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skulls-and-tea:remember when john watson said “Sit.” and the entire world wanted to sit for a tiny...

skulls-and-tea:

remember when john watson said “Sit.” and the entire world wanted to sit for a tiny british man in a rick owens cardigan

thescienceofjohnlock:br0-harry:ishipjohnlock247: omg! this...

thescienceofjohnlock:

br0-harry:

ishipjohnlock247:

 omg! this is so beautiful!

dreamboy

Still one of my absolute favs

So amazing!

silentauroriamthereal:moonyisle:It’s a f a m i l y ...

silentauroriamthereal:

moonyisle:

It’s a  f a m i l y  trait.

Sherlock wishes someone (John) would try to have the same conversation he tried to have with Mycroft about his sexuality and/or need for love. This is rather sweet, in a slightly heartbreaking way!

I love how they lit Martin’s neck so you could be sure to see the nervous gulps.

creaturebatch:let’s have dinnerJohn No-Good-At-Lying Waton,...

creaturebatch:

let’s have dinner

John No-Good-At-Lying Waton, ladies and gentlemen.

Mediated and Medicated

ivyblossom:

Was Sherlock high on the tarmac? They raise it as a possibility. My initial impulse is to say he wasn’t, because he didn’t seem high, but then he didn’t seem especially high when John accidentally rescued him in His Last Vow either, so I suspect I’m no judge of that. Perhaps he was. Let’s say he was.

Would that change how we see Sherlock and John’s goodbye on the tarmac? In a way, I think it could. Not to make it mean less. Perhaps to make it mean more. 

It reminded me of what the creators of House did in a similar situation. When House’s girlfriend is having surgery to determine whether or not she has metastasized kidney cancer, House stays away. It’s so emotionally fraught for him that he can’t get anywhere near her. He sends other people to be supportive for him. Then, right at the last moment, he steps up. He’s by her side, he’s kind, he’s funny, he’s unafraid, and it’s great. But then we find out he only managed to do it because after a long spell of sobriety, he was high.

Sherlock had a hard time with a fake farewell to John when he was standing on the roof at Barts, and at that time he was at least fairly certain he would survive. He had plans. He intended to come back. But this time he knows the goodbye is permanent. And it seems he was at least considering making a dramatic admission to John about his feelings. It’s a very fraught moment that ends up sort of going nowhere. It’s all very stiff upper lip. He doesn’t cry all over John, and doesn’t cling to him, and doesn’t break down and tell him how scared he is. He doesn’t fight. He lies about his future so John can imagine him off having adventures for years to come. He keeps it together, he gives John a dashing and charming figure to remember. Maybe he couldn’t manage to do any of that without being high. 

I wouldn’t blame him for that.

You’re killing me.

roseinmyhand:@kinklock

roseinmyhand:

@kinklock

kinklock:also Modern John on the plane doesn’t see that Sherlock’s high, to the point where when...

kinklock:

also Modern John on the plane doesn’t see that Sherlock’s high, to the point where when Mycroft demands Sherlock hand over a list of what he’s taken, John tries to defend him and say it isn’t drugs, which is when Sherlock throws the list over. Shortly after Sherlock hears Victorian John asking “Morphine or cocaine?” but thought it was Modern John saying it – this is because he wants it to have been his real John noticing, he wants John to notice he’s relapsed hard, he wants John to push him about it, he wants it SO badly that it’s the trigger that allows him to slip back into his fantasy where there’s a John who is going to inquisition him about it

This is an interesting point, and very sad. It’s so weird to me that John doesn’t get more upset and in sherlocks face about the drugs on the plane. And it must have felt really wrong to Sherlock. So wrong that his heart pulled him back into his mind palace just so he could fix it and have John giving him he’ll about taking drugs.

Like, he couldn’t bear that John didn’t seem to care anymore.

dan-howells-smile:@statsbritain sherlock special edition

dan-howells-smile:

@statsbritain sherlock special edition

The Devilry in The Abominable Bride

skulls-and-tea:

skulls-and-tea:

MRS HUDSON: He says he’s waiting.

LESTRADE: For what?

MRS HUDSON: The devil.

WATSON, surprised around a corner by MARY: What the devil?!

WATSON (quietly): Good God, what is this place? (He turns to look at MARY.) And what the devil are you doing here?

Bonus reference:

Guess who?

your gifset is wonderful! do you know what it's made me notice though? the way John parts his hair changes directions after Sherlock's death!!! omg! did people already notice this or did i actually discover something?! but still, FANTASTIC gifset!!

Glad you enjoyed my gifset!

I don’t recall reading this before about John’s part.  Let’s see if it’s accurate.

STUDY IN PINK, parted on the right:

BLIND BANKER, parted on the right:

GREAT GAME, parted on the right:

SCANDAL, parted on the right

HOUNDS, parted on the right:

REICHENBACH FALL, parted on the right:

EMPTY HEARSE, parted on the left:

SIGN OF THREE, parted on the left:

LAST VOW, parted on the left:

So what can we deduce from this?  Grief makes you change the way you part your hair?  Love makes you change the way you part your hair?  John was so desperate for excitement after Sherlock’s death that he changed the way he parted his hair?  Personally, I think the change was just to emphasize the passage of time.  But good observation!