queerwatson:a list of things that arthur conan doyle did that totally mean that intent is...

queerwatson:

a list of things that arthur conan doyle did that totally mean that intent is worthless:

made it july on one page and september like two pages later
named everyone james and forgot that john’s name wasn’t james
literally forgot when watson was married and when he wasn’t so that if you try to figure out how he could have done all that without getting divorced and remarried to the same woman or not been wrong about dates, watson has like five or six wives
almost named john watson ormond sacker
introduced moriarty literally just to kill holmes off and inexplicably suddenly he was the worst villain in all of london even though holmes had never encountered him, then later retconned in the valley of fear so jk watson had heard of him before the final problem after all those were just. lies.
named four different female characters all violet
seriously. james moriarty. and his brother. james moriarty.