iwantthatbelstaffanditsoccupant:
There is a discussion regarding the characters’ mobiles as symbolic of their hearts which I can’t locate, but saw recently. It has been focusing mostly on Sherlock, but I got to thinking about John.
John’s “heart” is damaged by alcoholism, and is battered. It also is the one he uses, but it does not *truly* belong to him. Someone else has treated it carelessly. And, perhaps most importantly, what we see him use daily is not the phone he would chose for himself if he could purchase one— it is a loaner— someone else’s phone that he has been trying to make work for him.
(I’d love to see Sherlock buy John a phone for Christmas)