The Baker Street Babes Birthday Giveaway: Holmes Version
The Baker Street Babes put our out first podcast one year ago today. Least to say we’ve come a very long way and it wouldn’t have been possible without all of you. So, the past few months we’ve been gathering prizes and goodies for a MASSIVE giveaway… and here it is!
In this version of the give away you win EVERYTHING below. Yes. EVERYTHING!
Sherlock Series 1 DVD, signed by Benedict Cumberbatch & Martin Freeman (donated by Hartswood Films)
Brainy is the New Sexy pendant in polished brass. (donated by Belaurient Arts)
I Believe In Sherlock Holmes pendant in sterling silver. (donated by Belaurient Arts)
I Believe In Sherlock Holmes keychain in nickel silver. Please be aware this is made of nickel and if you’re allergic to it you now have a free gift to a non-allergen Sherlockian of your choice! (donated by Belaurient Arts)
The Detective & The Woman, signed by author Amy Thomas (donated by Amy Thomas)
My Love Affair With Sherlock magazine by Caitlin Moran.
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Ransom Riggs
Large print of Sherlock & John in a train carriage by reapersun. Pen there for scale. (donated by reapersun)
Baker Street mini-sign
CD of BigFinish’s Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner starring Nick Briggs. (Donated by BigFinish)
So? How do you win?
You may reblog each version ONCE per DAY. The giveaway will run until June 10th.
Likes DO NOT COUNT.
The winners will be chosen by a random number generator. They will have 24 hours to confirm with their address. The first number wins the Holmes Version, the second number wins the Watson Version.
We will ship anywhere in the world.
You cannot win both versions of the giveaway.
You do not have to be following us, however, this is a present to our followers and listeners, so it’s appreciated. Plus we do really cool things like interview Sherlock cast and authors and chat about Sherlock Holmes all the time!
If you are following us and win, you’ll get an extra special gift on top of all of this!
Any questions, naturally just ask. We’d prefer if you’d send an ask not anonymously so we can reply privately and not clog up people’s dashes.
“There’s a reason so many asexual folks love Sherlock, write extensive fic, and talk about the show so much. It’s one of the first shows that presents a model of relationships like our own, where sex isn’t the ultimate be-all-and-end-all or the ending goal of all relationships. And this makes it an unusual and standout accomplishment in a sex and romance-saturated media.”
This is a really good article. I think it’s pretty accurate as to how I feel about those particular relationships.
Yes. Very yes. There’s a big big difference between love and sex. There are many many factors in any relationship, and sex is only one of them. It’s a bit strange that we see close relationship, such as Sherlock and John’s, as somehow needing to be sexual, as though sex is the pinnacle of propinquity, which I find strange because we also see sex as just a base part of human nature. It can be casual, it can mean nothing, it often times means nothing. In short, a close relationship must somehow mean sex, when sex very rarely means a close relationship. Why is that?
Sherlock’s executive producer Steven Moffat has promised fans that the climax to the glossy detective drama’s third series will leave them “just as frustrated as ever they were.”
Speaking at the Bafta Craft awards held last weekend, the writer admitted that he and co-writer Mark Gatiss had already penned an ingenious conclusion to the eagerly-awaited third season of the show. He said: “We’ve had our meeting, we’ve decided what we’re doing and how we’re going to approach it, and I think we’ve got a climax to the next series that will have people just as frustrated as they ever were.”
Moffat also said that Sherlock’s faux-demise at the end of series two would likely go down as one of the most cunning in history when its method is revealed to fans. “We know what we’re doing. If Sherlock Holmes is going to fake his own death, it better be the best faked death of all time. I think it’s pretty good,” he said.
NEVER play a word association game with Benedict Cumberbatch! The man is the living Oxford Dictionary. However, get him at two in the morning and needing a sugar fix and you can beat him.
[Sherlock] probably isn’t a virgin. I can’t imagine that man as a virgin. Something happened, somewhere. I think Sherlock would have to, somewhere. He’s a man with a past…
This is a great article. I love Moffat’s take on Sherlock, obviously, but I love how explicit he is in this, especially with regards to how the show handles sex. Sex and love are different. Sex and admiration are different. I am fully in support of the idea that Sherlock Holmes is asexual, but I have a hard time believing he’s a virgin. So much human behavior revolves around sex. So many crimes are sexual in nature. Nearly all serial killings are. As a scientist and especially as a detective, having sex would be invaluable research.
I recommend trying to play PBS’ Sherlock Observation Game on your own first, but in case you’re completely stuck and on the verge of using up all your study time trying to find the fifth difference in one of the pictures… Here you go.
Click the links below to be taken to an answer key for each picture.
On May 2, 2012, PBS and Masterpiece held a screening/Q&A event in New York for Sherlock Series 2, which premieres on PBS May 6. The event featured actor Benedict Cumberbatch, co-creator Steven Moffat & producer Sue Vertue. 10,000+ people tried to get tickets, and fans flew in from as far away as London, Phoenix and Los Angeles.
If you lived in London…why would you fly to New York…for a British TV show…?
