One Area Where I Feel Like ACD's Holmes Differs From Modern Interpretations Is The Degree Of Holmes'

The problem with saying that ACD coded Holmes as gay is Late Victorian gay culture was OBSESSED with Classicism, which Holmes has no interest in. Mycroft would've been more recognizable to Victorian audiences as gay, considering he runs an establishment intending to give men the benefits of domesticity in a way that is not reliant on women. It is also named after a Greek philosopher.

That’s very true, though I wouldn’t say Holmes shows no interest in the classics at all—he does compare Horace and Hafiz, with noticeable appreciation. I’m of the school that believes Doyle wrote Holmes as gay just by recording the traits of men he’d known and loved who were queer (or who he wished were uninterested in any intimacy but his friendship) rather than deliberately queercoding him, and we’re left to fill in the blanks of what he could be. I read Holmes as intersex and gay and mycroft as asexual, but the reading could easily be reversed.

It’s all right.

Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

2.06 The Final Problem

Some of these Holmes stories honestly are the fanfic equivalent of when an Algebra textbook goes “solution is trivial and left as an exercise for the reader”

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(Sorry for quality) From ‘Holmes & Watson’, by Lee Shackleford.

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