Though the World Explodes...

Do you remember where did "Watson is (half) Scottish" headcanon came from? Or is it canon?

Watson is a Scottish name! And he serves with the Northumberland Fusiliers — Northumberland borders Scotland.

Some of this headcanon's fannish popularity can also be traced back to the 1943 tongue-in-cheek essay Dorothy L. Sayers wrote in which she argued that the H in "John H. Watson" stood for "Hamish," which is a Scottish variant of "James." Because Doyle was such a poor editor, in one story Mary Watson calls her husband "James" instead of "John." It looks bad to forget your own husband's name, so Sayers jokingly suggested that this was an affectionate nickname based on his middle name. And forever after fandom has largely accepted "Hamish" as part of his name, implying a Scottish heritage :) Oh, the tangled webs we weave! Meta jokes were indeed going viral long before the internet, LOL!

regular people do a countdown to christmas. people with big brains do a countdown to the acd sherlock holmes books finally being in the public domain

hope our next book club is the og sherlock holmes, just so people can realize how needlessly obnoxious most modern adaptations make him when he's actually merely moderately obnoxious in a very funny way

1984 Granada series with Jeremy Brett comes the absolute closest and I urge everyone to watch it free on youtube

good morning to the kindest of men, the gentlemen, the conductors of light, the only fixed points in this changing age, the intimate friends and colleagues, the dear fellows, the trusted comrades, the faithful friends and biographers, the men with natural advantages, the Boswells without whom one would be lost, the men who luckily are not in the least afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip AND the men with kinder hearts. the rest of you however…you're are on your own.