This is “amezaiku”, the Japanese art of beautifully sculpted lollies~ The sugar is worked similarly to blown glass, and the results are equally amazing in the hands of a skilled artist! Please visit https://www.mirainoshitenclassic.com/2017/08/a_31.html?m=1 for a look at some fearfully detailed sugar creatures, including a little cream-and-brown hedgie that just screams “John Watson”.
And now the Mystrade.
Mycroft thought Sherlock’s little joke was that his lolly was a goldfish. But the real laugh was in making Mycroft watch as Greg Lestrade sucked on the head of a bright red cock.
Sherlock also had the heat turned up ridiculously high in the flat when he called Greg over, for bonus rolled up shirtsleeves and an open collar. He knows what Mycroft likes. ;D
imagine talking about alexander the great and not mentioning that he died of grief only 8 months after hephaestion died, that he petitioned the oracle to give hephaestion literal divine status so that people could worship him as a god, that he threw himself on hephaestion’s dead body and refused to leave for two days, that he put together the biggest funeral procession known to the world at the time, that he gave hephaestion a lock of his own hair at the funeral in blatant reference to achilles doing the same with patroclus….like heteronormativity is so wild that he could come back from the dead and come out to every historian personally and it still wouldn’t be enough to render him anything but straight
