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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes
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Side account for reading through the Holmes canon (again) as well as other Holmes related thoughts. (she/her)
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Watson still roasting Holmes over this 8 years later is how you know they’re true best friends
All this, however, is foreign to the mission on which you sent me and will probably be very uninteresting to your severely practical mind. I can still remember your complete indifference as to whether the sun moved round the earth or the earth round the sun. Let me, therefore, return to the facts concerning Sir Henry Baskerville.
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Things like this are why Sherlock Holmes scholarship is so wild
transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table. One page is missing, but otherwise they are exactly as written
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Holmes. He means Holmes.
I have been here I have been conscious of shadows all round me. Life has become like that great Grimpen Mire, with little green patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point the track.
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Watson is doing deduction!

Oh never mind he’s just being horny again
I could not doubt that this was the Miss Stapleton of whom I had been told, since ladies of any sort must be few upon the moor, and I remembered that I had heard someone describe her as being a beauty.
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Watson, learning about a place that is bad and impossible to get to and full of deadly traps: “Huh, might check it out.”

Poor Holmes can’t let him out of his sight for a minute 😭
It's a bad place, the great Grimpen Mire." "And you say you can penetrate it?" "Yes, there are one or two paths which a very active man can take. I have found them out." "I shall try my luck some day." He looked at me with a surprised face. "For God's sake put such an idea out of your mind," said he. "Your blood would be upon my head. I assure you that there would not be the least chance of your coming back alive.
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Maybe don’t write and publish 4 books about your crush if you don’t want people to know about your crush
"It is useless for us to pretend that we do not know you, Dr. Watson," said he. "The records of your detective have reached us here, and you could not celebrate him without being known yourself.
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Normal reaction to hearing your flatmate’s name
"I have not come to any conclusion." "Has Mr. Sherlock Holmes?" The words took away my breath for an instant but a glance at the placid face and steadfast eyes of my companion showed that no surprise was intended.
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Nothing could be more wrong than interpretations of the stories that imagine Watson as jealous of Holmes. Watson views detective work as a heavy burden, and that’s coming from a guy whose chosen career was battlefield medic.
I prayed, as I walked back along the gray, lonely road, that my friend might soon be freed from his preoccupations and able to come down to take this heavy burden of responsibility from my shoulders.
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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This is one of only 2 times Watson prays for something in the whole canon, and it’s for Holmes to return to him.

(He saw Holmes yesterday)
I prayed, as I walked back along the gray, lonely road, that my friend might soon be freed from his preoccupations and able to come down to take this heavy burden of responsibility from my shoulders.
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The hottest thing a man can be is pale with a gathering atmosphere of mystery
Already round this pale-faced, handsome, black-bearded man there was gathering an atmosphere of mystery and of gloom.
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Shout out to the scullery-maid at Baskerville Hall who never appears and has nothing to do with any of this. Queen of Staying Out Of It as everyone lives a Gothic nightmare
"There are only two women in the house, Sir Henry," he answered. "One is the scullery-maid, who sleeps in the other wing. The other is my wife,
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Watson has only been away from Holmes for a matter of hours and he’s already acting single 🙄
He stood in front of us now with the subdued manner of a well-trained servant. He was a remarkable-looking man, tall, handsome, with a square black beard and pale, distinguished features.
November 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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This is so funny.
-Creepy gothic haunted house description
- is this where the hell hound killed my uncle?
- no this is the normal side
Baskerville shuddered as he looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end. "Was it here?" he asked in a low voice. "No, no, the yew alley is on the other side."
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Doyle: I’m like dropping hints this is a Gothic Novel.
Through the gateway we passed into the avenue, where the wheels were again hushed amid the leaves, and the old trees shot their branches in a sombre tunnel over our heads. Baskerville shuddered as he looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end.
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Concerned townspeople: JFC there is an escaped criminally insane serial killer on the loose who could come for any of us!
Watson: Damn, so thematic. This will be great for my novel.
"It is Selden, the Notting Hill murderer." I remembered the case well, for it was one in which Holmes had taken an interest on account of the peculiar ferocity of the crime and the wanton brutality It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Watson, stop expressing your mlm attraction by offering to die for them in battle challenge (impossible)
as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men. There were pride, valour, and strength in his thick brows, his sensitive nostrils, and his large hazel eyes. If on that forbidding moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it.
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Anyway ignore all that haunting the narrative stuff, there’s a doggy!
The journey was a swift and pleasant one, and I spent it in making the more intimate acquaintance of my two companions and in playing with Dr. Mortimer's spaniel.
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Truly! Imagine if this is when Sir Henry was murdered. He had one job!
"You have always kept together, I presume?" "Except yesterday afternoon. I usually give up one day to pure amusement when I come to town, so I spent it at the Museum of the College of Surgeons."
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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It’s time for my favorite theme in Hound of the Baskervilles! Sherlock Holmes as a living ghost haunting Watson! See, in universe the events happened before Holmes’ death, but were published after his death. That tension shows up in the novel in moments like this
"Indeed. That is very interesting. Well, good-bye," he added as the train began to glide down the platform. "Bear in mind, Sir Henry, one of the phrases in that queer old legend which Dr. Mortimer has read to us, and avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted." I looked back at the platform when we had left it far behind and saw the tall, austere figure of Holmes standing motionless and gazing after us.
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Okay he relaxed for 5 seconds because someone else talked to his bestie Holmes and he got territorial
"No, we have no news of any kind," said Dr. Mortimer in answer to my friend's questions.
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Watson, you’ve been living together for years, I don’t think you have to full name him every time
Mr. Sherlock Holmes drove with me to the station
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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“Watson, I am so worried about your life and well being if you face a murderer and a haunted gothic mansion on your own. We know this killer has our home address and- why are you laughing? Watson this is serious! Well now I’m just more worried!”
But I'm not easy in my mind about it." "About what?" "About sending you. It's an ugly business, Watson, an ugly dangerous business, and the more I see of it the less I like it. Yes, my dear fellow, you may laugh, but I give you my word that I shall be very glad to have you back safe and sound in Baker Street once more."
November 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Holmes thinks Watson can succeed where he didn’t! Sure yeah he immediately changes his mind and sabotaged the case, but it’s sweet he considered it at all
I tell you, Watson, this time we have got a foeman who is worthy of our steel. I've been checkmated in London. I can only wish you better luck in Devonshire.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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🤷🏻‍♂️
Holmes turned to me with a shrug of his shoulders and a rueful smile. "Snap goes our third thread, and we end where we began," said he. "The cunning rascal!
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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This is the plot of Collateral (2004, Michael Mann)
"He hailed me at half-past nine in Trafalgar Square. He said that he was a detective, and he offered me two guineas if I would do exactly what he wanted all day and ask no questions. I was glad enough to agree. First we drove down to the Northumberland Hotel and waited there until two gentlemen
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM