Ah, yes. Another one for the ‘general’ audience, to see if they can dig a little deeper than the obvious. I wish everyone would conclude the solution that’s spelled out by Sherlock himself –just the insult: ‘idiot’– is way too easy for this complicated show, so it has to mean something else. If anyone were only to apply an intuitive meta level 1 to this, they could get very far. It just takes to remember that Sherlock can, in fact, get it wrong; how important it was in the plot when John told Sherlock he’s “missing the obvious” or that sometimes he can be “remarkably thick”; or when Sherlock called himself “a blind idiot”, for it took him so long to realize the answer was staring him right in the face. Sherlockology is even helping the noobs there prompting them to ‘do their research’ and find out the basic ‘language of flowers’. I mean, takes you less than 5 minutes: a quick reading of the google search result for every flower is enough to get the idea. This is how I wish every casual fan would go about it:
Iris = literally translates to the Greek word for ‘rainbow’. Huh. Interesting, just like the gay flag. Actually, ‘Greek Goddess Iris personified the rainbow’. Depending on colour, varies between ‘faith’, ‘hope’, ‘intellect’, and even ‘cherished friendship’– oh gosh! But John is Sherlock’s best friend! Nothing but lovely compliments, positivity and the gay flag somehow over that one.
Daffodil = ‘friendship’ again, but also ‘faithfulness’, ‘new begginings’, and– oh boy: ‘unanswered love’! So I got ‘unanswered gay love’ in that bouquet so far!
Tulip = ‘perfect love’, ‘deep love’, ‘true love’… ohh my. This is nothing but a love confession! Could it really be his best friend Watson is in love with him? Well, John’s name gets thrown into the conversation– hold on. Let me check… yes! It’s actually the first name Sherlock says after seeing the gift for some completely unnecessary reason! Wow, did they write that in on purpose for us to have John’s name in mind and make the connection? Anyway, John’s love surely must be totally platonic, nothing romantic about it at all, right? What’s next?
Orchid =
‘virility’, ‘sexuality’, ‘love’, what the FUSKDJFLKAJDS! ‘Sexy, sultry, capable and totally enchanting’?!?! OMG JOHNLOCK IS REAL. I knew John complimenting his cheekbones sounded weird. Oh! And that knee grope! OMG How did I not see it before! (…)
Sorry, I just needed to let that wishful thinking out of my chest. I just think it’s lovely how the writers even took care of the order in which they mentioned the flowers so the researcher would progressively get the idea.
Of course, there’s also the “W or M?” thing going on there, which I think plays on “James or John? Saint or sinner?” Because of course Moriarty is in psycho-love with Sherlock, and John is his romantic rival in the plot. But since the meaning of flowers says this is about true friendship and love, those are indeed from a ‘W’, not an ‘M’. (I won’t even get into anyone daring to think they’re from ‘The Woman’, because that’d be insulting. She’s gay. Get over it.) They’re meant to be from the ‘nice’, ‘very polite’ and ‘very respectul’ John Watson, “upright and honourable”, like Magnussen would say.
Oh and, I love how we can interpret this story as 1) John really finally started to woo Sherlock like this and told Mrs. H. to keep the secret, so she has to bite her tongue seeing Sherlock being “a blind idiot” again, or 2) Sherlock ‘leapt up’ from that couch because he was really excited to know it was from John, but since this narration may also be as hijacked as S4 is, the writers made Sherlock appear not to like the flowers, while also leaving in the text everything the reader needs to conclude the sender is John and his message is nothing but an adorable, flattering and passionate love confession.
Either way, it gets better when you remember “idiot” is actually their established mutual name-calling, which they use as a tease rather than an insult. That’s the one that prompted Sherlock to invite John to dinner the night John saved his life for the first time; the moment ‘where it all began’, according to Mofftiss.
So, maybe John did mean it to spell ‘idiot’ as well, or maybe it’s just another ironic coincidence for our characters, who knows. But of course, just like in the show, I think there’s nothing coincidental in the writing of this clever little story.
In lieu of the new tumblr settings, can I make yet another plea with those of you who read fics and consume art on tumblr to please reblog them?
Fics and art will die on a creator’s dash if they aren’t reblogged. It’s never been more true than now.
If you want to keep receiving content from creators, reblog the the content. If it’s something you enjoyed? Reblog it. It’s not hard. I am going to make a point to reblog everything I read from now on. (With the proper tags of course), as well as all the art that I see on my dash.
I cannot make it simpler. Posts WILL die unless they’re reblogged. No one will see your ‘like’. Your like is a bookmark for YOU to find it later. Your reblog means the world to a creator because it means you are willing to go the little extra distance and recommend this to your followers.
Don’t let creations die on the dash of those who created them.
Reblog to save a creation.
Reblog to keep a creator creating.
Reblog, please.
Ironically, Tumblr ate my last attempt at this post, so I’ll keep it sweet:
1. It makes content creators’ day when you interact with us, especially reblog.
2. Comments and tag blathering are really, really special to me, and I look at allllll my reblogs just in case someone said something interesting in the tags.
3. It works. @dresupi reblogged something of mine and I immediately got more notes.
For a long time I
stood in deep meditation while the shadows grew
darker around me. My mind was filled with racing
thoughts. You have known what it was to be in
a nightmare in which you feel that there is some
all-important thing for which you search and which
you know is there, though it remains forever just beyond
your reach. That was how I felt that evening
as I stood alone by that place of death.
Unfortunately did not have time for Inktober2017 =(
He’s got my whole life story.
TRF
I have been wondering about this sentence since 2012 because we never learn anything about the very private things that are revealed in the article. No one ever mentions them. In TEH for example John does not even know Sherlock’s parents were alive. But this is not the most curious thing about the article.
Because at this point Jim had already met Eurus. I am quite sure that Jim did not say hello, recorded the videos, and went away. Eurus must have given him something in return and I suppose it was information about his beloved adversary. Which means that Mycroft as well as Eurus told Jim all about Sherlock’s life story.
Question: So what was in the infamous article by Kitty Riley? Neither Redbeard the dog nor Eurus, Victor Trevor, Uncle Rudi, the fire, nor anything else of importance could have been mentioned because then John and everyone else would have known about Sherlock’s past. And if Jim knew all about Sherlock, why did he not use it against him?
The only one who tried to use information about Sherlock’s childhood is Magnussen. Think of that.
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