SPOCK JUST QUOTED SHERLOCK, I REPEAT: CAPTAIN SPOCK JUST QUOTED SHERLOCK HOLMES

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A cosy point and click adventure game lovingly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle!

It is the 1920s, and in a sleepy Sussex village, beekeeper and former world's greatest detective Sherlock Holmes is trying to arrange a pleasant clifftop picnic for his lifelong companion Dr Watson. The only problem is that a series of mysteries keep getting in the way!

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If I may offer some of my own interpretation for why this is supposed to be degrading:

First of all, it makes it harder for the guards to sympathize/empathize with them, which leaves them with even less hope to get out and leads to them being treated harshly consequently, which is degrading. And the android looks play their part in that even if it wasn't something that they'd personally see as degradation. (Of course the guards would be doing their jobs anyway but it leaves no room for tricks, no room to even try to pretend to be a human, no room for one of the guards to show weakness and question what they're doing.)

Most obviously: they're being forced to do something. They didn't just go "ah wait actually let me remove my skin rq it was getting kinda uncomfortable anyway", the guards ordered them (mind you, the androids they caught that *were* deviants had been trying to *escape* getting ordered around and now they'd be ordered to do something (something that would lead to their doom too) again, except this time it's not even just "in their program" to blindly follow orders. This time they're being threatened and forced to do something against their will.) It wouldn't even matter if they wouldn't usually mind doing this, being forced to do something and remain in that state in order to not be killed is degrading.

Another aspect is that androids live with their skins being turned on. At least so far I have seen no instance of them turning it off just for the sake or "looking their true self" or anything like that, Markus did it in the tower for the sake of not being recognized as easily and yes, probably also to represent androids, but I've seen no other android do that voluntarily. Of course one could argue that that's because they need to fit into the human society, but even in their safe haven they remained with their skins turned on. Noone in Jericho seemed to think "Ah finally, I'm away from the humans and amongst other androids now, let me show my true form in peace", of course that can all just be because they're in the middle of a revolution, but saying that "they're like that", without acknowledging that they in fact do not spend most of their time "like that" doesn't really seem like a strong argument to me. I understand what you mean and I agree that under different circumstances their non-human designs wouldn't be degradation, but these circumstances make all the difference here.

Furthermore, it creates uniformity. All of the androids in the camps look exactly the same, except for male and female body shapes and the one kid, Alice, maybe their eye color and facial shape if we're looking into details up-close. But if we're just seeing the camps as they are, it's just a bunch of androids that can be lumped up and killed row by row. Even if they weren't as connected to their human looks, their identity still gets stripped away by making them look uniform. Yes, that is what they look like, but no, I do not mean their "humanity" when I'm referring to their "identity". I mean their individual looks that keep them from just becoming one big mass to the humans.

Additionally to that: Androids seem to have a certain connection to their skin. Think about North and the android that was the same model as her, they have been living their lifes with these skins and I honestly find it hard to imagine them not having built any kind of connection to the looks they'd gotten used to at all. And then having that be taken from them forcibly and having to see no mercy in the way the guards perceived them... That is degradation.

And last but not least: these camps are supposed to mimick concentration camps. So they did the equivalent of shaving their hair off and taking their autonomy, individuality and hope. Taking the last bit of similarity to humanity (of course not actual humanity in the case of the androids, but similarity, which is the only way these humans would've understood and not been able to ignore that they are alive too, by seeing their resemblance) any human could see in them and sending them to die. The most important part of this degradation is their death becoming inevitable and looming over them as the humans give them orders they can't fight against and the panic about the upcoming destruction rising as they're forced to do something themselves that'll move them one step closer to their death.

I've got no intention of arguing much further here though, just thought I'd share my thoughts on this too, hope you have a nice day

I just finished Detroit Become Human for the first time and I’m in desperate need to talk about it

Obligatory SNW x Lower Decks crossover rewatch after having finished Lower Decks :D

SH&Co. Sign of Four p10 spoilers under the cut🫡

So: Is it too soon for me to mention how devastating this episode’s cover art is now?

Mary’s bedroom, where she was first exposed to the case that would end up being the death of her. The seemingly harmless children’s stories her dad would tell her about this special diamond… I mean look at this, she even drew pictures of it and had what I’d presume to be a toy diamond here. All of that amidst an otherwise completely normal children’s bedroom with plushies, an unfinished boardgame and such. Us being able to look at her past, back when none of this had become clear, wayyyy before we or the Bakerstreet trio even met her, seeing all these childish items just lying around innocently, with a dawning fate looming over her room, just waiting for her to grow up and get behind all this. Something about the fact that the curtains are being curled up by the wind could almost make me shiver, it makes her room look even more left behind with no one there, because we know where she is now.

A little Ortegas doodle I thought of while being on the motorway during my recent driving lessons hehe

Whoever said that true wisdom lies in knowing that you know nothing must've had a different focus in mind, because all it's been doing for me is drive me to madness

In the game Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One by Frogwares, we can discover that Sherlock and Jon had put together a play for Hamlet with some other kids behind the Legacy Theatre when they were kids on Cordona (the island that the game is set on, they lived there with Sherlock's mom, her doctor and Mycroft when Sherlock was 10 until his mother died, which is basically the time and the place we're exploring and discovering new truths about during the story-relevant quests) He did this because he wanted to do a play but the man who owned the theatre didn't like children if I remember correctly, their Hamlet was so good that people had started gathering around them and the director came outside once the play was over to congratulate them on the good play and welcomed them into the theatre

Now this isn't necessarily some universal canon Sherlock or something, but I love this game and thought this was worth sharing :]

If Mycroft participated in theatre, it stands to reason Sherlock did too.  At least he took classes.  No one fakes all those personalities and cries on cue the way he does without training.

Now I’m envisioning them doing stuff like improv exercises where they have to pretend to be a bear stuck in a traffic jam or something.

This is Sidney Paget (as you said)

This is Walter Paget, his older brother

And these are some of Sidney Paget‘s illustrations of Sherlock Holmes

So while Sherlock may have some resemblance with Sidney too, his design is said to mostly be based off Paget’s older brother

I think at the end of the day some of his own features probably ended up mixing their way into his drawings even if he technically wanted to base him off Walter lol

why are we letting Sidney paget’s drawings influence us so much. He was literally just drawing himself as Holmes

He just did a shit ton of self portraits man

Subspace Rhapsody in a nutshell🗣️/j

Got a reel with this audio on my fyp a few months or so ago and instantly knew I had to make an SNW Subspace Rhapsody doodle reel for this🥸

Can’t believe this may be the last thing I’ll have drawn at my school

incoming !DBH SPOILERS! TW: concentration camp

I mostly want to mention that 1. I’m glad I managed to play Markus in a consequently pacifist way, love that guy 2. I’m glad I managed to have Connor become deviant while having a stable friendship with Hank and 3. Kara wasn’t as lucky in my playthrough. She ended up in a camp with Alice, while Luther had died at Rose’s house. The camps and their obvious references to world war 2 were devastating to see them go through, as someone who has learned about these events multiple times throughout my school life and who has visited two of the camps that still stand as memorials, reminders and informative sites due to the fact that I’m German, seeing Kara and Alice be stripped of their identity and forced to look less/not human to be degraded and most likely easier to kill, seeing the lifeless bodies being loaded onto trucks, seeing the two of them stand in these lines without any clothes despite Alice already freezing during winter, Kara trying desperately to get back to Alice while having to obey the guards enough to not get killed on-sight before they’d both be forced to walk into the machine and end up dead anyway together. It was a cruel thing to watch and a tragic way to end their story. I’m very happy with my first endings though, because this may be one of the most intriguing ways this game could end for me, I’m definitely gonna replay some of it to see some alternative endings though, for example RK-900 didn’t appear at all in my game, didn’t even know that was possible and Kara, Alice and Luther deserve their happy ending in Canada being a family of three, I really hope that’ll be possible on my next attempt

I just finished Detroit Become Human for the first time and I’m in desperate need to talk about it