#johnlock-is-obvious

[thatlonelycactus]

It’s is the curse of all characters who are some kind of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson adaptation to be so deeply and helplessly in love with eachother but have writers who, for whatever reason, make them “just friends”.

[fujobritta]

art dump

[synthient]

Also fascinating how much twelveclara is just johnlock if no one read it as a joke

[leosficlist]

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I'm making an effort to read works that I find myself through searches on ao3, instead of re-reccing the same fics other users have, as I find myself currently doing. But tbh, this blog was just meant to replace the document I had going of all the fics I'd ever read. Love ya!

[consult-sherlockholmes]

You’re still at Bart’s?

Does this answer your question?

[anneangel]

The best part of Sherlock Gnomes (2018) is that feature an inseparable duo going through problems in their relationship, Gnomeo and Juliet, with another inseparable duo going through problems in their relationship, Sherlock and Watson. Gnomeo and Juliet, despite the problems they face regarding their partner's unexpected behaviors that are hurting, they really love each other. And Sherlock and Watson… Well, you get it, the counterpoint is very obvious, so much so that it almost can't be called subtext.

[beecass]

ive been rewatching bbc sherlock and the amount of gay dust and crust in that shit is so eatable and chewable i NEED TO CHOMP CHOMP NHAC NHAC JOHNLOCK AND THE ENTIRE ROOM OF CODEPENDENCY-BORDERLINE-HOMOEROTIC THAT THEY HAVE

[ijsthee]

Going into any sherlock holmes related tag is like stepping into a minefield i have a bunch of tags filtered and i have to decide based on the combination of tags and the OP whether clicking on 'see post' is worth it or not

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Haiii the bonus track song "Obvious" from Dear Evan Hansen reminds me of the boys lolz

[EVAN]

[Verse 1] When we know something is true Beyond question or doubt There's no particular point In pointing it out

Blue is the color of sky 'Cause mothers all worry And old people die A phone rings, a bee stings It's something you don't need to hear It's just clear

[Chorus] Why go stating the obvious? It's so painfully obvious How could you miss Something that's this plain to see? When it's glaring, and staring Right at you So obviously

[Verse 2] When you get bored you draw stars On the cuffs of your jeans You still fill out the quizzes you find In those teen magazines And you dance like nobody's there Awkward and perfect You don't even care Something courageous, amazing, contagious And kind All combined

[Chorus] Why go stating the obvious? It's so painfully obvious How could you miss Something that's this plain to see? When it's glaring, and staring Right at you So obviously

[Bridge] Sometimes the words We tend to withhold But they're exactly the words Someone needs to be told But oh, thinking they know We never say "I love you I love you I love you I love you."

[Chorus] 'Cause why go Stating the obvious It's so painfully obvious How could you miss Something that's this plain to see? When it's glaring, and staring right at you So obviously

[Lyrics from Genius.com]

Hey Nonny!

Ahh, yeah I totally see it, ooof!!! Can be from either perspective too, good lordy. Thank you so much for adding it! 

🎶 LISTEN TO THE JOHNLOCK PLAYLIST ON [SPOTIFY] & [YOUTUBE] 🎶

[bemusedlybespectacled]

proposing what I'm going to call Gaylor's Razor, which is: never explain normal shit as being part of a secret message that can only be decoded by over-analysis.

"These Taylor Swift lyrics are actually coded messages saying that she's a lesbian and is forced to stay in the closet! Any lyrics that are clearly about being attracted to a man are just to throw us off the scent!" Sometimes people, like Taylor Swift, are straight and write about being straight, because they are straight.

"The fourth series of Sherlock was deliberately bad because it was actually a coded message to us fans that there is a secret fourth episode that will make Johnlock canon and will actually be good!" Sometimes writers (even experienced writers who are normally good at their jobs) will write something that's not good, because no one is perfect. They're not going to waste everyone's time and money and energy creating something terrible on purpose as part of a grand master plan.

"Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the Canadian Olympic ice dancers, are secretly married (with kids)! Their public relationships with people who are not each other and them repeatedly saying 'we dated as kids and now we're just friends' are just to hide the truth! Which they need to hide for some reason! Their relationship is obvious just from their physical chemistry when competing! JUST LOOK AT THIS TWO SECOND CLIP OF HIM BLINKING AT HER!" It seems counterproductive to put all that thought into hiding a relationship that doesn't need to be hidden but then also telegraph that same relationship in front of millions of people through planned choreography.

"But BB, what about times that people really are speaking in code or hiding something due to outside influences?"

If it requires huge leaps in logic, like adding all the letters in a sentence together and dividing by seventeen and that number matches the binary sequence for the color yellow so YELLOW MUST BE SIGNIFICANT, it's not a secret code.

If it requires focusing on teeny tiny details but discards huge ones, like analyzing someone's micro-expressions but handwaving away what the person is actually saying out loud with their mouth, or focusing on one specific line instead of the entire scene or song or whatever, it's not a secret code.

If both supporting and contradictory evidence are used to come to the same conclusion (ex: when Taylor says something that I interpret as gay, that means she's gay, and when she says something that I interpret as straight, that still means she's gay and just hiding it), it's not a secret code.

Trying to apply fandom meta analysis techniques to real life is a really good way of fall into conspiratorial thinking that can be easily exploited. You can totally try to predict what's going to happen in a story or choose to interpret a scene in a specific way; you can't do that in real life with real people. That way lies the kind of nonsense that leads to shit like "this image of pizza on a children's toy is actually subliminal messaging by The Cabal™ that proves that Pizzagate is real."

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

People on this website really trying to downplay the specific role of destiel in the events of November 5th 2020 ‘it could have been any other ship that went canon at that time and had the same effect’ no.

Nothing else is destiel.

Nothing else is 12 years and hundreds of episodes of extremely obvious and deliberate queerbaiting that was Vehemently denied by the production team. Nothing else is the ship about characters whose larger overarching plot is literally fighting against their own pre-determined narrative to attain free will. Nothing else proved in the 11th hour Just before the show ended that the meta narrative and queer reading by fans who insisted there was something there and who were constantly called crazy by the production and by other fans and by the rest of the internet were RIGHT.

The CW did market research! About whether to make it canon! In a show they always pretended was aimed primarily at middle (conservative) America!!!

The queer subtext was so Fucking Strong by the end of the show, because the writers constantly wrote themselves into corners that could Only be explained away by destiel, that they HAD to admit defeat and canonize it.

And THEN even after they made it canon, they denied it some more and tried to downplay it! But it happened! The angel is fucking gay!!!!

Destiel is THE great American queerbait and had been a staple of the culture of this site for over a decade before November 5 2020. There is a REASON it is the most popular ship on AO3. ‘The same thing would have happened if johnlock became canon or spirk or whatever else’ no it simply would not have because crucially CRUCIALLY those ships Never Became Canon! The fact that Destiel of all the popular queerbait slash ships of the past few decades somehow at long last DID, and in a way that Still refused to just let the shippers have it and allow any implication of full reciprocation and that the final two episodes and the entire cast absolutely refused to acknowledge in any way, is why the canonization of destiel is one of the wildest things to happen to fandom culture as a whole in recent memory, and you cannot theoretically remove the destiel of it all and have it be the same kind of event.

The reason november 5 happened like it did, why people started making jokes at all, is because the fandom cultural juggernaut that is destiel becoming canon is the only thing that could have possibly managed to trend above the U.S. election. BECAUSE it’s destiel.

[consult-sherlockholmes]

John, please go and kiss Sherlock right now. He doesn't think you love him, posted on his blog. Besides, he's arguing with everyone, again. You have the best way to shut him up.

Wrong number. Try again.

[fortunatelycolorfulgay]

Idk why but the torture made the story so much better. Enthralls the imagination. I feel like I get bored so easily with canon couple if they’re like. TOO canon. Like kissing more than once during the show? Eugh. I’m not reading fanfics about you. YOU ALREADY ARE the fanfic.

I’m glad we’re getting queer rep these days but lowkey miss when they would just shamelessly queerbait. bring back the days of 22 episodes of homoerotic bullshit and then when you ask about it eric kripke runs you over with the impala and jeff davis finishes the job with the jeep

[whatsjulietslastname]

expending on the mlm pricefield thing (and i’m not talking about double exposure anymore), i think if pricefield had been one of the first mlm pairing to be openly queer in video games history, it would’ve been way more of a big deal back when the game was released and years later. i also think little to no people would be debating whether their relationship is platonic or not, and people would’ve been way faster at jumping to the conclusion that you were homophobic if you thought they were.

historically, the most popular mlm pairings (i’m thinking johnlock, kirk and spock from star trek, merlin and arthur, all the h*rry p*tter and marvel gay ships) have a way bigger fanbase and are way less denied than the wlw ones (i’m thinking supercop, emma swan and regina mills, betty and veronica from riverdale etc). (for the record, i looked up “queerbaiting” to make this post and have examples, and found like a dozens of mlm pairings and always the same few wlw ones…) AND it is way more socially acceptable to say “those two women have a platonic relationship” whereas, if you do the same with johnlock, for instance, you WILL get an angry twenty paragraphs long reply about how there was nothing platonic about it (even though John Watson married a woman).

my point is not “he married a woman so he wasn’t queer” my point is, whenever one part of a wlw pairing has a boyfriend, or a man who she shows a glimpse of interest in (*cough cough* Warren Graham *cough cough*), it is IMMEDIATELY used as ‘evidence’ that this character cannot be queer since she can be in a heterosexual relationship — which is an argument that, again, you will practically never find directed at a gay ship. and, again, the few people who do use this argument against mlm pairings are called ‘homophobic’.

AGAIN, i am not saying that you cannot ship Warren and Max or are homophobic if you do, i’m saying that if Chloe and Max had been two guys, people would’ve been so focused on them, on Max’s diary’s entries, and the two possible kisses they can share onscreen, and the flirting and implications in their relationship, and Chloe’s obvious attraction to Max, that grahamfield would’ve had a way smaller fanbase — or no fanbase at all. and people would’ve absolutely disregarded the fact that you can make Max romance Warren (who is a girl in this scenario). they would’ve seen Warren’s nearly one-sided flirting, and would’ve immediately gone “she (Warren) is in love with him (Max) and he doesn’t give a fuck” (and the kiss in the Two Whales would’ve been collectively ignored by the entire fandom, as is Mary Watson, or Pepper Potts, or Tonks, or Ginny Weasley).

but BECAUSE Max and Chloe are girls, people are still debating whether she is even queer or not by saying “if i make her romance Warren she experiences no attraction towards Chloe and therefore is straight” which is false, because the attraction is HERE. all you, as a player, get to decide is whether or not Max acts on it. and no matter how much evidence there is that Max is indeed romantically interested in Chloe, you will NEVER convince those people, because to them, the moment a woman and a guy interact in a non-platonic way, this woman has to end up with said guy, no matter how queer-coded her relationship with another woman is.

and now that pricefield is broken up, people who would’ve been rioting if it had been guys are calling people who are rightfully upset ‘dramatic’. just try and imagine the reaction of the Sherlock fandom if Sherlock was returning without Watson because “they argued off-screen and decided to stop seeing each other”. those guys aren’t childhood best friends, are never romantically involved, their fandom hasn’t been begging to have a glimpse of them together for ten years, and yet i can’t even imagine how angry people would be. all this fandom was asking was to at least not destroy Max and Chloe’s friendship, and look where we are now.

[agentoffangirling]

I feel something that fandom needs to understand is that it is very common for creators to claim a queer relationship is familiar when it gains popularity

Like for every queer ship out there, there's always going be the head honcho on the crew saying "um actually they see each other as siblings". Despite cries from fans and many of the crew believing otherwise, the creator usually claims that they're supposed to be brothers/sisters. Merthur, JohnLock, Lokius, Supercorp, you name it. And now Jayvik

I'm not gonna go ahead and say that Arcane is queerbaiting, bc 1, I don't believe that's what's actually happening here, and 2, there are numerous openly queer characters/relationships in the show. CaitVi is the show's biggest relationship and it's sapphic. I doubt the intention behind many Jayvik scenes is queerbait

But it is important to acknowledge that there was a sizeable portion of writers and animators who saw Jayce and Viktor's relationship as romantic. Seriously, what do you call this?

That's not something "brothers" usually do, and definitely not in contexts such as that. Far too many of their scenes and quotes echo these sort of things, at the very least, it is obvious that they are queercoded in some way. I don't doubt that the popularity of Jayvik in s1 influenced the process of season 2, to the point that crew members likely began seeing it in a similar light

All of this reminds me of the situation around Cassunzel (Cassandra x Rapunzel) from Tangled: the Series. Cass was queercoded from the very start, and several animators and producers confirmed that she harbored romantic feelings toward Rapunzel, yet Chris Sonnenburg, the creator, went to every possible length to make them be seen as sisters

(In my opinion, it didn't work, bc in no universe is this not romantic):

My point is that show creators often pull this trick. Sometimes it's to reinforce a certain view, sometimes it's to appeal to a group of people, but almost always it's to dissuade people from shipping it. It's obvious that Christian Linke and the rest of the Arcane team were not on the same team in regards to Jayvik, and in this case, the subtext is more than what Linke says

So yes. They're gay

[weeesi]

Pride - May Prompts (31)

Huge thanks to @calaisreno for organising this brilliant community event! It's been a wonderful month full of laughter and tears and just about the most fun I've had in a long time. Thank you, everyone!

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John weaves through the crowd, a sweating bottle of water in each hand. The day is bright and cloudless and absolutely boiling. He swipes the back of his wrist over the sheen on his brow and spots the top of Sherlock’s head, half-hidden behind a couple stood together across the street. 

That looks like…oh my god—

He hurries over. He wasn’t in bomb disposal, but across the years he’s gained plenty of practice of a similar sort. 

Sherlock’s face inhabits an expression completely new. It’s remarkable. 

And that’s not the least of it.

Mycroft is wearing a vest. 

And shorts.

“Alright, mate?” Lestrade greets John amiably. “This one could use a look-over,” he adds with a wink in Sherlock’s direction. “Might need to restart his heart.”

Mycroft is as pink and pinched as a summer prawn with a smear of suncream on his nose. “Hello, John. We were just—chatting.”

John grins. “You’ve short-circuited him.” He holds out a bottle for Sherlock, then cracks the seal on his own. “Nice togs. First time at Pride, you two?”

“Why are you here?” Sherlock pipes up, eyes narrowed in suspicion at his eternal foe.

“Isn’t it obvious, little brother?”

“Spying on us?”

“Hardly.”

“…Sentiment.”

“The word you’re looking for,” Mycroft lifts his chin, confident as John has ever seen him, “is love.”

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If you like what you see (lol), come say hello on ao3! These little ficlets are included in Calais' May Prompts collection. I have around 250K more words of johnlock too. I'd love to see you there :D

Thank you to @calaisreno for the fun prompt series! Tags in replies. Thanks for reading! <3