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I bought a Strand Magazine from the 1890s this week, and got to discover that a about a third of it is advertisements, and a significant chunk of those are just for cocoa.

#sherlock holmes #the strand #dr watson #john watson #comics #jabbageart

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Redbubble actually approved my stupid Redbubble shop

The story behind this is that I wanted to purchase a single pair of socks for myself. But redbubble won't let you do that, oh no. You have to upload five designs. You have to register for tax. You have to go through a review process.

And I did it. I did it all, ahahahahahahaah

In case anyone else wants to peruse it, here is a link:

But I can't emphasize this enough - I'm unlikely to ever get any money from this, and I don't actually want to run a redbubble shop. So if you buy anything, please only do it because you really want the thing (for some reason?!)

Images of SOME OF THE PRODUCTS

The socks:

The somewhat weary spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a sticker on your water bottle:

Fullmycroft Alchemist: (Yes this one is accidentally really cool I'm sorry I didn't mean it to be)

"I'm OP Now Sherlock Throw Blanket

(Here's a closeup of the detail:)

And last but not least, the Minecraft Holmes shower curtain:

#redbubble #sherlock holmes #mycroft holmes #I just wanted socks #they forced me into this

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I was utterly charmed by this book cover when I first saw it - aww, it's Sherlock Holmes, cuddling a chicken! Look, it's eyes are closed, it's so happy!

And then it was pointed out to me that said chicken is... kind of lacking a body. It is an ex-chicken. It has gone to meet the choir invisible. It has shuffled off this mortal coil. It is pining for the fjords, etc.

But don't worry.

I'm an artist. I can fix this.

There, much better.

#sherlock holmes #his last bow #chicken #chickens #illustration #jabbage #jabbageart #acd holmes

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DID YOU KNOW there are so many pulpy late Victorian/Edwardian crime-solvers. I thought I'd have fun drawing some of them.

Psychic Detective Flaxman Low uses his keen logician’s mind to grapple with ghosts, spirits and on one notable occasion, fungus. He also gets possessed a lot.

#jabbageart #art #flaxman low #victorian crime solvers

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Two minute slightly sad can't sleep painting.

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I make my own museum! It's accidentally terrifying!

#technology #weird science #cute #museum #VR #virtual reality #jabbageart

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I discovered something really cool!

Long thread incoming, I’ve got an exciting discovery to share. I bought this 19th century apothecary box for £40 (bargain!) from a antiques shop in Oxford when I was a student. It would have contained bottles of medicine, but they’re missing (perhaps why it was cheap!)

I've owned this thing 10 YEARS, and beyond the monogram on the front I knew nothing about its original owner. I stuffed it full of things like my childhood Pogz collection and the medal I got for being alive in the year 2000. It has lots of compartments that open out.

A few weeks ago I decided to clear it out, and I found a compartment in the bottom that I’d never opened before. And IT HAD DOCUMENTS IN IT?! As far as I can tell they’re really old, too - 1880s, 1890s perhaps?

I'll keep going under the read more!

First of all there’s this adorable little envelope.

I worked out that these are calling cards, which have a really complicated etiquette around them. Exchanging calling cards was a way to indicate that two parties were familiar enough to visit in each other’s houses.

From this I could see that the owner of the box had a wide social circle - clergy, military men, a governess...

This was also in the box. You hear about telegrams in stories, but I couldn’t say I’ve ever seen one IRL, outside a museum anyway.

LET'S OPEN IT

The message was disappointingly vague, but also kind of chilling? Who is MH? Did they write this to the owner of the box? What shouldn't they blame themselves for?It sounds like there could be a really interesting story behind it. But wait, there's more!

I know who owned the chest. The handwritten document in the box is signed. When I googled the name I found out he was vaguely famous in his day? He wrote a series of popular memoirs for The Strand, a magazine where people like PG Woodhouse & Dorothy L Sayers got their start.

The papers were a draft of one of these articles but when I searched through the archives of the magazine, it looks like it didn't go to print? I’m not sure why - perhaps he wasn’t sure it was up to the standard of the other stories.

Either way, I’m hoping that he wouldn’t mind me making the story available now to all of you! It’s called The Adventure of the Belsize Cat, and it concerns the owner of the box and his eccentric housemate solving a mystery. I hope you enjoy it!

You can also listen to me read the story here !

(At this point, I feel the need to point out that I'm currently writing this on April 1st ;D)

#sherlock holmes #acd canon #acd sherlock #acd holmes #april fools #arthur conan doyle #sherlock holmes fanfiction

[jabbage]

Chapters: 11/11 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alphonse Elric & Edward Elric, Mei Chan | May Chang/Alphonse Elric, Edward Elric/Winry Rockbell Characters: Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, Mei Chan | May Chang, Original Xingese Character(s), Winry Rockbell Additional Tags: Homunculus Edward Elric, Post-Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Xing, Complete Summary:

Everyone knows that Edward Elric died. He died a long time ago. In Xing, he's a footnote in the career of his surviving brother, Alphonse Elric, the Great Alchemist of the West.

When someone decides that the Fullmetal Alchemist needs to return to the land of the living, it's up to Alphonse to deal with the soulless facsimile of his brother which is created.

Technically set post 2003 anime, but with a lot of love for and some borrowed characters/concepts from Brotherhood/the manga - should make sense even if you're not familiar with the 03 verse.

#fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #fma fanfiction #alphonse elric #fma 03

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New Twitter!

I realised that every time I tweeted about non-dayjob stuff, I was losing day-job related followers from my twitter. Soooo I’ve basically made a new art and funtimes twitter @jabbageart

It’s where I’m going to be posting art updates, pictures of cute animals and my opinion of random things. You can still go ahead and follow the old account @helengreetham , just be prepared for a lot of educational technology related stuff on there!