I laid down a story idea in my 'cellar' years ago to mature, and it’s finally coming together! Sherlock Holmes is about to bring Professor Moriarty to justice, when the murder of an old sailor triggers a flood of long-buried memories. Because all children grow up... even Peter Pan. https://archiveofourown.org/works/47254072/chapters/119065483
Some Holmes fans may be familiar with my ebook, ‘A Criminal Carol’, in which Professor Moriarty is visited by the three Christmas ghosts. Now my book has been adapted for the stage by Jonathan Goodwin of Don’t Go Into The Cellar theater company! But it’s only being performed with enough backing on kickstarter, so please donate! Campaign deadline November 28th.
6:45, the usual morning wind up
Yell at the kids that no, they can’t watch TV
Wheaties or cornflakes, wish they would make their minds up
Toast again, and by then, it’s like 8:53
*
So then I’ll clear the plates and hide the damn remotes
‘You cannot start the day until you’re wearing clothes!’
The bathroom floor looks like someone brought in a hose
Just four more weeks till vacation ends
*
Not even lunch, they’re nagging me to do baking
Paper mache? Forget it, no way, get dressed!
Slippers aren’t shoes, just look at how long you’re taking
Gumboots fetched, patience stretched, and they ask why I’m stressed?!
*
So I’ll reclear the plates and turn on Avatar
A parent’s sanity can only stretch so far
Oh God, who put their toast into the VCR?!
These brats are driving me round the bend
Just hang on four weeks, then three weeks, then two weeks, then one week
Until vacation ends *
But every night I tuck them in bed
Turn out the light as they cuddle their teds
Hug them goodnight, take a deep breath and then
Tomorrow morning, go through all this $#@% again...
Introverts vs. extroverts.
Still a little rough, but I love this one. Moran’s just trying to be a good friend. 😄
They’re best friends, really.
My first finished Moriarty comic in with the Caliart markers and Pentel brush pen, as well as my own font based on my handwriting! I drew the first version of this comic two years ago, actually… It’s still kind of rough, but I’m pretty happy with it?
I’ve got a few other older comics to redraw, and then it’ll be time to move on to new ones! At this rate, they’re probably going to be Christmas. I’ve got several Christmas ones in mind. 😄
So, the U.S. election was always going to overshadow this release, and now Biden’s victory has been called?! Historic. Show-stopping.
Good golly, there could hardly be a worse day for this, lol.
But my best friend and partner-in-crime’s new book is finally available! You can order The Hunting of the Nark: Sherlock Holmes Through the Looking-Glassfrom MX Publishing and I strongly recommend…
Lol, I have absolutely no problem sharing a spotlight with President Biden! And Madeline’s illustrations are amazing - she actually studied Sir John Tenniel’s art in Lewis Carroll’s original works to learn the cross hatching technique, and she now has it down to a fine art! Check out more of her work at astudyinimagination on tumblr and instagram.
pg. 48, chapter 5; Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
-> I have read Alice many times before, and yet reading it now with a different set to my mind and thoughts, I am beginning to find that Alice is a journey exploring how Alice routinely puts her foot in her mouth and routinely talks herself into trouble.
-> Also: that poor stressed pigeon
THIS. Alice is the complete opposite of a Mary-Sue and I love her for it.
One of the things I like about Lewis Carroll’s Alice books is that the nonsensical elements are all treated as entirely mundane by the author, and the characters who inhabit those worlds. Scenes change in the blink of an eye, the laws of physics and time are often reversed, objects and people regularly change size, creatures and plants talk, and there are ‘fabulous monsters’ such as unicorns and gryphons... but there are no obvious clues to indicate that any of these things are the way they are by magic: no sparkling or twinkling effects, no great sweeping spells, no dark hints of supernatural forces that man was not meant to know of. Wonderland it may be called, but the inhabitants don’t seem to find it particularly wondrous! Everyone Alice meets seems to have the attitude of ‘So? This is how things are, take it or leave it!’ They also tend to be more irritated than interested when Alice describes the differences of her own world.
*Spoiler alert*
Big thank you to Joseph W. Svec III for the wonderful review!
I just finished reading a hilarious parody, another Sherlock Holmes/Wonderland crossover! When writing a pastiche, especially a crossover, writers have to walk a fine line between the original author’s vision and taking the characters into new territory. Joseph Svec III’s ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Grinning Cat’ walks that tightrope with as many dramatic flourishes as one could wish for, as Holmes and Watson must journey to Wonderland to save Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll, helped and hindered by a familiar cast of colourful characters. Joseph Svec has a clear talent for describing people, settings and action simply but evocatively. I especially liked his introduction and fleshing out of some unexpected characters, such as the Jabberwock from the Looking-Glass poem. Readers looking for a fun, light-hearted romp down the rabbit hole, with a surprising yet satisfying conclusion, will not be disappointed!
Angstober, Prompt 31: ‘Monster’
Trigger warning: Assault
Flufftober Day 28: Coffee.
So, I already did Holmes and Beth with Coffee, Silly, so it was time to do Holmes and Beth with Coffee, Sappy. No, I am never not going to ship them and sooner or later they are always going to pop up in my art. 😁 Sidenote: the design on Beth’s coffee mug, the Sherlock silhouette, is inspired by the Baker Street Babes’ logo.
My babies! *hearts for eyes*
My first fill to my own writers’ challenge! For those who’ve forgotten, the idea was to combine two Holmes titles to create a new/remixed story - in this case, ‘The Blanched Soldier’ and ‘A Case of Identity’. This one doesn’t really have any elements from those two cases; it’s more of a sequel to ‘The Six Napoleons’, born after noticing the similarities between that and ‘The Blue Carbuncle’. Plus, I wanted to be able post something Christmassy for December! I haven’t been on tumblr lately, so please let me know if there are more of these out there.
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“Well!” I exclaimed to Holmes, as Lestrade returned to Scotland Yard with the precious black pearl in his pocket. “What an extraordinary case! Who would’ve thought such a mundane object could hold such priceless treasure?”
“You said the very same about the blue carbuncle hidden in the Christmas goose, if I recall,” Holmes smiled. “Although, Watson, even that adventure was not the first case I ever had of its kind.”
“Really?” It wasn’t often I caught Holmes in a communicative mood over early cases.
“Indeed.” Holmes cast himself into his armchair, stifling a yawn as the usual post-case lethargy crept back up on him. “One Christmas, I assisted Lestrade in breaking up a smuggling ring. The culprits were melting down stolen silver and casting it into new moulds... of toy soldiers.”
I gaped. “Of course... Once painted, no one would ever think those heavy little figures weren’t simply made of lead!”
“Precisely. Fortunately, we were able to track down most of the purchased sets discreetly, and without the press getting wind of it.” Holmes chuckled in satisfaction, and I had to join in, although not without a pang of sympathy. That Christmas would have been a great deal less jolly for some parents, having found out that they’d unwittingly been hiding a king’s ransom under the tree!
“Jeremy was always going to be handsome. There was no way that one could avoid that. I remember Sandra, my wife, saying to me when the project was being set up, 'Heavens above, why do you want to do yet another version of those two dreary old folk in Baker Street?’ And I said, ‘Suppose Sherlock Holmes was played by Jeremy Brett?’ And she said, ‘Ah, well, that’s different.’" —Michael Cox, producer, as quoted by David Stuart Davies in Bending the Willow
Happy Birthday, Jeremy!
This is meant to be an amusing writers' challenge for Holmesians not doing NaNoWriMo. Feel free to use any of the combinations below, or come up with your own. No set number, no set length, use any elements from the canon cases you feel like, just try to stay true to the title! :) Go nuts, and have fun!
The Three Cyclists / The Solitary Garrideb
The Man with the Twisted Stone / The Mazarin Lip
The Dancing Valley Mystery / The Boscombe Men
The Priory Pince-nez / The Golden School
The Empty Problem / The Final House
A Valley in Bohemia / The Scandalous Fear
The Shoscombe Detective / The Dying Old Place
The Stockbroker's Squire / The Reigate Clerk
Blue Peter / The Black Carbuncle
The Speckled Builder / The Norwood Band
The Devil's Gable / The Three Feet
The Three Clients / The Illustrious Student
The Red-Headed Lady / The Disappearing League
The Beryl Interpreter / The Greek Coronet
The Crooked Face / The Yellow Man
The Sussex Blaze / The Silver Vampire
The Second Lodge / The Wisteria Stain
The Engineer's Bow / His Last Thumb
The Scarlet Noble / A Study in Bachelors
The Sign of the Colourman / The Retired Four
The Creeping Grange / The Abbey Man
The Blanched Identity / A Case of Soldiers
The Missing Beeches / The Copper Three-Quarter
The Cardboard Mane / The Lion's Box
The Charles Milverton Plans / The Adventure of Bruce Augustus Partington
The Five Scotts / The Gloria Orange Pips
The Naval Lodger / The Veiled Treaty
The Baskerville Napoleon / The Six Hounds
The Resident Thor / The Bridge Patient
The Musgrave Circle / The Red Ritual
HERE ARE THE STEPS: 1 - TAKE YOUR OLDEST FANDOM you know the one, that first thing you made art or wrote fic for, where you made all those really weird over the top OCs because you didn’t know any better 2 - TAKE YOUR NEWEST FANDOM yeah, that thing that you love and can’t stop thinking about right now 3- SMASH THEM TOGETHER like freakin’ conceptual play-doh 4 - MAKE SOMETHIN’ OUT OF IT make fic! art! a song! whatever!
HERE ARE THE RULES:
1- HAVE FUN WITH IT 2- THERE ARE NO RULES THIS IS CROSSOVER TOWN AND WE’VE STOPPED THE CAR IS GONE YOUR ROOM IS BOOKED AT THE OLD-TIMEY NERD MOTEL IT’S TIME TO DO SOMETHING STUPID
Michael Jones would be a firebender. Of this I am sure.
teen titans as warriors cats
xenoblade, but you fight neopets
undertale starring sailor moon and pokemon characters. so like mystery dungeon sorta?
Okay but Steven Universe and Transformers: Beast Wars actually works pretty well in a weird kind of way.
Catherine Willows would punch Patrick Jane in the face.
Well at least they’re from the same decade: Herbie the Love Bug and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
I mean
they are both about spies
the funniest thing is that
there were no spy fandoms between them
Pokémon and The Man from U.N.C.L.E…. I actually did the thing already.
Star Wars and… Doctor Who? Twelve helps Anakin Skywalker not fall to the Dark Side. (Okay… now I’m almost imagining Anakin as a Companion…)
Peter Pan and Sherlock Holmes? No problem!
This is just a three-part drabble, I have an idea for a longer, much darker story in the works...
No, I’m not going to link back to your page. I edited out your ugly signature too. I paid for the art. It is mine.
Don’t worry, this does not mean I take credit for drawing it. When people ask if I drew it, I say “Nope.” When people ask who did, I say, “Sorry, I don’t remember.”
Just because I bought your art does not mean our profiles have to be linked forever. It’s the same if I buy an apple from the grocer. I don’t have to keep the sticker on it or tell people where it came from. I’m not a walking advertisement for your shop.
If you want credit so badly, then I should get a cut of your future profits for my part in the advertising.
I know I’m probably going to get the wrath of whiny, entitled artists for this, but I don’t care. I won’t be making a shrine around their art dedicated to them. I paid for a service, and now we should go our our separate ways!
alright so there’s a lot of fucked up parts in this post but?? right off the bat?? “I edited out your ugly signature too”??? I’m sorry but that’s really stupid?
if you bought a physical, painted-on-canvas drawing, would you still go through the trouble of trying to edit out the signature there too? Because literally the only difference between that scenario and this one is that the canvas can be physically held and displayed, where the digital painting stays in a digital venue.
Do not be a dick to artists. Fucking don’t edit out their signatures, credit them where they are due. Don’t be like the asshole OP. If you commission an artist, respect them enough to credit them.
Dear people who think like OP;
Please do not ever fucking commission me. My signature is an A, but I don’t care if an artist’s signature is a giant fucking watermark half as big as the piece. If you cut out their signature, you cut out their effort. Do you have to make a little URL tag that links back to my page or DA or tumblr or whatever? No. Would it be nice? Yeah. Is it a good habit to do anyway? Yeah.
But unless you’re paying me USD and we’ve made it part of the agreement that my signature will NOT be on the art- leave the fucking signature on the art. You purchased art that has the signature. Once you alter it, you’re violating our purchase agreement. The artist produced that art for your agreed upon purchase price with the understanding that what they were sending- signature fucking included- would remain on the piece.
If they knew that you were going to use their art independently without any sort of remaining credit like that, then the price very well may have been different or they might not have agreed to do the art at all.
Damn, OP Edgy McEdgerson is really proud of being a dickhead. No one’s saying you’re linked forever, and no, “I didn’t draw it and don’t remember who did” doesn’t absolve you, you chucklefuck.
SIGNAL BOOOST
…Although, as an artist, I have seen some completely horrible signatures on tumblr posts. Sometimes they’re so obnoxious that I hide the comments on a post and tag with something like “Artist’s comment/source in the original post.” Not because I hate artists, but because I acknowledge that artists aren’t always the best when it comes to brevity.
When I show my stuff here on Tumblr, I keep whatever DA link came with the automatic sharing of the post. I include a comment about the work if I feel it needs actual context, but otherwise I just have the link to the original post on DA and to my profile on DA. That’s it. I don’t link Facebook, Twitter, Etsy, Flickr, Instagram, and whatever other god forsaken social media people can easily find me on.
My advice to artists? If you want people to know your social media connections and other display sites for your art, keep a list of links available on your Tumblr and other websites. If the idea of someone removing all your links from your comment really bothers you so much, maybe you should do your fans a favor and keep the spam in your comment to a minimum. Have a contact list on your sites and keep it at that. And if you still want those links in your comment on your work, just link to “contact” and link that list of sites.
At the risk of stretching your dash. Let me tell a small story. the story is:
IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST.
IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST.
IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST.
CHANCES ARE THEY ARE GOING TO WORK VERY HARD ON YOUR PIECE
THEY MIGHT EVEN BE ANXIOUS BECAUSE THEY MIGHT TAKE A LITTLE LONGER THAN EXPECTED
SOMETIMES THEY LOSE STEAM HALF WAY BECAUSE LIFE THROWS OBSTACLES IN THE WAY.
IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST, THEY WILL HAVE SPENT TIME AND EFFORT ON YOUR PIECE. THEY MIGHT HAVE GONE THOUGH SOME TURMOIL IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING IT. BUT IN THE END YOU WILL HAVE WHAT YOU PAID FOR.
IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST AND YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THEIR WORK AND WHAT THEY PROVIDED, THE ARTIST WILL BE VERY HAPPY AND PROUD. THEY WORKED VERY HARD ON IT! THEY PROBABLY WON’T MIND IF YOU SHOW IT TO OTHER PEOPLE, IT WOULD HELP THE ARTIST A LOT! (BUT IT’S OKAY IF YOU DECIDE TO KEEP IT TO YOURSELF TOO….)
BUT IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST…
AND YOU SEE THE ONE SECTION THAT TIES SAID ARTIST TO THE PRODUCT THEY WORKED SO HARD ON…..
….AND DECIDE TO TAKE IT OFF
YOU HURT THE ARTIST EMOTIONALLY…..
IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST AND EDIT THEIR NAME OFF THE PIECE….
YOU ARE SAYING “FUCK YOU ARTIST, I COULD HONESTLY CARE LESS ABOUT HOW MUCH TIME AND EFFORT YOU PUT INTO THIS. I PAID FOR IT SO OBVIOUSLY I DESERVE TO TAKE THE CREDIT FOR SOMETHING I HAD NO HAND IN BESIDES PAYING FOR IT TO BE CREATED.”
IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST, DELETE THEIR SIGNATURE, AND SHOW IT OFF, YOUR FRIENDS WILL ENJOY IT AND SHOW IT TO OTHER FRIENDS. THOSE FRIENDS MIGHT WANT TO BUY SOMETHING SIMILAR! BUT THE ARTIST ISN’T GETTING CREDIT FOR IT BECAUSE YOU ESSENTIALLY TOOK THEIR WORK AND CLAIMED THE WORK, EFFORT, AND SKILL FOR YOURSELF, ALL BECAUSE YOU PAID FOR IT. (SOUNDS CRAPPY RIGHT?)
IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST
CHANCES ARE PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. CHANCES ARE THEY TOOK THE COMMISSION TO PAY SOME BILLS AND REALLY NEEDED THE MONEY.
IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST AND DELETE THEIR SIGNATURE….
chances are you are not the first one to do that.
Strong language apology, but this is important. If you think like OP, please unfollow me and never commission my friends. You don’t deserve their work.
Would you buy a book and rip the cover and front pages off so no one could see who wrote it? (If you are that kind of person, pay no attention to that little red dot on your forehead...)
