{"id":150773,"date":"2015-06-08T17:54:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/08\/earlgreytea68-this-is-john-watson-hes\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T23:57:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:57:25","slug":"earlgreytea68-this-is-john-watson-hes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/08\/earlgreytea68-this-is-john-watson-hes\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-150773 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/08\/earlgreytea68-this-is-john-watson-hes\/attachment\/150774\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_msidcocV9q1qes8o8o1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_msidcocV9q1qes8o8o1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_msidcocV9q1qes8o8o1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earlgreytea68.tumblr.com\/post\/60090692166\/this-is-john-watson-hes-adorable-right-hes\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">earlgreytea68<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is John Watson. He\u2019s adorable, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also maddeningly tricky to write.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I started writing Sherlockfic, it was Sherlock who intimidated me, Sherlock I avoided at all costs, for thousands of words, because he seemed like this complex little enigma. But there\u2019s something about Sherlock, once I started writing him, that I found endearingly straightforward. You almost always know where you stand when it comes to Sherlock Holmes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s John who is the tricky one, John who is so maddeningly unpredictable. He seems so dull and unassuming, but, once you\u2019ve written him, it takes roughly two sentences before you realize exactly why Sherlock is so fixated on him. He could be every adjective in the book, really. He is loyal and devoted but he\u2019s also stubborn and independent. He follows Sherlock\u2013as all Watsons must\u2013and he tries to blend into the shadows cast by that overdramatic coat, but if you\u2019ve spent any time at all thinking about him\u2013and Sherlock has\u2013then he\u2019s really the star of the pairing. He is superhumanly tough, cool and calm under pressure, uncowed and unintimidated, but he is also very comfortably human at the same time, friendly and smiling. He likes to laugh and has a good sense of humor and people like him instinctively but he\u2019s essentially a loner at heart and has few close friends, not that any of his acquaintances\u2013other than Sherlock\u2013would ever really stop to consider that, because John is mainly affable and easy-going and can fool anyone into thinking that he\u2019s the most popular person there is.<\/p>\n<p>Almost every time I write John, he manages to have some reaction, some line of dialogue, that surprises me. He\u2019s so very good at rolling with all of Sherlock\u2019s punches, until the moment when he isn\u2019t anymore, and I don\u2019t think I know that line any more than Sherlock does.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s with Sherlock because Sherlock attracts him irresistibly, exerts a magnetic pull over him, keeping him in orbit\u2013and, again, that\u2019s how Watsons are\u2013but he\u2019s also with Sherlock\u00a0<i>because he wants to be with Sherlock<\/i>. And how Martin Freeman embodies that so beautifully has impressed me more and more and more the more I go back to the canon to check up on my John. Sherlock may be an undeniable hurricane-strength force whirling through John\u2019s life\u00a0<i>but John also chose him<\/i>. He wasn\u2019t just pushed around by the fate of it all, he likes Sherlock, he likes his life with him, he\u2019s there because he wants to be.\u00a0<i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s how I read John Watson. And that\u2019s how I write John Watson. And I like my John, I really do, but it\u2019s taken me several hundred thousand words to figure out what I think Sherlock saw as soon as he looked at him: that it\u2019s John Watson who\u2019s the complicated one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I guess that\u2019s why Sherlock\u2019s the genius.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>earlgreytea68: This is John Watson. He\u2019s adorable, right?\u00a0 He\u2019s also maddeningly tricky to write.\u00a0 When I started writing Sherlockfic, it was Sherlock who intimidated me, Sherlock I avoided at all costs, for thousands of words, because he seemed like this complex little enigma. But there\u2019s something about Sherlock, once I started writing him, that I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/08\/earlgreytea68-this-is-john-watson-hes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2090,16,15,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150775,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150773\/revisions\/150775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}