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[Plain text: image description - When the Rose Speaks Its Name, in lettering hanging from telegraph wires. The streets of London with signs reading Southampton Street and Geo: Newnes Ltd (limited) Offices with a drawn hand pointing to the left. Watson and Holmes are in the foreground. Watson is wearing a light green check jacket and a brown bowler. Holmes is wearing a deep black jacket with purple cravat showing and a tall black silk top hat. Holmes and Watson have their arms linked and are looking into each others eyes. End plain text.]

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WOA WOA WOA EY EY-

*chris melberger voice* WHOA ARE THEY GONNA KISS??

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hello, granada girlies (gender neutral)

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I think Watson gets very unfairly slandered in fanon as the long-suffering neurotypical friend who puts up with his weird ND housemate when it is quite clear from the stories that this guy is completely ND and absolutely into the same freaky shit as Sherlock.

This is a scene where they are about to do potentially deadly drugs together, and Holmes is like “OK at this point normal people would leave the room” and Watson just sits there calmly staring at him and Holmes is like *heart expanding ten sizes* “glad to know there are no normal people in this room. Now let’s try to kill ourselves for Science!”

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HIS FACE AAAAA😭😭😭❤️

"Well, Mr. Holmes. l've seen you handle a good many cases in my time, but l don't know that l ever knew a more workman-like one than this."

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) || The Six Napoleons ―Jeremy Brett and Colin Jeavons as Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Lestrade

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SO PRETTY AAAAA😭

inspired by the iconic scene from Maurice (1987), or as the book describes it:

When they sat it was nearly always in the same position—Maurice in a chair, and Durham at his feet, leaning against him. In the world of their friends this attracted no no­tice. Maurice would stroke Durham’s hair.

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Last Granada dump!

I’ve recently started on the return of Sherlock Holmes, Granada. Jeremy Brett’s charm, their interactions and Watson not getting married for some reason got me fully indulged. Also it’s just plain lovely to watch

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This is what I mean when I say I kin Sherlock Holmes.

Holmes: *talking about how clever he is*

Also Holmes: *sets a table on fire*

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2017 sherlock tumblr was batshit insane for trying to convince us mary was a bad person and she deserved to die. everything she did could be justified …. she is like sherlock’s inverse she knows his mind before even john does they’re united by their adoration for john everything she did she did to protect her family. you simply cannot adore sherlock but hate mary. you could never EVER make me hate mary watson.

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Poki poke-

Holmes pokes/ touches Watson with one finger from the first day they met and Watson quickly picks up the habit himself, and even starts poking Lestrade too

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What a lovely thing a rose is!

I've been staring at the Naval Treaty email schedule going "are we there yet?" since Wednesday, and we're HERE!

I know the standard argument is that he was looking for A Clue over near the vase of flowers - do you believe it for a second? I don't. That might have required walking over to the vase. It did not require a short monologue on the goodness of God followed by completely losing touch with the fact there were other people in the room.

He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. “There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,” said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. “It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

From a 'Holmes as queer' perspective, independently from the Holmes/Watson perspective, it's probably my favourite paragraph in the book. I'm not gonna pretend to be very educated about queer thought in the 1890s, I'm just extremely gay and think that 'Isn't it nice that my heart can find this beautiful, even though that feeling serves no purpose for the continuation of the human species?' might mean something. And that he believes it's a gift from God. Given the place and time he's living in, I think that's incredibly powerful.

Oh yeah and I found a floriography dictionary.

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teehee

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Very much majestic✨✨✨

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Do you remember where did "Watson is (half) Scottish" headcanon came from? Or is it canon?

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HIS SMILE IS SO PRETTY AVSHSVDJSBD

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Dancing Men