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[mydogwatson]

The reason the general public nowadays cannot see Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as a romantic couple is because romantic relationships in real life are not nearly as good as theirs is. The characters come from a time when men and women had a very different power dynamic in society – many can argue there are still remnants of that dynamic resonating today. The man ruled the roost, the little woman attended the home but made no actual decisions in her life. Can you imagine being a Victorian, used to that lifestyle, that unfair power dynamic, and getting your hands on a Sherlock Holmes story? Two people live together, work together, care about each other more than anything in the entire world, and each person is equal to the other? One is an army doctor, the other a detective, and together they kick ass… until it’s time to go to dinner and the Opera together. They vacation together, wake up and eat breakfast together, they know each other’s sleeping habits. They walk together in the park and don’t feel pressured to speak because they know each other “intimately”. They stay living together long into old age. What a romance! What an exceptionally high bar for romance! A bar everyone wants to meet but most don’t. Who doesn’t want to be in a romantic relationship where you and your partner love and care about each other most in all the world? Where you two spend every day together and you’re glad for it, and days you’re apart you wait impatiently for a reunion? Where you build a life together? Where you literally take to Journaling about how great your partner is? Where each person is equal?

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson have had an 130-year romance and that’s precisely why people love them. If someone does not understand that those two men were as intimate as lovers, it’s because that person does not grasp what a romantic relationship should be.

Have i ever had a romance as great as that of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson? No, not by a long shot, but i hope that one day I’ll be lucky enough to experience it myself.

[mydogwatson]

Vance is a "nerd"? Literally could not tell.

He's one of those angry, weird, gatekeeping nerds who gets angry when a gross girl wants to touch his Magic cards, then complains that no girls will talk to him.

He's all the weird things we've worked so hard to push out of the larger community of nerds that we all love.

He isn't a nerd, really. He's more of a chud.

[mydogwatson]

“I do believe that my darling Edward is the greatest Watson that has ever been because he combined all the elements, I believe: he’s not a buffoon, he’s a quizzical, wise, bel— humorous, good friend, a man of medicine and a soldier. And our Ted achieved all that. He plays him with tremendous dignity and a certain boyish charm which is marvellous because it gives him that youthful thing. I always think that the optimism of Watson balances the pessimism of Holmes.”

—

Jeremy Brett on The Secret of Sherlock Holmes

There’s that curious slip of the tongue at 2:55, which sounds suspiciously like he was about to say “beloved”. Perhaps he felt too restrained by the circumstances at the time to even hint at that. Or maybe he did think of them as platonic friends only. Either way Watson is a beloved person for Holmes.

(via acdhw)

[mydogwatson]

Holy Wine hath updated again

(A Case of You from Sherlock's POV)

Summary: After his terrible miscalculation at the Landmark, Sherlock learns that John’s cut all contacts and left London.

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Ch. 3: When Sherlock's cocaine-substitute is wearing off, he meets someone. Friends, meet Eric Canfield, who doesn’t hesitate to ask for what he wants.

Holy Wine is what Sherlock thinks happened in the story A Case of You. I'm hoping to make it transparent to someone who hasn't read that one--and oh my, do I ever owe the stellar betas who are helping me do that. 🤍

Thanks for reblogging!

(and let me know if I should tag you--or untag you, thanks)

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[mydogwatson]

A Preview: Déjà Vu by Calais Reno

It's 2013. Again.

This time, John and Sherlock haven't met. But they're both alive, in London, and they're about to meet.

This is their happy ending.

Here's an excerpt from Chapter 2:

John had never experienced hallucinations before, not even when he was so drunk he passed out. Now it’s happened twice. 

The first time was when Matt Davies died and John began to limp from a wound that never happened.

The second time was that night at Barts A&E. 

It was the twenty-ninth of January. A slushy snow was falling, and they expected more than the usual number of traffic accidents. He’d just finished operating on a ruptured spleen and was talking with one of the nurses. 

As he stood at the nurses station, a cup of stale coffee in his hand, his hallucination hobbled in, holding a blood-darkened scarf to his leg.

And then —

He’s standing on the pavement beneath a tall building. Looking up, he sees a dark figure silhouetted against a bright sky. The figure spreads his arms, as if to take flight, but he doesn’t fly. He falls. 

The sickening thud of his body hitting ground. 

The shudder of his final breath, followed by stillness.

The frozen horror of bystanders. 

On the pavement, those clear eyes look up at John and then dim, the blood pooling beneath his head. 

Harry had struggled with mental health since before their parents died; she drank to keep her demons at bay. 

You haven’t looked for him, have you? To see if he was real? That’s what she’d ask him. 

But that was just the thing he couldn’t do. 

The night his hallucination walked into A&E covered in blood, one of the other doctors stitched the man up, and John went into the loo and vomited. He found a bed in the lounge and curled up, hoping he’d fall asleep for a bit. But he didn’t. 

That face: pale, wide-set eyes the colour of water. Dark, curly hair. Thin body, lanky limbs. Self-destructive. A junkie.

He’d only seen him for a few seconds. The fear that had gripped him when he saw the blood was completely uncharacteristic of him. That alone was alarming. John Watson had operated on people who’d been shot up, mangled by car accidents, blown up in explosions. People who lived and people who’d died under his hands. He was cool under pressure, unmoved by gore. 

He didn’t know the man’s name, refused to follow up on what happened to him. 

Maybe he’d hallucinated the incident. That could be the explanation. 

He never spoke of it.

Dear Readers: I'm aiming to post this in a week. I'll tag anyone who wants to get notifications when a new chapter is up. Please reblog!

[mydogwatson]

After a hard day at work, I just want to sit back relax and read BBC sherlock fanfiction🧘

....and I hate getting disturbed😝

It's the best distraction from all my problems 💯

[mydogwatson]

Reblog if you love AO3 and appreciate their volunteers who are working harder than God, fighting battle after battle, making sure the place that is a safe space for every fandom is staying up and running for all of us

[mydogwatson]

Unfinished Business by Calais Reno

Part 18 of Many Happy Returns

Summary: Why John hit Sherlock.

Thank you for reading and reblogging! 💕

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[mydogwatson]

Maybe if the media quit talking about Trump, his crazy ass cult will stay quiet

[mydogwatson]

Let's vote the men out of office that that want to take women back 50 years.

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Reblog if you've made at least one friend because of a fandom.

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The Tenth Good Thing About Sherlock by ChrisCalledMeSweetie

After the Reichenbach fall, John, Lestrade, and Mrs. Hudson try to think of ten good things about Sherlock.

Based on the lovely children's story The Tenth Good Thing About Barney, by Judith Viorst.

I’m tagging some folks who might be interested. Please let me know if you’d like me to tag or untag you.

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[mydogwatson]

That is the way America should be

[mydogwatson]

WIP Wednesday: Holy Wine

A Case of You sequel

Summary: After Sherlock's monumental cockup at the Landmark, John cut all contacts and left London. After 15 months he comes back.

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Eric’s gone out in a whirl of busy delight, waving a scribbled list of wedding-related tasks that leave Sherlock bemused. He’d assumed they’d be married with as little ceremony as they’d moved in together; clearly he’d been projecting. Eric’s been talking venues, and flowers, and matching formal suits; photographers, and menus, and engraved invitations. Sherlock hasn’t even told his parents. (Maybe Eric has.) (Unsettling thought.)

But for two or three hours he has 221B to himself, and a task that requires concentration and quiet, so he tries to focus on that. When he picks up the violin there’s always a grateful relief, and blissful clarity. Even touching its slightly grainy varnish, the lush rounding of its back, the smooth ebony of the fingerboard, centres him to certainty and focus.

His favourite partita hasn’t sounded right since he got back, though, and he’s going to work out why. Intonation is still wavering in the passages where it most needs to be be spot on; ornaments are slurred and approximate, not crisp and flawless. He can’t remember the last time he played this piece perfectly, before he went away.

He’s doing careful backward practice when a set of sharp raps on the 221B knocker seeps through his concentration. Oh, hell no.

He bashes away, ignoring the intruder, but the sound comes again louder and more insistent. He scowls, sets down the violin and bow, turns to pull the window open wide and bellows, “Go! AWAY!” with all the volume and ferocity at his command. Which is, modestly, considerable.

He’s not prepared to see John Watson looking up at him, utterly astonished and a bit hurt. He’s sure his jaw has dropped, because it’s a few seconds before he can say, “Oh—J-John!—No, no, don’t go away, stay there, I’ll be right down—”

How like John to answer, with a faint smile, “Make up your mind.”

He’s haloed in burnished winter light, bundled in a black pea coat, looking years younger than fifteen months and five days ago.

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When A Case of You took me by the scruff of the neck and shook vigorously, Sherlock objected, equally vigorously, that he hadn’t had his say. Holy Wine is what Sherlock thinks happened.

I'm hoping is to make it transparent to someone who hasn't read A Case of You. We'll see, eh.

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[mydogwatson]

Please don't vote for Trump over a single issue. Think about his first Presidency and how disastrous it was.

[mydogwatson]

Through a Glass, Darkly by Calais Reno

Chapter 7: The Hypothetical Physicist

Summary: Holmes interviews Cadence Fowler; Watson is released from hospital. A visit to the Diogenes.

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Through a Glass, Darkly by Calais Reno

Chapter 6: Neck in a Noose

John and Sherlock (BBC) / 1891 (ACD-verse): John submits to questioning, receives a visitor he doesn't expect, and finds an ally.

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