlock. Not when the first conversation he ever has with Watson is when he ensures that they compare habits to see if they'd be a good fit for sharing a flat.

When adapting Sherlock Holmes, I can only accept one of two things:

Holmes is genuinely a good housemate, or

Holmes is weird as hell, but there's something equally wrong with Watson to the degree that Holmes will be doing science experiments with poisons in the kitchen at 3am and all Watson does is glance at it and go "ah such quiet habits, I'm so lucky to have found such a good and reasonable housemate".

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I literally just noticed this again today! And Watson always describes it as "Holmes is already fully dressed at half past seven and I am Annoyed at it" but immediately switches to "I'll follow you to the ends of the earth" once Holmes goes "I actually might need you on this-"

Reading Sherlock Holmes and there are so many scenes where Holmes is just at the foot of Watson’s bed, wide awake at a questionable hour like, “Hello, my dear Watson! I have studied bicycles all night!” What a little cryptid.

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It’s crazy to me that people read Sherlock Holmes’ obsession with Irene Adler as romantic when it is so clearly the same kind of obsession that gay men have for Lady Gaga

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Sometimes a family isn't a mom, a dad, and children. Sometimes, it's two confirmed bachelors living together as roommates for 30+ years, their landlady, and a small army of feral orphans they've adopted off the street to help them solve crimes

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This is where Alone on The Water comes in, I believe

i'm not the kind of person who has headcanons about a character's cause of death post-canon but i swear to god if anything killed sherlock holmes it wasn't some criminal mastermind or the great war or anything mighty like that.

it was lung cancer.

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"bbc sherlock was bad" this "rdj sherlock was too violent" that.

what if I love them all? what if I am hugging the best and the worst sherlock holmes adaptations close to my chest simultaneously?? what if I'm kissing Jeremy Brett on the forehead and holding hands with Sir Ian McKellen behind his back?! what then? Can you blame me for loving them all? What if I'm so in love with the overall concept of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson that I do not care whether they're Arthur C. Doyle's versions straight from the books or some new iterations in a true crime podcast!

I'm collecting them. Rows upon rows of adaptations in the shelves of my mind. They're all here.

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That scene haunts me in my dreams and I haven't rewatched Granada in months

The scene in “The Final Problem” where Watson is fixing Sherlock’s wounds and he jumps🥺

He’s such a humanoid cat LMAO

He looks EXACTLY like this 😭😭😭

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One of my favorite things about Holmes is that there is no correct interpretation of his character. I’ve seen adaptations where he’s cold and aloof and has fully convinced himself that he’s incapable of love (he’s not) and would rather die than ever admit that he’s ever had a moment of emotional weakness. I’ve seen adaptations where he’s a total ADHD mess and extremely goofy and isn’t even that good at hiding his emotions, he’s just bad at communicating them. I’ve seen adaptations where his character flaw is that he takes everything too seriously and versions where he doesn’t take anything seriously enough. And the best part is, they’re all accurate!! They can all be who he is. The only wrong way to interpret Sherlock Holmes is if you make him heterosexual.

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It's so funny how Watson literally starts The Musgrave Ritual off with complaining about how messy Holmes is. "I mean, I'm already far from neat, but this guy? I love this idiot to death, but if he puts his tobacco in the persian slipper one more time I swear I'll shove it up his arse!"

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Please™ make this happen I beg of you

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

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"Of course he's not the boy's father, look at the turn-ups on his jeans!"

Holmes would love reality tv

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i love them so bad