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Yes thank you for the perfect boyfriend, Mike, appreciate it.

For Let’s Draw Sherlock!

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John will always - first and foremost - protect Sherlock.

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Excellent additions based on John's blog!

You're right that we hear about a few of John's friends other than Sherlock from the blog, but I think it's made clear throughout both the show and the blog that John isn't particularly close with any of them. John's closest friends after Sherlock seem to be Mike and people who are only in his orbit because of Sherlock: Molly, Greg, Mrs. Hudson. And Mike was still distant enough that he was able to beg off going to the wedding without John seeming at all upset about it. (And we all know why Mike didn't want to go to that!) I think it's so interesting and telling that the main people John mentions as going to his birthday celebration in the Many Happy Returns post are Mike, his sister, and two people he knows because of Sherlock (and they're "the usual suspects," meaning the people he hangs out with most frequently).

Sherlock is basically John's whole world. People often seem to get confused by the fanon portrayal of John as affable and likeable. On the show, he's really not. He's prickly and rude, and he barely gets along with people better than Sherlock does. (I think John's awkwardness around Andrew West's grieving fiancée in TGG is a great example of this. Compare that to Sherlock comforting Sarah after she was kidnapped in TBB or Sherlock comforting the client who's stepdad was catfishing her in TEH.) This is part of why John and Sherlock are just so perfect for each other. They just click and get each other in a way that no one else does, and it's true for both of them, not just for Sherlock. Sherlock deeply appreciates John and loves spending time with him when very few other people do.

I also thought John went to Dublin for a medical conference in ASIB, but I'm not sure if that's a fandom headcanon or if we have a source for that somewhere. Anyone know?

And yes, about the blogs! I remember that even my mom (who I think it's fair to say was a casual viewer) enjoyed reading the blogs when we started watching the show between S2 and S3. (My mom was the one who first introduced me to BBC Sherlock haha.)

Friendly reminder that we don't know jack shit about John Watson. Where did he grow up? What has been of his family? Does he have friends beside Sherlock? Who the fuck are Stella and Ted? Harry is just a faceless name. Sholto pops up from thin air. Why does he have trust issues, right from the start? We know hardly anything about him and what we believe we know is basically all fanon.

if you think the fucked up, loner one is Sherlock - think twice

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Over the weekend I went to my local public library, and they had TPLOSH and the full Granada Holmes series! So I've been watching Granada Holmes for the first time and it really is as delightful as everyone says ❤️

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Happy 8th anniversary to the most recent episode of Sherlock!

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tips on writing rosie, babies/small children in general?

Kids can be tricky to write. I lean on my own experiences with my kiddo sometimes.

I think the one thing I'd stress would be not to lean too much into cutesy-ness. Babies and very small children can be really cute, and incredibly sweet. They can also be loud, and messy, and a bit like wild animals. Sometimes you expend all of your energy just keeping them contained, they fall asleep at odd times, and when they wake up they're recharged and ready to do it all over again.

Every kid is different in terms of language development, but at around age 2-3, even if they've got a lot of words, really only the people closest to them are going to have any hope of understanding what they're saying. At those really young ages, a lot of tantrums happen because of an inability to communicate effectively. They probably aren't going to have insightful conversations with your characters about their feelings. Sometimes they might ask a question or make an observation that will absolutely pierce your heart, and then veer off onto another topic like it never even happened.

I hope that's a little bit helpful. I don't really feel like any kind of expert on writing kids or babies, I'm often just flying by the seat of my pants and trying to integrate Rosie into the story in a way that feels real and isn't overly distracting or irritating to readers.

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Sherlock: 04.03

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winterdaphne2's Meta Masterpost

Here's a list of the various BBC Sherlock metas and meta-ish posts that I have on tumblr so far. Some of these are short, some are long, some are original posts, and some are additions that I made onto other people's posts. I'll probably edit this in the future if/as I write more stuff. If you decide to check any of these out, then thanks so much for reading!

Plot Points / The Narrative of Sherlock and John's Love Story:

When did Sherlock and John each fall in love?

Heartbreak and the timeline of S2 (written in response to a meta about the timeline in ASIB and THOB)

Sherlock looks much older in S3 than he did in S1-S2

When did John realize Sherlock was in love with him?

Casablanca (1942) and Sherlock S3

S4 and storytelling in Sherlock (written in response to a meta about the writing in S4 and why it's so frustrating to write meta about it)

Comparing ACD Canon and BBC Sherlock:

TRF and TEH are based in part on "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor," with Sherlock and John mirroring a married couple

John trying to get to Sherlock's body in TRF and The Valley of Fear

Johnlock and Moftisson’s use of dialogue from ACD canon

No Sussex retirement in BBC Sherlock?

Additional Character Analysis:

Sholto and subtext in TSOT (written in response to a meta about how TRF is based in part on the Oscar Wilde trials)

Mary's character and why her moral philosophy is so different from Sherlock and John's (written in response to an existing meta)

Gay Easter Eggs:

Gay Easter Eggs in BBC Sherlock (I might post a new version of this in the future, but I have slightly mixed feelings about it. I think the line between an Easter egg and subtext is blurry, and the queer subtext is the whole show!)

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Making up the hair. LALALALA.

(  cause the ref I’m looking at is too pixelated/dark to make out the details )

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Prettiness

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He. x

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i’ve always found it interesting that acd wrote a study in scarlet about the start of this great relationship between holmes and watson, and then followed it up with a story in which watson finds a wife. 

it’s almost as if people immediately picked up on the queerness of their relationship and acd had to protect himself and his characters by introducing plausible deniability.

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Oh that's lovely, thank you for sharing that about your first watch through, @discordantwords!

Personally, I think that for Sherlock, it was this moment in the car park at the end of ASIP, when Sherlock looked over at John after having realized that John shot the cabbie and saved his life. I think Sherlock was interested in John from the moment he met him in the lab, but the end of ASIP is when he realizes that he's started to fall in love.

I think this moment at the pool scene is the key moment for John and really is the moment when John realizes that he's in love with Sherlock. When John nodded at Sherlock and agreed to die with him to bring down Moriarty, John must have realized that he would rather die with Sherlock than walk away from the pool alone and without him. John had probably already started to fall in love with Sherlock before the pool scene, but this is the moment when it crystallizes for him and after which he has to face it. And after this, I think there's a noticeable change in John's behavior in S2 as he struggles to truly face the fact that he's fallen in love with Sherlock, which is a very difficult thing for John to accept.

But I agree that we could make a case for several different moments that we see on screen, for both Sherlock and John! This is one of the things that I love about the show. It's rich and complex enough that even viewers who all see the love story can have very different interpretations of its key moments and narrative. For me, that's one of the things that makes the show so fun to think about and analyze.

when do you think sherlock fell in love with john?

I think you can make a case for several different moments we see in the series, but IMO it happened when John nodded his head at the pool and wordlessly agreed to die with Sherlock.

At least, that was the moment for me on my very first watch through where I said out loud "Oh, this is a love story."

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fics: white knight

Green. 

The word green was used to convey a great many things. Illness. Envy. Inexperience.

Standing there amidst Janine's chattering bridesmaids, watching Sherlock furrow his brow and study fabric swatches, watching him smile and simper and flirt, John thought it a remarkably apt colour choice. Because he felt quite sick to his stomach, he feared the source of said sickness might very well be jealousy, and he had absolutely no idea at all what to do about it. 

Or: Sherlock needs to fake a relationship for a case. He doesn't ask John.

— by @discordantwords