Emily > Recent Status Updates

Have gone a little the opposite way now, I’m not really enjoying this one and considering DNFing. Don’t like the boss/employee dynamic and I’m finding the interest that they have in each other too sexually focused for me to root for them getting together.

I’m enjoying this so much but it’s also making me so sad - poor Olive 🥺

“I’ll be there in the Meadow waiting for you” 💔

Sunsets is my favourite essay so far

I know things are about to go wrong but I don’t know how and it’s stressing me out!!

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
I enjoyed the set up for this mystery - Sherlock just investigating a hat and goose because he was curious rather than any crime was a fun idea. Of course, then there actually is a crime, and I enjoyed the investigation but found the resolution a little dissatisfying.

The Man With the Twisted Lip
I liked but didn’t love this one, I thought the resolution was very fun though!

If Apollo has no haters I am dead etc

The Five Orange Pips
In the modern world this is probably much less mysterious than it would have been - it’s unfortunate that the America is still subject to the ongoing atrocities of the KKK. While the language used is a bit shocking, I’m sure it wouldn’t have caused the contemporary audience to bat an eye. In the end, God and Sherlock Holmes team up against the racists.

Uh oh

The winter solstice ball I’m laughing so much at Feyre and Cassian

The Boscombe Valley Mystery
This one felt very forgettable. I’ve been listening to Stephen Fry’s audiobook version, and I had to reread the ending almost immediately to remember what happened.

A Case of Identity
This is the first SH story where I’ve been able to figure it out! I love how genuinely angry Sherlock is at the perpetrator (which I much preferred to the more aloof way he seems to be characterised now. Give me Sherlock threatening to beat a guy up!) This also reminded me of a Shirley Jackson short story (the name escapes me at the moment) - I wonder if she took any inspiration from this.

The Red-Headed League
This one is so funny and I’d love to know what made ACD think of this? Did he just see a guy with really strikingly red hair and go ‘what if there’s a club of them?’ and things went from there?

Parts of this so far have made me a little uncomfortable and I definitely find myself getting frustrated with Nesta, but I’m actually happy about that. Recovery isn’t a linear thing, and I get frustrated because i know what it feels like to slip backwards and want better for her. Still skipping through the ‘spice’ because I simply don’t care about that lol