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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-01-12 07:29 pm

2025 Snowflake Challenge: Day 6: Canon

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Challenge #6

Share your favourite piece of original canon.


I am going to attempt to start a Sunday Sherlock tradition (doing a post about Sherlock Holmes on Sundays).

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So have a moodboard or two. And a favorite piece of Sherlock Holmes canon (meaning the original novels and short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle) is that there are a lot of Violets in it.



A collage or two (Holmes themed & Watson themed):



And the nice thing about Holmes canon is that there's always something new to learn. For example, I did not know that ACD was paid 25 pounds for A Study in Scarlet and that in the novel reprint in 1888 included drawings by ACD's father, Charles Doyle. Here's one of them:

study in scarlet
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[personal profile] barbaratp 2025-01-14 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Tem sido um alento aos meus dias. Eu gosto bastante de Sherlock e quase não tenho contato com a obra original de ACD, só com algumas adaptações (Cumberbatch e Downey Jr, além de possivelmente House que foi inspirado na obra).