#HLV #jw #I actually felt kind of sorry for john in this scene #he’s so profoundly closeted sometimes #and this was bordering on being publicly outed #never mind that every person in that room – mary #molly #sherlock #all already know that john is queer #but john isn’t really ready to own that yet #and I’m pretty sure that he doesn’t know that they all know #so you can see the panic here #I just want to shush Billy #and give john a hug #I mean I think this and all the things that sort of nudge at john are necessary #at some point he is going to have to seriously countenance this part of himself #and own it #but it still hurts to watch #and martin’s acting is superb as always (via sussexbound)
@sussexbound, you’re killing me here
Everything here, minus the gay. HEAR ME OUT. That doesnt mean I dont think he could be bisexual or that the tjlc isnt something plausible, what that means is I’m sick of people boiling down John’s need for Sherlock’s company as purely sexual,
Their emotional friendship and bond comes first, and I will not deny he was struggling bad because he hadnt seen Sherlock for so long after he married. HOWEVER, he loves Mary and obviously cares for her, while unfortunately being denied his fix for war and action. John was experiencing adrenaline withdrawal and THAT is what Billy is pointing out here, that domestic life wasn’t enough for him and that he, for the most part, DEPENDS on Sherlock. And oh boy, can you imagine being someone who thrives on your ability to fight to have a room with your wife and friends seeing how “weak” you are for depending on your best friend?
Thats what I see here, a man feeling his strength and self independence being stripped away by someone he beat up in an alleyway who is proof that he couldn’t control his need to feel the rush of action, not necessarily being outed as gay. Not to say this cant be a metaphor for that, and like I said I’m all for him being Bisexual, but for once can this fandom not boil everything down to JOHN AND SHERLOCK NEED TO BONE!
You know what @sherlocked-avatar, I don’t usually take the time to respond to this sort of thing, but as a bisexual person about John’s age, I really take personal offence to your comments. I was deeply closeted well into my thirties. I watch this show, and I see my own struggles reflected in John. I look at this show which appears to be accurately portraying the very real struggles of someone of John’s generation coming to grips with the fact that they have fallen in love with someone of the same gender, and I find that really affirming. It’s helpful to me, and to many queer people.
Nothing in my tags above is boiling this situation down to something that is ‘purely sexual’. Absolutely nothing in my tags is boiling this entire scene down to John and Sherlock needing ‘to bone’, as you so eloquently put it.
You do realise that a queer person can be outed for their romantic orientation as well as their sexual one, right? You realise that John may struggle with the world knowing that he is in love with Sherlock, that he can’t seem to live without him, that he dreams about him even while laying in bed next to his wife.
What I’m talking about up there is a man struggling with his same sex attraction. Struggling with the fact that he is in love with his best friend, and now a complete stranger is pointing out to a room full of people that John is a newly-wed, just back from his honeymoon, and yet he is keeping his bags packed, ready to run off with Sherlock at the first hint that Sherlock wants or needs him. That he is riding his bike to work at the same clinic his new wife works at, rather than taking the car with her. I’m talking about the fact that everyone in that room, including John’s wife, knows that he is in love with Sherlock, and John isn’t ready to say that out loud to any of them yet. That is, by definition, being outed.