No for real what is it with Johns hair in season 4???

Like you can’t tell me the stress of having a newborn and then his wife dying makes johns hair look that good?

Is he trying to tell Sherlock something????

This show.

I present to you all: Benedict Cumberbatch saying he thinks Sherlock is a bottom

“Fucking stop grabbing my arse in public, John!”

“You think you can stop me? Good luck with that.”

#The best part #is that is EXACTLY #what it looks like

i cannot stop watching johns face, he’s like ‘do i look like i give a shit, sherlock?’

Can I add on to this? I'm just going to add on to this.

Everything teaspoonnebula said above but also there's so many adaptions of Sherlock Holmes anon that if someone doesn't care for ACD they can just pick up one of the literal hundreds of other adaptions out there.

Don't like the Victorian setting? Cool we got BBC Sherlock or Sherlock and Co.

Want an American setting? Awesome we've got Elementary or the Watson and Holmes comics.

Think there isn't enough robots? We've got Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century or the very real world SHERLOC & WATSON robots from NASA.

Want something where Sherlock isn't a detective? We can watch House M.D. or read any of the brilliantly done AU fanfics on AO3.

Heck Sherlock has been adapted all over the world! We've got Miss Sherlock, Шерлок Холмс, Touha Sherlocka Holmese, and O Xangô de Baker Street to name a few.

This is one of those fandoms where there is so much different cake to eat that it's literally very hard for anyone to have much drama over it. If you don't like what you're getting it's such a low barrier for switching that most people just do, leaving each adaption with just the fans who really like it.

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Johnlock Sexytimes Roundup

Hey lovelies, for those who need a little smut in their reading, I have a glorious, wicked, delicious roundup of all my sexytimes fic rec lists!

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Back at it again with the weird Sherlock shit from the original cannon

- Sherlock becomes a beekeeper

- Sherlock spends two years in Tibet and meets the Dali Llama

- Sherlock describes the countryside of Cambridgeshire as "flat as the palm of Watson's hand". The description is accurate.

- they foil an attempted murder by using a wax model of Sherlock. Incidentally, if you visit the Sherlock Holmes museum on Baker Street, you'll find a bunch of incredibly creepy life-size figures of the characters. The staff think they're haunted. I asked.

- to sneak through a dark house, Sherlock and Watson hold hands. Watson keeps commenting on it

- to establish an alibi, a man invites some guy to his house, gets him drunk, changes the clocks and shouts that it's 1am, when in fact it's much earlier. Presumably, this guy doesn't wear a watch

- A visitor to 221b says that it's a long carriage ride from Baker Street to his home in Hampstead. It's 3 miles

- the final appearance of Sherlock Holmes is in 1927, which means if he were real he could have met David Attenborough

- the line "elementary, my dear Watson" is never said in the original stories, but Sherlock often calls Watson "my dear"

- unlike in Sherlock (bbc), we do find out how Sherlock escapes Moriarty. The two tussle, then Moriarty falls off a cliff whilst sort of running backwards through the air like a cartoon. Sherlock hides on a ledge for a bit

That's all for now, but I'm sure I'll find more bonkers shit

Did John kill Mary? (Yes. Yes, he probably did.)

I think it’s now a widely enough accepted theory by now that what makes TST weird is that the story is being told us by Sherlock, who is altering the facts to give John an alibi, because he’s the one who killed Mary.

A few meta (these are just some) point that theory out, and here I gather a few facts that support this theory.

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Hey so you know how House MD was based on Sherlock Holmes, right?

This has most likely been pointed out before but I just found some pictures from the last time I watched House and I just can’t stop thinking about this —

Patient: You really as good as everyone seems to think you are?

House: Are you really as miserable as everyone seems to think you are?

Patient: I just want to do something that matters.

House: Nothing matters. We’re all just cockroaches, wildebeests dying on the river bank. Nothing we do has any lasting meaning.

Patient: And you think I’m miserable.

House: If you’re unhappy on the plane, jump out of it.

Patient: I want to but… I can’t.

House: Mmm. That’s the problem with metaphors. They need interpretation. Jumping out of the plane is stupid.

Patient: Well, what if I’m not in a plane? What if I’m just in a place I don’t want to be?

House: That’s the other problem with metaphors. Yes, what if you’re actually on an ice cream truck and outside are candy and flowers and virgins. You’re on a plane! We’re all on planes. Life is dangerous and complicated and… it’s a long way down.

Patient: So you’re afraid of change?

House: No, you’re afraid to change. You’d rather imagine that you can escape instead of actually try. ‘Cause if you fail, then you got nothing. So you’ll give up the chance of something real so you can hold onto hope. The thing is, hope is for sissies.

— Season 4 Episode 14, “Living the Dream” (aired 08 May 2008)

So I’m sure you know where I’m going with this…

“Look how brilliant you are. Your mind has created the perfect metaphor. You’re high above us, all alone in the sky, and you understand everything except how to land.”

So House says you need to find the courage to let go of “hope” (spending your life in daydreams that won’t come true if you don’t do something to make them happen), JUMP out of the plane (do the risky thing) in order to be more happy with your life… but holding onto hope and possibility of something better is preferable to the reality of failing and crashing to the ground.

Because after all,

It’s not the fall that kills you… it’s the landing.

Being gay isn’t dangerous. It’s other people’s treatment of you that is.

Loving someone isn’t scary, it’s the possibility that they won’t love you back.

But you’ll never find out how happy you could be if you don’t make that jump.

Oh and the next two episodes are called “House’s Head” and “Wilson’s Heart” and have House having all kinds of medical and memory issues, buried memory retrieval, hallucinations, talking to himself through other characters in his mind, shadowy lights to visualize being inside his mind, mystery woman with a false identity his mind creates who represents Wilson’s girlfriend, “I’m the answer”, “you believe in reason above all else, there must be a reason”, overdosing on drugs to solve the mystery, playing out scenarios completely in his mind, almost dying himself, Wilson restarting House’s heart after it stops (heart restarting a heart anyone?), House saying Wilson’s girlfriend’s name as soon as he wakes up after coming back from almost dying, hallucinating Wilson’s girlfriend in a pantsuit and having conversations with her as though she’s there, and then of course Wilson’s girlfriend dying and Wilson blaming House (since he called and she came to meet him), Wilson isolating himself from House, House keeping his distance, and then trying to guilt Wilson into being his friend again…

And here’s an interesting coincidence with the opening scenes from House’s Head and The Final Problem…

Yeah this haunts me.

Now, I haven’t written meta on Sherlock for centuries, to be honest I don’t even read them and barely open Tumblr  … there are times when RL absorbs you and leaves very little more time and energy for anything else. However, my Sherlockian brain sometimes twitches, and if exercises is needed to keep it active, does it still manage to have … spasms? So this exchange between Sherlock and Moriarty, in which Sherlock says that he cannot yet prove that Moriarty has created a false identity, suddenly and clearly sounds to me like Sherlock’s “accusation” against the one who has woven lies around his truth. That is Conan Doyle, the author who wrote a story, but wrapped it up in a lie. It is no coincidence that Moriarty’s false identity is that of the story teller. Moriarty is the one who creates cases for Sherlock, who enjoys making him dance, because the audience loves to see him do it. 90% of readers love Sherlock Holmes because he is a detective who solves cases. In this narrative, John Watson has been reduced to his shoulder, his voice has been moderated, otherwise he could have … exploded. But is it true that history is a lie and the truth is hidden? Is it true that the Canon is full of codes and subtexts? the legions of people who have taken apart each story to find a subtext have done it in vain? of course I think the answer is a big no, that the Great Game has its own legitimacy and is super fun. But I also believe that what  most interests us, and the Moffits in primis, is the relationship between the two, is that less hidden piece of the game, is the truth that is more in full view. We can also try to complicate things, denying the evidence, because basically it’s funny to think that it’s more complicated / intelligent than it is, but basically it’s clear from the start. Doyle / Moriarty said it but few listened. We’ve probably noticed this juxtaposition between Doyle and Moriarty already and I, as I do with everything, have already forgotten it, but it’s nice to have felt a sparkle again by looking at a random gif. And my dear friends, even if I have not been able to better articulate my thoughts, and if this is a only a thought diluted in the nothing of the last year, know that I often think of you, and I miss you.

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things sherlock holmes has canonically done:

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oh i almost forgot

WHERE ARE YALL GETTING THIS/1!!1!!!????!?

Leaped over furniture like a gazelle.

•Shook hands with a baby :,}