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Also, the perfectly matched moments of Mycroft and Lestrade in Sherlock.

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I'm curious :))))

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One undeath, two very different reactions.

I hear people say that Sherlock should have told John about the snipers, or that John's reaction is justified because Sherlock didn't begin his narration with his duress as requested, or that John is justified by the insensitive nature of Sherlock's re-introduction.

But here's the thing.

Sherlock also pranked Lestrade: saying "those things will kill you" and stepping out of the dark dramatically, then not even getting Greg's name right in saying he'd "let things slide." Lestrade had and was given as little information as John was.

But whereas John reacts with anger and demands for an explanation, and holds on to that grudge for half the episode, Lestrade reacts with relief and joy and has no grudge whatsoever under the exact same reveal circumstances.

Lestrade assumes that Sherlock wouldn't have faked his death without a damn good reason, and he treats Sherlock accordingly.

John, on the other hand, assumes that Sherlock did not have a good enough reason. He demands a justification, and continues to react violently when he isn't satisfied with the attempts at explanation he's given. Even after he is given an explanation off-screen -- he couldn't have known enough to describe Sherlock's activities in the two years as "hide-and-seek" otherwise -- and even after ostensibly forgiving Sherlock enough to work with him again, John barely considers Sherlock's reason for "letting me grieve" sufficient.

And here's the other thing.

John wasn't told Sherlock was taking down Moriarty's network and wasn't included. He was lied to. He grieved.

Sherlock did so much worse to Lestrade. He left Greg holding the bag.

In a criminal investigation, suicide can be interpreted as a confession or as an acknowledgment of guilt. That's why Moriarty wanted Sherlock to do it. Sherlock was being investigated for having perpetrated the crimes he solved and then solving them to fraudulently take the credit.

As we see in ASIB, Lestrade is the one who convinced other detectives to use Sherlock, and he uses him the most often (to the point that in TBB, Sherlock is unpleasantly surprised Lestrade isn't there). So if Moriarty's allegations were true, either Lestrade is a terrible detective who did not notice he was being taken for a ride, or else he was an accomplice and also enjoying the fraudulent rewards. If Sherlock is a fraud, Lestrade is a fraud. By faking his death, Sherlock as good as confessed. If John told anyone about that stupid phone call, he straight up confessed.

Lestrade could have lost his badge. Lestrade could have gone to prison.

Secondly, the Chief Superintendent did not know that Lestrade and the other detectives were using Sherlock despite Sherlock's established fame. That means that Sherlock's assistance was either "eyes no hands" -- Lestrade presenting Sherlock's conclusions as his own work, probably more true prior to the blog since afterward it was impossible -- or else Lestrade and John were making it look like Sherlock was stumbling into police investigations while doing unrelated private detective work. (That puts Lestrade on the knife edge of perjury, which again, had now come to light and Sherlock wasn't there to help clean up the mess. At the very least, Lestrade failed to disclose information to the prosecutor and to the defense.)

What all that means, is that Lestrade got the Met into this Sherlock-is-a-fraud mess without running it by Legal, without giving the Met an opportunity to decline, or even letting them know Lestrade was taking the risk and increased liability.

Sherlock's confession to being a fraud would put every case he'd ever worked on under suspicion. They'd all have to be re-tried, and potentially re-tried with any evidence Sherlock was responsible for excluded. Lestrade, the Crown, and the Met would have had to defend every case they'd worked together in addition to proving that Moriarty actually was the villain and all this was fake.

And again -- Lestrade got the Crown and the Met into this mess without permission from his superiors. The other detectives could also have thrown Lestrade under the bus as the senior DI who urged them to use Sherlock's help. We don't know.

I cannot emphasize enough how fired Lestrade would have been in reality-land. (Since he was not, we may infer that he is canonically capable of talking his way out of literally anything.)

And Sherlock wasn't there to help for any of it. He confessed and fucked off for two years. Lestrade had to keep himself out of jail and from being fired and keep everyone they'd put away in prison alone (in the sense of their partnership).

Sherlock didn't ask before leaving Lestrade holding the bag. He didn't even do Lestrade the courtesy of the phone call John got. He just hauled off and did it.

Lestrade had infinitely more reason to be angry and suffered objectively more harm by the way Sherlock handled Moriarty.

Yet, Lestrade presumes that Sherlock wouldn't have done that to him if he could have avoided it. He is just happy Sherlock isn't actually dead.

John does not and is not.

I do not buy that John was sufficiently provoked to make his violence justified or in any way "to be expected." And if the show was trying to show us that John is Sherlock's soulmate, that was a piss-poor way to do it.

It is also worth noting, because fuck Season 3 & 4 John forever, that the first time we see Lestrade hug Sherlock is when he's back from the dead.

The first time we see John hug Sherlock? Is after Sherlock delivered a self-deprecating speech that was entirely complimentary to John.

Fuck you, John Watson.

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Submission by oddree13

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— requested by manbunjon

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just a heads up to my fellow writers out there that AO3 is currently fighting off bots commenting on people’s works to tell them that AO3 will delete their fics “due to the works being deprecated”, and the deletion will affect their accounts unless the authors delete the fics themselves first. IT IS A SCAM. AO3 will NOT delete your works. please do NOT fall for these bots!

I’ve been told the reason why these bots are doing this is due to copyright infringement issue where they’re trying to steal your works (possibly to train AI but this is just a guess) ‼️‼️‼️and once you deleted your fics, it will be either very difficult or impossible for you to claim ownership of your own fics when they were already deleted.‼️‼️‼️

a reminder that AO3 will never contact you through your comments section (in case they claim to be one of the moderators). AO3 will only contact you through your email address which you use to register your account, and it will be from AO3’s official handle. not some sketchy ass @

so if you get a comment telling you you should “delete your works to protect your account because AO3 is doing blah blah blah” report that comment. don’t delete your works.

PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THESE SCAM.

AO3 IS NOT DELETING WORKS.

DO NOT DELETE YOUR WORKS JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE CLAIMS THEY KNOW SOMETHING.

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reblog if ur mom is smart and beautiful

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Wow, now there's a bot going around on Ao3 telling people that the "moderators" will delete works from "deprecated" fandoms and impose bans.

Fearmongering bullshit, but it's fearmongering bullshit that seems to be taking advantage of the recent spotlight series in order to trick authors into deleting their fics.

Just. Why.

What the hell does anyone get out of making these bots.

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inshallah jk rowling loses her fortune and all her hateful deeds are returned to her x10

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reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

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Perfect!

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Mycroft Holmes SERVES cunt 24/7 you don’t UNDERSTAND

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Mycroft Holmes aka The Iceman

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This post made me thirsty, which reminded me to actually, consciously drink some water. Hope anyone reading this will also remember to do so.

the problem with water is like. it's the cleaning fluid right. that's the obvious part. you stop drinking and you stop peeing and your kidneys are like ough. ough. ough. ough. but you don't die. unless you're not drinking anything At All and not eating watery food either. so all it is is you pee less but you're okay. kind of.

BUT THEN when it gets too hot it starts being the coolant! and suddenly there are so many ways it can get out! you have so many sweat glands and so much skin and they all need to be cooled down before you DIE.

but then. you realize the least obvious one. it's the transmission fluid. it's the fucking transmission fluid. you can't transmit SHIT without your fliud. which is still fucking water somehow.

so now you're LEAKING your transmission fluid out of every goddamn pore and your kidneys are like hey. gimme that cleaning fluid cmon dude. while your pores are like ITS COOLANT. NEED COOLANT. FOR THE FIRE. NEED MORE COOLANT. SO MUCH FIRE. KILL IT. KILL IT MORE. MORE COOLANT. and then. the rest of you. that uses all that fluid to transmit things. it's like hey. hey. hey what the fuck.. i need that. hello? can anyone hear me? hello? it's so dark in here..

and then you drink more water or you die.

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EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

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