A Great Heart

Holmes & Watson postcards

my female versions of Holmes and Watson! their names are Shirley and Jane :)

I created these designs earlier this year for my final degree project, but I hope I get to do something with them! perhaps some comics? 👀  we’ll see!

holmes in a dress :)))

It’s tiny, intimate details like Holmes using Watson’s field-glass that make me wail into the night

Watson would give Holmes top surgery, i think

Holmes wants to spy on 221B from across the street because he has reason to expect a thief will be coming to 221B

When Holmes and Watson get set up to look across into 221B, they see Inspector Lestrade and Seargeant Wilkins arrive and make themselves at home

Lestrade was coming to ask Holmes to do a chemical analysis to aid his investigation, but since Holmes is not there, Lestrade and Wilkins decide they can do the analysis themselves

Wilkins has already had practice doing analyses with Holmes before

Two scrimshawed walrus tusks, c. 1834

One engraved with three sailing vessels; HMS Illustrious, HMS Trincomalee, flanked by a blowing whale and HMS Pilot, inscribed with the words ‘Walrus Tusk’ the other similarly engraved with HMS Erin, Conway and Stag and inscribed ‘Port Clarence August 1834’

‘Pumpie' 

Elephant soft toy made of grey felt, dressed as a sailor in a smart, dark blue, woolen jacket and matching trousers, England, 1900.

Pumpie and his V&A friends post-restoration 🐘 🐻🐇

Pumpie photographed by original Victorian owners, at the seaside and with friends:

Portrait E. Richard Bühler in a sailing boat  -  Giovanni Giacometti , 1911.

Swiss , 1868-1933

Oil on canvas

One of my favorite Sherlock Holmes films!

Katharine Hepburn, senior at Bryn Mawr, in costume as “Pandora” in a 1928 outdoor production of John Lyly’s comedy The Woman in the Moon. Hepburn would later write in her autobiography, “Pandora was a great part. She played in different moods under the influence of different planets. I was warlike under Mars. Loving under Venus, etc., etc. Funny, tearful, etc. My father said that all he could see in that performance were the soles of my dirty feet getting blacker and blacker. And my freckled face getting redder and redder.”

COSTUME APPRECIATION Lavinia Swire, Downton Abbey

Badger - Tesni Ward

Illustration for the Cover of Ainslee’s Magazine by Alphonse Mucha (1903)

Inspector Lestrade triumphantly greets Holmes and Watson at the police station and says he’s going to show them an example of Scotland Yard at work. He tells them how he worked out who committed the murder.

Holmes: “ingenious lestrade, really quite ingenious. You know there’s only one thing wrong with it” 

Holmes details why Lestrade’s suspect is not actually guilty and explains who actually did it

Lestrade: “I didn’t expect you to agree with me, you never do”

Holmes: “Not always Lestrade, but sometimes you know, sometimes”

Ummm!!! Is anyone else getting comments like these? I wouldn't have noticed anything off about the comments themselves, but check out those usernames. And then in that context, those comments are very generic.

What's happening? What's even the point of spam like this? Is it worth reporting or would it just create unnecessary work for volunteers?

( @naryrising tagging for likelihood of you being more in the loop)

Yes, it's just spam. What's the point: spammers presumably trying to build up some 'realistic' comment history so they don't immediately get detected as spam, before they start spamming for real. You can simply mark them as spam, that doesn't cause any work for us at all because it's an automated system, and marking them helps better train that system to recognize this type of spam.

For Your Own Good, Leah Horlick