Tiger’s response today is brought to you by the letter W, for what the fuck?
You didn’t miss anything in the books, don’t worry. He doesn’t visit female prostitutes for his sexual needs.
That sounds like the kind of shitty, slap dash deductions that come from the Baker Street Irregulars. The people that claim that Holmes was in love with Trevor’s little sister, and that she married a couple days before they were supposed to get married. Despite having never, you know, met Trevor’s sister before she died…
Basically, any sort of deduction or meta that involves talking about Holmes sleeping with females of any profession end with me rolling my eyes so hard that I swear I can see the back of my orbital sockets.
It’s one thing to make inferences about the things that aren’t said. It’s something else entirely to completely ignore the things that are. “It’s written that he’s not in love with her? Oh, well, let’s ignore that!”
On more than one occasion, it’s stated that Holmes is not interested in women. Either through the narrative, or Holmes’ own words. Whether that means he’s homosexual, or asexual, it’s plain and simple that the fair sex is not his department. He may as well have No Gurlz Alloud tacked up on a sign on their door.
The man spends a good deal of time with his best friend in Turkish bath houses. I think it’s fairly safe to say that if he had to take care of his sexual needs, they would be well in hand.
a list of things that arthur conan doyle did that totally mean that intent is worthless:
made it july on one page and september like two pages later when it’s supposed to be like two nights later
named everyone james and forgot that john’s name wasn’t james
literally forgot when watson was married and when he wasn’t so that if you try to figure out how he could have done all that without getting divorced and remarried to the same woman or not been wrong about dates, watson has like five or six wives
almost named john watson ormond sacker
introduced moriarty literally just to kill holmes off and inexplicably suddenly he was the worst villain in all of london even though holmes had never encountered him, then later retconned in the valley of fear so jk watson had heard of him before the final problem after all those were just. lies.
named four different female characters all violet
seriously. james moriarty. and his brother. james moriarty.
this is why, when people say they want this show to be more like acd, i wonder if they’ve actually read acd or are just being faux-pretentious because
