No, sir.

Sherlock Holmes Heroines and Genderswap

bakerstreetbabes:

sherlockianconnoisseur:

Novels and Children’s Lit

• The Enola Holmes Mysteries by Nancy Springer, a children’s mystery series that follows the adventures of Sherlock and Mycroft’s younger sister.
• The Irene Adler Series by Carole Nelson Douglas, a mystery series which casts The Woman as a formidable sleuth.
• The Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Laurie R. King, a mystery series following the adventures of Holmes’ young protégé who King describes as the detective’s female, intellectual equal.

Graphic Novels

• Baker Street by Guy Davis and Gary Reed, a series of graphic novels set during the 1980’s that re-imagines Holmes as a punk chick.

Scholarly Works

• Ms. Holmes of Baker Street: The Truth About Sherlock Holmes by C. Alan Bradley and William A.S. Sarjeant
• “Watson Was A Woman” by Rex Stout

Film and Television

• The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, a children’s television series following the adventures of Holmes’ great-grand niece (1996-1999)
• Elementary, CBS’ newest venture re-imagining Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson in modern-day New York (in production)
• My Dearly Beloved Detective (Мой нежно любимый детектив), a Russian film that genderswaps Holmes and Watson into Shirley and Jane (1976)
• They Might Be Giants portrays a modern, genderswapped Watson treating a psychiatric patient who believes he’s Sherlock Holmes (1971)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes, CBS’ first endeavor into the genderswapping with Fem-Watson teaming up with Holmes after waking him from cryogenic stasis (1986)
• Sherlock Holmes Returns, another made-for-television film featuring a very similar plot to CBS’ Return (1993)
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, an animated television series which propels Sherlock Holmes into the future and features Beth Lestrade, a descendant of Inspector G. Lestrade (1999-2001)

Tumblrs

• Bustles and Bullets: Sherlock Holmes Genderswap

List of Genderswapped Holmes stories, films, & more!

dearjimmoriarty:

mswyrr:

kristinattack:

sophistory:

OK I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO BREAK THIS TO THE WORLD

Elementary is not a Sherlock remake.

No, really. I promise.

CBS approached Moffat et al. about remaking Sherlock.

Moffat said, “By the power of the permanent throbbing boner I have for my own genius, I abjure thee!”

CBS said, “Then verily, we shall make our own modern Holmes adaptation, and we shall cast the fiercest Watson in all the land! SUCK IT, MOFFAT.”

Ergo, Elementary is not a Sherlock remake.

I don’t understand how people with such low levels of reading comprehension have managed to get this far in life without accidentally killing themselves while opening a box of cereal, let alone how they can be fans of a canon centered around the art of deduction.

By the power of the permanent throbbing boner I have for my own genius

Stephen Moffat/the permanent throbbing boner he has for his own genius = The Very Truest One True Pairing Evar

OP I DECLARE MY UNDYING LOVE

I feel like I have to write slash of that pairing now…damn.

Brain damage!Jim

omnoxide:

Since this is apparently a thing. This idea actually makes me super sad, but I’ve kind of got a boner for neurosci and neurosurgery especially, so I figured I’d put my time to good use and overanalyze this into something more concrete/scientific than some of the weird symptoms some of the fics out there I’ve seen.

FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG. All of this argument is based on what I could find in pictures/what I remember of the scene, so I could be totally missing something here. This information is based off my prior knowledge, my textbooks, and various medical articles and journals.

First, let’s look at the actual gun position. 

(got this off sherlockoloy, only image I could find without scrolling through 3902 tumblr posts P: )

It’s slightly tilted to the right from what I can see, and notice how it’s obnoxiously straight up and down? Congratulations, Moriarty, you just unguaranteed yourself instant death. It’s vertical enough to not only miss the thalamus and other super-important things like that, but also the lateral ventricles. Think of your brain as an apple, with a few water balloons around the apple, and then surround that with bubble wrap. Moriarty (probably) hit the bubble wrap. 

The fact that it’s tilted to the right is actually quite important as well. Hitting the right hemisphere is infinitely better than hitting the left, because most mental disability as a result of traumatic brain injuries (tbi) are most associated with left hemisphere lesions. So that’s another plus. 

That being said, I think it’s safe to say he hit the right orbital frontal cortex, which is on the bottom side of the brain, and the right superior frontal cortex, which is on the top of the brain. So that’s entry and exit. It’s also safe to say, because it was so point blank and he fell back, there was not only skull fracturing going on, worsened by his fall, but also the force of the bullet basically created a shockwave that expanded the hole. Now, the size of the shockwave is hard to speculate. I’m going to continue on the assumption that it’s not THAT bad because I’m an optimist, but the lesions can increase up to about 30 times the size of the missile. In which case, worst case scenario the shockwaves are what officially does him in. He’s close enough to the ventricles and the midbrain that a large shockwave could easily do some badass damage. But like I said, optimist alert when it comes to JMo, so let’s continue assuming it’s not that terrifying.

Back to the orbital frontal cortex. Wikipedia says it’s associated with emotion/reward. Patients who come in with penetrative tbi to this area tend to experience “abnormal” sexual behavior afterwards. Usually though, if it’s going to reduce/eliminate sex drive, the lesions have to less-centralized, and Moriarty’s pointing that gun awfully near the midsagittal line. So take “abnormal” as you will, I guess. With the superior frontal cortex, lesions can lead to utilization behavior. Basically, if Sebastian put an empty mug in front of it, he would automatically pick it up and do a drinking action with it for no real reason. This is mostly for left side though. 

In terms of speech, that is, again, mostly left side. Right side is more non-verbal, so it’s hard to say if anything would be messed up there, but it’s less likely. For motor skills, to me it looks like he hit the premotor cortex and supplementary motor cortex, so fine motor skills would be problematic. Just grasping would be problematic. Can’t even hold a pencil. Not without a good deal of physical therapy first.

Also, memory-wise, he’d be okay…sort of. Missed the hippocampus, missed the lateral inferoparietal cortex, missed the striatum, missed the diencephalon, did hit the neocortex. So his working memory would have some issues. So performing complex tasks would probably be hard, things like ordering coffee, making tea, engineering a rifle. The thing with memory is that it depends most on the size rather than the place of the lesion. So, if the shockwave wasn’t that big, he probably wouldn’t be too poorly off. If the shockwave was big, then he’d be bummin’. And I’m sure there’s some retrograde amnesia of the actual event of shooting himself. All around the neocortex and frontal lobes are emotional control, though. Right frontal lobe tends to be more “pseudopsychopathic” than previously. I feel bad for Moran now.

Pretty convenient how a lot of the disabilities are associated with left hemisphere issues, and JMo just HAPPENED to shoot himself just to the right enough that it didn’t graze the left hemisphere, but not too far that it didn’t hit any lateral parts and saved himself from those side effects too? Yes. So convenient. 

For treatment, after surgery to get out shrapnel/skull fragments, he’d probably be put on anti-seizure meds. Diuretics too so the brain doesn’t swell too much, major side effect being increased piss-taking. And his metabolism would skyrocket. Another complication might be hypertonicity of his muscles, and interestingly enough botulinum toxin has been shown to help that out. Just.. fun fact. It’s had positive signs in studies. And then there’s the shitton of physical therapy. 

Quick summary for the tldr; brain damaged JMo would probably have abnormal sexual behavior, pseudopsychopathic behavior (as if he wasn’t already), fine motor impairment, possible memory difficulties. 

I’d like to think myself well-researched, though this is based on a lot of assumption on my part. If you have anything to add/would like to correct/would like my sources, feel free to ask. 

bittergrapes:

afrogeekgoddess:

sophistory:

So that whole ‘The Indian Sherlock’ thing got me brooding over the shitfit some parts of fandom tend to throw at the prospect of a Holmes and/or Watson that aren’t British - and how by ‘British’, they in fact mean ‘a very narrow idea of ~Britishness~ that includes the following attributes: white, English, and coded as upper to upper-middle class’.

And how, if you don’t think that’s true, you should try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah - young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.

And then I realised that I want this adaptation LIKE BURNING, that I have already headcast Holmes and Watson as John Boyega and Leeon Jones, and that from now on whenever I watch Sherlock I will be imagining this instead and crying softly deep within my soul.

Sign me up for a heaping helping of this.

This sounds AMAZING.

Uh, so … can we have you as head writer sophistory??