we are the reckless.

queencersei:

a game of tags

robbstark:

Moriarty is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. She is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city. She is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. She has a brain of the first order.

(Source: ameliatully)

To Sherlock Holmes, she was always The Woman, the beautiful Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

(Source: kastors)

(Source: wonderlandinmymind)

(Source: waitingforsth)

But the final hour is called “Heroine” for a reason, as this is also a story about Joan Watson at the end of the day. In a case where Sherlock is at his weakest, and when he is unable to realize that the path to victory is failure because it means acknowledging that failure is even a possibility, it is Joan who sees more clearly. Joan isn’t afraid of Moriarty, but is rather protective of Sherlock (as both his sober companion and his partner), and the confusion that Moriarty’s emergence creates within Sherlock creates surety for Joan. If Sherlock only sees puzzles and Moriarty only sees games, Watson sees actual people: her interest in Sherlock is human, the kind of relationship that Moriarty can’t even imagine (referring to her as a mascot at one point in their lunch date). While the truth about Moriarty robs Sherlock of the most striking, human connection he believed he had ever made, the resulting investigation reaffirms a more powerful connection in his partnership with Joan, the newly discovered species of Newglassia Watsonia a metaphor for what happens when an extremely rare bee miraculously unexpectedly finds a compatible partner.

“The Woman”/“Heroine” Recap - The A.V. Club

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summersbrine:

streussal:

#what if they had hatesex #i mean #(no really WHAT IF)

lemonyandbeatrice:

Irene beat Sherlock.

How often in popular media does the woman beat the man without getting beaten by him in the end? Because in the end she was beaten, yes, but by another woman and that’s freaking awesome.

Also!!!! A woman of color was the true winner at the end of the day — that’s even more rare. People of color don’t get to win when fighting against white people — women of color aren’t given opportunities to be the winner.

Joan beat Irene and I’m so glad I gave this show a chance.