okay so I just read that three fingers fic thing you were talking about and I think my roommates think I'm crazy now. I was laughing throughout the whole thing. Not just giggeling either, crylaughing, writhing around on the sofa, needing to stop after each

“Am I weird?” I’m interested in the logic that makes you think I’m an appropriate authority to credibly answer that question. Perhaps the principle of “it takes one to know one”..?

We spend our time online discussing every possible aspect and permutation of a romantic relationship between two fictional characters whose lives do not resemble our own in any way. We share pictures and videos depicting this relationship. We write and read hundreds of thousands of words outlining their joys and sadnesses, their successes and struggles, as they travel a thousand different paths to the same ultimate destination, and describe their fictional sex in intimate detail. We find it enormously satisfying, intellectually and emotionally, and for many of us it allows us to get at parts of our psyche and our sexuality that we’ve been unable to access in any other way.

Is there anything wrong with this? Of course not. Is it legitimate? Absolutely. Is it joyful and creative and affirming and profoundly worthwhile? I think so.

But it’s probably also pretty weird, no? For a given value of weird?

So if you read a fic where John, even after everything he’s been through with Sherlock, even after everything Sherlock’s done for him, the long looks and the dance lessons and the stag party, even after two years as a shadow of his former self while Sherlock was ‘dead’, does not actually know he’s attracted to Sherlock until Sherlock get him naked and spreads him up against the wall and give his arsehole a thorough seeing to with his tongue until he comes, cock untouched, all over the wallpaper, and that’s what makes him begin to realize… and you find it somewhat amusing, is that the thing that makes you weird…?

No, not at all.

Best of Three by @silentauroriamthereal in case anyone wants to know what we’re talking about.