Writing Historical Fiction Will Make You Google Things Like “when We’re Towels Invented?” “how

Forget about torturing your blorbos, putting them through the ringer. I'm putting my blorbo in perfectly ordinary, pleasant situations. Their tortured personality will cause them anguish anyway, making an absolutely mundane scene into the most dramatic, agony filled affair as though the world is ending and it's all their fault

Happy Valentine’s Day!

@cactisays

You. Me. In the car. It is late at night and snowing. We are listening to the smiths. We have a really good conversation. If you get tired you can sleep. Are you up for it

the Empty House - part 6

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

shoutout to my exvangelical spouse for giving me some pointers about the gay parts of the Bible...I have a lot of thoughts around resurrection myths in Christian societies and how the Holmes canon plays with but also subverts that archetype, which I will hopefully be able to explore in a semi coherent fashion in coming stories!

the next story is A CASE OF IDENTITY!

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

appledusk 🍎

Omfg girl put a shirt on

Affection

My approach to lighting: mix and match to find out what works. I've never been great at capturing realistic lighting so I just kind of wing it 🤷‍♀️

Sherlock Holmes ornaments by De Carlini Ltd Ed

Reading Sherlock Holmes and there are so many scenes where Holmes is just at the foot of Watson’s bed, wide awake at a questionable hour like, “Hello, my dear Watson! I have studied bicycles all night!” What a little cryptid.