The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

-- TAGS UNDER COSTRUCTION -- This blog exists to celebrate the immortal detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and colleague Doctor Watson. You will find posts about the original works by Doyle, various tv series and movies. We tag everything!

[nishitani-the-4th]

I'm finally watching the granada version of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and I gotta say it is as good as people have said it is. Also Jeremy Brett has taken my top spot for most fuckable Holmes. Any scene where he is disheveled or has his hair down got me feeling unwise.

[moss-under-a-rock]

Everyone shut up I'm going insane

Seriously though I finally watched granada holmes and omfg I love this man more than words can describe, why is he like this

Also for some reason it's SO hard to capture his features correctly (or maybe I'm just out of practice)

[thehumantrampoline]

This is your reminder today that Irene Adler in the original Conan Doyle story is literally not a criminal. She never commits a crime.

[thehumantrampoline]

Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.

Irene Adler is not a thief, femme fatale, or blackmailer. She's just a cool lady that wants to be left alone.

[thehumantrampoline]

@delphi-star You do recall correctly!! She does not give a shit about that man! She's happily married! She tipped him for being a witness at her wedding!

If your Sherlock Holmes adaptation has a character whose identifying qualities are that she is a seductive criminal in love with Holmes, you have created a character that is basically the literal opposite of Irene Adler and you should name her something else.

[tzikeh]

She's also -- and I cannot stress this enough -- from New Jersey. IMO this is the single most important detail missing from all the adaptations -- IRENE ADLER IS FROM NEW JERSEY.

Please just once in my life I would like to see this adapted faithfully it would be the funniest fucking thing ever.

[pina-repsi]

ghosts

here are some close ups as well

watson is so much stronger than me because i would've been a mess even decades later after all that he's been through

[holmestice]

Summer 2026 Master List

Sorted by category and fandom, all the amazing fanworks created by this round's participants, for your perusal and entertainment and with na

Summer 2026 Master List is UP!

Reveals are out. COME AND SEE!

50+ new works, in 20+ different Holmesian fandoms!

A delicious array of fic, art, vids, and more! Two Holmes verses making the roster for the first time, O Xangô de Baker Street and Young Sherlock.

This was also the first round for our newest member of the mod team @bluebellofbakerstreet!

THANK YOU to all our wonderful participants. Please, come see, leave comments and kudos and love to our creators at both Dreamwidth and AO3, and come join us when signups open for the Winter 2026 round in September

[teaformrholmes]

“During the first week of July my friend had been absent so often and so long from our lodgings that I knew he had something on hand.”

— John Watson, “The Adventure of Black Peter,” The Return of Sherlock Holmes

[bluebellofbakerstreet]

Holmes questions a reticent witness. For Holmestice, summer 2026

[buckingham-ashtray]

source

[bluebellofbakerstreet]

Holmes and Watson visit their neighborhood newsagent c. 1946. For Holmestice Summer 2026.

[teaformrholmes]

Mr Bennett drew a little diary book from his pocket. 'That was on July 2nd,' said he. 'You are certainly an admirable witness,' said Holmes.

"The Creeping Man," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[teaformrholmes]

“The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by three cases of interest, in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherlock Holmes and of studying his methods. I find them recorded in my notes under the headings of ‘The Adventure of the Second Stain,’ 'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty,’ and 'The Adventure of the Tired Captain.’”

— John Watson, “The Naval Treaty”

[onsuchsmallthingstheworldturns]

[prof-jmoriarty]

[elinordash]

PURSUIT TO ALGIERS (1945) Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes & Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson

[absolute-twaddle-deactivated202]

The Baker Street File. Source-The Television Sherlock Holmes (Peter Haining)

[tremendousdetectivetheorist]

Wow–thank you for sharing!

[holmesoldfellow]

Bearlock Holmes from the North American Bear Co. "Very Important Bears (V.I.B.) collection, 1979

[jjjeremybrett]

JEREMY BRETT and DAVID BURKE as SHERLOCK HOLMES and DR JOHN WATSON in THE BLUE CARBUNCLE (1984)