[Stop. Before you even scroll down any further to read this post, please read this. I'm writing this list for 3 reasons,
Someone asked me recently why I ship Johnlock
There's been a lot of crap going round with people, not everyone, just certain individuals saying Johnlock isn't going to happen, how its hurtful, disgusting blah blah blah. (If you don't think it is, brilliant. But don't slag the shippers off, please. I know again, certain individuals aren't kind about certain ships but it's not all of us). And then..
Because I purely want to.
I don't mind what you ship. I ship Johnlock, obviously. If you ship Sheriarty or Sherlolly or whoever and whatever else. Well done. I don't mind. This isn't something I want hate on or want to be accused of hating other ships. I know there's other ships out there and I've tried to leave out as many points as I can that will go against other ships and people may find offensive. This is a Johnlock blog, so I shall write about Johnlock. Take this as seriously as you want. Some of the points are very vague. This took me a while so, yeah, I hope you enjoy and thank you!]
100 Things that make Johnlock believable
John lends Sherlock his phone. This isn't really a big deal I know but I wouldn't even let my friends borrow my phone let alone some random stranger I'd never even spoken to.
They have undeniable chemistry. You can't deny that, whoever you ship.
This isn't really a reason why Johnlock is believable it's more a reason why people ship it. People are scared. If someone else comes into the Sherlock/John equation, (Molly, Moriarty even Mycroft), will it affect the duo? The flow of them both. Maybe. That's what I think anyway.
Sherlock can't handle John's girlfriends. Yes, he's coping with Mary (sort of) (okay, lets miss out the bit where she shot him) but he's jealous of her. All of the time.
Sherlock didn't have friends. Not one. John had barely known him a day and he was running around London with him. They have an instant connection.
John killed someone for Sherlock.
Sherlock killed someone for John.
They stare at each other. Constantly.
Sherlock never denies him and John being a couple.
John can manage to remember 30+ moans coming from Sherlock's phone throughout the day. I can barely remember what I did 5 minutes ago..
"People might talk". That's John's only issue. 'So what if you just stripped some of my clothes off. I only care that people didn't see'. Maybe he didn't mind it at all then, because no one saw.
Sherlock is back on drugs after John leaves him to go on his honeymoon, basically has withdrawal symptoms. John replaced the drugs, but then he left again.
Sherlock is incredibly sad at the wedding. John choosing Mary to dance with him over Sherlock seems to push him over the edge and make him leave.
John is the only man to render Sherlock speechless.
Sherlock taught John how to dance. That's not really a reason but it's incredibly intimate.
Mark said the BBC version is mostly inspired by The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. In which Sherlock basically falls in love with John (incredibly cute, watch it). It's probably one of the gayest adaptations.
Irene likes women, but she admits she fell for Sherlock. John is the same, which is basically what she's saying.
(John: "Who the hell knows about Sherlock Holmes, but if anyone out there still cares, I'm not actually gay".
Irene: "Well, I am. Look at us both").
Sherlock takes him to a gay club. He notices things. Surely he'd notice that.
The drunk scene is so flirtatious it hurts.
Sherlock came back to life for John. Came back from the dead. From. The. Dead.
The scenes in Sherlock's mind palace are the places he and John had their first case together. Sentiment, obviously.
They say you look for one of your parents in the person you fall in love with. Well Sherlock's parents basically cosplayed them.
"You. It's always you. John Watson, you keep me right."
When Sherlock's solving cases with Molly, John's voice is there, in his head. Always.
Sherlock stuck John's head on a picture of the Vitruvian Man, which was Leonardo Da Vinci's representation of an 'ideal man'.
"Bitterness is a paralytic. Love is a much more vicious motivator". That's why Sherlock shoots Magnussen for John. (I know I already mentioned this but I found a cool quote okay).
Can't believe I nearly missed the cheeky wink when they first met.
The moment at Angelo's when Sherlock thinks John is hitting on him. Sherlock doesn't get things wrong. 99% of the time he's right. So when he thinks someone is flirting with him, he's probably right.
John definitely takes a peek when Sherlock drops his sheet at Buckingham Palace.
The hug at the wedding. We've never seen them hug before so it's kind of a new step for their relationship.
At the pool Sherlock gives John a glance and John nods, knowing exactly what he's thinking.
John makes him beg. Twice.
John forgives him. His best friend left him for 2 years, pretending he was dead and John forgave him like that. You've gotta love someone pretty bad to do that. (Even if he did tackle him to the floor.. and punch him.. though he did deserve it).
On the tube, in John's last moments, he spends it telling Sherlock how much of a great man he is.
'Not gay' doesn't imply he's straight.
John was willing to get shot to take down Moriarty, telling Sherlock to run and save his own life.
My best friend doesn't point out my cheekbones.
The best man speech. Nobody could even imagine Sherlock saying anything like that but he said it all, for John.
"Is yours a snorer?". John kinda just gives up denying they're a couple here.
John says he doesn't like his middle name, though he exclaims it when he's jealous over Irene and Sherlock.
Sherlock says to Irene: "Why would I want to have dinner if I wasn't hungry?", yet he does that an awful lot with John.
Their lack of personal space is unbelievable.
John looks to see if Sherlock is wearing pants at Buckingham Palace under the sheet. Looks. At his crotch.
The look across the car park when Sherlock realises John shot the cabbie.
Sherlock gets rid of John's armchair, presumably because he doesn't like seeing it empty.
Mrs Hudson had it from day 1: "There’s another bedroom upstairs if you'll be needing two bedrooms”.
“You're hardly going to need me around now you’ve got a real baby on the way”. Cries.
"Remember Redbeard? Don't get involved”, e.g. Remember the last time you loved and then lost.
Sherlock acts more like the bride at the wedding then Mary actually does:
A) The photographer says, “just the bride and groom, please", and he doesn't even move.
B) He's the only person we see giving vows.
C) He throws his flower to Janine (just like the bride would traditionally throw her bouquet).
D) He taught John how to dance, which actual is quite a feminine role too.
John looks extremely unimpressed that Sherlock has a girlfriend.
Mary sort of acts like a romantic shield, as John in the third series seems more open to discuss relationships and his feelings, even about gay matters, for example when being searched by one of Magnussen's men, he makes an innuendo joke.
. "I don't understand, why would it upset YOU?”, because he cares Sherlock, duhh.
The determination Sherlock has to get John out of the fire, yes I know, this one could be seen as just a friend helping a friend but the panic on Sherlock's face and the way he had no fear of burn marks or anything.
In His Last Vow, John wakes up from dreaming about Sherlock, even though he was laying next to his wife.
I know I've already mentioned Sherlock shooting Magnussen but he does sacrifice his career, freedom and life to protect John.
Sue said to, "treat the music like a script in itself", e.g. they play 'We Found Love' in the background of the stag scene.
When Sherlock shakes John's hand goodbye, he takes his glove off to touch his skin one last time.
"Since it’s unlikely we’ll ever meet again I might as well say it now…", I really don't think that, "Sherlock is actually a girl's name", is what he was going to say.
That scene (in point 60) was quite obviously set up to make us think Sherlock was actually going to declare his love. So it could happen.
The tears in Sherlock's eyes when he's on the plane, leaving John.
Sherlock says the case (when they're drunk) is 'touching'. He describes a case including same sex romance as 'touching’. That's surely saying something. Sherlock doesn't find many things touching..
Molly mentions having met Tom's parents. Shortly after John meets Sherlock's, however, he hasn't (I know, it's impossible, but still, my point) meet Mary's.
Sherlock says, "All the nice girls like a soldier", to which John replies, "it's sailor". Did Sherlock slip up there on purpose because he likes a soldier???
"I want to be up there with the two people that I love and care about most in the world. Mary Morstan, and... you". Ouch. The feels.
"Today you sit between the woman you have made your wife and the man you have saved, in short the two people who love you most in all this world", and now Sherlock hits me right in the feels too.
While we see Sherlock telling everyone how much he loves and cares for John, it's interesting in the fact they don't bother showing the ceremony between John and Mary. Not even a glimpse.
John talks about Major Sholto in a way in which a lot of fans implied they used to have something going on. I think Sherlock thought this too as he seems jealous.
"Oh, Sherlock! Neither of us were the first, you know". Even Mary can see he's jealous.
John calls Sherlock, "nurse". Mary is a nurse so can be seen as a parallel?
The only two people we see John perform medically on is the man naked from the waist down at the clinic and Bainbridge, who's naked from the shower. Two naked men. Coincidence? Hmm.
An 'Elephant in the Room' actually means, an obvious fact that nobody is pointing out. It's mostly said when talking about someone's sexuality, for example homosexual attraction. One of their cases is called 'The Elephant in the Room'.
In His Last Vow, in the scene where Sherlock brings Mary to the house and John is secretly there when Sherlock makes Mary identify herself, there is a shot taken from above. It clearly shows Sherlock at one end of the corridor and John at the other, Mary coming in between them.
Sherlock says, "I was waiting until we got married", so obviously avoiding sex with Janine as marriage was never going to happen. Or maybe not avoiding sex with Janine, more the fact he didn't want to have sex with a woman?
"I'd be lost without my blogger". Uses 'my', basically labelling John as his own.
John went out with many women, but only married one of them (Mary) when Sherlock was dead. Maybe if Sherlock was alive and hadn't approved, like he did with John's other girlfriends, the proposal may not have happened.
Before they met, John was a broken war hero and Sherlock was lonely and isolated. After they met, they both seemed to cure each other. They both became happy, especially being around each other.
If I had human body parts in my fridge, I'd have to love the person quite a lot who put them there to let them stay in my house.
Moffat said that John is, "infatuated and fascinated” by Sherlock. Sexually? Well, that's your judgement I guess.
When John breaks up with Jeanette his (sexual, most probably) partner, he barely batters an eyelid, yet when Sherlock leaves, he's affected, massively. (Okay it's kinda different because Sherlock 'died' but I'm promising you 100 reasons and I'm at 98 haha)
John had to trust Sherlock with his life, many times. He did it without even hesitating.
Sherlock healed John's leg. Basically.
Not really a point but, 99% of the things done in Sherlock are on purpose. You don't do things by accident on TV and they keep them in. The stares, the touches, the facial expressions. They are all there for a reason.
The stars scene. Where Sherlock points out the stars in The Great Game. I find that awfully romantic.
Sherlock drugs him. It's an awful thing to do but John practically, instantly, forgives him.
At the end of The Hounds of Baskerville when Sherlock is laughing with John when John is eating, that look the innkeeper person gives Sherlock. It's like a sort of knowing look.
"I asked you for one more miracle. I asked you to stop being dead". Sherlock's reply to that is the most sincere, kind and heartwarming way I swear we have ever heard him spoke (not including when he lies to victims haha) when he says, "I heard you". You can hear how much he cares in just those 3 words.
Sherlock remembers how John takes his tea. John's tea habits are more important then that the earth goes round the sun.
In Reichenbach, John punches a police officer just because they say something bad about Sherlock.
Sherlock says, "Alone is what I have, alone protects me", but I think he soon realises he does in fact need John by his side, that's why he goes back to the drugs.
Sherlock jumped off the roof to save John's life. If he had came away from that situation alive, John would have been shot, as well as Mrs Hudson and Lestrade. But he had to sacrifice himself for the people he cares most about.
So this isn't in the series but on John's blog so it does count. Sherlock writes, 'John would ask me if he was here'. Another sign he needs John with him.
John shaved his moustache off purely because Sherlock said it didn't suit him.
"Girlfriend? No, not really my area". "So you've got a boyfriend then?". "No". So a girlfriend is off the list completely, not his area, but when asked if he has a boyfriend the answer is a straight, 'no'. (Sorry to anyone who ships Sherlock with Molly/Irene/Janine, etc, I guess he could have changed his mind).
I prefer my Doctor's clean shaven. Pretty flirtatious.
The picture taken of the drunk scene. It's an official promo picture and they're holding hands. Yes, they're 'drunk' but they are, in fact, holding hands.
Sherlock see's Mary shooting him in her wedding dress. Some kind of metaphor, surely?
Everyone. Absolutely everyone assumes they're together. Mycroft, Mrs Hudson, Kitty Reilly, Angelo, etc.
Sherlock outs Mary in front of John because I think he's concerned for John. I think he's scared John might get hurt so he manages to get Mary to admit who she is when John is present.
In The Hounds of Baskerville when John goes all military, Sherlock's face is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
