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Apr 19Liked by Molly Knox Ostertag

"Thoroughly convinced that no one will like him unless he maintains an air of mystery" that insight is perfect, and hit me so hard! I'm wounded, and must now retire to the couch.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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*sniff* I am so happy for them! *re-reads comic immediately another three times*

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Thank you for this absolutely perfect fan fiction ending to this saga! <3 <3 <3

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Oh, no. Doyle wouldn't have liked this...I mean, they never address each other by their first names in the books...

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"Currently reorienting every priority in his life". Yeah, that rings true.

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YAY! KISSING! Good job, tender mystery boys!

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YeAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! WOOOO!!!! Ok now that that’s out of my system, I love the way your stylized the hound, and the tones on the final comic are gorgeous! I can’t wait to have these as a zine, I’d snatch them up in a heartbeat!

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Read this numerous times and then was suddenly like, 'Wait what happened to the pipe?', and now shall be forced to re-read lots more times, FOR SCIENCE <3 So happy for our silly, adorable, absolutely beautifully drawn boys

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“thoroughly convinced that no one will like him unless he maintains an air of mystery” - okay, why’d you have to call me out like this

beautiful beautiful art, thank you for feeding my addiction

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I’m loving these! Reminded me to read some more Sherlock myself.

Also when you’re done reading Sherlock, can I recommend the Raffles series by EW Hornung (ACDs brother in law) it’s very similar, but crime making rather than crime solving!

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These are EVERYTHING, Molly

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These comics have been so amazing, thank you for sharing them with us!

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This is so lovely

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WAHOO congrats to our married couple for their first kiss what a milestone :')

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Omg I cannot express how many feelings I am having about this

A few things:

Holmes’s hands trembling actually broke my heart 💔 the poor guy is so terrified but in such a hidden way

And poor Watson, from his perspective he’s just being completely left in the dark on how Holmes feels and he’s so fed up with it!

It’s a mark of top tier storytelling how you can see perfectly what each person is feeling, but then ALSO see how the other person misunderstands it

Like I’ve literally been rereading it a bunch of times, first going ‘now it’s from Holmes’s perspective’ and then ‘now it’s from Watson’s perspective’

Also! The fact that they actually, finally kissed! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 (I think it’s lowkey hilarious that such an important scene happened with Watson having awful hat hair from a whole day of moor-ing)

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