au where instead of saying “the address is 221b baker street” sherlock says “my grindr username is detectivetwink1983”
“Who’d want me for a hookup?”
Mike chuckled. “You’re the second person to say that to me today.”
To John’s surprise, Mike took him to a chilly morgue, where a lanky man with the face of an angel, eyes not leaving a computer screen, asked to borrow John’s phone. The whole situation was quite strange, especially when the man started making some surprising deductions about John’s past in Afghanistan.
But that was nothing compared to the utter bewilderment that John felt at the man’s next question, completely out of nowhere: “How do you feel about topping?”
John did a double take. “I’m sorry, what?”
The man hardly looked up from his computer. “I enjoy being tied up when I’m thinking. Sometimes I want sex for days on end. Would that bother you?” Now, he glanced at John. “Potential lovers should know the worst about each other.”
John scoffed and looked back at Mike, who was grinning like a madman. “You told him about me?”
Apparently Mike hadn’t, and the lanky angel made some cryptic comments about how he’d worked out not only John’s current dry spell, but also his complete family history and military past.
It was completely and utterly intoxicating. The stranger’s sharp eyes on him gave his skin a tingly feeling, like being caressed with nothing more than a gaze.
So when the stranger said, “We’ll meet tomorrow evening; seven
o’clock,” John was speechless.
And when the man strode towards the door and added, “Sorry, I’ve got to dash. I think I left my
riding crop in the mortuary,” John’s jaw dropped halfway to the floor, countered by another part of him that seemed to rise as if on command.
“Is that it?” John barely managed to say.
The man stopped in his tracks. “Is that what?”
“We’ve only just met and we’re going to meet for a hookup tomorrow?”
“Problem?”
John blinked. “We don’t know a thing about each other. I
don’t know your name. I don’t even know where we’re meeting.”
The stranger grinned, a glint in his eye. “My grindr username is detectivetwink1983.” He winked. “Afternoon.”
It was all John could do to keep himself from sliding to the floor in a puddle of perplexity, wonder, and complete, utter lust.
Plot twist: it’s not sherlock who’s in a coma, it’s you, you were in a car accident right before season 4 was about to air and this has all been a terrible coma dream but don’t worry, tomorrow you wake up, and the first thing you’ll whisper to your crying loved ones is show me the johnlock kiss damnit
Yall remember when the Sherlock fandom and Transformers fandom got into a fucking fight
I need to see this.
What happened was that Sherlock had an episode called The Final Problem, which the fandom then abreviated to tfp. The problem was that there’s a popular Transformers show called Transformers: Prime, which is also abreviated to tfp.
It was a shit show.
The main argument was that Transformers: Prime came first and had the tag first so the Transformers fandom should be the ones to keep it while the Sherlock fandom told the Transformers fandom to basically get out and find a new tag. The Transformers fandom got super fucking pissed about it and pretty much spammed the tag as much as they could.
It didn’t last for very long but I’m pretty sure that the Transformers fandom won because the tag is full of robots again.
Oh hey, it’s exactly what happened when Sherlock got in a fight with a kpop fandom.
Why were they fighting with kpop
why does the sherlock fandom keep fighting chill y’all
This is why every fandom needs their own Maccadam.
Remember the Skull Hell™ ft. Mr. Glowing Skull that’s been giving at least part of us nightmares since January and sparkled a whole bunch of different metas? IIRC it was said that artist who made the original painting raised it’s renting price and crew couldn’t afford to use in anymore because budget for the season was oh so small.
Wait what? Who’s that in the top right corner, why does he look so familiar? But the rent… I must be mistaken. So I went to #Sherlocked tag, and found another photo:
Sherlocked 2017 memories #18: Here’s some things I
remembered from the con, that I was there for, but didn’t tell you in my
reports: In Claire Pritchard’s meet n greet I asked her what was the idea behind John n
Mary’s new look in S4, which @gosherlocked had asked me to ask if I could. She said that Martin Freeman had come back from filming startup with this new hairdo, which
he said he was really happy with it & she agreed that it did suit him. He
had a consultation with her about S4 & he asked if he could keep it for John
in the new season rather than them cut it, she said that he had really thought
about it, it wasn’t just on a whim. She said that she wasn’t too sure about it,
and that possibly lots of viewers would think it wasn’t a ‘John’ look, but at
the end of the day they can’t push something onto an actor that they’re
uncomfortable with, so she talked to Sue about it & they agreed that it was
okay to go ahead with & that they could make it work storywise. She said
that she’d already discussed with mofftiss during tone meetings that John n
Mary should have slightly different looks (though initially only after the
birth, but it was changed to beforehand to because of logistics of filming),
because they were both moving on in their lives. And then they all agreed that for John
especially, he was no longer so dependent on Sherlock, wasn’t living in the
bachelor pad of 221b, He’d gotten married, was in this flat that had now had a serious
building work done to it which must have cost a lot them of money to do & had a baby
very nearly due. Plus he was leaving his army days long behind as well, she said how
in S1 he had a Very military cut, which they’d softened somewhat, but was still
mostly the same & he could now leave that behind too. So they worked out
that there was just about (tho she did make a ‘only just’ face at this point)
enough time between tarmac & the first s4 scene for his hair to have grown
out enough & they went for it. She said how important it was for actors to
feel comfortable in what they’re wearing & their hair n make-up to put them
at ease for filming.
However Martin did come up to her a week into filming &
ask her if she thought he’d made a mistake by asking to have ‘the swoop’ hair
as he was regretting his choice just a teeny bit. She said that actors do
second guess themselves a lot & this is quite like Martin, She assured him
that it suited the character & that John & Mary looked good with their
new styles together and that it was looking good on camera & she went over
everything they’d discussed beforehand & Martin went away feeling satisfied
with it. She said it did take more styling to do than the old cut though,
especially on outside filming!
With Mary they wanted something longer and less bright blonde
in colour, she & Amanda Abbington talked about how the wavy hair would be easier for a new mother
to keep up & her hair was still slightly longer from doing Cuffs. So that’s
why they went with that style. They should have moved on as a couple, so
changes for both suited them. Claire said that she really liked the hair in Mary’s
death scenes because it stood out so well against all the blue and darkness in
that scene.
John couldn’t afford a haircut because of the expense of having the front door moved across the room.
So, John and Mary’s flat was ‘redecorated’ for shits and giggles. Nothing on this show means anything. Okay, good to know.
Only lies have detail.
Loving the comments here. And as always, thanks so much @nixxie-pic for reporting to us!
Sherlocked 2017 memories #5: Here’s some things I
remembered from the con, that I was there for, but didn’t tell you in my
reports: Arwel Wyn Jones said that the black gunk that Benedict had to sink into in ‘The
Lying Detective’ had special stuff in it so it wouldn’t stain Benedict or the
clothes and that it could only be done in 1 take! he said that one of the
gunk’s main ingredients was what they use to thicken Mcdonalds milkshakes (!!)
and that if you put bare skin (like a hand) into it & then pull it out the
gunk falls off and your hand came out mostly clean… however he then looked at
Sue nervously & said that the suit was another mater & it was
completely ruined, so they had to choose a suit that they wouldn’t use again
for that scene. He said that Benedict was a marvel and kept his eyes open much
longer than Arwel would’ve been able to and that he held his breath for it all
without looking like he was doing it, which is quite tough in the circumstances
& Arwel was most impressed.
During the production workshop we talked about the probs and how they could last all these years…. and there Arwel started to talk about John’s chair on his own (…or maybe he saw me little annoying fangirl asking silly questions among the people and thought better to go on with it :’-)))
So we talked about how important probs can be and how they have to be careful with them….
Arwel started on his own about…”for example John’s chair”… he said, he had made a huge mistake inventing John’s chair, because it was made of a very rare fabric, of which he didn’t have any reserves left to repair it whatever would happen to it… so when 221b burned up, the chair was destroyed and had to be replaced. So they had this chair from TAB, which he bought to look a bit like modern John’s and Arwel thought… “well it’s recognizable for the viewer and wouldn’t it be fun for it to re-appear in the modern world???”… well this Arwel thought…. I told very proud of how he had enough fabric of this chair to fix it if it would be damaged and so on…..
Then there was the question: “And what about Sherlock’s chair? Why didn’t it burn?”
Arwel’s answer was that they decided that it was too iconic and that they never could replace it!! They had put so much thought in it before the production for Sherlock even started for ASiP, that they couldn’t think of any other chair for Sherlock to fit!!!! So Sherlock’s chair may stay….
Make of it what you like….for me the question remained, why didn’t they or fake the fire or build a replica if the chair was this valuable or bought a completely different one for after-TFP…. hadn’t have the chance to ask all this though…
(please be aware, that I recount all this from my memory and therefore bring it into my own words. I have no records, so this is not word for word what the people in question actually said!! I try to word the main essence of the sometimes rather ridiculous long monologues *eyeroll* :-)))
To me, the funny thing about this answer is Arwel implying that the chair should have survived the fire. It’s not actually natural for him to have wanted to match the upholstery. The audience expected the fire to… you know… burn stuff.
Like it’s fiction, and the real artifact didn’t have to be destroyed, so this makes no practical sense to me. Only story sense is they are trying to imply something….???
I think it comes down to which props they were attached to to most. And which props they are the most proud of. John’s chair could be replaced with a different chair, similar fabric and shape and still have the same iconic look as before. So they decided that it could be burnt for the series.
Sherlock’s chair is rather unique. Irl the metal frame would have melted and been unusable. But it’s not out of the question that Sherlock would have a replica made up after the fire. Idk? Crew decided to gloss over reality and what would happen to the chair for the looks of it it seems. And the fact that they must have put in a lot of time picking this prop.
I don’t think there’s anything deeper here. Just arwel and his crew who love old chairs
Sherlocked 2017 memories #2: Here’s some things I remembered from
the con, that I was there for, but didn’t tell you in my reports: Sue Vertue
said at the cocktail party that Ben & Martin are two very different people
and are the sort of friends that don’t see each other very often, but when they
do meet up they are as thick as thieves with each other (does that analogy make
sense to non uk people?). Also Sue and him went to Martin’s play, but that they
didn’t go backstage to meet him as that’s usually very tiring for actors and it
means there’s less chance that the actor can then do stage door afterwards, so
him n Sue hadn’t seen Martin this year (I guess she meant since the S4 promo
work was over), but they & Martin are still very good friends. Even thought
they don’t get to meet up that often.Lots of actors work together & become mates for life in this way.
She implied that Ben & Martin are very good mates and
that they adore filming together. Someone at my table said to her that the
press during S4 filming had said that they weren’t good mates & didn’t get
on… to which Sue said that was ‘Balderdash’ (Meaning: utterly untrue.). And that that
was just the press being idiots and trying to find a story where there isn’t
one (as usual!). She said that they are very good friends and really enjoy each
others company and that they have a really genuine chemistry together despite
being quite different types of people with vastly different personalities.
I was there the night Sue, Steven and Una were at Martin’s play and they did go through the stage door after the show, but that same night Martin hurt his leg so he didn’t come back out through the stage door. Sue and the others came back out after a while inside.
It does make sense. It is foolish to believe that they aren’t friends at all. I don’t think the camaraderie they shared for the last 8 years have been fluke or played with. We have footages and interviews as proofs.
The news item that came out after the season came out was planned. The question is why.
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