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The year is 1976, Mark Gatiss has just finished reading A Study in Scarlet for the first time, he leans back on his chair, “I’m going to make this,” he announces out loud to the room. “I’m going to make this,” he closes the book, “so gay.”
At that exact moment, a baby boy is born. Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch.
Cute cute cute cute <3
Mr & Mrs Watson💕
Benedict Cumberbatch on The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Being tipsy at the 2014 Oscar Awards [x]
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A walk in the park.
P.S. Those are hedgehogs on Rosie’s leggings. And thank you to @marsdaydream for saying that it’s okay to make Rosie blonde.
I would say probably not being able to do what I want to do and not being completely fulfilled and happy. I don’t know how that would manifest itself in a mirror. It’s just that feeling of not being satisfied with my life would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me.
*getting dizzy trying to stare at both on same time* 8D~~~ ♥♥♥
Oh, What? I suppose she was your bezzie mate, was she? And you went on holidays together and then you got kidnapped by Boggons from space and then you all formed a band and met Buddy Holly.
it’s weird that john and sherlock both think they’re so beautiful. sherlocks sitting on the couch with his 80 chins touching his chest as he texts and john has that pudge and his wrinkly forehead and they’re glancing at each other like “he’s the most handsome man i’ve ever seen”
LOOK
you don’t need to study literature (although this is what I do) to see that these two men are in L O V E
BONUS: this is what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says himself
just a few of many, feel free to add more
@nerdycauseimme actually, according to his official biography, ‘Conan Doyle’s feelings about homosexuality were more liberal than the norm, which may have been the reason why, he later was not elevated to sit in the House of Lords’! Homosexuality was a criminal offence in England until 1967, however, so, like most people wishing to avoid the law, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had to be covert in his support and portrayal of it.
@mionewatts actually, queer readings of the Sherlock Holmes canon have been around for decades!
They go back, on paper, as far as 1941, when Rex Stout gave a talk to the Sherlock Holmes society The Baker Street Irregulars entitled “Was Watson a woman?” Although mostly tongue in cheek (and unfortunately quite sexist), this set a precedent in the Holmesian community for reading Holmes and Watson as romantically involved.
Since then, masses of academia on the subject has been produced. There’s honestly too much to summarise here, so here are just a couple of my favourite examples:
The Adventure of the Three Students begins ‘It was in the year ‘95 that a combination of events, into which I need not enter, caused Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself to spend some weeks in one of our great university towns, and it was during this time that the small but instructive adventure which I am about to relate befell us.’ 1895 was the year in which Oscar Wilde (with whom, according to the aforementioned official biography, Conan Doyle ‘got along famously’) was tried and sentenced to two years of hard labour for ‘gross indecency’. While the Labouchere Amendment had devised this sentence in 1885, there hadn’t been an enormous amount of convictions up to this point, as the law generally preferred to just pretend that something they deemed as shameful as homosexuality didn’t exist and cover it up rather than expose it. However, Wilde’s case brought the issue to public attention and many men were tried and charged in 1895, making London one of the most dangerous places to be for men who were attracted to men at that time, and many of them left the city as a result.* Samuel Rosenberg also makes an excellent argument for Wilde as a source of inspiration to Conan Doyle in Naked is the Best Disguise. *See Neil Bartlett’s Who Was That Man?: A Present For Mr Oscar Wilde for more information.
There are two instances in the canon where one man kills another in defence of the woman he loves, and Holmes allows him to walk free in light of the circumstances. One is The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, in which the perpetrator asks, after making his confession, ‘Was I wrong? Well, then, what would either of you gentlemen have done, if you had been in my position?’ The other is The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot, in which the perpetrator says ‘Perhaps, if you loved a woman, you would have done as much yourself.’ This time, Holmes concedes, and says: ‘I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who knows?’ Holmes never does fall in love with a woman, but in The Adventure of the Three Garridebs, Watson is shot, and Holmes leaps to his defence, about which Watson says ‘For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.’ Assured that Watson is alright, Holmes turns to his assailant and says ‘By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.’ As you can see, this very clearly parallels the romantically coded actions described in Abbey Grange and Devil’s Foot.
I’ve also written on the use of language in the Sherlock Holmes canon and how it reflects the ways in which sexuality was discussed in the late 19th century in an article called Omi-Palone for The Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, and the wonderful @weeesi has done extensive research on the queer historical context of Sherlock Holmes, if any of that strikes your fancy!
Of course, Conan Doyle couldn’t make Holmes and Watson’s relationship explicitly romantic - as I mentioned earlier, homosexuality was a criminal offence at the time, and The Picture of Dorian Gray was used as evidence against Wilde during his trial - but he dropped more than enough hints for many people to have been noticing and writing about them for over 75 years!
Billy Wilder even attempted to write a queer adaptation in 1970, but was very unfortunately unable to do so, and therefore had to settle for writing Holmes as being unrequitedly in love with Watson in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
I hope that clears a few things up for you both!
Ben is doing some press for the release of the Blu-ray and Digital of Doctor Strange.
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favourite little detail i can’t stop gushing about -
the hat being the same deep blue colour as the coat, with the same red streaks
Sherlock, s04e03
ya know in fanfic when they describe his neck as like a pale column or some shit yea this is what they mean
This neck is illegal in 17 countries.
this quote from scott derrickson about benedict playing doctor strange is just beautiful… (x) thanks to @stephenstrvnge
Sometimes, John slips out of bed in the morning, when he knows it’s a ‘lie-in’ sort of day. He’ll leave Sherlock with a kiss on the top of his head. Sometimes, Sherlock will just about manage to stir and mumble “Enjoy,” before drifting back under again. Other times, he will simply sleep on, and John will smile at how his face is half-buried in the pillow.
John walks. It doesn’t matter where; it’s a different route he makes up each time. It can be the usual London Landmarks, where he’ll let the buzz of tourists wash over him, and imagines what Sherlock would deduce about each one. Endless stories around him, just waiting to be read.
And sometimes, John will go off the beaten track. He will find a little quiet bakery for breakfast, buy some rolls, maybe chat a little with whoever’s on the till. He will walk back home in warm sunshine or crisp air or rain, and love it no matter what. Those pre-Sherlock days where even getting out of bed seemed like an impossible chore are dull and faded.
He’ll get home and put the kettle on to boil.
And then, the wonderful sound of Sherlock’s footsteps.
“Morning,” Sherlock says around a yawn.
Once, John tries to reply but it gets somehow stuck. His heart is full at how perfect just this is, and words can’t possibly do it justice.
Sherlock smiles and his eyes crinkle with fondness.
“I know,” he murmurs. Gentle. Intimate. He kisses the corner of John’s mouth. “Me too.”
"I got shot.”
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It’s such a pleasure to read John’s facial expressions. I love what his face says, in response to Mike asking him what happened: isn’t it obvious? Look at me, what do you think happened, ffs? I’m walking with a cane and incredibly obvious limp, do you think I’ve come home to join the circus?
And he follows it up with that trademark tight John Watson smile, which expresses so many of John’s inexpressible emotions. John smiles like that when he’s angry, impatient, offended, uncomfortable, embarrassed, feeling threatened, about to get violent, etc. In this case it absolutely does not mean what he’s sort of attempting to pretend it means: I’m perfectly okay with you asking me about that, I have no problem discussing it, I’m awfully glad to have run into you, what a pleasant surprise!
John’s irritation about Mike’s failure to make the simplest deductions to save John this embarrassing conversation is interesting. He’s primed to meet Sherlock, isn’t he.
