#acdsummoningcircle

[krogerkryptid]

Hello hello new followers of mine (I wish this font was smaller with every fiber in my being I tried coding for an HOUR and alas it would not give me the font I requested) I've decided to do a tag as well since the vote for the project was almost tied. In the meantime have my map of queer Victorian London compiled through all of the fun and funky sources I have been reading for this passion project! No idea why the quality drops but that's CLASSIC social media so! (All the numbers are just in the order I added them and I'll add context/locations for all of them in a later post) There is added context for newbies under the cut to explain this whole thing and what I'm working on!

For those new to the scene and have no context for what this map is or what I am ranting on about I am looking at historical queer culture, specifically in London, and cross referencing it to the Sherlock Holmes canon. Since it is easy for us to say that they seem to be written as queer coded from our lens of literature and life experience, I wanted to see how queer characters were written back then as well as examine the attitudes and understanding of queer behavior in society to see if ACD did things on purpose (my thought is he did my god some of the things cannot be coincidence) or if we are looking back at a Victorian era story with our 21st century glasses.

#acd canon #acd holmes #acd watson #sherlock holmes #john watson #sherlock fandom #the long awaited tag is drumroll... #acdsummoningcircle #because I choose to believe if we seanced him up he'd give me answers #thank you to all the people that followed me and have shown interest in this project it's something I am truly excited to share #queer truthing begins now

[krogerkryptid]

I think one of my favorite parts of the pathologizing of homosexuality in the late Victorian Era is that many people from different professional backgrounds were like "the cities are the centers of debauchery, there are very few accounts of homosexual activity and initiation in small towns and rural areas" which...yeah of course that's just how big cities work lots of people from lots of places are going to have more opportunities

#acdsummoningcircle #queer history #I'm tagging the lads bc it sort of has to do with them in the way I am learning this for them #sherlock holmes #john watson #acd canon #sherlock fandom