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americans are sooo desensitized to guns and sometimes it manifests in ways that affect your media literacy. like remember in the first episode of sherlock when john watson opens up his drawer and you see a gun in there and youre supposed to understand that this is narratively significant and conveys his suicidality as well as his willingness to skirt rules and laws but the first time i watched it i was like oh well theres his desk gun. lots of people have those

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my billionth rococo au

ghostbees

The Red Circle

Even though it seems sacrilegious to think of Watson without a moustache, it’s surprising how little presence it actually has in the text itself. As the narrator, Watson does tend to describe others rather than himself; men with lush facial hair abound in his stories, but the few instances we have of his own “modest moustache” are reports from others. It is mostly inferred from his military background, or military air, as Holmes puts it.

Indeed, although it wouldn't be mentioned until “The Naval Treaty”, nearly all illustrators depict Watson with it. Surprisingly, prior to being serialised in The Strand, Holmes also sometimes sported some peculiar facial hair, most shockingly in Charles Altamont Doyle’s drawings for the first book edition of A Study in Scarlet. By 1891, Paget’s depictions of the two men would set a template for all to follow...moustache included.

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lesbianshepard

For anyone keeping up with the Stranger Things "secret good finale" conspiracy (yes, it is just the Sherlock "secret good episode" thing with a new show.) the current theory is that tomorrow, in place of SNL, the actual finale of Stranger Things will air. They are presenting this as something plausible, and not something that Lorne Michaels would have beaten the Duffer Brothers to death over if they even suggested it.

lesbianshepard

The stranger things finale is going to drop on Martin Luther King Jr Day because Stranger Things embodies the values of MLK

lesbianshepard

Close enough. Welcome back Johnlock truthers!

lesbianshepard

The subreddit also has a 60 page masterdoc of all their evidence, if anyone wants to archive that for the inevitable youtube video that's going to be made.

lesbianshepard

we poppin the BIGGEST bottles when Secret Good Finale happens in half an hour!

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sistersorrow

Oh my God, the SNL skit directly referenced Confromitygate

The theorists must be SEETHING

plumebeat

"Am I...pretty?"

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yurpppp

femmeboggart

they seem to be very good friends

the-bedheaded-league

It’s crazy to me that people read Sherlock Holmes’ obsession with Irene Adler as romantic when it is so clearly the same kind of obsession that gay men have for Lady Gaga

andyoullhearitagain

Everyone gives Sherlock Holmes a hard time about being mean about Watson's writing, but honestly imagine you told your roommate "sure, you can write up an account of my work for the newspaper," thinking it would be like, about the murder, but then he publishes it and it's 90% about you, as a person, and it's a huge hit and now everyone in London knows that you hoard newspapers and do cocoaine when you're depressed. Because I think you'd be little miffed too.

snogfairy

Dr. John Watson describing an active crime scene for the newspaper: my beautiful friend Sherlock Holmes sat with a quizzical brow upon the settee and the light coming in from the window illuminated his dark, intense eyes. oh and there was a dead body also

prokopetz

I'm forever torn on whether Herlock Sholmes or Hemlock Shears is the better technically-legally-distinct Sherlock Holmes knockoff, because on the one hand I do love a good spoonerism, but on the other hand, Hemlock Shears has a certain indefinable ring to it.

amashelle

Which would you rather read about? The Adventures of_______

Herlock Sholmes

Hemlock Shears

Voting ended onDec 7, 2025

that-one-multifandom-chick

people really do be forgetting the former already exists in ace attorney

prokopetz

Herlock Sholmes pre-dates The Great Ace Attorney by over a hundred years. The character first appears in Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmès, a 1908 novel by Maurice Leblanc in which Leblanc's own Lupin engages in a battle of wits with the titular Sholmes. Initially published serially in the French magazine Je sais tout in 1906–1907, the story originally featured the actual Sherlock Holmes, but the character was replaced with the technically-legally-distinct Sholmes in the collected novel edition after legal threats from Arthur Conan Doyle. The character's name was further modified to Holmlock or Hemlock Shears (the spelling varies) in the novel's English translations, presumably because its English-language publishers felt that Herlock Sholmes was not sufficiently distinct as to avoid further legal challenges in Doyle's native Britain.