Barricade – stitchy – Sherlock (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An HLV time-skip filler, and follow-up fic, in which Sherlock has been struggling to keep his feelings at bay for everyone’s sake. (14k, explicit)
Go read it! It’s really good!
i feel like if we could see inside mike stamford’s head in ASiP he would be like
“you’re going to regret being so snippy with me, john watson, you ass, because i’m sitting here smiling but the joke’s on you because i’m about to get you to be flatmates with the most annoying…
If I were writing BBC Sherlock…
and I wanted to have my audience root for a Mary/John relationship. To see their deep, undying love and devotion. You know what I would do?
I’d show John proposing and Mary’s reaction and teared up eyes and emotional acceptance.
I’d show their wedding vow exchange so we can hear and see how much they care for one another.
I’d show domestic joy in a simple fluff scene. Even if it’s just sharing a morning coffee.
I’d show her comforting him after his obviously still occurring nightmares and grounding him emotionally when he’s unstable.
I’d show them saying “I love you” at least once.
I’d show her face after he is pulled from the fire, or survived a bomb or survived CAM. Some sort of “oh thank god he’s still here” moment.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to hire an ACTUAL MARRIED COUPLE who have fantastic chemistry irl and bounce off one another so perfectly, and then squash, conceal and ruin it on screen.
You know, unless of course I didn’t want my viewers to see them as a happy couple in love… Then I’d probably have someone else do those things with John instead. 😉
Absolutely bloody perfect.
