The (not so)Great Tumblr Migration

Starting to use this site so changing over to a more standard recognizable name. I am going to start trying to migrate all the posts I have made, as well as posts I have found remarkably useful, from Tumblr onto here.

This means that I am going to be reposting quite a few tumblr posts and articles that I found remarkably useful so as to save the articles and more easily cite authors. Particularly in case authors or Tumblr start deleting pages, and thus risk the loss of important analysis to the either.

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"Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him.

His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, impatient snarl in reply.

Swiftly and silently he made his way along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either side.

Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a definite end."

-The Boscombe Valley Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #BOSC #ACDcanon

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‘You know what Watson’s writing needs? A more detailed description of Holmes. There may be a reader out there who isn’t quite sure how to picture Holmes.’
-via astronbookfilms: https://astronbookfilms.tumblr.com/…/sherlock-holmes-was-tr…
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LOL could Watson be more pornographic with his descriptions of Holmes? 😶😆😘

The Criterion Bar

The Criterion Bar is the bar in which Dr. John Watson met Stamford and was thus introduced to Sherlock Holmes.

It was also a frequent meeting place for inverts (gay) men in the Victorian era.

‘A New City of Friends’: London and Homosexuality in the 1890s

Matt Cook

History Workshop Journal, Volume 56, Issue 1, 1 October 2003, Pages 33–58,
https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/56.1.33

Published:

01 October 2003

"..Ives noted that the Criterion Bar on Piccadilly Circus was 'a great center for inverts' until it closed in 1905 ."



The Inverted City: London and the Constitution of Homosexuality 1885-1914
Matt Cook
https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/jspui/handle/123456789/1620

Mentioned in the quoted article above is George Cecil Ives, who was an LGBT advocate in the Victorian Era, and lead the secret society 'Order of Chaeronea'...
... He was also a friend and cricket teammate to Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle.


There are many bars in England and surely Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle could have chosen any one to have Dr. Watson have that fateful meeting with Stamford... of all the bars that could have been used (or invented), he chose one which was popularly used by gay men.