{"id":230847,"date":"2014-01-25T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/25\/violethuntress-violethuntress-acafanmom\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:19:29","slug":"violethuntress-violethuntress-acafanmom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/25\/violethuntress-violethuntress-acafanmom\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-230847 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\/01\/25\/violethuntress-violethuntress-acafanmom\/attachment\/230848\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzo15gaU2B1ri43r5o2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzo15gaU2B1ri43r5o2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzo15gaU2B1ri43r5o2_500-100x100.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\/01\/25\/violethuntress-violethuntress-acafanmom\/attachment\/230849\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzo15gaU2B1ri43r5o3_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzo15gaU2B1ri43r5o3_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzo15gaU2B1ri43r5o3_500-100x100.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\/01\/25\/violethuntress-violethuntress-acafanmom\/attachment\/230850\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzo15gaU2B1ri43r5o1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzo15gaU2B1ri43r5o1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzo15gaU2B1ri43r5o1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/violethuntress.tumblr.com\/post\/74385477240\/violethuntress-acafanmom-violethuntress\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">violethuntress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/violethuntress.tumblr.com\/post\/74346279095\/acafanmom-violethuntress-johnstached-for\" target=\"_blank\">violethuntress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/acafanmom.tumblr.com\/post\/74330415467\/violethuntress-johnstached-for-my-tiger\" target=\"_blank\">acafanmom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/violethuntress.tumblr.com\/post\/74328016312\/johnstached-for-my-tiger-that-wanted-johns\" target=\"_blank\">violethuntress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/johnstached.tumblr.com\/post\/73865302852\/for-my-tiger-that-wanted-johns-heaving-chest\" target=\"_blank\">johnstached<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>For my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tiger-in-the-flightdeck.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger<\/a>, that wanted<\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>John\u2019s heaving chest when he puts Sherlock on the stretcher<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel like I need to talk about this scene. I just keep looking at it and staring. Something big is going on here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&lt;snip&gt;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>threatens him. But Sherlock\u00a0<em>won\u2019t<\/em> shut up. He insists on talking over John and telling his story for him (just as he insists on talking for Mary later and telling her story for her). Even if he feels hurt by John marrying Mary, why not just take this opportunity to hang back and\u00a0<em>listen<\/em>? See where this goes? Instead, he exerts extremely tight control over the entire scene. Like he has an outcome in mind and just wants to get there as quickly as possible. Why? Here are some possibilities, but I find none of them completely satisfying:<\/p>\n<p>&lt;snip&gt;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I just get the sense that if we are to take this scene at face value <em>(sans<\/em> conspiracy theories), something must have happened in Sherlock\u2019s mind to change his thinking from \u201cI\u2019m sad that John chose Mary instead of me\u201d to \u201cIt\u2019s right that John choose Mary over me.\u201d I guess I\u2019m starting to wonder if being shot by Mary had more of an impact than it seems on the surface. \u201cIt was surgery\u201d = it corrected something that was wrong. Sherlock swaggers into Magnussen\u2019s office hoping to impress John with his cleverness (as usual) and his conquest (Janine). Instead, he looks like a fool, getting all of his deductions wrong, including his very last one: that Mary wouldn\u2019t shoot him. Mary incapacitates him, both mentally and physically (a kind of freudian castration?). I don\u2019t know; I wonder if Sherlock feels after this that Mary is\u00a0<em>truly<\/em> Sherlock 2.0\u2014a newer\u00a0<em>and better<\/em> version of himself. That he too has realized his own impotence in being able to provide for John what he needs; that Mary can provide it better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know; it doesn\u2019t make total sense of all the words and all the scenes (but I haven\u2019t thought of anything that really does\u2026so #betheplant).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok\u2014I just need to reblog this to add a couple new thoughts along the lines of: Sherlock realized he can no longer perform and thinks John will be more impressed by Mary than by him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It occurred to me that throughout Series 3, we have the running theme of Sherlock\u2019s perceived inferiority to Mycroft. He thought he was \u201cstupid\u201d compared to Mycroft, Mycroft sees him as a little child, Mycroft directs his deductions in his mind palace. When Sherlock deduces that Mary is intelligence, he quite possibly makes a quick mental parallel with Mycroft (MI-6). He now sees Mary not just as Sherlock 2.0, but as parallel to Mycroft\u2014and therefore, to his mind, one notch better than him.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Many people have commented on the brief moment of insight we get from Sherlock in HLV: that he is \u201ca sociopath who solves crimes as an alternative to getting high\u2026that\u2019s me by the way.\u201d Insightful, yes, to some extent. The whole story? No. Sherlock is seeing his life\u2019s work here as essentially masturbatory, and seeing himself as childish. Sherlock sees himself one way through Mycroft\u2019s judging eyes (childish, stupid, looking for his next \u2018high\u2019), but Mycroft actually sees him more favourably. To go back to ASiB, when Mycroft tells John that Sherlock chose to be a detective: \u201cWhat can we deduce about his heart?\u201d Mycroft\u00a0<em>actually<\/em>sees Sherlock\u2019s choice of profession as an outgrowth of the care and love he has for others (which Mycroft himself disavows). (This also connects to Redbeard\u2014Sherlock\u2019s weakness is love.)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In any case, Sherlock does himself a great disservice by suggesting that his crime-solving is nothing but a masturbatory exercise, a mere substitute for a drug-induced high, and UGH once again calling himself a sociopath. He does two things here: he denies that he does what he does because some part of him cares deeply about people and justice, and he also denies (by invoking the drug high) John\u2019s partnership with him in solving crimes:\u00a0<strong>I\u00a0<\/strong>do this for\u00a0<strong>my<\/strong>\u00a0fix. To continue my potency\/impotence theme, I think that we move here from Sherlock\u2019s idea that he was performing\u00a0<em>for John<\/em>\u00a0when he was solving crimes (go all the way back\u2014\u201cgenius needs an audience\u201d\u2014he\u2019s\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>into self-pleasure); to revising that idea\u2014I was basically pleasuring myself and you were tagging along. Pushing John away again, but this time I think it\u2019s because he no longer feels he can perform. Essentially saying, now you\u2019ve found someone even better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem here is that Sherlock\u00a0<em>does<\/em> actually take John on his escapades again on Christmas when he sets up the meeting at Appledore. Why does he do this if he\u2019s basically already given up on being able to impress John, if he\u2019s handed him over to another?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I think the answer is that Sherlock knew somewhere in the back of his mind that the meeting would not be particularly impressive. Look at canon\u2014there\u2019s not much deduction in CHAS; Holmes just decides to break into Milverton\u2019s house and steal the contents of his safe. He resorts to basic and brute means to defeat a basic and brute opponent. In HLV, I think Sherlock sees John more as the client than his partner: come with me John, let\u2019s go get those documents that CAM has which have the potential to ruin your life; then we\u2019ll get CAM arrested, and then we\u2019ll come back, and you\u2019ll be safe. That was Sherlock\u2019s plan all along. I don\u2019t think he had any hope of impressing John and making him say \u201camazing\u201d one last time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>violethuntress: violethuntress: acafanmom: violethuntress: johnstached: For my\u00a0Tiger, that wanted\u00a0John\u2019s heaving chest when he puts Sherlock on the stretcher. I feel like I need to talk about this scene. I just keep looking at it and staring. Something big is going on here.\u00a0 &lt;snip&gt; threatens him. But Sherlock\u00a0won\u2019t shut up. He insists on talking over John &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/25\/violethuntress-violethuntress-acafanmom\/\" 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":[23512,15890,5326,23514,1810,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230847"}],"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=230847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230851,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230847\/revisions\/230851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}