I Don’t Want To Be Alone

I don’t want to be alone

Is Sherlock Watson good enough for you?

I just realized that in this godforsaken scene:

When Sherlock says “I think it could work”

He’s saying ”I think the name Sherlock Watson could work”

And then John, still laughing, realizes what he just heard and does a sort of puzzled look back up at Sherlock:

And Sherlock just:

And in conclusion, we’re not exactly looking at an aborted declaration of love.

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benedicttimothee

4 years ago

We spend so much time reading fanfic and theorizing this show that we forget who Sherlock Holmes really is. He’s a man who picks on others’ sex lives as a way to joke around and fit in. He’s a man who - contrary to what he’d want everyone to believe - actually has friends he cares deeply about. He’s a man who knows he’s physically attractive. He’s a man who laughs deep and long, who hugs and kisses his landlady, who spends his life helping people and asking no payment in return. He’s a genius with a lot of baggage but he loves and feels deeper than most people do, which is why he thinks he needs to squash his emotions so often. He’s threatened by his sentiment because it IS a large, overbearing part of himself. He knows this, which is why he overcompensates by parading around as a sociopath who doesn’t understand sentiment at all so no one will ask him about it. Sherlock is the man who urged everyone at the wedding to cheer up because he made them unreasonably sad and didn’t want to see them cry. He’s the man who almost started crying along with a client who cried talking about her date that didn’t properly end things with her. He’s the man who held a client’s hand and offered comforting support as she explained the loss of the love of her life. He’s the man who urged a gay woman to come out of the closet to her family because love and happiness are what matter in the end. He isn’t afraid to touch John, kiss Molly’s cheek, or receive hugs. When John hugs him during his best man speech, Sherlock acts as if it’s the most normal thing in the world. He even keeps talking to the crowd while John’s arms are still around him! He was comfortable enough to carry on with John’s arm around him. Affection isn’t something scarce and foreign to Sherlock, and it certainly doesn’t frighten him. He’s afraid of pain, heartbreak, loss, death - the things Moriarty spit at him in his mind palace - which are common with getting too close to someone. Sherlock is a man with impulses and a porn preference, with friends and feelings. Sherlock is not a cold, calculating machine. Sherlock is not a brain without a heart. Sherlock is an ordinary man.

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benedicttimothee

4 years ago

The Sherlock manip masterpost

To start off, I will say this again:

I am not starting a witch-hunt and I am not saying making manips is bad. But, this is a masterpost of the manips that continually fool fans; they think these are real photographs and they are not. This is a masterpost for BBC Sherlock and the primarily the main cast involved with the show.

Sometimes people are fooled into thinking these manips are real and this happens because people post manips they haven’t made and don’t label them as such. Other times they were made simply to fool. *shrugs*

I’ll keep adding to this. Please, feel free to reblog and reference this as much as you want. If you know the original source of the manip or if the manip is yours (and you can prove it) and want it taken off this post, please inform me and I’ll make a text link to the original post of your manip.

I decided to make this post because I didn’t appreciate not knowing which photos are real…and just as much I didn’t like how other people were being fooled. It has resulted in fans beign accused of photoshopping themselves into these photos with the actors when the exact opposite is true!

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Thank you to sherlockstuff for pointing this out, because for the life of me, I could not remember where I had seen this photo before!

MANIP POST

Even when I reblogged this I knew I had seen it somewhere. The original photo is from either a news article (I can’t remember~) or a tweet, but I’m pretty sure its from an article. I recall the owners of the place commenting on the large amount of breakfast plates they had to serve to Martin Freeman for the multiple takes in some of the last shots of Hounds of Baskerville. Here’s the original photo:

sherlockstuff’s reblog of the photo

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(MANIP POST)

This is not Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. I’ve seen this manip getting reposted by other people recently. And this is the original photograph:

(A POST WITH THE ORIGINAL)

It’s actually a photograph of Jude Law and Ewan McGregor.

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On this one, I had a VERY difficult time finding the original photographs, and even then, it’s a cropped image. But you’ll get the idea.

This is the combination of two photographs that had a little girl getting her picture taken with Benedict and Martin. Her dad was taking these pictures which were originally on yfrog (which apparently aren’t working anymore). I’m not sure if this is his twitter, but better res versions of them were found linked below:

The original

I would provide links to the posts for the manip, but it is all over the web so that point is moot. Many thanks to ithinkyoureoverthinkingit for hunting down the source!

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(It’s not the original post, but you can find it here)

Benedict is actually not in that photograph. Amanda Abbington is in the original photograph.

(FOUND AT FREEMAN FANS LIVEJOURNAL)

And here is the original of Benedict.

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Okay to start out, itsacrimescene makes many Sherlock manips, but they never fail to watermark them. They’re always watermarked. So these are easy to figure out. Here’s the two I see surface the most because people steal them from itsacrimescene’s tumblr and reposts them:

ORIGINAL POST OF MANIP (I don’t know the original photo sources. You’d have to ask itsacrimescene). :D

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THE MANIP (see the watermark there?) THE ORIGINAL MANIP POST

THE ORIGINAL (This is resized smaller; I’m pretty sure the original is from a tweet from Mark Gatiss)

There’s a lot more from itsacrimescene, but they have EVERY RIGHT to post manips and have watermarked them accordingly. So please…stop stealing the manips and claiming they are legitimate photographs.

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I have no idea where this manip came from. Feel free to inform me and I’ll credit accordingly.

The original photo. I found it HERE. As stated on the mentioned post, this is probably a photograph by Manuel Harlan. It’s from the theatre production of “Design for Living” which featured Andrew Scott, Tom Burke (pictured) and also Lisa Dillon.

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This is probably the most recent manip that has been fooling everyone.

I do not know where this manip originated from. But I will tell you this: although that IS Benedict Cumbatch on the right, that is NOT Martin Freeman on the left. That is his head photoshopped onto the body of Jonny Lee Miller.

THE ORIGINAL

This was a promotional photo for the theatre production of Frankenstein that Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller starred in. Many of you are newly acquainted with Jonny Lee Miller since he’ll be staring in CBS’ Elementary. He’s also been a guest star in Dexter.

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Many thanks to wastingyourgum for the notice about this one!

MANIP FOUND HERE (the tags say they found it on Google, so who knows where it came from).

That IS Matt Smith. But Benedict Cumberbatch picture on the left…that’s just his head photoshopped onto Russell Tovey’s body.

ORIGINAL POST OF THIS IMAGE ON A PICSPAM

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Below are several new manips collected and posted on this post as reblogs by Geny (dudeufugly)! Many heartfelt thanks for Geny’s efforts! Geny was okay with me reformatting and editing the posts, so this is the end result.

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the manip (tagged as such here)