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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Leyendecker Pt. 2 (ft. John Watson) 🔎🚬🎻

More harsh highlights, vibrant colors and sharp angles. Watch the process over on my TikTok

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Dance on Tagore poem, Ruth St. Denis in 1929, performing

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There’s something about Jeremy Brett’s Holmes that’s just so dear to my heart, so I’m going to start a journey to try to learn how to draw him more accurately, since i’ve struggled with capturing his likeness in the past.

#delightful

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#Ritchie Holmes #scrubbiest Holmes far and away #sweet still

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Holmes's habit of touching his ear when he laughs

#Howard Holmes #sweetest boy

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Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur conan doyle

The classical literature

#oh these images are so sharp #excellent

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Oh Holmes!

#oh lovely

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this meme thing with sherlock. love him

#sherlock & co #this good scrungy man

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#oh! shaped!!

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Silly server conversations result in silly art of Borzoi Holmes and Persian Cat Watson 😆

Holmes is a Borzoi, for the long nose (of course) and behavioural traits like "affectionate and athletic", "quickly becomes bored with repetitive, apparently pointless activity", and "can be very stubborn when not properly motivated"

Watson is a Persian cat, honestly just because I wanted a cat with a suitable moustache...

But also I found that "Persian cat personalities are sweet, gentle, and patient. They're friendly cats that prefer calm environments but can easily adapt to more active households. Persian cats love to relax and lounge around their environment"

So yeah. They solve crimes!

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#!!!!!

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god i can’t remember which book i read it in but i remember reading a philosophy book that said something along the line of “deduction and diagnosis are essentially one in the same; this is why dr watson is the perfect companion for sherlock holmes” and i nearly wept. scientifically proven soulmates for real

#wasn’t Holmes partially based on a surgeon Doyle studied under? #something to this idea of deduction and diagnosis

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#curly??

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Free Sherlock Holmes Typeset

Based off of the poll last week, here is the free pdf for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle! It's set for half letter (letter folio) and includes the Sidney Paget illustrations. Please leave credit if you use it, and consider dropping a like/reblog if you can! Interior pics below the break. Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S2wl_PuxCupofnDpqGuk7VjMHYFMWC6g?usp=drive_link (What is a typeset, my dear Watson? Well, it's a document that takes text and formats it so it's ready for print. Like a printable ebook that you can use to make a physical book.)

#thank you!

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Just some thoughts about DID Holmes in Sherlock & Co.

I need to preface this by saying I don't have DID, all I know about it is from reading and hearing people who do have DID talk about their experience. I can be wrong, I don't mean any harm by it and I encourage people to correct me (just please be kind).

Ok so in the Sherlock & Co. canon, Holmes has DID, amongst a variety of other things, which is a new and interesting thing to explore with this character. I'm not sure if we'll ever see it explored in the show, or if it'll just stay a part of a long list of what makes Sherlock neurodiverse. But I've been thinking about it and I'd like to dump my thoughts here.

I think it makes absolutely perfect sense for Sherlock Holmes to have DID. Even in the ACD canon, Holmes isn't known to have had a good childhood and a good relationship with his parents. Jeremy Brett liked to think Holmes didn't see his mother until he was like eight years old. Lots of neglect, coupled with the struggles of being a "difficult child" because of his perticular cocktail of disorders (ADHD, ASD, SPD, DMDD and ODD), is just the perfect recipe for repetitive childhood trauma that could very well develop into DID. There's no question in my mind that it was a good decision (at least an interesting one) to give Sherlock DID in this adaptation. And that got me thinking about how much he probably struggled with it.

I chose to believe that Sherlock achieved final fusion years before he met John. That's what makes the most sense to me. We know he's got official diagnoses for these things, so it would make sense to me that he got professional help for his DID as well. And based on his personality, and his need to be in control and know all the information available to him, I think final fusion would be the result he would have seeked, as opposed to functional multiplicity.

Now of course one can't logic their way out of neurodiversity, and one can't just logic their way into final fusion. But what works and doesn't work has to have some connection to the way someone is, and I think Sherlock Holmes would have worked his ass out in therapy to achieve final fusion because I think it would have been a horrible time for a man like him.

I'm thinking about how he would handle the amnesia (we know his views in memory and identity), the loss of control when a different alter fronted, the confusion of "waking up" in a completely different part of town, disassociating in the middle of important (or interesting) tasks, etc. etc. I also think that perhaps, his addiction could have been a result of a persecutor alter.

As someone who struggles with communication because of his autism, I think perhaps that could also affect Holmes' communication with his alters. I genuinely don't know if that could be a thing or not, I've never met anyone who had DID and autism so I'm not sure how correct that assumption is. But if that communication was also a struggle, it would explain why functional multiplicity wouldn't work as well.

And I don't know, perhaps we'll have more glimpses into Sherlock's past in the podcast, and we'll learn more about his DID diagnosis, perhaps he hasn't achieved final fusion, perhaps he very much still struggles with switches and memory loss. We don't know, but I do hope we get to explore it more! It ads a new layer of complexity to the character that we haven't seen in other adaptations, and I really love that!

We know that Sherlock Holmes is always neurodivergent, whether that is explicitly diagnosed in canon or not. The whole point of Sherlock Holmes as a character, from ACD canon to any modern version, is that he doesn't think like everyone else. That is literally the definition of neurodiversity. To take that away from Holmes is to destroy the character. But what this adaptation did, by giving a name to each and every trait of Holmes is very interesting and I hope they can handle it well! So far I've been very pleasently surprised by the way they have handled Sherlock's autism. It is very much a part of him and it informs his actions, but it is not all that he is. And maybe it's because Joel Emery's daughter is autistic so he has more knowledge about it than the other disorders, but I still hope we get to see more of that as well, especially Sherlock's DID.

Alright that's all kdjfhg

As I said, I don't have DID so take everything I said with a grain of salt. But if anyone has thoughts they'd like to share please come talk to me! :D And if anyone has DID and wants to share their thoughts about Sherlock & Co. thought the lense of someone with the disorder please do! I'd be very happy to read about it. (Also my ask is always open if anon is more comfy)

#sherlock & co

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I haven't posted in a million years cus i started college for animation and moved to argentina but!!!! By god am i hyperfixated on this podcast, only thing keeping me sane on the hour long commute to college

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#hello lovelies #I’m so partial to Sherlock’s lil ponytail #sherlock & co