We Believe in Sherlock Holmes

Hello! We’re having a little project to celebrate Sherlock’s birthday, perhaps your followers here are interested to join? Open for Sherlockians worldwide!

For the world’s only consulting detective’s birthday on January 6, we thought of a little something that all of us can join in and do together to celebrate!

The idea is to collect photographs from Sherlockians all around the world with the theme:

HOW WOULD YOU CELEBRATE SHERLOCK HOLMES’ BIRTHDAY?

You can be as fun, crazy, and creative as you like! You can take a picture of yourself cosplaying Sherlock Holmes, a Sherlock-themed party, a special birthday cake for the occasion, your redecorated-to-look-like-221B bedroom, or whatever you like! It can range from something really simple to really huge, anything special that can add up to the festivity is welcomed.

Each person may submit as many photographs as he/she likes. Submissions through Tumblr, Twitter (@SherlockianID), or email to sherlockianid@gmail.com are accepted. Please include your name and country in your submission, the deadline is January 13, 2013. We plan to compile it in an album on our Flickr account and put them together into one huge special birthday collage. Every photograph counts!

FOR OUR INDONESIAN FOLLOWERS:

There’s something special in store for you! Together with Visimedia, the publisher who brings you collections of Sherlock Holmes stories translated to Indonesian, we are having a special giveaway event! All your submissions will be collected and FIVE of the best ideas will be chosen to win an exemplar of Sherlock Holmes stories collection each! Again, you may submit as many as you like.

The photo submission is open for all Sherlockians worldwide. We’re still waiting for series 3, might as well make the best out of our time and have fun! We look forward to your participation!

I’m excited maybe the movement is reemerging again, I’d love to see more of these. If I manage to find them I’ll tell you!

Warning: Semi-professional rambling ahead

Having read many comments, posts and extended essay on the subject of the Holmes Brothers and their myriad of psychiatric problems – I feel that I too should throw something into the psychoanalysis pot. In my case it’s going to be a much loved copy of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry.

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Well worth a read, though I disagree on the subject of Sherlock and autism. While being professionally diagnosed would be pointless for him, I’m of the opinion that he is on the spectrum, albeit a very unusual case.

greencarnations:

greencarnations:

Check out this: the Mid-Atlantic Sherlockian Tea Party!
Saturday, August 4th, 1-3PM (or whenever we get tired and leave) 
Coffeesmith, 13924 Metrotech Drive, Chantilly, VA, 20151

Sherlockians, prepare your deerstalkers. In honor of the first annual Sherlock Holmes week, the Holmes fans of the mid-Atlantic area will be coming together for an afternoon of tea and vigorous discussion! Costumes optional (but ever so fun).

THIS SATURDAY!

I’ll be in one of my Sherlock shirts and my almost-deerstalker. Probably the shirt with the skull. I’ll also have a sign. We should be impossible to miss!

greencarnations:

Check out this: the Mid-Atlantic Sherlockian Tea Party!
Saturday, August 4th, 1-3PM (or whenever we get tired and leave) 
Coffeesmith, 13924 Metrotech Drive, Chantilly, VA, 20151

Sherlockians, prepare your deerstalkers. In honor of the first annual Sherlock Holmes week, the Holmes fans of the mid-Atlantic area will be coming together for an afternoon of tea and vigorous discussion! Costumes optional (but ever so fun).

calatrinalia:

Dwinelle, Sproul

Check out Berkeley!

webelieveinsherlockholmes:

I want a head count so I know how many are really out there so maybe we could possibly form a big group or something.

If so, fantastic!

You see, yours truly is organizing a (at least partially costumed) Sherlockian tea party meetup for this summer’s Sherlock Holmes Week! You can register your interest on the Facebook page here as well as suggest venues. Currently the only idea we’ve got going is The Pink Bicycle, which is lovely, affordable and of a decent size, although it’s a half-hour outside of DC, which may be too far for some. There are tentatively planned after-parties during which we shall watch The Reichenbach Fall and cry cry cry.

Listen to Sherlock. Come in for tea.

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There are seventeen steps to the second floor of 221B Baker Street. The sixth is squeaky and the eleventh is one clumsy fall away from a solid re-nailing being necessary rather than merely recommendable, but neither John nor Mrs. Hudson appear to have bothered to fix it in the three years since Sherlock last mounted the stairs.

Seventy-two minutes ago, Sherlock sent a text message, the first of its kind in thirty-seven months, two weeks, three days and nine hours. It consisted of a total of six words, thirty-four characters.

I owe you a thousand apologies. SH

The remnants of John’s phone are scattered across the landing. Sherlock smirks, but feels something twist inside of him at the same time. He reaches for the doorknob.

The door swings open before he gets to it. John is behind it.

Where Sherlock goes from here is entirely dependent on what John does next, and Sherlock is not at all sure what that is going to be. John’s jaw is working in a way Sherlock cannot quite read, and Sherlock calculates that there’s about a 67% chance that he is about to be slugged across the face very, very hard.

“Fuck you, Sherlock Holmes,” John snarls at last and seizes the lapels of Sherlock’s coat.

Sherlock screws his face up preparing for the blow but makes no effort to avoid it, which is how he is caught completely off-guard when John mashes his mouth to his.

This movement takes approximately 0.43 seconds, after which Sherlock’s eyes fly open for a brief period of 1.24 seconds. It takes him 2.36 seconds to bring his hands up and grip John’s elbows as tightly as he can, and John sighs at the exact same moment. Neither of them move at all for a rather long spell: 5.78 seconds, to be exact. All in all, their first kiss lasts 9.81 seconds, and Sherlock counts every one.

This is how he knows that John punched him precisely at the ten-second mark.

Shhh, just trying it out.