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"him or her" JUST SAY THEMMM

#its quite literally not that hard #less words #more inclusive #whats not to like?#like at this point not just using them seems kinda transphobic #fuck it im tagging it #transphobia #transgender #nonbinary #nonbinary erasure

As much as I go on about how Holmes and Watson are sold as a set and that every adaptation has to include both of them, I always think about what they would be like apart.

For example, Holmes in his teen/young 20's years, trying to get through University and failing because he's uninterested in most of the topics, apart from the ones he's obsessed with which he cannot and will not break away from. Holmes basically isolated from the world because all of the other students find him too strange, too eccentric to hang around and be taken seriously (I'm purposefully excluding Victor Trevor here because he's always been a Watson prototype in my mind). Holmes starting to take drugs to stop feeling so depressed, to actually feel normal for once or to compensate for his feelings of loneliness by telling himself he's okay with being shut off from the world. Holmes' solving his first cases with Scotland Yard, gradually gaining more and more of a reputation, both for being a clever detective and for being an outcast. Holmes battling with his sexuality and his gender identity, because he sees men his age getting married to women and he isn't interested in that but he's still a little too interested in men, and maybe he's hoping he grows out of it, but deep down he knows he can't.

And then Watson has his own narrative and storyline: successful army doctor trying to find his feet in the war. He knows how to include himself with the other soldiers and the other men- after all, he can relate to their experiences with women. But secretly he knows that isn't all, he knows there's something different about himself that he just can't figure out, but he comes close when he looks at certain army 'buds' for a little bit longer than he should. Watson might have gone to war to escape from a situation at home, and he's trying to shut it out with the chaos, and he's mostly successful but he still feels something inside of him.

Both of them are struggling to understand their identities, to find their place in the world and who they might even share it with. They're nearly there, there so close but there's something missing: they're whole, but sometimes, things have to come in pairs to work at their best.

#they're like a pair of trousers #one leg is not helpful for most people #but two? that's a pair of trousers #not trying to exclude amputees #or shampoo and conditioner #more inclusive #sherlock holmes #sherlock #acd #john watson #johnlock #dr watson

abled neurodivergents will post stuff like this constantly when it could just say "disabled" instead of just mentally ill and be more inclusive (since physically disabled people are always left out of shit nowadays) but god forbid you make a specific post directed towards physically disabled people cause now all of them come to send kys in your inbox 😮‍💨