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lightning--bug · 10 months

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221b-johnlocked-1895 · 1 year

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I was rewatching "The Devil's Foot" from Granada Holmes and I thought something. Since I've never read anything about it, I decided to write it here.

Holmes decided to let Sterndale return to Africa, despite the fact that he had killed a man.

(For those who don't know or don't remember, Sterndale killed Mortimer Treggenis, because he killed his sister Brenda Treggenis, with whom Sterndale was in a romantic relationship)

Holmes himself says that he didn't get him arrested because he would have done the same. In fact, later in the story he says: “I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who knows?"

Well, we know, thanks to what Holmes himself said in "The Adventure Of The Three Garridebs": "If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.".

I think that it's quite clear that the "woman" in question, or better, the person who Holmes loves, is Watson.

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gregorovitch-adler · 1 year

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The codependency in Johnlock-

I was thinking about this today.

In Many Happy Returns, John says, "I can tell you what to do. You can stop being dead."

He's drinking a lot and he still hasn't moved past the 'please stop being dead' thing since TRF. Everyone else has moved on with their lives but John is still stuck at that point. He's still grieving deeply even after two years.

If Sherlock hadn't returned to London, if he'd actually died, John would've been fixated on that thing for the rest of his life. Sure, he started dating Mary and was going to propose to her in that restaurant but I really don't think he would've been quite invested in that relationship with her

(He's not invested in that relationship with her even in Sherlock's presence but still. You get my point.)

If Sherlock had died, he would've just drunk a lot, with sleepless nights, self blaming, survivor's guilt, etc and his suicidal tendencies would've returned.

He would've married Mary, life would've continued normally (on the surface) and at one point John would've come to about Mary's criminal record. He would've still got to know about that even in that situation because of CAM (or through some other source).

Double heartbreak. John would've been completely alone in this whole world.

He doesn't get along with Harry, he doesn't mention his parents at all- probably they're not in the picture- and he doesn't have any other friends apart from Sherlock. Mike tried to reach out him in ASIP but John's response, in turn, was quite cold.

He wasn't quite keen on continuing his profession as a GP (we'd seen that much in The Blind Banker). He would've gone to his new clinic for some time but he would've done his job in a half-arsed way.

He didn't have any other hobbies either. He'd stopped updated his blog after Sherlock's supposed death.

I believe if Sherlock had died for real with no possibility of coming back, it's quite a high possibility that John would've committed suicide, eventually.

The same thing happens in Series 3. John gets married. Sherlock's drug addiction has relapsed.

J-What kind of case would need you doing this?

S-I might as well ask you why you’ve started cycling to work. (X)

This theme is surprisingly carried over to S4 as well even if that season doesn't feel connected to the rest of the show.

John abandons Sherlock after Mary's death. Sherlock is high out of his mind, weeks away from death, he's going crazy in 221 B.

John is at his own place in The Lying Detective, drinking way too much once again, clearly not okay. He's just this 👌🏻 close to dying as well. (He's grieving for Mary but lack of Sherlock's presence is also a contributory factor).

John has pushed Sherlock away himself and he's actively hating on him in this episode but he even in that state he obviously needs Sherlock (he'd never admit it but it's quite clear that he does).

John's desperation was obvious in the beginning of His Last Vow too.

J-Is it Sherlock Holmes you're looking for? Because I haven't seen him in ages.

M- A month.

He's visibly angry and frustrated at literally everyone who's NOT Sherlock. He's dying to meet him even if it's only been a month since his wedding day.

So what I'm trying to say is, as much as I love Johnlock, I can't overlook this unbelievable amount of codependency in their relationship. It's unhealthy but fun to have a close look at.

You try separating them from each other, they'll become physically miserable and they will throw themselves in front of fatal danger which would eventually lead to their death in quite a short period of time.

I used to think that 'I can't live without you' was supposed to be a cliché. Just an exaggeration that people say to their significant others.

Apparently that's not the case with Sherlock and John. It becomes quite literal when these two are concerned.

Conclusion- If you write a Holmes adaptation or a story, you don't ever seperate Holmes and Watson from each other. You do that and you watch them die (for real, this isn't even an exaggeration).

D'you know what's actually frustrating?

It's the fact that the creators of this show already knew about this. They were the ones who wrote their version of Holmes and Watson like that and the above mentioned subplots are taken from their show. They wrote it in that way themselves. The codependency and everything.

And yet they did exactly that. Separate Holmes from his Watson, that is (in TST and TLD).

They broke the rules of their own show and that's why here I am, ranting about the show even in 2023 lol.

#johnlock #bbc sherlock #sherlock holmes #john watson #sherlock meta #johnlock meta #codependency #really hate this show sometimes #angst

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i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end · 2 years

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Watson: Guess what Holmes, I'm going to marry Mary Morstan! :))

Holmes: *groaning in a way defined as "sad and without hope" by the Cambridge Dictionary* Oh shit nooo! I really can't say I'm happy for you.

Watson: Rude. -.- Seriously, what's your problem? Don't you like Mary??

Holmes: No she's okay I guess. It's just that ... love is really useless. Clouds your thinking. I never wanted it anyway. :/ Guess I'll be forever alone then ...

Watson: Errr okay. *awkward laugh* Hey, are you alright? You look a bit ... sad?

Holmes: Nope, no, definitely not, just super tired. Excuse me, I think I will go and hide in my bed for a week.

Watson: Okay that's a bit strange, you were buzzing with energy a minute ago. You literally seem like a different person now.

Holmes: Well you know how they say you can be whoever you want to be and I think I will be wasting a lot of this potential now, but I guess the only thing I am right now is a fool and anyway *goes on about the case*

Watson: Seems a bit unfair that I got engaged and the police got the credits and you got nothing.

Holmes: Yeah haha, well obviously I don't care as I didn't want any of this in the first place *choking back tears* Where tf is the cocaine?!

[Citation: Doyle, Arthur Conan. „The Sign of Four.” The Complete Sherlock Holmes, A. C. Doyle and Christopher Morley (preface), Doubleday 1960, p. 157 et seq.]

#sorry about misinterpreting the German quote a bit :D #it rather says It's a pity that nature made only ONE person out of you because there's potential in you to be a dignified man or a rascal #I don't know if Schelm rather means rascal/rogue/ne'er-do-well or fool here #anyway #acd #acd canon #acd holmes #acd watson #acd sherlock holmes #arthur conan doyle #sherlock holmes #john watson #johnlock #johnlock meta #mary morstan #the sign of four #and just because I believe you appreciate the parallels I will also tag this #sherlock bbc

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notyourmom4 · 1 year

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I just stumbled upon this article by Cinema Blend. Is this legit?

#sherlock holmes #acd johnlock #johnlock meta #johnlock #john watson

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buckingham-ashtray · 4 months

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Hello just a friendly reminder that Eurus used a bomb to make Sherlock say “I love you” to a John mirror and Sherlock also using a bomb to make John “say something nice”.

have a wonderful day xx

#tjlc #sherlock fandom #johnlock #sherlock #221b baker street #sherlock meta #sherlock season 4 #sherlock headcanon #johnlock headcanon #sherlock s3 #meta #sherlockbbc #sherlock holmes #john watson #buckingham-ashtray

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topsyturvy-turtely · 9 months

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HOLD TF UP FOR A SECOND-

so we all know john couldn't find sherlock's pulse because of this "ball under an arm" trick, right?!

but-

WHAT IF JOHN HAD NEVER TRIED TAKING SHERLOCK'S PULSE AT HIS WRIST BUT HIS THROAT?!

#COME ON #IT WAS PURE LUCK JOHN CHECKED HIS WRIST NOT HIS THROAT #WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF HE TOOK SHERLOCK'S PULSE ON HIS THROAT #WHAT THEN HUH?!#omg #someone write a fic #maybe me #to write #lol #bbc sherlock #johnlock #sherlock #john watson #sherlock holmes #sherlock meta #(kinda lol)#benedict cumberbatch #martin freeman #turtely's op

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fanfic-thesis · 8 months

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Quick question

I did some more academic reading about fandom and ...

Bonus points if you comment (or tag) where you heard the word "hoyay" and in which contexts you're using it.

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fahbee · 6 months

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So I’ve been watching some yt videos about BBC Sherlock and I’ve had a revelation. Excuse me if I’m late as fuck to this conclusion but after that debacle of a fourth season I left the fandom altogether.

But now watching these videos and rewatching clips of the show that I haven’t seen in years and remembering ALL the fucking… everything… the show did that clearly tells the audience how these two men feel about each other… I have truly realized and accepted…

Moftiss really did intend, with all their hearts, to make a Sherlock Holmes adaptation where their Sherlock is in “desperately unspoken” love with a Dr. Watson who will never, ever love him back the same way.

They really did that shit on purpose. They meant to do that. There is no other explanation for the constant, explicit gay references and the gay subtext that was barely subtext. The declaration on the tarmac alone. My god. My god.

Wow. The tone deafness and cruelty is fucking stunning. They think everything they put their Holmes through for the sake of his dearest, most beloved Watson was… what? Fun? Interesting?

What a couple of sadists. They wanted an all-angst, all-hurt, no-comfort fanfic and that’s exactly what they did.

No wonder they were so mad at the fans. We could see what they were doing and they knew it. But because we wanted a happy ending instead of the emotional torture porn they were actually making, they got pissed at us.

We saw them baking what we could all tell was a cake. But they never intended to put the fucking thing in the oven. So when we started clamoring for the actual cake, they got mad at us. “Drink your cake batter, you dumb overanalyzing bitch. I can’t believe you were stupid enough to expect a cake.”

#bbc sherlock #bbc sherlock meta #kinda?#sherlock holmes #john watson #johnlock #anyway fuck them both forever and ever #I will never forgive them for thinking queerbaiting is some form of high art #rather than the cruel and childish taunting it actually is

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beingallmysterious · 3 months

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Okay I’m late to this as it has already been out a year but I just discovered the series A Better Story on the TJLCExplained YouTube channel by the always lovely @victorianpining and I cannot scream loudly enough when I say that if you haven’t watched it, stop whatever you are doing and watch it now.

Rebecca’s analysis is as piercing and intelligent as it is open-minded and thoughtful and at every step there is so much heart.

If you were hurt by season four, it is time to heal and A Better Story is exactly the medicine you need. You will be held with complete compassion and understanding as you come to terms with it all

Even if you never want to come back to BBC Sherlock, consider taking the time to heal anyway. I’ve seen the old Sherlock pain rise from the deep like a monster in other fandoms and it really does spoil things— sucks out all the fun and corrupts the interpretation. We need to heal.

And if you don’t have any lingering trauma, damn watch it anyway. It’s joyful and intelligent and brilliant. The game is on.

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#sherlock #johnlock #sherlock meta #TJLC #tjlc meta #TJLCExplained #BBCSherlock #Youtube

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221b-johnlocked-1895 · 1 year

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From "The Creeping Man" (Sherlock Holmes (1984))

From "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman" (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes)

In Granada Holmes, they didn't make an episode about "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman" but they chose to use Holmes' last words (of the book, thus of the canon) in another episode, that is "The Creeping Man".

I think that they knew the real meaning behind those words and that's the reason why they wanted Holmes to say them.

Holmes is apparently referring to the fact that he was the one who had solved the mystery, but it doesn't make much sense. In fact, the readers of Watson's stories already knew that Holmes had solved many cases for which the police took the credit. I mean, Watson wrote and published the stories; it wasn't a secret!

Therefore, what's Holmes really talking about? What's the "true story"/"entire truth" that Watson couldn't write about in those years?

I think we all know very well what it was.

Today, we can and we must talk about their love. We owe it to them. We owe it to Doyle. We owe it to all the people who had to hide their love.

#granada holmes #granada holmes meta #sherlock holmes 1984 #sherlock holmes 1984 meta #granada johnlock meta #acd johnlock meta #johnlock meta #acd canon #acd johnlock #granada johnlock #holmes x watson #holmes x watson meta #the creeping man #the adventure of the retired colourman #the case-book of sherlock holmes #the case book of sherlock holmes #johnlock

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gregorovitch-adler · 4 months

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The Sign of Three: A wedding in which at least three people are in love with John.

#johnlock #bbc sherlock #shitpost #the sign of three #season 3 #john watson #sherlock holmes #the shortest meta ever

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liquor-liquor-lips · 2 years

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Ok, but hear me out...

John and Sherlock are already on first name basis by the time Lestrade comes around to Baker Street to ask for Sherlock's help.

Yet, when they arrive to Lauriston Gardens, this is how Sherlock introduces him to Sally Donovan.

And then again, this is how Sherlock addresses him once he has examined the body.

I don't think Sherlock did this unknowingly.

I think addressing him by his title is Sherlock's way of saying: "I'm not bringing you along because I pity you. You're not here as my sidekick, nor my assitant; you're here with me as my colleague (my partner, my equal). You're more than a wounded soldier who's been invalided home, more than a psychosomatic limp and an intermittent tremor in your left hand. You're a war hero with medical training whose opinion I value highly. I both respect and need your expertise because you're more than the sum of the bad things that have happened to you. You're still you, and you've still got a purpose in life."

Sherlock was basically showing John the battlefield he missed so much, giving him his life back, but at the same time, he was also offering a partnership where the two of them make up a unit.

Maybe John understood that too; maybe this is what he meant when he said "I was so alone and I owe you so much..."

#my attempt at writing sherlock meta #bbc sherlock #sherlock holmes #john watson #johnlock #a study in pink #asip

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dinner--starving · 2 years

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OH MY GOD

Do you need more proof that S4 is fucking fake? And more likely a drug induced coma fever dream?

Remember E? The woman on the bus that "Eurus" pretended to be and had a text affair with John? How did she give John her number? Written on a piece of paper. And what was her number?

I always wondered if there was a signiificance to this phone number. I looked for meta on this but never found a one with proper proofs, forgive me if I overlooked any and please let me know if so. As is with this ridiculous show that even after re-watching it for the 143rd time, I still get baffled at things I didn't notice before!

And I cannot believe that this number comes from

The Hounds of Baskerville

Henry Knight's napkin with the train girl's phone number on it.

Sherlock: The girl – female handwriting’s quite distinctive. Wrote her phone number down on the napkin. I can tell from the angle she wrote at that she was sat across from you on the other side of the aisle. Later – after she got off, I imagine – you used the napkin to mop up your spilled coffee, accidentally smudging the numbers. You’ve been over the last four digits yourself with another pen, so you wanted to keep the number. Just now, though, you used the napkin to blow your nose. Maybe you’re not that into her after all.

E was sitting across from John on the other side of the aisle on the bus. And it seemed she already had the number written down the way she is looking at the piece of paper, she probably just wrote Exx at the bus stop scene. John contemplated throwing her number in the bin but then decided to keep it after all.

What does this tell me? A clear indication that S4 is an amalgamation of what THoB is essentially all about - re-written memories due to childhood trauma, drug induced hallucinations, doing therapy (Sherlock's recurring dream), on the verge of suicide, not knowing what's real and what's not, betrayed by someone close - we know what Henry Knight saw was never real, the HOUND was never real. We also know Henry Knight is a Sherlock mirror.

If you notice the phone number screen grab from THoB, the 3rd last and 2nd last number seem to "1 and 5" that is rewritten by Henry, the last number is not visible to us. The last three numbers on E's number is "552".

"You’ve been over the last four digits yourself with another pen..."

This is Sherlock's version, he has rewritten this with his pen. All of S4.

#thob #sherlock meta #meta #my meta #eurus #s4 fuckery #e's number #phone number #bbc sherlock #tst #tld #tfp #sherlock #john watson #sherlock holmes #johnlock #tjlc

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tjlc-hellven · 2 months

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Johnny! There is no baby!

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buckingham-ashtray · 4 months

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the most amusing part of being a johnlock/tjlc fan is that for the majority of the time it hurts SO DAMN MUCH you quite literally want to throw yourself off a building and then when you actually reach the rooftop you discover you have company: “hey isn't that sherlock”

#221b baker street #bbc sherlock #i am sherlocked #johnlock #sherlock #sherlock fandom #sherlock headcanon #sherlock holmes #tjlc #sherlock meta #the reichenbach fall #johnlock headcanon #john watson #sherlock bbc #buckingham-ashtray

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