#the lost files of sherlock holmes

[riddlerosehearts]

the dialogue in the lost files of sherlock holmes: the case of the rose tattoo is like 100 times funnier than serrated scalpel was. i cannot believe they never made more of these games.

[atasteofholmes]

Continuing my journey to play and share every Sherlock Holmes game I can get my hands on, I've started playing the 1996 title The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo!

An explosion at the Diogenes Club sends Mycroft to the hospital, and with Sherlock having locked himself away in grief. It's up to Watson to help find enough evidence of conspiracy to bring Sherlock from his funk and onto the case.

A wonderfully rich point and click adventure using gorgeous pixel art, live actors, and voice acting.

Play the game: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Sherlock_Holmes_-_The_Case_of_the_Rose_Tattoo_1996

[holmesoldfellow]

"The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo" video game for the IBM PC, sequel to "The Case of the Serrated Scalpel" (Mythos Software, Electronic Arts 1996)

[aceredshirt13]

So, upon my friend's recommendation, I recently finished playing The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel, an old point-and-click DOS game that was quite fun and and had some banging chiptuneish music. (Where else could I watch Holmes down two pints in two seconds, ask for another one until Watson stops him, and then immediately bribe every single criminal in the entire pub for information? It's an experience.) As such, I went to download the sequel, The Case of the Rose Tattoo, and found a comment beneath it that I find... baffling, to say the least.

…You mean to tell me that you believe modern depictions of Sherlock Holmes are too autistic? Sherlock Holmes?? The same Sherlock Holmes whose original stories have countless bodies of academic text dedicated to discussing him as an early and extremely prominent depiction of autism? The same Sherlock Holmes that from every adaptation I had ever seen from the moment I even knew what autism was, I thought, "oh he is definitely autistic" before I even knew I was autistic?? If they're playing Rose Tattoo, that suggests they likely also played Serrated Scalpel, and let me tell you I did not get neurotypical vibes from Holmes's depiction in that game, either. A neurotypical Sherlock Holmes is like... just not Sherlock Holmes. If you take that away from him, he is no longer himself. And the media illiteracy to assume otherwise is truly astounding.

[beekeeperspicnic]

Would anyone be interested in me doing an old school style Let's Play of The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo aka the greatest Sherlock Holmes point and click game which will ever exist?

I spontaneously want to relax from making my Sherlock Holmes point and click game by sharing another very good Sherlock Holmes point and click game.

[fancyfeathers]

@zainiscompletelydone333 asked a question

i think my fav dynamic for Sherlock + William's darling is with psych darling. Her deductions or startegies may not be the best Infront of the two, but her moment shines when she is insulting psychoanalysing them and actually being accurate.

Oh she could tell the moment when they are obsessed with her, she had watched William’s behavior from afar during her final year at university and had the opportunity to work with Sherlock when she joined Scotland Yard and she can see the shift in behavior from when she first met them to now as subtle as it is, and with Sherlock and William especially it is practically undetectable to most. Then after she finds out the clock starts ticking because as soon as one of them picks up that she knows it is all over.

I imagine that she has to put in her best facade while she works on getting work abroad which should not be to difficult given all of her recommendations and the fact that she would have graduated as the valedictorian from her university. She only tells the inspector she works for when she gets the new job, a criminal psychologist in a top private detective agency in Paris.

She gets so close, she had one last day on the force and sure she gets dragged along on a trip to York with Sherlock, Watson, and her boss, Inspector Lestrade, after Sherlock is a bit antsy after the Study in Scarlet/Jefferson Hope case. Everything goes alright on her end until she finds William and his brother on the train ride back to London and of course Sherlock already knows him, as if things could not get any worse…

Well they can.

The murder happens on the train and Sherlock and William solve it, with little help from her and Lestrade, the actual police, and the culprit gets caught and arrested. Then as they are about to go their separate ways Lestrade pats her on the back and has to say…

“Well this is certainly an interesting last day on the force for you, Doctor.”

The silence that follows that statement is absolutely screaming.

She just stands there, completely frozen, as William and Sherlock look at her and the inspector. William is the first to ask about what he meant and of course Lestrade has no problem giving an explanation, it is her last day because she is moving away to Paris. She excuses herself from the conversation to return home so she can hopefully have her things packed and she can be on a boat to France before the morning.

Then right as she is finishing packing the last of her things she hears footsteps from behind her and she turns around to see William, and she has no idea how on earth he had gotten into her flat. He walks right in and hands her a file, a case study that she had done on the Lord of Crime for Scotland Yard.

“You are quite intelligent, but you just are not quick enough. I am sorry to say that you lost this game or ours, my dear.”

The next morning a missing person’s report gets filed in Scotland Yard by one of her neighbors, the door to her flat was wide open, all of her suitcases and belongings still there but she was no where in sight, and her case study on the Lord of Crime lay on the ground. There is no trace of her that Scotland Yard can find, but just like in the Study in Scarlet there is something Sherlock needs to see.

Sherlock gets called to the scene and when he arrives the first thing her gets handed is the case study that was found on the ground and as he flicks through the pages he finds an odd page which was clearly not added by his darling, and all it has is a few words penned in neat handwriting that are all too familiar to Sherlock…

Catch me if you can, Mr. Holmes

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

A Roundup of the Kate Conspiracy Theories from Twitter

So you don't have to go down the rabbit hole. Some of them are dark; I'll put those at the end below the cut so anyone who wants to scroll away can scroll away.

(My favorites in bold)

She had a BBL (Brazilian Butt Lift).

She's Banksy.

Botched cosmetic procedure, needed urgent fixing.

William cheated with Rose again and she left him, taking the kids with her.

Hysterectomy + tummy tuck = botched.

Bad haircut/dye job.

Kept a pregnancy secret, delivered by c-section.

Diana's revenge

William lost his temper and beat her so badly that they're keeping her hidden till the bruises/broken bones are healed.

William kicked her out because he doesn't want her to be Queen.

Divorce of the Wales Part Two because William cheated

Bottom surgery

Kate grew a conscience so they had to kill her and are now replacing her brain with AI.

Shelly Miscavige'd

She abandoned and fled to a tropical beach.

She quit the royal family and is touring Britain in a converted transit van, selling dreamcatchers made from her own hair on Etsy to make ends meet.

Kate donated a kidney to Charles in return for becoming Queen soon.

Boob job

She went through a cosmic wormhole and left the Milky Way Galaxy.

Female 007

She's the one with cancer, Charles is faking it so everyone leaves her alone.

Took the kids and moved to Scotland

Growing out bad bangs

Meghan's karmic revenge

They're building a robot clone of her so she doesn't have to work anymore.

Trying to reach the end of YouTube shorts

Coma from botched surgery

The press knows but are under a gag order/injunction and can't report

She was never in the hospital.

William threw something at her, it hit her in the face, needs corrective surgery

Complications from pregnancy and on bed rest

Cholecystectomy/gall bladder surgery

Spontaneously combusted

Tragic accident a la Diana, better cover-up this time.

Charles actually died, it's just an actor walking around until the Waleses are ready to take the throne officially.

Botched BBL using her own stomach fat.

Rehab for alcoholism

Being reprogrammed to accept mistresses

She's playing Celebrity Big Brother

IVF transfer and first trimester HG recovery

Banished/handled by Camilla

Facelift

Bad botox/filler, waiting for it to dissolve

Put out to pasture by the royal family because she's finished having children.

Abducted by aliens

William didn't want to start his reign married to someone he hated, so he left her and is forcing a divorce.

She ran away to Italy

Argument over where George would go to school, William made it physical, she tried to leave

She's in the Princess Protection Program

At Chili's chugging margaritas

Binged too much at Christmas, now trying to lose weight

She wandered off during the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience and is stuck to the ceiling after drinking the fizzy lifting drink and they can't get her down.

Smuggled to America

Mental breakdown from William's cheating

Inpatient treatment for eating disorder

Complicated miscarriage

CPTSD breakdown (complex post-traumatic stress)

All the people that Twitter suggested we need to call to investigate Kate's whereabouts:

Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch edition)

Scully and Mulder (X Files)

Captain Olivia Benson (L&O:SVU)

Charlie from It's Always Sunny

Nanny Jo Frost

Steve and Blue (Blue's Clues)

Sergent Catherine Cawood (Happy Valley)

Rustin Chole (Matthew McConaughey from True Detective)

Harriet the Spy

Luther (Idris Elba edition)

Trevor Rainbolt

Jaz Singh (British Traitors edition)

One final reminder: The really dark theories about Kate are below the cut here.

William went into a drunk alcoholic rage and killed her.

Staph infection/sepsis from the trampoline injury that caused paralysis/amputation

Family annihilation by William

Severely injured in shooting accident at Sandringham shortly after Christmas when an ambulance was rushed to hospital from the royal estate.

Suicide attempt and mental health treatment

William beat her into a coma

[thegreatbigdetectivepolll]

ROUND ONE - RESULTS!

MATCHUPS: -Sam and Max (Sam and Max) VS Eddie Valiant (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

-Basil of Baker Street (The Great Mouse Detective) VS Kuruto Ryuki (AI The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative)

-Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney) VS Lynne (Ghost Trick)

-Naoto Shirogane (Persona 4) VS Hercule Poirot (Agathe Christie's Poirot)

-Professor Layton (Professor Layton) VS Erika Furudo (Umineko)

-Kim Kitsuragi (Disco Elysium) VS Benoit Blanc (Knives Out)

-Dex Dogtective (FoodFight) VS Columbo (Columbo)

-Herlock Sholmes (The Great Ace Attorney) VS Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) Woo! This had quite a few surprises, but here's the results for Round One! I must say, I had a lot of expectations - and just about every single one was blown out of the water. I'm very excited to see the next part! Oh, and one more thing...

Here's the loser's bracket! Those empty spaces are for the next matchup these characters will face.

MATCHUPS:

-Detective Pikachu (Detective Pikachu) VS Batman (DC)

-Iris Archwell (Nintendo's StreetPass) VS Honor Mizrahi (Murder by Numbers)

-Goro Akechi (Persona 5) VS L (Death Note)

-Kyoko Kirigiri (Danganronpa) VS Tohru Adachi (Persona 4)

-Kaname Date (AI: The Somnium Files) VS Lady Love Dies (Paradise Killer)

-Shinichi Kudo (Detective Conan) VS Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew

-Hank Schrader (Breaking Bad) VS Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)

-Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes) VS Amelia Watson (Hololive) and Kyle Hyde (Hotel Dusk) I am implementing a special rule - should a character have to face someone in Losers that they already lost to in Winners, they will swap with whoever is on the opposite side of the bracket. This may come into effect very soon depending on what happens! With that being said, you may notice Kyle and Amelia stacked together. This is because I have decided to keep Kyle, the two are now in a duo slot! No three-way polls, just duo slot for both of them. The three way rule was only ever meant for BBC Sherlock who has been destroyed. GOOD! With that, I'll be announcing the date for round 2 very shortly! Thank you all!

[interact-if]

hello! do you have any interactive fic reccs where the ROs are your coworkers? like in when twilight strikes, novaturient, and project hadea :) thank you so much!

Hi Anon!

Yes, we do! And plenty! See the long list below:

180 Files: The Aegis Project by Karelia Hall

June in Abyss by @abyss-if

Attollo by @attollogame

Citadel by @bouncyballcitadel

Cut The Lights by @cutthelights-if

Greenwarden by @fiddles-ifs

Ari, Caleb, and Magnus in Guilded Shadows (VN) by @streamberrystudio

Herotome (VN) by @herotome

Song in Lost Lambs by @lostlambs-ifgame

Magician's Voyage by @magiciansvoyage

Mousetrap by @gamesbyalbie

Noveturient by @kalorphic

Red Sugar Society by @redsugarsociety

Remember, You Will Die by @vapolis

Secrets of Swatheford by @swatheford

Shepherds of Haven by @shepherds-of-haven

Sinners and Saints by @sinnersandsaints-linwrites

Snakeroot by @cerberus-writes

Supernova: Renegade by @jupitergames-if

Lestrade in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: An Affair Of The Heart by @doriana-gray-games

The Golden Rose by @anathemafiction

The Masked Defenders by @ian-lythe

The Numbers Game by @thenumbersgameif

Virtue's End by @virtues-end

Eddie in Water To Blood by @veirsewrites

When It Hungers by @roast-ifs

When Twilight Strikes by @evertidings

You Live And Fern by @beetlebethwrites

No Demos:

Lucky and Delphinium in Evenfall by @evenfalling

Thank You For Today by @thankyoufortoday-if

Witchsworn by @crimsiswrites

[jamesbracket]

The matchups have arrived!

This tournament includes 96 characters named James, Jim, Jimmy, and Jay (with some others too), and they will all be competing in 6 brackets of 16, and the winners of those will be participating in two semifinals, and the winners of the semifinals will fight each other in the final finals! (Basically, it’s just how I did it on @blue-character-brawl, but with the amount of participants cut in half.)

Here are the matchups:

Bracket 1

Jim Hopper (Stranger Things) VS. Jim Halpert (The Office)

James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Marvel) VS. James “Bucky” Barnes (Marvel)

James Bonde (Moriarty the Patriot) VS. James Blond (Super Mario Brothers Super Show)

Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files) VS. James Bond (James Bond)

Jimmy Carter (Real Life) VS. James Madison (Hamilton)

James Byrd (@byrdsfly) VS. James Byrd (Spyro the Dragon)

JayMoji (Real Life) VS. James Phryllas (Real Life)

Jimmy Z (Wild Kratts) VS. Jimmy T (WarioWare)

Bracket 2

James Baxter (Adventure Time) VS. James (Adventure Time)

Jamestown, Virginia (Real Life) VS. James Webb Telescope (Real Life)

Jim Henson (Real Life) VS. Jim Davis (Real Life)

Jimmy Olsen (DC Comics) VS. Jim Gordon (DC Comics)

Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby) VS. James Henry Trotter (James and the Giant Peach)

Jimmy Neutron (Jimmy Neutron) VS. Shimmy Jimmy (Phineas and Ferb)

James McCloud (Star Fox) VS. Jay Elbird (Ace Attorney)

James (Wii Sports) VS. James (Papa Louie)

Bracket 3

Captain James Hook (Peter Pan) VS. James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Jim Hawkins (Treasure Island) VS. Jimmy Hopkins (Bully)

Jamie Waring (Black Swan) VS. James Flint (Black Sails)

Jamie McCrimmon (Doctor Who) VS. King James IV (Doctor Who)

Dr. James Possible (Kim Possible) VS. Jimmy Pesto Jr. (Bob’s Burgers)

Prince James (Once Upon a Time) VS. James (Princess and the Frog)

jim teacher (This TikTok) VS. Nagasaki James (Noonbit Man)

James March (American Horror Story) VS. James Vane (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Bracket 4

James (Pokémon) VS. James T. Kirk (Star Trek)

James the Red Engine (Thomas and Friends) VS. James P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)

Jamie Fraser (Outlander) VS. James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2)

James Ironwood (RWBY) VS. Private Jimmy (Red vs Blue)

James Rallison (Real Life) VS. James Huckle (The Search for Santa Paws)

Jay Walker (Ninjago) VS. Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul)

Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones) VS. Jimmy Novak (Supernatural)

Jem Carstairs (The Infernal Devices) VS. James Herondale (The Last Hours)

Bracket 5

James Wilson (House MD) VS. Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)

Jim Lake Jr. (Trollhunters) VS. James Hunter (Animal Ark)

James (The Walking Dead) VS. Jimmy (Scott Pilgrim)

James-Roman Grilfalinas (@artificialkids-2k23-official) VS. Jimmy Lightning (Peggle)

Jamie Wellerstein (The Last Five Years) VS. Jamie Winter (Midsomer Murders)

James Holden (The Expanse) VS. James Ford (Lost)

James Garrett (Zoey 101) VS. James Amber (Life is Strange)

Jay Merrick (Marble Hornets) VS. Meanie Jim (Junie B. Jones)

Bracket 6

Jim Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes) VS. James Maguire (Derry Girls)

James Black (Detective Conan) VS. James Gunn (Real Life)

James the Cat (James the Cat) VS. Jimmy the Robot (The Aquabats)

Jimmy King (Emmerdale) VS. Jim Johnman (Monster Factory)

Jame Palrose (Terror Island) VS. Jimmy (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)

James Diamond (Big Time Rush) VS. James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small)

James West (The Wild Wild West) VS. James Maxwell (We Happy Few)

Jimmy Campbell (Bandstand) VS. James E. Negatus (Yonderland)

Round 1 of Brackets 1 and 2 will be going up on Saturday, May 20!

[riddlerosehearts]

some more examples of sherlock holmes: the case of the rose tattoo being a perfect game

[imeternallylove]

Secret - S.Holmes; part seven

Pairing: Sherlock Holmes x Reader

Genre: purely angst, upcoming age and some smut

Warning: none

Word: 2.8k

main mastetlist  | request & ask | prompts | theme song

Chapters index

prologue | part one | part two | part three | part four | part five | part six | part seven | part eight | part night | part ten | part eleven | part twelve | part thirteen | epilogue

Sherlock stared blankly at the words 'Y/N Harris and Zoe Harris' printed out on the report in front of him, seeing the black shapes but failing to focus properly to read. His mind was still reeling from what he'd learned, attempting to absorb and make sense of it all. So he had a daughter: a kid he hadn't even known about for five years.

How could he not notice it? How could you have lied to him and kept such a critical facts hidden from him? You were meant to be his best friend, but did he truly know you when you held the most significant part of your life secreted from him?

If Zoe hadn’t had a seizure today, would he ever have found out that he had a daughter?

His heart clenched in pain at the thought of little Zoe… His daughter. He was a father now. At least he was in title – he hadn’t done anything to deserve being a father. And just when he’d had his first chance, he ran in the opposite direction like a coward. Would he have done the same thing if you had told him you were pregnant all those years ago?

“Sent Susan’s skull back to Bart’s yet?” His flat mate asked, pulling him back to reality and yours with his daughter’s files is what he was supposed to be paying attention to.

As he looked around the flat, he noticed John staring at him with an expectant expression on his face as he set down the grocery bags and returned Sherlock's credit card into the wallet over the stove. "I'm sorry, what were you saying?" The detective stuttered, nervously licking his lips.

“Susan’s skull,” the shorter explained, frowning at Sherlock for a second along with the rest of the flat before carrying on. “I met Molly and the grocery store and she asking for that skull. Maybe tomorrow you go drop her toy there?”

Sherlock just nodded, dropping his gaze to the papers in front of him.

No matter what he did, he couldn’t get the image of you and Zoe out of his head. He didn’t know what to do. Too much was spinning around in his head and he didn’t know what the best thing was.

Should he try and be a father to Zoe? 

Would you want him to?

Would you let him in?

Would Zoe even want him?

A sharp nudge in his ribs brought him back from this thoughts, the kitchen-lab filtering through his vision again. “Are you ok?” John murmured quietly in his ear, a worried expression on his face as he stood against the counter.

He looked at his friend and felt the pressure of his life weighing heavy on his shoulders. He wasn’t ok. He was a lot of things 一confused, angry, hurt, lost 一but definitely not ok. “I need some air,” he gasped breathlessly, feeling like the walls were closing in and suffocating. Without another word, he pushed his chair back and jumped to his feet, grabbing his coat and scarf, stumbling down the stair's then throwing the doors open and sprinting down the street.

All he could think about was that he needed to escape.

He shoved a door open and fell into the cab that just passed him, collapsing into the backseat with his head resting on the cool window. Tried to calm himself down. In the end, he squeezed his eyes while his palm on his mouth, didn’t care that the driver looks back from driver’s mirror …and then he just cried, crying in silence as he could.

“What am I going to do?”

You were distracting Zoe with a game on your phone when doctor Jonathan pretended to knock on the cubicle and pulled the curtain back a little to step inside. He was carrying a brown folder in his arms that you assumed were the results from the number of tests your daughter had been put through and there was a smile on his lips. Did that mean he had good news?

“I’ve got the results back from the MRI scan and the blood work we had done,” he started, opening up the folder so he could rally off some numbers and levels that didn’t make much sense to you. “We think the seizure was caused by an infection,” he announced, looking up from the folder and pushing up his black framed glasses.

You frowned, flickering your gaze from the doctor to your daughter, who had earphones in to block of the hospital noise. “It’s not epilepsy?” You questioned. The first thing that you ran through your head when you heard of Zoe’s seizure, was epilepsy. 

The doctor nodded slowly. “The MRI scan showed no signs of epilepsy whereas the blood tests seem to suggest an infection,” he explained in a calm voice that oddly soothed you. “We’re going to start Zoe on antibiotics and move her up to the children's ward so she can be observed overnight. If the antibiotics start to work and the fever she’s developed reduces, we can think about letting her go tomorrow.”

“And there’s no lasting damage?” you asked, looking back at Zoe and pushing the hair back off her face while she carried on quietly playing the game on your phone. “She’ll be ok?”

“She should be back to dancing around her bedroom in no time,” he laughed, bowing his head before placing the folder with the file at the bottom of Zoe’s bed and closing the curtain behind him.

Leaning back in your chair, you ran a shaky hand through your hair and sighed in relief. Zoe was going to be ok. The heavy weight on your shoulders began to lift and you suddenly found it a little easier to breathe. All the anxiety that had built up like a knot in your stomach started to unravel. The worst was over … at least in terms of Zoe’s health scare.

“What did Mr Doctor say?” Zoe asked quietly, making you look up from your lap. Her face betrayed how tired she was, her usually sparkly eyes dull and drooping low. But you knew she was trying to be brave and hide how terrible she felt, because she was being stupid and trying not to worry you.

You moved closer to the bed and folded her tiny hand in your own. “You’re going to be fine,” you told her with a big smile. “He said they are going to move you to the children's ward and give you some medicine. If you feel better tomorrow, they might let you go home.”

“So we’re having a sleepover at the hospital?” She smiled up at you, but it soon turned into a yawn.

Taking your phone away from her, you plumped up the pillow behind her head and tucked her hair behind her ears. “Yeah we are,” you reassured her, kissing her brow softly. “Why don’t you have a little nap before they move us?”

She tried to resist but after a couple of minutes of soft head strokes, your daughter was out like a light.

With your daughter taken care of, your mind ultimately fell to the other important person in your life. You never meant for that to be how Sherlock found out he was a father. Then again, you hadn’t ever allowed yourself to think about Sherlock finding out. You never expected him to walk back into your life like this, to worm his way back into your heart like he never left. And now he knew, he was gone and you couldn’t help but feel crushed by his absence.

You wanted a chance to explain everything to him so he could understand why you did what you did. It wasn’t that you were proud of your decision but you did what you thought was best at the time: for you, for Sherlock and for your unborn child.

Your phone suddenly beeped alive with a message and your heart soared at the possibility of it being from Sherlock. Since he ran out, you’d tried calling and texting him but everything had been ignored. Quickly you swiped your phone unlocked and opened up your messages, only to find a text from Elle’s mother instead. Your heart swiftly sunk again, throbbing with a dull ache of pain you were getting used to.

Apparently Elle had a card from the whole class and really wanted to see Zoe and make sure she was ok. Holding the tiny tears pf disappointment in the corners of your eyes, you sent a quick message back, inviting them to the hospital in an hour or so once you were settled in the ward. You knew Zoe would love to see Elle, and you didn’t want her to be alone while you went home to gather some things for your hospital stay.

After sending the message to Elle’s mother, you tried calling Sherlock again. So much was up in the air and you just wanted to hear his voice. But all you got was his answerphone …and that’s when the first tear fell.

Sherlock had been sitting on the bench outside the hospital since midnight, deciding whether or not to go inside. He has a pair of cigarettes in his hand, a habit that he brings it along when he needs to think, but he hasn't used them yet.

He wanted to see Zoe and find out how she was doing, but he didn't want to see you. The anguish of your betrayal was still fresh in his heart, and he needed time to gather his thoughts or he'd say something he'd eventually regret. He didn't want to add to the commotion. 

So Sherlock snatched his coat and hopped out of the bench, his scarlet face hidden from view as he hurried into the hospital reception. He said Zoe's name to the receptionist behind her desk and begged her to tell him where she his daughter in the hospital.

"I really apologise, sir. We can only give that information to family members," she replied, with a disappointed smile.

Sherlock clenched his fists and took a big breath. "I am her father. She had previously been hospitalised after having a seizure at school. Please, I need to see her," he pleaded, his lips pinched together.

Squinting at something on the screen, the receptionist began typing on her computer. "Can you tell me her date of birth?" She persisted in her probe. 

The date of his daughter's birthday was now irrevocably ingrained in his thoughts.  Even if he made an effort he couldn't forget it. "September 21st, 2006," he said hastily, trying to relax by loosening his grip and hiding his hands in his pockets.

"They've moved her to the the kid's ward for observations," informed the receptionist. "Take the elevator to the second floor and then follow the blue signs," she responded, smiling.

Sherlock rushed to the lift, impatiently waiting for it to come and then again for it to move up. When it did, and the doors on the second floor opened, he jogged down the corridor, following the blue signs as instructed. He was suddenly outside, gazing in through the window of the door, after being buzzed into the hospital and asking a nurse for Zoe's room.

The room was barely lit by a small nightlight in the corner, but Sherlock could see Zoe well, curled up in a little ball on her side, her head resting on a teddybear. Her hand was connected to an IV line, which was slowly releasing fluids into her body. She appeared tiny and fragile, almost swallowed up by such a large bed. Sherlock couldn't believe she was his daughter.

But when he looked closely, he could see it, the little portions of her that were practically identical to him. Her eyes have a beautiful contour. Her lovely lips' delicate curvature. Her brown hair was splattered across her brow. She had all of your greatest characteristics as well: the same small button for a nose, the same round face, the same small ears that you used to carefully tuck hair behind.

Sherlock instantly realised that he had produced this little child, and that it was also his responsibility; otherwise, he should never call himself a father. 

His attention shifted away from Zoe and rested on you, sleeping sweetly in the recliner positioned as close to Zoe's bedside as possible, your hand extending on top of her blankets to securely clasp her tiny hand. He tried to figure out why you would lie to him and keep such a lovely girl from him, but it only made his heart suffer more.

Sherlock moves his hand over your head, trying to fondle your head with his like he has done for many years before. He holds his breath, hesitates, and his spread-out fingers tighten into a firmly fist. Yet, he loses control in the end, gently tugging your hair away from your face, realising you're fatigued expressly even if you were sleeping just there.

He despised the fact that you'd lied to him, for whatever reason. You are the liar. Sherlock was no longer enraged. He was just hurt, you always pushed him back downward. That's why he believed that just because you had kisses, laying on his embraces, eye contact in the class, or when your cheeks were red when he pulled you sitting on his laps, even had sexual conduct with him, it’s doesn’t mean you have felt the same way he did.

However, Zoe was not born without your blessing. It happened twice when you two were engulfed in ardent lust, and both unprotected. Sherlock is sorely sure that you are still remembered the nights of incredible sex between him and you.

He grabs Zoe's hand and watches her for another seizure, his lips delicately pressing on her back palm, which is so small in compared to his. Sherlock Holmes, he typically has a solemn and dry face whenever he goes out or whatever, but the teardrops on his under eyelids reminding him that he was weak from all, these droplets making his vision hazy and hazier.

Sighing, it was the middle of the night. He had to go to Molly's lab in a few of hours and needed at least a few minutes of sleep to get through the day. It hurt him to leave when he had only just arrived, but it had been a hard day and seeing you and Zoe fast asleep made him terribly jealous.

“I’ll be back,” he whispered quietly, peeling himself away from the door reluctantly.

You were startled to wake up in a hospital room, until everything that happened of yesterday before rushed back to you. The day had begun routinely enough, with Zoe being dropped off at school, all the pressure at work, and then lunch with Sherlock. Then you got the call about Zoe's seizure, and everything seemed to fall apart from there. Zoe was in the hospital on antibiotics, and Sherlock had discovered your secret and was ignoring you.

You couldn't seem to concentrate on him. Zoe was your first priority, and she was moving right in front of you.

"Morning, little one," you said softly, scooting closer to stroke her hair away from her face and cup her warm cheeks. You kept waking up during the night to make sure she was still alive and breathing. "How are you feeling?"

Her lovely eyes widened, and the glitter in them returned slightly. "Hungry," she muttered sleepily, clutching Mr Snuggles and kissing him good morning.

"Yep, you're definitely feeling better," you replied, lifting her up and kissing the top of her head. Your back ached from the uncomfortable positions after sleeping fitfully in an armchair all night. "Shall we go to the café for breakfast?" You asked, raising your arms up over your head in an attempt to realign your spine.

Zoe soon sat up, a smile on her face. “Yes! Please, mummy!" She flung aside her blankets and climbed out of bed slowly, being mindful of the IV anchoring her to a bag of medicines. 

"Do you need any help, little one?" You volunteered, already walking around the bed to give help. 

“Mummyyyyy! I can pee pee by my myself!" She exclaimed as she pushed the IV into the bathroom. "I have been doing it since I was two!" She stuck her tongue out and slammed the door behind her, making you giggle. No lie, she made you feels so much better right now. 

While you waited, you checked your phone for calls and emails, surprised and a little afraid to find a message from Sherlock. Nerves hammered hard in your chest. You were terrified to read what he had to say. Would he be upset? Was it a message saying he didn't want to see you again?

You gulped hard and pursed your lips in a tight line, swiping the message open with bated breath. Whatever words were written on his letter were going to transform your and Zoe's lives, and the thought of that terrified the crap out of you. But you needed to confront the lies you told, so you looked down at your phone, your heart missing a beat.

‘I want to meet Zoe ㅡ SH’

[holmesoldfellow]

"The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel" video game for MS-DOS (1992) and 3DO (1994) (Mythos Software, Electronic Arts)

[chameleon221b]

*WARNING: LONG RANT ABOUT SHERLOCK

Let’s talk TGG, like… imagine you’re John. You’re an exhausted army doctor who’s been treating probably the flu all day, and you bike home or take a cab. You’re ready to eat and maybe watch some telly and crash into bed.

But no. You get home, and there are fricken gunshots ringing out. Oh my God! Is your flatmate in danger? Is he shooting someone? Yes. He is… but not someone. A wall. He’s shooting a wall which for someone reason had it coming. You’re glad Sherlock doesn’t fight to give you the gun. Maybe it’ll look up from here. Ya lock the British Army Browning L9A1 in the safe, and you realize for the millionth time that your flatmate is mad but you’ve kinda ceased to care.

Then woah! The table is a mess. You’re not cleaning that up. You’ll eat in the armchair. But eat what? That is the question. Sherlock probably didn’t cook or get takeout or shop, or even eat, but you ask him anyway. It’s a kinda rhetorical question.

Without a suspicion you open the fridge and WHAT IN THE GILES?!

You shut it quickly. You might faint. Is it PTSD? A hallucination? Real? You summon courage and yank the door open, and yes, it’s a real head. You shut the door like you’re dreaming. Like what did I just see? You forgot you’re even hungry. Sherlock acts like it’s a perfectly normal thing to do! Then you remember he’s mad and you’re kinda over it. It is what it is. You’re tired.

Then you get a rant from Sherlock who’s acting like a five-year-old because you stated literal facts, how he’s ignorant about stuff he doesn’t care about which he proves in said rant. You wrote about your first case, and the only thing he can’t argue with is the clever title.

That’s it. You’re done for tonight. Fudge it. And Sherlock even has the audacity to ask where you’re going like… You’re not even gonna explain now. The emotional intelligence translator needs a vacation.

And… woah. John didn’t even eat anymore. Imagine being him. I cannot further to can 🤦🏼‍♀️ 😂 Dude just wanted to get home and eat and then sleep. But there were gunshots, chemicals, severed heads, and a mad 5-year-old who’s insulted for an inane reason. Being Sherlock’s flatmate is hard 🤌🏻

Extra details:

That yellow spray paint can on the table from the Blind Banker is there too (and an paper file container tied with a string probably full of old case notes). Imagine in his boredom Sherlock was like, “Let’s paint a smiley face so it can annoy me because I don’t have a case”, which is probably why the wall had it coming 😂 Don’t smile at Sherlock Holmes when he’s bored, even if you’re just a bloody wall!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

Ooh, and before Sherlock mentions the Vermeer painting in the middle of the episode, you can see him reading the pamphlet about The Lost Vermeer while he’s arguing with John. Just thought it was a cool detail.

And set analysis:

And this ⬇️

Like… that table looks sus. There’s a weird yellow liquid. A bread from a bakery, the purple thing. Experiment? Or quick bite to eat while you handling literal chemicals? And then there’s a book… probably with obscure knowledge on the 100,027 different types of mold. And what is leaning against the window?

1. Big ass beaker.

2. Another beaker that contains with an umbrella and/or an old spraying device.

3. A fricken dead plant in a small clay vase in a bigger clay vase. 

4. A big weird red cup.

And

5. I think I found where the rum’s gone because what else could that bottle be other than a vintage bottle of rum with a dusty wax covering?

The set is cozy but also fricken eccentric 🤣 I can’t. It’s like Sherlock hoards random objects and/or souvenirs that only he knows why he keeps.

That’s it. That’s the rant. I’m done. I’ll eat pasta now and think about how John said, “Anything in? I’m starving.” followed by “severed head!” and Sherlock just replied, “Just tea for me thanks.” Like, “No bloody severed head for dinner, just tea.” 😁🥸😐

[sunwarmed-ash]

WIP Folder Names Tag Game!

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, & then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Tag as many people as you have WIPS.

I got tagged by @covenscribe, thank you so much!

Here we go!!!

WIPs in my Docs

Brothers- Detroit become human (hankconvin, Gavin&Elijah)

Tantrum- Hankvin

stranger geeks- Stranger Things/Freaks and Geeks AU

Relapse- bbc Sherlock Holmes

Memory Palace- bbc sherlock

Hawkins is so two years ago- Post Stancy, pre harringrove

DBH spongebob prompts

nick miller as spiderman

the cursed ship, J. Jonah Jameson/Spiderman

the landlord- Nick/Remy/Jess new girl

WIPs on my ao3

The Eden Club- Hankconvin, sex worker poly AU,

Eastside- steddiegrove, harringroveson

Silence isn't golden, Drarry, noncon Snaco

Empathetic asshole- harringrove

Deja Vu- parksborn, Peter 2/3

You know what they say about assuming, steddiegrove, buckingham

Mirror images- petercest, spideydevil

Ride with U- Harringrove powers au

The New Kid- parksborn 2000s, emo au

if love was easy they'd name it after you- gay and wondrous life of caleb gallo

for your entertainment- Starker, parksborn stripper AU

time of dying- bbc sherlock

an unexpected set of circumstances- bbc sherlock

Supernatural activity at shermer high- spn/the breakfast club xover

love bites but so do I- Twilight polycule

get a few scotches in him... Supernatual wincest

ASK ME ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THEM!!!

Now I tag: @tentoriumcerebelli @sweeteatercat @sweetasblack @squooshybrainmeats @tradedsymmetry @moviemuncherao3 @thediktatortot @writerwhowritesao3 @eevylynn @disdaidal @youweremovingyourfeet @irishbeings @a-book-of-lost-things anyone else who wants to play!

[psychic-waffles]

Rules: List 10 comfort shows and then tag 10 people

Thank you @missfangirll for the tag ❤️

In no particular order:

The lost tomb reboot - equal parts ridiculous enough to keep my attention and full of heart (also it's just hard to worry about my own issues when I'm watching the blorbos)

The x files - put those FBI agents in situations!! I'm actually currently on a rewatch of this as my current comfort media of choice 🛸

Star trek (tos) - I imprinted on Spock aged 18 and it's all been downhill from there

The good wife - ngl I first watched this for alan cumming but it's become an all round fave, and just takes very little brain for me to watch

Over the garden wall - extremely cosy vibes, catch me watching it every October without fail

Poirot (david suchet) - started watching this as a kid and have a lot of nostalgia for it, and me and my gran used to talk about it together a lot so it holds an extra special place in my heart

Yokohama kaidashi kikou - does it count if it's just two sets of two ovas? Idk, but either way I love these gay robots in their chill post post apocalypse 🥺

Guardian - sometimes you want comfort but also to have a bit of a cry, and that is where guardian comes in

The moomins (90s) - this has been my #1 go to for years if I'm doing Real Bad

Sherlock Holmes (granada) - sherlock holmes has always had a special place in my heart since I first read the books as a teen, but this is hands down my favourite version, I first watched it on holiday when I found the entire box set in the house my fam was staying in and proceeded to watch as much of it as I could in a week 😅

Tagging @nope4ever @qinzai @catholicjigglypuff @difeisheng @s1utspeare @jinxkid @gaiahenshin @lojovski @jaecomments @justpostsyeet

(Sorry if you've been tagged before, and as always no pressure!)