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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1h

Not ideal!!

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 9h

He really really does

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

If Dr John Watson passes up an opportunity to call a man’s fingers quivering and agile, assume he’s dead

The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in the other with surprising dexterity. He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

Dr Mortimer coming in hot!

Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

The details matters, clothes maketh the man!

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

In Hound of the Baskervilles Watson takes center stage and leads the investigation on the scene. He takes on the role Holmes usually plays so I really like this moment in chapter one where the client isn’t able to tell which man is which

I presume that it is Mr. Sherlock Holmes whom I am addressing and not—" "No, this is my friend Dr. Watson." "Glad to meet you, sir. I have heard your name mentioned in connection with that of your friend.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

It’s a little game they play

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

Client: I’m here to see Sherlock Holmes, are you Sherlock Holmes?
Holmes: You mean am I Watson’s friend? Yeah! Did you want to talk to him?

I presume that it is Mr. Sherlock Holmes whom I am addressing and not—"

"No, this is my friend Dr. Watson."

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

Watson simply loves to Mean Girl his clients

He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

"Don't move, I beg you, Watson. He is a professional brother of yours, and your presence may be of assistance to me."

In fact, Watson is going to have to do fucking everything this case.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

Something about loyal dogs in Hound of the Baskervilles. Mortimer’s dog carrying the stick Mortimer forgets, the titular hound reflecting dark vengeance, and then Watson taking the role of watchdog on Holmes’ orders…

amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room." "And the dog?" "Has been in the habit of carrying this stick behind his master. Being a heavy stick the dog has held it tightly by

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

Sherlock Holmes: Dog Detective

may have been—yes, by Jove, it is a curly-haired spaniel." He had risen and paced the room as he spoke. Now he halted in the recess of the window. There was such a ring of conviction in his voice that I glanced up in surprise. "My dear fellow, how can you possibly be so sure of that?" "For the very simple reason that I see the dog himself on our very door-step,

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

I think he’s just really bad at this

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Wait until you read him describing plants!

One day in early spring he had so far relaxed as to go for a walk with me in the Park, where the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon the elms, and the sticky spear-heads of the chestnuts were just beginning to burst into their five-fold leaves. For two hours we rambled about together, in silence for the most part, as befits two men who know each other intimately. It was nearly five before we were back in Baker Street once more.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Arthur Conan Doyle: Hound of the Baskervilles is 1889. I established this 3 times

Me: And Watson lives with Holmes?

ACD: Yes! I establish that all through the book!

Me: And Watson married a woman and moved out in 1887/88?

ACD: Yes!

Me: So which-?

ACD: don’t worry kitten

Me: okay ❤️

Me: Yay ❤️

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Text screenshot from hound if the Baskervilles
I laughed incredulously as Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his settee and blew little wavering rings of smoke up to the ceiling.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Watson needs to be called “Good boy” right now or he’ll literally die.

I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.
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"Has anything escaped me?" I asked with some self-importance.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

“I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt."

He had never said as much before

Okay jokes aside: I hate them.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

“Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”

You heard the man, Dr Watson has a remarkable power of stimulating geniuses 😉

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

“you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.”

I know this can sound backhanded, but remember that Watson took it as a compliment. Watson doesn’t *want* to be luminous, Watson *wants* to be useful above all else.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Holmes is indifferent to the the Sherlock Holmes canon published in The Strand

What he is grateful for is *Watson*. Watson admiring him, Watson joining him, Watson putting in effort.

And Watson can’t see that

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Something really interesting in here:
W: I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods.

H: in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure

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𝙈𝙐𝙇𝘼𝙄 @naimu420.bsky.social · 7d

some panels from the comic for the holmes zine…🫦

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