“I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me.”
…. Seriously Sherlock, what else do you imagine? Spill.
Oh yeah he spilled. That was TAB.
Sherlock knows he has a problem by the third week in October, because the weather turns cold. Properly cold, at last, not just a little bit chilly in the mornings – coat, gloves, and the cashmere scarf.
John forgot them, though, his gloves – and it’s only just past five, not even dawn at this time of year. His hair’s sticking up in golden-silver peaks and his eyes are puffy, shadowed darkly underneath. He yawns, repeatedly, and there’s nowhere nearby for coffee.
Just past five in the morning, and the London pavements sparkle with frost. The dead body underneath the bridge has frost on it too, in places: where the Thames touched it hours ago.
John’s fingers are white, and his knuckles are red. Sherlock can’t keep his eyes off them. He knows exactly what it would feel like, to press those icy knuckles against his lips. He imagines he knows.
John rubs his hands, blows between his palms; stamps up and down at the edge of the crime scene. Sherlock keeps his eyes on the corpse, deduces what he can, but he knows – he knows, he imagines he does – how it would feel to welcome those hands beneath his shirt, gasping and laughing and holding himself still all the same to warm him, to warm his hands –
Sherlock knows he has a problem, because John Watson’s hands are cold, and he can’t do the things he wants to do to warm them; and eventually, he pulls off his own leather gloves and holds them out, briskly, no eye contact, as though John is conferring a favour by holding them while Sherlock is busy.
At least they’ll still be warm, he thinks, bending to flip back the corpse’s collar. He’d done it once a few minutes before, but maybe John missed it, in the stamping, in the cold.
Russell Tovey:Was he tanned up, or was he tanned anyway? Mark Gatiss:He’d just come back from Guadeloupe…. Russell:Death in Paradise, wasn’t it? Mark:Yep. And it was impossible to ignore! Sue Vertue:So we said “write it in!” Russell: Oh, okay. So you actually wrote it in because of the tan? Mark:And I tried to make it canonical, because he is all brown as a nut. Which is what Mike Stamford says about Watson…. But he looks great, doesn’t he?
(Hounds of Baskerville DVD Commentary on the rather wonderful Tanned!Rupert)
And dishy as hell.
OH MARK
HE DOES LOOK GREAT. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY IT EVERY SCENE
Looking at it closely I’m pretty sure this outfit is corduroy. So apart from willingly leaving his house looking like this Ben is also making ZWIIP ZWOOP ZWIIIP ZWOOP noises as he walks.
just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!
makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.
Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and you’re done.
0 products also works great
because I’m gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but it’s really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all
I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but that’s up to you
I’m sorry if I didn’t express this clearly enough in the original post but I’m not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how it’s Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter
no face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.
makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.
this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that
the notes: so like……. what youre saying is……. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead… i gotcha
Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but that’s just my personal opinion
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