Jane Watson and Shirley Holmes in “My Dearly Beloved Detective” (1986)
Subtitle/translation credit to @spiritcc :)
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Jane Watson and Shirley Holmes in “My Dearly Beloved Detective” (1986)
Subtitle/translation credit to @spiritcc :)
I don’t write a lot of Holmes fic but recently I got the urge again so here are two ficlets.
One about Watson taking care of Holmes, leaning on the ship side (at least one sided):
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36705220
And one about crossdressing which can be read whichever way you want:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36861223
Every time Holmes has laughed/chuckled
“Oh, that’s all right,” he cried, with a merry laugh.
“I really beg your pardon!” said my companion, who had ruffled the little man’s temper by bursting into an explosion of laughter.
Holmes laughed and threw his card across the table to the constable.
The instant he entered I saw by his face that he had not been successful. Amusement and chagrin seemed to be struggling for the mastery, until the former suddenly carried the day, and he burst into a hearty laugh.
“Didn’t I tell you so when we started?” cried Sherlock Holmes with a laugh.
“Oh, didn’t you know?” he cried, laughing.
“You see, Watson, if all else fails me I have still one of the scientific professions open to me,” said Holmes, laughing.
Sherlock Holmes and I looked blankly at each other, and then burst simultaneously into an uncontrollable fit of laughter.
“Here it is,” said he, laughing, and pointing to an open newspaper.
As I exhibited the empty box he leaned back in his chair and laughed aloud.
Holmes laughed.
Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.
“Well, really!” he cried, and then he choked and laughed again until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the chair.
“I do not wish to make a mystery,” said he, laughing.
Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
“Never mind,” said Holmes, laughing; “it is my business to know things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?”
“There’s a cold-blooded scoundrel!” said Holmes, laughing, as he threw himself down into his chair once more.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,” he answered, laughing.
Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon the cushioned seat.
“Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog,” said Holmes, laughing.
Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and burst into a hearty fit of laughter.
“No, no. No crime,” said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.
Sherlock Holmes laughed.
A few yards off he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless fashion which was peculiar to him
“He seems a very amiable person,” said Holmes, laughing.
Then he broke into a low laugh and put his lips to my ear.
“Experience,” said Holmes, laughing.
“It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own,” said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.
Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily.
“Very good, Lestrade,” said Holmes, laughing.
Holmes thought a little and then burst out laughing.
Sherlock Holmes laughed.
Holmes, with a laugh, passed his hand behind the child’s ear, a mask peeled off from her countenance, an there was a little coal black negress, with all her white teeth flashing in amusement at our amazed faces.
“The fates are against you, Watson,” said he, laughing.
Sherlock Holmes laughed heartily
“I could see that you were commiserating with me over my weakness,” said Holmes, laughing.
Holmes laughed at my suggestion.
“With all our precautions, you see that we have cut it rather fine,” said Holmes, laughing.
He was quivering with silent laughter.
“The old shikari’s nerves have not lost their steadiness nor his eyes their keenness,” said he, with a laugh, as he inspected the shattered forehead of his bust.
Something in his tone caught my ear, and I turned to look at him. An extraordinary change had come over his face. It was writhing with inward merriment. His two eyes were shining like stars. It seemed to me that he was making desperate efforts to restrain a convulsive attack of laughter.
He was immensely tickled by his own adventures, and laughed heartily as he recounted them.
Holmes laughed good-naturedly.
Holmes raised the hind leg of one of them and laughed aloud.
He snatched one of them up, opened it, and burst out into a triumphant chuckle of laughter.
At last, however, on a wild, tempestuous evening, when the wind screamed and rattled against the windows, he returned from his last expedition, and having removed his disguise he sat before the fire and laughed heartily in his silent inward fashion.
Holmes laughed at the young giant’s naive astonishment.
Holmes burst out laughing.
He laughed at my expression of dismay, and laid it upon the table.
Holmes put his finger on his lips, replaced his hand in his breast-pocket, and burst out laughing as we turned down the street.
He laughed at my bewildered expression.
Then he burst into a hearty laugh.
He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. (This line is so fucking funny when you’ve been sitting for an hour counting the number of times Holmes has laughed)
Holmes laughed.
“Come, come, sir,” said Holmes, laughing.
He tossed it across with a laugh.
Holmes laughed good-humoredly.
He laughed heartily at my perplexity.
Holmes tore it open and burst out laughing.
“It won’t do, Watson!” said he with a laugh.
Holmes seldom laughed, but he got as near it as his old friend Watson could remember. (Yeah ok Watson)
Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me.
“I am a bit of an archaeologist myself when it comes to houses,” said Holmes, laughing.
Holmes laughed.
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Sherlock Holmes chuckled to himself, and appeared to be about to make some remark, when Lestrade, who had been in the front room while we were holding this conversation in the hall, reappeared upon the scene, rubbing his hands in a pompous and self-satisfied manner.
He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.
Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when in high spirits.
Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled.
He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night.
Holmes chuckled heartily.
I could see that Holmes was extremely pleased, for he chuckled and rubbed his hands together.
Holmes chuckled to himself.
Holmes rubbed his hands and chuckled with delight.
Holmes chuckled and rubbed his hands.
Holmes struck a match and held it to the back wheel, and I heard him chuckle as the light fell upon a patched Dunlop tyre.
He chuckled as he poured out the coffee.
Several letters were waiting for Holmes at Baker Street. He snatched one of them up, opened it, and burst out into a triumphant chuckle of laughter.
Once or twice he chuckled.
He held them on his nose, endeavoured to read through them, went to the window and stared up the street with them, looked at them most minutely in the full light of the lamp, and finally, with a chuckle, seated himself at the table and wrote a few lines upon a sheet of paper, which he tossed across to Stanley Hopkins.
He chuckled and rubbed his hands when we found ourselves in the street once more.
Holmes chuckled and rubbed his hands.
Holmes pointed with a chuckle to one of these, a row of residential flats, which projected so that they could not fail to catch the eye.
My companion gave a sudden chuckle of comprehension.
Holmes chuckled.
“And you might add of the attempted murder of one Sherlock Holmes,” remarked my friend with a chuckle.
Holmes knocked out the ashes of his pipe with a quiet chuckle.I heard his dry chuckle as he turned away.
This is so beautiful.
A cliché of Holmes pastiches is the thing where Holmes always happens to be an expert on any random subject that comes up in the course of the case, however unconnected to detective work or to any of his known canonical interests. Like (random example) the case is set at a lumber mill and Holmes just happens to know all about the history of the logging industry. Or, I read one a while ago where Holmes figures out that a medium is a deliberate fraud and not a true believer because he knows all about Tarot cards and can tell that she’s reading them incorrectly. A lot of the time this is because the writer has a special interest in the subject and wants to use Holmes as a mouthpiece to lecture the reader. Anyway I was thinking that “knowing everything about everything” is a trait that it does seem natural to attach to a character like Holmes; and yet I can’t think of any actual instance in canon when he is shown to be expert in an obscure subject which has nothing obviously to do with crime or detective work, and is actually relevant to the case (rather than stuff like his knowledge of renaissance music or medieval pottery which are just thrown in as asides to demonstrate his intellectual eccentricity but have no connection to any case). Meanwhile there are at least a couple stories like MISS or SHOS which specifically mention that Holmes doesn’t initially know that much about the milieu in which the case is set (rugby and horse racing, respectively). And even when it comes to random trivia that he knows might be relevant to his work, he often has to look it up in his commonplace books rather than knowing it off the top of his head. There is LION, but that’s presented as “a fact I read once in a random book and was only barely able to recall” – not as Holmes just naturally being an expert on marine biology who can rattle off a lecture about Cyanea capillata at the drop of a hat. He recognizes the swamp adder in SPEC, but it’s likely he did some research on venomous Indian snakes in between conceiving his theory and returning to Stoke Moran to test it. Not sure if there are any other examples that I’m missing.
Watson, quick question, did you get your medical license from a liquor store?
I just read ACD’s short story “Lot No. 249” and lolled hard when the main character, a medical student, is called urgently to save a man who’s just been near-drowned but he first has to rush up to his room to grab the only medical instrument that could possibly be useful in such a situation: a flask of brandy. Oh, ACD.
For really serious cases he’d have pulled out the cocaine
Watson’s medical license is perfectly valid, and the uses of brandy for stimulating blood flow (useful for a near-drowning experience) and treating nervous shock (as in the case of Percy Phelps in NAVA) were consistent with medical orthodoxy… and not passively accepted orthodoxy, but actively debated and discussed orthodoxy. As discussed in this article, “the borders between its use as a medicine, as a medical comfort and as a social lubricant blurred.” But this can be true of any number of things, as any social historian of medicine will tell you.
The Lancet published a commission on the medicinal uses of brandy in 1902. Brandy was listed (under its Latin name as a form of French wine) in the British Pharmacopoeia at least through the early 20th century. The decline in brandy for treatment of shock has, in fact, the saddest possible origin story in the exposure of medical practitioners to many different kinds of physical and nervous (psychological) shock on a mass scale: World War One. As stories from the Golden Age of detective novels show, of course, it was much slower to lose its predominance in lay/social understandings of medicine than in the strictly professional sphere.
Watson canonically rejects cocaine and views it as dangerous, though the discourse of addiction in the late Victorian era was much more complicated than the place of brandy in the roster of medical stimulants/depressants was. Patricia Comitini has argued, in The Victorian Review, that addiction was “the inexplicable center of medical and legal discourses" in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The discourses of addiction are also complicated, of course, by the fact that Victorian England’s most addictive substances (opium and cocaine) are also derived from culturally/racially othered places… and in the case of opium, of course, from the resources of empire itself.
“What’s he like, this William Gillette person?”
This is amazing!
SPB archive also hoarded some Solomin audition pictures, off went the watermarks and voila, Watson the alpha slav
The on-screen Sherlock Holmes who had the approval of Arthur Conan Doyle himself, Eille Norwood starred in a series of 1920s silent films. Now they’re being fully restored as part of a major BFI project made possible by Iron Mountain Entertainment Services.
!! I am excited about this
If you brought Arthur Conan Doyle back from the dead and showed him BBC’s Sherlock he would immediately ask to be killed again
Are there any good stories written from Holmes's pov that actually sound different (more factual, as he might say)?
That’s an interesting question! I can think of more in the BBC verse than in the ACD verse, and I don’t know if both interest you, but here are a few recs:
Subliminal by speranza (BBC). It's as if he's got a loaded gun lying about.
the grand tour of europe by falling_voices (BBC). In the afternoon of May 20th, 2015, Sherlock Holmes starts down the steps of the British Museum and walks neatly into the arms of a dead man. Reversed!Reichenbach, based off of the ACD!canon storyline.
Rate of Change by ristrettoette (BBC). In which there are broken violins, horology, and some mention of ancient code-breaking. Also, far too much philosophizing, and a second person narrator.
Fruit on Offer by ristrettoette (BBC). You can’t grow oranges in England.
Fever of the Bone by theumbrellaseller (BBC). There are two-hundred-and-six bones in the human body. Sherlock can name them all.
The Primorsky Stairs by tweedisgood (ACD). 1888. Sherlock Holmes is not a man fooled by appearances, and he does not miss John Watson.
Not the Voice That Commands by rachelindeed (ACD, self-rec). Watson has elsewhere recorded some of his first impressions of me, and it is typical of him that he published only those which were most in error. Having undertaken to puzzle me out, he did get rather further than his initial list of my ‘limits’ might suggest. I should like to set my own recollections alongside his. In doing so I must review – not without amusement and occasional chagrin – my own state of mind in the year ’81.
The Semantics of Crop Circle Formation: a case study by Sherlock Holmes [unpublished] by canolacrush (BBC). In penning the events of this case and scrutinising the mental processes that led to its disastrous conclusion, I hope to illuminate the variables that led to its failure and consequentially learn from these errors so that the like cannot be repeated in future investigations.
I'm personally not into the BBC stuff, but some of my followers might be interested. And thanks for all the recs (the self-rec seems to be exactly what I was looking for!) .
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes illustrations for The Speckled Band (1910) by H.A. Saintsbury
John Watson, M.D.
men who are detectives be like “he’s my partner” ..... ok you gay bitch 🤨
i can’t stop thinking about holmes disguised as a woman
I have been... physically unable to think abt anything else since first seeing this video
That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."
"To forget it!"
"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose..."
"But the Solar System!" I protested.
"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
The Abbey Grange