apophenic dreams.

"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in a casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

- C.S. Lewis

Permalink

paperlings:

post-reichenbach; sherlock’s reappearance.

Permalink

Whether it’s Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Edward Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Basil Rathbone, Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch or Martin Freeman…

behindtintedglass:

I don’t think any of these men would’ve been able to play their part in this quintessential partnership and timeless friendship without developing and nurturing that same bond between them, both as the titular characters they play and as their own persons, as they relate to each other.

For there is something about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters that truly lives on, as if these characters have souls that have stretched out through time and space and have settled subtly and noiselessly into the hearts of the men who play them, coiling their invisible threads of fate once more, binding these men to each other and to the hearts of the audience who has always seen them as the best and wisest men we have ever known.

Permalink

wearsherlock:

Royal Army Medical Corps MugAs owned by John in A Study in Pink.
10oz. White ceramic. 3.5” high by 3” diameter.£9.50 / $15 Available here at ebay.co.uk
BONUS FACTS:
The text ‘In Arduis Fidelis’ is Latin for “Faithful in Adversity”.The snake on the RAMC’s badge is linked back to ancient Greece when a snake’s forked tongue was believed to have healing qualities.

Permalink

behindtintedglass:

valeria2067:

Dr. John H. Watson. That’s right.

Possesses fighter’s hands and is acclimatized to violence… and yet with a strong moral principle.
He’s actually more dangerous than Sherlock Holmes, come to think of it.

Permalink

behindtintedglass:

Only for Sherlock Holmes does John Watson not think twice in what he does. There is no moral compass to be consulted or questioned — only the certainty of protecting a good man. And with that purpose, John Watson will do anything.
Only for Sherlock Holmes.