watsonshoneybee:

you know what’s great about johnlock? here are these two guys who are misfits into middle age but they still find each other

they’re in their late thirties, early forties by the time they figure it out and so many stories have this First Love True Love thing where it’s like oh shit! the love of my life! and on my eighteenth birthday, too! but that’s not johnlock. johnlock is hard fucking work. johnlock is a struggle. johnlock is a having to reevaluate who they are as people. johnlock is having to make sacrifices, and not always loving every single little thing about your partner, and getting mad and angry and frustrated and frankly totally grossed out sometimes

but like…it’s going to be worth it, you know? John will be like forty-five fuckin years old giving butterfly kisses to Sherlock over the breakfast table. Sherlock is gonna be forty-one years old throwing a fit because someone insulted his blog and John laughed because what, it was funny, but then still curling up with him and making sure he knows how brilliant John thinks he is and how much John loves him despite his very boring blog. they will always always always find their way back to each other and the fact that they had to really, really fuck up with themselves and with each other to get there is so so important. it takes them so much time and so much effort but in the end it still pays off. it’s not too late, even now. it’s still going to end with them in each other’s arms. together in 221B.

that’s the beauty of johnlock.