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Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have taken over my entire life. Please help. || main blog: @lemonadeandlanguages

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every time I get a scam text message that says something like "we're looking for someone to fill a position yada yada give us your bank info" I'm reminded of the Red-Headed League

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Rathbone and Bruce snippets from the Glenhall Taylor's "Before Television: The Radio years" 1979

Nigel Bruce being a prankster

Nigel Bruce being VERY NAUGHTY

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A Peter Serafinowicz Show verse kiss for @kingstoken's amazing prompt in the last round of @holmestice. In fact, a prompt so inspiring that we were three to fill it!

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There's an episode of the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce radio show from 1946 call The Living Doll, which is set in Holmes' retirement. I was delighted when I heard it to find out that the writers decided, as I did in The Beekeeper's Picnic, to give Holmes an inquisitive young neighbour who he befriends...

... but gosh, this kid has problems that Tilda thankfully does not.

(Audio slightly edited for comedic effect, but not all that much. I set myself a challenge to make this as quickly as possible so please forgive the roughness and limited likeness to Basil Rathbone!)

If you want a palette cleanser, the next time Cynthia shows up she's interrupting Holmes and Watson being Very Domestic together.

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My @holmestice piece for @detectivehdbholmes who requested (among other things) some Shekhar Home! The quote is from Rabindranath Tagore’s The Gardener, translated from the original Bengali by the author himself. Tagore's work features prominently in the final episode, but this is set in (spoilers) happier times. Or perhaps I'm...fixing it? Did you watch Shekhar Home when I posted about it last year? You should watch Shekhar Home. It's a “delightful” 2024 Indian series that modernises Holmes in 1990s Bengal!

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Holmes and Watson visit their neighborhood newsagent c. 1946. For Holmestice Summer 2026.

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I really like that Holmes fans on here seem to have collectively decided that we're in a post-Nigel-Bruce-hate era?

For a long time his Watson would always get ragged on for being buffonish and air-headed, and seen as a blight on portrayals of the character ever since, a hurdle to be overcome...

...but perhaps enough time has passed and Watson the character isn't in the shadow of that particular portrayal anymore, and so he's been gathering a new appreciation? I keep running into people who are quite fond of him. Yes he can be pretty stupid. But Holmes adores him, and is pleased to have him around, so it's very easy to decide as a viewer to like him too.

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Shrimp

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Watching Rathbone Holmes The Pearl of Death and…

Stiff as a varnished eel.

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Happy Stiff As A Varnished Eel Sunday

[jeremybrettholmes]

One of the finest and most beloved Watsons ever to grace the screen has passed away. David Burke was 91 years old, just shy of his 92nd birthday, and he is survived by his wife Anna Calder-Marshall and his son Tom Burke.

By all accounts, he was a gentleman and a wonderful human being. He could have stayed on to play Watson much longer, which would have made many of us very happy, but he chose to leave the show to be nearer to his family, especially since Tom was very young at the time.

His was not the first intelligent and competent Watson, but this version marked a turning point in mainstream depictions, from comedic sidekick to a hero in his own right.

RIP, dear sir. You will be missed. Thank you for everything.

~*~

To read a longer and moving tribute, please check out the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere website: https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2026/05/david-burke-first-watson-of-granada-era.html. The tribute includes a link to the interview that the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast conducted with David and his wife a few years ago.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone Movies), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson Additional Tags: Pet Names, Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Kissing, Watson and That American Phrasebook, Not Beta Read, Ficlet Summary:

Set after ‘Sherlock Holmes in Washington’. In which Watson puts that travel book to good use!

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bought a new computer! no more csp crashes! anways. still trying to get my bearings. heres the first drawing on it

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more of this

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Holmes pokes/ touches Watson with one finger from the first day they met and Watson quickly picks up the habit himself, and even starts poking Lestrade too

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da girls

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Just reread sherlock holmes's "the yellow face" and god i love this story. Its a nice lowstakes mystery that has a happy ending, that 1. Has a good moral even for our time (yay for interracial marriage!), 2. Has Holmes fail to solve a case because of his one obvious blind spot - positive romantic entanglements, and 3. He trusts Watson enough to ask him to call him out when hes being too overconfident in himself.

oh and a sketch of Lucy because i think she's very cute

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i banish thee

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the wartime propaganda rathbone holmes movies may not be the best but there definitely are some great moments

Watson being so fucking funny. Let him cook Holmes!!!

Holmes getting bound in various ways

Whatever is going on with Holmes’ hair (why does it constantly look like he just got done having sex with Watson)