[impressionism-art-blog]

Note in Gold and Silver - Dordrecht, 1884, James McNeill Whistler

Size: 12.07x20.96 cm Medium: watercolor

[artist-kuindzhi]

Sunrise, 1895, Arkhip Kuindzhi

Size: 49.5x84 cm Medium: oil, canvas

[astronbookfilms]

Michael Cox also shares the view of all enthusiasts of the Sherlock Holmes stories that Holmes without Watson is inconceivable. That the success and durability of the adventures is very much due to these men, who are inseparable.

The Television Sherlock Holmes

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(via astronbookfilms)

[ohagis]

alternatively: it’s funny how there are people who think that queer readings of sherlock holmes are like a tunglr fandom thing bc there have been masses of academic works on the subject for decades and the first suggestively queer reading dates back to as early as 1941

[prince-princess-bunny]

Wasn’t ACD’s cousin writing gay fan fiction about them at the time he was writing them?

[holmesguy]

Unless ACD had a cousin I don’t know about but really ought to know about, you are probably thinking of E.W. Hornung, Doyle’s brother-in-law. Hornung wrote the A.J. Raffles stories which, though they do have their own unique qualities and can be enjoyed completely separately of Sherlock Holmes, can really easily be seen as a criminal AU Holmes/Watson fanfic.

Raffles is a clever thief who does it for the thrill and the challenge

Bunny is his devoted partner-in-crime who writes about him

Bunny’s narration is...really, really gay

Raffles and Bunny are pretty clearly based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas as well as on Holmes and Watson

Hornung also named his son Arthur Oscar, after ACD and Oscar Wilde

[carminaboo]

my dearly beloved Watson

[sarah1281-deactivated20190328]

If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies all his life can I assume it’s canon Sherlock Holmes does, too? 

[bakerstreetcrow]

Nice, but I wouldn’t. Because Holmes is not Sir. Arthur and is more analytical…

… that said Dr. Watson could believe in them.😉

Where Sherlock Holmes is based on Dr. Joseph Bell, it it’s highly possible that Dr. Watson is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself. The description matches, they are both doctors and Sir Arthur had tried to join the army. Sydney Pagett also used Sir Arthur as a base for drawing Dr. Watson.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used to work for Dr. Joseph Bell and, for a time, was a sort of Watson to his Holmes.

[holmesguy]

“And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has been made in the shape of that distraction from the worries of life and stimulating change of thought which can only be found in the fairy kingdom of romance.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, in the preface to The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

This reminds me that it’s canon that the Holmes stories take place in the “fairy kingdom of romance”

[wonderlandinmymind]

[theuniverseisoftenprettylazy]

tplosh

[sidgwicks]

[makeitquietly]

♥ ♥

[makeitquietly]

Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)

[artist-homer]

Woman and Elephant, 1877, Winslow Homer

Medium: watercolor, paper

[laclefdescoeurs]

Night in the Forest, 1859, William Louis Sonntag

[aintthatakick]

[holmesguy]

Editor: Look, Dr. Watson, readers are starting to get suspicious about you and Holmes. Two bachelors...living together...alone...

Watson, about to invent Mary Morstan: oh haven't you heard?

[love-in-mind-palace]

“The relations between us in those latter days were peculiar. He was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them. As an institution I was like the violin, the shag tobacco, the old black pipe, the index books, and others perhaps less excusable. When it was a case of active work and a comrade was needed upon whose nerve he could place some reliance, my role was obvious. But apart from this I had uses. I was a whetstone for his mind. I stimulated him. He liked to think aloud in my presence. His remarks could hardly be said to be made to me–many of them would have been as appropriately addressed to his bedstead–but none the less, having formed the habit, it had become in some way helpful that I should register and interject. If I irritated him by a certain methodical slowness in my mentality, that irritation served only to make his own flame-like intuitions and impressions flash up the more vividly and swiftly. Such was my humble role in our alliance.” - Dr. John Watson.

[makingqueerhistory]

If this little book should see the light of day after 100 years’ entombment, I should like the readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality … of women.

Laura de Force Gordon, in a note on the flyleaf of her book The Great Geysers of California, which was placed in a time capsule. (via makingqueerhistory)

[aintthatakick]