the house of root

Joan Watson x Boa (Megan Thee Stallion)

What’s the hardest you’ve ever been hit?

he named a bee after her. whenever someone refers to her as his better half he doesn't flinch, doesn't deny; just breezes past, because that's the simple truth. of course she's his better half. she's his partner, his best friend. and he wants to go to the cemetery with her the next time she visits the consequences of her failure. and no, they are not lovers. it is not something that can be explained so simply. but there is love there. there is so, so much love.

i will never forgive tumblr for what they did to cbs elementary you're telling me that in 2012 we had by far one of the most interesting and accurate depictions of a MODERN sherlock holmes with cute little easter eggs and characters from the original stories with great characterisation, INCREDIBLY written female characters (PLURAL), and one of the best platonic relationships that i've ever seen in media, SEVEN WHOLE SEASONS 154 EPISODES and you still chose bendysnap crunchyback. you were all too obsessed with english people and bad yaoi to see

honestly kudos to Elementary for gender swapping John Watson in what we all thought was an attempt to make johnlock palatable to the masses and then proceeding to not only make them entirely platonic but also become the ONLY modern adaptation where i actually feel like them being platonic makes complete sense

ELEMENTARY 1.16 "Details"

Elementary ➤ 1.01

I've never been able to make my family understand what I do.

Elementary, 1x10 "The Leviathan"

Lucy Liu as Joan Watson in ELEMENTARY (2012—2019)

elementary my beloved they really couldn't make a show more catered to me if they tried. autistic and aromantic main character with a ridiculous amount of similar experiences to me. detective show with actual unique mysteries. 154 episodes. incredibly adaptionally interesting version of sherlock holmes . queerplatonicism. genderbent watson and moriarty. a well explored addiction plotline. a tortoise. copious lesbian subtext. it even has lucy liu.

i firmly believe that elementary is not only the best sherlock holmes adaptation, but one of the best tv shows ever written. is it outlandish and a bit silly? of course it is. it's a sherlock holmes adaptation.

but to set one of the most classic british characters in the middle of new york? hilarious. funnier still, sherlock actually seems to disdain this himself quite often.

to make john watson, a traditionally long suffering and slightly stand offish man, into a woman? to make her a retired surgeon who left medicine after failing to save someone's life, and instead turning to working as a sober companion? to have her early seasons characterised by a constant battle between satisfying her desire to help people with a rigid determination to live up to the expectations of her family and peers, and actual self-fufillment? made all the more poignant by having her played by an asian-american woman, a demographic for whom those battles are all too often laid at the feet of? breathtaking.

to make moriarty a woman? to make her sinister and cruel and unyielding but also giving her nuance and failings? AND toxic yuri-ism with watson? sensational.

and perhaps most importantly: to make sherlock a believable genius, someone astonishingly intelligent but astoundingly driven by the desire to do good, to be good. to make him profoundly offended at the abuse of power, at violence against the vulnerable, to make him a champion of people who have been victimised not because he is clever enough to be above such things but because he is genuinely appauled by it. and, to make him an addict, not as some barely noted sideplot or zippy one-line reference, but as a continuous story of personal development and fighting, in which the phantom of his addiction is not vanished by the power of love but an ever-present threat that hangs over everything he does despite his best efforts. this version of sherlock more than any other is powered, singularly, by fighting to be better not than everyone around him, but better than himself the day before. he is still arrogant and proud and occassionally cruel, but he is also allowed to learn and get better and he is enriched by the people who surround him.

elementary took every identifiable factor in the sherlock holmes story, flipped it on its head, and came up with something more endearing, more heartfelt, and more genuine than almost any other adaptation ever, with a strong, well-written, well-developed platonic relationship at its core, and mrs hudson being a smoking hot trans woman who knits cosies for sherlock's tortoise. never has a show reached for such heights and landed so beyond its aim before.

The thing that’s so wonderful about Elementary is that it *does* the whole “Sherlock Holmes, rude misanthropic genius” schtick, but it DOESN’T STOP THERE. Sherlock IS a rude misanthropic genius, but he IS also capable of deep love, and he WORKS HARD to express it for the people he loves! It is incredibly endearing to watch Sherlock cook lasagna for Watson, advise her of the optimal temperature to eat it, and then sit stiffly next to her prepared to lockjaw his way silently through an entire Knicks game bc he WANTS TO BE GOOD TO HER. He takes pains to precisely and clearly communicate his support for her choices, even if she chooses to be away from him!

And IT JUST MAKES ME SO WARM about Sherlock, because despite how Sherlock claims that he is ONLY soft for Watson, Sherlock is genuinely *becoming a better person* as the show progresses by forming relationships with Captain Gregson, with Marcus, with Alfredo, with Kitty! “Misanthropy was so easy,” Sherlock mourns once, and I LOVE THAT LINE bc yes! It IS easier to just make Sherlock a rude ass misanthropist and nothing more! It’s HARD for him to open up! But he makes the fucking effort, because it is worth it and the show continually reinforces that.

idiots (affectionate)・[100/?] ⤷ 5.10 — “Chinga”

phryne + touching jack’s tie and jacket

favorite female characters ➜ phryne fisher (miss fisher’s murder mysteries)

                             Did you miss me? I never get a chance to miss you.                                  It’s feels as if you’re in my office every second day.