This is a true thing that really happened

Sherlock chose a picture of John

printed it out

got some scissors

carefully cut out John’s head

and pasted it on Da Vinci’s drawing of

what he considered to be 

a perfect

naked

male body

SHERLOCK JUST HANDING MOLLY VITRUVIAN JOHN AS IF IT’S THE MOST USEFUL THING IN HIS FOLDER AS IF IT’S AN ACTUAL PIECE OF HELPFUL DATA PERTAINING TO THE EQUATIONS HE’S ASKING HER TO WORK OUT AS IF IT’S A SHEET OF FACT AND NOT JUST JOHN’S HEAD STUCK ONTO A PRINT OUT OF THE VITRUVIAN MAN

seriously

Platonic

Sherlock’s very crafty, have you noticed that? It seems core to his problem-solving. He cuts stuff out, sticks it to the wall, or, in this case, gets his collage on. He must have a set of glue sticks. We know he has yarn. Maybe he knits. 

[sherlock holmes voice] john watson? he’s not— [trips] [hundreds of pictures of john’s face on the vitruvian man spill out of jacket] he’s not the most perfect human bein— [gathering them up frantically crying] listen he’s just— [thousands of pictures of vitruvian man with john’s face scatter across the floor] i think it could work

Sherlock used the Vitruvian Man in his John Watson files he is such a fucking da Vinci fanboy

da Vinci was a genius of his time who loved logic and who used empirical methods to solve scientific problems; he wanted everything in humanity and nature to be represented both accurately and beautifully and without bias IT WOULD MAKE PERFECT SENSE

young Sherlock poring over books of da Vinci’s sketches of ideas for helicopters and solar power generators

young Sherlock trying to master writing backwards

Sherlock being surprisingly good at drawing: it makes sense; he wants to remember everything with the same accuracy and precision that da Vinci employed in creating his Vitruvian Man, so that applies to his remembering crime scenes. and rooms. and most importantly, faces

SHERLOCK SECRETLY LIKING ART