The Eyebrow Raise At The End Is What Killed Me. As Floored As John Is, He Still Automatically Knows Sherlock

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I now will never not think this

The angels have the phone box

The fanfic writers have Gatiss

or maybe Gatiss had the fanfic writers all along

ANDERSON THOUGHT SHERLOCK FAKED HIS DEATH VIA TARDIS

#Sherlock - His Last Vow: sometimes, somebody has to die. Tomorrow, 8.30pm on @BBCOne.

Homework Part 1

A BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH MASTERPOST

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Wreckers

War Horse

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Whistleblower

Third Star

Four Lions

Creation

The Other Boleyn Girl

Atonement

Amazing Grace

Starter for 10 

It’s gonna start out homoerotic and end up bloody should be the description for every Shakespeare class ever. 100% accurate and would get a lot more people studying that mad crazy old bastard. 

most amusing reactions to coriolanus screenings:

1) omg thAt gUY kiSSEd thAT otHEr gUy what is happening?? do they haVE tHe GaY?

2) “Coriolanus’s death scene…” WHAAAAAAT he dieS?  sPoiLeR!  SPOILER SPOILERY SPOILER!  HOW DARE YOU!

Guys, it’s a Shakespearean tragedy.  It’s gonna start out homoerotic and end up bloody.  You have literally had five hundred years to figure this out.

Proving that there are at least two perfect men in the world. 

Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen behind the scenes for Two Plays in Rep’s Waiting For Godot & No Man’s Land promotional photos

Note this was from a YEAR ago.

There are lots of things that occur to me far later than they should. The thing about Mrs Hudson that I should have noticed but didn’t was the first one: I’m sure there will be a million more, because I am not particularly detail-oriented, to be honest. This is the second thing I just realized: Sherlock didn’t originally want John to be his assistant. He wanted Anderson to play that role.

Sherlock: Who’s on forensics? Lestrade: Anderson. Sherlock: Anderson won’t work with me.

Not Anderson is an idiot, but Anderson won’t work with me. Sherlock then proceeds to take John along with him to a crime scene, and is remarkably patient and accommodating with him. Why does he do that? Sherlock is neither patient nor accommodating as a general rule. When John deduces only the most obvious and basic details about Jennifer Wilson’s death, Sherlock isn’t scornful at all. Why does he behave this way?

Lestrade: He’s not your assistant. Sherlock: I need an assistant!

We know he doesn’t bring John along for his own innate skills, because when John asks why he’s there, as they’re standing over Jennifer Wilson’s body, Sherlock says, “Proving a point.” He doesn’t really care what John has to offer to the investigation of the crime scene, that’s why he’s not bothered by John’s simple description of the cause of death. That wasn’t the point.

He’s trying to make Anderson jealous.

These two appear to have a tumultuous relationship; they must have argued over bodies before. Sherlock must respect Anderson’s abilities; why else would he want him as an assistant? So Sherlock wants to demonstrate, in the most childish way possible, that if Anderson won’t play ball, he will lock him out altogether. That’s the worst thing Sherlock can imagine: being tantalizingly close to the crime scene and his own dazzling deductions, but not be able to hear them or participate.

So Sherlock slams the door in Anderson’s face. It’s not because noting that Rache is a German word is dumb (It was something that passed through Sherlock’s mind as well, as we know); it’s becauseSherlock is proving his point.

 I don’t need you. See? See me not needing you? How do you like that, Anderson? HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT? I can deduce the fact that you’re cheating on your wife with Sally, I know what you were doing last night. See? Aren’t I good? That’s how good I am. You want to be my assistant, Anderson, don’t you. You need to, because I’m dazzling and you need to watch me. If you ask really nicely I might let you act as my assistant next time. I just might. 

Sherlock doesn’t realize at that point that the perfect assistant for him is John. Anderson won’t fire a bullet with the steadiest of hands through a window for him. Anderson won’t help him behave appropriately in social situations and smooth out the rough edges of his interactions. Anderson may admire Sherlock’s abilities, but he’d never say so out loud. Anderson will never love him. John’s arrival utterly alters the job description of “assistant” for Sherlock. We never hear the word “assistant” again, in fact (to my knowledge).

Sherlock’s reactions toward Anderson, and all the negative things he has to say about him thereafter, appear, in this light, to be more a reaction to Anderson’s rejection of Sherlock than any scornfulness about his abilities. 

Sherlock has the emotional life of a nine year old.