Remember When Sherlock Said To John “everyone Has Secrets, And They All Replied Too Quickly”

Ben remembering Martin ♥

When the day comes that you have a big detective show where the first half hour was this man at work, and he’s a maverick, and all the usual things… and then he went home and his boyfriend says, ‘Are you alright?’… then something will have genuinely changed.  — Mark Gatiss

ben c literally just has a gay aura

My English Philosophy class: today we are going to talk about John Locke

Me:

*it is what it is*

There’s a lot of talk of John marrying Mary as a way to ‘prove’ his heterosexuality. He felt the need to appear ‘normal’, so he took on a normal life: wife, child, living in the suburbs. If we expand upon this a bit, I think his reaction to Mary when he finds out who she really is is telling. 

He’s not upset that she lied. He’s not upset she has a secret identity. He’s not upset that she shot Sherlock to cover up who she is. No, the thing that appears to upset him the most is that she ‘isn’t normal’. She doesn’t conform to idea of a ‘perfect’, ‘normal’ (aka, heterosexual) life. She isn’t the happy wife in the suburbs with a child, but a highly trained assassin. John chose Mary because he thought he could have a normal life with her. He chose someone who he thought was the exact opposite of Sherlock: wanting to settle down, not go on crazy, dangerous adventures.

But, even in his attempt to chose someone completely opposite to Sherlock, someone he can pretend to be straight with, he still ends up choosing someone who is similar to Sherlock in a lot of ways.

"Mary said it's fine," Sherlock really wanted John to come along

SHERLOCK DIDNT SIGN HIS TEXTS TO JOHN I REPEAT SHERLOCK DIDNT SIGN HIS TEXTS TO JOHN

HE SIGNS THEM BECAUSE HE DOESNT THINK ANYONE WOULD BOTHER TO PUT HIS NUMBER IN THEIR CONTACTS BUT HE STOPPED SIGNING THEM TO JOHN BECAUSE HE REALIZED SOMEONE CARES ENOUGH TO PUT HIM IN THEIR CONTACT LIST

Off to Devon with you, have a cream tea on me.