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my phone freezing because the storage got too full when I tried to download the entire TJLC Explained youtube playlist is pretty convincing that there is overwhelming evidence.

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God I love Sherlock so much. How is it possible to care for a fictional character like this. 🥹🥹 He has a grip on so many people - so many people care about him... yet in his iterations I doubt he feels that way...

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ACD A Study In Scarlet - The first crime involves a love story. Lucy Ferrier and Jefferson Hope (a young hunter) could not be together due to a controlling community.

In this case, John compares Jefferson Hope to a bloodhound. John also describes Sherlock as a hound two times, and Sherlock refers to himself as a hound once. Jefferson Hope / Sherlock mirrors?

The depth and length of the long ahh romanticized s’John’s-taking-liberties story about “The Great Alkali Plain” seems to serve as a set up to reveal the depth and amazement John has about Sherlock’s deductive abilities that John is trying to show the audience.

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A “Study” In Scarlet is just as much an investigation into the murder as it is Watson and Holmes studying each other. Sherlock is a mystery John is trying to unravel, (and vice versa for Sherlock, I would assume, even though this is John’s narration - based on Sherlock picking noon to check out 221B for the first time because John sleeps in later, Sherlock’s deductions of John being in Afghanistan, and Sherlock recommending John get some rest…etc).

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Here are some examples of quotes that seem to relate to this idea of John studying Sherlock in ACD’s A Study In Scarlet.

“‘Oh! a mystery is it?’ I cried, rubbing my hands. ‘This is very piquant’. I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. ‘The proper study of mankind is man,’ you know” (p. 19). - John

“‘You must study him, then,’ Stamford said, as he bade me good-bye. ‘You’ll find him a knotty problem, though. I’ll wager he learns more about you than you about him. Goodbye’” (p. 19).

“‘Good-bye,’ I answered, and strolled on to my hotel, considerably interested in my new acquaintance” (p. 19).

“As the weeks went by, my interest in him and my curiosity as to his aims in life gradually deepened and increased. His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer” (p. 20).

“…yet he possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments” (p.20).

“The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavored to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself” (p. 20).

“I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much of my time in endeavoring to unravel it” (p. 20).

“Again I had the opportunity of asking him a point-blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me forcing another man to confide in me” (p. 22).

(Followed by a whole section of Sherlock yapping… so Sherlock would have been more than happy to answer if he had asked)

“Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind” (p. 36).

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror” (p. 37).

“My mind had been too much excited by all that had occurred, and the strangest fancies and surmises crowded into it” (p. 36).

“Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so” (p. 21).

“I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his brows down over his eyes” (p. 46).

(Why would John be focusing on his lips unless he has some definite end in view / some very good reason for doing so?)

“There was no need for him to ask me to wait up for him, for I felt that sleep was impossible until I heard the result of his adventure” (p. 39).

(Quote page #’s retrieved from “The Complete Sherlock Holmes” published by Doubleday & Company, Inc).

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A Study In Scarlet ACD -

“Lucy was silent, but her blushing cheek and her bright, happy eyes showed only too clearly that her young heart was no longer her own” (p. 61).

Compared to John’s descriptions of Sherlock in the same story:

“My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them. I had already observed that he was sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty” (p. 34).

“His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination” (p. 18).

(Using a “The Complete Sherlock Holmes” published by Doubleday & Company, Inc)

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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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Wait, wdym when Watson titled the story The Empty House, he wasn’t referring to the one across the street, but to 221B itself? The place that, for him, had been truly empty for the past three years?

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“Yes, I have been guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one ‘Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccoes.’ In it I enumerate a hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco, with colored plates illustrating the difference in the ash. It is a point which is continually turning up in criminal trials, and which is sometimes of supreme importance as a clue...To the trained eye there is as much difference between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluff of bird’s-eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato.”

“You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae,” I remarked.

“I appreciate their importance. Here is my monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses. Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, corkcutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers. That is a matter of great practical interest to the scientific detective—especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or in discovering the antecedents of criminals. But I weary you with my hobby.”

“Not at all,” I answered, earnestly. “It is of the greatest interest to me, especially since I have had the opportunity of observing your practical application of it.”

- The Sign of the Four

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Sherlock Holmes Canon Content Analysis

My Holmie @cinny13 and I ran a content analysis on the Sherlock Holmes Canon, running through each "suspicious" description Watson gives of Holmes's hands. So this means "Holmes clapped his hands" does not apply, however "long thin hands", absolutely does. After gathering all the relevant passages (thanks to the author's personal annotated edition of the Canon), we have quantified the qualitative data.

That Watson may have an obsession with Holmes's hands is obvious. In future when I run over the Canon again I think it would be relevant to compare all of the hand descriptions, with all the rest concerning Holmes's body (e.g. "sinewy neck" or "gaunt limbs").

Anyway, I advocate for using science on the Sherlock Holmes Canon. Never stop being insane because this is what the world truly needs at the end of the day.

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

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I've been thinking about this all day.

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we really should stop calling them conspiracy theories. they are fucking deductions that just haven't been proven yet

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basically i'm spending my summer doing research. my life is kind of a mess. i don't know what i'm doing but yet we persist.

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Sherlock wanted to live with him so bad 😭

Bro was on his best fucking behavior:

played john all his favorite songs

polite and lovely ahh

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ACD a study in scarlet - bro sherlock is so lovely in it 😭 his habits are regular and he rises before john. he's also very sociable with people. love that both sherlock and john tell each other they are lazy.

john saying sherlock is strong, describing his hands, his eyes 🙂‍↕️🥰