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Various disorganised Ring for Jeeves/Come On, Jeeves thoughts brought to you by...well, nothing, I'm simply always thinking about measly late canon crumbs:

Wodehouse editing out crossdressing ghost Jeeves when novelising the play is honestly...sigh, we could have had it all!

Guy with no employment gap and a passion for lying: “Yeah, I was in the war, for sure.”

Darning looms such as the ‘Speedweve’ were very popular in the fifties, though I'm not sure that would have been of any help to Bertie. Also, did you know the first London hamburger parlour opened in 1954?

#does a canon have old man yaoi possibilities? if yes then i'm afraid that's where i am...u should read my fic about it #thank you wodehouse for giving us the most chaotic fictional chronology [sound of floating timeline exploding]#jeeves and wooster

The Three Garridebs

“The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. 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.”

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#Watson forgot he wrote devi 15 years ago... you've already had a confession scene guys!!!#the parallels though... Holmes saying that if the one he loved had been murdered‚ he might murder in turn #then only 5 years later it's all “if you had killed Watson you would not have got out of this room alive”#ok girl calm down #sherlock holmes

Had to draw my faves too!

#check this out -> (:3 っ)3 #the terror

Terror part of a trade with the fabulous @salazar-bollinger!

#can you believe i've never done terror art even though it is most definitely one of my top 5 most watched shows of all time #the terror

Lovely to finally be about to hold the physical copy of @very-sincerely-yours-zine, a wonderful Holmes & Watson anthology organised by @haedraulics and @inevitablies, with half the proceeds going to The Palestine Children's Relief Fund. I contributed some illustrations for a story by @mistyzeo (with whom it is always a delight to work), a short retirement comic vaguely about transness, and a couple other merch bits. Thanks for having me!

#also thanks for letting me do yaoi stickers ;)#sherlock holmes

How Watson Learned the Trick

“I was thinking how superficial are these tricks of yours, and how wonderful it is that the public should continue to show interest in them.”

With about five hundred words, this literal bite-size breakfast scene is the shortest of all Holmes tales. Originally bound into a miniature book for Queen Mary's Dolls' House, it was more broadly republished than the earlier “The Field Bazaar” and tends to be the best known of the two stories, which are usually treated as parodies.

The fact that Holmes (a man who had never been interested in team sports) would suddenly care about cricket results and allow himself to forgo shaving (with the sole excuse that he owns only one razor which he has sent away for sharpening) makes his airy dismissal of Watson’s deductions quite suspicious. It’s also the first we hear of Barlow, his dentist, surely a man with a role to play when Holmes got his left canine knocked out in a fight.

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#bloke who's never cared about cricket trying to defuse a deduction: “uhm actually I wasn't looking at stocks I was keeping up with cricket”#field bazaar was also virtually unknown and re-discovered in the 1930s while trick got published in the NY Times immediately #but i can't really think of a modern collected apocrypha that doesn't include both‚ maybe trick is just more popular because W is so smug?#i honestly feel like i have waited years to do the perfect canine comic....she's so special to me #sherlock holmes

What happens when our little adventures reaches 60?

That's when the series ends! The original intent was to make one comic per canonical (and apocryphal) story, and I actually completed all pages last summer, only doing some minor editing and tinkering with captions as I post them weekly. Once we're all done, I'm probably going to take a leisurely break from posting Holmes comics, though I've currently got a different series in The Watsonian. I'm also hoping to collect Our Little Adventures in a digital booklet, possibly have a small print run later this year if I ever work out the logistics...

But I would love to do something special to celebrate when we get to the end, perhaps take some requests? We'll see in mid-July! Thanks for following along!

The Sussex Vampire

When publishing in the mid-1920s, Watson would have had a good idea of the growing appeal of the vampire figure to the popular imagination, but no amount of fiddling around with chronology could enable us to place the events of this adventure after the writing of Bram Stoker's Dracula. At the time of Holmes' and Watson's visit to Sussex, the famous vampire story was Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla.

Serialised in the early 1870s, the novella tells the professedly real story of the young Laura, and her sexually-charged relationship with the mysterious Carmilla. Holmes' own vampire case, though eventually not supernatural, also relies on preconceived notions and fears of ‘unpredictable’ foreign women. Carmilla was partly illustrated by D. H. Friston, who would be responsible for the very first portraits of Holmes and Watson a few years later.

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#anyway the bbc radio adaptation has them reading dracula and it's perfect so sometimes chronology doesnt matter #but watson for sure loved carmilla #sherlock holmes

“They are prophesying spirits that can predict the future. And I am growing them in jars in my shed.”

#rly nice telly #small prophets

The Creeping Man

To the modern reader, the story of Professor Presbury’s transformation is pure fiction. It is not scientifically possible for someone to inherit the characteristics of an animal by absorbing part of it, and injecting someone with what is conceptually a form of hormone therapy will most likely do what hormone therapy does best. Which is not to turn an ageing man into a monkey, no matter how strong the testis extract is.

We are quick to dismiss the tale as somewhat unworthy of our standard Holmes fare, but the events of this strange turn-of-the-century adventure are clearly referencing Brown-Séquard’s earlier dubious experiments in regaining ‘male vigour’ and has deep roots in both the contemporary fascination with ‘eternal youth’ treatments and the emergence of endocrinology. In the decade it was (finally) published in, huge advances had been made in our understanding of hormones, leading notably to the isolation and synthetisation of testosterone in 1935.

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#everyone stop being mean to case-book stories ok >:(#focus ur negative energy on the truly awful one... which is obviously 3gab #sherlock holmes

My @fandomtrumpshate piece(s) for the ever so marvellous @halorvic, who wanted some Wilf!

#doctor who

The Problem of Thor Bridge

“Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox & Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine.”

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#if you posit that watson did not write last + maza‚ there's actually roughly as much of a publishing gap between fina/houn and vall/thor #doing this series has unfortunately made me a lot more interested in chronology than I care to admit #but it's fascinating how things tend to neatly line up considering that‚ from a doylist perspective‚ he plays it very loose with dating #w assiduously publishing during the hiatus contrasted with not publishing after h's return until h is on the cusp of retirement #then publishing sporadically until seeing holmes for the first time in years in summer '14 and then not publishing again for a few years...#idk‚ makes you think #disorganised thoughts i couldn't compose into a caption #sherlock holmes

Just little Bobbie Wickham moments from various stories! She's my problematic fave who has actually never done anything wrong. Well, ok, maybe a few road crimes...

#quotes from: kid clementina / awful gladness (not a bertie story but a very bertie thing to say) / jeeves in the offing #i wish sidney the snake had made it into the main canon...iconic #also‚ remember how the shit jeeves biography had bertie and bobbie end up together?#like‚ i don't actually have anything to say‚ you've missed the entire point really if you think about it #jeeves and wooster

Tiny charts from my embroidery sketchbook

#misc

The Mazarin Stone

“Because the faculties become refined when you starve them. Why, surely, as a doctor, my dear Watson, you must admit that what your digestion gains in the way of blood supply is so much lost to the brain. I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Therefore, it is the brain I must consider.”

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#just some more pseudo-science bullshit i guess...#sherlock holmes

What's trending in the world of entertainment and light literature in 1916 (Watson is reading “The Aunt and the Sluggard” and Bertie just saw the William Gillette film)

#wartime strand magazine really is something #don't worry too much about the battle of the somme babes here's how to tell the age of an egg #essanay studios also inform me that Mr Gillette has 'molded Holmes' into a 'virile human being' so it's all good #they didn't even really go for the hug in the film‚ just a bit of arm holding...#sherlock holmes #jeeves and wooster

The Crown Diamond

The case of the Mazarin diamond started as a one-act play with a modest run, which as soon as it closed was given the short story treatment. It continues an odd spot of third-person narration, possibly because, like in “His Last Bow”, Watson is mostly absent from the narrative.

In the Strand version, we learn that Holmes has been tailing his suspect, disguised as an old woman. On the stage, it is primarily Watson who is taken in. When the doctor is enjoying a meditative cigarette in Baker Street, Holmes – or rather a “tall, bent old woman in black with veil and side-curls” – enters, taunts him, makes for the detective’s bedroom, and triggers an alarm that plunges the scene in complete darkness, save for an electric sign with the words “DON'T TOUCH!” When the lights go on again, Holmes is back in his usual dress: “A little comic relief, Watson. When I saw you sitting there looking so solemn, I really couldn't help it.”

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#is it a mazarin stone post by tumblr user ghostbees if it doesnt reference holmes crossdressing?#can you believe that VALL was supposed to be all 3rd person narration? dreadful... i need my emotional support unreliable narrator please #sherlock holmes

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