#studies in sherlock holmes

[holmesoldfellow]

1940 Studies in Sherlock Holmes plaque

[winter-wise]

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".

[vampyrholmes]

the way they stand after this guy produces what is around $40k in modern USD gets me every time. watson looks like he’s gonna puke and holmes look like his ears started ringing. if watson could say ‘what the fuck’ he would’ve

[xxjewellynwatts]

LMAOO AM I IN A SHERLOCK EPISODE OR STHG???????

[holmesunenthusiast]

I feel like no one ever talks about the one scene in Study in Scarlet where we find out that before Watson met Holmes he was, in fact, a FAN OF DETECTIVE FICTION?? He got insulted when Holmes started hating on Dupin and Lecoq. He had faves. The FIRST thing he told Holmes when old dude said he was a detective was "oh like my blorbos! :D" and Holmes told him "your blorbos are shit". Like we talk about Watson being enamored and a d1 glazer all the time but we don't talk about the fact that he MANIFESTED ts into his life. Soulmated so hard that Holmes was his favorite genre before he even met him.

[maslickonachlebik]

AWW THEY LOOK SO CUTE IN THIS VERSION

[livingforthehopeofitall02]

Excuse me Mr Arthur Conan Doyle, explain why I’m sitting here blushing at Watson making Sherlock blush

And Sherlock seems so happy to be complimented each time too

It’s so cute, I don’t even need fanfiction to queer-ify it.

[holmesiswheretheheartis]

"Watson is the normal one."

You mean the guy that upon being warned by Stamford that Sherlock Holmes was a bit of a weird guy, rubbed his hands together and said he couldn't wait to study him? He's the normal one??

[moroniccats]

Does anyone else ever think about just how QUIET Watson is? He talks much more in later canon, but he’s mostly very silent, soaking everything in.

Maybe it’s just that he doesn’t write his own reactions very often, because he thinks that he’s less interesting to the reader than Holmes.

But Holmes mentions that Watson has a “grand gift of silence” so I think he’s just a quiet guy.

It does add to the idea that I’ve built up in my head of him, that he’s this strong silent man, very stoic and very steady.

Which is a really interesting contrast to Holmes, who is constantly MOVING and TALKING. In fact, I think that it creates a conflict within both characters’ personalities. Holmes’ mannerisms are loud and hyperactive; but he’s the one who notices things, and is the thinker. Meanwhile, Watson is a quiet listener, but he’s also the man of action. He is stubborn and passionately emotional, as opposed to Holmes who is more calm and calculating.

I literally have no clue where this whole essay came from lol

[sinagingan]

Le John Watson study

[224bbaker]

Close enough happy 144th anniversary Sherlock Holmes and John Watson!

[dr-graf]

"A Study in Scarlet" part 1

[sherlockianscholar]

watson: what a tragedy.

*looks at the victims face*

watson: damn, he's so ugly, he must've had it coming

[ponkydraws]

It’s really funny to me that in the BBC version Sherlock is introduced as this badass intimidating cold hearted genius who saw straight through John without lifting a finger while in the original ACD story he’s just really fucking excited about his own discovery, speaking excessively, jumping around in excitement, super enthusiastic about sharing a flat with Watson and is - quote - “a little queer in his ideas”

[bunnyryuz]

there's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

[letsdropdeaduniverse]

Do people still remember Ambient mixer? The site where you can listen to sounds without login, without any commercial breaks? https://www.ambient-mixer.com/

Where the imprint of old fandoms remains

oh boy

It's a time capsule for sure. It's so rare to find sites these days that are there just for fun instead of trying to steal your data or hide things behind a paywall.