In america if you're an immigrant with a 'z' in your last name, there's not a lot of people in positions of power that look like you or sound like you. I've been given a chance to be someone in the world that my father didn't see when he was growing up.

❤️‍🩹

i’m here again, watching this little silly movie, and i hope ACD is dicking down his pillow princess AS WE SPEAK

He was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them.

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, the Creeping Man

HBD 🎂 ACD

Sherlock's birthday is most commonly celebrated on January 6th. This date was coined by Christopher Morely, founder of the oldest Sherlock Holmes society, The Baker Street Irregulars. He coined this date due to Sherlock mentioning the play Twelfth Night twice in canon (January 6th being the twelfth night of Christmas)

The year of his birth is generally believed to be 1854 or 1853, due to him being stated to be 60 in His Last Bow

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Happy Birthday Alex Claremont-Diaz

Happy Birthday to my soul character. ACD!

A.K.A. "He is." Alex taught me so much about loving myself just the way I am. Alex is a comfort and friend to me on a daily basis since the first moments I read about his story. There's never been a character to me who feels like they were written to help me navigate through life, quite like ACD and to have him on screen representing me, and so many other people is a dream come true. In a life filled with me always being told or believing that I'm "too much", after finding Alex, I gained a newer understanding of myself and how important it is that I find power from the "too much" and how I can redefine that myself and use it as a stregth and something to be proud of.

Happy Birthday, Alexander Gabriel Claremont-Diaz. My dear Alex who has shown me freedom isn't just a length of rope, but that it's a rope attached to our chests pulling us toward the people who we can be courageous enough to love and find freedom with. To Alex, who helped Henry find his stregth and who had his arms open wide to comfort and love him the way he desperately needed. To Alex, who gave two of the most beautiful speeches I have ever read/heard, that were life changing and are words that I think about daily. I love you, Alex. You are brave, kind and so true to yourself. And I know you're spending your day being loved on by Henry, and by having some fun with your friends too, just like this.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHERLOCK HOLMES!

Wishing Sherlock Holmes a very happy birthday and hoping he had a wonderful first year fully in the public domain.

"Were I London, I should not soon forgive myself, stealing him away in such a fashion." -Katie Forsythe, A Hymn to the Endlessly Falling. Happy Birthday to London's One and Only! The most character to ever character! Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective and literary legend.

through pure happenstance, i stumbled on this first edition (published 1940) of 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes at my local bookstore!! i am officially having the best birthday ever

let's use acd's birthday as an excuse to post this moment again

It’s the 6th January so Happy pseudo birthday Sherlock Holmes! The only character I actually like that shares his birth month with me. We’re only just over a week and 145 years apart in age…..Also he’s fictional and I’m a real person but eh 🤷‍♀️

Via unnamed.idiot on instagram (They do very good art btw go check them out)

Fic Rec Friday

Happy new year, happy full public domain for Sherlock Holmes, and happy Sherlock Holmes' birthday!  This week, I'm recommending "Notes On A Love Story" by @A_Candle_For_Sherlock.  Friends to lovers johnlock in the ACD canon setting.

Notes On A Love Story

Author: A_Candle_For_Sherlock Rating: General Audiences AO3 archive warnings: No archive warnings apply Words: 4013 Status: Complete

Summary:

Watson finds a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray in Holmes' room. Or: what happens when a queer novel upends Baker Street.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8367163

Happy International Sherlock Holmes Day!

bitches be like let's not be depressed today today we celebrate Sherlock Holmes's birthday

it's me I'm bitches