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selinabln:

The Final Proof

sherlockspeare:

When finally, finally Sherlock realizes that he’s been in love with John.

statisticallymorelikely:

I’ll love you for a thousand more.

I know Sherlock Holmes isn’t a thousand years old, but it just seemed fitting for the Holmes-Watson relationship. Especially after I read this.

”The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about deduction, but in reality, it’s about the best of two men who save each other - a lost, washed-up war hero and a man who could end up committing murders instead of solving them. They come together. They become this perfect unit. They become the best friendship ever, and they become heroes.”
— Steven Moffat

It’s a friendship that, no matter in what form or interpretation, is about two people who love each other.

ceilingtheo:

After the most recent episode, I basically just decided that (while in my fanon mind John and Sherlock fuck like rabbits) my interpretation of them in canon is:

• John is a bi-romantic heterosexual
• Sherlock is a bi- or homo-romantic asexual
• They are in love with each other
• (and kind of in a relationship)
• Neither of them realizes any of this, because both of them base their interpretation of their orientation on the sexual side of it alone

So John keeps dating women, because he self defines as heterosexual, and keeps trying to assert that to himself. But because he’s monoamourous and is already in love with Sherlock, he just can’t make it work with any of the women he dates at all.

Sherlock, on the other hand, figured out he wasn’t interested in sex around the time everyone else in his age group got interested in it and he found the whole thing terribly tedious. He probably doesn’t even self-identify as asexual, because he doesn’t care enough about that sort of thing to bother labelling it. And then, because he’s already categorised any sort of couple relationship as sexual and therefore boring, and because he very rarely comes across anyone he considers worth spending any of his time with anyway, he doesn’t really realise he is capable of romantic attraction, either. He has so little experience of having friends that when John comes along he doesn’t have a comparison to realise that their relationship is romantic rather than purely friendship.

Which is why everyone keeps pointing out that they’re a couple, but both of them just react by thinking “No, because we’re not having sex.” rather than noticing that they are in love with each other.

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marielikestodraw:

This is probably my favorite scene of the whole episode. There is so much in this, from the definition of John and Sherlock’s relationships as an “entity”, to the admission from Irene that she IS fascinated by Sherlock and it’s probably affecting her life. It makes me wonder if in that moment, this is the more honest she will ever be about the situation, considering all the “it was just a game” she goes on about later.
Also the “I’m not gay” and “but I am”. I love this. I love that these characters say those words yet are obviously not defined in their affections by their sexual orientation, because “being gay” is just as limited as anything.
There are higher, more complex feelings at stakes, and this very scene emphasizes this perfectly.
This is about two people whose lives have been forever changed by Sherlock, and who have changed Sherlock’s lives, it’s about strange dynamics, and strangely accurate balance found between entities, it’s about love and not being in love. It’s fuckin fabulous.

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