#dr Watson

[writer-of-random-things]

On the Nature of Holmes & Watson (& Trevor)

This was meant to be a meta, but in reality it's probably just going to be a rambly wall of text and emotions. Oh well.

Something that always captivated me about the ACD canon was how...special Holmes and Watson were. They were unique in their commonality, their casualness. The Holmes stories had served as the blueprint of the modern detective genre in itself--I had expected a sidekick. What I had not expected was the way the sidekick and detective came to be; to be remembered as one of the greatest friendships in literary history.

There is something so inexplicably beautiful about a lost, lonely, war-weary veteran returning to a city of thousands. A 'cesspool' of a city, he calls it; and yet somehow, in some way, he manages to find a enigmatic, strange person that needed Watson as much as he did him. In STUD, Watson mentioned how he spent his days before meeting Holmes wasting his days, idling about from hotel room to hotel room. After all the war and trauma, only followed by the banality and blandness of living in a city that is thronging with distant people, I can't help but think how much Watson and Holmes saved each other. Yes, over the course of their many adventures, they have saved the other's life many times. But I like to think that they saved each other from themselves; from the loneliness and the struggles they faced. Watson finally had something to do with his life again through accompanying Holmes and chronicling his exploits. Holmes finally had something he could project his ideas off of, somebody that could appreciate and constantly be in awe of his talents. Somebody that could help him when needed, and sit in comfortable silence or conversation; someone to make him not alone.

This is very important for Holmes. I suppose anybody who read the ACD canon already knows this already. But for all we know, the last friend Holmes had was Victor Trevor, who was just alone as he was. And Trevor left to work on a tea plantation in Nepal after the events of 'The Gloria Scott' (...I don't know why Conan Doyle made him do that. Is it because the British like tea so much?). The point is, Holmes was alone again. The great detective, who often liked to present his ideas as if he was an monologuing actor, was alone on the stage, with no one in the audience to clap for him. Then Watson came along, and Holmes became a prominent detective; but more importantly, he gained a lifelong friend.

At the end of the day, that's why I keep returning to the Holmes stories. Yes, Sherlock Holmes is brilliant; yes, the cases are intriguing and I love Victorian literature so much that I would've probably read it even if I wasn't invested in the characters. But at the heart of every case is the friendship between these lost, lonely men, who somehow found each other in a city of millions and made the best of it. The ACD canon is as much about mystery as it is human connection. I can't properly express it, but wherever the stories take place--on the windy hills of Dartmoor, the countryside of Reigate, or the crackling fire of Baker Street--Holmes and Watson will always be there, side by side. We see this, in every adaptation since.

They are truly the fixed point in a changing age, and I love them for it.

#acd holmes #acd canon #sherlock holmes #dr watson #uh victor trevor too I guess #me rambling

[averagestrayrat]

Holmes: my dear Watson :c i'm so sorry i put you through an extremely dangerous situation (again)

Watson: that was the best day of my life and I'm going to write about it in my diary with a glitter pen

#sherlock holmes #acd holmes #dr watson

[thehauntedrocket]

Elementary Dear Data...

Art by Rachael Stott

#Rachael Stott #Science Fiction #Star Trek #Data #Geordi La Forge #Lt La Forge #Sherlock Holmes #Dr Watson #Detectives #Mystery #Art #Star Trek TNG #Brent Spiner #Lavar Burton

[nothingofpracticalgardening]

I think a lot about how all versions of Watson don’t see themselves as anything special, meanwhile all versions Sherlock Holmes are looking at them like “This is the most wonderful human being who ever lived and the only person I want to spend all my time with for the rest of my life.”

#sherlock holmes #dr watson #sherlock #bbc sherlock #jeremy brett #basil rathbone #all the others #holmes/watson #johnlock

[fruitviking]

I saw this post and I had to make the thing

#sherlock holmes #dr watson

[jonk-md]

jonk for the soul

#sherlock and co #johnlock #sherlock & co #john watson #jariana #mariana/john #holmes x watson #dr watson #jonk watson #my art

[pikatik]

I started listening to the Sherlock and CO. podcast and I really like it, so here's how I imagine Watson there :D

He kind of looks similar to the BBC version, but that wasn't the intention :D

(And he deserves a moustache)

#Sherlock and CO #Dr Watson #John Watson

[beekeeperspicnic]

Let's play... Bella or Watson?

While waiting for the next Letters from Watson email to arrive, fancy joining me in a little game of BELLA OR WATSON?

Some of these statements were written by Dr John H Watson about his friend Mr Sherlock Holmes. Some were written by Bella Swan about Edward, the hot teenage vampire from Twilight.

[IMG Silhouettes of Dr Watson and Bella Swan, text reads Watson or Bella]

(This was inspired by a tumblr post, but I'm afraid it's lost to the mists of ancient dash for me by now. Answers are under the cut!]

With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted [REDACTED], and [REDACTED].

glanced sideways at the beautiful [REDACTED], who was [REDACTED], [REDACTED] with long, pale fingers

His eyes were gloriously intense as he uttered that last sentence

I turned and he was leaning toward me, his pale, glorious face just inches from mine.

In the darkness he looked much more normal. Still pale, still dreamlike in his beauty, but no longer the fantastic sparkling creature of our sunlit afternoon.

In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing Watson or Bella?

His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. 

An instant later he pulled me back into the blackest corner of the room, and I felt his warning hand upon my lips. The fingers which clutched me were shivering.

It was worth a wound—it was worth many wounds—to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. 

ANSWERS UNDER THE CUT

Question 1 - Watson

With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff.

Question 2 - Bella

I glanced sideways at the beautiful boy, who was looking at his tray now, picking a bagel to pieces with long, pale fingers

Question 3 - Watson His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal lust for the chase

Question 4 - Bella His eyes were gloriously intense as he uttered that last sentence

Question 5 - Bella

I turned and he was leaning toward me, his pale, glorious face just inches from mine.

Question 6 - Bella

In the darkness he looked much more normal. Still pale, still dreamlike in his beauty, but no longer the fantastic sparkling creature of our sunlit afternoon

Question 7 - Watson

In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing

Question 8 - Watson

His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. 

Question 9 - Watson

An instant later he pulled me back into the blackest corner of the room, and I felt his warning hand upon my lips. The fingers which clutched me were shivering.

Question 10 - Yup, still Watson

It was worth a wound—it was worth many wounds—to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. 

#letters from watson #sherlock holmes #twilight #twilight saga #dr watson #john watson #bella swan #bella or watson #acd holmes #johnlock #acd canon #acd johnlock

[sarnie-for-varney]

Holmes throwing his newspaper because Watson isn't giving him attention:

(Also I had to add Watson's little head bobs at the start)

#sherlock holmes #the adventures of sherlock holmes #the copper beeches #sir arthur conan doyle #arthur conan doyle #conan doyle #acd #granada television #granada holmes #dr john watson #dr watson #john watson #jeremy brett #david burke #video

[awkward-aro-ace-princess-76]

Oh your ship broke up? That’s sad. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have been in a queer-platonic partnership for 136 years though so I’m good. Y’all take it easy.

#sherlock holmes #dr Watson #arthur conan doyle #acd #qpr #qpp #queer-platonic #shipping #aromantic #asexual #Sherlock Holmes is aroace btw

[teaspoonnebula]

Guess who is cosplaying for the first time... and who else could I possibly cosplay as?

Please enjoy this absolutely canonical video:

#I genuinely don't really even recognise myself here it's totally wild #dr watson #john watson #sherlock holmes #cosplay

[somethingintheforest]

#mine #he got... he got that mental eelness #sherlock holmes #dr watson #doctor watson #doctor john watson #john watson #brett holmes #burke watson #granada holmes #granada sherlock #granada watson #the adventures of sherlock holmes #the naval treaty

[averagestrayrat]

I've always privately made fun of Watson for his apparent inability to focus on anything that isn't Holmes. If all the attention to detail that he has when studying Holmes was directed at the crime scene - rather than Holmes' reaction to the crime scene, client, etc. - Watson would make a good detective himself.

But since I started watching Granada Holmes I have to take that back given that so often I can't follow what's going on because I'm just mesmerized by the way Jeremy Brett moves and can't pay attention to anything else. I'm not listening to what this witness is saying, I'm looking at Jeremy's micro facial expressions in reaction to it. I didn't notice the rest of the room, I was looking at the way Jeremy moves his hands and swirls around and touches the furniture and walks and tilts his head and crawls on the floor and sniffs cigarette butts and

#is this what it feels like to be John Watson?? #acd holmes #granada holmes #dr watson

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

But imagine you are Dr Watson coming home from Switzerland and suddenly standing in a sitting room that used to be yours, and there is a book he bought and did not bring along and sheet music for a composition you will never hear him play and there are the notes for a case he will never solve and a new summer coat he will never wear and the flowers that Mrs Hudson placed on the table which faded unseen by him and the tobacco that he will never smoke and the concert ticket that expired because when the curtain rose, he stood at the brink of the Reichenbach Falls and you were not there.

#I'm sorry I''m sorry i cannot stop thinking about this #i am going crazy #sherlock holmes #dr watson #the final problem #tw loss #tw death

[happygirl2oo2]

Elementary as textposts part 4/?

#the start of it all #Elementary as textposts #Elementary #cbs elementary #elementary tv #elementasquee #joan watson #joanlock #doctor watson #elementary sherlock #sherlock and watson #joan and sherlock #johnny lee miller #sherlock holmes #dr watson #text post meme #textposts #ao3 tags #jlm

[angryducktimemachine]

Train Time. I don't know how to draw the inside of a train so I have to announce it just to be sure. It's a Train. Also in case this leaves my mutual circle: the pointy ears are a stylistic choice. Have a wonderful day.

[ID: a digital drawing of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson sitting in a train compartment. Holmes is laying with his legs up and his back against a bag reading a newspaper while Watson sits normally with his legs crossed on the other side of the bag with his notebook on his knee. /End ID]

#Sherlock holmes #acd holmes #dr watson #john watson #dr john watson #Sherlock holmes art