Comments | impulsereader: Thoughts about Love

impulsereader

Thoughts about Love

Feb 12, 2013 12:18

So September reached new levels of potential slashiness, as pointed out by azriona in her lovely comment, and I was aware of this when I was writing it. I left all the potential in there. I didn't censor it even though I have no intention of following through ( Read more... )

sherlock

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azriona February 12 2013, 18:33:22 UTC

For what it's worth, I don't think we'll ever see anything on the show other than the innuendo we've already been given (and more of the same). For one thing, Gatiss and Moffat are having way too much fun with the will-they-or-won't-they aspect. For another, why bother? Who sleeps where and in what company isn't the point of the show.

(I also hope we never actually see Mycroft and Lestrade in the same scene, but that's only because it's so frickin' much fun to pair them together in fandom, and that would be ruined by whatever happened if they were on screen at the same time, no matter how that scene went ( ... )

impulsereader February 12 2013, 19:15:13 UTC

You're absolutely right. That, as well as all those words I just typed in the entry, having been said: wouldn't it be fabulous if they ultimately ended the show with a kiss? They'll never in a million years do it, but it would be amazing. I think the internet really would collapse under its own weight.

Yea for 1812 BC on a boat!

nuranar February 12 2013, 19:27:53 UTC

I'm not wanting to get involved, but I just had to say: It's unfortunate that English has only one word for love. Ancient Greek had two, plus a third from the New Testament. It seems that our culture is so obsessed with romantic love (eros) that the idea of brotherly love (phileo), bosom friends, is just gone. There's no longer any concept of love without romance.

impulsereader February 12 2013, 19:58:04 UTC

You've hit the matter bang on the head. Those lucky enough to have such a friendship are certainly (or hopefully) aware of their own luck, but our culture doesn't really take notice of that aspect of 'love' anymore. It's a shame, because those relationships are the most interesting to read and write about. Relationships which defy reduction to the physical. We see them in literature but on the screen they tend to inevitably turn romantic.

I'm pretty sure I'm not high-profile enough to attract the ire of any mad slashers in my little corner of the Sherlock fandom. :-)

litlover12 February 12 2013, 20:03:10 UTC

C. S. Lewis was prophetic on this subject in "The Four Loves."

221b_hound February 12 2013, 20:50:27 UTC

You and I are in complete concert with this. I enjoy slash and have written it but I've always felt that these two men loved each other, soul deep, without that necessarily being manifested as sexual desire. That's a perfectly valid interpretation of course. It's just not my primary one, personally speaking. I suppose I see them as soulmates rather than lovemates, in that sense.

I loved the lines scene with that vulnerability and the two of them casting a slightly different context on Beatrice and Benedick's confessions of love to be an acknowledgement of their own deep bond.

This kiss scene will be entertaining. If there's no secret desire lurking under it to make it revelatory of sexual attraction, I'm pretty sure they will just both find it funny. (That's what I wrote anyway in a recent fic.)

impulsereader February 13 2013, 01:09:33 UTC

I loved your kiss story! I need to hop over and catch up on your Greg and Molly anniversary installments.

I'm so pleased you liked the interlude. I think it turned out to represent a very nice blend of Sherlock and Shakespeare. I had to indulge my hurt/comfort tendency here since I won't be able to seriously rough up either of them during the Much Ado section.

Soulmates is a very good word to use. And yes, there will be lots and lots of giggling over that kiss. Also critiquing I think - you know, once the first wave of giggling has passed. Then there will likely be more giggling. I can already predict that Grandmother will NOT be amused at the equivalent of giggling in class.

221b_hound February 14 2013, 08:18:53 UTC

Perhaps they'll get their shit together by then and be all professional and stuff, and then just complain to each other about damned well using breath mints before the Big Scene.

pargoletta February 12 2013, 20:52:31 UTC

It's also very likely that, given his inexperience, Sherlock would turn out to be spectacularly bad at sex should he be inclined to try it. And he doesn't strike me as the sort of person who would look at that sort of botched experience and say, "let's do it again!" He'd much more likely be of the "Well, that clearly didn't work, back to the old drawing board" school of thought.

All this to say, of course, that kissing in the play may require its own little rehearsal, and possibly a workaround. Which would be enormously entertaining to see.

impulsereader February 13 2013, 20:23:25 UTC

Yeah, Sherlock and sex don't really mix in my head. To my mind he has absolutely no motivation to engage in it.

I don't think a workaround will be necessary, but I'll definitely keep the possibility in mind for comedic purposes.

chloris February 14 2013, 03:42:46 UTC

Wait a second. Are you saying that by NOT writing them in a sexual relationship your fic would be considered non-canon? I thought that canon a deep, intense, but non sexual, bond between them, and non-canon was all that and sex?

impulsereader February 14 2013, 06:24:45 UTC

No. Not precisely. I don't believe a reasonable person would read any of my stories which don't include sex and send me a note expressing a sentiment either mild or passionate intending to inform me I've got it all wrong canon-wise ( ... )