#c: john watson

[the-scienceofdeduction]

Drew this first as a HPxSherlock crossover on my main but I liked it so much that I decided to make a proper Sherlock Fanart out of it :P

Sherlock, John, and Greg 💗

[contact-guy]

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 6 of many - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5.

A short update, however it is CHRISTMAS and you have all been nice this year and deserve homoerotic cigarette activity some art :)

There's a reference to this conversation from earlier.

also I would be remiss not to credit @haedraulics for inspiring a specific visual in this, check out his Holmes art!

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

[acethatlovesdinos]

Losing my mind over Wisteria Lodge pt1.

Setting aside the main plot and surface mystery, we also got

A meeting with a "professor James"?????

Sherlock GIGGLING???

Sherlock actually called John by his first name!

Jealous John

There is SO MUCH to unpack here and I am absolutely THRILLED

I am also completely terrified for when they do bring Moriarty into the story, as I am far too emotionally attached to my blorbos to be normal about any of this-

He's been referenced twice now, if anyone's counting (shoscombe old place), and it's only a matter of time at this point

[xia0ming56]

Too much procrastination, too little studying😔😔

[icedhotcocoa]

oh podlock tommy gregson… they made you in a lab for me to love

[apazmackpie]

Happy birthday, Martin Freeman!! 🥳

53 years old, 53 characters he played.

I finished on time!! But sadly it's not as detailed as i wanted at first. :(

Anyway, if you wanna know who is who, i'll let you all the names under the cut.

From left to right and top to bottom:

Ricky Beck, "Casualty" (1998)

Frank, "I just want to kiss you" (1998)

Jaap, "Lock, stock" (2000)

Jamie, "Men only" (2001)

Ricky-C, "Ali G indahouse" (2002)

D. S. Stringer, "Margery and Gladys" (2003)

John/Jack, "Love, actually" (2003)

Tim Canterbury, "The Office" (2001-2003)

Mike, "Hardware" (2003-2004)

Declan, "Shaun of the Dead" (2004)

Kevin, "Call register" (2004) and "Rubbish" (2007)

Vila, "Blake's Junction 7" (2005)

Arthur Dent, "Hittchiker's guide to the galaxy" (2005)

Ed Robinson, "The Robinsons" (2005)

Matt Norris, "Confetti" (2005)

Sandy Hoffman, "Breaking and Entering" (2006)

Jeremy, "Dedication" (2007

Gary Shaller, "The good night" (2007)

Sergeant, "Hot Fuzz" (2007)

Pig, "Lonely hearts" (2007)

Chris Ashworth, "The all together" (2007)

Rembrandt van Rijn, "Nightwatching" (2007)

Mr. Codlin, "The old curiosity shop" (2007)

Danny Reed, "Boy meets Girl" (2009)

Chris Curry, "Micro Men" (2009)

Paul Maddens, "Nativity!" (2009)

Hector Dixon, "Wild target" (2010)

John Watson, "Sherlock" (2010-2017)

Clive Buckle, "The girl is mime" (2010)

Alvin Finkel, "Swinging with the Finkels" (2011)

Simon Forrester, "What's your number?" (2011)

Dr. Williams, "The Voorman problem" (2011)

Pirate with a scarf/Number Two, "Pirates!" (2012)

Albert, "Animals" (2012)

Bilbo Baggins, "The Hobbit trilogy" (2012-2014)

Don, "Svengali" (Movie from 2013 and series from 2009)

Oliver Chamberlain, "The world's end" (2013)

Lester Nygaard, "Fargo" (2014)

Milton Frutchman, "The Eichmann show" (2015)

Steve Marriot, "Midnight of my life" (2015)

Iain MacKelpie, "Whiskey tango foxtrot" (2016)

Everett Ross, "Captain America: Civil War" (2016), "Black Panther" (2018), "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" (2022), "Secret Invasion" (2023)

Phil Rask, "StartUp" (2016-2017)

Michael Priddle, "Ghost Stories" (2017)

Andy Rose, "Cargo" (2017)

Thomas, "The operative" (2019)

Charlie Green, "Ode to joy" (2019)

Stephen Fulcher, "A confession" (2019)

Paul Worsley, "Breeders" (2020-2023)

Harold Wallach, "Angelyne" (2022)

Chris Carson, "The responder" (2022-2024)

Jonathan Miller, "Miller's Girl" (2024)

Richard III, from the theather play with the same name. (2014)

[christiangeistdorfer]

the crowd at the 1981 BRITISH GRAND PRIX celebrating JOHN WATSON's victory

[fireguardianblog]

The C-Word//The Adventure Of The Dying Detective

Rewatching the magnificent Brett made me reread the Dying Detective and that reminded me of the C-Word situation and I realized how similar they are in some scenes and got all emotional...

("I'd feel like I deserved it" paralleled to "Let it be someone in whom I have confidence" aren't too similar but they are two quite hurtful things the sick one says in anger so yeah)

[sygneth]

Dzisiaj Speak Your Language Day, więc narysowałem Holmesa po polsku, bo ngghhhh w tych tłumaczeniach oni są tak nielegalnie słodcy że no nie mogę xD

Zwykle wolę czytać książki w oryginale, ale ten fragment po polsku ma specjalne miejsce w moim sercu <3

(wiem ze ten font jest może mało czytelny, dałem transkrypcję polski w ALT)

A 1988 Polish translation of "The Golden Pince-Nez":

"Whom can he seek?"

"Whom? Us! He came to see us, Watson! And we, my dear, must take our overcoats, cravats and every other aid that man ever invented to fight the weather. Wait a bit, though! The cab is off again! There's hope yet. If he had wanted us to come, he'd have kept it. Go down, my darling, and open the door, for all virtuous folk have been long in bed"

[invader-sans-cipher]

can we get a version of Sherlock where they’re in college and like John is a nursing major that plays a shit ton of COD and has a limp from some like sports injury and Sherlock is a crime forensics and criminal justice studies major and they go to “Stamford University” (eh eh?) that pairs them up because they both drive their roommates away for different reasons and then Sherlock gets an internship with the local police department as a part of his research and John’s there cause he wants that cookie and they kiss and they’re boyfriends after their first year and they get an apartment together. Oh and Mycroft goes to Berkeley or some shit and Sherlock complains about it.

ok but like what if I made this

[littleoceanbabe]

i have been attacked. humiliated. demoralized. ASK THE MAN ABOUT THE DINOSAURS, PODCAST BOY 🫵

[gregorovitch-adler]

A Chemical Defect

The mild sunshine in the afternoon hit softly on Sherlock's face, lifting his mood quite a bit. He took in the fresh breeze as he kept walking along the pavement, with John by his side, towards 221, Baker Street.

"How would you define love?" John asked, carrying a grocery bag in his hand to their way home.

Sherlock was carrying the other bag.

The two of them had been out shopping, because it was time they went to the supermarket this week. And because it was a Sunday. Sherlock had oddly felt like accompanying John today, so he did.

They had been talking about what romantic attraction was like, how it felt, etc., when they were shopping. Though what had triggered that topic exactly, Sherlock had no idea.

Sherlock parted his lips and blinked, feeling thrown off by this sudden question. How should he respond?

"How would I know? I'm just a sociopath." He couldn't think of anything else to say.

John shook his head immediately at that. "No, that's not true at all. 'Sociopath' isn't even the correct term. And I know that you feel things." John let out a bitter laugh. "God knows I've personally witnessed you feel it."

They had arrived at their apartment building.

Sherlock turned to look at him with his eyebrows knitted and nose scrunched. "When?"

John turned around to face him too with disbelief in his expressive, blue eyes. "When? Seriously?" He shook his head again and opened the door to get in.

Sherlock followed him, and now they were both climbing the stairs leading to their flat.

Sherlock's hands were trembling, and his heart raced as his stomach churned in horror.

Did John know how Sherlock felt for him? Shit. Now what? How was Sherlock supposed to explain himself? Why did John bring this up today? Was this supposed to be a call-out? Oh no.

They both walked into their flat, closed the door, and John went straight to the kitchen with the bag in his hand.

Sherlock went to the kitchen too. It was dimly-lit with natural sunlight coming from the outside.

The table was a mess from Sherlock's latest experiment. Now John had also spread everything out that they had just bought, adding to the mess even more.

John was arranging everything properly in the fridge.

What was Sherlock to do now? Might as well out with the truth, he thought. It was time.

"Turns out I was in love. With you." Sherlock paused. "I still am," he added, as he set the bag of groceries on the kitchen table. He kept staring at John - whose back was facing him - holding his breath.

You were right, John. You always are.

John stopped in his tracks with a pack of yoghurt in his hand. "Come again?" John placed the pack in the fridge, closed it, and finally looked around at Sherlock.

They were both facing each other now.

"I won't repeat myself, John," he said briskly, bracing himself on the kitchen table, waiting for John's reaction.

"What about The Woman?"

Sherlock's initial reaction was to flinch in self defense. Disappointment followed through shortly.

Here he thought John was talking about the two of them.

The Woman. Why now?

Sherlock closed his eyes as a faint memory of a beautiful face with soft, feminine features showed up.

The violin tune that he had composed was playing in the background in his mind.

Sherlock shook his head and opened his eyes. He took a deep breath and swallowed. "Ancient history," he blurted out.

Truth meant a complete and accurate information about something. He was not going to hide anything from John.

"So, there was a history." John folded his arms across his chest.

Sherlock sighed deeply. "Doesn't matter now."

John slammed one of his hands on the kitchen table. "It matters to me, Sherlock! I've spent ages wondering why you looked so abnormally interested in her when she was practically a stranger - especially when you'd specified that you weren't interested in relationships - and more importantly, where I went wrong if you were interested in romantic entanglements, after all. So, yes. It does matter even now. Very much." His chest was heaving with his face flushed.

Sherlock felt his jaw drop. "John? I never thought you -"

"Yes, you idiot. I feel the same. Have been for ages. So tell me: did you or did you not feel for Irene Adler?"

"I did."

John's face fell and his eyes looked considerably sadder than before, so Sherlock continued hastily, "Doesn't mean I didn't care about you, then. Because I did. A lot.

"And now you're so important to me that if you were to leave this place, right now, I'd feel lost. In the middle of a barren desert." Sherlock swallowed. "I've felt this way about you for ridiculously long. I am in love with you. Is that clear enough, now?" His voice broke with desperation at the last sentence.

John quickly walked up close to Sherlock and grabbed his waist. Sherlock wrapped his arms around his shoulders and sighed. John rested his head against Sherlock's chest and they both fell silent for a few seconds.

John looked up at him with a soft gaze. The amount of sentiments in those eyes was unbelievable. Sherlock was looking at him in wonder.

"Yes, it is," said John, in a voice just above a whisper.

Sherlock placed a hand on John's cheek as he ducked to kiss him. John moved one of his hands from Sherlock's waist to his nape as he kissed him back with abandon.

Sherlock hoped that any feelings of jealousy, disappointment, etc., between him and John would fade away now.

They had each other by their sides. They knew they would handle their future lives better from now on.

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Prompt: Jealousy by @calaisreno

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[miiints-repostiory]

[acethatlovesdinos]

Some of the more fascinating moments in Sherlock & Co. happen when John isn't leading the conversation. Whether he leaves the mic behind, gives it to someone else, or even just accidentally left it running in his pocket.

Most recently and notably, the end of the Milverton case.

The mic was left back at the scene, and the boys themselves were unaware of what truly happened until they listened back to the audio.

In the original story of The Final Problem, Watson didn't see what happened. He was called back to town on a (false) medical emergency. He never knew what occurred firsthand. He saw two sets of muddy footprints leading to the edge of the falls, and none returning. He saw a handwritten note from Holmes, an apology in some measure, and a last goodbye.

He was left to assume what happened, and speculation was his only source of closure.

We've all talked about what the Fall might look like for our podcast boys, but I really think that the most interesting version would go something like this:

John has to go away right before the final confrontation, leaving Sherlock to face Moriarty alone. But, being the podcast man that he is, he insists that Sherlock take the mic with him, to capture all the details of this climactic scene.

John comes to the falls to find the mic, still recording, placed neatly in a safe spot, and Sherlock's jacket folded beneath it. Sherlock is nowhere to be seen.

John looks for him all day and even into the night, only to return to the hotel, alone, anxious and worried for his friend.

He decides to check the audio, because maybe it'll give him some clue as to where Sherlock mightve gone.

He hears him hike to the waterfall, the cliff's edge where he found the mic. He hears the rushing of water, and sherlocks voice, speaking coldly to the man they've been after for months.

During this final confrontation we hear the ultimatum that Sherlock is left with, and we hear James Moriarty plummet to his inevitable demise.

We hear Sherlock panic. A true, frightened, unmasked terror that he never allows his friends to see. The man who is usually so quiet, so composed, breaks down in tears and heaving gasps.

After some silence, he composes himself, and pulls the mic out of his pocket. He takes off his jacket and sets it down.

He speaks slowly, his voice soft and wavering.

He thanks Watson and Mariana for the time they've spent together. He talks about how they helped him, how they made him a better person than he was before. They showed him a companionship that he could have only dreamed of. (And sure, it's wishful thinking, but perhaps a declaration of love for his dearest friend)

He thanks them profusely, then apologises. Says he's sorry things had to go the way they did. It was the only way he could think of to protect everyone he loved. And hes sorry he can't properly say goodbye.

He sets the mic down, and the only thing we hear is the echo of the rushing waterfall,

Then a distant splash.

Silence until we hear John run up to the cliffs edge only a few moments later, calling Sherlock's name.

John, listening back to the audio, is helpless to do anything but listen, realizing he's just lost his best friend. He's lost another loved one, who he should have been there for. Another loved one that he couldn't save.

[apazwtsn]

i missed doing these

[icedhotcocoa]

yes sherlock & co is a mediocre bbc sherlock johnlockbait podcast. YES I listen to every episode anyway. here r the blorbies

idk who started the brown sherlock headcanon but i love it it’s the only way i can picture him now