Salem's Corner

that’s me right there

I saw someone on here say the Sherlock Holmes fandom is simultaneously the smallest and largest fandom they’ve been in and you know what that’s so accurate. Like the Holmes fandom on here is so small and cozy that someone can pop in to say hi and all five of us can wave from the sofa where we’re all sitting together to watch Granada Holmes and admire each other’s book sets, but then one person will say something really funny and suddenly the walls vanish in a massive containment breach and there are thousands of us all laughing in the shared joy of these iconic fictional characters, and then the walls and confines of time and space go on melting and melting in the face of the influence of such beloved stories until the cheerful crowds are too enormous to be numbered and teenagers who have been reading the stories on their phones to pass the time on the school bus are shaking hands with Victorians who have the latest copy of the Strand tucked under the arms and all smiling at the same classic lines. And anyway I just think that’s neat.