I haven’t done A Drawing of one of these letters for a couple of weeks but I feel a deep desire to draw Holmes with a comically large sponge…
I had to look up what a Gladstone bag was bc I was picturing those little drawstring baggies Brighton jewelry comes in and NOPE
I don’t know what’s funnier: Holmes mysteriously, smugly carrying around this big briefcase all “this contains the KEY TO THIS CASE” to pull out a regular sized bath sponge that takes up 1% of the space, or a sponge the size of the case.
I’m reading The Deviants War: The Homosexual vs The United States of America and the entire point of gay pride as a concept comes from police raids on bars, clubs, public restrooms, etc where gays were humiliated and outed in the newspapers (sometimes with their addresses!) and had careers ruined and lives upended by being associated with perversion and vice squads and all that and they responded by going “no I’m proud” and took that pride to the streets in defiance of the huge mechanism of shame that existed to oppress the gay community into obscurity and so the fact that people are now trying to apply conservative dogma to pride parades to make them “safe for children” or in other words “safe for people with oppressive conservative values” is simply insane
To phrase this more clearly: “public indecency” laws were the primary tool for brutally enforcing gender and sexual conformity, so applying a “public indecency” lens to pride parades of all things is a slap in the face of everyone who ever suffered under gender & sexual oppression and took their anger (and yes their pride!) to the streets. If it makes you uneasy or uncomfortable maybe you’re not on the side you think you are!
