In my personal opinion, Sherlock and John don’t have to be gay to be in love with each other. It doesn’t have to do with sexuality, or gender preferences, it can be all based on the fact that they’re perfect for each other even when they don’t want to be. They drive each other up the wall, they don’t want to need each other, but they do. And in those moments where they’re giggling at a crime scene, or saying goodbye over the phone, they’re completely and utterly in love, and just being.
It doesn’t have to be said either. They both know, I think, which is why they don’t have to say it.
I don’t know. I just hate that people think the only way they can love each other is if they’re full out gay. I mean, as much as I think that’s a preference in the fandom (I mean, I read fanfic where they’re in an actual full out relationship all. the. time. and I enjoy them the most, because personally that’s how I ship them), it doesn’t actually need to be that way.
Yeah, I think that’s what Irene Adler was getting at with her “Look at us both” at Battersea; love is far more complex than a simple sexual-romantic/ not sexual-romantic dichotomy, whereas I think most people have interpreted that comment as meaning love is more complicated than sex/gender preference.
I actually think the former is more radical because sexual-romantic love is privileged in our society. It’s seen as the fullest way of loving a person, that if Sherlock and John don’t end up in a sexual-romantic relationship then they love each other less, or they will be unfulfilled. Even fics that depict Sherlock as asexual romantic and pair him and John act as thought friendship between the two would be settling for less.
When I watch that scene where John visits Sherlock’s grave, he doesn’t sound like he felt their relationship was settling, you know?
- January 21 2012 | 254 Notes - Read More →
