Tell Me About the Johnlock Kiss

Wow, I can't believe that the real Series 4 of BBC Sherlock never aired and the True Gay™ version's hidden away because it was too gay.

[loonylupin2]

Watson just casually made a Pros and Cons list for his new roommate ate and put it in his debut novel as if this is a normal thing to do, freak

[the-bedheaded-league]

Sherlock Holmes is the funniest case of “doomed by the narrative” ever. Doomed by the narrative and destined to die young bc the creator hated him, and then the fans literally bullied him into un-dooming the narrative, writing about him for another thirty years, and giving the character a canonical happy ending where he retires to the countryside and keeps bees. Funniest shit ever.

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

magma doodles

[2017thelma]

[thelostsmiles]

[ash-fandom-blog]

Bearlock Holmes and John Watsbun are on the case!

[renthebarbarian]

thinking about how Granada Sherlock Holmes is a mostly 1 to 1 text to screen adaptation of ACD’s works BUT they decided to add in a bit to the Reichenbach fall where Holmes takes a moment to watch his husband friend scream his name and be sad about his death and even considers revealing to him that he’s alive before stopping himself because he knows he has an important mission ahead of him and he can’t risk it, so he just sits there and soaks in one more minute with his Watson with tears in his eyes will someone pls sedate me

[amypihcs]

As HE said.

If it cheers the gays up I'm thrilled.

And boy. it DOES cheer the gays up! At least the gay right here!

[jonstarks]

Sherlock Holmes (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie

[yakichoufd]

Some cute train time!

[thegreatgodbird]

Happy pride to the old beekeeper and army doctor

[shag-me-senseless-watson]

Just out of curiosity, is anyone still into Sherlock/Johnlock? 👀

[thatjohnlock]

@shag-me-senseless-watson you know I’m always here bb ✨

[muchtohope]

Granada Holmes gif series - The Dancing Men - Misc. gif #5

[darlingbenny]

but pilot sherlock’s face after john told him what he did was amazing

[darlingbenny]

pilot john’s face after he told sherlock what he did was amazing

[jonsnowboard]

[chongoblog]

Every so often, I remember that like 80% of Tumblr (myself included) was completely enraptured by a show where the big twist was that the main character forgot his childhood friend was murdered by his sister, and for some reason only remembers his childhood friend ever existing as a dog.

[chongoblog]

And in that same episode it’s revealed that the same sister…..like…..hypnotized (?) the main character’s arch rival into hating him by, like, staring at him for a few minutes.

[chongoblog]

In our collective defense, this is when we all decided “hey we should probably stop watching Sherlock”

[ninjakittenarmy]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

#Sherlock #I only watched the first two seasons? (via @raptortooth)

god i wish that were me

[abadbowlofsoup]

Wait What?

[bemusedlybespectacled]

series 3 of sherlock: john marries mary morstan off-camera, the show mocks all the fans who kept the hype up during a two year hiatus, mary turns out to be an assassin who shoots sherlock, during which time he has a near-death-experience dream about his dog redbeard who was put down. also there’s a weird scene where john is revealed to be attracted to danger and so he dated mary because he was subconsciously picking up the fact that she used to be an assassin. also the series ends with sherlock committing murder in front of witnesses to save john and mary.

christmas special: sherlock goes on a bender where he hallucinates a victorian-era case, the episode ends with moriarty seemingly returning via social media and mycroft making a cryptic reference to “the other one.” oh, also any consequences from sherlock committing murder are immediately negated.

series 4: HOO BOY.

episode 1: mary is killed due to her assassin past, but no one really cares since she’s only been in the show for all of four episodes. she keeps coming back as a recorded voice/hallucination.

episode 2: john goes to a new grief counseler. also he keeps hallucinating mary. sherlock is told to solve a murder by the murderer’s daughter, but it turns out that while the murderer has a daughter, it’s not the woman who gave him the case to solve! eurus, sherlock and mycroft’s sister, has simultaneously masqueraded as john’s grief counseler and the murderer’s daughter and a random woman who keeps following sherlock because she’s a master of disguise! (to be fair, this is a legitimately cool reveal and I genuinely didn’t see it coming)

episode 3: HOO. FUCKING. BOY. eurus is sherlock and mycroft’s sister who’s been in a prison for the criminally insane for decades. mycroft has withheld this knowledge from both sherlock and their parents by claiming she died in a fire she started. turns out she’s able to hypnotize people with ???? her superior intellect ???????? and so even talking to her makes people want to do things for her like commit murder ????????? and so she’s somehow able to do things like escape from her scary island prison and then take herself back, blow up baker street, kidnap multiple people, and then pull Saw-esque morality problems on Mycroft and Sherlock and John where she just murders people for funsies with no apparent motive. IT IS DURING THIS SEQUENCE THAT IT IS REVEALED THAT SHERLOCK HAD A HUMAN BEST FRIEND THAT EURUS MURDERED BUT REWROTE HIS OWN MEMORIES TO IMAGINE IT WAS A PET DOG WHO DIED.

Y’ALL. IT IS SO DUMB. IT IS SO DUMB THAT THE FANDOM GENUINELY HAD A CONSPIRACY THEORY GOING FOR A WHILE THAT THERE HAD TO BE A SECRET FOURTH EPISODE - OF A SHOW THAT ONLY EVER HAD THREE EPISODES PER SERIES - BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WAY THAT SOMETHING THAT BAD COULD BE THE FUCKING FINAL EPISODE.

[earhartsease]

I am so grateful to this post for vindicating my decision never to watch s4

[starryvioletnight]

1. I wish I was you.

3. Everything in this post is real

[crunchybones-mcspine]

NO

[recursive-occlusion]

Remember when Gravity Falls predicted the ending of Sherlock two years early with the disappointing “Duck-Tective season finale”?

[captainclickycat]

Don’t forget the scene where Sherlock was morosely looking at a dog bowl with “Redbeard” printed on it, and the question as to what exactly this implied given the final reveal. A child eating out of a customised dog bowl which later came into his friend’s possession after his death, is what it implied.

Also, the ultimate resolution = the sister, this major Shayamalan-twist evil-genius greater-scope villain we were all supposed to be astounded by, blubbering away on the floor like a toddler and whining because her brothers wouldn’t let her play pirates with them as a kid.

It was just so astoundingly, comically awful. It was a testimony to the potential consequences of prioritising shock value and “sUBvErtING eXPecTaTiONs” over actually good, consistent writing. To the dangers of becoming too complacent to the point where you assume your fans will just lap up any old crap, as long as you were the one who wrote it. It was… it was bad, is what I’m saying. It was very bad. Take heed, people.

[thatjohnlock]

People were REALLY mad that the fandom didn't like season four, but it was...rough to watch!

[imaginelock]

John holds up the camera and waves a bit awkwardly.

"Hello, everyone! Sorry, it's been a while since my last video," he rubs the back of his neck a bit shyly. "Since Rosie has begun walking, it's been a lot busier around 221 B."

He points the camera at the flat, showing the hodgepodge of baby's toys and Sherlock's books and papers. "Tell me you live with two children without telling me you live with two children."

"I heard that," came the dry, unamused voice of Sherlock. "I put my chemicals on a higher shelf. I'm not a child, I listen."

"Yeah," John walks from the living area and into the kitchen where Sherlock is sitting behind his microscope. "Rosie still listens better than you."

"Give me one example," Sherlock leans away from his microscope and folds his arms expectantly.

"She goes down to bed when it's time for bed, with minimal whining," John begins. "She eats all of her vegetables, she lets me wipe her face when it's-"

"I let you wipe my face!"

"You thrash, Sherlock!"

"...Don't upload the video."

"Sherlock, it's live."

"..."

The live ends suddenly, with Sherlock a blur, rushing towards the camera.

[elennemigo]

“Una was a wonderful, talented, stylish, gentle, joyous and honest friend. A joy to work with, to laugh with and to make laugh. So humble and yet soo damn good. She lit up the room and will be sorely missed by all who were lucky enough to know her, but she will be remembered forever with fondness and love.” - Benedict Cumberbatch

Farewell dearest Una Stubbs. (May 1, 1937 - August 12, 2021)