Blog Info 🔎
Current Bracket: Watson 📔🩺 (Starting soon!) Focusing on our humble narrator! Bracket - All Polls - R1 - R2 - R3 - Quarterfinal - Semifinal - Final
Misc. Polls
Illustration // Fanart (not polls, just sharing cool art)
Closed/Past events: Full 700 Illustration bracket - Info Post
Just Dogs 🐶 Just the illustrations with dogs in! Bracket - All Polls - R1 - R2 - R3 - Semifinal - Final
General Info:
Image Catalogue: I'll mostly be running brackets using selections from the 700 illustrations included with first publications of each story or novel, this means the initial magazine printing in the uk and us (usually the Strand and Colliers, though other magazines get involved too especially in the later stories) plus the first novel edition if i could find it. I currently do not include reprints or translations, but it might be fun for a later bracket if people want them!
Poll Format: This will vary slightly depending on the bracket theme, but i'll typically have a partial caption next to the artist name and story abbreviation (STUD, SIGN, SCAN &c.) in the poll options, and in the text, i'll include the full captions, and a list of the characters or subjects present left to right. Image descriptions will be in the alt-text.
You can see the list of story abbreviations here if you're not familiar with them, and that site also has a lot of publication info/history if you're curious about that kind of thing!
Offensive Imagery and Language: For the smaller and more curated brackets coming up, these are less likely to show up at all, but I wanted to keep the blanket warning for this blog: These are drawings by white men in the 1890s-1920s, the vast majority are fine, but there is a handful that portray racist and classist imagery in line with what is present in the stories themselves. I can't consistently warn for these individually out of a list of 700 pieces, but i also dont want to pretend they arent part of this history or set myself up as an authority on which cross a line or not, so ive decided not to automatically exclude illustrations that might be offensive. Likewise, im not censoring any of the captions that are part of images, but will do my best to remove offensive terms where i'm typing out the captions.
