The thought of Holmes having a breakdown sometime after capturing Moran, finally home and free from Moriarty’s claws – those three years of pain and weariness and longing that he kept pent up coming to surface is really something
TFW you want to cuddle but your sleep schedule is a mess.
I know we are halfway through February already and this is just the second prompt. Challenges sound like fun until you actually try to fulfill one while also working a job with insane deadlines. Challenge by @violettenouvel
You know, the more I reread the canon, the more I have a hard time convincing myself that all the queer subtext was not deliberately written as so.
By God, there are more romantic passages than Basil confessing to have romantic feelings for Dorian in “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, an explicitly queer book – or as explicit as a book could be in the XIX century – that was used as “evidence” at Oscar Wilde’s trial for ‘gross indecency’.
The story itself was written by ACD from the point of view, mainly, of a military doctor discharged with honors (who subsequently share rooms with his found companion for at least 7 uninterrupted years), and writes 60 stories to give justice to his genius detective.
If this isn’t a love letter itself, I don’t know what it is.
Note: please, this is MY interpretation of the canon, and as many other Holmesians may share this view, I would like to expose it. If you see them as just intimate, good friends, go for it. This was not written as an attack if your view of the stories is different.
