last night at the club there was a happy lesbian couple who’d finished their scene and were walking by a pet play area. One of the aw-ed at the cute pets and as they were walking away said to her gf “they’re cute, but that’s not how I like my kitty play” with a wink. I cackled and she nodded knowingly at me.
some highlights from my students’ romeo and juliet modern interpretation projects:
– someone made a username for friar laurence with 420 at the end – the same kid who put 69 in romeo’s username like i wouldn’t know what either of those things mean – the girl who added ‘clean’ at the end of all the songs on her juliet playlist like lmao girl i know spotify doesn’t have the clean version – the kid who said romeo and juliet killed each other – the weird dichotomy of kids who put love story on their playlist vs the kids who choose bad blood – the kid who wrote ‘get a room’ as tybalt’s comment on romeo’s couple pic – the kid who said ‘romeo is probably one of those douches who follows a ton of people so they follow him back and then he unfollows all of them’ – the one who legitimately used the word ‘alrighty’ do kids say this in their text messages???? i thought i was the one talking like an elderly person but okay – the one who made romeo’s username ‘montagoose’ – the only kid who acknowledged that posting about your secret relationship on instagram was a bad idea – the girl who wrote that romeo would unironically say ‘#blessed’. she’s right. – the one single solitary girl who wrote mercutio as gay as shakespeare did (she’s also the only one who used mercutio at all which is a tragedy but whatever) – the one who wrote romeo’s insta bio as ‘thus with a kiss i die… LOL RIP ME 😂💀’ – the one who made benvolio’s username benvoliYO
Sherlock lying on the pavement pretending to be dead could have closed his eyes (way easier to not blink etc) but no that boy had his eyes wide open just to look at John
I often wonder if Sherlock was shocked at how shaken and upset John was. I wonder if it made him question if he’d made the right choice, if it harder for him to leave or to stay away as long as he did. I sometime wonder if, on some level, he hoped that John would see through the ruse, would look into his eyes and realise he was still alive, and they would somehow make it all right, make it so he didn’t have to leave London at all.
One of the things that was weird about TEH to me was that Sherlock seemed to not realise how effected John was by his death, and yet in TRF he saw John’s reaction to his fall. He was looking right at him when John broke and crumpled with shock. He watched John break down and cry at his grave, and beg him to not be dead. He heard him. He saw John’s grief clear as day.
TEH really made no sense. At all. I think I’ll always hate the episode. Let me tell you though, some damn fine fics came out of this hiatus. The fandom got it so right that there was no way TEH wasn’t going to be a disappointment I think.
True. Fandom is amazing. I wonder if people would still read post-TRF explorations… There’s so much fuel for fic there. The angst of separation, the complexity of emotion wrapped up in the return, the ability to explore their relationship in light of it all.
S3 was the starting of my disappointment with BBC Sherlock, and I had to work very hard to accept it.
After S4 I must admit I hated S3 and S4 so I have no problem skipping this BBC “canon” and reading post TRF again will be awesome. In fact I read lots of Victorian Holmes fanfic and the return is always one of my favourite parts.
@themadampersand, it seems there are many people who feel that way. Perhaps I should explore it more. There are so many beautiful ways to handle the return.
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