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What?

John has a depression linked eating disorder. In the opening of Pink, after John wakes up, his breakfast consists of an apple that he doesn’t eat. This is very common in PTSD, especially those who have suicidal thoughts and tendencies, which we know John does. It’s not that they are actively starving themselves, it’s that they just don’t see the point eating, as an effort to stay alive. 

When he meets Sherlock, John eats dinner as if he is starving. He digs into his food, talks with his mouth full, as if it is the first full meal he has had in months. Which is entirely likely, since John has been home for several months at that point. Again, this is very typical of people who have been suffering this type of eating disorder, and find that they are no longer as painfully depressed. 

Sherlock even goes so far as to point out that after moving in together, John puts on an average of a pound a week in weight. John brushes it off as being normal. He doesn’t deny it, he just points out that he is eating more than one meal a day. This implies that he wasn’t eating this often before he limped into Sherlock’s life. 

This makes Sherlock’s insistence that John eat even more powerful. He goes so far as to halt an investigation on more than one occasion, to make sure John gets a meal into him. A well-fed John is a happy John, not because he is full, but because it proves that he is happy enough to actually eat. 

Sits down

closes laptop

puts head on table

bursts into tears

Tries not to cry

Rolls over

Cries a lot

Allow me to add to your feels with parts of the actual canon.

There’s a bit in Scandal in Bohemia, when the recently married Watson comes to see Holmes, who is on a new case. Holmes sees Watson and tells him that he looks like he’s gained about 7 1/2 pounds since he got married. Now to most people, this looks like Holmes being a dick and a lot of adaptations have translated this into Watson being portly or whatever, or loving to eat.

But at the very start of Study in Scarlet (which takes place only two stories before Scandal. The only one in between is the Sign of Four, where he meets Mary, his wife.) Watson is recently returned from war. He was badly injured and came down with a tropical fever that nearly killed him. He returns to England very tan, very weak, and very very thin. 

So how I began to translate Holmes telling Watson he’s put on weight is, yes, he’s teasing him, but at the same time he’s relieved because Watson’s getting healthy again. It’s his backhanded Holmesian “I can’t actually compliment your wife cuz it would damage my street cred” way of saying that Mary’s been good for him. That his Watson is in good hands. And even though Watson leaving wasn’t good for Holmes, he’s not such a selfish prick that he can’t recognize that Mary is having a good effect on Watson. 

People who write Sherlock as HATING Mary and turning into a pettily jealous six year old over her please take note. 

I’d like to say this gif is kind of perfect in describing my feels because I’ve always thought that Sherlock and Mary get along well especially in their mutual love for John. (WAHHHHH)

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ghostbees:

A taste of your own medicine.

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tumblebuggie:

[a sherlockian greeting]
where it isn’t necessarily always 1895

ok i’m officially addicted to making cards now
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all proceeds will be donated, you know my methods ;)

What is tumblr for is not enabling amazingly cute art?

Um excuse you, there is a distinct lack of Elementary in this.

Normally I’d agree with you, but it seems like they’re keeping to the well known ones  that lived at British 221B Baker Street given the look?

<s>That said, where are Basil and Dawson? XD </s>

actually, guys, i just really needed to sleep 9_9

i did plan to do one for Elementary, and Basil of Bakerstreet, AND for the Basil Rathbone films…does anyone want those? 

naturalshocks:

The Excellent Mind by `Artgerm

sketchlock:

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thecutteralicia:

I read a lot of fic where Sherlock is rendered unfeeling when witnessing death, or cold at the prospect of losing someone. In actual fact, Sherlock feels quite deeply. In A Study in Pink, he is careful to ask John if he’s all right after shooting the suspect. In A Scandal in Belgravia, he goes absolutely ballistic when Mrs. Hudson is threatened and harmed. In The Great Game, he barely keeps it together when faced with losing John, ripping off his explosive vest in a panic. 

And there’s this moment, from The Great Game, where the elderly blind lady is killed while on the phone with Sherlock. I don’t think he’s upset because he solved the puzzle and she died anyway. I think he’s greatly affected by the fact that he’s made witness to her death, hearing her very last words and then that sudden dial tone (which sounds, not coincidentally, like an EKG going flat). We’ve seen it several times throughout the series: Sherlock is used to corpses, to murder and crime in theory, but he’s never gotten used to actual death and violence. In addition to this scene, look at his reaction when the man dies in the minefield in Hounds, or when confronted with “Irene’s” body in Scandal, or when Moriarty shoots himself in Reichenbach.

You don’t see it in this gifset, but after Sherlock finally pulls the phone away from his ear, he presses his lips together in a tight line, swallows and looks down, clearly trying to clamp down on his emotions. Just a brilliant, powerful piece of acting by Benedict that tells us more about the character in ten seconds than most series manage in entire episodes. 

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ibelieveinmycroft:

Anonymous asked you: Why do you think Mycroft didn´t step in and stop Sherlock from taking drugs sooner (I mean even Lestrade was privy to his drug-habit, so it had to exist for some time)? Could Sherlock really get off Mycroft´s radar? Was M. letting him make his own (wrong) choices and face the consequences? Has Sherlock some leverage on Mycroft he used to get rid of him? (“I know you experimented too, so fuck off, brother dear”)

The answer to this will probably never be revealed on screen, and will most likely be left up to your own headcanon. Personally, I suspect that it’s likely that Mycroft tried to help Sherlock and failed. But continues to try, and will always continue to try.

I’ve covered a lot of this ground in previous asks, so I will have to send you back here for more information. Coming up with an answer to this question would require knowledge in two areas the series is reluctant to give us solid information on: Sherlock’s past drug abuse, and the Holmes Brothers’ feud. But, let’s have a look as to what we may deduce about the brothers and this period of time between them.

Sherlock seems to have kicked his habit approximately five years prior to the series beginning. Lestrade gives us that time frame when, in Study in Pink, he states he has known Sherlock for a total of five years, and that he also knows about Sherlock’s history with drugs. Assuming Sherlock’s age is more-or-less the same as Benedict Cumberbatch’s, we’ve to assume that Sherlock kicked his habit in his late twenties. Beyond this, the history is very hazy.

Canonically, Sherlock Holmes spent only two years at university - yet, a standard undergraduate degree typically takes three years to complete. Within the context of the series, there could be a few reasons for his early completion - either he’s exceptionally clever and raced through his degree (perfectly plausible), he got bored and decided he didn’t need to finish his degree (again, plausible), or something else prevented him from finishing. If the latter were the case, drugs would seem a likely candidate.

By the time Sherlock has finished his second year of university and resolved not to return for the third, Mycroft would be about 27 years old, and already a rising star within whatever field of governance he works in. He would, most likely, have lived apart from his younger brother for almost nine years - since leaving home for university. Depending on when their feud started, or how deep it really runs, this may also mean that Mycroft has not had an awful lot of contact with Sherlock over those past years either. It’s easy to imagine a young Mycroft as an intellectually driven individual, so caught up in his own machinations and cerebral complexities, that he allows himself to forget about that troubled baby brother back at home.

Then disaster strikes, and Sherlock goes off the rails. Mark Gatiss, discussing Sherlock and Mycroft’s past on The Great Game commentary, has this to say:

Probably, you can imagine a backstory where he’s…um, and Mycroft’s absolutely despairing because he’s vanished in Central Europe for six months doing God knows what. But, actually, suddenly he finds purpose, and it focusses his life.

After, eventually, recovering his addict brother from whichever godforsaken country that Sherlock found to hide beyond the locus of Mycroft’s control, it seems likely that Mycroft would then pay more attention to Sherlock and take more care of him. It may be around then that the term “danger night” was coined, and Mycroft began a concerted effort to clean Sherlock up.

Of course, Sherlock is a wilful individual, and is never much inclined to do as his brother asks, so the fact that he remained a drug user for some time subsequently should come as no surprise to even the casual Holmes-observer. It seems to me that, given the time frame, it was Lestrade’s promise of murderous puzzles, in combination with Mycroft’s consistent interference, that persuaded Sherlock to wean himself off the drugs.

Mycroft continues to observe Sherlock’s habits, though. And when something worries him, as did Irene’s apparent death at Christmas in Scandal, he intervenes. It’s likely that he’s learnt at some point before that he has to, and, after learning the hard way, he always will.

Of course, that’s just one interpretation of the events. Headcanon is a wonderful thing.

This is great!!

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…I am sorry… I am an idiot.

GANGNAM STYLE! Kafers is not sorry about how much she loves this meme.

Now somebody make gifs. Or better yet, the whole vid. 

Mycroft though. 

No really. Mycroft Tho.

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