if I had a dollar for every time the bbc made a show about an iconic character from british canon except he's young with black hair, pale skin and prominent cheekbones, and he has an intense relationship with his best friend and is generally gay coded, aside from weird sexual tension with a powerful woman who also has black hair, pale skin and a strong jawline, and is otherwise a lesbian who is fucking her maid
I'd have two dollars, which isn't a lot but we don't talk enough about the fact that it happened twice at the same time
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It's nice that Benedict Cumberbatch is reconfirming that Sherlock Holmes is not a virgin cause of a night with Irene Adler as late as when he was at an award ceremony in 2022. He doesn't have to tell the audience it's true and canon, I like that he wants to. So glad I found the video on youtube.
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Moffat quote about Sherlock
“Sherlock Holmes, again, must have sexual impulses because human beings tend to – most human beings, not absolutely all, but that’s the majority. The fact is, he decides to put all that in an iron box to make his brain work better.
Of course, the fact that that iron box bounces around and shakes and bangs from the inside is what makes the story interesting. He wants to rise above us like a snow-capped mountain, but he’s actually a volcano, and that’s where the story is. That’s where the story is.
You know, you shove Irene Adler in front of him, and he just falls apart like most men would."
Steven Moffat, 2014
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Sherlock characters in Barbie universe: life is plastic, the game is on!
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Of course, Irene and Sherlock were first 😃
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So.. here’s what i’ve noticed.
Am I the only one, or is Irene in fact more submissive than Sherlock..?
I mean look at this.
They way she STARES up at him..
or this
which is so SO different from their first meeting where Irene was 1000% the dominant woman:
hmmm
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I might get shit for this, but...
Irene Adler referred to herself as 'gay'. Not as a lesbian.
It's possible she is one, but it is also possible that she meant it in the same way some people (who feel comfortable) use 'queer' today.
It's possible she is mostly homosexual, or homoromantic bisexual, or biromantic homosexual or maybe she is bisexual but biphobic, or she simply prefers women, so she calls herself gay.
We have no evidence she ever slept with male individuals either as part of her job or outside of if (her website doesn't mention sex, only scolding and secrets).
You hardly need my permission to ship Adlock, but just a reminder that "she is a lesbian" is not a valid reason to hate on people who do ship her with Sherlock especially not to send them hate and call them names.
Same with Sherlock. His sexuality is ambigious. Do I think canon Sherlock is different/opposite sex attracted? No. Does that mean I will call someone who ships him with Irene or Molly a homophobe or an acephobe/aphobe? No.
There is canon and fanon. I have my headcanons about most characters, including Irene. You are free to have yours.
You cannot prove me wrong but I cannot prove you wrong either.
You are also free to think Sherlock is aroace, or gay ace, or bi ace, or grey ace, or that he is sex repulsed, or that he loves sex very much.
You can also think he is bi or gay in BBC Sherlock. You can believe he is straight too, just in case you did want my permission.
Or maybe you'd prefer not to label him at all. After all, "Who the hell knows about Sherlock Holmes?"
This was a public service announcement.
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Actually still seeing people say stuff like “maybe the adlockers & sherlollies were right about sherlock being hetero-“
BOY. When did we say that? Who the hell is saying that?? Cause from where this adlocker’s sitting, sherlock is the most bisexual character on the show. He’s queer as hell. Man’s straight as a slinky. As bi as a bicycle.
…….Oh but I forgot that doesn’t actually count, because the only queer identities that are queer enough to count in their minds are gay men they can ship with other men without female interference. Right. My bad. Silly me thinking women had any place in the equation.
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Adlock's time in Karachi is my Roman Empire.
Think about it very often.
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I find it funny that people might think that Irene screwed up too much to end up with Sherlock. As if this exciting and dynamic man was only destined for upstanding moral domesticity. I think what pushed him over the edge into love/night of passion was seeing what she could accomplish with her scheme that it would have worked if she wasn't as screwed up as he was. Her being screwed up wasn't the deal breaker, him going to save her makes their dynamic that much more thrilling. This has probably been said over and over by now.
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