#tee hee *subverts your expectations* tee hee

[gggoldfinch]

can we have like, a paragraph, or anything from chapter 16? Of cemetary gates? a snippet? pls?

u rn 🤨

JKJKJK I love when you guys ask for this. Yes you totally can get a little smth lmao, as always 😉 Gonna try to avoid too-big spoilers for Plot Things because this chapter is gonna have Some Stuff in it that I don't wanna give away just yet, but I desperately wanna give you a juicy teaser... so I must choose wisely...

Snippet below the cut:

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“Do you think I’m angry with you?” he asks softly.

“I don’t know. Yes. I don’t know.” You suddenly cough, choking on your tears. It hurts to keep your eyes open. “I keep doing everything wrong. I’m terrible. I don’t want you to hate me.”

“My girl, I am not angry with you. You are not terrible.” He reaches out and wipes tear tracks away with the pad of his thumb. “We all do things we regret sometimes. Maybe it is not a good idea for you to have so much alcohol…?”

Your brows arch up, creasing your damp forehead. It’s hard to think straight when the dread is eating away at your insides. Adrenaline has eaten away at your intoxication and now there’s no way of concealing what you had drowned yourself in wine to forget. You glance to all the dark corners of the room, skittish like a prey animal.

“I am worried, though,” Copia continues. “You have been acting strangely all evening. Out of character, for you.”

Those words click in your head like the final puzzle piece falling into place. Realization sinks like a stone in your battered stomach. A hand unconsciously rises to your throat, covering the column of flesh as if it could protect you from some imagined enemy. You honestly haven’t felt like yourself since your meeting with Imperator. You’d chalked it up to fear and stress, and irrational behavior seeking relief, but something has been off. 

Sickness rises in your esophagus again. 

“It’s not the wine,” you rasp, eyes distant and glassy.

Copia tilts his head sideways to get a better look at you, a questioning look on his face. “What?”

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hey Steph, hope everything’s well🥰 I just rewatched S4, and still can’t cope with the idea that Sherlock is so fond of someone who actually shot him in the chest. He is so open to her and praises her a lot in TST like the shot never happened? I know Sherlock is portrayed as a character who has a good heart under his sociopath mask, and I’d also like to believe that he accepts her for John’s sake, but there’s still a gap between acceptance and admiration, and it just makes me so confused. Do you know any metas or theories that explain this a bit? Or what’s your personal reading? Thanks in advance🤩

Hey Nonny *hugs*

Yeah, you know, your guess is as good as mine, to be honest. Especially since Pre-S4, Sherlock was TERRIFIED of her [this post too], and it was leading to a conclusion that Sherlock and John would work together to stop her. Then in S4 he suddenly loves her? And John loves her (WHICH IS ALSO RIDICULOUS since HLV showed us John was NOT happy with her)? S4 “subverted our expections” (and I say that VERY VERY LOOSLY) by completely effing up their own flowing plotline to be “tee hee look how fucked up this entire relationships of our characters have with each other! AND YOU HAVE TO LOVE MARY SHE SACRIFICED HERSELF SEE??”

None of S4 makes any sense to the general flow of the series from S1 to TAB. Everything just gets disregarded and forgotten all so Mary can be painted back into favour with no-one (even though a large chunk of the audience – fans and general – really liked the direction they were bringing her character until S4), and then they woobiefied Sherlock to the point of ooc-ness. It’s so effing bizarre.

But yeah, if we’re to take S4 at surface level, yeah, it makes no sense and is kind of gross in a way, to be honest. I can only accept S4 as an unreliable narrator or fake narrative, because it’s all SO ridiculous.