Martin and Ben on Martin’s last day of The Hobbit filming…
It’s Cuddles. I thought we’d reviewed this.
has this been done
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.
so tom hiddleston sent benedict cumberbatch a riding crop as a prank and that’s about the best thing i’ve heard in my life
anyone else remember when a fan took a photo w/ ben c at a restaurant and it turns out ben was waiting for martin and ben’s shirt was so open his cleavage was practically blinding? i’m still not over that tbh
oh my heart belongs to ✨ Johnlock ✨
"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
sherlock “i’m a cold, logical machine who abhors expressing the softer emotions, but while you’re here, watson, watch me blush when complimented, fall into a reverie at violin concerts, pluck up a rose and wax poetic about it, spend my leisure time looking after bees, laugh loudly at the things which delight me, read love poems as we sit on the train together, and help me let lovers go free because that matters more than the law” holmes
You know few things are more beautiful than Sherlock’s face in the pilot when John calls him brilliant on their first crime scene