The thing I love about John is that like…he’s so much more dangerous than Sherlock but everyone else was trying to warn him away like “that guy gets off on crime and you seem like a nice bloke, watch yourself.” They’re all scared for him like “one day we’ll be standing around a body and sherlock will be the one who put it there” and that very night they’re all standing around the cabbie’s body and John put it there.
This one took a while! I usually don’t do realism but I really wanted to draw Martin Freeman because I’m Sherlock trash.
Nicely done!
it’s 1895, victorian england and homosexuality is illegal and john watson is together with sherlock holmes because who cares, sherlock’s a haughty idiot and a pain in the backside and the love of his life and john’ll do what he wants
it’s 2015 and homosexuality is no longer illegal and john watson is free to be with sherlock holmes and he is in love with him but they are not together because in the absence of external legal pressure, fear and homophobia have been instilled in him from an early age and he has spent his life wrestling with internalised biphobia, trust issues and a hatred of vulnerability likely all stemming from a similar childhood source and nurtured by his environment which has left him crippled in the face of his own emotional insecurity resulting in him choosing the safety of continued friendship over the risk inherent in asking for more