Thoughts about Love

[impulsereader]

So September reached new levels of potential slashiness, as pointed out by azriona in her lovely comment, and I was aware of this when I was writing it. I left all the potential in there. I didn't censor it even though I have no intention of following through

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[azriona]

For what it's worth, I don't think we'll ever see anything on the show other than the innuendo we've already been given (and more of the same). For one thing, Gatiss and Moffat are having way too much fun with the will-they-or-won't-they aspect. For another, why bother? Who sleeps where and in what company isn't the point of the show.

(I also hope we never actually see Mycroft and Lestrade in the same scene, but that's only because it's so frickin' much fun to pair them together in fandom, and that would be ruined by whatever happened if they were on screen at the same time, no matter how that scene went.)

I think that's what makes your "you can imagine" verse so very canon, and so aptly named. Canon in that there's the hints of slashiness, particularly in the September story, confronted and accepted and moving on now. Just as with the show, it's easy enough to read the stories as either epic bros, or as pre-slash.

(And I mean that dichotomy as a compliment; I tend to think a really well-written story is one in which the reader takes away something the writer didn't quite intend. Those are the reviews I tend to like the best, where a reader spots something I didn't quite mean, and I look back and go OMG YOU'RE RIGHT.)

Aptly named for that very reason, which you've already probably guessed. The way you've written the story, we can pretty much imagine any relationship between John and Sherlock that we want. We don't need it spelled out, you trust us to go whichever way suits our fancy.

Aaaaaand, that's all I've got for now, I'm going to go watch Benedict Cumberbatch on a boat in 1812 for a bit. :)

[impulsereader]

You're absolutely right. That, as well as all those words I just typed in the entry, having been said: wouldn't it be fabulous if they ultimately ended the show with a kiss? They'll never in a million years do it, but it would be amazing. I think the internet really would collapse under its own weight.

Yea for 1812 BC on a boat!