Holmesian Bastard

Sherlock Holmes dedicated blog; my main blog-> @spaceking

[victorianbeanbag]

Hello there!!

Before anything, here's some stuff about myself!!!

♧Main blog: @spaceking

♧Name: Phoenix

♧Nationality: 🇵🇹

♧Pronouns: they/she

♧Fandoms: all listed in my main blog

♧Favourite SH adaptations: Granada TV, and Sherlock & Co.

♧Why I created another blog: I was tired of loosing my Sherlock Holmes posts in the middle of my reblogs or other posts

♧My first language isn't English, so if you see some weird grammar or smth that's why

❗️If you're a creep or a biggot DNI❗️

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That is all!!

Thank you!!!

[tchoupiraterie]

Good morning my dear

Another doodle because I can’t draw anything properly with my tendinitis…

[the-bedheaded-league]

I know some people are like “Holmes hates being touched and would hate cuddling” and that’s valid but I am forever team “Holmes hates being touched by everyone except for like 3 specific people and he cuddles Watson like a greedy octopus”

[daryatbakerst]

i don't think watson puts much importance on his own fame - yes, he wrote the stories, but he did so to highlight holmes. and that worked! holmes has, even though reluctantly, become a household name, and gets more cases than ever. watson thinks its wonderful that so many people recognize holmes for how brilliant and captivating he really is.

if watson sometimes wishes that he, too, was something special and not an average medical man with an average build and average intelligence and if he sometimes wishes to, for once, step out of the shadow that he doesn't mind staying in as long as holmes is being seen, he never mentions it.

[moonywithatrafficcone]

giving a pile of documents to my mariana mii to overwork her #justhowcanonintended

[victorianbeanbag]

Tumblr, I have a question. Who would you cast for a modern yuri adaptation of Sherlock Holmes?

[binghop]

Everyone always says that Watson is the sun and Sherlock is the moon, but they are WRONG and here is why -

To start with the most obvious reason - Watson is, as Sherlock puts it, a conductor of light. He presents Sherlock Holmes to the world like an artist would a painting - if Watson was an illusrator he'd put a picture of Sherlock on every page of his books - and he basically already does in his descriptions.

Watson is also just very moon coded in general - his colours feel like a more warmish grey, and he has that relaxed old man vibe to him from time to time. Watsons character feels tied to how he cares for people and interacts with them, and I personally believe that to be a very moon-like quality.

Sherlock is also very sun coded - he shines brightly, and everyone notices him, but people can't truly see him with their bare eyes, he's misunderstood by many and can seem quite jarring. Sherlock accels in many areas, and people offen put him in a higher possision of importance compared to the moon. (But just like the moon, Watson is never fully forgotten in day-to-day conversation).

Sherlock cannot help but be the centre of attention due to his brightness.

People make the mistake of thinking sun = whoever is more bubbly and confident and moon = the shy, slightly grumpy one. And as much as I would ague this isn't always the case, I would like to mention that by that standard Sherlock still feels more sun-like and Watson still feels more moon-like.

People often forget that Sherlock isn't just a thinking mechine, he can be cheeky, theatrical, and Watson can often doubt his abilities and hide himself behind Sherlock's genius.

But either way you look at it - Sherlock amd Watson cannot truely shine to their full potential without each other.

[beekeeperspicnic]

By popular request ;D Holmes being neurodivergent was something I thought about a lot while writing the game (channelling my own experiences a lot of the time!) and I know that our director discussed it with the actors, too. This is definitely not all the scenes or even the most prominent examples, but they're the ones that felt non-spoilery!

This is from my Sherlock Holmes point and click game The Beekeeper's Picnic which releases March 26th 2025!

Wishlist on Steam | Itch.io Demo | Discord | Press Kit

[melajaymz]

Based on this one scene of Watson playing Holmes' violin after his "death"

[my-favouritetvshows]

Granada Holmes and Watson are always so close to each other. It's like they are attached at the hip at this point. Love it.

[gentleman-detective]

Happy Pride to all the John Watsons and Sherlock Holmeses that have been created on Tomodachi Life recently.

[aenrev]

This is gonna take me ages to finish properly

[kimgmac63]

[shrubdrawsalot]

i cant stop thinking about them

[spaceking]

Man, every time I learn something new about Jeremy Brett, I get more and more fascinated about this man.

We all know that he took it upon himself to create a backstory for Holmes when the Granada TV show didn't offer one (and that was awesome of him), but did you know that he could sing??? He even did some of musical theatre in the beginning of his career. In addition to that, did you know he was in a lot of Shakespeare plays???? And also, he got offered the role of 007, but he declined it because he thought it wouldn't be good for his career???

Jeremy Brett was truly amazing.

[anxiousbiscuit]

I was talking about Sherlock Holmes with my cool weird 42 year old coworker the other day and he said that he had read other works by ACD but not any Sherlock Holmes. ACD is smiling down from heaven on his one and only true fan.

[fangirlsovertoomanythings]

The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.

[gardnerhill]

There’s a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Women’s Money.

[three--rings]

Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil.  Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again.  (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)

[waterhobbit]

I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.

The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.

[three--rings]

This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life.  The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.)  There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors.  Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime.  And yes, so much of it is of the personal type. 

[volkswagonblues]

dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.

[fahbee]

One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases.  In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them.  Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:

Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)

Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.

[faejilly]

#my favorite murder in holmes canon#is when they straight up witness a lady murder her blackmailer#do nothing except destroy his other blackmail material#and then straight up lie to lestrade about it#sherlock holmes#more of this in modern adaptations pls (via @cactusspatz )

[muffinworry]

Let’s not forget the time Holmes helps a young woman who’s being catfished by her own stepfather to steal her inheritance, and when the villain sneers that the law can’t touch him, Holmes grabs a horsewhip out of sheerest chivalry.

[smokingtigerhiddengun]

So, the most canon-accurate iteration of Sherlock Holmes in the last few decades is actually Benoit Blanc….

[marzipanandminutiae]

I think it’s also important to note, and complicates our ideas about what the highly patriarchal/misogynistic society of 19th century England looked like, that these stories SOLD

they were POPULAR

the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)

which is fascinating in light of. you know. [gestures broadly at all of Victorian gender dynamics, laws, etc.]

[sherlockknolmes]

I think Sherlock is far too often represented as not caring about Watson. Everyone assumes that since Holmes is a genius and gets caught up in cases that he must always ignore Watson. That Watson must be treated like dirt.

But for all his flightyness, Holmes really is considerate when it comes to Watson. In the hound of the baskervilles, Watson gets upset at Holmes because he thinks all his reports have gone to waste when he discovers Holmes has been in town the whole time. But no, Holmes had all those reports sent back to baskerville for him to read, even though he didn't necessarily need them.

It is a strongly emotional scene for the story and has remained my favourite over the years due to Holmes quickly jumping to praise Watson's observations.

They are a team!! Always have been. Holmes wouldn't take just anyone with him.

Or maybe I've just watched/read too much Sherlock Holmes content, who knows.