#platonic johnlock

[ifwebefriends]

Just listened to The Problem of Thor Bridge part 1 and oh my god I can’t handle it we’ve got:

Sherlock accepting a hug from John and Mariana after he tried to make a hugging machine for himself

Sherlock saying explicitly that he likes John’s company

Sherlock caring about John’s PTSD triggers

Sherlock offering to hold John’s hand or talk about his feelings

John apologizing for shouting at Sherlock

Sherlock checking in on John after his outburst

[desperateneedforviagra]

I have officially become so engulfed in a ship I would rather see them as best friends rather than lovers. I want them to be so utterly in love that they are friends rather than dating. I think it’s because a friendship will always mean more to me personally than romantic relationships.

[fictionfromthevoid]

Stop trying to find me a wife! -

Aroace! ACD Sherlock Holmes oneshot

Summary: Holmes angrily makes it clear to Watson that he is Aroace and that Watson should stop trying to find a partner for him. (The word aroace isn't used since it didn't exist back then)

Based on the Prompt:

"So you're just going to trample over their feelings like this?" Doctor Watson asked his friend Sherlock Holmes angrily.

"Their feelings? Why is it always other people's feelings? What about my feelings instead?" the detective answered, visibly exasperated.

This took the doctor aback. He wasn't used to such emotional outbursts from his friend. Did Sherlock Holmes of all people just talk about his feelings? He stayed silent since he suspected his friend of having more to say. He was right.

"I am sick and tired of people pushing romance onto me when I have voiced countless times that I have no interest in such matters" Holmes ranted. "Especially you should know by now. Still, you keep nagging me every chance you get. I've tolerated your countless matchmaking attempts. I've told you over and over, very politely if I may point out, to refrain from any further attempts to find a romantic partner for me but you never listened."

Watson felt ashamed and guilty at the words of his best friend. It was true that he had fun teasing the detective about the women swooning over him and that has gone out of his way once or twice to arrange a date for his friend. He was looking for a wife, so to him, it was the most natural thing that Holmes should also marry one day. Watson had assumed that Holmes had just been too consumed by his work to waste a thought about romance and that the detective just didn't know what was good for him so the doctor had taken matters into his own hands.

Just now, they had come back from a dinner the doctor had arranged with a very nice lady. After seeing through the plan Holmes had turned the woman down, rather rudely for the doctor's taste, and promptly left the restaurant. The Woman was rather hurt and so now back at Baker Street Watson thought it to be his duty to scold his friend for his unacceptable behaviour.

"Yes, I was rude to Miss Bell. Yes, I may have hurt her feelings but she will get over it." Holmes interrupted the thoughts of his best friend. "But I am done with being polite. I am done with being polite to women who will practically throw themselves onto me, not even caring when I tell them I am not interested."

It was true that his fame, earned through Dr Watson's stories, had brought the detective quite a large number of admirers of any gender who sometimes were ... very persistent with their affection.

"And you Watson, instead of having my back, you encourage them. You tell them I just need to be convinced to go out with them. You tell them to keep trying and not lose hope. And when I adopt a harsher tone to turn down the people you gave false hope, or that you even brought to me in the first place, you get mad at me for hurting their feelings." Holmes was getting more and more frustrated

"What about my feelings? Don't you realise that you hurt MY feelings when you ignore my wishes in such a severe manner? I have trusted you when I told you that I have no interest in romance or the intercourse that often comes with it whatsoever. Information that is quite personal and rather frowned upon in our society. And you disregarded this completely and keep trying to push these things onto me nonetheless"

He let himself fall into his armchair defeated. His head in his hands, so that his face was covered, waiting for an answer from the doctor. Although he didn't expect his friend to understand this time.

Dr Watson was still processing what he had just heard. In retrospect, he had been a bad friend in this matter. He now realised that. To him, it was unimaginable that someone could not be interested in romance. But Sherlock Holmes wasn't, he understood that now.

He went over to his friend and put a comforting hand on Holmes's shoulder.

"I am truly sorry, my dear friend, for I have been a very bad friend to you. I should have listened to you. I should have believed you when you told me how you felt about these things. But it was just something so obscure and unimaginable to me that I couldn't accept it to be true. I now feel ashamed of my behaviour. I apologize and I hope you can forgive me. I promise to never try to find you a wife again."

The detective looked up at him with tired eyes

"I also promise to take it seriously in the future when you communicate your feelings on any matter to me. I sometimes forget that you have such things as feelings since you are usually rather private with these." The lips of Holmes curled into a barely visible smile. Still, his eyes looked as tired and defeated as before.

"I am very grateful that you now told me with such severity how you felt about this, although I should have picked up on this before. My dear Holmes, I am very sorry and I hope you can forgive me."

Dr Watson ended his apology speech. Holmes stood up from his armchair and embraced his best friend in a hearty hug.

Since then the life of Mister Sherlock Holmes was free of any kind of unwanted romantic attention. His best friend fiercely shielded him from annoying admirers and kept true to his promise to never nag him about romance again.

[randomthings299]

“loosing someone to death and romance are equal tragedies”

Thank you. I will just go cry my eyes out now.

Do you ever think of Holmes alone at Baker Street after Watson's marriage and. And. And Watson's things are gone. Watson is gone, and there is just this aching gap around Holmes in the flat. The dust has not yet covered the space on the shelf where Watson's books used to be. Half of Holmes's home is gone, and he cannot even run his finger along the edge of the pain because there will only be one plate on the breakfast table tomorrow (and tomorrow and tomorrow), but you can't cut yourself on empty space.

[mayhasopinions]

they r so stupid

[jam-campasta]

listening to a new podcast to heal my bbc sherlock trauma

[doodlintv]

Started listening to Sherlock & Co. and I was unfortunately not immune to Johnlock propaganda….

[juihwhite]

OMG THIS REMINDED ME OF A SKETCH I DID 2 DAYS AGO!!!!

Here: Have a tickle fight.

John: Hey, Sherlock, are you ticklish?

Sherlock, taking 20 steps back: No

[notthebeststufftbh]

Listen I'm actually rooting for normalizing platonic relationships between men but then again it's not my fault that all of them are written like they fuck so

[delicatesolitude]

“‘You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!’ It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.”

Narrative of John Watson

The Adventure of the Three Garridebs, Arthur Conan Doyle

[desperateneedforviagra]

Season three Episode three - His last vow

Sherlock BBC

John Watson sprains a boys are while looking for his neighbours son in a ‘drug den’, his does in fact find Sherlock there too, later in the episode the boy says ‘someone hit me’ while looking at John. John replies with ‘probably just an addict in need of a fix’ trying to relate the conversation back to Sherlock’s being at the ‘den’. Sherlock of course notices who the boy is talking about and in turn says ‘yes I think in a way it was’ talking about John’s almost need to be in the action, his compulsion to violence and war. Something so simple yet meaningful. I adore this interaction not only because of the subtle details in conversation but because of how much it makes me think about John’s character and his role. Sometimes I forget about his anger issues and violent tendencies but whenever they occur it makes me so happy. Knowing that Sherlock has quite literally found his other half. The opposite of his outwardly clever and supposedly ‘calm’ personality, an anger violent man which practical knowledge.

[inevitably-johnlocked]

swissmissing said: I don't know this one either. OP said in the original post it's not Johnlock and John doesn't appear at all, so like Steph I would not have read it.

Hey Steph!

Thanks so much for your help with my previous ask- I haven’t located the story yet but I’m not giving up yet!

Curious if you know of any other blogs like yours that might be able to help?

Also second part of the ask - any recommendations for good platonic/friendship/clean fics?

Cheers! Thank you so much!

(submitted by @thestarsareout)

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(referencing this post)

Hey Lovely!

Ahh, I'm sorry it hasn't been found yet, but hopefully it will be!

Ah, @swissmissficrecs often finds lots of fics that I don't know so they'd be a good place to go to!

As for platonic fics, you might like these ones:

Platonics and Domestics

Platonics & Domestics / Bromance / Friendship Pt. 3

Platonics / Bromance / Friendship Pt. 4

Platonics / Bromance / Friendship Pt. 5

Domestic Johnlock Pt. 4

Domestic Johnlock Pt. 5

Domestic Johnlock Pt. 6

Smut-Free Fics Over 50K (Aug 2019)

If anyone has anything they want to suggest, please do!!

[fictionalcraze]

There is just something about two straight men who are single and alone and have had multiple failed relationships being friends with eachother and sticking together despite every ups and downs life throws at them and willing to do anything for eachother and act like a couple, bicker and fight like a couple and do everything couples would do and cannot live without the other, but love one another in the most platonic way possible just hits so different.

I love the bromance between these men with all my heart. They are just too pure for words and there is just a special kind of magic between them and this trope in general.

[no-eyes-yet-but-vibing]

thinks about how john watson and sherlock holmes find eachother in every universe. every. single. one. and they fall in love in them all.

[c0gito]

I think that, perhaps, I don’t exactly view Holmes and Watson in any sort of romantic relationship, but instead a close queer friendship. They do not have a romantic interest in one another, yet they’ll comfortably sleep in the same bed or be physically affectionate and cuddle with one another. They are each other’s worlds, though only platonically. Watson is able to love his wife while also holding a tender affection for Holmes, his best friend. (and vise versa… minus the wife for Holmes). They feel comfortable around one another to be ‘non-conforming’ in heterosexual terms, yet they would never persue anything further. Instead they find comfort in the fact only the other can understand their own affections, and just how much it means to them both.

Idk tho maybe that’s just me projecting my own experience in my own close friendships with same sex friends as an unlabeled queer person

[lefttobedesired]

i grew up watching my decade older siblings be torn apart by johnlock and now i am cursed to the same fate years later. the torture continues in the everlasting fandom “death” and rebirth cycles.

the feeling of reading 10 year old fics and wondering if your siblings had read them as they were coming out is horrific.