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I have a comic in this!!! And the rest of the art and writing is absolutely stunning…a must for original flavor Holmes enjoyers 🕵️‍♂️

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breaking: stunning allegations of beloved children's author "fucking rocking"

herlock in this real victorian outfit #dgs

Watson still roasting Holmes over this 8 years later is how you know they’re true best friends

Watson about the city: “I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.” Watson about the country: “in this most God-forsaken corner of the world.”

Things like this are why Sherlock Holmes scholarship is so wild

Holmes. He means Holmes.

Watson is doing deduction! Oh never mind he’s just being horny again

Watson, learning about a place that is bad and impossible to get to and full of deadly traps: “Huh, might check it out.” Poor Holmes can’t let him out of his sight for a minute 😭

Stapleton calling Holmes “your detective” here is something I’m so normal about

Maybe don’t write and publish 4 books about your crush if you don’t want people to know about your crush

Normal reaction to hearing your flatmate’s name

Nothing could be more wrong than interpretations of the stories that imagine Watson as jealous of Holmes. Watson views detective work as a heavy burden, and that’s coming from a guy whose chosen career was battlefield medic.

This is one of only 2 times Watson prays for something in the whole canon, and it’s for Holmes to return to him. (He saw Holmes yesterday)

The hottest thing a man can be is pale with a gathering atmosphere of mystery

Shout out to the scullery-maid at Baskerville Hall who never appears and has nothing to do with any of this. Queen of Staying Out Of It as everyone lives a Gothic nightmare

Watson has only been away from Holmes for a matter of hours and he’s already acting single 🙄

SYMBOLISM I saw his dark face lit up with a boyish enthusiasm as he gazed about him. The light beat upon him where he stood, but long shadows trailed down the walls and hung like a black canopy above him.

This is so funny. -Creepy gothic haunted house description - is this where the hell hound killed my uncle? - no this is the normal side

Doyle: I’m like dropping hints this is a Gothic Novel.

Concerned townspeople: JFC there is an escaped criminally insane serial killer on the loose who could come for any of us! Watson: Damn, so thematic. This will be great for my novel.

Watson, stop expressing your mlm attraction by offering to die for them in battle challenge (impossible)

Anyway ignore all that haunting the narrative stuff, there’s a doggy!

It’s time for my favorite theme in Hound of the Baskervilles! Sherlock Holmes as a living ghost haunting Watson! See, in universe the events happened before Holmes’ death, but were published after his death. That tension shows up in the novel in moments like this

This is part of the kink.

Watson, you’ve been living together for years, I don’t think you have to full name him every time

Dr Watson in Sign of the Four chapter 1

“Watson, I am so worried about your life and well being if you face a murderer and a haunted gothic mansion on your own. We know this killer has our home address and- why are you laughing? Watson this is serious! Well now I’m just more worried!”

We have got to bring back the term “foeman” to describe haters and enemies

Holmes thinks Watson can succeed where he didn’t! Sure yeah he immediately changes his mind and sabotaged the case, but it’s sweet he considered it at all

🤷🏻‍♂️

This is the plot of Collateral (2004, Michael Mann)

Mr Holmes, please don’t say “supple”

More intimate moments between Holmes and the reader. Oops I mean Watson

1. Watson knows Holmes’ mind and moods so well 2. Love “he sat lost in tobacco and thought.”

More of Sir Henry asking Holmes what Watson is allowed to do

Dr John Watson fighting a Hell Hound because it would be a little awkward to *not* fight a Hell Hound for this guy he met a few hours ago is all you need to know about his deal

In the club, reading The Hound of the Baskervilles

Holmes grabbing Watson and offering him up to Henry at the same time

What kind of tight place, Holmes? 👀

One of my favorite details in HOUND is these bits from the start and end of the book where you can tell Holmes and Watson have been having this argument for years

A date!

Okay it’s pretty funny that Holmes also includes Watson as an equal partner in his fuck ups

They both take it for granted that Watson spends all of his focus on Holmes

I hate when adaptations make Sherlock Holmes’ flaw that he can’t admit to being wrong or he’s too smug when his canon flaw is that every time he makes any tiny mistake he decides he deserves to be publicly executed.

Holmes and Watson being cute

Mary Morstan does this so well in their first meeting that Watson has no choice but to marry her.