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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-04-12 05:05 am

Well, of course I climbed atop the slab and I lay down on it

I am having a relatively miserable night, so I have been talking to [personal profile] spatch about various things, including Sherlock Holmes, as one does, and I mentioned the perennial post that goes around about modern AU Holmes and how people are always trying to work out an equivalent for the cocaine habit where the key features are not merely a form of self-medication of which Watson disapproves but also a drug practice popularly considered physically and mentally beneficial and without missing a beat Rob immediately said, "Microdosing." And I hadn't seen that one in the wild yet, so I mention it here.

(In the interests of honesty, he wishes me to add that his first, semi-serious suggestion was kombucha: "It's trendy and people claim it's got super-ass benefits." I have zero difficulty picturing Holmes fermenting his own kombucha, with particular attention to cultivating his own distinctive strains of yeast and bacteria and explaining them to visitors and possibly not warning Watson sufficiently about how much the flat is going to smell like a combination laboratory-brewery, which is in fact what it now is. I don't believe the terrarium in which the vials of E. coli coexisted with the plates of Dictyostelium discoideum to which I fed them ever did cease to smell faintly like hundred-year-old gym socks. I feel nostalgic about it to this day. My parents, considerably less so.)
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[personal profile] sholio 2021-04-12 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
Sherlock Holmes, hardline believer in herbal medicine, antioxidants, kombucha and chaga seems extremely believable.

[personal profile] thomasyan 2021-04-12 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Until I saw the criteria, I immediately thought of Adderall. Not sure if there is something similar that fits.

Tangent: Ever watch the War of the Worlds TV series? Clumsy but earnest and somehow really held my interest back in the day (at least, first season or two). The offbeat scientist rings a triangle to help him remember things. I don't recall if it is described similar to Sherlock's house technique.
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[personal profile] selkie 2021-04-12 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs* I just feel like, hear me out, there should be less misery for people who are not passing murderous anti-trans legislation or detaining babies at the border or existing as Lindsay Graham.
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2021-04-12 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing about nowadays is that there is always *some* one who objects to whatever the (supposed) beneficial health regime is--I mean that was probably true in the past too but now we can know about those people's views.

How does canon Holmes feel about restrictive eating practices? That's a whole avenue of health and curativity that people often pursue and that the medical community can be judgy about. But that's *removal* from the diet rather than addition, so maybe not a good route to pursue.

Kombucha sounds good. Or how about probiotics? I guess kombucha provides those...
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[personal profile] ashlyme 2021-04-12 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I hadn't heard of microdosing before now, but that works. I could see Holmes dabbling with kombucha too. Some of the pictures I found of it online make it look like bad home-brewed bitter.

I'd forgotten you had a thing for slime moulds! There's something really loveable about the image of you pottering around with microscopic life. I can totally get that nostalgia. Also *hugs* and hopes for a better day. Sending love.
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[personal profile] sara 2021-04-12 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh God, my problematic housemate produced kombucha in the closet. I had to clean it up after she left and it was dire.
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[personal profile] pameladean 2021-04-13 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Why, I don't really wonder, am I thinking of Janie in The Long Secret?
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[personal profile] starlady 2021-04-13 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Microdosing is a very good suggestion. So is Watson having to persuade Holmes to stay on his ADHD meds.