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July 7, 2016
errrrm-ok:
just-shower-thoughts:
Eating a lollipop is just swallowing your flavored spit
can you...
Eating a lollipop is just swallowing your flavored spit
can you not
July 6, 2016
ravenmorganleigh:
commandertabbycat:
Why is it that the theme of “Sherlock does in fact feel...
Why is it that the theme of “Sherlock does in fact feel things that he claims to not feel”, which I think a lot if people would agree is a valid reading of his character and an overarching theme of the show, suddenly becomes preposterous and unreasonable when it’s applied to sexual desire and attraction? (Specifically attraction towards men.) Where’s the distinction there? Why is that suddenly going too far?
I LOVE this question. I, too would love to hear folk’s opinion on this, particularly since there seems to be a push back to a “he doesn’t feel things that way”, and seeing Sherlock as basically– neuter. (Which I think is fallout from Setlock/Tab?s3.
@milarvela , @constancecream , @silentauroriamthereal , and anyone else that wants to opine….
I’ve been mulling this over, and I think that it basically comes down to puritanism and some skewed desire to keep the public image of Sherlock “pure”. It’s like he takes on heroic, semi-godlike status if he doesn’t submerge himself in the tawdry delights of the body. I joined this fandom not long after the airing of series 2, and it was a huge fandom trope that Sherlock Holmes Does Not Eat or Sleep and I personally found it quite bizarre, the way people seemed to romanticise this self-denial on his part. There are a lot of fanon things that actually have no basis in canon. John and his love affair with strawberry jam, for instance - when John is never once seen eating jam. In TGG a rail employee uses “strawberry jam” as a euphemism for blood/brains and John repeats it at one point, and that’s the only reference to it. Sherlock says that he doesn’t eat one cases because it slows him down. He never said that he never ingests food at all. In fact, we see him eating something - that may even involve jam - at the beginning of ASIB.
I think that the idea behind it all is that our hero of “pure intellect and reason” would be sullied in also engaging in acts of physicality. This is puritanism at its finest. Even pre-series 3 Sherlock was never a Vulcan, presented as emotionless and cold. He has an ability to detach himself, yes, but he rages, he sulks, he exults. And TAB is literally Sherlock in his own mind, imagining a conversation in which he specifically alerts John to the fact that he has impulses and desires.
I also think that people ship Sherlock with Molly because she’s cute and not presented as hugely sexual. It’s an in-show joke that Sherlock finds the notion of Molly being sexual one that’s either impossible or distasteful to entertain. I think people find the ship “cute”, as in, “aw, Molly would take care of him and make sure he eats” and whatever else. They’re still not envisioning (or so I imagine; I certainly don’t speak for anyone who ships this ship; it’s pure conjecture on my part) sweaty, grunting, thrusting sex, with bodily fluids and friction and ejaculation. Whereas John Watson can barely stagger over to a pool wall for support without making it sound sexual - any ship involving him would therefore have to be an inherently sexual one.
Forgive me for the comparison, but I live in a very Catholic place and work in a Protestant church which allows its priests to marry (same sex or other), and a LOT of people find that terribly strange. The notion is that a Catholic (Orthodox, too) priest should remain celibate in order to keep his focus on God alone. And yet the parish priest where I work is an energetic, happy man in his early forties with a wife and two kids, whose devotion to his congregation and his faith are fully unhindered by the fact that he also engages in regular human relationships.
It’s an apt parallel, I think. And yeah: I think people want to preserve Sherlock’s “purity” in a glass case of sexless, emotionless sterility. But that’s just not the character we’re presented with. At the end of the very first episode, it’s Sherlock who proposes going for late-night Chinese. We see him eating, we see him having emotions, even crying. He’s a warm-blooded human being - and he wants people to understand that about him, specifically John. He wants to be asked. And I’d wager that he wants to be given the opportunity to explore that, too. And who does he care about more than John? It’s John that he has that conversation with, after all, John who is, in Sherlock’s imagination, so insistent that everyone has physical, sexual urges. QED: he’s dying for John specifically to know that he, too, is included in that. And that’s canon.
He can say so much with the smallest of movements. Amazing...
He can say so much with the smallest of movements. Amazing acting, amazing character. Love them both.
constancecream:
All right then, at a closer look the shirt...
All right then, at a closer look the shirt doesn’t seem to be plain white. Rather light grey or blue?
credits for the pic go to @lovebenedictC on twitter
Hehe, someone powder my boy down, there!
July 5, 2016
ptaszekiwi:
Benedict Cumberbatch chatting with his fans in...
Benedict Cumberbatch chatting with his fans in between takes while filming an episode of BBC Sherlock (North Gower Street, 21st August 2013)
photo credit: Ewa Bakowska
This man. I can’t even. :))))
July 4, 2016
I just need for everyone to take a moment to remember that this...
I just need for everyone to take a moment to remember that this happened, that Ben made this incredibly adorable face while Martin was talking to his dad.
okay but literally this is how john will look the first morning he wakes up in Sherlock’s bed
Yes
…and this is obviously Sherlock before getting out of bed staring at John.
Y'all have killed me
This is perfection
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