JWP 2014 #23 --- Scolding
Title: Scolding
Theme: July Writing Prompt 2014 #23 - July 23
Prompt: Eat Raw Meat and Dance His War-Dance. From the original ACD to modern-day adaptations, the treatment of non-white characters in Sherlock Holmes (examples including "The Sign of Four," "The Blind Banker") can be racially problematic if not downright racist. Here's your chance to "fix" such a portrayal, or to deal with the subject of race from any version of SH (Sally Donovan or Joan Watson might have an earful to tell you, or the two African-American protagonists of the comic-book series Watson and Holmes).
Author: Alaylith
Rating: PG
Universe: BBC (S1); based on ACD's "Silver Blaze"
Characters: Sherlock
WordCount: 333
Summary: Sherlock considers making a racist comment, just to get John to scold him.
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Sherlock stands at the window, looking down on the small park behind the hospital, when the door opens and someone enters the room.
Sherlock looks shortly at the mirror image in the glas, recognizing the nurse and his attention turns back to the outside world.
After a few moments his eyes wander back to the reflection of the woman.
The nurse does her job silently and professionally, she has been recently divorced, has two little children - one of them an extreme naughty and difficult boy and she had a breakdown with her car yesterday evening.
It is nothing of this which draw Sherlock's attention.
Her skin is a dark brown and her hair is as black as night, the curls tightly bound to a bun and her lips appear a bit to big for her small face.
Sherlock never cared about the appearances of people, how or why they look as they do. As such race was never a topic for him.
In their early days when they met an Afro-American, who worked as a thug in the harbour, Sherlock made a comment about his smell (because the man smelled like dead fish) and also about his lips (which he had twisted to a snarl to show his teeth).
Later John confronted him about it, telling him he made racist comments.
John was displeased (to put it mildly) and scolded him firmly, until Sherlock could explain what he meant.
While John accepted it, he also warned Sherlock that he should be careful about what he says, as people could easily misunderstand it.
It is not something Sherlock actually cares about, but John does care about how Sherlock is viewed by others.
Sherlock never admitted it, but it warms his non-existent heart that John cares.
Sherlock debates if he should make such a bit not-good comment to the nurse, to see if it would scandalize John enough to finally wake up and scold him.
Sherlock is almost deperate enough to try.
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Theme: July Writing Prompt 2014 #23 - July 23
Prompt: Eat Raw Meat and Dance His War-Dance. From the original ACD to modern-day adaptations, the treatment of non-white characters in Sherlock Holmes (examples including "The Sign of Four," "The Blind Banker") can be racially problematic if not downright racist. Here's your chance to "fix" such a portrayal, or to deal with the subject of race from any version of SH (Sally Donovan or Joan Watson might have an earful to tell you, or the two African-American protagonists of the comic-book series Watson and Holmes).
Author: Alaylith
Rating: PG
Universe: BBC (S1); based on ACD's "Silver Blaze"
Characters: Sherlock
WordCount: 333
Summary: Sherlock considers making a racist comment, just to get John to scold him.
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Sherlock stands at the window, looking down on the small park behind the hospital, when the door opens and someone enters the room.
Sherlock looks shortly at the mirror image in the glas, recognizing the nurse and his attention turns back to the outside world.
After a few moments his eyes wander back to the reflection of the woman.
The nurse does her job silently and professionally, she has been recently divorced, has two little children - one of them an extreme naughty and difficult boy and she had a breakdown with her car yesterday evening.
It is nothing of this which draw Sherlock's attention.
Her skin is a dark brown and her hair is as black as night, the curls tightly bound to a bun and her lips appear a bit to big for her small face.
Sherlock never cared about the appearances of people, how or why they look as they do. As such race was never a topic for him.
In their early days when they met an Afro-American, who worked as a thug in the harbour, Sherlock made a comment about his smell (because the man smelled like dead fish) and also about his lips (which he had twisted to a snarl to show his teeth).
Later John confronted him about it, telling him he made racist comments.
John was displeased (to put it mildly) and scolded him firmly, until Sherlock could explain what he meant.
While John accepted it, he also warned Sherlock that he should be careful about what he says, as people could easily misunderstand it.
It is not something Sherlock actually cares about, but John does care about how Sherlock is viewed by others.
Sherlock never admitted it, but it warms his non-existent heart that John cares.
Sherlock debates if he should make such a bit not-good comment to the nurse, to see if it would scandalize John enough to finally wake up and scold him.
Sherlock is almost deperate enough to try.
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