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The idea of Sherlock Holmes, the bachelor man, the famous detective, the "calculating machine", thinking of every young girl as his daughter makes me want to sob in my bed for days
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“Dear little chap!” said Holmes, strategically. “What a rosy-cheeked young rascal! Now, Jack, is there anything you would like?” The youth pondered for a moment. “I'd like a shillin',” said he. “Nothing you would like better?” “I'd like two shillin' better,” the prodigy answered, after some thought. “Here you are, then! Catch!—A fine child, Mrs. Smith!”
What a dear little chap indeed. Sherlock Holmes interacting with children is very endearing
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For two hours I watched him as he covered sheet after sheet of paper with figures and letters, so completely absorbed in his task that he had evidently forgotten my presence. Sometimes he was making progress and whistled and sang at his work
Everyone shut up he WHISTLES and SINGS when he's MAKING PROGRESS AT HIS WORK. Sherlock Holmes I love you so much it's unreal
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"I do not promise you that when you have spoken I may not myself think it my duty to refer the case to the police."
"I think not, Mr. Holmes. I know your character and methods too well, for I have followed your work for some years."
This is making me feel so much. That Sherlock ends up being so compassionate to this woman and so genuinly kind and understanding is already moving, but the fact that she knew he would be.
Even when Sherlock himself warned he might take it to the police she goes "no you won't". People KNOW him. People who have been marginalized, who are not likely to be believed or supported know they can find an ally in him. His reputation precedes him, and per Watson's narrative it's not only that of someone brilliant, it's not of an "uncaring perfect machine", but of someone who's kind, and understanding, and will do the right thing regardless of what the law or social expectations say.
The police would not have had this compassion. The clergy would not have had this unjudging support. Eugenia Ronder knew who to turn to. I'm so glad there was someone to turn to.
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bbc john: hold your hand? now people will definitely talk…
acd watson: haha let me tell y'all about the glorious time sherlock holmes and i <3 snuck through this guy’s house in the dark hand in hand and he put his lips to my very ear and then i watched him with a glow of admiration as h-
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“So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock to-day I found myself in my old arm-chair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.”
THIS LINE TURNS ME INTO MUSH. Sure he’s “home” but he’s not home.
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“i wish we could see adaptations where sherlock holmes hates the rich and is allowed to be kind to those around him and uses his abilities to support society’s underdogs” elementary was doing this back in 2012. this was only episode 4.
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thinking about the way the trope of the autistic detective is a cold calculating machine, someone with no human empathy, but the actual autistic detective who inspired the whole trope is passionate, thoughtful and wildly kind, a person who has a very shrewd understanding of human nature.
In many adaptations, Holmes is a huge dick, and those adaptations are wrong because he is above all a good man.
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"Remember, Watson that though we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt but, in any case, we have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, and which a singular chance has placed in our hands.
I LOVE THIS I LOVE THIS
Forget offering to take a case for someone who can’t pay, forget taking a client just as they’re being arrested. Holmes is doing all this without anyone hiring him or even the police offering a consultant’s fee to ask his help. And for a stranger, one he’s never spoken to or even seen, and could very well be guilty! He’s a former convict, after all, and especially in Victorian thought that is a Type of person.
But the possibility that this stranger and former convict may be sentenced for something he didn’t do has Holmes running in circles in the freezing streets of London, chasing down leads. It especially stands out that he doesn’t do it for the curiosity of the mystery, like he loves to talk about so often (see: The Red-Headed League).
Again more lead-up to the story’s conclusion: Holmes is doing this for people, and to make the world a better place, not just for entertainment or to enforce laws or a concept of justice.
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Woman trapped by Victorian society: I don't know what to do, all this terrible shit is happening and my father/fiance/husband/man who I love and who is supposed to care for me according to the standards of our day doesn't believe me!
Sherlock Holmes, who met this woman five minutes ago when she collapsed crying in his parlor: I'm clearing my entire schedule. This is priority one. Watson, fetch a cab we are going to this weird country estate to check this situation out IMMEDIATELY
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my favourite chart ever
from The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels
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you can even respect women now! exciting!
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The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.
There’s a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Women’s Money.
Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil. Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again. (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)
I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.
The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.
This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life. The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.) There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors. Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime. And yes, so much of it is of the personal type.
dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.
One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases. In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them. Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.
There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:
Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)
Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.
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“Holmes never understood love” well maybe you never understood Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes CANNOT stop adopting women named Violet (I kid you not, every single woman spoken about in these screenshots is named Violet)
he’s such a dad
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