The Gherkin revisited
loudest-subtext-in-television:
i-read-your-writing-upside-down:
Here are the gifs from the opening titles I promised in my last post, reblogging kinklock’s list of expected sexual innuendo. Just look at the Gherkin rising through John’s head.
Opening titles, season 2:
(note the newspaper headline: Sherlock & John)
Opening titles, season 3:
I find it hard to imagine a more blatant erection visual metaphor.
lmao both times the word “Sherlock” accompanies it
Don’t think about John and Sherlock’s first kiss happening in 221B.
Don’t think about it starting off timidly, both of them terrified, walls still up even as their lips touch.
Don’t think about how it isn’t until Sherlock just barely, hesitantly…


























