a study in pink, and the mirror moment;

[falling_voices]

This was intended as a form of introduction for the S2 meta, but after several rewrites of it it simply didn't seem to fit, so I'm putting it up now, perhaps as a prologue. See, ASiP remains my favourite episode pretty much on par with TRF, and I find the echoes between both of these episodes to be fascinating, but upon closer reflection ASiP

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[augustbird]

i feel a little bit like john staring at sherlock as sherlock rattles off fifteen deductions without pause, all drawn from the most minute of details. and there's also a good part of me grabbing my computer screen and shaking it and shouting "oh my god this is so obvious, how had i not seen it before??reading this meta & then the comments--god all of it just convinces me more and more of how much they have to be in love with each other--the stupid kind of reckless love that only two extremely fucked up kindred souls can find in each other. because god, and i say this with the utmost fondness, they are so incredibly fucked up, paradox laid on paradox (soldier-doctor, genius-child, warm-tea-crackshot, approval-seeking-no-friends, self-destructive-steady-state) and this is exactly why i find them endlessly fascinating, why i love writing them so much because i always think that something's gotta give, there's going to be an explosion in any story if i wait patiently enough

[augustbird]

BUT THEN I HAD TO ADD THAT

i have a lot of feelings about the dynamic between the two of them that shifts from season 1 to season 2 so omggggg i absolutely cannot wait for the rest of your meta, like, EDGE OF SEAT WONDERING HOW OFTEN I CAN PRESS F5 WITHOUT SEEMING TOO DESPERATE sort of cannot-wait. :D

[falling_voices]

I think you should never stop telling me your feelings about Sherlock and John. Like, ever. Ever. Because this, this:

they are so incredibly fucked up, paradox laid on paradox (soldier-doctor, genius-child, warm-tea-crackshot, approval-seeking-no-friends, self-destructive-steady-state) and this is exactly why i find them endlessly fascinating, why i love writing them so much because i always think that something's gotta give, there's going to be an explosion in any story if i wait patiently enough.

This is everything I always try to convey in my own writing, and, I think, constantly fail at doing right; they're both, yes, paradoxes in their own right, and supernovas in their own right, too: they don't quite fit their original characterization, except they do, because they are made of contradictions, and it's - it's like Moffat and Gatiss and Thompson have taken all the incongruities and inconsistencies that have accumulated in the Holmes books because of ACD's lack of care or issues with consistent characterization, and have made

[mistyzeo]

John's first instinct would be, IMO, to get him inside and touch him all over before even coming around to helping him, hugging him, or punching him.

afkd;ahgk;dakgl;sd touching

[falling_voices]

I HAVE REALLY DETAILED HEADCANON ABOUT THEIR REUNION fald,ajlkad;kas i love them so much