Sherlock Holmes by ~JamesTheShark

The appalling travesty that was BBC’s Sherlock has infested the Sherlock Holmes fandom like a malignant tumour so I want you all to know how awesome the OG literary Holmes was:

• The literary Sherlock Holmes was an autistic coded character before people knew what autism was.
• The literary Sherlock Holmes was an explicitly aromantic character before people had a word for that.
• Literary Holmes solved mysteries not merely for the intellectual stimulation but also out of a genuine desire to do good. He cared deeply about every client. HE WAS NOT A HIGH-FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH! He could definitely be insensitive and blunt but he was not callous or unfeeling.
• Literary Sherlock threatened to beat a guy who was being creepy with his own stepdaughter.
• Literary Sherlock learned to grow past his misogyny after a woman outsmarted him.
• In particular, he was always respectful to Mrs Hudson, never belittling or talking down to her (the otherwise enjoyable Guy Ritchie films screw this up too). In fact, they got along so well that they were actually a very popular ship back in the day.
• Literary Holmes would NEVER call Watson an idiot. He was his only friend who he loved and respected, even if he did get frustrated with him sometimes. He didn’t need to belittle others to feel powerful.
• Literary Holmes and Watson broke into a corrupt man’s house and witnessed him being murdered by a woman he was blackmailing. They knew exactly who she was but they let her get away because they were chaotic good like that.
• Literary Holmes had HUMILITY: something a smug prig like Steven Moffat will never understand. He could be arrogant but he had a sense of humour and was willing to admit when he was wrong. And he was wrong sometimes because he was a flawed human being, not some gross male power fantasy.
• Literary Holmes respected the working class and was often disdainful of the rich. In Victorian England!
• Literary Holmes indirectly caused the death of a guy who abused (and implicitly molested) his daughters and he didn’t give a single fuck about it.
• At the end of the series, Holmes retires to Sussex to keep bees. Beekeepers are awesome.

113 years ago maurice leblanc posed the question “what if i made your oc and my oc wrestle on a boat 😳and they could perceive one another’s very souls😳” to which arthur conan doyle answered “i hate you. never say this to me again.”

and now look where we are. who had the last laugh, doyle? was it you. or was it the man who decided herlock sholmes and arsene lupin were going to have a nice meal at a restaurant and wrestle on a boat

some people in the notes are confused so to elaborate

• Maurice Leblanc was told to capitalize on the popularity of sherlock holmes and write a french detective, to which he replied “no <3″
• Instead he wrote stories about a gentleman thief named Arsène Lupin that he apparently modeled off of a French Anarchist named Marius Jacob (and I def recommend looking into him if you have some free time)
• Choosing to write about thieves instead of detectives did NOT stop Leblanc or his editors from wanting to use Sherlock Holmes to generate hype for his OC, so he released Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late
• It ends in the humiliation of Sherlock
• This made Arthur Conan Doyle Very Angry
• Faced with legal action, Leblanc dodged copyright infringement by changing Sherlock Holmes to Herlock Sholmes, and Watson became Wilson

Side note, when Leblanc first came up with Lupin, he had to change the name, since there was a campaigning politician at the time that shared the original name, so this wasn’t the first time he did something like this

Anyway, fast forward to 2021- The doyle estate still holds the copyright for the ten final sherlock holmes stories, and they claim that they have legal rights to any representation of sherlock holmes that shows emotion or respects women because he only does that in those books

This is an issue for the localization of The Great Ace Attorney, or DGS, since Sherlock Holmes is a major character, and he does BOTH of those things

And so, in the grand tradition of Leblanc’s copyright dodging, the localization team has changed Sherlock Holmes… to Herlock Sholmes

Additionally, in answer to the people questioning my original tags, the estate and family of Natsume Soseki was consulted before putting him in the game and they essentially went “yes we give you full permission to represent Natsume Soseki as an anxious mess of a man go for it with our blessing”

i feel that the boat thing is self-explanatory but if not: in one of leblanc’s stories sherlock holmes and arsene lupin wrestle in a boat while lupin says this makes them look like a couple of jackasses 

hope that answers all of your questions