Modern Canon Aesthetics ⚜ ⚜ ⚜ A Study In Scarlet

Jeremy January:

6th January 2018

happy birthday, you clever git 🎻

“It is quite a three pipe problem”

Inktober 2014 - 10/31: Survivor

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle pausing right in the middle of his gay Victorian romance murder mystery to flashback four decades into the United States and tell a tragic five act story about the homophobic and misogynistic oppression of paternalist Mormonism and western religion and how we all live in a godless universe ruled by chance and opportunistic and ineffective systems of accountability but that it’s all worth it because flashing back to the present we see love is real as Watson and Holmes are just beginning their lifelong adventure together…….. WIG.

Saturday afternoon at Baker Street. At least, that is what it looks like now that I’m done with it. xD

Your wish is my command! I loved this palette! 

this remains my favorite Holmes I’ve ever drawn

Illustrations and cover design for the collection “Las Novelas del Misterio” (Editorial Prometeo, Spain, 1920) by Rafael de Penagos 

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John Barrymore as Sherlock Holmes, 1922

*Blessing the world with the best johnlock fanfic ever written*

Holmes getting offended when someone interrupts his scrapbooking

The few times that we are given a glimpse of the possibility of love in Holmes’s heart, it is generally in relation to Watson. People can interpret this as platonic, but if people are going to take the line “It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler” and make Irene Adler into a love interest anyway, I don’t see what’s wrong with taking a closer look at these lines: 

“It was worth a wound—it was worth many wounds—to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask.”; 

“Quick, man, if you love me!”; and 

“’You know,’ I answered with some emotion, for I have never seen so much of Holmes’s heart before, ‘that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.’” 

Seems funny that Holmes and Watson can say the word love in relation to eachother multple times and it gets bromance’d across the board, that Watson can tell Holmes that it is his “greatest joy and privilege” to help Holmes but seeing that comment as anything but platonic is just slash shippers being obsessive, and meanwhile a woman who Holmes met once, barely spoke to, and specifically doesn’t love becomes the love interest for the next 100+ years. Yikes.

A Study in Scarlet, covers of the early editions, 1887-1900.