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Take an ongoing frustration with the fact that the Holmes/Watson pairs in adaptations are almost always played by 40-something actors and that (if we get to see them meet at all) we NEVER GET TO SEE THEM AT THE AGE WHERE THEY CANONICALLY MET. Which is when Holmes was twenty-seven (TWENTY-SEVEN. LET THAT SINK IN) and Watson around thirty/thirty-one, probably. Then take some Google-fu and a bit of free time, and this is what you get.

I invite you to imagine:

– BBC Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, 27, and and Martin Freeman, 30.

– Ritchie Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr., 27, and Jude Law, 31.

– Granada Holmes, with Jeremy Brett, 27, and David Burke, 30 / Edward Hardwicke, 40. (Unfortunately I could not find any pictures of Hardwicke at a younger age than that, barring one single photo of him when he was 22.)

– Russian Holmes, with Vasily Livanov, 27, and Vitaly Solomin, ?? (No exact date for this picture).

– Rathbone Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone, 28, and Nigel Bruce, ?? (I have no idea how old he is in this photo; it’s simply the oldest one of him I could find).

 – New Russian Holmes, Igor Petrenko in his vague twenties, Andrey Panin at around 30

this is why I drew this and this /shameless self-promotion

maybe it’s time for a russian version