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31. Pisces. Mom to two. Obsessed with BBC Sherlock, Harry Potter, Hannibal, and Disney. Still getting the hang of Tumblr. I love RPing so hit me up. My personal tag on omegle is 'reekajean'

[johmlock]

but what if we entertained the idea that all those times Sherlock “came so close to coming in contact” with John while he was away, he always stopped because inevitably, he believed there was a possibility he still wouldn’t make it back

and he figured it better not to give John false hope, than to put him through his death a second time

[queen-221-bee-blog]

I have said this all along. Since TEH aired. It's the only thing that really makes sense, in my opinion. There's no way he was actually worried that John would tell people. John is loyal to a fault. He wouldn't have "let the cat out of the bag."

[waitedforgarridebs]

Do you realise that after the Special is out, we will finally be able to answer the question, “What are your Top Ten episodes of your favourite show?”

[corruptedspacecore]

Carl telling us how (not) to science.

[kny111]

“conclusion: dinosaurs” is still my favorite rebuttal to just about anything tbh.

[anotherwellkeptsecret]

The first of the cards for my Sherlock themed playing cards project. Sherlock will represent all of the Aces, though only the Ace of Spades is shown here. 

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Moriarty is the King. This is my first time drawing Moriarty!

[queen-221-bee-blog]

Mycroft is the Queen, obviously. Right?! John is the Jack. XD

[cappellapalatina]

No one can be fully aware of another human being unless we love them. By that love we see potential in our beloved. Through that love, we allow our beloved to see their potential. Expressing that love, our beloved’s potential comes true.

[queen-221-bee-blog]

Me: Please look at this thing I found on tumblr

Friend: We are both on tumblr. We are mutuals. I see everything you reblog.

Me: look at this other thing tho

Friend: You reblogged that from me

[fuckyeahhannigram]

Keep being vocal about the show.

Bryan Fuller, The Dinner Party Show, September 13, 2015

We can have more Hannibal if we keep up the noise! Never surrender!

(via mean-cannibals)

[queen-221-bee-blog]

Bored.

*dies* Give me something to do.

[captainkirk94-deactivated201903]

DEAR CIS MEN! LISTEN TO ME REAL QUICK! YOUR BRETHEN GOT SOM TO SAY!

[ajkurdcvbhjytfgv-deactivated201]

this is why I get slightly uncomfortable whenever a man assures me he is a feminist

[badideainaglass]

A Fish Called Greg Trailer

Sherlock helps Mycroft find his goldfish.

My other videos can be found on my YouTube page or on my video tag. 

[kowabungadoodles]

Reblogging because this is so lovely and I fell asleep with a giant grin on my face last night and this is what fandom is all about x

[queen-221-bee-blog]

I need this movie. Seriously. I love this so much.

[belegaer-the-shoreless]

Let’s talk about that last gif for a second. 

Let’s talk about the fact that the world’s only consulting detective was once a lonely university student. 

Let’s talk about the fact that deducing the life stories of his classmates was the only way of connecting with them that Sherlock knew of, and they all hated him because of it.

Do not ever try and tell me that Sherlock Holmes can be defined by his arrogance or perceived superiority. He was a child once. He had insecurities. He never had a single friend. I would bet you anything, anything at all, that he tried as hard as he could to connect with the people around him before realizing he was only making it worse.

And you know what the worst part is? Even though this scene takes place years later, when Sherlock is a confident adult, this jackass still has the power to hurt him. 

If that’s not worth talking about, then I don’t know what is.

[bakerstreetbitch-deactivated201]

Perfect commentary is perfect.

[earlgreytea68]

This. The most common complaint I see people make about the BBC’s Sherlock is that he’s a smug, arrogant bastard, and how can you ever say that about man whose face looks like that? What amongthedistantstars says, about how deducing people’s lives was the only way Sherlock knew to connect with people? That’s so true, and he tried so hard, and what he got for his efforts were people who clearly used him when they needed his talents (Seb has no qualms about e-mailing him out of the blue as some kind of pal) but otherwise hated and mocked him, and that was the best he got. And he told himself it didn’t matter and he wasn’t lonely, and then he met John, and he deduced his life for him, and John told him he was fantastic. Can you even imagine what that must have felt like to him? To have tried all his life to meet new people and befriend them in the one way he knew how and have it rebuffed, and then to give it one more try and have the person on the receiving end be amazed and impressed and delighted instead of cruel? When Sherlock told John people usually said piss off, he made it into a joke, but he really meant it, and they were people like Seb, and they said it all his life, and John saved him from them, and that’s why Reichenbach is so heartbreakingly beautiful, of course. 

[sanctorvms]

I’m crying in a restaurant now

[vaginal-diabetus-deactivated201]

::sob::

Yes, Sherlock is arrogant, and smug.  Sure, he’s all those things, and in some respect, that’s completely, and understandably within his rights.  He IS remarkable, he IS prodigious, he IS brilliant.  He should feel proud that he is so very above average.  Sherlock has an eidetic memory, imagine the discipline it would take to hone that ability.  How overwhelming it can get.

But how much of that perceived conceitedness is actual egotism, and how much of it is guise..  He values his mind above any other thing about himself, to the point of starving his body of food and sleep in an effort to force it into clearer function.  As far as he’s concerned, his mind the only valuable part of him worth sharing.  And people like Sebastian, USE him.  They utilize his talents to suit their needs, and then call him a freak for it later.  Imagine the trust issues that Sherlock must have.  He’s manipulative because he’s been manipulated. 

Sherlock’s coldness hasn’t anything to do with sociopathy.  But it has everything to do with a learned need to hide his heart underneath an arrogant, uncaring exterior.  It’s protection.  I think John is intuitive of Sherlock’s deeply vulnerable side, and the part of him that is complexly innocent.  John isn’t afraid to put Sherlock in his place, but he’s also aware of Sherlock’s insecurities and inexperience, he’s firm, but patient, and protective.  And in turn, Sherlock is completely devoted to John.

::has otp feels::

[madenthusiasms]

Sherlock is arrogant and smug because that is a survival trait of the bullied - “I don’t need you anyway.”  “I’m smarter than most of you.” And if there’s one thing S1 is ALL about, it’s showing the many tiny ways that Sherlock has been bullied and how he rarely fights back.  Before Seb smarms all over him, Sally greets him by calling him a freak.  If John weren’t there, would Sherlock have fought back?  He doesn’t when he’s alone in the same episode, turning to Lestrade, honestly asking why he keeps being shoved into a shock blanket.  He just gets the exact same expression as the last gif when Lestrade says that the police wanted to take pictures of him in it to laugh about.

[maggzblair]

I can’t believe I’ll be 25 in one month and like…four hours. It’s surreal and terrifying all at once.

[blk0912]

I feel you there. I’m going to be 28 on Saturday and I’m not ready. All of my older coworkers are like “you’re still young!”, but I don’t feel that way. I feel old.

[maggzblair]

That’s what my parents keep saying too, that I’m still young and should stop complaining. Doesn’t help much.

[crimson-winter]

18 in 12 days :)

[maggzblair]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You’re still the baby. :P

[queen-221-bee-blog]

*whispers* I'm 31, guys. XD Happy early birthday, though!!

[phipiohsum475]

[gruntsandpoetry]

It’s a very addictive feeling to be in a relationship with somebody — whether it’s a friendship or a romance — where the dysmorphia of how you feel on the inside finally connects with someone else’s perception of you from the outside. It’s dizzying. —Bryan Fuller

[claireyfairy1]

Tim Roberts, Amanda Abbington & the manipulation of facts

I’d kind of forgotten about Tim Roberts until I saw this report in The Stage today, as well as a slew of articles from The Sun, Huffington Post, Glamour Magazine, etc, about death threats against Amanda Abbington. No one here is defending death threats, but I was interested to see how the story in this case has been successfully manipulated by Tim Roberts. 

In the last 7-10 days, Tim Roberts has been on a one man crusade against fangirls. He realised he wasn’t going to win the freedom of speech war, so he really smartly redirected the focus to the so-called death threats. He must have jumped for joy at the public ‘death threat’ against Amanda Abbington so he could harp on about it for days, conveniently steering his own audience away from the source of all the trouble - his tweets.

His tweets that he claims were faked by malicious fans:

Now, we know that’s not true. Who the hell would bother? So I wondered how his audience, who seem to lap up the idea that they’re photoshopped and it’s impossible for Tim Roberts to be a misogynist, have missed those tweets. And began to wonder: does Tim Roberts have a history of misogyny? Or was it just a bad reaction to the Cumberbatch fans baiting him??

Well I decided to use my advanced twitter search skills for an hour or so to see if I could find anything else that supported my initial claim that Tim Roberts is a misogynist. If the screencaps were photoshopped and not indicative of his attitude then I wouldn’t find much, right?

Wrong. What I discovered is Tim A Roberts is a big ol’ MRA. He’s a Men’s Rights Activist and a bigger creep misogynist than I even theorised. Kind of wish I gone in this depth with the first post, but well, who knew what there was to find back then!

Here is how I know he’s an MRA:

1) Tim Roberts is a sexist

With a side of racism:

2) Tim Roberts hates powerful, successful and/or feminist women

Re: Caitlin Moran:

With a side of transphobia:

3) Tim Roberts admits trolling women 

4) Tim Roberts thinks feminism is man-hating

4) Tim Roberts thinks there’s a feminist agenda to make men 2nd class citizens

And lastly, a death threat:

So that’s my proof that Tim Roberts is probably an active participant in the MRA community. And if you wanted to know more about how gross he is, I also picked these up while looking up the misogyny:

Death threats at Amanda Abbington might be vile, but lets not let her and her best friend Tim Roberts manipulate us into forgetting what was at the heart of the conflict. 

[purple-irises]

Have you seen this annashipper?

[annashipper]

Yes.  I’m appalled….  :o/

[coolfayebunny]

This has to be a joke Twitter account. Can one man be a sexist, racist and xenophobic idiot. If so, get the police involved.

I have a feeling he may have been dumped by girlfriends/wife in the past and struggled with child access. It often make some men bitter towards women even if the decision to award custody was made by a male judge. How can AA have links to a wanker like this though. He appears to rant freely with no filter, as much as he cat calls Caitlin Moran and Grace Dent ( 2 of my favourite writers) he needs to realise he’s a male equivalent of them in the extreme of course.

[fahbee]

Prepared Words, Chosen With Care

Or, “How We Were Told That John Is Planning To Destroy Mary And We Didn’t Listen”

At the 2015 San Diego Comic Con Sherlock Panel, Moffat talked about the “gut-punch” moments in the show, specifically the moment where Mary turns around with the gun and Sherlock (and the viewing audience) learn that Mary is a liar, a killer, a “professional” (as Moffat refers to her).  

Moffat described a well-executed gut-punch moment this way:

When the twist comes, it’s not [the fact] that it’s surprising that is thrilling.  It’s the fact that you go, ‘I should have seen it.  I was told, I was told repeatedly this doesn’t make sense.’  And then the rug is pulled - it’s like you’ve been warning them for ages. ‘You aren’t paying any attention but we are going to pull this rug.’ So when you fall over you’ve got to think, ‘I was told and I didn’t listen.’

Much has been made by TJLC-ers about “you were told but you didn’t listen” in regards to canon Johnlock, and while I certainly agree with the sentiment, I think the context behind Moffat’s quote makes it clear that he wasn’t talking about John and Sherlock’s romantic arc.  He’s talking about plot twists - surprising, shocking, gut-punching reveals that seemingly come from nowhere but whose groundwork, upon closer inspection, we should be able to go back and identify in prior episode(s).  

What really struck me, especially watching the actual footage of Moffat delivering this quote, is his emphasis on the words “told” and “repeatedly”.  Since Moffat has just been talking about Mary’s reveal, I had her on the brain.  So when I found myself thinking, ‘When have we been told something, repeatedly, on the show?’ I knew immediately; when John “forgives” Mary.

Many people, including me, have proposed that John didn’t really forgive Mary at Christmas.  But many of those arguments are based on what wasn’t said - no “I’m sorry” and no “I forgive you”.  In light of Moffat’s comments at SDCC however, I think we’re missing the obvious, which was said, which we were told.  Repeatedly.

JOHN: I’ve thought long and hard about what I want to say to you. JOHN: These are prepared words, Mary. JOHN: I’ve chosen these words with care.

Repeatedly we are told to listen very carefully to what John is about to say to Mary because he (i.e. Mofftiss) has put much thought into these words, they are not spoken carelessly or spontaneously, they have been carefully chosen.

Mofftiss is hitting us over the head with how important John’s next words are.  And what exactly are those words?

JOHN: The problems of your past are your business.  The problems of your future are my privilege.

We have been told repeatedly to pay attention to the careful wording, so we are clearly meant to disregard the surface reading.  And anyway, the surface reading doesn’t hold up to any kind of scrutiny.  The people who hate Mary and want to kill her are the problems of her past, who (at the time John delivers his line) could at any moment become the problems of her future.  So John saying ‘those people who want revenge for the people you killed are your business, and I’ll handle anything new as of today’ makes zero sense. 

But if we look beyond the surface reading we see what Mofftiss is really telling us.  John is saying “I don’t give a shit that people want you dead.  In fact, I am very much looking forward to killing you myself.” 

This is the show’s next gut-punching reveal - that John didn’t forgive Mary for a goddamn thing, and John is (gladly) planning to destroy her himself.  This is the twist that we should see coming because we were warned from the very beginning.  And if we ignore that warning, when this rug gets pulled out from under us and we fall over, we will think, “I was told and I didn’t listen.”

[strangelylikeable]

I have been thinking about this for a few days.  Priviledge is actually a pretty sinister word when you think about it.  He is saying the problems that Mary will face will be something he is going to enjoy. He is saying he is entitled to that. And then, I believe, he will be immune from the consequences.  I guarantee Sherlock or Mycroft (or both) gave him those words to say.  

They would have know exactly what that word implies.  

[iwantthatbelstaffanditsoccupant]

This has been my reading on that “forgiveness” speech for quite some time now. He flat out says it is prepared because she is very very, very good at telling when someone is lying (she can tell when Sherlock is lying!) and his delivery is part of his tell. So that cancels that out. The closer to the truth, the better he can deceive her. And he also says words that can be misconstrued or have more than one meaning so he can avoid a technical lie. I believe he didn’t ‘technically’ read the file ( either he didn’t ‘read’ it or ‘he’ didn’t read it.). But if course he might slip up, not using rehearsed words all the time…so he adds he is still pissed off and it might show from time to time. And we are treated to a light-hearted baby-naming domestic, funny bicker so we can forget about what we were just shown so it can surprise us later. Now the question remains..was he advised to do this by Sherlock or by Mycroft. Sherlock makes more sense to me.

[bug-catcher-in-viridian-forest]

Sherlock (TV series) - Heteronormativity caught you in a haste? Here some quick replies to copy paste!

Since people keep recycling the same heteronormative arguments and I was fed up with repeating myself, I made some standard replies that I could quickly copy paste to them and cover the all the major points. Feel free to suggest new points, send me useful quotes of interviews, correct grammatical mistakes. I mainly created it for myself, but you can copy paste this wherever you want, editing whatever you want. I will add links to other people’s meta only with the permission of the author, because these are things that I’m going to repost outside of tumblr in sites where there might be hate and I don’t want to attract hate on other people’s blogs. Content should be as unattackable as possible, facts and not interpretations, because outside of tumblr interpretations aren’t really welcome if they imply homosexuality and people will just start asking for proofs we don’t have. I will update this post every time a new heteronormative argument arises.

THE “JOHN AND SHERLOCK ARE JUST FRIENDS” ARGUMENT:

The fact that they are friends now doesn’t mean that a romantic relationship can’t develop in the future. Their relationship is coded like slow burn romance and they will probably end up together near the end of it. Queer people can have slow burn romances like everyone else. Just because they are queer it doesn’t mean that they have to jump at each other and declare their feelings right away, so you can have no doubt about the fact that they are queer and in love. Let the queers take the time to fall in love that the heterosexual couples always have had on TV. Here the definition of “romance arc”: The journey of two characters from strangers to lovers”. 

Here some romantic tropes typical of slow burn romances that have been used on Sherlock:

Red String of Fate: They meet because they say the same thing to the same person.

Meet Cute: As soon as they meet, Sherlock deduces many things about him and John is completely amazed, then Sherlock dashes away and winks in a very cute way, leaving John standing there in shock.

Rescue Romance: John saves Sherlock’s live while he was about to swallow the pill from the cabbie.

Samaritan Relationship Starter: Sherlock deduces John has killed a man who was trying to kill him and his positively surprised. Sherlock immediately asks John out to dinner.

Just Friends: John insist they are just friends, but no one seems to believe him. When this trope is not used and they are really just friends, there is no reason to repeatedly bring up the tension by suggesting that they are not.

Not a Date: John practically says this out loud two times and Angelo doesn’t believe him.  

She Is Not My Girlfriend: Another romantic trope John cries out loud several times. And no one believes him. Again, it’s a common trope to increase the romantic tension, there’s no other reason to repeat it as the show goes on.

Will They or Won’t They?: This is what part of the fandom is wondering and, when then this trope is used, usually the answer is “They will”, because fans are emotionally invested.

Unresolved Sexual Tension: The gaze and touch each other and there is tension about it. TV shows don’t code friends with tension. The knee grab is one of the best examples.

Dance of Romance and Convenient Slow Dance: Sherlock and John have already danced off screen, specifically to a waltz and many times. There is speculation that they might have danced in the deleted gay pub scene which was not released with the other deleted scene, as there is little other reason to make a distinction between a gay and a non-gay pub if it is only shown for a few seconds like the other pubs. Sherlock also declared that he loves to dance and lives in the hope of the right case, but he is the only one who doesn’t get to do it at the wedding, so we might see them dance on screen in the future. 

Everyone Can See It: Everyone thinks they are a couple.

Held Gaze: Sherlock and John gaze at each other.

Moment Killer: They are drunk and are starting to act a bit too intimate with each other, where would that have gone without Tessa interrupting them? Do you ever wonder if there was a reason for that scene to end with an interruption?

Operation Jealousy: Sherlock enters a fake romantic relationship and doesn’t tell John for a while. John looks surprised, but also jealous. He certainly doesn’t look happy about it.

Romantic False Lead: John’s wife is actually an assassin that has lied to him since the start of their relationship and shoots Sherlock, who is declared dead on the operating table, but he comes back to live because John is in danger. There is speculation that in the next series she could be made even more of a villain. Sherlock gets a girlfriend, but it’s a fake relationship.

Sleep Cute: John and Sherlock sleeping on the stairs.

Wrong Guy First: John marries an assassin who shoots Sherlock, who survives only out of fear that John will be hurt.

Aborted Declaration of Love: Sherlock wanted to confess something to John before going inside the plane, but made a joke instead. He had already confessed his feelings of friendship at the wedding.

Unrequited Love Switcheroo: In Series 1 and 2 we see John potentially emotionally interested, but Sherlock has turned him down from the start. John deals with the fact that Sherlock is not looking for a relationship and his interest is unrequited. In Series 3 Sherlock is finally ready to be emotionally involved, but John has found a new love interest, which is a romantic false lead anyway. Sherlock deals with having lost John forever,

I Have Your Girlfriend: Moriarty kidnaps John at the pool. Magnussen kidnaps John and puts him in a fire.

Second Act Break Up: At the end of Series 2 they are separated for two years.

Break His Heart to Save Him: Sherlock makes John believe that he’s dead for two years in order to save his life.

(Relationship Sabotage: This trope is only speculated on some theories. Since it’s a huge coincidence that John’s wife is an assassin, she might have started her relationship with John as an assignment from Moriarty to hurt Sherlock. She may have later actually fell in love.)

Here some generic romantic tropes that have been used on Sherlock:

Accidental Hand Hold: John and Sherlock hold hands while trying run away from the police.

Act of True Love: Sherlock jumps from a building for John, he says he would have jumped even if he couldn’t survive. Sherlock come back to live after being declared dead on the operating table because John is in danger. The only vow Sherlock will ever make in his life is to protect John’s family. Sherlock kills a man and goes to an exile which will lead to his death to protect John’s family.

Betty and Veronica: John between Mary and Sherlock before it’s revealed that Mary is an assassin.

Declaration of Protection: Sherlock’s last and only vow.

Finishing Each Other’s Sentences:  SHERLOCK: Don’t compromise the integrity of the… JOHN: …crime scene!

Shipper on Deck: Mrs. Husdon and Angelo ship them a lot, Irene Adler ships them a bit and Molly and Mycroft seem to believe Sherlock has feelings for John.

There Is Only One Bed: There is an inversion of this trope, where they are mistaken for a couple and the owner of the hotel apologizes for the lack of a double room. It serves the purpose of creating tension and remembering us that they look like a couple anyway. There is also the possibility that Sherlock might have tried to share a bed with John, since the owner acts like if he was asked a double room during the booking process and John informs us in his blog that Sherlock once proposed that they should sleep together in the same bed for a case.

Asking directly or indirectly if the other is single, replying that it’s nice they are single.

Green-Eyed Monster: John being jealous while Irene flirts with Sherlock. He counts how many messages she sends him, Irene herself says he’s jealous and he interrupts them with the baby names comment.

In the Blind Banker Sherlock grabs John’s head in the dark and John probably thinks he’s going to kiss him.

This is not a faithful adaption. Even if for many things the creators have stuck to the ACD canon, for many others they have not, there’s no reason why the relationship status cannot be touched while other relevant aspects have been. Moreover, the possibility that Sherlock and John were in love with each other in the ACD canon has been discussed for decades. It was illegal in Victorian times to for men to be in a romantic relationship, so, even if Sherlock and John had been compatible enough to wish for a romantic relationship, they would have committed a crime and would have tried to avoid the thought. Also, the stories were reported by Dr. Watson. This means that, even if they were in a romantic relationship, he wouldn’t have published it, because they could have been arrested. 

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