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💬 4 🔁 2 ❤️ 8 · The cut scene: I've been sitting and working with artificial intelligence for an hour now to make such videos.

This draft was entirely inspired by the content at that link.

Hey, I hope you're having a great day today. I'm too shy to @ you directly—sorry—but I know you'll see this anyway (ugh, I'm so shameless lol).

That said, I fully support the idea that, for the Holmes brothers, in this scenario, kissing is better than smoking :p

#holmescest #mycroft holmes #sherlock art #sherlock holmes

blondebrainpowered

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edthatch-blog

i really love mycroft it’s just i have problems drawing his face

Sherlock had decided he would shave off Mycroft's beard.

Young Slherlock

I've finished watching the entire series. I know exactly what the show is selling, yet I still fell for the brotherly dynamic--I'm hopeless. And to be honest, I'm not entirely satisfied with Mycroft's portrayal; it's hard to comprehend why the series insists on making him seem less intelligent. So I began writing this. After all, I feel Mycroft deserves to appear younger. So why must he have that beard? My mind is full of questions.

"So… why the beard, brother dear?"

"First, tell me, Sherlock, what are you doing sneaking over from Oxford with a razor in hand? Every mature gentleman would know better than to get ideas."

"Too hasty, isn't it? When you came to visit me at boarding school, you didn't have this unsightly facial hair, Mycroft. Is it to look more distinguished? Or some archaic government convention? Clearly, they couldn't care less, could they? I noticed Sir Bucephalus' gaze on you well enough in Oxford. Not so different from Professor Thompson's look when he eyes me."

"Alright, Sherlock, don't tell me you intend to--"

Mycroft stiffened slightly but did not recoil from his suddenly approaching brother. Somehow, in Sherlock's presence, his usual control often crumbled like a sandcastle under the tide.

"Stay still, dear brother."

Pressing gently on his chin with thumb and forefinger, Sherlock lifted Mycroft's head. He paused thoughtfully, then spoke with a faint, awkward longing:

"I hope you don't mind my unpractised hand. I have practised, though only once, as a makeshift barber by the roadside. I still can't fathom why, even after returning their wallet, they continued accusing me of theft. Strange business… May I?"

"Your hand is already on the tool; what excuse do I have left, brother dear?"

"I suppose none. After such a long time apart, I wanted to see you. And I think this beard suits you less."

"You know where I work. A beard can hide quite a lot…"

"Very well, very well, but I still want to see you."

"Am I not here?"

"Indeed, you are. But it is not often that I get to see you properly, as you know."

"Have I, after all these years as your half-guardian, made you a touch too dependent?" Mycroft relaxed into the sofa, attempting a joke.

"You know Father is away abroad all year, barely a word from him, and Mother remains in hospital. If not you, brother dear, on whom would I rely?" Sherlock's expression remained innocent, his hands continuing their work.

Watching his brother's stubble fall away, Sherlock felt something of the young man he remembered slowly returning. The sensation was oddly pleasant.

Strangely, though it had just occurred, he knew he would miss it.

When Sherlock had finally shaved everything clean and wiped away the foam, he stepped back slightly, satisfied.

"You look much better now, I dare say. Hmm… perhaps… some young ladies in the government might notice, and then--"

Sherlock's voice grew softer, trailing off. The thought felt suddenly inappropriate, a vague prickling of unease creeping in. He found himself feeling a little guilty; Mycroft's wish to stay low-profile had surely not been without reason. And now, he would inevitably attract attention.

Mycroft interrupted, cutting off his brother's increasingly faltering voice at the right moment.

"Enough. You know that isn't what I am concerned with right now, Sherlock."

Producing the small mirror he always carried, Mycroft studied his reflection. The lips, previously hidden beneath the beard, now seemed somewhat pallid, yet, for some reason, starkly noticeable to him. He couldn't adjust to the sudden change so quickly.

Yet he did indeed look considerably younger. The air of authority he had cultivated now gave way to a long-missed sense of youth.

Mycroft scrutinised the unfamiliar version of himself in the mirror, his brows twitching faintly. Not that he disliked the change; it was more that, without the beard, he appeared to regain a touch of aggressiveness. Like a period reverting to a comma, his faintly sardonic smile could now be too distinct. In government, one must always maintain patience, obedience, and usefulness--otherwise, opportunities vanish.

Clearly, he would need more practice controlling his expressions.

Watching his thoughtful brother, Sherlock tilted his head slightly.

He knew his elder brother was busy with work. He did not resent him for it, but he suspected that occasions like this would become frequent enough in the future.

#holmescest #young sherlock #mycroft holmes #sherlock holmes #fic stuff

I can't help but post this — in this version, Sherlock and Mycroft keep calling each other "brother dear" back and forth. Even though the younger brother is still a bit of a troublemaker who loves winding him up, whenever Sherlock gets into trouble, Mycroft immediately insists he's innocent. He loves him so much! Plus, we even get to see them as kids in the show — it's just too adorable!

#holmescest #young sherlock #sherlock and mycroft

I just wanted to see something comforting.

S: I'm back.

M: Welcome back, darling. Tell me, what's troubling you?

S: I don't quite know how to put it, but today was… awful.

M: Hm. Come here. I'm right here. It can be a bit much sometimes, can't it? Never mind the rest for now. Just stay with me a moment.

S: I missed you. More than I expected.

M: I know. And I missed you too. Always. But I'm here, Sherlock. I'm not going anywhere. Stay. Just stay with me for a while. We'll think about dinner later. Or… something else.

S: …Alright. Just don't move.

#holmescest

You know, I love Sherlock in that purple shirt, so I made him get Mycroft to put it on. And of course Sherlock wasn't planning to stop there~ Feel free to imagine what happened next, but they definitely slept together — whether it was before or after, that's not even a question lol.

I'm still pretty new to drawing, so sorry that only Sherlock's shadow made it into the frame. Maybe next time I'll manage to finish it from Mycroft's perspective. Not sure why Sherlock is kind of hard for me to draw—maybe it's those very distinctive cheekbones… well.

#holmescest #mycroft holmes #mycroft bbc #sherlock art

lokijiro

you-need-low-tar

Today's thinking about Holmeses psyche. Or Holmeses in general. Very long.

One core of BBC Mycroft that's prominent in ways that I don't remember seeing in ACD Mycroft is that he is, in the end, a man of action. It's been a decade since I read ACD, so I could be wrong. But the idea is that BBC Mycroft *does* things. Makes decisions about execution, or implementation. Is accountable for them, whether they turn out right or wrong.

He takes action when he thinks something is up. Sherlock has a new roommate? Kidnap and test him. Sherlock relapsed? Search his flat. Mycroft is inclined to find a solution, to have something done, about a situation, about a crisis. Less interested in the what and when and how and why. Less interested in 'truth' or 'facts'. Could be because he would already know. I think he just doesn't consider it as important as salvaging the remains and controlling the damage. Fixing things.

Sherlock sees something wrong and tries to observe to figure out the truth. Like watching a lab environment system. He disturbs it, sometimes a lot, when he thinks it would get him an answer. His interference of this system doesn't change the facts, the information, the truth of the system, which is all he wants. Mycroft is completely different. Mycroft deliberately interferes to change the state of the system into something he prefers. I define this 'action'.

Sherlock is about perception. He's the physicist, wondering how things work and what's the mechanism. Mycroft is about implementation. He's the engineer, building things (and sometimes building things wrong). Making sure that things happen. A structure is built, not just designed on paper.

Now, just that Sherlock isn't interested in the implementation, doesn't mean he's bad at it, or that he doesn't do it at all. His cases are mostly finding the truth, the who-what-when-where-how-why. There are times when it's a mission to something, such as getting the Bruce-Partington Plans, or getting Irene Adler's phone, or getting Magnussen's copy of scandalous letters. That's taking action, as it interferes the system without really asking questions. He decides that action is worth taking. He converts it into truth-finding again, very cleverly, because the circumstances allow it. Getting things = knowing where they are = truth finding.

And then there are other times. There is taking down Moriarty's network. There is setting a trap for CAM such that he would give files of interest to Sherlock (twice in HLV, actually). There is having a plan to get Culverton's confession (he already knows that Culverton kills). There is having a plan to save John Watson, as Mary puts it.

The genre is extremely limited, not counting the Moriarty thing. The genre is what I call 'leading mistakes out of people'. It's manipulating people so that they do what he wants them to do, instead of what people want to do themselves. The Moriarty one is more... I don't know the English for it. Letting someone carry out their plans and beating them at their own game. Kinda.

I leave you to draw conclusions on his ability of making and executing plans. And the Moriarty one is aided by Mycroft. I tend to think that the shift in style has a lot to do with Mycroft.

And I think that's why Sherlock didn't anticipate Mycroft coming up with the Flight of the Dead to the Coventry Conundrum. It's Mycroft's way of thinking, not his. Sherlock's habit, his course, in his line of work, is to stop, once he knows that there is a terrorist attack coming and all the relevant facts. Doesn't think too hard about how to solve it. In TEH, he informs other people of the who-where-when-how-what, for other people (presumably Mycroft and his people) to come up with a protocol to take down the whole thing safely.

Between Bond Air and Moriarty, I conjecture that Mycroft's style is actually a lot more passive. I'm not sure, and there's not a lot of evidence. But Sherlock's plans always involve him taking action to lure action out of his opponent. Mycroft's is... waiting... for an opportunity, I guess. No idea what he'd have done with CAM, if it were up to him.

It kind of makes Sherlock a better strategist and Mycroft a better tactician? Which is not what I expected? (Strategy is designing a course of action out of thin air when you know nothing but your goal, which is to win. Tactics is the course of action when there is an attack coming from the other side, often specifically to deal with that attack.)

I always thought the opposite because Mycroft is a lot about control, and about action. I headcannon Mycroft (and not ACD Mycroft, mind) as some sort of workaholic because he seems the type to feels safer when he has something to do. But then I guess it makes sense that he has more to lose when he's being the active party, making first moves, in his line of work.

sentimental-lizard

The conclusion is high key unexpected! And your take is so profound and so counter-intuitive...

I would also like to add another perspective - a classic european one, from 17th century philosophy.

It seems that the western perspective often thinks of Holmeses in terms of empirical vs. rational knowledge. Sherlock gets his information through direct observation + experimenting, he is the epitome of scientific approach. He knows about things, because he has visited "the fields", the outside/real world, and he has experienced things himself. Philosophy-wise he is an empiricist.

This is the original opposition in ACD canon: Sherlock is a man of action and experience and empirical knowledge - and Mycroft is a man of rational knowledge, a man who thinks about big things in his comfortable chair and trusts his mind to bring out the right conclusions. Which corresponds with rationalism. Rationalists suppose that the truth can be discovered through theoretical thoughts, "reality has logic and logical knowledge is correct". So you can just use your logic, not stepping outside, not interacting with the reality in it's "positive", physical aspect.

This classification also refers to the subject-object duality: rationalism is focused on the subject (the person who does the Thinking is the source of knowledge), and empiricism is focused on the object (you have to observe Things that Exist in order for them to give you knowledge).

I hope this makes sense.

For more info (i may not be 100% correct abt everything):

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/

Moving on to Sherlock BBC:

Mycroft is the one who has taught Sherlock to get his conclusions from facts. And Mycroft is more about the conclusions, the consequences, "and then what?" and "what do we need to change in this course of action?". Whereas Sherlock is way more excited to get raw data first-hand. He enjoys the process. Gets high on processing information to get the correct answer.

"He has a brain of a philosopher or a scientist".

This might be referring to it.

you-need-low-tar

YES! THIS! Definitely makes sense! I thought to mention induction vs deduction at one point but keep forgetting about it.

ACD Sherlock VS Mycroft is more like physics VS mathematics. Maths isn't a 'science', because maths has consistent INTERNAL logic, but has no direct connection to the real world. Maths is starting from axioms and DEDUCE. Physics is empirical in a lot of ways. Physics is taking empirical data and finding an explanation that fits all existing data and could predict more – and experiments are about confirming whether the predictions come true, as a benchmark for how well a theory works.

The laws and axioms in physics have a vague hierarchy, I think (and I could be wrong), but a lot of them are parallel and none is necessarily more 'fundamental' than the other. Feynman talked about it in his Cornell lectures. And that's not very maths-y. The chain of logic in maths is a lot more rigorous, I think. Think Euclidean Geometry and non-Euclidean, where they set off from different axioms, both self-contained but drastically different from each other.

(Real, proper maths studies is a lot more complicated. I feel like Bayesian vs frequentist could also be interesting etc. But I don't know enough to comment. The whole classification of 'science' is also a whole complicated philosophical debate, about which I also don't know enough to comment.)

(Also dug up a drabble from my writing attempts:

John comes up with great questions of 'what-if'. Sherlock appreciates it, because John is smart and he does have a knack for these things. They help, sometimes. But there are also times when he wonders if John never listened to his Probability and Statistics lectures. That is, surely, as a doctor, he would know that the diagnosis narrows down systematically from the most likely scenarios, while trying to match all the symptoms. Finding the explanation to all the facts, and choosing the most likely one.

Statistics, as Sherlock grew to learn, is very important, and carries a great amount of insight. Balance of probabilities, as Mycroft is fond of saying, is essentially pinning down the mean of a bell curve.

And you know why a normal distribution – a bell curve (Mycroft in his Mind Palace winces when he says that, like having a toothache) – is important.

Because of the Central Limit Theorem, Sherlock answers easily. Because the average of the sample falls on that distribution. /endramble)

So it's very interesting that BBC Sherlock kept Sherlock, mostly, but not Mycroft. BBC Mycroft has a lot of Moriarty in him, I think, and that could be why everything is so counter-intuitive.

In my language, 'landing' (ie. the verb, to fall to the ground) could also mean the implementation of a proposal. It's frequently used in the context of government plans and architecture. In the latter, it's quite literal when you say a structure can/cannot land. (To mean that they would collapse should they be built.) And this is the one feature that distinguishes physicists from engineers in my head. To 'land' a... project is different from conducting an experiment, even though they are both disturbing the system. Mycroft cares about 'landing'. Sherlock doesn't, or not so much. This is what I was trying to get at, mostly.

(And I thought it would be neat with the whole 'it's not the fall that kills you it's the landing', but I did a little googling and still can't be sure if it works in English. And I can't get that to work in my language because this landing would be translated differently. Bilinguality is damn frustrating sometimes.)

avelovich

Emotional incest

By the way, I'm also pretty sure that the Holmescest is canon, but not in the usual sense, but rather... emotionally, I suppose? Surveillance through cameras, control indicated by the word "caring", Mycroft's desire to know everything about who and why Sherlock communicates with; Mycroft has no romantic relationships, no friends, no people with whom he would be emotionally close, except Sherlock. In fact, his entire emotional sphere revolves around his younger brother, and don't you think that's strange for an adult man? At best, he should lead an active life and make close acquaintances, but instead prefers to limit himself to his brother's company and constant worries about him. This is an unhealthy pattern of behavior. Sherlock replaced all the people for him at once, Mycroft violates his personal boundaries without any apparent problems. Mycroft spends all his emotional resources not on his life and not on his romantic partner, but on Sherlock. Besides, it's perfectly confirmed by the fact that they're both weird and brilliant. Mycroft doesn't like people, calls them goldfish, and how do you think such a person can establish emotional connections with goldfish? How would you behave if you felt like a black sheep in any other society besides your younger brother's? The problem is not even that Mycroft considers other people to be goldfish, it's not about his arrogance, it's about his feelings; he just can't feel like a part of society, he's on a completely different level of development, and the only person who really equals him is Sherlock. Just imagine yourself in his place. Sherlock treats it differently, he is not as smart and not as exalted as his brother, he is closer to the goldfish and therefore communicates, for example, with the same John or Lestrade. So what? It turns out that Mycroft has no one but his brother, that there are reasons for this, and that as a result, the only person (besides his parents) with whom he can have a deep connection is Sherlock. So. Mycroft has been emotionally isolated from other children since childhood and builds his personal life on interacting with his brother; he protects everyone from himself, does not show his tenderness to anyone but Sherlock; he controls Sherlock, he overprotects him, he worries about him — constantly. He would like Sherlock to be as attached to him, he would really like to bind him to himself (literally), but this is impossible. Sherlock grows up, breaks free from his brother's yoke and makes friends. Mycroft is not very happy about this. Control always implies possessiveness, and control and possessiveness in general are most often attributed to romantic relationships. Therefore, his distrust of John and his desire to learn more about him is not just a concern for his brother to have a good environment, but also a manifestation of control and possessiveness.Mycroft needs to know what kind of people surround Sherlock, and cut off those who are unworthy or potentially dangerous, who can destroy their bond. Mycroft is nostalgic for the days when Sherlock considered him the main person in his life, he doesn't show it openly, but he would be glad if Sherlock left John and returned to him. I don't think Mycroft is "just an older brother who only cares about Sherlock and nothing else." Caring in the usual sense of the word is not meant by itself. Has it ever seemed strange to you that Sherlock's parents seem to be detached from his life? This impression is created against the background of Mycroft's insane concern. While Mom and dad live their self-sufficient lives, Mycroft lives around his brother, and I don't consider this normal. This is not an ordinary family dynamic. This is not the way an ordinary and healthy older brother who cares about the well-being of a younger one can behave. It's an unhealthy attachment with elements of incest.

(Obviously, the Eurus story had left its mark, but even without it, Mycroft's behavior would not have changed; his attitude towards his brother was determined by the very fact of his existence.)

In general, everything that was and is, everything that was inherent in him from the very beginning, led Mycroft to become emotionally dependent on Sherlock. Their relationship should not be considered as that of typical siblings, because they themselves are completely uncharacteristic; and only atypical relationships are suitable for atypical people. In this case, it is atypical.

immokki

Holmes

lokijiro

10 year old Mycroft watches the news and utters a diatribe about the stupidity of the government. 3 year old Sherlock asks him what a government is, and Mycroft answers that it's a group of people who control and influence the country to keep it safe. Sherlock asks if the government is like the kings in the stories, and Mycroft says yes. Sherlock thinks about it for a moment, and he declares that Mycroft should become the government when he grows up, because Mycroft is very smart and they would all be safe. He then says that it's his turn to choose the channel, and he wants to watch his cartoons.

They change the channel, and Sherlock watches in horror as an evil dragon burns a king to ashes. He's silent for a few minutes, before he turns to his brother and tells him that when he grows up he will slay all the dragons, and Mycroft will never be burned.