{"id":219963,"date":"2014-03-29T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T09:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/29\/ivyblossom-johns-stopped-correcting-people\/"},"modified":"2018-09-22T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T22:22:00","slug":"ivyblossom-johns-stopped-correcting-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/29\/ivyblossom-johns-stopped-correcting-people\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-219963 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\/2014\/03\/29\/ivyblossom-johns-stopped-correcting-people\/attachment\/219964\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao1_r1_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao1_r1_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao1_r1_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><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\/2014\/03\/29\/ivyblossom-johns-stopped-correcting-people\/attachment\/219965\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao2_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao2_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao2_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><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\/2014\/03\/29\/ivyblossom-johns-stopped-correcting-people\/attachment\/219966\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao3_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao3_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao3_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><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\/2014\/03\/29\/ivyblossom-johns-stopped-correcting-people\/attachment\/219967\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao4_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao4_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m1b2cfTZ991rq4d1ao4_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ivyblossom.tumblr.com\/post\/19754336532\/johns-stopped-correcting-people-about-their\" target=\"_blank\">ivyblossom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>John\u2019s stopped correcting people about their assumption that he and Sherlock are a couple. Why? Well, it doesn\u2019t really matter what people think, particularly not in this case. They\u2019re nowhere near home, these are people John will never see again, it doesn\u2019t matter if they think Sherlock and John sleeping together. So why bother correcting this fellow? It\u2019s pointless.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time we see John decide to stop correcting people on this point. And given that he starts to, as if by habit, and then changes his mind, this might be the first time he has ever made that decision.<\/p>\n<p>This scene, obviously, comes after his frustrated \u201cwe\u2019re not a couple!\u201d to Irene Adler. He is exasperated that time around, exhausted and annoyed by the (likely constant) assumption. And Irene corrects him. Given the look on his face then, I think he took that correction to heart on some level. Because she was right: they\u00a0<em>are<\/em> a couple, even if they aren\u2019t a traditional one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can read this scene as an echo of that conversation, as an acknowledgement of Irene\u2019s assessment of them.\u00a0The truth of their relationship is too complicated to explain to a man who runs an Inn in Dartmoor and just handed over a room key. It\u2019s not the kind of thing there\u2019s any simple language for. John\u2019s not about to sit down with a perfect stranger and explain the whole thing. So there\u2019s really only one option: just smile and nod.\u00a0<em>Close enough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s slightly more complicated than that. As we know, John appears to have given up on dating at this point. He had a string of girlfriends Sherlock rhymes off in\u00a0<em>Scandal<\/em>, but no more after that. It was too obvious that he couldn\u2019t keep track of them, and that Sherlock was always his top priority anyway. The women weren\u2019t so into that arrangement, as it turns out.<\/p>\n<p>So he\u2019s stopped. What made him do that? Was it his girlfriend dumping him for being such a good boyfriend to Sherlock? Or was it Irene\u2019s honest and truthful assessment of them? He acknowledges that his life isn\u2019t compatible with long-term relationships (except for one). He has, in effect, chosen Sherlock. So is it wrong that someone thinks they\u2019re a couple? Not really. They are, exactly in the way Irene suggested they were. And John\u2019s hesitation can be read as his acknowledgement of that.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the Inn is apologizing to John over the lack of a double bed in their room. What does this suggest? John tried to book a room. Not two rooms, one room. If he had led with, \u201cI\u2019d like to book two rooms,\u201d and the owner said, \u201cSorry, I only have one available, but it\u2019s got two beds in it,\u201d he wouldn\u2019t have assumed John and Sherlock were a couple in the first place, and he wouldn\u2019t need to apologize for the twin beds. So John must have asked for one room, assuming a double bed. So John intended to share a double bed with Sherlock.<\/p>\n<p>In sum: John has stopped dating, has stopped correcting the assumption that he and Sherlock are a couple, has arguably accepted that he is in fact in a long-term relationship with Sherlock, and books a room anticipating sharing a bed with him.<\/p>\n<p>This, my friends, is canon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ivyblossom: John\u2019s stopped correcting people about their assumption that he and Sherlock are a couple. Why? Well, it doesn\u2019t really matter what people think, particularly not in this case. They\u2019re nowhere near home, these are people John will never see again, it doesn\u2019t matter if they think Sherlock and John sleeping together. So why bother &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/29\/ivyblossom-johns-stopped-correcting-people\/\" 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":[17200,129,1810,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219963"}],"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=219963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219968,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219963\/revisions\/219968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}