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skyriderwednesday · 1 year

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I think it's important to note that the reason the ACD estate was going after authors/adaptations was because of Holmes's personality, namely his capacity for emotion and respect for women in most cases, not because they dared to suggest that he and Watson were anything other than close friends.

Sure, Holmes and Watson can smooch/fuck/whatever as much as you like now, and there is nothing the estate can do about it--

But Holmes also has his full, true personality restored to him now, traits that -- on the whole -- appeared long before 1927.

#sherlock holmes #holmes was getting emotional and defending women DECADES before that #but that's the argument the ACD estate has been using to get projects shut down/altered/to pay up #cos nobody has wanted/could afford to hire a legal team to comb through every page published pre-1927 to find evidence of these traits #(which are very much there- like as early as ASiS he's showing emotion)#(you could argue even that the sign of four - the second time holmes ever appeared in print - is a 'defence of women' story)

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