In my eddieverse Wayne meets a nice lady through a pen pal group and she actually ends up moving to from Florida to Indiana to be closer to her newly divorced daughter and grandchildren
Eddie sees his dad become a big softie right before his eyes. He’s dressing a little more sophisticated. It looks like years were taken off his face. He even comes down to the hideout to see Eddie and the boys.
Eddie smiles watching Wayne laugh with you and the older party members.
Wayne’s lady comes up behind him with a hand on his shoulder.
“You’ve brought out a whole new side to him. Thank you Blanche.”
Blanche smoothes Eddie’s wild hair down. “That’s all you, Eddie. I just gave him a little nudge. Now, you said something about owing me a cheesecake?”
“It’s on me. Oh! Just so you know, Wayne’s sisters will be at the diner. I think y’all’d get along. They’re kinda rough around the edges tho”
“Nothing is too rough for Blanche Devereaux…in fact i like a little roughhousing,” she smirks.
Kitty Blanche, my lord and saviour. I feel like I am way too invested in remaking this silly little show I watched as a kid in my head because of how disappointed I have been in it in the recent years.
The recent special though? That was a serve.
Also I have no idea how I did this but I managed to make my background colour exactly match the tumblr darkmode background… sorcery?
And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy.
HOLMES. He has done it again. This reminds me so much of the beginning of the story where he writes:
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association. I was alone.
In both cases, the longer sentence could technically be read as criticism (or a compliment!) or irony, thus taking away some if the rawness of "I was alone" and "And here it is that I miss my Watson".
But. But then Holmes says "my Watson" (an expression he uses often!) which is so clearly indicating that they still belong together, Watson may be married but he's still Holmes's Watson, at least in Holmes's thoughts ... And although he has brought his strange new doctor friend, he could not replace his Watson or even only his unique skill set.
This is often a feature of the cases, but I also think it's weird how abruptly the story is over. Clearly, for Holmes it's Case Closed - end of narrative. But the thing that strikes me is that we don't learn anything about Dodd's reaction. Won't he be overjoyed to learn he will be reunited with his friend? (No, because there is no reunion between Holmes and Watson.) And why is there no real conclusion, only the suggestion that the symptoms might be psychosomatic?
But is it coincidence? Are there not subtle forces at work of which we know little? Are we assured that the apprehension from which this young man has no doubt suffered terribly since his exposure to its contagion may not produce a physical effect which simulates that which it fears?
This case openly suggests a psychological explanation, and sorry, I can't stop think about the Holmes/Watson mirror (Emsworth was shot in the shoulder), and how Watson is married and how Holmes is alone ... And society keeps them apart, because no matter whether they were in any kind of romantic or sexual relationship, for two bachelors to live together for so long must have been a bit suspicious (and let's not forget the "combination of events, into which I need not enter,").
This story's leitmotif is the search for a lost friend, and the whole last paragraph seems to me to speak of how internalised prejudice makes you sick. We never see the social outcast who was shunned by society because of a alleged "disease" actually return to a regular life. We don't know if it will be possible. Holmes will certainly go home alone.
Oh, I really wonder what Watson thought when he read all that.
I had a singular brainworm & two seconds to doodle. where’re my blanche/dorothy enthusiasts because they’ve grown on me so fast (+ an extra doodle under the cut 🫣 it’s cropped here but still a little nsfw regardless, so feel free to scroll if that’s not your thing!)
something something that one thing Blanche was wearing that one time
Little is known regarding the life of Regrator’s Missus before she joined the Fatui. What is known about her now is that she handles a not insignificant amount of his business dealings when they take place outside of Snezhnaya.
Good morning, I am thinking about a genderqueer technician and its growing friendship/relationship/workmanship with a trans heavy lifter/heavy duty robot, and Only them.