221B Recs

Vid Title: SHERLOCK: 221b Baker Towers
Music Title & Artist: Kidulthood to Adulthood - Bashy & Maniac
Vidder: mindtardis
Verse: 221B Baker Towers
Warnings: blood, corpses, non-graphic violence; bright flashes, fast cutting
Link: tumblr announcement post (also on Vimeo, because tumblr URLs are fragile)

Reccer's Comments: As I introduced in an earlier rec, 221B Baker Towers is a fan-created open universe, in which Holmes and Watson are young Black men from a council estate. There is no canon source for this 'verse, only the imaginations of the members of the fandom: the authors, the artists, the fancasters, and the vidders.

Yes, vidders! "SHERLOCK: 221b Baker Towers" is a trailer for a show that doesn't exist, built from footage from Attack the Block, Elementary, and others. John Boyega and Leeon Jones star as our Holmes and Watson; a complete list of sources appear in the vidder notes on Vimeo.

As the 'verse originator points out in the 221B Baker Towers FAQ, creators for the 'verse are welcome to take elements in wildly different directions from each other or to riff off of other Holmesian fandoms. Mindtardis does both, offering a different take on Moriarty's organization than still-sophistry used in "like a spider in the centre of its web" (rec'd earlier), and borrowing characters from BBC Sherlock. And yet this is very much a vid for the original idea:

...if instead of having his eccentricities ~tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making; If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch...

(from the original concept post)

For those interested, mindtardis also has a second vid for the same 'verse: "Loaded Gun" (also on youtube) which is based on the BBC episode, "The Hounds of Baskerville."