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March 21, 2015
nymeria578 replied to your post: nymeria578 replied to your post “nymer…I supposed that you...
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I supposed that you lived near Spandau according to your fic ;) I lived in Tiergarten less than 200 meters from Hauptbahnhof or formerly known as Lehrter Bahnhof. Thanks to your fic I so miss Berlin right now ;) I moved away in 2008.
Well, I didn’t spend much time there - I know Charlottenburg well, and the areas around Zoologischer Garten, the Hauptbahnhof, and Alexanderplatz. And when I was there the first time I was staying near Ostkreuz and I went back to visit the area once. Definitely a different feeling than the west, for sure! I also have a couple of singer friends who live in Prenzlauerberg, so I know that bit, too. It’s a big city, hard to get to know is just a few months! I love it and miss it, too, though! Setting part of a story there was a way to spend some time there again, in a way. :)
Whoo, just finished the Lestrade fic! It’s totally unedited, though. Tomorrow! It’s currently 11,800...
Whoo, just finished the Lestrade fic! It’s totally unedited, though. Tomorrow! It’s currently 11,800 words or so, will be longer with edits, I’m sure. :P
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Not yet. But I’m leaving a comment on AO3 as soon as I read it. It left so many vivid memories of my old home Berlin ;)
Oh, cool! What part of Berlin did you live in?? I lived wayyy out west, practically in Spandau - at the Olympia-Stadion S5 station, basically. :P
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I forgot to mention, it’s one of the best fics I’ve ever read :)
Did you finish it?? :) Oh, you nice, nice thing! Thank you!!!
March 20, 2015
Holy shit, I just discovered that Imagine Dragons has a new album!! And it’s SO SO GOOD! Happiness...
Holy shit, I just discovered that Imagine Dragons has a new album!! And it’s SO SO GOOD! Happiness is very much listening to Imagine Dragons and having a very private solo dance party at 3am, heh
patternofdefiance:Thinking about BBC Sherlock and how it talks about light and stars, and this...
Thinking about BBC Sherlock and how it talks about light and stars, and this occurred to me.
The first mention of astrology in the series is when John and Sherlock bicker about the solar system:
JOHN: But it’s the solar system!
(Sherlock briefly buries his head in his hands.)
SHERLOCK: Oh, hell! What does that matter?!
(He looks at John in frustration.)
SHERLOCK: So we go round the Sun! If we went round the Moon, or
round and round the garden like a teddy bear, it wouldn’t make any
difference. All that matters to me is the work. Without that, my brain
rots.
(He ruffles his hair with both hands, then glares at John.)Then, later in the episode, we are privy to this exchange:
SHERLOCK: Beautiful, isn’t it?
(John looks up [and sees an impossibly dense star field that you would never see in central London in a million years].)
JOHN: I thought you didn’t care about things like that.
SHERLOCK: Doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate it.Not long after, when John faces down the Golem, this happens:
John is covered, bathed in stars. (Note that even Sherlock is covered in starlight, albeit it against his will - no one’s immune to this extended metaphor, it seems…)
…I’ll leave you to your deductions.
God, this is a beautiful post! Sherlock literally sees John as his entire solar system. Oh, my heart.
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The last one
March 18, 2015
just-sort-of-happened:
In The Sign of Three, both of John’s...
In The Sign of Three, both of John’s love interests give him a code word or phrase. His reaction to each of them is very different.
When John realizes that, ‘Beth’, is calling Mary, his reaction is literally the most pissed off he’s ever looked on the show. He is so annoyed, he literally looks at the camera like he’s on the Office and just holds that look. This is how bothered he is. As far as we can tell Mary is being adorable and inventive and he looks positively fed up with her. He then does a deep sigh and seems to have to will himself to get up from his chair. As he enters the kitchen he avoids eye contact and then forces a fake smile; he turns it on like a light, it’s totally synthetic. He’s trying really hard to be nice, there, despite finding this situation really annoying.
When Sherlock says his code phrase, John immediately becomes alert and gets ready to help. He is all in. Whatever Sherlock needs he is doing. He even stands to offer his services. This is so natural to John, to be there when Sherlock needs. This is John in his element.
Now, while in the story we can say that Sherlock’s code is of life or death importance whereas Mary’s is just a trivial, wedding playing related matter, the point is that we have this parallel about codes words. His response to a fairly easy issue with Mary is to be more annoyed than he’s ever looked and his response to Sherlock is that he’s ready to immediately do anything for him.
By the beginning of HLV we can see that John’s marriage is in trouble, for sure. But, even here, before the wedding, I think that we see him being way too annoyed with Mary. At this point in the story she’s done nothing but be cute and supportive, we have no reason to think that John would be this annoyed with her. John is sending us clues as to his unhappiness with Mary even before it becomes really obvious.
All of this! And look at Mary’s face in the bottom frame, too. Some part of her had to know that she could never compete with Sherlock.
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