abundantlyqueer

jessamygriffith:

This syncs up SO well, and I really wish the ending was one that Le Moffat had used.

I will sound like a silly warhawk wanting MORE’ SPLOSIONS but I kinda wanted it Pool Scene resolved differently.

Also - my love for a Tough!John cannot be contained.

reblogging for a) awesome vidding, really gorgeous work, b) bamftasic john, we all know i’m faintly interested in that, and c) the opportunity to complain about the resolution of the pool scene. it wasn’t clever, it was fucking weak. the most basic rule of plotting for god’s sake, if you introduce a gun, a bomb, and a swimming pool, you have to make at least one of them relevant. if you have the sense and writer’s taste god gave a duck, you will make all of them relevant. yes, i know that ‘shoot the bomb and jump into the pool’ was so obvious. guess what? unexpected is not a virtue in and of itself. sometimes the audience wants and needs and deserves to get the big set-piece. damnit, it was even a denouement that would work so well on a practical level - like the explosion in tgg, you don’t need to see the actual building going up - imagine the shot up through the water of flames just surging overhead. great shot, great set-piece. great.

moffat. there are a very large number of very clever, very creative people thinking about your show on the internet. any idea - every idea - that has the slightest bit of story-telling merit has already been suggested, discussed, and written up with an explicit sex scene added on. the only way you can genuinely surprise us is by going with ideas so useless, so crapass that none of us wasted time considering them. stop trying to outplay your audience, and tell your fucking story.

ps, nothing will ever convince me that the original plan wasn’t for them to end up in the pool. where is sherlock’s coat? it was a cold enough night that he was wearing it sitting in the flat after the windows were blown out. did he take it off to go outside? did he stop in the changing rooms of the pool and hang it up? Where is his coat? Did he eat it? no, the costumer drew the line at letting them immerse the Belstaff, knowing it would be unsalvageable after that. and then fucking moffat sees that the internet has written nine million versions of that resolution, and instead of accepting that he needs to do it Better Than We Ever Dreamed, he decides to just burn the entire fucking premise down and then piss on the ashes.

i love this show, i really really do, it’s 95% perfect but the remaining 5% is like being stabbed in the eye with a piece of broken glass. repeatedly. by stephen moffat.

$abundantlyqueer: roane72: levineh: acelee925: #PS成品#PHOTO BY.ACE #YOU ARE SOLDIER. CAPTAIN JOHN WATSON.# 【原图为Jeremy拆弹部队的剧照】纯爷们儿来一发啊！边PS边热血沸腾\（+_+）/ 潮爷帅姿无违和！~ Tossing this out there for inspection. aaaand yes. rendered speechless. also, knickerless. awesome. reblogging because a) JOHN IN BATTLEDRESS, and b) here’s the thing. i’m not actually in sherlock fandom. i could write a lot of stories that didn’t feature sherlock, but i don’t have a single idea in my head that doesn’t feature john in the lead role. i mean, i write sherlock because sherlock’s the shiny that john wants, and i like giving him what he wants. he’s just … he’s dreamy. >.<$

abundantlyqueer:

roane72:

levineh:

acelee925:

#PS成品#PHOTO BY.ACE #YOU ARE SOLDIER. CAPTAIN JOHN WATSON.# 【原图为Jeremy拆弹部队的剧照】纯爷们儿来一发啊！边PS边热血沸腾\（+_+）/

潮爷帅姿无违和！~

Tossing this out there for inspection.

aaaand

yes. rendered speechless. also, knickerless.

awesome.

reblogging because a) JOHN IN BATTLEDRESS, and b) here’s the thing. i’m not actually in sherlock fandom. i could write a lot of stories that didn’t feature sherlock, but i don’t have a single idea in my head that doesn’t feature john in the lead role. i mean, i write sherlock because sherlock’s the shiny that john wants, and i like giving him what he wants. he’s just … he’s dreamy.

>.<

Just wanted to say hi and send along a little introductory gift, - since I hear you’re partial to bit of artfully lit John Watson - and to say thank you for your stories. Things just don’t sit quite the same in SherlockVerse after TTOBB!

oh hhhhhell. so, yeah, this is my favorite shot of john, absolutely. there’s just so much happening there - grim and hard-edged and alert and coiled for action and torn open and unashamed.

lovely start to my day.

$roane72: levineh: acelee925: #PS成品#PHOTO BY.ACE #YOU ARE SOLDIER. CAPTAIN JOHN WATSON.# 【原图为Jeremy拆弹部队的剧照】纯爷们儿来一发啊！边PS边热血沸腾\（+_+）/ 潮爷帅姿无违和！~ Tossing this out there for inspection. aaaand yes. rendered speechless. also, knickerless. awesome.$

roane72:

levineh:

acelee925:

#PS成品#PHOTO BY.ACE #YOU ARE SOLDIER. CAPTAIN JOHN WATSON.# 【原图为Jeremy拆弹部队的剧照】纯爷们儿来一发啊！边PS边热血沸腾\（+_+）/

潮爷帅姿无违和！~

Tossing this out there for inspection.

aaaand

yes. rendered speechless. also, knickerless.

awesome.

mrspeelisreadingthings:

roane72:

OP says, “You don’t intimidate John Watson by strapping him to a bomb. You intimidate a bomb by strapping it to John Watson.”

Ahahahaha!!!! This cracks me up.

reblogging myself cos i lost it in the shuffle.

oh …. sssssshit. damn you are attractive, john.

hollydiggity:

I think a lot of people that write about John’s “PTSD” just really, really don’t understand PTSD.

obviously a world of ‘what she said’ from me on this.

#which isn’t even a confirmed diagnosis it’s what Mycroft says the therapist thinks but is it accurate? We don’t know

well, we certainly know that mycroft doesn’t think it’s accurate, and isn’t his ‘you miss [the war]’ implictly and promptly confirmed by sherlock’s empirical proof that john craves danger? a fundamental symptom of ptsd (some would say the fundamental symptom) is an inappropriately expreme response to trivial levels of threat or conflict. someone with ptsd has an overly active “i am in deep deep danger” switch. someone with ptsd, if someone cuts them off for a parking space, may feel with absolute certainty that the inevitable next event in this situation is that the other driver is going to get out of their car and shoot the ptsd sufferer in the face. the idea that ptsd conveniently switches off when the sufferer is in a situation that anyone would consider threatening - being kidnapped by someone who controls the cctv network, for example - is purely a literary device. as is every ‘the hero is crippled but not when it counts’ trope.

far from having an overly active panic switch, john’s appetite for danger suggests he suffers from an underactive one. a trait heavily shared by people who engage in extreme sports, high-risk jobs, and generally dangerous behavior, is that they have rather high adrenaline arousal thresholds. ‘adrenaline-junkies’ don’t need more adrenaline than the rest of us, but they do need more stimulation to get it. the minor jolts of ordinary life don’t get their heart pounding and their blood pumping.

i guess … look. ptsd is not an inevitable result of war-experience, even horrific war-experience, or of injury. it does not diminish the gravity of ptsd or the suffering of those who do experience it to say that not everyone gets it (the mod/dod are busily trying to figure out why that is, and can they bottle it). i guess it’s problematic to some people to parse john as being what mycroft says he is - a man who misses his war, who grieves not because there is a war but because he’s been shut out from it. but to me, that’s the fundamental appeal of bbc!john, and generally of career-soldier characters (oh let’s be honest, of career-soldiers too). i’m fascinated by the ability to withstand trauma, by whatever quirks of brain chemistry or experience or habit that contribute to making the person who’s stretching plastic over wreckage to collect rainwater while everyone else is still walking in dazed circles. ptsd is an understandable, one might even say normal response to trauma, but we understood how hiv infects cells by examining people who were ‘made wrong’ in a way that made them immune. i guess i’m interested in understanding optimal response to trauma by thinking about people are ‘made wrong’ in a way that makes them immune.

i think, too, that i resist the tendency to attribute behavior to pathologies in writing. it seems to me to flatten characterization. john shouts at the self-scan checkout because he’s got ptsd seems rather facile to me, compared to ‘john shouts at the self-scan checkout because he’s always had a hell of a temper - small dog syndrome harry says - and of course he’s been in the army for long enough that ella says ‘you’re a soldier’ and he’d have been remiss if he hadn’t heaped abuse on any squaddie who wasn’t performing to expectations, though he always did it with a sort of dry wit that made him one of the more popular junior officers. and the hardest thing about being home is that suddenly her majesty’s armed forces have zero interest in feeding, clothing, or shoeing john watson. he’s eaten a lot of baked beans and reconstituted eggs over the years, but they were always made by someone else, put on a plate, and handed to him by a mess steward who called him ‘sir’ and this shit with the scanning and the bagging and fuck you just fuck you you bloody piece of shit you’.