We need a name for this week so we can reference it in the annals of history. There’s the Sherlock fandom 2012 aesthetic, the #mary wank period, and…whatever this week is
ive also gotta say that if you want to join in the tinhatting and just cant or dont feel up to it or dont want to put in more hope or emotional labour or if youre just straight up still mad and dont care or ANYTHING , you dont have to apologise for it at all its only been 4 days since the massive and devastating upheaval happened and youre allowed to keep all of your feelings and feel then as long as you want or need to as long as theyre there
The fuck when you left the Tarmac after 1080 days but at the same time you actually don’t know if you really left or even where the fuck are you standing now
Somebody needs to do Sherlock gothic.
“You are still on the tarmac. Season 4 gets delayed. There is a christmas special instead. It is supposed to be a light hearted one-off; instead it advances the plot. You are still on the tarmac. Season 4 happens. It is full of sharks. Is it a dream? You can trust nothing. Anything is possible. You are still on the tarmac.
Mary is alive. Mary is also dead. Mary is in the bed. Mary is not in the mirror that reflects the bed. You have been held hostage in an embassy for 3 months. Inexplicably, the terrorists have a tidy little side business making kitschy busts of stern dictators. The kiln roars day and night. Mary rescues you. Mary also ensures your death. You are still on the tarmac.
There is a sister. She killed Redbeard, so Sherlock deleted her. There never was a Redbeard. It was actually a child nobody looked for, in a well that didn’t exist. Sherlock deleted him too. They all deleted them, even Mummy and Daddy. What sister, Sherlock? What friend? The glass disappears. Mycroft throws up. John Watson finds bones; they are small. There never was a plane about to crash. Sherlock and the sister play violin together in a padded cell.
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my dad asks why sherlock was ruined for me, my mum tries to help and says that they’ve been hinting at them becoming a couple, my dad’s reaction: “SHERLOCK HOLMES, GAY?! HAHA!” this is why we fucking needed this representation.
-deep inhale- this is why we fucking needed this representation
YES!
I get it when people say they were happy with the kind of ambiguous ending… but with my parents (and a lot of my friends) it’s the same. They don’t pick up on the subtext. Hell, they don’t even pick up the text, like, they didn’t get that Moriarty or Irene are gay. Moriarty is so explicitly NOT STRAIGHT and yet I have to listen to: “Moriarty? Gay? Nooooo, that was just a joke”. Irene even SAID she’s gay. How can you not pick up in that? Well, I know how. It’s called heteronormativity and it sucks. This is why they had to show it. Leaving it ambiguous is NOT enough. It doesn’t diminish heteronormativity, it increases it.
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