Deleting my Ao3 Fics (sussexbound)

Hey all, if you have ever read my Sherlock, Good Omens or Word of Honor fanfic on Ao3 (written under the pseud sussexbound), please be aware that I will be deleting it all from Ao3 Dec 31st, 2024. So, do with that info what you will between now and then.

Here's the link! We'll be sad to see you go, but understand completely 💜 Your fics are some of my faves 💜

that link goes to a non-existent page i'm panicking please i wanna save many of them, help @sussexbound @inevitably-johnlocked

Here you go. Just FYI the fics are locked to Ao3, and have been for a couple years. You have to be logged in to see them

Here’s the infamous quote that’s been circulating in-context. The Q&A with Moffat and Gatiss at Clapham Picturehouse back in 2011. Both the OP’s video and YT channel have been deleted, I grabbed it from the archives. (And thanks Skully because I wouldn’t have found it without the link!)

[NOTE: After listening to it a hundred times, I honestly don’t know if Moffat said “that’s where he’s dislocated” or “that’s where his dick’s located”. You be the judge after hearing it.]

I would like to highlight some things:

OMG, i am screaming. Everyone has to see this?

Which season was aired back then. 2 or 1, but they allready know that there will be something about…. wait, i mean, didn’t they just say that there will be a lovestory between John and Sherlock?! Didn’t they just confirm it here?

Yes @kajaono​, this was in 2011, back in S1 days. This is the panel after the screening of ‘The Great Game’. To choose one of many iconic quotes, I’ll give you Gatiss right after literally saying S4 will bring ‘romance’ to Sherlock and John’s lives (x) :

Here’s the infamous quote that’s been circulating in-context. The Q&A with Moffat and Gatiss at Clapham Picturehouse back in 2011. Both the OP’s video and YT channel have been deleted, I grabbed it from the archives. (And thanks Skully because I wouldn’t have found it without the link!)

[NOTE: After listening to it a hundred times, I honestly don’t know if Moffat said “that’s where he’s dislocated” or “that’s where his dick’s located”. You be the judge after hearing it.]

I would like to highlight some things:

OMG, i am screaming. Everyone has to see this?

Which season was aired back then. 2 or 1, but they allready know that there will be something about…. wait, i mean, didn’t they just say that there will be a lovestory between John and Sherlock?! Didn’t they just confirm it here?

Yes @kajaono​, this was in 2011, back in S1 days. This is the panel after the screening of ‘The Great Game’. To choose one of many iconic quotes, I’ll give you Gatiss right after literally saying S4 will bring ‘romance’ to Sherlock and John’s lives (x) :

“Hang on... what are you doing here?”

Thanks @frostybatch for the gif (x)

Apart from how OOC everyone is in here, that line is for me is the most evident hint that this clip is a nightmare sequence. 

Just look at how surprised John is, it’s like he was dreaming with going on a case with Sherlock (nice to confirm he dreams with him on a daily basis), enjoying the thrill of the chase, perfectly happy even with the dog, until suddenly Mary interrupts by tagging along and strapping the Plot Device Baby to his chest, turning this into a nightmare. He will try to keep it up but he’s gonna wake up realizing this life is no longer compatible with the cases. 

Like I said, I think they’re gonna go reductio ad absurdum again. Just like in TEH with Anderson’s hetero-ridden theory.

A baby is not compatible with this show.

@inevitably-johnlocked​ @sussexbound​ 

Agreed! Great analysis.

you know what i’m almost as excited for as canon johnlock? finding out what exact brand of evil culverton smith represents.

because the way mofftiss and the cast have described toby jones’ character, it’s sure to be an epic drag of a really reprehensible group of people.

think about it: what is worse than a psychopath who straps bombs to people and kidnaps children just for fun? worse than someone who kills people for money? worse than a blackmailer who uses his media empire to manipulate governments?

could be unethical medical research, could be psychologists who use their profession in reprehensible ways (someone mentioned conversion therapy, but there are other forms of systematic psychological manipulation that i believe could be candidates as well), could be corrupt business people/amoral arms dealers/bankers and stock brokers, could be right-wing demagogues. i don’t know what it will be exactly, but it will be someone who preys on the weak and/or incites (or at least benefits from) hatred against vulnerable groups of our society.

the way they dragged the media in the previous seasons is be nothing compared to what they’re doing here, and i can’t wait to see who they’re taking on.

YES! The cast/crew have been jumping up and down about how evil Smith is. And at the moment I can’t think of anything worse than the evils we’ve already seen on the show. Smith owns a TV show, Business Killer, if our speculations are correct (as they usually are). What if he humiliates people in public, on air? I don’t know how or what evil he is, but I’m damn excited to see how Mofftiss will disgust us this time.

yes, it occurred to me after posting that it will most likely also be another dragging of the media because it is a tv show, but i only added that in the tags. it might be one of those reality tv shows that really exploit desperate people, or it might be a tv show as a front for one of the things i mentioned above.

if it’s a reality show, it’s going to be something horrific, like that dutch kidney donor show, but real (that one was actually a publicity campaign).

the setlock nurses and boardroom table with patients with drips: they might be combining two big themes here - media, and medical “treatment” of homosexuality 

That’s totally the vibes I’m getting. Perhaps it will shed the needed unfavorable light on the “Kardashian” effect reality tv has been giving us lately. Fame for fames sake, without any real contribution to improving society. The “dumbing down” of our culture that has led us to the brink so many of us are now on, ie Brexit and Trump. Or that could just be wishful thinking on my part.

Agree with all of this. Lots of interesting theories the past couple days, and I’m really thinking they’re going the conversion-therapy route, OR the public humiliation route, by airing “dirty laundry” of business owners (hence, it’s a business killer) and perhaps this “episode” has something to do with sexualities and exposing deepest darkest secrets.

I also think Culverton has ties to either John or Sherlock’s pasts as well, and that will play a huge part in this episode

Plus, I also believe that his show is run by the CAM Network, so easy enough for him to have all the dirt on everyone.

Brilliant thoughts. I absolutely agree, because for one I can’t stop thinking about John’s arc. We need to go back to his POV to see him work on his identity issues. And this topic we’re talking about has direct relation to him. I mean, we already know Culverton looks like John, therefore that he is, without doubt, going to be his foil.

Now if Culverton does any form of reprehensible psychological damage/ opressive manipulation to anyone he looks down on, it would represent the internalized queerphobia John most likely had to struggle with over the course of his life. Culverton may represent and explain the part of John trying to repress his true identity (hiding his middle name, “people might talk”). After all, it wouldn’t be the first time they refer to the importance of primary socialization in this show (remember the “beauty is a contruct based entirely on childhood impressions, influences, and role models”).

Plus, remember setlock has confirmed that Tanya is back to reprise her role as Ella. Imagine! Any hint at conversion therapy could be related to the issues John is trying to overcome. What if Smith’s “I want to hear you say it” is directed towards John and not Sherlock, as the dark, opposite form of Ella’s gentle “You need to get it out”?

“Dr. Watson reveals his secret”… or is forced to.

@to-johnlock-hell-in-a-handbasket, @detectivesinsuits, @tjlcisthenewsexy, @inevitably-johnlocked  and @marcespot.  For me the vilest form of human being, so vile that I even hesitate to call them human, worse even than a blackmailer, is the person who peddles ‘gotcha’ journalism.

Think about it.  Magnussen was vile because he used people’s darkest secrets as leverage.  He was a blackmailer.  For him information was power.  But what is even worse than that?  Someone who just wants to out people’s darkest secrets for the sheer delight and entertainment of it.  People who actually just get off on causing other people pain.  For them information isn’t power.  Information is a game.  And if you are there target you have no way of defending yourself.  They don’t want anything from you.  They just want to sit back and take pleasure in seeing you suffer.  There is nothing that you can do to get them to stop (though ignoring them, or beating them to the punch will sometimes help).

Nothing makes me react with more visceral hatred than ‘gotcha’ journalism, and the people who peddle it.

I wonder if the serum we see people on is actually truth serum.  It’s a game.  Part of that game is that they are forced to tell their darkest secrets, secrets that if revealed will kill their reputation and their business.

I mean the episode is called “The Lying Detective” instead of “The Dying Detective”.  It seems likely that the focus of the episode will be secrets and lies.  

Mycroft is going to die.

It’s like people forget that Gatiss himself slipped up at SDCC this year and almost admitted he wrote Mycroft out of the show this season. Moffat rushed to cover for him, but it happened.

Pair that with all the hints from setlock, the heavy foreshadowing in TAB, and that abandoned umbrella and other death symbolism surrounding Sherlock in that new promo image (new adult sized skull behind Sherlock, book titled ‘Easing the Passing’ just to the right of Mycroft’s umbrella), and I’m considering it confirmed.

I KNOW HE IS GOING TO DIE BUT I WILL HATE ITñ

omg @sussexbound​ I was just about to post THE EXACT SAME THING I had in my drafts! So I’ll just share it here as contribution! ^,^

So, I’ve been dreading this list for a long time, but yesterday’s promo pic just made it too real for me too and I had to. So, in the spirit of preparing myself for the inevitable, I was enlisting some of the many hints at Mycroft’s demise:

Those are the ones I can recall atm, but I’m sure there’s more, feel free to add. This is painful, I know. But I thought it’s better to be prepared like this, hope it helps you guys as well. :’(

Ah @marcespot, I have so many feelings about your great expectations and Miss Havishem mention, especially given the bride imagery showing up so extensively in TAB, that burnt-looking hand under glass in the new promo photo, and the fact that we have had more than one hint during setlock about 221b burning (or an explosion) in episode 3.

It’s all about… ‘CONNECTION’

(Just tags under the cut)

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@marcespot, nice!!!

some mycroft holmes details at sherlocked

Is that the photo (pic number 2 above) that we’ve all been trying to see forever? But that was too blurry?

I think that photo we’ve been trying to see had Sherlock sitting in the sand at the beach with a bucket, but maybe I’m just remembering fan art.  It’s been a long while since I’ve looked at that.  

Also, I don’t know who that blond boy is, but I highly doubt that baby sherlock had straight blond hair.  I would buy his hair darkening with age, but not getting curly (unless Sherlock perms those curls in!).  Also, there doesn’t appear to be a 7 year age difference between those boys.

omg omg guys! To me this further confirms my prediction that we’re gonna get to see Sherlock and Mycroft as children! AHHH! I’m not ready!

@marcespot, that is totally possible!  I think that S4, from what we saw in setlock, may have room to delve a little more into Sherlock and Mycroft’s pasts.  But, it’s probably also worth remembering that the people in charge of setting up these displays for Sherlocked Con don’t have the best reputation for accuracy.  A lot of it is slap dash, printed off the internet, and quickly thrown together.  It’s not as though the writers and Arwel Wyn Jones & Co had a hand in these displays.

Everyone remembers the disaster that was the John Watson display at the last Sherlocked Con.  They got so many facts wrong, things that were already confirmed in show canon, and a lot of the photos that they used were just pics of Martin Freeman’s head photoshopped onto stock photos.

So, all that to say, that though it’s cool to see all this stuff, there’s not much in the way of actual S4 conjecture that can be made from it.

Am I the only one who feels that Martin isn’t supposed to look that much smaller? I mean, he is small, but that much smaller??

I know it is hard to PS two different shots together but come on, BBC, the ratio really looks kind of wrong to me.

So, honestly, and I’m not joking…I think they were trying to line up Ben’s coat hem line and Martin’s shirt hem line. Because it pulls the eye across.

I think they were trying to line up their folded arms.

Only one is of normal size, and the other one is a hobbit standing on a box.

LET ME LIVE IN PEACE.

I thought John was stood slightly further back than Sherlock, which would make him appear smaller but I could be wrong.

I thought the same as @watsonyourbed. Maybe I’m to deep in this show’s hell, but to me, this shot of them fits just perfectly with the point in the johnlock arc that we are now. And rightly so, because they put that much effort to details.

This is how I read it: Sherlock is ready, staring at us, just waiting for John to catch up and take that one final step forward. John’s still looking to his left though, at something/someone (ahem, ‘Mary’) that makes him cross his arms in rejection/defense/anger; he’s staring at the reason why he’s delaying to take that step. Meanwhile though, John IS standing by Sherlock’s side nevertheless, because for him ‘it’s always (Sherlock’s) way’ -he loves him, duh.

Also, the overwhelming amount of blue here is just brilliant. Blue is the colour of trust, honesty, loyalty and stability. Some say ‘Blue is the helper, the rescuer, the friend in need. It is a giver, not a taker. It likes to build strong trusting relationships and becomes deeply hurt if that trust is betrayed.’  Also we all know that ‘feeling blue’ implies sadness/melancholy. And LISTEN TO THIS: blue relates to one-to-one communication, especially communication using the voice - speaking the truth through verbal self-expression. There’s a lot more to it, just google it, but- can’t y’ll SEE?! We’re in for an emotional roller coaster!

Oh, and I should also mention that when a character shows a change in hairstyle it is a BIG thing. We’ve all seen the amount of product in John’s hair, yes, but it’s interesting to mention a subtle dichotomy. While John’s new dramatic slicked-back hair leaves his forehead exposed, giving a sense of openess (the promise of coming out), his collar button is not undone just yet. Unlike Sherlock, who’s always been (openly gay) casual and carefree with up to three buttons undone! So, there you have it, John’s emotional struggle to come out (thus allowing himself to establish a romantic relationship with Sherlock) will be a theme this season.

(Tagging @inevitably-johnlocked)

@marcespot, I’m crying.  What a beautiful analysis.

Okay but I find it interesting that in TSoT Mary says she’s “starving” and she had to lose so much weight to fit into her dress i.e. she hasn’t been eating or indulging in food. And with the food=sex metaphor, it’s basically saying Mary’s not getting any from John and is really horny. Yet she somehow ended up pregnant? Idk just a thought.

THERE IT IS.

Does it mean she had to turn down lots of John’s advances to fit into that dress? Or did she just say that to make Sherlock jealous? Like, “Now that I don’t have to wear this dress afterwards I’m going to indulge my husband.” Idk either…

I rather take Mary’s "starving" line to mean there’s no real romantic intimacy between her and John. (Like Rebekah said in TJLCE, food=sex/intimacy). I think it means their sex isn’t satisfying, there’s no true love there. (I’m not implying that aromantic people can’t find sex fulfilling, I’m specifically talking about John, who’s extremely romantic). In fact, the fast-forwarded bit of how food is eaten at their wedding would confirm that reading. Here it is:

I didn’t alter the speed. That definitely doesn’t look like they’re savouring the meal; it’s all chomping and slurping noises instead. Seriously, watch it for yourself, it’s bordeline disgusting. 

All of this also reminds me of how Mrs. Hudson (a mirror for John) talked about her huband, saying “it was purely physical between me and Frank, we couldn’t keep our hands off each other” , and “It was just a whirlwind thing for us. I knew it wouldn’t work, but I just got sort of swept along.”  Frank managed to trap Mrs. H in a physical relationship and marriage. She knew he wasn’t ‘The One’, he was ‘A One’. But he was an adulterous drug dealer and a murderer, not just a bad influence for Hudders, but dangerous enough for Sherlock to “ensure” that man was sentenced to death. Also, I can’t remember who wrote a nice piece of meta on how Mrs. H was probaly victim of domestic violence based on her flinching reactions to anger, I know I read it somewhere. (If someone have the link, pls add). Wonder what that tells us about emotionally-abusive Mary. Fits.

Also, in this same episode, John’s ability to be a “sloppy eater” is put in the context of a very negative/deadly situation. (Sherlock says if he were to murder John, he’d poison him, “dead easy”.) So, ‘eating sloppily’ can lead you to overlook potential danger? Mhh, just like what happened to Mrs. H with Frank. And to John with Mary. So there you have it.

Can’t wait to see John and Sherlock sharing a lovely meal and savouring it!