the-angry-hufflepuff:

one-thousand-splendid-stars:

What kind of pumpkin would John and Sherlock carve with Rosie?

Um, most definitely John would go out and buy a nice round, solid orange pumpkin and carving tools and set about craving a cute, tradtitional Jack-O-lantern with Rosie, holding her in his lap and letting her play with the pumpkin guts.

Meanwhile, Sherlock gets the most gnarly and hideous warty pumpkin he can find and watching YouTube videos teaching him how to intricately shave-carve pumpkins and make caricatures that are truest terrifying. And Rosie would love it.

Love this 👏

attic-salt-holmes:

Sherlock makes origami pirate hats for Rosie to play with

meta-lock:

meta-lock:

conduitstr:

Means ‘rose of the world’. Rosie for short.

So – I’ve meant this for a longer meta but simply will never have the time. I googled Rose of the World because it seemed to be called out. Molly mentioning it in English – very deliberately.
Rose of the World – It’s a cult. A Russian cult. A Russian cult that reprogrammed people using Mary-style gaslighting- type techniques and browbeating. A Russian cult wherein two semi-famous Russian models commit suicide by jumping off buildings – and it was alleged that neither was particularly suicidal prior to the jump off.
I’ll leave you to your deductions.

*Edit: Also the Russian Model was nicknamed “Russian Rapunzel”

Another “Rose of the World” was a1918 film – here’s the synopsis (emphasis mine):

As described in a film magazine,^[4] Captain Harry English (Standing) is reported to have been killed during a battle between factions in India and his wife Rosamond (Ferguson) remarries. As time passes Rosamond finds that her love for her deceased husband is greater than her love for the older man that she has married, Sir Arthur Gerardine (Handyside). She goes to live at Harry’s old house and there breaks down and tells her husband the truth. She becomes ill and in her ravings asks for Harry. Harry (the Husband), who was not killed, learns that his wife has remarried and, disguised as an Indian, becomes secretary to Rosamond’s husband. He comes to her at a peak psychological moment and, after the shock wears off, they are reunited.

reblogging for another interesting “Rose of the World” reference.

“becomes a secretary to Rosamond’s husband”…well, secretaries know everything – don’t they?

finalproblem:

john: we should frighten the truth out of mycroft with a clown, they’re scary as fuck

-earlier-

john: hmm, how should i decorate my infant daughter’s nursery…?

aconsultingdetective:

∞ Scenes of Sherlock

Sherlock: Don’t give it a title.
John: People like the titles.
Sherlock: I hate the titles.

I still feel like this scene was referring to us. But then again, nothing matters.

kimbiablue:

one-thousand-splendid-stars:

beejohnlocked:

Okay but everyone understands that Rosie’s first steps are walking from Sherlock to John (or from John to Sherlock). She first walks between her two dads. 💖

This is canon and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise

MY HEART 😭

sussexbound:

theawilford:

glassofgaytea:

they announced rosie’s birth in a right wing newspaper and it wasn’t sarcastic

It would have been inconsistent not to have used a right wing newspaper. The entire show takes place in an alt-right vision of London where all the following things are so normalized that most of the world-wide audience accepts them without question:

1) almost all white;

2) women who largely depend on men for agency [yes, even Mrs. Hudson who got her property by remaining in an abusive marriage until her husband died, and yes even Mummy Holmes who gave up a brilliant career to stay home and keep house];

3) foreigners being dangerous and scary [Did you notice that when Mary was acting like a villain she was deduced to be foreign but when she decided being a good wife was everything she became “that English woman”?];

4) LGBTQ+ characters who are all, every single one, untrustworthy and/or weak and/or substance abusers and/or villainous [A broad range of such characters including lesbian, gay, trans or gender-fluid or gender-nonconforming “cross-dresser”, bisexual, pansexual];

5) admirable/decent people who are all straight, so much normalized that the very idea of any of them being involved in a single-sex romantic relationship is a ridiculous joke;

6) governments that cutely spy on and lie and attempt to control citizens without much regard for law or truth and without being seriously criticized for it;

7) a barren prison atmosphere without affection or stimulation for the mentally ill, even a child.

Yes, queerbaiting is cruel and inexcusable, and the show reeked of it. But I wonder whether if more people had made the entire far-right universe of the show the focus of their complaints to the BBC, rather than only “The showrunners made it seem like Sherlock and John would eventually be in a romantic relationship but they never were,” the BBC might have paid more attention.

All great points. And every single one of these were bones I had to pick with Season four, and with the show in general. And many of these criticisms had been brought up as far back as S1.

Though, to speak to your last paragraph, I’m not sure if the BBC would have been more receptive. I know I complained about the treatment of mental illness, the show’s handling of female characters and the queercoding of villains, and got the same copy/paste response as everyone else. In fact, I heard of some folks who wrote in just to complain about the declining quality, and how far S4 diverged from the heart of ACD’s stories, and got the same copy/paste response about John and Sherlock not being in love.

I honestly think the BBC just didn’t care, and they responded to every complaint, no matter how articulate, with the exact same script, so they could just clear out their inbox, and report that they had responded. It was extremely unprofessional, imo.

holmesguy:

killbbcsherlock:

yeet that baby into the goddamn thames see if i care you cowards

Hi hun, I saw you post earlier that Sherlock had apparently made sure his furniture was child-proofed for Rosie at the end of TFP. Can you show me some examples because everything in the flat looks the same to me with the exception of John’s chair?

inevitably-johnlocked:

Sure Nonny!

So when the flat is apparently destroyed everything except their chairs and that rug and everything else, Sherlock replaces a lot of the “cornered” furniture with rounded furniture:

A. That’s not their original breakfast table and chairs. They’re now a rounded set with a little shelf under them.

B, C, and D. Same with the long table, the chair at the end of the couch, and the stack of magazines. The sitting room table is now a small rounded one, the chair now has fully padded arms, and the stack of magazines have been replaced with rounded dressers, which Sherlock probably now keeps ~~his military porn stash~~ the magazines:

(E) used to be a hard-edged metal table, and (F) used to be a shelf with a lot of breakables on it.

And (G) used to be a very wobbly-looking side table. It’s been replaced with the sturdy one we see in TFP:

Plus, I believe the bookshelves are also less-cluttered as well, and those glass cases we see in the above image no longer have breakables in them

Sherlock literally changed the common area of the flat so he could be a better parent for Rosie.

Stab me.

Look, I’m not a fan of parentlock in this arc, but good god this is EXACTLY how I imagined Sherlock as a parent. And if we’re going with the John’s TAB theory, this is exactly how John imagines Sherlock as a parent too.