a natural bohemianism of disposition

Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’

Guys, there are these suuuupeeer niche and unknown set of novels, you might have not heard of them. They are by this guy called Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... Reallyy obscure guy, and they are about this detective called Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson and they solve MYSTERIES. I'm not hoping you have heard of them, as I said, he is SUPER underground ☝️

I really want to start writing a new Sherlock Holmes fic, but I always struggle coming up with ideas. Anyone has a prompt for me? Something you'd like to see written?

@averagestrayrat Can't believe it's been more than six weeks, time flies! Anyhow, I decided to start working on your idea of one bathing the other first, since it produced the clearest images in my imagination (naked Jeremy Brett :O). I just published the fic on AO3, here it is: Wash away all that bothers me. I hope you like it!

I feel like we HAVE talk about the possibilities of Watson’s missing letter in the hound of the Baskervilles. Like, there is a page. Written by Dr John Watson. For Mr. Sherlock Holmes. That we know exists. Because Watson himself tells us. THAT WE DON’T KNOW WHAT IT CONSISTS OF. HE JUST OFFHANDEDLY MENTIONS THAT THERE IS A LETTER BETWEEN THEM THAT WE WILL NEVER SEE. DOES NOT GIVE AN EXPLANATION. OK.

Because we can fully imagine what it was about 😏😏😏 and it's too private to print it, but for those interested, there's this hint that there has been.. Something...

THERE MUST BE SOMETHING

@averagestrayrat look, we're not the only ones of this opinion 👀

Ok I’m pulling the “you might want to listen to the episode on the release day” card for the second and final time this season just to float that maybe… you might want to experience 2x10 on the day or shortly after. For reasons. And things. Who knows, some of you might be interested in some of those Things, I don’t know!

sherlock lovers who do not gaf about the bbc series are the most oppressed demographic in the world

how on earth did watson end up with the upstairs room? they walk in and holmes is like “here, I, an able-bodied human with no physical traumas, will take this room adjacent to the sitting room.” while watson just shrugs and grabs his stuff

Watson's a pretty headstrong and polite man though, its possible he insisted that Holmes take it. like, sure, I recently just got inflicted with some pretty heavy traumas, but I'll be DAMNED if I ask this man to take the less convenient option in my place

I agree, it makes sense that he would insist on giving Holmes that room out of principle. Watson moves in one night before Holmes, so he got to choose his room by himself, and probably thought it rude to pick the most comfortable one when the other flatmate wasn't there. My headcanon is that he also chose that room because he wakes up "at all sorts of ungodly hours" so I suppose a more isolated room is better for insomnia/nightmares.

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“john watson is an adrenaline junkie who puts up with holmes’s eccentricities and rudeness because he gets to go on adventures” well first of all john watson would walk two miles barefoot over hot coals to hear sherlock holmes rant about the different types of wet dirt so jot that down