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Part two of CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON (part 1 here) - this story really truly has everything and I haven’t even gotten to the crime yet. In the last entry I went off canon, but this update is almost all line for line in the book…why are they like this

(This is part of the Watsons sketchbook series!)

#contact-guy #johnlock #acd canon #sherlock holmes fancomic

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*shows up fourteen years late to Tumblr with very cold Starbucks* So that Sherlock show is pretty good, huh!

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my NEW tablet broke so im angry at my art and myself

#ramigir

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#sherlock gif

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hey steph! hope you’re well <3

i’ve recently had some surgery on my teeth and i was wondering whether you knew of any fics that have domestic johnlock with surgery recovery? the fluffier the better :)

lots of love! 💕

Hey Nonny!

Ahhh, these are the fluffy ones I can recall immediately:

Waiting and Recovery by A Wandering Minstrel (K+, 3,173 w. || H/C, Friendship) – Lestrade waits for news of Sherlock and John at the hospital. Mrs. Hudson looks after her boys. Two companion pieces.

They're Taking My Wisdom by whitchry9 (K+, 1,939 w., 1 Ch. || Hurt/Comfort, Drugging, Dentists, Friendship, Anxious Sherlock, Humour) – Sherlock goes to the dentist. Of course, being Sherlock, things have to be complicated. Oh and drugs. They're always fun.

The Healing Touch by inevitably_johnlocked (G, 2,307 w., 1 Ch. || Caretaking,  Domestic Fluff, Stroppy Sherlock, John Loves Sherlock, Love Confessions, Sofa Cuddles, Insecure Sherlock) – Sherlock's broken his foot and he's becoming unbearably stroppy. Good thing John has the healer's touch... ;) Part 3 of I-J's Tumblr Ficlet Collection

The Effect of Memory by testosterone_tea (E, 6,430 w., 1 Ch. || Praise Kink, First Kiss / Time, Fluff, Smut, Virgin Sherlock, Love Confessions, Confused Sherlock) – John has temporary amnesia coming off of anaesthesia after an operation and not only does he not recognize Sherlock, he starts flirting with him! After John recovers, he doesn’t remember the incident at all. But Sherlock does. Confusion ensues.

Here Comes The Sun by JennLynn77 (E, 32,126 w., 15 Ch. || Post S4/TFP, John Whump, Caring Sherlock, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Friends to Lovers, Emotional Sex, First Time, Virgin Sherlock, Switchlock, Cuddling/Snuggling, Surgery/Injury Recovery, Endearments, Anal, Hand Jobs, Porn with Feels) – John suffers an injury and needs surgery. Sherlock, and those around him, help John recover. Along the way, John and Sherlock realise what they mean to each other, and what they've had together all this time.

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I have a few angsty ones too, just let me know. ALSO, check out these lists:

Amnesia / Memory Loss

Hospital Fics

Hospitals Pt 2

AND come back in an hour for another list you might like :)

AND, because I am a punny asshole:

Tooth-Rotting Fluff (Nov 2020 Masterpost)

Hope those help you out, and I hope your recovery goes well! If anyone else has fluffy recovery fics to suggest, please do!

#sherlock ficrec #inevitably johnlocked #johnlock fic recs

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In case you missed it, I posted chapter 2 (of 3-ish) of my fic The Eye Begins to See a few days ago. And since I've had few new followers recently, might I recommend some of my non-WIP fics, those you won't have to wait to get updated? things we can't untie 

Simon (or: Love Calls You by Your Name) 

Life and Death in Sunderland

Plus One 

Erosion

Mark Your Calendars 

I Have Not Lingered

Enjoy!

#sherlock fanfic #therealsaitscully

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Watson and sherlock based on this sidney paget illustration. i think they should kiss

#sherlock holmes fanart

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breath of life

for the_mamishka :)

#orpheus descends #sherlock fanart #johnlock kiss #wings

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Time for a new long post. A group of some of my favorites I’ve done in 2024 already.

#art #anthony hurd

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Visiting Fulworth

Today @jeremys-come-to-bed-eyes and I went on something that I might have been classified as a "research trip" for The Beekeepers Picnic, if it had happened a few years ago! As it is, there's no hiding that it was just a geeky fan trip.

I didn't invent the idea of Holmes retiring to keep bees in a village called Fulworth - it gets alluded to a few times in the stories, and there is one story set there, 'The Lion's Mane'.

We know Holmes' retirement home is either a 'cottage' or a 'villa', it's a few miles out of Eastbourne, and it's clearly somewhere where it's possible to walk to the sea for a swim. Sherlockian tradition is that the real-life place fitting this description is the village of East Dean.

So, that's where we went - walking from Eastbourne.

This area is famous for it's white chalk cliffs, which are eroding away very quickly. Here is a path to nowhere!

These cliffs are known as the Seven Sisters. They all have names but the only two I remember are Short Bottom and Rough Bottom.

The beach there is all pebbles - I knew that when creating my game, but I felt like a pebble beach just wouldn't look right all in pixels, so I made it sandy instead.

East Dean is absolutely gorgeous, basically everything I could have hoped for.

Here is the village green - flying a Ukrainian flag in solidarity!

And here is Mr Holmes' official cottage. As far as we could tell its now an office of the local estate rather than someone's house, so we didn't feel too weird taking lots of pictures! The Lions Mane implies his cottage is a little way out of the village, but I'll forgive them for putting it in the centre instead.

(I think that the dates are obviously the dates he lived there as recorded by his biographer - our last information on Holmes is from 1917. I think they made the right call not to try to invent a date for his death.)

A lot of the cottages in the area have this really distinctive mixture of pebbles and brick which I think must be a hallmark of the local area, but I was pleased to see a few whitewashed buildings like the ones I put in the game:

Thank you for reading, please enjoy this adorable foal.

#places i'd like to visit #sherlock holmes

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#WWII #WW2 #naked gunner #history #aviation

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#Letters from Watson #lettersfromwatson

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Sherlock and Rosie:)

#appldino #sherlock fanart #parentlock

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To See, or Not to See

Today, I want to talk about the choice. Specifically, choosing to see or not to see. Yes, Sherlock Holmes says "You see but you do not observe." but the word "see" has a better rhyme so I will go with that. My purpose with this post is to prove that you are the one who is in control (Mostly) of seeing the details around you. Let's get started.

Your Feelings Don't Matter

I talked about this before in the mindset but I want to point it out again. You can't follow your feelings, emotions etc. Why? Because like Sherlock says "All emotions are abhorrent to me. It is the grit in the sensitive instrument, the crack in the lens." They will hinder your deduction capabilities and your logic.

If you approach a new situation(or a new person like Sherlock does in this example, which we know what he miss here)with prejudices or any biases, you will see what you want to see. You will miss all the important details. So, if you want to see what is in front of you rather than what you want to see, you have to control your emotions.

Choosing to See

If you don't open your eyes physically and mentally, how could you see? That is not a rhetorical question. If you don't want to see your friend's drug habit or your favorite teacher's affair with a student, how could you be objective and act accordingly? You can't. You have to choose to see everything, even if it means you are not going to like it. You can't ignore a possibility just because you want to. If you don't have a solid reason, don't ignore it. Consider every possibility and be willing to see.

Don't Give Up

Situations won't always be on your side. They will most likely interrupt you, stop your reasoning and throw you off. You have to be ready for and reactive to the situations. If a car blocks your physical perspective and you can't observe, change your location. If you can't think creatively, change your mental perspective. Don't accept what is given to you as a certainty, always seek ways to change it.

This post is a short one but that doesn't mean it is unimportant. Apply these to your life and try to maximize your efficiency. Orient the context you are in and realize that you have the power to change it. That's all for now. See you later.

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I keep wondering about the financial situation between Holmes and Watson after the Hiatus. At Holmes' request, Watson quits his job and moves back in with Holmes to continue helping him with cases. Did Watson receive any kind of payment for his help -- a cut of the money Holmes received from his clients perhaps? A lot of fanfiction seems to assume they were equal partners and Watson got half; but honestly any scenario I can imagine seems awkward to me in one way or another:

- Watson being treated as an equal partner and getting half the money seems awkward when according to what's depicted in the stories Holmes was doing the vast majority of the actual work and Watson was mostly there because Holmes liked having someone to talk to.

- Watson receiving some money, but not a full half, makes Watson explicitly subordinate to Holmes in an employer/employee relationship, which just seems like an awkward dynamic to introduce into any friendship.

- Watson not getting paid at all would be awkward because Watson just quit his job for the sake of helping Holmes out, and has also been forbidden by Holmes from publishing any more stories for the time being. Meanwhile Holmes at this point in his career we're told is absolutely rolling in dough, creating a serious income disparity between them which could hardly help but be awkward.

Watson's financial resources that we know of at this point would consist of his wound pension and whatever royalties he's still getting from his earlier stories, plus the money he got from "Verner" for his medical practice. We're told in DYIN that Holmes' "payments [for the flat] were princely. I have no doubt that the house might have been purchased at the price which Holmes paid for his rooms during the years that I was with him." That makes it sound like Holmes was more than paying the full rent for the apartment by himself, so at the least Watson was probably living there for free. (This quote is from DYIN, which seems to be set pre-Hiatus, so this arrangement might have begun even by then.) Which also seems potentially awkward -- like something that could make Watson feel like a freeloader or whatever.

Honestly it's very understandable why Watson never explicitly talks about money, because the whole thing is just awkward any way you slice it!!

In the earlier days the whole thing seems less awkward to me because a) Holmes had less money himself and b) Watson is just choosing not to get a job and to run around with his friend instead, rather than having given up his career specifically at Holmes' request.

One thing that makes the "Watson lives for free at Holmes' place, eats out at Holmes' expense etc but doesn't get paid in cash" scenario seem more likely to me is the fact that Holmes felt the need to give Watson a bunch of money sneakily through buying his practice -- it makes me think he felt like he couldn't pay him in a more straightforward, above-board way -- that Watson would be offended by it or whatever.

On the other hand I was also reading some stuff on the wiki about the concept of the "lady's companion", where a usually single upper-class woman would invite a single female friend to live with her and pay her an "allowance" in exchange for social companionship. The companion was technically an employee but was treated more like a member of the family. Now, there are reasons why this arrangement was specific to women: a) there were very few ways for an upper-class woman to actually earn a living that wouldn't compromise her upper-class status; and b) upper-class women were expected to stay at home most of the time, so a woman living alone (especially in the country) could easily become lonely. But it does show that there was at least some kind of concept in this historical era of "living with a wealthy friend and being financially supported by them as if you were family" without it being Weird. So yeah IDK.

#sherlock holmes #john watson #sherlock holmes and john watson #sherlock holmes meta #companion #acd holmes

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it’s so funny in asip where sherlock and john sit down in angelo’s restaurant and it’s like

sherlock: 22 nothumberland street. keep your eyes on it.

john: sits down with his back to 22 northumberland street

#asip