The Great Detective turns 156!

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I've waited until midnight  just to post this. I wish I could wear my SH costume from third year high school but I'm five sizes too big now and Papi didn't have time to get it adjusted last week :c But anyway, just to make up for it, I stayed up all night yesterday to finish a video for him. I always celebrate his birthday here in my eljay since

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There are so many canonical instances with Holmes being such an emotional shut-down; and yet he is surprisingly intense; there's this brittle fragility in him that makes you wonder if there's some kind of inadequancy he is trying to conceal---especially from Watson.

Ah, Loveless! I have watched this hetero anime Boys Be which is quite amusing for a while, with sweet kissing scenes and all that and an implied shounen-ai between this lead guy and a bishie extra---but it turns out it's just a normal bromance relationship. They talked about their emotions---rare in men, if you're into the prejudice and inherent nature theory, whatever--and all that's missing literally was sex. It's like the conversations of those boys are good premises for some serious banging! But that's the pervert in me talking! XD

e.g Lestat and what's Brad Pitt's character name again? Yah. That. They were so intensely involved together, there should have been some slightly gay action on the side (is the biting the main euphemism there because it's granted that vampirism represents dark desires after all).

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Sexual tension is usually very hard to quantify, especially between two fictional characters of the same sex, and notwithstanding most fans would like to keep it stritcly hetero since they're like eewww, man love! or something like that.

I for one vote for bromance, whether simply in an emotional context or as a sexual implication.

Holmes is a darling and he needs to be cared or. Say, if you have the chance to talk to Doyle (but you have to be like, a century present to be able to do that), and he asks you for a suggestion whether to give Holmes a lover or not, what would you suggest?

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I agree with you completely. But it took me a while to realize it because I was a fan girl of Holmes and with that disease comes the immediate need to link him romantically to anyone of interest. I really loved the idea of Irene Adler being his first love, with all the quixotic notions that came with that. I also like Violet Hunter for him---but I overcame that and realized that Holmes was meant to be a singular vessel without a romantic companion. And now that I'm older, and leaning more to activities that promote individualism, I began to understand that there are people like Holmes meant for a life that pursues his art of logic more than anything else. I don't think you have to find "true love" with a partner of the opposite sex or same sex that is constituted as a romantic relationship. After all, love comes in different forms and self-love is both a virtue and a vice (the latter only occurs if one is such an egomaniac).

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And thank gods Doyle hates Holmes in general that he didn't choose to create some sort of romantic interest to him, and only women like Adler and Hunter whom he could admire from a far.