"This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose."

✧ he/she/they ✧ eng/рус ✧ artist, writer, lover of vaguely old literature ✧ professional toaster operator ✧ multifandom & oc ✧ bsky: aurelius-solis ✧ twitter, art fight: aurelius_solis My header is taken from an illustration by Herbert M. Stoops for When the World Screamed, a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle. ^^

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ToApril 2026

Day 7: Beneath the Surface

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ToApril 2026

Day 6: Reunion

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Phoebus and Amyclae!

Characters belong to @its-all-clouds-in-this-noggin ✨️

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ToApril 2026

Belated Day 4: In Another Life

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Quick sketch of Annesley

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ToApril 2026

Day 3: Heatstroke

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A sketch of Leslie Papadopoulos, originally created by @catsbecats-ao3 :D

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ToApril 2026

Day 2: Healing in Breaking

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The Secret of Sherlock Holmes by Jeremy Paul

HEY FRIENDS, I am EXTREMELY EXCITED to have come into possession of a copy of the play script for The Secret of Sherlock Holmes and so NATURALLY the first thing I had to do was transcribe it to share! It’s agonizingly difficult to find, which is a massive shame because it’s REALLY excellent, especially if you’re already a fan of Granada Holmes.

In case you’re unfamiliar, this play was commissioned by Jeremy Brett to Jeremy Paul, who wrote several episodes of the Granada series. The stage play starred Brett and Edward Hardwicke and ran from August 1988 to December 1989. It’s basically a series of vignettes chronicling the friendship of Holmes and Watson, with a bit of a dark twist, the titular Secret.

Audio from one of the productions was kindly uploaded by Alison Carter on Soundcloud which you can listen to here and follow along in the script if you want:

Act 1 | Act 2

On that note, the formatting of this took A WHILE, apart from the challenge of actually getting my hands on it at all, so if you find this helpful or entertaining or otherwise generally Good: 

✨  Please consider buying me a coffee (or a cheeseburger, as it’s equally likely to be) by leaving few bucks in my ko-fi :)  ✨

THANK YOU and I hope you love this as much as I did 💖