Sherlock: In appreciation of friendship

[alicambs]

You know I said that the last post would be my final word on Sherlock, well it appears that I was being somewhat mendacious with the truth!

Good friends, best buddies, best mates for many of us make the world a far, far better place. My best friend is the other side of the world from me. I've known her for decades. She was one of the main reasons I

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[paranoidangel42]

Hear, hear.

(I would say more, but your post said it all)

[alicambs]

Yee hah! Success. :-)
Thanks

[ariss_tenoh]

I agree with you that a good friendship, a best friend, is a treasure beyond compare. Except my best friend was a man (he recently passed away) and we endured the same innuendo and jokes about sex that the fictional BBC Sherlock and John do. He kept saying he was happily married and I had to keep saying I wasn't interested in him "that way".

A friend tells me the world is overly obsessed about money and sex nowadays and I have to agree. Friendship seems to be a foreign concept and an honest bit of advice a wild, rare creature.

[alicambs]

a best friend, is a treasure beyond compare.
Lovely sentence.

Ah! Yes I've rather harped on about besties as the same sex haven't I. Sorry. And yes again to your last two sentences.

[ariss_tenoh]

Oh don't worry about it. I didn't mention it to make you feel bad. I just wanted to say I do sympathise with John's exasperation^_~

[vilakins]

Absolutely! I'd say more than half of my fanfic is about friendship between two men (neither of whom care to acknowledge it) and I've often defended the idea and regretted that friendship is so often devalued compared to sexual or romantic love. My two are comrades in arms, and that sort of bond is a very strong one, forged in danger.

[alicambs]

regretted that friendship is so often devalued compared to sexual or romantic love.

Yes!

I do love slash and will carry on reading and writing it and defending people's right to write it, but in real life I'd say that for many it's friendship that really makes life worthwhile.

[vilakins]

Some of my friendship stories can be read as slash, and have been, and I don't mind at all.

It was annoying in RL though when I had a couple of friendships with married men misinterpreted as affairs. WTH? We just shared the same interests and sense of humour; why read more into it? I didn't mind when people thought I was in a lesbian relationship with a flatmate because neither of us were married at the time, but I hated people thinking badly of me in the other two cases.

My ideal future society is one in which gender (as defined by the person) doesn't matter at all for any sort of relationship.

[caffyolay]

Well said. :-)

[alicambs]

Thank you. :-)

[haldoor]

So very true. And there are so many wonderful instances of it on TV shows, really. As a slasher it's hard to see some of them any other way, but you're quite right, although I have to say there are instances where I see it the way you describe, thankfully. It really is a wonderful thing when two men have such an easy friendship, so thanks for this reminder.

[alicambs]

How did I miss your comment?? Sorry...

Yes, slash is such fun and a great pleasure but it's also great to recognise and value friendship.