Hisboswell1895 - Pretending To Understand BBC Sherlock

2025

BE A STUDENT OF WHAT YOU ADMIRE

DO IT BADLY RATHER THAN NOT AT ALL

TO DESPAIR IS TO CEDE VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT

BROADEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS

REVEL IN THE ANALOGUE

ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

GRIEF IS PRODUCTIVE; GUILT IS NOT

why did nobody tell agatha that if she thinks poirot and hastings can barely live without each other she's allowed to have them in books together. like nobody forced her to make hastings move to argentina. she did that on purpose. and then she wrote the saddest old man imaginable about it.

You talk to the dead. You make your confession to them.

—— SHERLOCK, The Lying Detective

All screencaps taken from here.

Holmes and Watson are two men who have a pathological need to be in everyone else’s business at all time. Very sweet that they found each other.

Alex: the stars are beautiful tonight

Magnus: you know who else is beautiful?

Magnus: bLITZ AND HEARTH THEY'RE MEANT TO BE, ALEX, I WANT TO BE IN LOVE LIKE THEM SOMEDAY.

Alex:

Alex: I KNOW RIGHT

Think about how messed up that would be

If john was texting Moriarty 

Johnny there is no baby is maybe one of the most evers of all time

Sherlock Holmes returning after the hiatus and being faced with the excruciating reality that his friends did grieve for him.

With Watson looking 10 years older and Mrs Hudson sitting him down and telling him very sternly that she will not have any of this selfish nonsense ever again, and Lestrade being amazed at his return but also clearly hurt and alienated.

And Holmes having to come to terms with that. To realise that what he thought of as a heroic self-sacrifice actually was a cruel and desperate act. And then realising that he did everyone an injustice for not acknowledging the true depth of their affection - simply because he never learned to like himself very much. Having to find a way to apologise and repent, and, when they allow him a second chance, allowing himself a second chance too.

people who dont like drinking water confuse me. getting a sip of water is like a drug to me. i love a drink of water