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Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Homosexuality

[This is the final post in my series on Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb. Previous posts can be found here.]

Dearest friends. Dear sweet ones. Dear softest lambs. Prepare yourselves.

Robb’s last chapter is on literature and literary references to homosexuality.

And he chooses to talk – at length – about Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.

He writes:

The following observations are not a sly attempt to ensnare the great detective in the elastic web of gay revisionism. Everyone already knows, instinctively, that Holmes is homosexual.

Well then.

If there is one post you read from this series, it should be this one.

Keep reading

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[thealogie]

REBLOG IF YOU'RE ENDING 1881 SINGLE AND IN LOVE WITH YOUR NEW FLATMATE AND WITH AN INEXPLICABLE SENSE OF CERTAINTY THAT YOU WILL BE IN GAY HELL FOR OVER A CENTURY!!!

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Robb remarks that “Conan Doyle himself was quietly ambivalent on the subject of homosexuality” but had once requested information on sexual perversion (aka it means what you think it means) from a gay man (Roger Casement) whom ACD later publicly supported when Casement’s own homosexuality was revealed.

this makes me so mad about that post again that said acd would have never written sherlock as an “invert” bc it was seen as a perversion by society or w/e like.. im just so… mad…i  hate … like legitimately hate some people int his fandom so much and dont wish them anything good in this world except for them seeing the light and leaving behind their ignoranece

[writemeastoryofsolitude]

I was just thinking about that exact post too!!! like @person who wrote that shit GET FUCKING WRECKED!

[kinklock]

so iwasthinking like what if sherlock had spent years listening to john shush the people he was having sex with upstairs (B/C HE WAS PROBABLY fantasizing a certain little man who is Sherlock) so when they finally start being together Sherlock tries to be really quiet because he thought John didn't want to hear his lovers or whatever and John is like *high pitched scream* Sherlock if u don't m..oan I'm not gonna n u t

LET HIM BE LOUD !!!

[bbcthree]

Get ready guys!

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DO JOHN AND SHEROCK BATHE TOGETHER

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COCK

[kinklock]

a cock AND a banana?  listen , cool your dick jets, 

[kinklock]

[sees One plane emoji] victorian fever dream that occurs entirely while sherlock is on the plane before he returns to the tarmac confirmed 

[weeesi]

More (again) from Strangers

[This is part of my series on Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb. Previous posts can be found here.]

1) Are you a man interested in having a sexual encounter with another man but not keen on visiting a male brothel? Look no further than your nearest Turkish bathhouse. They offered “sex and companionship and were usually much safer than brothels” because your chances of being blackmailed were somewhat lower. You were asked if you wanted a good-looking attendant and the rest was history. Robb writes:

“Bathhouse customers could relax in a world where secret signs were no longer necessary. In the bathhouse, the normal situation was reversed: it would have taken more ingenuity to avoid a homosexual encounter.”

Holmes and Watson visit a Turkish bath together in The Adventure of the Illustrious Client:

Both Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath. It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of the drying-room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else. On the upper floor of the Northumberland Avenue establishment there is an isolated corner where two couches lie side by side, and it was on these that we lay upon September 3, 1902, the day when my narrative begins. I had asked him whether anything was stirring…

Thanks, Granada Holmes – now I need the TAB equivalent. [x]

2) If the Achilles statue (aka the Wellington Monument) in Hyde Park appears in TAB – even a glimpse – I will die. Oscar Wilde mentions “the things that go on in front of” this statue in An Ideal Husband and also mentions it in The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was a well-known and favourite place for men to meet, perhaps for… obvious reasons. [x]

3) Using endearments such as “dear fellow”, “dear boy”, or signing correspondence with “your dear boy” has been noted in surviving letters between men who had relationships with other men. If I’m not mistaken I think these were used quite regularly between Holmes and Watson.

4) Robb notes that “in the present state of research, only about fifty works of western literature in the 19th century can be said to treat the subject of male homosexuality more or less openly.” This number includes works that were written during the 19th century but only published in the 20th, and also those that treated the subject “incidentally or imperceptibly” aka through extremely buried subtext.

So if one was interested in writing a story about two men in love in the 19th century…one would probably have been very, very careful…and used subtext, metaphors, codes, etc etc etc… maybe had the illustrator draw on a moustache…created a wife…and then killed her off-stage… who really knows…

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im gonna face johnlock and walk backwards into hell

[kinklock]

Are you at all worried that the special won't be gay? I'm watching it with people who I have convinced of endgame tjlc and I'm nervous that the special will embarrass me with heterosexuality

i am somewhat worried about my imminent death but definitely not about it not being gay my dude 

[tenjouutena]

C3PO is canon gay ohmy god im screaming he was based off of lucas’s gay friend and the actor was told about threepio’s “homosexual inclinations” im screaming

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this reminds me of sherlock

[kinklock]

a gay british accent aksjbnfaknjnkfkanjfnak HE’S SHERLOCK 

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The Abominable Bride MASTERPOST

The episode airs Friday, January 1st. It shows first at 9PM GMT (UK) on BBC One and a few hours later at 9PM (all USA timezones) on PBS. Of course, please double-check your local stations for the correct times.

It REALLY helps if you download Adblocker on your computer browser. Also, if a livestream requires you to be in the UK or the US, download Hola! for your browser, which changes your IP address. These extensions can be downloaded from Google Chrome’s web store (and most other browsers).

Unfortunately, I can’t find any livestream links for PBS, so here are some livestream links for BBC One:

http://livetvcafe.net/video/X6R47664W52Y/ (has a chatbox which is nice, but try another link if it gets too crowded/laggy)

http://freetvall.com/video/3d7rg2by8aau/bbc-one (same as above)

http://www.time4tv.com/2011/06/bbc-one.php (same as above)

http://www.stream2watch.co/live-tv/gb/bbc-1-live-stream

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/tv-stream/?ch=bbc+1 (IP must be in UK to use)

http://www.zoptv.com/live/bbc-one (turn off Adblocker to use)

Remember to convert 9PM GMT to your timezone! You can convert it here.

Next, if you want to catch up or rewatch the episode after it airs, you can watch it Sunday, Jan 10th at 10PM on PBS, or you can simply check any of these websites:

http://www.couchtuner.ag/watch-sherlock-online-serie/

http://www.cokeandpopcorn.ch/53516-download-or-watch-sherlock-online.php (scroll down to the Episode Guide, choose TAB, and click on the gray box that reads INTERNET LINKS)

http://putlocker.is/watch-sherlock-tvshow-online-free-putlocker.html

Please wait for a few hours after the episode first airs until links to TAB show up on the websites!

Finally, TAG YOUR POSTS SO OTHERS CAN BLACKLIST THEM. Use #tab, #shspesh, #sherlock spoilers, etc. There are a few good blacklisting services that I know of:

Download New XKit (NOT the old XKit; it’s shut down) for your computer browser for free (can be found on Chrome web store and probably other browsers). You can also buy it from the App Store for your phone, but it’s easier to go on your computer for free or use Washboard.ws on your phone.

Download Tumblr Savior for your computer browser.

Type in Washboard.ws in your computer or phone browser, sign in, authorize it, and adjust your blacklisting preferences at the little icon at the top under Rules.

Sorry for the long post, but I hope this is useful! Feel free to reblog and add your own links and tips if you have any!

[kinklock]

Idk why I'm thinking about it, but you know what I'm grateful for? That all post S3 fics will mention scars on Sherlock's body except the one left by Mary. Like, fuck that scar and it's angst, let's hope it never gets mentioned by anyone ever. (Oops)

asjhbdafnda Im laughing i love this message in like one of the only post s3 fics i ever wrote Mary’s scar is addressed what kind of drag 

[marcelock]

*sees cat* “oh! who’s this?” sherlock is so….cute…..

[marcelock]

the twink from earlier in the episode: daddy’s had enough now

[kinklock]

moriarty switching up his pick-up approach after sherlock’s response to his twink disguise was “there can only be one”