It's a shotgun wedding!

Yes yes Holmes uses his talent for deduction to catch criminals but have you considered: the gifts so carefully considered they barely register as gifts. Watson, who has no family and few friends, doesn’t celebrate his birthday, hardly remembers it himself, and has certainly never told Holmes the date. And yet every year on that day they end up in a pleasant part of the country on business, with a little spare time to fish or stroll through the woods or eat a particularly good meal at the local inn. Every year Holmes gives Watson a small, oblique word of praise that sits in his mind like a warm ember. And every year Watson falls asleep thinking one year older, and it was quite a nice day.

so unreliably narrated bestie

I made a cute embroidery today ^^

Quick watercolors study from a gif set i saw earlier this week.

I wanted to draw watson and Mary :) in my headcanon watson has a nasty burn scar since he got injured in a explosion in the first movie.

all of the holmes adaptations always have holmes and watson running straight into the action like “we eat mysteries for breakfast, bitches” but the fact of the matter is that in a study in scarlet watson was so shy that it took him six weeks to ask holmes what he does for a living which is also valid

holmes: watson you literally never pay attention to anything 

watson: anyway here is a detailed account of how you dress or act or talk differently based on what mood you’re in and how your face and skin changes from being in the sun and also let me just emphasize i know all of your grooming habits. i hope this is the type of Quality Content™ that the strand knows to expect from me by now.

if i had to pick one line from all of canon

like i hope it is not lost on anyone that “that man” — the stranger watson just saw that he believes has followed him from london — is holmes and this is watson declaring in his private diary that he will devote all his energies towards laying hands on him

Decor and decorum (more comics I made with Katie).

we will never know

Winter Holmestice 2019 for “Rachelindeed”

The prompt I was given gave me a lot of room to pick and choose what things I liked the most, and from the get-go the dynamic and feelings my giftee asked for were 100000% my jam, so I struggled a lot to pick JUST ONE THING from all the wonderful ideas Rachelindeed gave me. 

However one stood out to me, and that was the infamous scene in “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” where Watson is wounded but Holmes’ panic and rage prompts this delicious line:

“It was worth a wound, it was worth many wounds, to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask.(…) For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. ”

Sadly Jeremy Brett’s health had declined so terribly by when this story got adapted by Granada that the story had to be heavily changed (and Holmes’ role substituted by Mycroft), so the fans weren’t able to enjoy this emotional scene played by Brett and (personally my favourite Watson) Edward Hardwicke.

So I humbly offer what I would love to think happened a short while after the case was over, Watson is almost completely recovered from his wound but Holmes is still shaken by his dear doctor’s near-death experience. Watson’s loyalty to him moves him beyond words and it’s only in intimate moments like these when he lets said “cold mask” drop and expresses his affection.

Honestly I just wanted to draw hands and a lot of smooching so here you go.

quick smooch doodle

And I’ll tell you something else. I regret Moriarty’s death.

Holmes starting and Watson finishing a quote from “The Importance of Being Earnest” in The Eligible Bachelor. 

‘To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three [wives] looks like carelessness.’

The original Oscar Wilde quote (from The Importance of Being Earnest):  ‘To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.’

^ What if we substitute the phrase sibling in place of “parent” or “wife”? Yes, I am invoking The Other One. 

The Final Problem radio trailer had another “Importance of Being Earnest” quote: ’The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.’ (x)