On the discussion of book accurate depictions of Sherlock Holmes, one thing I really want is accurate Mycroft. In the books Sherlock is very… autistically coded. At least to me, an autistic person. And Sherlock basically states that Mycroft has more “severe” autism. Sherlock says his brother is more brilliant than he is but absolutely cannot function in society and hates social interaction so much he founded a society for the purpose of minimizing it as much as possible. In addition it’s implied he becomes overstimulated so easily he has to curate his environment to be devoid of disturbance and noise.
Give me the autistic brothers but one has it much much worse
Enough of this Mycroft as the more sociable of the two who is a powerful politician. This man would have a meltdown if he had to be that social!!!
Part two of CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON (part 1 here) - this story really truly has everything and I haven’t even gotten to the crime yet. In the last entry I went off canon, but this update is almost all line for line in the book…why are they like this
the most fucked up fictional universe is all those mouse movies where mice have a secret society underneath human society where they’re fighting mouse versions of the same wars and have the same religious oppression and each have a human version of themselves
Do you think Holmes watched those silent movies and thought that was how people fought in real life? Do you think Watson saw him fighting and had to contain a smile
“average person thinks Sherlock Holmes is awful, overrated, and should just die already” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person thinks Sherlock Holmes is a pretty cool dude. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who lives in a cave and tries to kill off Sherlock Holmes over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I read the canon when I was about 11 and the whole thing was incredible start to finish, but reading Hound in between FINA and RETU was a great experience. I feel like it being a novel means it has so much time for atmosphere and character building that the shorts don’t.
And coming back to it as an adult who’s big on pastiche and fan work means I appreciate a good story that’s not just Holmes solving the case, but also Watson pulling weight, and HOUN does so well. When you reread canon you realize a lot of times Watson doesn’t even have a speaking line. So for him to have his own fun and scary adventures without Holmes is so cool.
Also the part where Watson sees Holmes silhouetted by the moon but doesn’t know it’s him is the best canon moment fight me :D