Doctor Damage
I'll Lock Up
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Great posts, Doctor Strange and Chasseur. Good tonic for a modern age in which everyone wants to "belong" to something, either so they can feel better about themselves or so they can exclude or persecute others. When we start dividing ourselves up into corporations or groups, or factions or religions, then we become easier to control and direct.
Regarding Holmes and gender/sex: Edward is correct. Holmes was asexual, as Watson states on many occasions in the written works, and even his attraction to "The Woman" was explained as a primarily intellectual atttraction. I read these last year (again) so it's fresh in my mind. What fans might do under the heading of "fan fiction" is up to them and the canon is strong enough to survive almost any re-telling or re-visioning.
Regarding Holmes and gender/sex: Edward is correct. Holmes was asexual, as Watson states on many occasions in the written works, and even his attraction to "The Woman" was explained as a primarily intellectual atttraction. I read these last year (again) so it's fresh in my mind. What fans might do under the heading of "fan fiction" is up to them and the canon is strong enough to survive almost any re-telling or re-visioning.