::Sherlock Holmes discussion -- how did you get into it?::

Okay just to start off (and hope that more people will join...haha):

I want to ask how those of you who joined this group how you got into Sherlock Holmes.
I assume most of you developed interest through the 2009 version of Sherlock Holmes the movie.

I got into it through an artist on the Y!Gallery and my favourite actor is Robert Downey Jr....so the combination worked out really well and I got into the fandom.

Ironically, I haven't seen the movie yet.
I WANT TO THOUGH BUT IT HASEN'T COME OUT IN THEATERS WHERE I AM AT THE MOMENT =_____;;

Hiya!
I only read "The hound of the Baskervilles" about 10 years ago or so (long time). I still need to read more of the Sherlock Holmes novels, but there were a few parts in that one I enjoyed re-reading over and over.
Too bad Holmes doesn't appear much.
The film with Robert Downey Jr was a fun representation of the characters, and the streets of London were unrecognizable.

~I searched high and low for a Holmes social group. Finally.

True-blooded Sherlockian here.

The movie ooooof jude law XD

I watched it with two of my male friends and throughout the film there were back and forth whispers of "He's so gay for watson."...then came the belt scene...ooooh damn

~HAHA. XD The belt scene was just sooooooo gay. XD

You're correct in assuming that I picked it up from the 2009 movie!

Throughout the entire film I was thinking "Yep, they're gay. They have to be. I'm so googling this when I get home."

I love both movies, not for the BL but the mystery. I wasn't much of a Sherlock Holmes fan(still not one, really) but I am a fan o the movies. I love the intrigue, the action, the slow motion thought process, the badassness of Watson, and of course the cute dog. The BL i see there is a jut a bonus for the awesome movie series.

I have read some of Sherlock Holmes, but never got into them much. Though, now I think I'll have to write a fan fiction about HolmesxWatson, so I better read up on everything.

I fell into when I was a little girl. The Baskerville Hound is the first real book I read. I was 8. I fell in love with Sherlock Holmes and I still love him. I read all the book, except the last book " The house of silk", I saw the both Tv series (89 and BBC) and the film with Robert Downey Jr!! My favorite Sherlock is Benedict Cumberbatch. I really like the idea of an actual Sherlock!!

I started off reading the books as a pre-teenager. I was into lots of non-teenager books as a kid. Right after I finished both complete volumes of Sherlock Holmes I read "Picture of Dorian Gray" and I guess both concepts melted together and I got a weird interpretation when I looked back at those two books. Like they started melting together sort of.... which is weird, I admit. But years later when I got heavily into Yaoi and BL I "rediscovered" my love for Sherlock and Watson. But in a totally new way.

I am a fan of the Sherlock Holmes novels. I read them since I was 13! I love Sherlock. I became so happy when I realized the movie. I really love it! and also the series are very interesting. I enjoy it when I watch the movie while I know the story!!!