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spastasmagoria: goldenheartedrose: You mean, Arthur Conan Doyle, who told American actor William Gilette that he could essentially do anything with the character? “You can marry him, or kill him, or anything you want,”  I’m just saying….ACD canon is great and all, and it’s fine if you like to stick to that, but there’s room for a little bit of everything, honestly, because by the end of it all, ACD was frankly sick of Sherlock Holmes.  The reason he brought back Sherlock Holmes from the dead was because of the Sherlockians of 1899 and their black armbands (think of it as the predecessor to our “I believe in Sherlock Holmes” movement). Having said all of that, I’m really hoping that we DO see Mary in the series.   My sincerest hope is that “wedding” is a red herring. Everyone’s freaking out about John possibly marrying Mary Morstan, and everyone forgets that Sherlock Holmes, bless his amoral little heart, got engaged to a maid in CHAS in order to learn the layout of the house the maid worked in SO HE COULD BURGLE IT. And also Sherlock Holmes wore sneakers.  I seem to remember ACD being somewhat bemused by the idea of a concrete overarching continuity among the stories. The whole idea of “canon” to mean “the stuff that actually definitely happened in a notional world” and not “a body of work” is kind of a fandom construct.

spastasmagoria:

goldenheartedrose:

You mean, Arthur Conan Doyle, who told American actor William Gilette that he could essentially do anything with the character?

“You can marry him, or kill him, or anything you want,” 

I’m just saying….ACD canon is great and all, and it’s fine if you like to stick to that, but there’s room for a little bit of everything, honestly, because by the end of it all, ACD was frankly sick of Sherlock Holmes.  The reason he brought back Sherlock Holmes from the dead was because of the Sherlockians of 1899 and their black armbands (think of it as the predecessor to our “I believe in Sherlock Holmes” movement).

Having said all of that, I’m really hoping that we DO see Mary in the series.  

My sincerest hope is that “wedding” is a red herring. Everyone’s freaking out about John possibly marrying Mary Morstan, and everyone forgets that Sherlock Holmes, bless his amoral little heart, got engaged to a maid in CHAS in order to learn the layout of the house the maid worked in SO HE COULD BURGLE IT. And also Sherlock Holmes wore sneakers. 

I seem to remember ACD being somewhat bemused by the idea of a concrete overarching continuity among the stories. The whole idea of “canon” to mean “the stuff that actually definitely happened in a notional world” and not “a body of work” is kind of a fandom construct.

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Husband makes a good point: Elementary getting picked up for a full season is like 9 seasons of Sherlock.

spastasmagoria:

Just sayin. 

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spastasmagoria: mello-dramatic: It is completely true, isn’t it? They are all just fanfictions, really. This is beautiful and perfect View high resolution

spastasmagoria:

mello-dramatic:

It is completely true, isn’t it? They are all just fanfictions, really.

This is beautiful and perfect

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Those Cheekbones: FINAL INFORMATION FOR MID-WEST SHERLOCK MEET-UP.

spastasmagoria:

johnjamandjumpers:

The Mid-Western Sherlock meet-up is officially scheduled for Wednesday June 13. We will be meeting in Kansas City, Missouri at the Tivoli Theatre, which is located in Westport. Details on the location can be found here. Once there, we will enter the fabulous world that is watching Benedict…

WOOH HOOH. Signal boost and count me in, barring major catastrophe.

Dang, and I’m not in the midwest right now.

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Four Common Misconceptions about Irene Adler:

makokitten:

1) Sexuality was never a huge part of her character

This is demonstrably untrue.  In the original story of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” Irene Adler was a retired opera singer who, some years previously, had an affair with the future King of Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes’ client, seducing him even though they were of far different societal stations.  The client describes her as an “adventuress,” which, in Victorian England, was basically a nice way of saying “gold digger.”  While she is described as “liv[ing] quietly” now in London, she was likely involved in a few scandals in her youth.

Additionally, whenever she’s described, her looks are never omitted.  She’s beautiful, which is part of what makes her so dangerous.  After investigating her living arrangements, Sherlock Holmes says to Watson, “Oh, she has turned all the men’s heads down in that part. She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet.”  Watson himself describes her as “superb” and “beautiful” and for this reason feels somewhat guilty about helping Sherlock to essentially commit preventative burglary.  This is a woman who is well aware of her own natural graces and the effects that they have on others.

As an aside, there’s nothing wrong with a sex-positive character who knows how to use natural gifts to her advantage in a society where female social mobility was nearly nonexistent.  Nothing about her is cheapened.  In fact, in this respect, she provides a very interesting contrast to Sherlock Holmes himself, who is perhaps the least sexual character in all of literature.

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