garkgatiss:

can you imagine, you’re living out in california, you’re out mining gold with your best pal, five years you’ve been together, just you and him, up in the mountains, guys being gold rush pals. you can’t picture mining for gold without him. as much time as you’ve spent together, you don’t know much about his past, but suddenly it’s there catching up with him and before you know it he’s fleeing the country and leaving you in the dust. but that’s not the end of it, because you had the type of friendship that after not too long he’s writing to you to come live with him in his new place in england, he’s all set up in an estate with a moat and shit, and he wants you there too. so of course you pick up and book your way across the atlantic, thinking it’ll be just like old times, but once you get there you realize that in the year you’ve been apart, he’s met somebody. a woman, and you’ve arrived just in time to be the best man in their wedding.

this is why valley of fear is the most cursed story in canon

maturiin:

[basil voice] this is so gay im sickened

granada-brett-crumbs:

You know my methods.

strampunch:

Winter Holmestice 2019 for “Rachelindeed”

The prompt I was given gave me a lot of room to pick and choose what things I liked the most, and from the get-go the dynamic and feelings my giftee asked for were 100000% my jam, so I struggled a lot to pick JUST ONE THING from all the wonderful ideas Rachelindeed gave me. 

However one stood out to me, and that was the infamous scene in “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” where Watson is wounded but Holmes’ panic and rage prompts this delicious line:

“It was worth a wound, it was worth many wounds, to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask.(…) For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. ”

Sadly Jeremy Brett’s health had declined so terribly by when this story got adapted by Granada that the story had to be heavily changed (and Holmes’ role substituted by Mycroft), so the fans weren’t able to enjoy this emotional scene played by Brett and (personally my favourite Watson) Edward Hardwicke.

So I humbly offer what I would love to think happened a short while after the case was over, Watson is almost completely recovered from his wound but Holmes is still shaken by his dear doctor’s near-death experience. Watson’s loyalty to him moves him beyond words and it’s only in intimate moments like these when he lets said “cold mask” drop and expresses his affection.

Honestly I just wanted to draw hands and a lot of smooching so here you go.

pollums:

doodlan before bed

granada-brett-crumbs:

Sometimes it seems like his hands are constantly in motion, but he has this special gentleness he saves for Watson.

Inspired by this ask and also suggested by @the-moon-loves-the-sea :)

vicholas:

Barefoot Gen introduction by author Keiji Nakazawa, from the 2004 English edition.

raphcrow:

Loved the bit when Wei Wuxian is doing a tour of the Burial Mounds and it’s all wholesome until he walks into the Demon Slaughtering Cave like “and here’s where I commit war crimes”

thatswhatsushesaid:

shitpost dispatches from the 3zun dungeons - da-ge third wheelin’ it edition

plot twist: the morally ambiguous wife is lan xichen, you cannot change my mind

a-cutebird:

https://twitter.com/wilderswans/status/1259728957915553792