how can you kiss with a pipe in your mouth?

Something Good (Will Come from That) 100 years of moving pictures about Holmes and Watson.

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After I published this, I despaired that I would never make anything so good again. Happily, I kept on making things (mostly at a loss for what to do with myself), and there have been plenty of good things in the interim: good things, new fandoms, and new friends.

ghosts

Anchor.

[ID: Digital artwork of Holmes and Watson. Holmes, in his mouse colored dressing gown is bunched up on the windowsill with a look of deep melancholy. Watson sits behind him offering a smile and a steadying hand on his knee, Holmes' anchor and the rays of sunshine that touch and warm him from the inside out. /end ID]

POV: your stupid roommate is wearing a waistcoat that is your favorite color and looking all stupid and handsome and it’s 8am and you want him to die

(aka what Watson is wearing during this scene of my SIXN adaptation)

I’m 100% serious. Here are the canonical facts we have about his feelings on sex/romance:

- He says multiple times that he is not interested in women. When Watson comments on the attractiveness of a woman, Holmes responds that he “didn’t notice”.

- He is uninterested in marriage and remains a bachelor his entire life, and never expresses any regret or sadness over this.

- He states that he has “never loved” (in this context it is implied that he is specifically talking about romantic love.) He repeatedly expresses disdain for romance in general.

That’s IT. That is ALL the canonical information we have about his sexuality. We know that he is capable of love in some sense, and Watson even explicitly says that Holmes loves him. But we never see any evidence that he has romantic feelings for women.

Any interpretation of Holmes as a heterosexual man directly contradicts all of the evidence we have about his sexuality. It assumes that everything he or Watson have ever said about his feelings on romance is a lie. The only interpretations of him that actually fit with all the facts are if he’s aroace, gay, or some combination thereof.

"What was that thing Sherlock Holmes said to Doctor Watson?"

"Take your kit off and give us a kiss?"

"Exactly."