Holmes is more interesting than applying for jobs.

Okay, so, you know how I am with canon. It's important to me that I keep my interpretations and writings very much in line with it. This is more often relevant with books, because with movies and TV shows (aside from things I've studied minutely, like Utena) I have less access to the material. Stuff in books is easy to look up, whereas I probably wouldn't go through a movie or episodes of a show unless I was really dedicated. But with books, I really try to interpret the source material and stay true to it.

The exception to this is when I think the author is off their rocker (*coughAnneRicecough*) or when the general fan-feeling about the canon is pretty relaxed, like in Gundam Wing (of COURSE Treize and Wufei had the hots for each other!)

So I've been kind of going :{ about various things that displease me in the Holmes canon, because I can't reconcile them with what I want to think about the characters. I guess this is a kind of continuation of that post about The Game I had a little while ago.

But I came across something today that made me decide to relax my approach.

( More babbling below the cut )