emilysidhe: ami-angelwings: I remember when I was reading that story as a kid, Sherlock goes on and on about The Woman, the only one who ever beat him, and you’re thinking, he’s had better villains than this. And then you click: he fancies her, doesn’t he? That’s what it’s about. – Steven Moffat on A…

constable-connor: adhdkirabraginsky: marauders4evr: factsinallcaps: fenrisesque: factsinallcaps: sightless-raiton: factsinallcaps: THE LIST OF THINGS NINTENDO PREDATES INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO: THE SHERLOCK HOLMES FRANCHISE UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISHENHOWER’S BIRTH THE NOVEL “DRACULA” THE NOVELS “THE TIME MACHINE” AND “WAR OF THE WORLDS” BY H.G. WELLS THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES THE DISCOVERY OF…

roachpatrol: spacetwinks: turns out you’re wrong, sherlock holmes. i don’t do any kind of farming or professionally take care of dogs or anything you said. i threw on all this shit to see which and how many wild assumptions you’d make about me from one random glance, like an asshole. and you did. you made…

friendlytroll:

ghostbees:

The second issue of the Practical Handbook was all about queer readings so I made this non-fiction comic about reading Holmes as trans! It’s actually more of an introduction to the subject, ideally I’d like to turn it into a proper article some day, but it felt good to reflect on it and be able to have this in a publication as a valid reading. Researching critical material was emotionally draining since the very few published essays on the topic are incredibly transphobic and basically worthless, but that made me want to have my say even more. Many thanks to my good friends Mo and Elinor for helping me with the wording so as to make it accessible but to the point, and as always Katie for supporting my little transgender bum.

Something Ive always noted is that despite his noted distain FOR femminine ‘qualities’ or interests, Holmes has a marked passion towards cases where the victim is female. He becomes somewhat emotional, for Holmes; he will make remarks such as “If it was MY sister….” about a vulnurable woman in an unusual circumstance, and he will display coolheaded but *distinct* scorn for men trying to do badly by the women in their lives. 

Obviously one can take this as a kind of ‘the hero is kind to the cat’ which is in line of holmes (relative) charity to the under-served (gypsies, street urchins, the poor and bewildered). BUT it also snaps neatly into place in the context of Holmes as a trans individual. 

He is sympathetic because he is *empathetic*- the general powerlessness of women, and ill chances of being taken seriously or helped, would be something he has experienced. The triumph of The Woman to live her own life, by her own intelligence, and refuse masculine control is genuine admiration. Perhaps by someone who has been in a similar position. 

There is also the question of his peculiar gaps in knowledge: Sciences and social realms unimportant to his work. Astronomy is a noted gap; as in Sports. If we assume he was raised as a female, his acsess to education may have been limited at best; and his pursual of as much knowledge as possible would be limited to what he is *interested in*, and no real socialization to pay attention to sport. 

WOW OKAY I GUESS I FORGOT HOW MUCH I THINK ABOUT THIS I MEANT TO WRITE A SHORT COMMENT HERE WE ARE I GUESS

mattymurdoks: important facts to remember about sherlock holmes: total and complete fashionista who wouldn’t be caught dead committing a faux pas like wearing a deerstalker on the streets of london became a detective when he was only 20 years old and set up his own business how’s that for post-grad utopia decided to become a…

lifeandotheroddtales:

Different Sherlock portrayals as cats. Because I can.

House is the uncontrollable crazy cat.

Robert Downey Jr. cat is the flaunting type.

BBC Sherlock is the brooding cat.

Elementary Sherlock is the cuddly one.

Canon Sherlock is an awesome YouTube keyboard cat that Watson is always impressed by.

brigwife: queerwatson: a list of things that arthur conan doyle did that totally mean that intent is worthless: made it july on one page and september like two pages later named everyone james and forgot that john’s name wasn’t james literally forgot when watson was married and when he wasn’t so that if you try…

rob-anybody: spacetwinks: turns out you’re wrong, sherlock holmes. i don’t do any kind of farming or professionally take care of dogs or anything you said. i threw on all this shit to see which and how many wild assumptions you’d make about me from one random glance, like an asshole. and you did. you made…

guardian:

“Data, data, data! I can’t make bricks without clay!” the iconic literary sleuth Sherlock Holmes once declared. Over a hundred years after his debut, Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin went back through Conan-Doyle’s stories to in search of data to explain Sherlock’s enduring appeal. Above are some of the fun tidbits they uncovered.

Discover more fun facts about Holmes at our gallery.