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November 3, 2022
90soldsoul:
Black Panther [2018]
Black Panther [2018]
November 2, 2022
Hi! What’s your take on this line- “You were my whole world. Being Mary Watson was the only life worth living. Thank you.” I’ve always thought that it’s a classic example of inconsistent characterization. (I love your stories btw. Specially the HLV fix-i
So, I just wrote you a whole long comment in response to the comment you just left on my fic Stand-in, haha! It got me on a Mary rant and therefore perfectly poised to come and answer this.
Without putting too fine a point on it, my take is that this line is utter bullshit. Nothing about that scene is consistent with Mary’s previous characterization, as you so rightly said. What we saw was:
-a character who made a career in killing for personal gain. Not principle, not national loyalty, just money. She at no point in the canon expressed any remorse for that.
-a character whose cover story (“doctor’s wife”, mother of a newborn, etc) was getting boring for her, bait that she rises to in showing off her shooting skills to Sherlock in HLV.
-a character who “loved” this life so much that she ran away the instant shit hit the fan, refusing Sherlock’s help and instead attacking him a second time, leaving behind an infant child as well as John, just as she abandoned her AGRA teammates to torture and death without even having the decency to confirm that they were beyond rescue.
-a character who knew that her time with John was up. There was that unvarnished moment of truth after he and Sherlock went to get her, finding her due to John having already known that she would attack Sherlock and planting a tracking device in the USB key, where she says “I liked Mary” and he says “I do, too. Or I used to.” (Paraphrasing very loosely there!)
That does not add up to Mary (“Mary”) finding this life with John the “only life worth living”, or even a sustainable life. She was bored. She had endless loose ends left behind, just like her own teammate. She had consequences waiting for her, and ran away from them - maybe to spare John and Rosie from having to face them, but she was never willing to try honesty in the first place, try telling John her real name, even (you can BET it wasn’t her criminal alias of Rosamunde… no one could be that stupid!). She wasn’t willing to, say, turn herself in, face the consequences of any of her actions, express any regret for anything she’d ever done to anyone, no holds barred.
My theory is that she chose her own out. She knew that John didn’t love her anymore (I mean, he was already thinking of cheating and you can also bet that Mary checked his phone…) and she decided to fake a moment of “redemption” to throw division between him and Sherlock, by trying to somehow make the deliberate choices of two other people Sherlock’s fault. It’s bizarre logic, and I’m not even going to touch on the writing aspect here. Mary knew her time was up, so she pulled her signature move and ran away from it all, one last time. She was a coward who never thought she needed to answer for her own actions or apologize for them - and let’s be clear: she did. Mary was an absolutely horrendous human being. Her entire relationship with John was lies and more lies. No one in the CANON liked her - there was a double-sided list of people who hate her among her OWN WEDDING GUESTS, which is quite something. She killed people for a living and she felt just fine about abandoning these teammates that were like “family” to her in favour of blithely starting a whole new life without a second thought for anything she’d ever done.
So yeah: it was a bullshit line. One last piece of the final cover story of who knows how many.
October 31, 2022
Wee update
Just sharing that my sequel to Isosceles is now just shy of 13,000 words! She’s going slowly, but she’s going!!
October 27, 2022
I hope you have a good day. 😊
Oh, thank you so much! I hope you do, too! :)
October 23, 2022
spaceshipkat:congratulations! you’re now a pirate. your s...
congratulations! you’re now a pirate. your seventh most recent emoji is the symbol on your flag. mine is ™️
Lol. Mine is 🙄 Seems about right 😂
October 20, 2022
headspace-hotel:jackdaw-kraai:humorverse:
made a positive meme...
made a positive meme for u
Okay, but legit, this works. Like, it really, really does work.
This is the most important mental health advice
barachiki:Sherlock ignored the ringing of the doorbell and the...
Sherlock ignored the ringing of the doorbell and the shouts of ‘Trick or Treat.’ If children wanted candy, they could buy their own.
Hahahahahaha!
October 18, 2022
221b-alovestory:
Martin as celebrity chef
How adorably p...
Martin as celebrity chef
How adorably proud he looks in the 5 th gif ❤️
Wait wait wait what is this and where how when do I find it?!?!
October 17, 2022
bbcsherlock:
The Blind Banker Sherlock 1.02
The minute...
The Blind Banker
Sherlock 1.02
The minute changes in Benedict’s face as he does Sherlock’s micro reactions as he comprehends John’s whole situation here. Amazing. What a master, seriously.
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