“Miss Sherlock,” 8-part Japanese-language drama series, made as a joint venture with Hulu Japan.
“Miss Sherlock,” now in post-production, stars Yuko Takeguchi in the title role and is a modern interpretation of the classic Sherlock Holmes tales, solving bizarre and extraordinary cases. Shihori Kanjiya plays Dr Wato Tachibana, a reinterpretation of Holmes’ sidekick, Doctor Watson.
The series will air from April 2018, simultaneously on Hulu in Japan, and HBO’s streaming platform, HBO GO, and HBO on Demand. (X) (X)
This is so painful to watch, when you realise how Holmes identifies with Watson’s analysis. Brett does that tiny flicker of realisation and shame and fear so beautifully.
I’m doing Inktober for the first time ever this year (GASP)
I’ll be using the official prompt list but instead of drawing random things to fit the prompts, I’m going to draw a related scene from the Sherlock Holmes canon every day because god knows I love to make things harder for myself.
What I’ll be doing each day is taking the prompt word, finding it in the canon, then illustrating the relevant scene. If the word isn’t in there then I’ll use my imagination I guess (does ACD ever use “juicy”? let’s find out)
I’ll be posting my drawings here and on my instagram (no matter how shocking they are) every evening, GMT.
Anyway please feel free to cheer me on or kick my arse if I manage to fail this spectacularly.
i will write a show and call it watson. holmes will be a black british guy and john will be chinese and they will kiss at the end of the first episode
feat. john taking every opportunity to go ‘trust me, i’m a doctor’ and sherlock yelling after him ‘i’m a doctor too! i have a phd in ancient greek!’
an adaptation in which they have actually been roommates since college and so instead of watching them meet for the first time we jump straight to the bickering boyfriends dynamic
i will fully admit that i haven’t read acd’s novels in forever but i seem to recall that holmes is canonically really good at boxing and stuff so please take a second to imagine this tiny chinese med student with messy hair and dark circles rolling up his sleeves all ready to take on a bunch of blokes twice his size at the pub
and sherlock is like ‘i don’t want to do this but you leave me no choice’ and just picks him up and puts him over his shoulder ala terry jeffords and rosa diaz while john is going ‘PUT ME DOWN SHERLOCK’
‘IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD’
‘PUT ME DOWN I’M GOING TO FIGHT THEM’
‘YOU’LL THANK ME LATER’
5000000/10 would watch!
Watson and Holmes.
Totally in favor of this
*slams the reblog button with my entire heart and soul*
I absolutely ship them in the ACD canon. I think there’s a lot of suggestion that Holmes and Watson were (very implicitly, of course) queer and in love in the canon, for instance:
the fact that Holmes and Watson were out of London in April – May 1895 (in The Adventure of the Three Students), possibly the worst time to be queer in London due to Oscar Wilde being on trial and the authorities clamping down on sodomy laws
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was way ahead of his time in many ways and loved flying in the face of convention. He has my faith.
Yep! And I cannot recommend the last link given enough, to nekosmuse’s Decoding the ACD subtext site, where they go through each of the canon stories and draw out all the nuggets of nuance. Very good read, although it’s best to read the original story either just before or just after for maximum goodness.
The Post Return stories are the most romantic things I’ve ever read. I like to think of them as the second honeymoon stories. Before the Final Problem, the stories were a lot more carefully written. Aside from ridiculously obscene descriptions about Sticky Spearheads, and Holmes’ O face, you had to pick deeper for the coding. After the Return, though? Watson crammed as much romantic imagery into each description as possible. And the events were far more romantic. Holidays on the Cornish Coast, sharing a small seaside cottage for example.
And of course, the most flashing, big arrows pointing ‘code’ in the entire series (A series which includes private couches in bathhouses, a lot of time spent in France, and…. It includes The Blanched Soldier for crying out loud.) is the opening of The Three Students:
It was in the year ‘95 that a combination of events, into which I need not enter, caused Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself to spend some weeks in one of our great university towns
This is it. This is my favourite piece of evidence pointing to a romantic, sexual relationship between Holmes and Watson. The Three Students takes place at the beginning of April, in 1895. Our great detective and his constant companion are not out of London for a case, and Holmes is rather irritated at not being there. The pair are staying away long enough that they need to rent furnished rooms, rather than staying in a hotel, and judging by the fact that Holmes has none of his own equipment or books with him, they had to pack in a hurry. Almost as if they were fleeing London.
What combination of events would have taken place at the beginning of April, in 1895, so well known to all of London that Watson feels he doesn’t need to remind his readers of what it was? That had queer men running from London for their own safety?
Further pearoast from FAR back in the mists of time. This picture is memorable for taking ages and garnering me some exciting homophobic abuse. It is hilarious that out of all the explicit and non-explicit images I have shared in various places THIS is the one that caused outrage. Apparently it’s because it looks all heterosexual from afar (?!?) then on closer examination descends into an orgy of naked ankles and brazen newspaper perusal.
knitting in the dark 