Watching Rathbone Holmes The Pearl of Death and…
Stiff as a varnished eel.
Who had late Victorian Scooby Doo on their 2024 bingo card? Hmm?
The idea came to me when I was thinking about Sherlock Holmes and then remembered the iconic mystery solving gang hehe
This running gag gets me every time
Who wants to read some Sherlock Holmes self insert fanfic written by a 7th grader in 1903?
She even won an honorable mention for it!
Realized I forgot to include the source link: x
Ooh also I need to point out, if this is written in 1902 then little Sadie believes that Sherlock Holmes died at the Reichenbach Falls, but fortunately in the next couple of years she's going to find out that he survived, and get to enjoy some of the best (imo) Sherlock Holme stories ever written.
I love imagining 13 or 14 year old Sadie getting to read the Dancing Men and the Solitary Cyclist and Charles Augustus Milverton and The Six Napoleons...
Oh yeah whoops I misread the date.
STILL - in 1903 she's in for a good time :D
30-something year old Sadie getting to read Veiled Lodger in 1927
Affection
Here's that cast list, by the way!
Sherlock Holmes - James Quinn Dr John Watson - Andrew James Spooner Mycroft Holmes - Richard Rycroft Tilda - Alice Osmanski Sanjay Kumar -Suzie Rai Ruffles the Clown - Felix Trench ‘Professor’ Pippi Ricci - Layla Katib Martha - Ellie Dickinson Mrs Kumar - Shamini Bundell Rose the Flower Seller - Beth Eyre Mrs Whitlock - Alison Skilbeck Harold Stackhurst - Peter Wicks Toby III - Tobias Weatherburn PC Webber - Shogo Miyakita Violet Hunter - Amy Rockson Jerome - Pip Gladwin ‘Killer’ Evans - Giancarlo Herrera
This format shamefully copied from @224bbaker Please go and listen to their amazing podcast <3
This is a friendly reminder that Holmes canonically uses the word ‘doggy’ when talking to his favourite furry friend
Watson’s description of Toby - “Toby proved to be an ugly, long-haired, lop-eared creature, half spaniel and half lurcher, brown-and-white in color, with a very clumsy waddling gait.“
Holmes’ description of Toby - “I would rather have Toby’s help than that of the whole detective force of London.“
IE:
Watson: “This is a weird dog.”
Holmes: “Let’s get one thing straight, my guy, this is the BEST dog!”
This is why I hate when people depict Toby as a bloodhound. Not that bloodhounds are terrible dogs, I love them and they do important work. But I think a lot of people don’t get how weird Toby was.
For instance, this is a spaniel:
Specifically, this is an English (Springer) spaniel. It’s typically bred as a game dog, to flush out birds or small animals from underbrush. They rely heavily on sight and sound, and are fast, energetic little boogers. Spaniels in general are squatty little dogs, built low to the ground. Given the brown and white color Watson describes, we can assume this particular breed is likely Toby’s spaniel side. Because a lurcher…..
Is a mutt. A specific kind of mutt, but it’s a mutt. It’s “the offspring of a sight hound mated with another breed, most commonly a pastoral breed or a terrier type of dog.” Sight hounds are dogs that are hunters by sight and speed, not scent. They include Greyhounds, Wolfhounds, Whippets, and Afghans. A pastoral breed is one that primarily works agriculturally. These are a HUGE group of dogs, including but not limited to: Sheepdogs, Collies, Cattle dogs, Shepherds (including German and Australian), and Corgis. Yeah, corgis are working dogs, or at least were bred to be. Again, these dogs rely on speed, agility, and sight, not scent. Terriers are much the same, but generally smaller. They are fast and driven by sight. They also have wiry, scruffy hair in general. So a Lurcher is a fast, sight-driven, scruffy little thing that looks really odd because the breeds its made from are widely different in size, body type, and structure.
Here’s a typical “lurcher” dog:
Look at that little goob! If the police rolled up with that thing strapped into a vest, would you trust them?
So yeah. Imagine that. Plus the above. You’ve got a freaking weird looking dog. Not only that, one that shouldn’t probably have a good sniffer, since it’s made from sight-based working dogs. A funny-looking, oddball, lanky mess that comes out of nowhere and does amazing, almost impossible detective work when people might not expect him on first glance to be worth anything.
And people wonder why Holmes liked Toby so much…
It’s come to my attention that many people don’t know about the Basil of Baker Streets books, nor the insanity contained therein. With this in mind, please enjoy some details from Eve Titus’s Basil of Baker Street books
I love all books but sometimes you read a book and you’re like so were all 21 thousand of you blindfolded and at gun point when you rated it 5 stars
14000 years old bisons sculptures found in Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave. Ariege, France [1850x1250]
How to catch a fish in 4 easy steps by Nindiri the jaguar (pics by Nancie Cunningham Casey)
"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
John Watson is so me when my ADHD medication stops working (or the famous nullifier enters my system, called ‘friends’).
So John is an ADHDer, professionally diagnosed my ✨me✨, fellow ADHDer.
Go Dr. John H. Watson go!!
On the other hand, Sherlock Holmes is the autism that looks disappointedly at the whole situation.
only just remembered the conversation I had with the person who said they couldn’t read anything written by a lesbian because they were a bisexual and it would be seen as infiltrating a space that wasn’t intended for them and wasting resources that weren’t theirs to use and they were terrified of getting in Trouble.
“why are people afraid to read theory and history” the answers are sadder and more frightening than anything you can imagine
