So...I'm not disturbed? Cool :P good essay by the way

Thank you! I was so worried I was sick and twisted because I love this stuff. I didn't understand myself and why I loved it. But thanks to you, I get it. You just took some stress off my mind, I'm not worried at I'm messed up in the mind anymore. Thank you so much!

Hear, hear!

You said it all very nicely. Now I know why I seem to be attracted to more and more fanfictions that involve Holmes or Watson getting hurt badly/ or get an illness or something.

Thanks for writing this :)

Great monograph on the phenomenon of authors torturing Holmes with lots of injuries.

That is so true! I do it all the time with Sherlock, and other characters as well (Carlise Cullen, Spock, Damon Salvatore - same personalities) I couldn't figure out why it was so great but now I realise! Thanks! Great explanation! :D

Well, this makes me feel better as a reader! XD

Yes! Thank you for this, I had wondered myself. I really like reading the stuff.

Keep writing!

Excactly!

At first, this almost sounded a bit scathing, so I was going to mention the whole deal with 'Sherlock torture' being made just to see the emotional connections that build him back up and the care from his friends, but you said it for me.

I completely agree with you. The reasoning all makes perfect sense, and perhaps, makes what we all presumed was obvious - but could perhaps never grasp just WHY we thought it was such - a bit clearer.

I agree whole-heartedly *thumbs up and a big grin*

i really liked this, because it's just so true! thanks for posting!

OMG That was just scary, you sumed me up in one, im so glad i'm not the only one who gains pleaure in seeing my hero suffer... thx

How true, how true! I was beginning to think there was something just dreadfully wrong with me as I sit here and ponder (not even consciously, sometimes) the newest whatever to subject Mr. Holmes to.

I agree that it's useful in deconstructing him, shattering his icy exterior. He's so impervious to everything that it's a very tempting thing to take up the icepick, no?

From another, who is shameless! :)

Excelent! You've hit it right on! Great essay!

Hum, I've been thinking here, I'm extremely new to the whole Sherlock Holms universe, and as of yet not read any of the storys, but recently started watching the tv series probably closest to cannon starring the lovely but sadly missed Mr Jeremy Brett. I was wondering whether this has anything in common with what you are indicating.

It's simular to the Harry Potter, Prof. Snape torture fics - undoubtly Alan Rickman had a lot to do with Snape's appeal, much like Jeremy's Holms. Please forgive me if I sound completely out of my league.

Actually that's not it at all. Torture-of-hot-characters turns me on.
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I'm sure you're disturbed. So am I.

Holmes has a few rather black periods in the stories doesn't he? 'Reigate Squire', close of 'The Red Headed League', drug abuse, and all that? The point about Holmes as I see it, ditto for Albus Dumbledore and the Patrician of Ankh (Discworld), is that competence is what they are, even in the direst state. He wouldn't be Sherlock Holmes otherwise, and maybe that makes him less than human, or more perhaps. I can hardly talk to someone as well up as you seem to be on this subject, but that's just my idea of him.