Otterlock and Hedgejawn

live long and pawspurr

Someone in fandom posted a meme (left) of various otters with the exact same expressions as the gloriously expressive Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC Sherlock, Smaug in Hobbit, that villain guy in Star Trek, and the Guy on the Black Horse in Warhorse). This was followed by a series of hedgehogs (right) with the same expressions as the wonderful Martin Freeman (Bilbo, Watson, Arthur Dent in Hitchhiker's Guide, and The Pirate With A Scarf in Aardman's animated epic). This was followed by various comics, cartoons, memes and my discovery that collecting animal figures is useful.

I already had a few otters and hedgehogs. (I've wrangled otters for a wildlife rehabber, been bitten through 6mil dive gloves, and met at least one hedgehog pet). The addition of a thrift shop sweater ("jumper" for you British fans of BBC Sherlock) with a hole in it, and Otterlock and Hedgejawn took shape. 

Click here for a Sherlockian Glossary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BueXx9a4JmlpXGckaH_ODSPLGcRmw4AuxyT79UO6zLI/edit

"Baker Creek" portrayed by several streams throughout York County PA. Baker Creek Gate from Nixon Park, York County PA.

Otterlock and Hedgejawn investigate the first signs of spring

A nod to Benedict Cumberbatch's comment on costar Ruppert Graves on the Sherlock DVD.

There is a trope in fiction called The Mermaid Problem, or what do you do with a girl who is really half fish?

Hounded in Baskerville
(Otterlock and Hedgejawn investigate strange happenings on the moors and tors, click the pics)

A nod to Sherlock's assesment of the classic deerstalker (...how do you stalk a deer in this? Do you throw it?)

Ships. Fandom is full of ships. Not these ships.

Martin Freeman (aka Watson, aka Hedgejawn) is as tall as me, 5'6". Benedict Cumberbatch is much much taller.