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Which again is silly, Holmes laughs as much as anyone else in the stories.

Same here, but I read a lot of Wodehouse as a kid (I strongly suspect that doing so was formative to my ideas about masculinity).

Well, in Sherlock you have the issue that Holmes (and his sublings) are clearly intended to be neurodivergent (spelled out pretty...

It’s not at all bad (the whole trilogy is good) though my favourite is the sequel, The Wyvern’s Spur, which is just really good at the P...

My favourite AU as a meme.

In which case it’s an awful and stupid thing of the estate to do, since they’re enforcing an unnecessarily unpleasant caricature of the...

Yeah, it was the Enola Holmes suit. And the thing about lawsuits is that, in many ways, they are preventative measures moreso than...

Did they? I've never heard this about the estate. Which version was it? They seem fine with comical parody versions and so on (such as...

At some point (not sure if it's still true anymore) it was for copyright reasons, believe it or not. The wave of Holmes productions like...

I've commented that the most recent media versions of Holmes I've seen generally have him treat Watson better than the stories do (of...

Yes, Sherlock is terrible for this. Elementary is a lot better in almost every way, not least in the portrayal of Holmes as someone who...

I have indeed met hundreds of doctors, being one myself, but have not met them often as a patient (half a dozen times, maybe) and have...

Modern media depictions of Holmes tend to emphasize his more abrasive traits for whatever reason.

We have indeed no evidence that he isn’t habitually asexual, so maybe it doesn’t bother him at all. Actually, now I think about it, I...