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[sanguinarysanguinity]

Have you ever seen "The Seven Per-Cent Solution"?

Read it, watched it, blogged it, put it in a vid, wrote some fic. 

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@sanspatronymic replied to your photoset: The Seven Per-Cent Solution...

I have never read the book but the movie is fuckin’ BONKERS. Also did not realize the same man gave us this and Wrath of Khan, but color me not surprised.

Yeah, the movie had some odd bits, that’s and for sure! The withdrawal sequence, the tennis match, the Lipizzaner Stallions, the Moriarty flashbacks... And doesn’t it begin with an over-the-top close-up of Holmes’ deranged eye? (I haven’t watched it since I pulled clips from it for the vid, but it was, shall we say, distinctive.) It might help to know that all those visually overwrought bits either aren’t in the novel, or are allowed to simply exist without being overwhelmed by highly-distracting directorial choices. (The withdrawal and Moriarty bits are heartbreaking in the novel.)

But that whole swashbuckling train sequence at the end... That’s straight out of the novel. Somehow, it was less absurd on the screen than it was on the page? That, or the movie had worn me down by then, hard to tell. But on the page, even that scene had a line or two that just hurt.

imo, the book is much, much stronger than the movie. And I am in complete agreement with @educatedinyellow: the monstrous calumny passage destroys me.

I haven’t seen Wrath of Khan since I was a teenager (and obvs need to again), but it was another Nicholas Meyer Star Trek film -- The Undiscovered Country -- that gave us Spock as a descendant of Sherlock Holmes.

[hadescavedish]

I feel very complicated about the book:

- I like some aspects of it: a caring Watson and Holmes who needs his help to recover

- On the other hand I absolutely can't stand Freud as a historical figure, I'm not sure how will I think when I finally read it.

I may or may not read it, it hasn't been decided.

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@gardnerhill replied to your post: @sanspatronymic replied to “The Seven Per-Cent Solution”...

I wrote an immediate follower to the "monstrous calumny" scene, "Herz Verrat" on AO3.

Yes, you did! I liked “Herz Verrat” very much!

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[fic] Brandy and Soda / Particular Debts

Both stories are based on the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but neither requires any knowledge of it. Huge thanks to @quipxotic​ and @grrlpup​ for beta!

Brandy and Soda

Holmes returns to Baker Street.

John Watson & Sherlock Holmes tags: return, major character death, grief/mourning, mentions of past drug use 1600 words

He was the picture of rude good health, and my heart twisted in my breast. Relief, that I did not have to somehow find the strength to worry over them both; jealousy, that my Mary did not look so well.

I swear upon my soul that I did not wish for them to be switched in that moment. And yet, in those last, desperate days, I wished for many things that did not become me.

Read on AO3.

Particular Debts

Holmes and Watson have the opportunity to pay some old debts.

John Watson & Sherlock Holmes, Anna Freud tags: His Last Bow, WWI, past drug use and withdrawal, discussions of sexual assault and medical abuse 4000 words

“It’s a delicate question,” Watson ventured, “but while pretending to spy for the Germans, did you by chance meet anyone you trust?”

I looked at him askance. “Trust? A German agent?”

“Mm,” he confirmed. “Perhaps someone you chose to let go, rather than implicate with the rest.”

“My dear boy.” I turned to face him in frank astonishment. “You have just asked whether I committed treason.”

Read on AO3.

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