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any pronouns. Sherlock Holmes sideblog cuz it's getting pretty bad... main is Sasukes-left-tit. PLEASE talk to me about Holmes ladies I love them all! #slt art for art posts • #stuff noa says for text posts

[artmaxxingwithandrius]

This is Holmes’ perception of a real kiss fight me

[murpheecandraw]

Fuck yeah, Granada.

[elementaryholmes]

Does anyone else feel like The Copper Beeches could've been its own gothic novel?

[lhurluberlu-hululant]

thinking about HIM (the new lego watson)

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

Little something in honour of me finishing a study in scarlet

[fangirlsovertoomanythings]

The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.

[gardnerhill]

There’s a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Women’s Money.

[three--rings]

Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil.  Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again.  (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)

[waterhobbit]

I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.

The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.

[three--rings]

This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life.  The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.)  There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors.  Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime.  And yes, so much of it is of the personal type. 

[volkswagonblues]

dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.

[fahbee]

One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases.  In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them.  Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:

Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)

Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.

[faejilly]

#my favorite murder in holmes canon#is when they straight up witness a lady murder her blackmailer#do nothing except destroy his other blackmail material#and then straight up lie to lestrade about it#sherlock holmes#more of this in modern adaptations pls (via @cactusspatz )

[son-of-drogo]

Also I love the idea of Holmes being a childhood abuse survivor, as an abuse survivor myself. It explains so much about him. Imagine if you will, he grows up isolated in the suburbs of London, witnessing his father just absolutely terrorize himself, his mother, and his elder brother. As a grown-up, he wants to help people in that situation and stop people from getting trapped in shitty marriages.

He’s compassionate and kind to the people he helps because underneath it all, he’s trying to be the person he needed when he was scared and helpless.

[landofartandcraft]

Did i forget to post my drawing that i ALREADY did JUST for a freaking corean drama? Yes i did apparently so two drawing today xD

225: it's the story of violet hunter, who receive a strange job proposition. Holmes is a drama queen because a governess ask him for advice but again it's really a strange job proposition

[frostedmagnolias]

Two Piece Silk Blue Dress

c. 1904

New Canaan Museum & Historical Society

[holmesunenthusiast]

Everyone who said Benoit Blanc is the best modern Holmes successor is absolutely right but I raise you: Helen Brand as his Violet Hunter

[bridgetoon]

Watson, after taking the 3rd right and the 4th left: Holmes, where the fuck are we

[the-guilty-monographer]

More Granada doodles, this time from the Copper Beeches (still tracing to get the outlines, and they still end up looking rather silly half the time, but hey, I am improving!)

I love it when they stand so close their shoulders are touching <3

Also shoutout to Violet Hunter, you're amazing and we love you

Bonus extra scribbly doodles below the cut:

[scottyfitzceo]

Apple of my eye

[holmesunenthusiast]

You nerds keep talking about how willing Holmes is to just chew on something and die for his case and how Watson has to have him on a leash or whatever but also like it goes both ways. Watson is just as ready to die a hamster-level death of cartoonish violence for Holmess cases and Holmes has to be like "hey... Hey how about you sit this one out actually 😅" and Watsons like :(( and Holmes has to be like "dw I'll let you risk your life for something completely mundane later but RN I just don't feel comfortable watching you idfk throw yourself at a terrorist for the vine okay" and then Watson goes to his diary and writes "Holmes made me sit at home for hours bc I could've died god I hate my baka life this is so unfair I'm gonna be so mad at him when he gets home"

[youfecklessthug]

Had to add @holmesunenthusiast tags because they were too good

[thehappinessmachine]

was thinking of ship dynamics i go coocoo puffs for and i realized this one in particular is just. so SO good. love when a completely bonkers character gets together with a totally normal very average person (actually is Worse)

[shrubdrawsalot]

holmes and watson.

[ghostbees]

Last @holmestice treat, a domestic Toby moment based on concept art by Mel Shaw for @afteriwake

[holmesunenthusiast]

Genuinely what is Watson's beef with Lestrade cuz if a dude called me rat faced and ferret like and referred to me as shit like "the little detective" and constantly undermined my talents at my actual job and wrote about how he and his roommate LAUGHED ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK and then published TS in public news I'd be airing the place out 😭 like there's no way. im snitching on u AND ur little boyfriend ur ALL getting sodomy charges idc if its just rumors or if it's real jail jail jail jail JAIL

[carneliancorax]

To answer the silliness seriously, I think Watson's problem with Lestrade is that Lestrade is very dismissive of Holmes' skills. And Watson simply will not stand for anyone undervaluing his Holmes.

[holmesunenthusiast]

I do agree with this as far as the continued bullying is concerned but I fear Watson was calling him a rodent before he even KNEW HIS NAME 😩😩 same story where he said he was thankful some dude got murdered (not knowing the reason behind it mind you) because the dude was just so fucking ugly it was a good thing that he wasn't alive to jumpscare people with his face anymore. Watson is genuinely just a mean old bitch 💔

[scottyfitzceo]