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I'm part way through designing this menu and I just...

TINY VIOLINS AS SLIDERS!

One of the most incredible feelings is when someone wants to share their creative process with you. You have an idea? A drabble? A drawing? A snippet? A story to share? I am OBSESSED. Tell me everything or as much as you want to. Update me with any detail. I will love it. Because you made it so it is special and incredible. <3

fell to my knees in the street when I saw this (in York btw)

Faces carved into the walls of the Paris Catacombs

Sherlock Holmes should never be the narrator. Never ever ever ever ever. For many obvious storytelling and consistency reasons, but also because when he's the one narrating, he loses all his mystique.

"I'm going to tell you a story that was suuuuper interesting but oddly enough Watson never wrote about. Oh, that's right! It's because this happened when he abandoned me for his wife, the only selfish action he's ever taken. Anyway a client walked in with stern, blue eyes and a strong jaw line - I only care for the necessary facts, btw - and he told me all about how much he loves his best friend and he's going to the ends of the Earth to find his best friend--"

Like oh my god SHUT UP you MAJOR LOSER I can't believe I modeled my life after you

the Empty House - part 6

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

shoutout to my exvangelical spouse for giving me some pointers about the gay parts of the Bible...I have a lot of thoughts around resurrection myths in Christian societies and how the Holmes canon plays with but also subverts that archetype, which I will hopefully be able to explore in a semi coherent fashion in coming stories!

the next story is A CASE OF IDENTITY!

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

THE GREAT DEDUCTION!

I'm reading Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and I thought tumblr would enjoy

✨️Holmes's vanilla extract shenanigans✨️:

"As you know, however, it is not my habit to go after the small fish while the big ones are at large. Mind the vanilla extract!" [Holmes] yelled suddenly and pulled me backwards from the two paces or so I had taken in the direction of the house. "You might have fallen in," he gasped, holding on to me to regain his balance.

[...]

"I may write a monograph on it," Holmes said, referring to the vanilla extract.

[...]

There he stopped dead before the empty tracks as Gloucester stopped at the edge of his cliff. The vanilla extract ended here.

[...]

"There were at least three choices, any one of which would have served my turn. Without vanilla extract," [Holmes] added, smiling.

[...]

"But I place my faith in vanilla extract. I have conducted experiments - and, well, if it proves false, Watson, this is one case your readers will be amused instead of amazed to read."

I thought it would be funnier if I left it out, but the context for Holmes’s sudden obsession with vanilla extract is that he made Professor Moriarty step into a puddle of it without Moriarty noticing. He could then trace Moriarty all the way across the continent with the help of Toby, the dog. Holmes decided to use vanilla extract because the creosote he had used in The Sign of Four turned out to be too common a smell, so Toby got confused.

they make me crazy