Watson Is Holmes' Favourite Hyperfixation, And Most Certainly Vice Versa...By That I Also Mean That They

Watson is Holmes' favourite hyperfixation, and most certainly vice versa...By that I also mean that they are deeply in love.

Holmes will be like “I only remember things that are functionally or practically important to my work and forget everything that isn’t” then go out of his way to memorise all of Watson’s habits and routines

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So, I've been a bit of a historical kick again in doing research for a Johnlock fanfic I'm considering writing...And I now can't stop thinking of Watson secretly working as a Resurrectionist. Honestly, I'm just imagining he and Holmes meeting in a graveyard by accident one night because Holmes is investigating a case and Watson is illegally digging up a corpse, and it's the most adorably awkward thing.

Silence, everyone, this delightful little man is stimming

This is one of the reasons why I love Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes so much. He laughs, he smiles, he leaps over furniture, he takes the mick out of rich clients, he giggles and stims, he's true to the character and an utter delight while doing so!

it's always funny to me whenever adaptations make sherlock holmes this brooding, edgy cynic, because in acd canon sherlock holmes has a fantastic sense of humor and is always so amused by everything. i mean, the sheer amount of times this man just bursts out laughing upon realizing something fundamental about a case is kind of iconic in the original stories. he really is just this funny little man who finds a special sort of joy in the macabre.

"My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker-street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind could invent. (...)"

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle