Anonymous:
Wait- when does he point out his "dating shoes"?!
In A Scandal in Belgravia, when he’s unable to pick anything up on a naked Irene, he makes sure his deductive skills are still working on John, and it’s one of the things he singles out.
“sherlock could be bi” he is clearly being coded as gay. literally any other character on that show i would be open to different queer interpretations- for example john is clearly bi, but not sherlock. he’s gay.
I’m sorry did you skip the Irene Adler episode??
oh you mean the episode where he ignores her attempts at flirting and when she says “go on impress a girl” he does this
looks straight to john- not irene. and just in case you didn’t realize that deduction was for john he says
Sherlock: Please don’t feel obliged to tell me that was remarkable or amazing. John’s expressed that thought in every possible variant available to the English language.
Irene Adler: I would have you, right here on this desk, until you begged for mercy twice.
Sherlock Holmes: John, please, could you check those flight schedules to see if I’m right?
and there’s the entire scene at battersea power station which literally spells it out for you. so yes, i have watched ‘’’the irene adler episode’’’’ have you?
It says everything about their relationship. It says what the bond is and the care is, and it’s everything that they don’t say to each other but he’s allowed to say, thinking that he’s not there. That’s where – as a romance – it’s an incredibly British affair. There’s an awful lot of beautifully understated subtlety and nuance to it.
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Benedict on John and Irene’s Battersea conversation in A Scandal in Belgravia (via huddersintraining)
I don’t remember reading the “thinking that he’s not there” bit before, or maybe I did read it and glossed over it, but WOW.
