#baring-gould

[contact-guy]

I’m reading the Baring-Gould Annotated Sherlock Holmes, here are some gems:

Caricature of Arthur Conan Doyle crying and chained to his fictional character because he hated writing Holmes stories SO MUCH

Literally a drawing of me reading the Final Problem

An incomplete list of parodies of Holmes’s and Watson’s names, tag yourself

[ogsherlockholmes]

I know that Baring-Gould was a master bullshitter (honestly, props to him for his... inventive imagination) but I find it so hilarious how this guy, famous and well known in his own right, decided to find the most famous character at least in Britain and rechristen him so they had the same name.

William? Who? William Holmes- oh, like... William Baring-Gould? Fucking hysterical.

And he doesn't actually give a reason (at least, not to my knowledge). He just claims that, coincidentally, they have the same name and that just Is How It Is. William Sherlock Scott Holmes. Unreal.

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

Btw where is the list of all the INSANE shit Baring-Gould came up with? You know the one, "Sherlock Holmes fought a pterodactyl his cousin Prof. Challenger let loose", "Sherlock Holmes saw a Yeti in Tibet", ...

Because I think we as a fandom should make a challenge to fill these prompts.

[doingbad]

William Stuart Baring-Gould

[sherlockianscholar]

yikes, who hurt you

From The Annotated Sherlock Holmes edited by William S. Baring-Gould

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Have you any idea where the concept of John Watson having money problems from gambling originates?

Hey Lovely!

Doing a REALLY quick google search, I found this on the Dr. Watson Wikipedia:

In the Guy Ritchie-directed Sherlock Holmes movies, Watson is portrayed by Jude Law. Law portrays Watson as knowledgeable, brave, strong-willed, and thoroughly professional, as well as a competent detective in his own right. Apart from being armed with his trademark sidearm, his film incarnation is also a capable swordsman. The film portrays Watson as having a gambling problem, which William S. Baring-Gould had inferred from a reference in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" to Holmes keeping Watson's cheque book locked in a drawer in his desk.[18] 

Obviously, Wikipedia isn’t the BEST resource, but I’ll take it for now :) I honestly thought it was an ACD thing and was more blatant than one single line, heh.

[sherlockianscholar]

my happy place

[devoursjohnlock]

With all the speculation that John might be texting with Sherlock in The Six Thatchers, has anyone yet suggested that E might stand for Escott?