[ SECRET POST #1818 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1818 ⌋


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Comments

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

in canon Irene was arguably testing the waters to see if something sexual would come of it

Really? Not sure where in SCAN that can be argued from, to be honest. She interacts with him only when he is in disguise and in a very unsexual way - a working class witness at her wedding, then as an elderly, injured clergyman. She clearly relishes getting the better of him intellectually, but I don't see any more than that going on.

[tamburlaine.livejournal.com]

That's true, my mistake I suppose (X-Mas drunk and also INFURIATED about this weird new commenting layout) but though at the time period it wouldn't have been written that way, I can't imagine that a character such as she would not test the waters given the opportunity. She also wrote a letter to him in her secret hiding space that, when I read I first read it at age 8, saw something flirtatious/mischievous, despite her having run off and gotten married.

That was how I read it at age 8, and that's the way it's going to stay in my headcanon. I don't know if she ever closed the door on the possibility of something with Holmes, since she had been investigating his methods long before the King sought his services. So look, I don't ship them, I don't ship anyone with Holmes, but all of this is up to interpretation I suppose. Obviously there were constraints on writing more sexually-charged scenes between the two of them in Victorian serials, so some of us just have to settle for Holmes taking his photo of Irene as the equivalent as some sort of *stirring*, if we choose to interpret it that way.

Anyway I've had enough of this argument. In a nutshell: In Victorian times, and even now, given our relatively low status in society, I think it's not beyond the realm of possibility that "relish[ing] getting the better of [Holmes] intellectually" is, for a woman, a turn-on.