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But you will come with me tonight? When you like, where you like.

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Sharing some uni work I did recently! Isometric view of Sherlock BBC !! It’s sooo nostalgic

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People need to stop making Sherlock Holmes adaptations and then being surprised when people ship Holmes and Watson, it’s been happening since the 1800s I don’t know what you were expecting. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself experienced it. There were ESSAYS published in the NINETEENTH CENTURY about Holmes and Watson being gay. It’s baked into their characters that they will have homoerotic undertones no matter how hard you try. Even if you change the gender of one of them to make them m/f they still somehow have homoerotic undertones. Just accept that if you make a Sherlock Holmes adaptation— no matter how loosely based— people WILL want Holmes and Watson to kiss.

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how does that even work? they come as a pair!!

Wait a minute. Now you are telling me there's going to be a show on Prime called 'Young Sherlock"?? (But with no Watson?)

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Hi! If you're still open to answering Sherlock-related asks, I was wondering when you think John realized Sherlock was in love with him? I know you've said you think they both know about each other's feelings, and I'm with you on when Sherlock figures out about John. But I've never been able to quite figure out when John recognizes Sherlock's feelings. I think the waterfall scene in TAB implies that John knows, and I think he might know by the time of the tarmac scene. But I'm not sure. Thanks!

Hello! I am so sorry for this huge delay. I was busy IRL and at the same time a lot of stuff was happening in another fandom which is very active rn, so the ask was kinda staying behind. I know answered asks get a notification however I will tag you here too @winterdaphne2 to make sure you see this after all this time.

Yes, I strongly believe John knows by HLV. I talk about it a little in the meta "Why did Sherlock push John and Mary back together?" . The key phrase "Your way. Always your way" and the context within which it was uttered, John's confession that Mary was never supposed to be someone he would truly fall in love with (as opposed to Sherlock who was ticking all John's boxes, adventurous people living in danger etc) and Sherlock understanding it but pretending he didn’t and thus failing John and provoking more anger in him ("Why is everything...always... MY FAULT?!"), all those things make me conclude John knew by that point that Sherlock loved him and yet he was insisting on doing nothing about it. In other words, John knew the truth.

As to when he first realised, well we should keep in mind that John suspects Sherlock is gay from the very first day they moved in together because everybody who knows Sherlock insinuates it, Mycroft, Mrs Hudson, Donovan... The fact that from the Blind Banker onwards John suddenly becomes very heteronormative and defensive shows he feels a "threat" in the atmosphere, both due to his own impulses but also due to Sherlock's flamboyant demeanour, his habits, including casually walking around him naked (see John’s blog). In fact, when John starts suspecting Sherlock might be into the Woman, he's equal parts angry and startled. I suppose there was no way to know before the third season because Sherlock was so emotionally guarded, however he did hope, given his suspicions that Sherlock was gay and that their bond was unique and he was visibly an exception in how Sherlock treated people in his life.

At the wedding night John sees the sorrow on Sherlock's face and nearly has a heart attack. I think everything was confirmed there for him. However, I think the time he started landing on the conclusion for good was in TEH. This is the episode in which, after John is kidnapped and thrown into the fire, John keeps pressing Sherlock for an answer regarding why one would choose to harm him if it's Sherlock they are after. He is not truly wondering though. He lingers in the pavement (always a romantic affair, Sherlock tells us in the next episode) and then goes up and asks this with a very knowing look. Then again towards the end of the episode, in the staircase. His face screams suspicion, it screams tease, it screams expectation to finally hear Sherlock say it. Alas, Sherlock doesn't. Met with Sherlock's stubborness and with a wedding proposal looming over his head, John has no choice but to open up himself so he starts telling Sherlock that he went to his grave and "spoke" to him. Sherlock acknowelges this but again chooses to avoid the conversation John tries to start multiple times. John gives up and resumes his proposal to Mary. I think at this episode John finally knew for sure but he also realised that Sherlock was determined to not act on his feelings. I have made a more detailed analysis of this with pictures in the meta "John's Choices (from TEH to TLD)".

Besides, the next episode, TSOT, is the only time John actually makes a physical advance on Sherlock. Sure he was inebriated but I think John had SO many inhibitions anyway that even when drunk he would not be so bold if he wasn’t getting all the green lights of the world from Sherlock at that moment. So, he knew. He knew that if Sherlock dropped his fascade, he would want this.

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05x05 The Illustrious Client

Victorian husbands relaxing in the sauna and getting ready for a case.

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Love how the mic somehow broke from cleaning it but has survived falling into the water multiple times! Indestructible when convenient I guess.

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never underestimate the power of granada holmes to cheer you up

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JEREMY BRETT as SHERLOCK HOLMES in THE MUSGRAVE RITUAL (1986)

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Got the music in you baby, tell me why

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one of the many things i love about sherlock and co is they really heard the bbc sherlock theme and went “bet”

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Granada Holmes and the Happy Place

I have a moment now to expatiate on a question I have long pondered: what makes the Granada Holmes adaptation such a soul-soothing, restorative, happy-making thing? What magic is it that makes Granada Holmes something to which I can turn to at times when the rest of the world is a freaking catastrophe and still find comfort, rest, and pleasure? This is not an exaggeration. Rewatching the Granada series was part of my therapeutic regimen last summer during my wife’s cancer treatment. (I also have a therapist; I’m not suggesting this show can really substitute for treatment by a competent professional.) 

I might assume that I was the only one who felt this way, except that I’ve seen other fans report similar effects. So I’m just going to talk about that for a minute.

Keep reading

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please please please

Listen. Steven Moffat listen to me. I need you to tweet "actually johnlock was always intended to be endgame" on the day after the 2024 presidential election and then turn your phone off. I don't care if it's true or not I just need you to do it, please, it would be so funny.

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I just found a Sherlock Holmes audio book on YouTube, it’s the entire collection of books and the video is 2 days, 17 hours and 14 minutes long

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white f2u divs . . . happy halloween 👻 ♡/rb if used

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“I didn’t lose you, you lost me.”

— Unknown

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THEY ARE SOULMATES. DESTINED TO MEET IN EVERY UNIVERSE. THEY COME AS A PAIR !!! !