Teaspoon Nebula

@teaspoonnebula shared a really gorgeous pic of a victorian advert, and the lady in it gave lady watson vibes, so I did a redraw! image under the cut

YeeH&W!

We're back in the Old West with Holmes, Watson, and another mystery to solve!

John Watson is woken early one morning by the arrival of Victor Hatherley—a young engineer with an unusual tale and a missing thumb. Who were the men who hired him last night? What was their hydraulic machine really for? Can Sherlock Holmes work it all out before they disappear for good..?

Aromantic Sherlock Holmes be upon ye! 💚🤍🩶🖤

And some variations:

listen anon i drew this entire thing for you because this idea also floated in the darkest pits of my brain.....fruitful indeed.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

there’s no actual correlation between them (Mormonism, McDonald’s and Menstruation all start with M) it was just funny to me.

6th grade me did not expect the whiplash of realizing that the unnamed religion in the book was not made up and like. An actual religion. That ACD named explicitly.

the mcdonalds period religion.......

A HUGE thank you to everyone who pre-ordered!!

YeeH&W!

We're back in the Old West with Holmes, Watson, and another mystery to solve!

John Watson is woken early one morning by the arrival of Victor Hatherley—a young engineer with an unusual tale and a missing thumb. Who were the men who hired him last night? What was their hydraulic machine really for? Can Sherlock Holmes work it all out before they disappear for good..?

Watson's previous profession tripped me up because although he was an army surgeon, I wouldn't say that makes his profession 'soldier', he was still a doctor. But I figured it was the intended correct option.

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Bach = brook

Watson's previous profession tripped me up because although he was an army surgeon, I wouldn't say that makes his profession 'soldier', he was still a doctor. But I figured it was the intended correct option.

Watson's previous profession tripped me up because although he was an army surgeon, I wouldn't say that makes his profession 'soldier', he was still a doctor. But I figured it was the intended correct option.

The Star Trek title card generator is over here:

The sitemaker (Josh Mayfield at https://bsky.app/profile/bean525.bsky.social) has asked for people to come in and kick its tires so he can work out any bugs they turn up. So do give him a hand, if you feel inclined. :)

(also, deeply amused by this one...)

And the one that did not need to change,

In 1894, Henrik Sigerson makes the acquaintance of Dr John Watson in a chemical laboratory in Montpellier.

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: Gen

Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms

Relationship: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson

Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson

Additional Tags: Hiatus, Story: The Adventure of the Empty House - Arthur Conan Doyle, Alternative Version of The Empty House, Montpellier, Reunions, Fainting, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, crying and hugging you know the drill, Sigerson - Freeform

You must include a third secret Holmes sibling somewhere in it and

You can't adapt any of the original stories.

we all know (I hope) that Holmes is autistic and also variously mentally disabled in other ways.

I’d make it a sibling who is autistic too, but who is intellectually disabled and completely non-speaking, unlike Sherlock (and Mycroft if you like… I don’t have strong opinions on whether he is autistic). in the late nineteenth century, such a person could be in some sort of an institution or in full-time care at the family’s house, paid for privately (and we do think the Holmeses are relatively well off).

I’d open the story with the final Holmes parent dying and entrusting, in their will, the care of this sibling to Sherlock and Mycroft, but sans any sort of useful details about their needs or even their location (maybe the parent meant to have a conversation with Sherlock and Mycroft about them but died suddenly before having the chance). for bonus heart-wrenching emotions, maybe Sherlock and Mycroft didn’t even know about this sibling’s existence (perfectly possible given the way that disabled people were often hidden away in the past, especially if this sibling was born first).

they have to go on a big adventure to get them out of the institution they are in — after finding them in the first place, of course, which won’t be easy when they might not even be using the Holmes name — and on the way get caught up in other crimes being committed at the corrupt institution. there would be scope here for some really interesting discussion of how to communicate with disabled people (for the investigation) when the AAC technology we would tend to use now is not available, or when knowledge of BSL was not wide-spread, or when nobody has even done research into how to communicate with people who have certain conditions, and also some discussion of how people assume disabled people (especially the non-speaking) don’t understand, which could lead to some of the residents at the institution having heard some really relevant things because the care staff just didn’t consider not talking about it in front of them.

naturally, along the way Holmes comes to the conclusion that he is mentally disabled too. maybe they’re poking around the records in the institution’s archive and find out that his parents inquired about having him put there too? maybe he didn’t talk for much of his childhood and they thought he was intellectually disabled too?

institutions were for physically disabled people too, so we could explore Watson’s feelings about his old war wound and his (what I think is) myalgic encephalomyalitis / chronic fatigue syndrome from having enteric fever. going with this, I think it is probably best if we make Mycroft completely abled, to contrast. with Sherlock finding out he is disabled too, we could put in that maybe Mycroft as a young teen heard his parents worrying about how they thought they had just had a blip with their first kid, and Mycroft turned out fairly normal (if a bit clever) which comforted them, but now the third one’s all weird too. and Sherlock angry at Mycroft for never telling him about this (which can be all mixed up with anger at their parents for never telling them about their older sibling). (would need to figure out a way for Mycroft to have heard that conversation and not know about the sibling. maybe the parents were referring to them in past tense as if they had died young, which would be a perfectly reasonable assumption for Mycroft to make given nineteenth-century infant mortality. but actually they were just doing it out of shame.)

it would have to be handled with a lot of care to avoid coming across as using disability for cheap drama, but disabled people do deserve to be included in drama and so it would be worth the effort. I don’t know how it would conclude — I don’t know what the happy ending is here — but I’m sure I could find one.

I'm going to make the case for Mycroft definitely being autistic. Known facts about Mycroft include:

He has the same routine every day and very rigidly sticks to it. He goes between his home, his work and his club, which are all in close vicinity to each other. We can infer that he probably finds breaking his routine distressing, or at least not ideal.

He founded a gentleman's club which attracts oddballs like himself, where you can enjoy creature comforts without having to socialise and make small talk.

He loves silence. Does he have a lot of sensory sensitivities?

Although he's good at deducing facts about people, he seems to be very bad at inferring how they are going to feel and act, which leads to a lot of problems in The Greek Interpreter.

He has a job where he deals with facts and figures, because he's very good at memorising them and storing them in his mind. He's kind of the government's IT guy.