Commonplace book -- Sherlockiana

A place to collect bits and pieces related to Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson in all their incarnations. Also, a place to indulge in my fondness for the New Avengers -- meaning Gambit, Purdey and Steed, thank you very much.

[yeehawpim]

I can be the ship and its sailors

[makingqueerhistory]

Anti-Book Banning Bingo

We made this for an event with the Writers' Guild of Alberta to fight the book bans in our province. Feel free to use it, and if you want to fill in the "support a trans author" square, consider becoming a paid patron of Making Queer History!

[scifigrl47]

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

Happy Father's Day!

Tony doesn't want to celebrate father's day, for reasons he doesn't want to discuss, and Steve doesn't want to take away Tony's spot as DJ's father.

DJ is oblivious to all of this.

[lakecountylibrary]

Our bookasaurus Clawdia is on the path to becoming a great dinobrarian. Checking in materials? Check!

This video is silent except for background music and is available with audio narration on our YouTube channel. Text description for convenience follows:

[ID: A black and white video with a filter over it to look like an old-timey film reel. Jaunty silent-film style music plays in the background. The video is sped up to give it the jerky motion of an old video. Text appears: Lesson 2: A good librarian checks materials in every day. Clawdia (an inflatable T-rex costume) enters the book drop room of a library and checks the book drop bin positioned under a chute in the wall. She discovers a book! She places the single book on an empty cart and slowly backs out of the room since she is too large to turn around. Struggles of being a librarian in a dinosaur costume. Wheeling the cart (which is now mysteriously a smaller cart with a pile of books on it) to the computers behind the circulation desk, she opens the book and scans it with the book scanner. She holds the book up in success! It is titled Dictionary of Dinosaurs. The book is now checked in. Text appears that reads Great Job! followed by the Lake County Public Library logo. /ID]

[coraliewhodraw]

You're not alone...

When your ex boyfriend unintentionally made the robot that take care of you during your mission...oops

[petite-madame]

Original Six Forever - (2026)

I really miss those guys 💗

[scifigrl47]

[scifigrl47]

It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn

Well hello.

It's me. The person who has posted nothing but Avengers/Marvel fic since... Well, for more than a decade.

I have posted a fic. It is not Marvel.

But in my usual way, I have looked around a canon, I have picked up a bunch of background characters, and gone, "You deserved better" and then went off to write them being horribly traumatized by the circumstances of the story.

As one does? (as one does)

Anyway, if you're one of the 1 6 people left on Tumblr who enjoyed "The Martian" and its story of a man left behind on an alien planet due to circumstances, please be aware that guy won't be showing up til chapter 3.

Literally no one is going to read this and I'm okay with that but man. I wrote a really good nightmare sequence here.

[fibromyalgicaf]

Edited to add: Since a lot of people are reblogging this original post, I'm adding the updated version I did that incorporates the intersex circle...

I know intersex people are still getting excluded in a lot of LGBTQIA+ spaces (let alone wider society) and I think it's crucial to show this group is included in the statement that we all deserve equal rights.

[mundanesalad]

it came to me in a vision

[bug-lovers-island]

Been thinking about hot rod horseshoe crab all day

[littleguysdaily]

[mundanesalad]

My ultimate goal was to make and paint it in real life. Thank you all for believing in me!

[meyerlansky]

just. please know. that giffing scenes like that is a fucking nightmare labor of love.

to wit:

bottom's the raw capture, middle's just flat curve correction to make the footage visible, top is the final coloring with /counts seven adjustment layers to add back in Literally Anything But Yellow

every giffer i know does it out of love for the game, but for the record it's not... easy. it's not just slapping the footage in a cap grabber and posting whatever it spits out. "professional" lighting and color grading has only gotten waaay murkier and flatter in the fifteen years i've been giffing on here, so uh. don't repost gifs, please!

[infiniteeight8]

I thought the bottom was a black bar. I didn't even realize that was footage.

Everyone say thank you to your neighbourhood GIF maker! Giffers are so important to the fannish ecosystem, but to so many people the amount of work involved invisible.

[spiritcc]

Russian Holmses + Russian memes

+ kind bonus

[spiritcc]

check how many sherlock holmes adaptations you can name just by one batshit thing from it

holmes’ secret sister 

holmes’ unsecret sister

watson marries mrs hudson

holmes stops a cthulhu summoning

watson sleeps with sir henry (brohomo)

watson sleeps with mycroft 

the entire plot seriously happens only because lestrade quit smoking

holmes has the hots for watson’s fiancee  

gnohomo

holmes intentionally kills a person with a crossbow

holmes helps his sleep paralysis demon

holmes and moriarty’s daughter

watson sucks on holmes’ finger (yes homo)

watson sucks on holmes’ finger (no homo)

toxic by britney spears

mycroft has a wife and a son and a dog

just like…. rats

watson catches a criminal with a lasso indoors

everyone is british but sherlock holmes

knife-throwing book

the bad guy’s henchman is literally a banana-eating crocodile

holmes doesnt get to be a sperm donor

lestrade becomes a Little Dancing Man for two minutes

zombiefying soup

holmes gets kinkshamed in a brothel

sherlock golmts

straight up dinosaurs

trump jokes

holmes is now sara 

watson is distraught over a pea

holmes’ mom is killed by his imaginary friend

watson is an ordained minister

[rsfcommonplace]

I know far too few of these.

[ironedorchid]

Kelly Link, 21st April 2026

[sarahmackattack]

Oh hey, it's Skype a Scientist again, here to fund science education projects with COOL ART.

Introducing SHRIMP CITY!

Look cool as hell in while talking about shrimp science with your friends.

For example: 🦐 Mantis Shrimp (who punch so fast they create pressure voids in the water that collapse to produce shockwaves, heat, and even a flash of light!) 🦐 Pistol Shrimp (Instead of a punch, pistol shrimp create their shockwaves using the snap of their claws!) 🦐 Hermit Crabs (who aren't "true" crabs, but Shrimp City is an inclusive town) 🦐Yeti Crabs (who live in Shrimp City's sister city, Hydrothermal Ventopolis, where they grow bacteria on their hairy arms that they lick off for a snack!) 🦐 Insects (who are not shrimps per se, but did you know recent research suggests that insects group with the crustaceans?? You may have heard that shrimps is bugs, but nay… bugs is shrimp).

These shirts were designed by Philly designer The 666 Cat!

What kind of science education are you funding by buying a shirt, you ask? Well, lots of stuff, but here's a recent example:

Here's a mural all about local biodiversity that we painted in collaboration with a Philly public elementary school with local artist NDA!

We got the kids from the school to help us paint it and everything! These projects are educational and cute as hell.

So hey. Get a shirt <3

[sarahmackattack]

UPDATE: as of Sunday morning, we've sold 271 shirts. To fully fund our fall mural series we need to sell 1100. Each mural costs about 330 shirts (this is a goofy way to fund good projects, but hey, that's life in the 2026 hellscape babbyyy).

This means we are 60 shirts away from our first Philly Bug mural being funded. So whaddya waiting for?? Get a shrimp shirt!

[horsefriend]

This video gives me spiritually energy and power

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Me: Why does that horse look like it’s made of wet clay

Me: Oh that’s why

[tacomel420]

hot girl summer

[autumngracy]

On all levels but physical, that's a pig

[n00dl3gal]

Lost in the sauce

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Absolute shenanigans

[iguanodonwildman]

Hey! Just a reminder! AO3 does NOT have an app. This garbage was made by theives who steal fan artist’s work and sell it back to you.

“Oh, but it’s free!” There are ads. They are making money off of this. They are stealing from the creators you love and you are hurting those same creators if you use this app or any similar app.

Don’t use it. Report it at every opportunity.