Good morning and welcome to another Penis Friday! Taking a break from the comic cause I’m just not getting on with anything so structured 😛 Anyway, I’ve been seeing the palette challenge around and decided to do #18 for this one.
Stick around and you’ll get a little fic attached to this post by my lovely partner and talented writer of basically everything on here, Teh Kita!
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 THEYCANONICALLY 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
This is for professorfangirl, and also for krykl who wanted a certain still from Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 Romeo & Juliet rendered in Johnlock. Hope you like it.
my favorite of the paget illustrations for noble bachelor is the one with lestrade just being a total bitch and dumping a heap of wet clothes on the floor in front of holmes like, there, deduce that you smug asshole
Forgot to mention in my writeup of the Granada “Scandal In Bohemia” that this may be where the Moffat vision of Irene Adler as ‘gay’ (that’s the word he had her say in the script, don’t complain to me) came from.
In this flashback to Irene’s romance with the King, we see him sitting in some Moulin Rouge-type establishment watching the cancan girls do their high kicking, and then the gentleman next to him turns around and it’s Irene Adler in drag. She certainly seems very interested in the entertainment.
This is never followed up in any serious way, but it can certainly be read as a coded indication of Adler’s bisexuality. At any rate, it was the first adaptation to suggest to me that Adler’s cross-dressing might be a form of self-expression and not merely a convenient way of getting around Victorian restrictions on women. At any rate, it was most likely part of my inspiration for this.
This is adorable and everyone should watch Granada. Also she was described in acd canon as an ‘adventuress’ which I know I have read was Victorian code for lesbian or at least wlw. I am frustrated by my inability to find a reference for that right now and I am wondering if I read it in one of my books on gay history, not online.
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