#sherlock holmes society

[holmesoldfellow]

Sherlock Holmes Society Christmas card for 2022

[protectionsquad24601]

Sherlock Holmes, despite being one of the most adapted characters in media, is almost always characterized differently than in the source material. Despite having a habit of unnerving people with his deductions, and his distaste for the police force, Sherlock Holmes is canonically good at reassuring people, gets along amicably with clients, and has an affectionate relationship with Watson. However, he is almost always adapted to be extremely stoic and unable to interact with people in a regular fashion, as is a common trope with genius characters. Whether being smart but socially inept is a caricature of Savant Syndrome or a result of an effort to create flaw in a character whose skills were not balanced out with much deficit, it is clear that Sherlock Holmes has been the subject of much transformation in the public consciousness, straying from the envisioning of Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle. Is this modified personality better, creating a more well-rounded and interesting character? Or, does it instead stereotype and boil down the traits that, left alone, made Sherlock Holmes the quintessential star of detective fiction, restorting to trite and digestible cliché? In this essay I will

[spooksicl-e]

society if they leaned into the friendship that i KNOW john watson and bill murray had

(he’s married)

[shit-sorry-fuck-mybad]

Liking Dead Poets Society means watching Dr. House because Robert Sean Leonard is in it and discovering that he’s also gay in this one

[voilaammayi]

Sherlock Holmes at any given moment:

[oxenfreeao3]

This is your semi-regular reminder that fanfic is mainstream.

And I don’t mean, “oh, we talk about Ao3 more openly now.” I mean fanfic is paid for and distributed by major publishing houses.

Like, what do people think books like “The Song of Achilles” even are?

I will holler about this until I’m dead:

The delineation between “cringe” and “not cringe” hinges entirely upon copyright law.

You can publish New York Times Bestselling Fanfic so long as your source material is old enough.

[drac-kool-aid]

I've talked about it in some tags, but I'm thinking more on it, and I really do believe that there is something.....mmmmm supernatural and particularly gothic going on with the impersonation game Dracula is playing.

The eerie supernatural double was actually a very big theme in gothic literature as well as folklore of the time. Hell, two very famous deaths (Abraham Lincoln and Percy Shelly) have doppelganger sightings attached to them (although whether or not they are true or just added on postmortem to further sensationalize the event, I do not know).

Basically, you or someone you are close with seeing your double (whether that be a doppelganger, ghost, evil twin yet unknown, an actor doing a supernaturally good impression, etc) was a very ill omen and often one of death.

Not really sure where I'm going with this, but tl;dr Dracula impersonating Jonathan isn't just a part of his grand plan to isolate and drive him to rely on Dracula, but in fact a long standing trope of Gothic literature likely tied to the inherent horror that your own identity can be taken from you with nefarious results.

[imbleedingink-blog]

a dark academia reading list

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Enola Holmes Books by Nancy Springer

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Circe by Madeline Miller

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Arthur Conan Doyle

People Like Us by Dana Moyle

The Ivies by Alexa Donne

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

[marksandrec]

Marks and Rec: Misc #2556

Nice try, though. (Dialogue from Bluey.)

[gilgamushroom]

"Then it makes it the easier for me to propose that you should come away with me for a week to the Continent."

"Where?"

"Oh, anywhere. It's all the same to me."

Congratulations to Mr Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H Watson for pioneering the world-renowned, game-changing trope in queer media of: "RUN AWAY WITH ME PLS PLS PLS I PROMISE IT'LL WORK OUT" <- it won't work out

[holmesoldfellow]

Sherlock Holmes Society Christmas card for 2020 by Laurence Pernet

[foxcort]

vampire!nesta and werewolf!tamlin but its late victorian/early edwardian era

"Shackles? In a wine cellar?" She stood at the threshold of an open cell door, a hint of amusement glinting in her eyes when she flicked them up to meet his. "Hardly a proper thing to reveal to a lady, your nighttime . . . activities."

"Ah." His mouth curved into a slow grin as he leaned against the iron bars, and when he spoke again his voice had gone rough. "But you're no lady, are you?"

[schrodingersachillesheel]

YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR HAIR AND YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND THATS JUST THE WAY IT GOES YOU CAN SAY GOODBYE AND YOU CAN SAY HELLO

BUT YOULL ALWAYS FIND YOUR WAY BACK HOME (the fandom that started it all)

[poetrybypuck]

Flatmates and roommates in love. That’s all I need.

[one-hell-of-otaku-is-here]

Sometimes I think about all of my dark academia (both books and movies) characters interacting with each other... they are almost all murderers and need therapy... I love chaos which would ensue

[watt-in-the-world]

it’s 2:30 am and i made a gender envy collage. funnest part being that i’ve identified as a cis girl my whole life and i only get gender envy from men or traditionally masc presenting non-binary people. gender identity crisis moment