Definition Of A Tragedy: Stephen Has Loved Tony Across Millions Of Timelines, Through Space And Time

There’s a lot of talk of John marrying Mary as a way to ‘prove’ his heterosexuality. He felt the need to appear ‘normal’, so he took on a normal life: wife, child, living in the suburbs. If we expand upon this a bit, I think his reaction to Mary when he finds out who she really is is telling. 

He’s not upset that she lied. He’s not upset she has a secret identity. He’s not upset that she shot Sherlock to cover up who she is. No, the thing that appears to upset him the most is that she ‘isn’t normal’. She doesn’t conform to idea of a ‘perfect’, ‘normal’ (aka, heterosexual) life. She isn’t the happy wife in the suburbs with a child, but a highly trained assassin. John chose Mary because he thought he could have a normal life with her. He chose someone who he thought was the exact opposite of Sherlock: wanting to settle down, not go on crazy, dangerous adventures.

But, even in his attempt to chose someone completely opposite to Sherlock, someone he can pretend to be straight with, he still ends up choosing someone who is similar to Sherlock in a lot of ways.

*whispers* the freebatch conspiracy

*waits*

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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

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)

originals

the manip

original (op went off the grid - cannot link to source)

the manip

the original

the manip (properly tagged as such - thank you)

the originals 1 & 2

the manip by xgraciela

manips don’t cause trouble? If they’re stolen and reposted, think again! ORIGINAL

the manip

the original

the manip

the original

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Thanks to Geny for sending me the next one!

I know quite a few of us know that Benedict and Hugh know each other…but this image is a manip…

the manip

original on Getty. No need to put Hugh’s head on Jack English’s body…

Can we just talk for a sec about how fucking much Stephen gets choked in the movies

Cause it’s a whole bunch

(The kinky bastard)

Those looks.

The way Sherlock is watching John as he’s buttoning up his jacket. He’s not looking at his own reflection, he’s looking at John.

And then John’s eyes flick over to him.

That’s a pretty intense look, boys.

And proving a point.

What point?

You.