Mushroom

for the love of homoerotic detective fiction || mein deutscher Tatort Nebenaccount: @MushroomNo5

[justtwomushrooms]

btw people,

in the depths of my Sherlock Holmes obsession, I downloaded all The Strand Magazine pieces that contained a Sherlock Holmes story and added them up as the collections that they would later be released in (with the magazine cover and table of contents and correct page numbers and everything)

so if anyone would want that, here you go:

[yeoldecryptid]

You ever think about how Sherlock Holmes only grew old because the public made the rare decision that strange but kind people don’t deserve to die young?

Yeah… me neither.

[jules-just-woke-up]

Another day, another dollar and another Sherlock Holmes comic, this time of "A case of identity"!

BONUS:

Honestly, I started this project, because 1) I'm greedy and crave self improvement through hard work, and I wanted to get better at drawing, and 2) I'm a lot like Holmes himself in that I need to constantly be working on something or I get depressed lmao

But unfortunately I do have opinions™️ and I decided that when I'll add something that wasn't on the books I'll do it on black and white so people don't confuse it with something that actually happened

So, color=Canon, black and white=my own things

[bananaeatstape]

i want a milkshake + i love my conditioner (my thoughts after being sleep deprived and writing this at 2 am)

@lestradelurkshere it came quicker than i anticipated!!!!

[apelcat]

The reality is that I actually have to think about stylization

And oh my god, Bertie is so ugly, but I can't get over how adorable he is and how much he looks like a rat now.......

He doesn't really look like TV Bertie, but honestly, this is pretty much how I picture him in the book. He's naive, a little sly in that rat-like way, constantly stepping on his own tail, kind-looking, and just as straightforward as a rat would be

Like. Literally

I think I captured him really well based on the vibes in my head hahaha

[groundivy]

i'm going to be honest, i was shocked when i first read a scandal in bohemia to learn that irene adler appears in only one story. all she wanted to do was BE FREE to be with her HUSBAND who she LOVED and YET so many modern adaptations decide to drag her back in to be holmes' love interest. they saw one woman that sherlock holmes NEVER EVEN had a real conversation with and decided that she must be the love of his life, ignoring the ENTIRE first paragraph of the story about her and also everything about sherlock holmes. i honestly thought she was a recurring character in the original novels because of how much emphasis is put on her in adaptations (likely to distract from the tangible homoeroticism between holmes and watson that, no matter how they try to delete it, simply cannot stop appearing in their scripts)

[pescado-e8n]

pulled out canva for the first time since high school to make a soviet johnlock collage

[t8oo]

[icantbotherwithusernames]

more magical girl sherlock holmes ft. magical boy watson and their dual special magic power

watson automatically transforms with holmes. he does not enjoy it.

[icantbotherwithusernames]

Sherlock Holmes but he's a magical girl. He still solves crimes with deductive reasoning. He's just a magical girl for no reason now.

bonus explanation of some design details. i'm not crazy i swear

[icantbotherwithusernames]

that's right im back to HOUN posting. who up hounding they baskerville. she basker on my ville till i hound

[iphigenesis]

in a way john watson is a fantasy (what if you had this brilliant enigmatic friend and what if he liked you in particular and what if he offered you the excitement of youth and adventures and a way out of boring society life and all without having to actually give up your status as a gentleman so you could have the best of both worlds) and in a way sherlock holmes is a fantasy (what if someone never got tired of you despite your various strange habits and mood swings and instead of simply tolerating you they genuinely liked you and what if you didn’t have to live alone forever and what if you never had to give up doing the things you love) and of course there’s the most fantastical part of it all (what if you could afford london housing prices)

[lightlyintrepidweapon]

from the Mating Season . . . .Bertie unexpectedly encounters Jeeves in a bar. I like how the magic remains alive in their relationship insofar as Bertie is impressed anew whenever he bumps into Jeeves slightly off schedule.

[mikhaelwrites]

World's most bisexual man is lulled to sleep by his flatmate just to dream about a woman he met twenty-four hours ago. (This is the greed they talk about in the bible.)

The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

[justtwomushrooms]

sure, let's throw my opinion on the Good Omens Finale into the mix.

first, the good:

- Crowley - the angel that fell because he asked questions, that's enamoured with humanity, with what it means to be human, who fights for free will - that his final stand, his true core is exactly that love and passion for humanity and free will: YES, absolutely, well done

- also Crowley (and Aziraphale) being miserable in their break up. But that Crowley, even tho pissed and rejected and sad and angry, is still protecting the bookshop. Because it mattered, to him. And to Aziraphale.

- loved that Aziraphale (and to that extend Michael Sheen) got to go to hell, to be mean, to have fangs and dress up all fancy and dark and that he got to play boss in hell - very fun, delightful, had a great time with that scene (and Muriel looked amazing too, love them and the silly little 'BAD' Tattoo on their cheek)

but - sadly far bigger - my issues with the Finale:

- maybe that's just me, but I was waiting for like... Armageddon to happen. An End Of The World, ultimate chaos, drama - visually impactful scenes of destruction, some of the disasters we saw in the S1 finale, but that... never came?

The destruction of the Book of Life felt very impactless to me because... we barely saw any of the consequences. Just a globe in which some continents where suddenly swallowed up into a black hole. There where (barely) any people, any individuals, no nature or animals or culture or anything genuinely visibly destroyed, it just vanished. And that felt incredibly emotionally removed for me. It was just 'a thing' that happend but the scale of it wasn't made visible - because you never saw any of that. What was lost with that. What it means to lose a whole continent, with its people, its flora and fauna. It was just a little place on a map that suddenly turned black, a page torn out af a (very slim looking) book

- Jesus didn't matter at all? He didn't do a single thing of importance in the grand scheme of things. He was more of a plot device to get things started. Later, Aziraphale and Crowley literally run into him and realise that he does not matter whatsoever

- right now I'm not too pressed about God materialising (we can make 'I met God, She's black' jokes, let's go) but too keep her omnipresent would have been nice?

my bigger issue is that she seemed almost kind of sadistic and very random: very 'we need this for the plot, God is here now and down for whatever Aziraphale and Crowley decide to do, no matter what' which holds very little emotional strength or impact, at least for me

Aziraphale and Crowley didn't have to fight for humanity. Didn't have to convince anyone (but themselfs) that what they are doing - saving and freeing humanity, fighting for free will - is The Right Thing and Worth Fighting/ Dying/ Sacrificing for. God just said 'sure, make whatever decision, I don't care, I just enjoyed your little game all these years so I shall humor you'. And that feels very cheap. S1 ended with an emotional fight, with the characters realising and fighting for and convincing others of their values and that was missing

- Michaels crash out came very sudden and contextless. When Aziraphale and Crowley were trying to calm her down, we get a glimpse into the cause of that.

And that sense of ungratefulness, of loneliness, of not being seen that caused her to crash out could have been really interesting to be explored deeper, would have been really important to see and could have held an important message but that build up was completely missing. (And yes, they had only 90 minutes but there would have been room for that. ESPECIALLY when the entire main plot arches on that)

- and THEY DIDNT HAVE TO UNDO EVERYTHING. God gave them completely free reign on what they decide to do, she literally offered to just bring everything back. They could have dismantled the system of the already existing universe and, you know, fought for it: For the people, the humans, for the individuals that have existed and were existing and their stories... their humanity, and their free will

Other post have put this way better already but so much of the themes of this show are that the individual matters. That's it's about them, the history, the memories, all the small things and just to give all that up in a grand sacrifice that wasn't even necessary?? Why?

- and finally, yes, I'm sorry, I will also be bothered by the lack of an full impact kiss. We got a little kiss on the fingertips, some hand holding and some old queer men meant to resemble them grow old and that's cute but... a) that's not them

and b) the kiss in the S2 finale was So Important, So Impactful, Held So Much Meaning. And to mirror that, to bring that scene back and bring that specific plotline to an deserving end - with, again, a full kiss in full scale that ANSWERSES and CONTINUES the former plotline would have been necessary, in my opinion - just from a cohesive storytelling perspective. Because that scene now just lingers a bit contextless and even more resolutionless and it simply does not deserve that. That scene was Important. And that importance did not pay out as it should have.

In general, the finale had its moments, had some emotions and some funny cute scenes but...

In my opinion, the pacing was weird (a lot of scenes had a cute little joke but just went on for too long considering we need an entire world ending finale in those 90 minutes)

and everything was very, very reduced to like 7 characters. The entire world of Season 3 revolved around and almost exclusively showed these 7 characters and that made it feel very... limited to me. It's wasn't that whole world, all these people you've gotten to know and love over the past years, over all of the in universe time and space, but instead it was like 4 people in heaven, Crowley, Jesus and barely anything more.

It didn't feel like the fate of the world, of humanity that was decided, but instead the fate of Aziraphale and Crowley. But Crowley (and with him Aziraphale) sacrificed their personal happy end FOR the world, for humanity, and I fear you are barley made to feel the good side of that decision.

[bonesart]

suns out tums out

[ID: A digital painting of John Watson sleeping in the grass, resting his head on his right hand. in the grass. He is shirtless and wearing medium brown trousers. He is a transhumeral amputee on his left side with a keloid scar on his shoulder. There are several metal ports embedded in his muscles surrounding the amputated arm, each with small amounts of scarring surrounding them.]

[icantbotherwithusernames]

rereading the hound of the baskervilles for the second time this year so i finally drew what i had in mind for months