colours, shapes and geekiness

minionier:

Benedict Cumberbatch

He looks like some kind of bird of prey here. And…his hair looks…I don’t even know. Like lines of chocolate icing.

“To smoke,” he answered. “It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.” He curled himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. -from The Adventure of the Speckled Band

He whipped out his lens and a tape measure, and hurried about the room on his knees, measuring, comparing, examining, with his long thin nose only a few inches from the planks, and his beady eyes gleaming and deep-set like those of a bird.  - fromThe Sign of the Four

Or Sherlock Holmes gets compared to a bird at various points in time. There’s a comparison to some member of the Corvidae family as well, if I’m not just somehow conflating Sherlock Holmes with Uchiha Itachi for some weird reason.