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November 29, 2016
inevitably-johnlocked:
spookygalpals:
fucked up if true ?!?!!
It...
fucked up if true ?!?!!
It true
Holy crap. And Christmas comes in there too. It’s too much!
November 28, 2016
A DOCTOR IN HIS NATURAL MILIEU
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JUST A LITTLE STUDY IN LIGHT AND SHADOWNovember 28th, 2016
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THE BLIND BANKERJohn at his job interview with Dr. Sarah Sawyer
Do you happen to have any live confession Johnlock fic recs? The more awkward the better!!! You are so awesome btw!!!
Hey sweetie, I know of a few fics that feature love confessions. I dunno how many are awkward, but hopefully something here will fit the bill!
Confessions
Confessions by
crimsonwinter, 4 k , teen. John and
Sherlock finally confess their love for each other.
Eggs
and Toast and Love Confessions
by
allonsys_girl, 10 k, mature. These two really are such idiots, but they figure
it out in the end.
Carte
Blanche by ivyblossom, 6 k, mature. John has written an
earnest confession when he thought he was near death. But he doesn’t die. The
confession is in a notebook burning a hole in his pocket. What to do? (Sequel
to Almost Always.)
Telling
the Bees by siennna, 5 k, gen. It took a beat of silence for
the words to settle in, before both of them realized what John said.
“You—” Sherlock started. “I—” John said at the same time.
“Love me? You love me?” Sherlock asked faintly.
Ink and Honey by stripyjumpers, 3 k,
mature. Unilock. John has tattoos hiding under all those jumpers. One of those
tattoos gives away his sexuality, or leads to a conversation that does.
Of
Course I Forgive You by allonsys_girl, 10 k, explicit.
What if things had gone differently on that train car?
My
Private Affairs by A_Candle_For_Sherlock, 6 k, gen.
Victorian ACD. When Watson receives a letter from an old army friend in town, Holmes
is inexplicably jealous. Only when John realizes what his friend was to him
does he understand his affection for Sherlock. Sweet love confessions.
Never Have I Ever by hudders-and-hiddles
(huddersandhiddles), 10 k explicit. John
and Sherlock tag along for the Met’s weekly night out, where the evening’s
chosen drinking game is Never Have I Ever. Sherlock is reluctant to join in
until he realizes he can learn all kinds of new things about John, but he
forgets that John might learn a thing or two about him as well.
All the Pieces Falling into Place by
221b_careful_what_you_wish_for, 14 k, explicit. John trails after Sherlock
working on solving a Sudoku cube as Sherlock works to solve a case, both of
them working to solve each other without knowing it. This is a bit of a slow
burn with rich, glorious, sensual sex when the two of them finally work things
out. DELICIOUS!
Closeted by sussexbound
(SamanthaLenore), 6 k teen. Being locked in a closet overnight together gives
John and Sherlock time to talk.
Tell it Like it is
by
testosterone_tea, 5 k, mature. Sherlock and John go out to the pub with some of
the officers from Scotland Yard, and once back in 221b, play a word association
game. What seems like a harmless game reveals more than either of them
intended. Post Mary.
"But I think the Rathbone and Nigel Bruce films are the ones that we keep coming back to. That plus..."
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Mark Gatiss, X
So two famous adaptations in which Watson is not married are their big touchstones. And there is of course the Granada version as well:
“The character of Mary Morstan was removed from the stories in which she originally features: nothing ought to get in between Holmes and Watson. She would have got in the way. Watson was more in love with Holmes - in a pure sense - than he could have been with a woman.” (Jeremy Brett)And in BBC Sherlock, it is not Mary Morstan OR Mary Watson who gets in the way, but A.G.R.A., the empty box. So in a way Moftiss have remained far more true to their favourite adaptations than to Canon, all three of which chose to omit the Watson marriage. Which reminds me of their wishing to fix some things in Canon. This leaves room for lots of interesting speculations but I think one thing is indisputable: A.G.R.A. will have to go. Or she has never been there.
(via gosherlocked)
Yessss ….. to all of this. The woman we know as Mary Morstan/Watson/AGRA does only exist in Sherlock’s mind. She is a ghost, an empty box.
(via ebaeschnbliah)
Great points! And I agree, I think we will lose Mary Morstan.
After these very good details about some of Moftiss’ inspirations, what interests me is why Moftiss made the decision to include Mary in this version (And a baby for Heaven’s sake). So we could hurl rocks at her, or look forward to her erasure? That seems like a grim kind of entertainment.
I suspect, as with everything else in this show, the things that disturb us are the things that can teach us something, if we pay attention.
What do we know about Mary Morstan? Not much. She appears to be a player, or a pawn, in a bigger game; it seems she has family that CAM has under threat.
We saw her shoot Sherlock. (We saw Sherlock jump off a roof).
We heard Sherlock say she saved his life; he seems to want to save hers. (We know that Sherlock is skilled at lying and deception).
Mary’s motives and actions are unexplained; Sherlock’s attitude toward her is unexplained. I think that’s all I really know for sure.
I don’t know what Moftiss has in mind. It’s entirely possible that I won’t understand even after the very last episode has aired! But I’m looking forward to exploring the message behind Mary Morstan.
(via longsnowsmoon5)
tendergingergirl:
dmellieon:
Darker edge to Sherlock by Tan...
Darker edge to Sherlock by Tan Shzr Ee for the The Straits Times in The Jakarta Post on Monday, Nov 28, 2016
A new baby on the set looks poised to unhinge the slow-burn bromance between Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, as Season 4 of the popular BBC series Sherlock cranks up slowly towards its television opening in Singapore in January.
Two years after a Christmas Special last year that saw the series travel back in time to the Victorian era to sojourn with zombie brides, the latest offering based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s murder mysteries will kick off with a guest star in the form of the offspring of John Watson (Freeman) and his wife Mary (Freeman’s real-life partner, Amanda Abbington).
“They have a baby girl. You know it,” confirms actor Rupert Graves, who plays policeman Lestrade on the series.
“Because someone took a photo of it and outed it on the Internet…” he adds slowly.
Mary Watson (Amanda Abbington), Sherlock Holmes, and John Watson.(bbc.co.uk/File)
He glares, mock-daggers, at a gaggle of international press in a London hotel conference room, making light drama of (deliberately) leaked paparazzi photos during an earlier film shoot in Borough Market.
But as everyone in the room expects - the baby in Sherlock does throw in a number of awkward plot moments. Not least because the vaguely sociopathic title TV character already has issues relating to general humankind on an everyday level.
In a separate interview, Sherlock’s actor Cumberbatch - himself recently a new father - alludes: “I certainly handle babies on set very differently to how I handle them in real life. But let’s not go into that…”
To which - “What baby? Whose baby?” is Freeman’s response.
“There were so many babies on the set and they were all interchangeable, it all became quite confusing. Male, female. Boy, girl. I don’t know. I never knew,” he adds.
Freeman’s partner Abbington - who already has two of her own with him - throws in her two cents’ worth as the TV mother of the child in question: “At least you could give them all back after you were done filming. Not like in real life.”
(Read also: Doctor Strange is not Sherlock with magic, says Benedict Cumberbatch)
John Watson (Martin Freeman) from BBC “Sherlock”.(bbc.co.uk/File)
But “it does get us together a little bit - in the first episode anyway”, says actress Louise Brealey, who plays Molly the pathologist.
And do not worry, she reassures all - “they don’t overdo the nappy humor”.
For all the lighthearted banter about milk bottles and projectile pi**ing, however, Sherlock’s fourth outing is allegedly darker - in fact, “very, very dark”, as Graves says.
“I got goosebumps, proper goosebumps, reading the script. And it doesn’t really happen very often,” he adds.
TV teasers hint at the usual conundrum of whether the series’ arch- villain Moriarty is back for vengeance. But beyond that, an ominous edge reeking of creepy horror - as opposed to gritty crime - glosses each scene.
On the trailer, a voice whispers: “Something’s coming. The roads we walk have demons beneath.”
Cumberbatch points out that “it wouldn’t be so satisfying if we were churning out the same things we started with”.
Mycroft Holmes (Mark Gatiss) from BBC “Sherlock”.(bbc.co.uk/File)
“We keep on trying to surprise ourselves and our audiences. The level of invention, the imagination, the darkness and joy… there’s lots of serious stuff, but which they still managed to turn into something funny. There’s something still very human about this.”
In preparation for the fourth incarnation of this role, the actor says he had to “keep learning to do new things”.
Citing the lack of a photographic memory, he says he struggled on set to simply become a disgustingly clever person, albeit with one or two payoffs.
“I’m not a natural learner, I have to try quite hard. I feel my brain is a little more subtle and capable when I’m playing him.
“Whether it’s piano music or learning more French. I do feel more alert, I’m keyed up,” he explains.
There are also other kinds of kickbacks. “My mother says I’m much more curt with her when I’m filming Sherlock.”
And yet that is perhaps why TV audiences watch and look forward to the title character’s acerbic and arrogant one-liners, mostly thrown at the world-weary Watson.
(Read also: Meet Charlotte Holmes, Sherlock’s granddaughter)
Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.(bbc.co.uk/File)
Indeed, for those who enjoy the show for the wonderfully strained love-hate play-off between Sherlock and Watson, rest easy that this element will very much remain in play in the new season.
Cumberbatch says: “The jarring nature of their friendship is endless fuel for great drama. That’s probably more heightened than the originals.”
He adds: “That’s the thing - they’re an odd fit. There’s one crossover and that’s danger. The lure of danger.”
And it is danger that exposes - ultimately - Sherlock’s own fallibility and humanity. Yes, the man does make mistakes.
Cumberbatch argues: “It’d be incredibly dull if he was permanently an incredible hero and always right and the episodes were always just about the unraveling of other people’s stupidity to realize that he was right.”
(via Darker edge to Sherlock - Entertainment - The Jakarta Post)
French and piano? Ooh.
November 27, 2016
Mrs Hudson’s Dress
There has been much talk about this promo pic:
We know that this is the jacket Mrs Hudson wore at the wedding and the dress she wore at the beginning of TEH when John visited after all this time to tell her he was “moving on”:
And it is also the dress she wore when Sherlock returned to 221b on the evening of the same day:
Some thoughts about this choice of dress:
It is quite symbolic. Mrs Hudson wore it the day both men returned to 221b. John told her that he was finally going to leave behind Sherlock although his whole demeanour must have told her that this was not true. And then, later on, there is the shock of Sherlock coming back from the dead. We do not see what happens after her scream but I suppose she treated his split lip and broken (?) nose, provided Molly had not seen to it before. Did Sherlock tell her about his meeting with John? Did she mention John’s visit and how much he suffered after the fall?
Whatever happened on the day and night, they chose this very dress for the occasion we are going to see in series 4. It is a dress symbolising loss, grief, joy, and missed opportunities. Which is quite a lot but there is more.
If we assume that the S4 scene happens in Sherlock’s mind - which is quite possible - he consciously dressed Mrs Hudson in the dress she wore when John said goodbye to 221b and he himself returned, missing John in Baker Street only by hours. And he combines it with the jacket she wore on the day he lost John for good.
And here is a last thought by @ebaeschnbliah: It is very unlikely that an elderly lady as fashion conscious as Mrs Hudson (cerise drains her) would choose a dress she wore when doing the dishes for an obviously solemn occasion like the one in S4.
@gosherlocked you are right, the clothes they wear have so much meaning, it is not chosen at random.
Just seconding @ebaeschnbliah here: Mrs Hudson and her dresses are some tell (especially the new dress from THoB she already wore in ASiB).
And either it’s a special dress - something you’d wear to a christening/funeral - but then, why is she wearing it at the beginning of TEH? Does she have an invitation for that day? But she’s at home when John calls (afternoon) and at night when Sherlock returns…
Or it’s not a special dress, it’s something she’d wear every day and do the dishes in. But why then wear it to a special occasion in S4? This doesn’t make sense…
My thoughts precisely @isitandwonder A lady like Mrs. Hudson would never wear the same dress for doing the dishes as well as going to a wedding, christening, funeral. Actually, no one would do such a thing.
And the dress she wears in THOB and ASIB she also wears in HLV when she opens the door for Magnusson and his bodyguards. How much time is there in between? Four years or five?
These are all very good points. The visible
rim implies a christening, but you would wear something colorful and upbeat for that, not black and certainly not certainly you wash dishes in. It could be either a) the christening is MP or dream and Sherlock dresses her in Thea clothes for the reasons stated above. Or if it’s not a dream, she herself sees the baby as a tragic event.
Buy cinema tickets for TV Preview: Sherlock Series 4, Episode 3 + panel discussion and Q&A | BFI Southbank
OK, we need to discuss: Why preview a finale? Usually shows preview the opening episode. What is in episode 1 and 2 that they are keeping from leaking before air date? What will we all know by episode 3 which enables TPTB to showcase their final ep of series 4 without as much secrecy?
So the 12th of Jan BFI: lets hope Ben and Martin both attend and we get some great photos for the next 5 years of Freebatch hell. I also expect an announcement on this night of either series 5 commissioning or the future of the show in general [a series in 3 years, specials after, that type of thing]
Is the 12th jJanuary confirmed? But they’ll preview it a few days after TLD was on TV, still before the official air date? Why? And is it an episode that works on it’s own because of the cinema release? Or does something SOOO important happen that it’s worth the big screen and a preview?
Oh My God!!!
Yes Jan 12th at 6.15. It’s on the Events section of the BFI calendar.
I hate this! I don’t understand why they always have to. do these public pre-screenings. They could do a press thing, if neccessary. But these public events always spoil the episode for 99,99999999999 % of the rest of the fandom.
Last time was hell. All we got from the leaks was Mary is lovely, Sherlock likes Mary, the wedding was so sweet, Sherlock leaves brokenhearted, Mary’s pregnant [all our hearts sank] then with HLV we got Sherlock kisses a woman, he has a girlfriend, and finally relief: Mary shoots Sherlock [best news johnlockers had all year] But until we all watched it was mass panic and fear over the end of johnlock. I do think they learned their lesson though. This time it’s only one episode and it’s the final one. So the viewers are more in the know if leaks do surface. Hopefully less panic. But…maybe not.
November 23, 2016
This is release day for my Christmas m/m romance, “Merry Christmas, Mr....
This is release day for my Christmas m/m romance, “Merry Christmas, Mr. Miggles”.
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November 22, 2016
monikakrasnorada:
isitandwonder:
camillo1978:
ebaeschnbliah:
gosherlocked:
isitandwonder:
cami...
So I’ve deliberately diverted my gaze from setlock except for the prettiest pictures of pretty actors. But the more I ponder the first three series of Sherlock, the more I am convinced that the whole of series 3 is imaginary. As in, a function of Sherlock’s mind palace + imagination + any drugs he could get his hands on.
It’s Mycroft’s glamorous and obviously fake uniform, and the fact he’s slogged off to Serbia to do detested footwork, and the way he watches Sherlock getting tortured but it’s then Sherlock who niftily deduces himself out of a beating.
It’s too heightened. It’s too much like wishful thinking. It’s imaginary. The whole thing - the rescue, the Houses of Parliament, the wedding, Sherlock shooting CAM, the whole of TAB … It’s all going to have been imaginary.
In fact I think the Fall symbolised Sherlock falling off the wagon and OD'ing. I think that whole sequence might be “imaginary” too, hence the explanation not being a punchline.
So Moriarty isn’t dead because he never shot himself and Sherlock hasn’t been away for two years and Mary doesn’t exist.
I’m sure someone else has already written the same thing but I promise I haven’t read it, or really tracked down any supporting evidence for that matter. But it’s also my gut reaction to seeing explicit use of drugs in TAB linked with Moriarty and the gun. That the two things are linked.
/burble.
There are plenty of clues that it may indeed be EDT. Look toward @xistentialangst for some interesting (although not spoiler free!) meta.
Oh look there we go! Anyone who is interested should head to @xistentialangst as I’m avoiding spoilers and might explore my ideas with fan art but only tend to post occasional short speculations.
Thank you @otp221b <3 I just need to google EDT as I don’t know what that stands for ;)@isitandwonder I’ve been muttering about series three being an extended fantasy sequence for quite a long time. Here’s some thoughts from the beginning of August. I’m not known for meta and have tended to avoid commenting on other’s meta posts because of being told to bugger off and write my own posts in the past. I’m also avoiding spoilers ;)
I am totally not a spoiler free blog @camillo1978fanart so I can’t invite you over to my place but I just want to say that I have contenplated the very same points you have raised and that it wouldn’ t surprise me if ‘remember where we left them’ means sometime during S2.
I’m actually a bit speechless because I was discussind the same issues with a few pals over the last days and seeing our ‘crazy’ way out thoughts condensed like this gives me life - because it means we are not alone in thinking that something is extremely fishy re: S3. And that is neither wishful thinking nor retconning because all those thoughts/dreams do something with Sherlock, they are the expression of his inner world and experiencing all the developments like they were real change him profoundly imo.
Let me just point you towards @ebaeschnbliah @gosherlocked @monikakrasnorada @tjlcisthenewsexy @longsnowsmoon5 @yan-yae and @tendergingergirl if you want to discuss this more.
@camillo1978: sorry, tags don’t work. This is amazing! I am one of @isitandwonder‘s pals and very happy to see that you have come up with such ideas. We started thinking about an extended MP after TAB but even before setlock. And going back even further like you has been an option discussed by us. Sadly my blog is not spoiler-free either but you are welcome to discuss your ideas in a spoiler-free way if possible.
Hey, @camillo1978 here’s one more EMP/EDT believer! Also I strongly suspect that the whole Mary Morstan ‘thing’ is an ‘empty’ case - just like the AGRA treasure box had been empty in canon. :) Therefore no fall, no hiatus, no wedding … and so on. As a possible startingpoint for this ‘thought experiment’ of Sherlock (as I like to call it) I currently have my eyes on the beginning of ASIB. Unfortunately my blog isn’t spoilerfree as well. But I’m open to any spoilerfree discussion if possible. It’s wonderful to find someone with similar suspicions. :))))
(Hopfully the tag works. Was a bit tricky)
Hello! @ebaeschnbliah Congratulations on managing to tag me :) I think there’s a lot of people having an oh god not Dallas time of it. Yes I’m old enough to remember!
I was just saying, I’m wondering if faking a death = getting high. Maybe it means Moriarty is present.
Maybe Moriarty bing present isn’t actually real, it symbolises Sherlock getting high and Mycroft inventing cases to get him sober again.
Sherlock considers taking a pill in ASiP, Moriarty appears.
Janus Cars will fake your death for you, Moriarty appears.
Sherlock seems to be possibly high when he notices the break in at 221B in ASiB, Irene Adler fakes her death, Moriarty appears.
The banker’s death is faked in TRF and Moriarty appears.
Moriarty possibly fakes his death, Sherlock fakes his death, is he on a bender?!
The Mayfly Man seems to be a ghost, is Sherlock getting high? He’s definitely high in HLV.
Emilia Ricoletti fakes her death, TABSherlock gets high, Moriarty appears, Moriarty fakes his death again!
Phew! It’s a thing but I don’t know what thing it is ;)OK, but Dallas really retconned it all if I remember correctly (yes, I’m old enough, but I was more the Dallas type back then). Bobby wasn’t dead, none of it happened, it was just a dream without consequences. Whereas Sherlock changes during his dream/coma/emp. He runs different scenarios, and changes direction as/if one proves unsatisfactory or a dead end. And he figures stuff out. We see inside his mind and how it works. We witness his progression. He won’t forget everything when he ‘awakes’, he will take his experiencces with him.
I really like the Moriarty / drugs association. Moriarty is Sherlock’s weakness (he says so in TAB = Sherlock thinks this). And despite Sherlock’s talk about controlled usage - a drug habit can also be a weakness, because an addiciton corrupts the free will. But what is the real virus in the data for Sherlock, the fly in the ointment? I think feelings, emotions. Moriarty might stand for the dark side Sherlock fears to succumb to if he gives in to his feelings. Because to trust someone else means to give up control. Can someone like Shelrock do this? On the other hand, Sherlock would imo take drugs to cope with his feelings, to access them in a self-controlled environment. It’s like temporarily unleashing what he might perceive as his dark, unstable, emotional side. Le petit mort?
Yes! I was just reading your other post, @camillo1978, about how suicide / faking death could be a parallel to drug-taking. I love that idea and will need to keep that in mind when I rewatch. As for the whole “Dallas” accusation. Yeah, I’m definitely old enough to remember that whole deal and it irks me when I see people using that as their excuse for dismissing the POSSIBILITY of EMP. They are not the same thing at all. As @isitandwonder pointed out, with EMP, we see what Sherlock deals with, where his thoughts lead him and to how that effects him. Once he ‘wakes up’ those moments for him won’t be erased. We see where his conclusions have led him at the end of TAB- he understands that he can’t do it without John. That’s a beautiful thing that IS real and true, dream or not. Sherlock now KNOWS. So many people have also claimed this ‘erases’ character growth. How? John is stagnant throughout all of HLV. Is indifferent, at best, in TAB, I personally hope and pray for the SAKE of Johnlock that this has all been in Sherlock’s head. I hate the thought that this is now the John Watson we are left with.
If you want a link, to my EMP meta, it’s here.
http://xistentialangst.tumblr.com/xameta
I’m not of the opinion that all of S3 is EMP/EDT, but only post the Waston domestic in HLV. However, I’m not particularly vested in any one theory. Sure, the start of S3 was over the top. But then, so is nearly every episode. Hound and ASiB both were damned OTT. <shrug>
I feel like there’re a lot of hints that point to EMP/EDT, but if it turns out not to be the case at all, it won’t kink my chain. I am zen with it and can see any number of theories being true.
My main issue, personally, is just how OOC John is from Christmas on including in the modern day TAB scenes. As a writer, that bugs the shit out of me. But there could be other possible explanations (i.e. John has a plan and he’s shit at lying so he just stays blank). But we’ll see.
Exciting!
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