{"id":225051,"date":"2014-02-28T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/02\/28\/trashyfiction-setting-sex-or-the-lack-thereof\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T11:53:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T11:53:34","slug":"trashyfiction-setting-sex-or-the-lack-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/02\/28\/trashyfiction-setting-sex-or-the-lack-thereof\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-225051 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\/02\/28\/trashyfiction-setting-sex-or-the-lack-thereof\/attachment\/225052\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto1_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto1_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto1_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\/02\/28\/trashyfiction-setting-sex-or-the-lack-thereof\/attachment\/225053\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto2_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto2_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto2_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\/02\/28\/trashyfiction-setting-sex-or-the-lack-thereof\/attachment\/225054\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto3_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto3_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto3_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\/02\/28\/trashyfiction-setting-sex-or-the-lack-thereof\/attachment\/225055\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto4_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto4_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_me48oz50MS1r1a2wto4_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:\/\/trashyfiction.tumblr.com\/post\/36860638537\/myheartisahammer-otterbatch-g-a-y-hands\" target=\"_blank\">trashyfiction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Setting sex or the lack thereof aside for a moment, no one will ever convince me that this moment isn\u2019t two people falling completely in love with one another. \u00a0They both look so amazed, like they can\u2019t quite believe what they\u2019re seeing. \u00a0Is this person real? \u00a0How, after a whole lifetime of people who are not Sherlock and not John, can they suddenly exist? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the way each one of them responds is just perfect. \u00a0John laughs, genuinely, the tension completely gone from around his eyes and forehead for the first time since he came back to London. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock laughs too but then he bites his lip, hesitates for a moment, because this is something new, because friends aren\u2019t his area and he hasn\u2019t asked someone to spend time with him for the simple sake of spending time together, no ulterior motive, no strategy, just wanting to be together, in the most straightforward, literal, sense of the phrase, since probably before adolescence. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while their smiles and expressions quieten, they keep the same openness, so that when each turns to glance at the other, observing, making sure he\u2019s still there, marveling, maybe, they don\u2019t look away or get embarrassed the way you do when someone catches you staring. \u00a0Because for some reason these two men with trust issues, who always, always protect themselves, have decided to put their faith in one another. \u00a0Instead they lock eyes for a moment of agreement and understanding before looking forward and going along their way, completely assured of, and by, the other\u2019s continued presence. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>trashyfiction: Setting sex or the lack thereof aside for a moment, no one will ever convince me that this moment isn\u2019t two people falling completely in love with one another. \u00a0They both look so amazed, like they can\u2019t quite believe what they\u2019re seeing. \u00a0Is this person real? \u00a0How, after a whole lifetime of people who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/02\/28\/trashyfiction-setting-sex-or-the-lack-thereof\/\" 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":[129,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225051"}],"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=225051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225056,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225051\/revisions\/225056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}