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Panel 1 Watson: Speaking of new friends, I daresay the group was as queer as the case! It seems to me you didn’t even find the invisible fellow the most curious of them. Holmes: Ah, you noticed that, did you?

Panel 2 Holmes (voiceover): Indeed, they’re quite a peculiar gathering… many traits to spark the curiosity.

Panel 3 Watson: That aside, I am glad you were able to meet Irene Norton again, under less dubious circumstances. Holmes:  As am I. That wasn’t my proudest moment, was it?

Panel 4 Holmes: I’m relieved that she has asked me to stay in touch. Watson: Oh? So she and her husband are settling down in London?

Panel 5 Holmes (voiceover): They are; and she has stated, quite firmly, that I owe them a proper wedding.

Panel 6 Holmes: I have composed a list of venues to suggest to the bride. Do help me compose my reply? Watson: Of course! Let me fetch the writing-paper…

Panel 7 Holmes (voiceover): Dear Mrs. Norton, I am writing to tell you… Caption: End Interlude 1

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[fruitviking]

Been making some LXGF memes (art by @mayhemchicken-artblog, check out the comic @lxgentlefolkcomic)

#lxgf #league of extraordinary gentlefolk #lxgf sherlock holmes #lxgf irene norton #lxgf godfrey norton #lxgf arthur holmwood #memes #idk i might make more

[ibrithir-was-here]

The latest @lxgentlefolkcomic update got me squealing over Irene and Godfrey so here’s a doodle of them 💕

#love love love that this pairing is getting so much care in the comic #my art #lxgf #other people’s awesome writing #irene norton #irene adler #Godfrey norton #irene x Godfrey #sherlock holmes #league of extraordinary gentlefolk

[thegoatsongs]

The Foggs: And then Jean walked me down the aisle to Phileas. The bells rang loudly as we all stepped out of the church gates.

The Nortons: We didn't have time for walking down the aisle, or for bells, we had to enter and leave the church immediately.

The Harkers: You guys got married in a church?

#'standing up???' #sherlock holmes #dracula #dracula daily #around the world in eighty days #jean passepartout #jonathan harker #mina harker #phileas fogg #irene norton #godfrey norton #lxgf

[dathen]

Another thing that’s fun about the chronological order of Letters from Watson is that Scandal in Bohemia comes after The Noble Bachelor—and we see Holmes’ reckless abandon and hasty assumptions in the former playing out after seeing his much more cautious and thoughtful approach in the latter.

In The Noble Bachelor, you had a similar client with a story with even higher stakes: a noble/royal bringing accusations against his former mistress, whom he feels is sabotaging his new marriage—except that time the accusation was MURDER, and the woman already reputed to be violent and disturbed. But instead of taking Lord Simon’s word for everything, Holmes pared the hearsay down to facts and observed behaviors instead of assuming what they’d be based on stereotypes. And he dropped by to TALK to the people involved to mediate the matter peacefully, and clear up the misunderstandings that caused the drama in the first place.

AND THEN THERE’S THIS CASE. Oh the dramatics! The spying and disguises and crowds shouting murder and fire! Wild reckless carriage chases and sabotage! All of these wild excursions and…Holmes hasn’t even done his usual due diligence. He’s worked with plenty of people like the King before, and should know to doubt ‘my mistress is out to get me’ accusations from the get-go. Perhaps a younger Holmes, still sharing rooms with his dear friend, would have reined in his investigation from the start to dig through the assumptions to begin with.

Oh, but this isn’t that Holmes. This is a desperately lonely Holmes suddenly brimming with life again at Watson joining him for a case. It’s gotta be FUN and FLASHY. It’s gotta be a high-stakes spectacle to Stop an Evildoer, vs some bland mediation and misunderstandings. It’s like Holmes doesn’t want it to be any less dramatic than the King says, so just dives straight in so Watson will follow in his wake. And you can see from Watson’s eagerness that it’s working.

In Sign of the Four Holmes insists that romantic love would bias him, but it’s very possible we’re seeing his desperation for Watson’s friendship bias him in the case immediately following it.

#letters from watson #scandal in bohemia #the noble bachelor #acd holmes #sherlock holmes #ty to the lxgf server for good discussions on this #my brain is wriggling

[amypihcs]

Usual uni-caused mess (Holmes edition)

So, as usual when i have to study and i’m forced to concentrate on something different from my current hyperfixation my brains decides to go wild.Yep, that’s what happened this time, my brain was being forced to study itself (boooooring list of names) and it started presenting new and funnier scenarios.

Well, studying the parasympathetic system i obv happened around that marvelous little thing that is the vagal nerve and my brain summoned an old episode of Bones where a guy got killed by overstimulation of that nerve that caused it to release more acetylcoline and stopped the victim’s heart. Plus stimulation of the vagal nerve can also be used as a relaxing tecnique.

Problem is, my Sherlock Holmes added brain connected vagal nerve with the fact that Watson’s a doctor AND a man who’s been many times in his life in the situation of having to incapacitate someone. 

SO what if Watson knows something like the Vulcan Nerve Pinch and uses it to put Holmes to sleep when he’s being a little bitch who denies that is his body is BEGGING him for some rest? I also think that he would use this trick mainly post-empty house and Holmes’ ‘resurrection’, being tired to deal with the guy’s bullshit. I mean, they are husbands as usual, but after a feigned DEATH he loses the ‘i know how to care for myself’ privilege, it’s CLEAR (to both Watson and Mrs Hudson) that the guy needs someone to teach him to just behave sometimes. Oh, he also used it before, but much more rarely.

Clearly, after said consultive detective passes out he gets carried to the nearest couch/bed, because Watson would never leave him lying there on the floor.

I’d like to thank @fruitviking for having indulged me with this headcanon on the lxgf discord, thanks dear <3

#my messy rambles #university caused rambles #human anatomy #nervous system #Dr Watson #dr john watson #john watson #sherlock holmes #johnlock #THEM MAN SHOULD KNOW BETTER AND JUST SLEEP SOMETIMES #and since he doesn't watson makes him #letters from watson #thanks letters from watson for having made me know how badass watson is

[skyriderwednesday]

Blorbos Wrapped 2023:

So my brain is made of Swiss cheese, but here are some little guys I have been rotating this year:

Sherlock Holmes derived:

- Sherlock Holmes

- John Watson

- Mary Morstan Watson (who is my OC now, idc.)

- Stanley Hopkins

- Inspector Lestrade

- Mycroft Holmes

Others:

- Mr Darcy

- Mr Bingley

- Lizzie Bennet

- Jonathan Harker

- Mina Harker

- Arthur Hastings

- Bertie Wooster

- Griffin (LXGF)

This Just In! Fresh New Blorbo!:

- Lord Peter Wimsey

@dathen wanted to see this, and anybody who wants to join in may do so :)

#there is... a theme here #i believe it is - if not quite 'men who are stupid' - men who are golden retrievers #also i have lowkey been on a pride and prejudice kick since last summer #that's a lie it's not been lowkey at all-- #i'm making a full regency gown including the undergarments-- #i have been devouring the lord peter books at a rate of knots

[strangestcase]

I’ve had a terrifyingly realistic dream in which there was this Sherlock Holmes character that was an antihero woman (similar to Irene Adler?) that got duped into joining an ecofascism terrorist group but she got out of it and got her revenge on them. Her name was May. Ok? Ok. So in the dream the weird gothic lit crowd (the LXGF guys you know them) latched on to her but as in hatedom, they called her a Nazi bitch (even though apparently she only was an actual Nazi in the BBC show when I googled it) like her fanon version was such a mysogninistic caricature of the OG and like evil and irredeemable. and made her want to seduce Jonathan and ruin his marriage and shit and someone made a poll asking what sort of punishment she deserved and the punishments were shit like, killed by Jon, killed by Mina, killed by Griffin, have sex with Hyde [heavily implied to be uh. non-consensual]. I couldn’t reblog it with my complaints so I looked into the tags and the OP had written a looooong guilt trippy tirade saying that “some people” had been bullying them over that poll and HOW could they have known May wasn’t REALLY a Nazi in the original story??? I got curious and turns out the rest of the notes were May’s fandom which were all Brazilian and all their angry comments were on Brazilian Portuguese. Since I can read Portuguese fine enough I had a ball of a time reading them say stuff such as “claims to be more progressive than Moore, threatens female character with rape anyway” or “you THINK the Dracula gang care about black people?????” Anyway the dream was so realistic I got a little scared and shit.

#it was weirdly realistic

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Panel 1

Holmes: If you don’t mind me asking, do share your thoughts on our last strange case.

Watson: Hm…There were no illusionist’s tricks at play, as far as either of us could tell.

Panel 2

Watson: I feel I’ve documented a dozen supposedly unnatural cases that had a bizarre yet mundane explanation, but this one challenges logic.

Panel 3

Holmes: That it does…And that is what unsettles me.

Panel 4

Holmes (voiceover): I can excel in the realm of the natural, as deduction relies on logic, yet the otherworldly defies it.

Panel 5

Watson: Well, my friend, at least our new friends have shown their strengths there. The world does not rely on you alone to solve its every mystery.

Holmes: Ha! You’re quite right, my dear Watson. I won’t fret overmuch.

Panel 6

Holmes: Should Mrs. Norton and her new allies find some little puzzle where a couple old hounds like us may be useful, we’re but a wire away.

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Panel 1

Jekyll: That came from him?

Panel 2

Mina: It seems you were right to question whether the King was a vampire, Mr. Holmes.

Panel 3

Holmes: This doesn’t look like it ever belonged to a living being. Are you sure it was—

Panel 4

Irene: Absolutely certain. What we saw, Mr. Holmes, was far beyond the power of any human hoax.

Panel 5

Jekyll: Ahem…may I ask what became of the rest?

Panel 6

Jonathan: It’s been burned.

Panel 7

Jekyll: Ah. I see. Pity.

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Panel 1

Caption: Dr. Jekyll’s laboratory

Irene: We received your telegram—you say you had news for us?

Panel 2

Holmes: I’m glad to say we do—but what of you? Did it work? I can fetch Watson if anyone was hurt—

Panel 3

Effect: Dump

Panel 4

(n/a)

Panel 5

Jonathan: The King has been stopped.

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[lxgentlefolkcomic]

So Mr. Holmes, now you know that the undead are real, how's that exponential reality/worldview expansion treating you? Fewer impossibilities to eliminate, I imagine.

#lxgf #ask #lxgf sherlock holmes #lxgf john watson #a few hours later holmes got an idea for an experiment and promptly went zooming off to jekyll's lab #he's going to write so many monographs #lxgf bonus content #shitposting

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Panel 1

Irene: You’ve seen him?

Jekyll: Oh—er, not me.

Panel 2

Jekyll: I obtained this sample from a, er, friend of mine—a fellow by the name of Hyde.

Panel 3

Holmes: And this…friend of yours, how did he acquire the sample you now have?

Panel 4

Jekyll: He was attacked.

Panel 5

Jekyll (voiceover): He encountered the man in Soho—a tall gentleman, richly dressed, but bedraggled and ill-groomed, his fine clothes all in tatters.

Panel 6

Jekyll: …So my friend told me, that is.

Panel 7

Jekyll (voiceover): The attack was quite unprovoked.

Hyde: Hey, ugly! Yeah, I’m talking to you! Who do you think you’re leering at?

Panel 8

Jekyll (voiceover): He fought back in self-defense, bravely fending off his attacker.

Hyde: AAAIIIEEEEE

Panel 9

Jekyll: This substance was shed by that strange man during the fight—as you say, not unlike blood. My friend brought it to me for analysis.

#lxgf #lxgf episode 1 #story updates #lxgf henry jekyll #lxgf irene norton #lxgf sherlock holmes #lxgf edward hyde #cw body horror #the answer to monday's riddle: jekyll's sleeves are creased at the cuffs and above the elbows #as if a much shorter person had been wearing his clothes #if you guessed it then congrats! #lxgf wilhelm von ormstein

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Panel 1

Irene: And what have you come to learn?

Panel 2

Jekyll: So far? Very little. It baffles even the simplest of tests. I could tell you what it isn’t, but as for what it is, what its properties are…

Panel 3

Jekyll: …Well, with any luck, the additional sample you’ve given me will help. With it, I’ll be able to run more sophisticated tests.

Panel 4

Holmes: A pretty little puzzle this is. Why would a man shed this, whatever it is, instead of blood?

Panel 5

Van Helsing: Is the matter not clear? A man, if he have nothing else, he have at least the red blood that sustain his life, which, if he spill, will witness to the man-soul that is in him. But this one, who no longer bleed as a man, is man no longer—he is a horror of the Un-dead.

Panel 6

Jekyll: Un-dead? I’m afraid I don’t entirely follow your thinking…

Panel 7

Irene: The man in question is the spitting image of His Majesty the late King of Bohemia. I started seeing him not long after this article was published.

Panel 8

Jekyll: Is that so? In that case, perhaps this substance is the cause of his reanimation.

Panel 9

Holmes: Reanimation of the dead! Do you truly believe such a thing is possible?

Panel 10

Jekyll: From my studies, I have no doubt that chemical science is capable of working such miracles.

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Panel 1

Holmes: Yellow blood…yellow blood…but what could cause…

Panel 2

Holmes: Do any of you know a good chemist?

Panel 3

Mina: Professor Van Helsing might. Why?

Panel 4

Holmes: This substance—it may shed some light on the nature of our culprit. I dabble in chemistry myself, but an expert could tell you far more than my limited setup.

Panel 5

(n/a)

Panel 6

Voice (offscreen): Dr. Jekyll? You have visitors.

Panel 7

Van Helsing: Friend Henry, it has been too long!

Poole: Sir, please—

Panel 8

Jekyll: Ah, Professor Van Helsing…and company. Do come in. I received your telegram—always glad to hear from an old acquaintance. Now: what was it you wished to show me?

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Panel 1

Holmes: Here, the sample in question.

Panel 2

Holmes: Odd…

Panel 3

Jekyll: Curious…where did you get this?

Panel 4

Van Helsing: It was shed, Friend Henry, as blood sheds from a man from him who keep in appearance that of a man, even a king, but who may be in truth a monster.

Panel 5

Holmes: The substance is not blood, however. My own tests were quite clear on the matter.

Panel 6

Jekyll: I see…

Panel 7

Jekyll: …So you’ve met him too.

#lxgf #lxgf episode 1 #story updates #lxgf henry jekyll #lxgf sherlock holmes #lxgf abraham van helsing #eagle-eyed readers see if you can spot what holmes is deducing :3c