Can we just take a moment to appreciate how ashamed and embarrassed John is of his limp in asip? ESPECIALLY KNOWING IT WAS IN HIS MIND BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO TO STOP IT. Ladies and gentlemen, John Watson thought this would be the rest of his life. He never expected that limp to be gone. He would spend his life with a cane despite being in his 30s, hobbling around like an old man, unable to participate in life the way he wanted, doomed to a permanent sedentary mundane sad life. And he HATED IT. Now imagine a person came along. And within 24 hours of meeting you had fixed that. Sherlock cured John of something John considered a likely permanent disability. Imagine how that would feel.
John was a goner from the start. It wasn’t just attraction, it was help and hope that Sherlock gave him.
Agree with this so much. He literally must have felt like Sherlock had given him his life back, like magic.
I think in a way this is why John is wary of falling for Sherlock and goes ahead with the wedding to Mary. When the Fall happens, John experiences the reverse of ASiP: Sherlock can give life but he can also take it away. In MHR we see John struggling, and John himself says that #sherlocklives means that #johnwatsonlives.
I imagine that, amongst everything else, one of the worries John had when Sherlock ‘died’ is whether his limp would stay away without him. Knowing that someone has that kind of power over your emotions, psyche and whole life is beyond the standard amount of terrifying. I think it goes a long way towards showing why John tries to cling to ‘moving on’ even when Sherlock returns.
Well this got worse
Welp, I didn’t need my heart today.
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an insolent Coxcomb, who rarely dined in good Company where there was good wine, without getting silly, and vapouring about his Administration, like a young Girl about her brilliants and trinketts
This is the cutest fucking thing I have read about Alexander Hamilton today and that is saying a lot.
Adams goes on to say, rather incoherently:
From some Windows in my House I see the Capitol in Boston: not only its Dome and Steeple, but the whole body of the Building: from other Windows the view is obstructed by Trees Houses &c, in other Mens lands and there might be Pallaces and Temples. If I should swear I would cutt down all those Trees and burn all those sacred Temples and gorgious Palaces, in order to clear my View and actually attempt and accomplish some of this destruction, I should be an Emblem of the Bairn of Nevis.
Dude, he’s been dead for two years. You need to fucking chill. I also enjoy this about Washington from this letter (also to Benjamin Rush):
Talents? You will Say, what Talents? I answer. 1. An handsome Face. That this is a Talent, I can prove by the Authority of a thousand Instances in all Ages: and among the rest Madame DuBarry who said Le veritable Royaute est la Beauté 2. A tall Stature, like the Hebrew Sovereign chosen because he was taller by the Head than the other Jews. 3 An elegant Form. 4. graceful Attitudes and Movements. 5. a large imposing Fortune consisting of a great landed Estate left him by his Father and Brother, besides a large Jointure with his Lady, and the Guardianship of the Heirs of the great Custis Estate, and in Addition to all this, immense Tracts of Land of his own Acquisition.
George Washington: people just liked him because he was hot and rich. Okay, fair enough, I guess.
When NPR reported Bob Ebeling’s story on the 30th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, hundreds of listeners and readers expressed distress and sympathy in letters and emails.
On Jan. 27, 1986, the former engineer for shuttle contractor Morton Thiokol had joined four colleagues in trying to keep Challenger grounded. They argued for hours that the launch the next morning would be the coldest ever. Freezing temperatures, their data showed, stiffened rubber O-rings that keep burning rocket fuel from leaking out of the joints in the shuttle’s boosters.
But NASA officials rejected that data, and Thiokol executives overruled Ebeling and the other engineers.
