lostwithoutmyconsultingdetective:
Someone please explain to me why I went to the sherlolly tag and people are thinking Molly will be engaged to Lestrade? I AM LOST
There’s what looks to be an engagement ring on Loo’s finger in a set photo. She happens to be with Rupert in said photo. But they weren’t filming. They were just chilling on set. So it could be Lestrade Molly’s with, but it also could be anyone else. It’s too early to know and too early to freak out.
I know that, here in the States, spouses cannot be forced to stand witness against each other in a court of law. They can willingly, but not by force.
I know everyone’s freaking out about that ring being a sign of Molstrade, but if there’s a similar law in the UK (and I’ve done no research, so I have no idea), I would not put it past Sherlock to protect both Molly and himself by marrying her. That ring could very well be the key to Sherlock keeping Molly out of jail. Since, you know, filing fake death certificates is illegal.
I don’t think I’ve updated Leave Me Be since Novermberish. I’m gonna update really soon, though. I’ve got the chapter written (finished it this week), but there’s something about it that’s bothering me and I’m not sure what. My beta and I working on figuring it out, but SOON.
He never noticed her in the back row; the girl who listened intently when he argued with the physics professor. He was all angles and harshness and he gestured impatiently when he debated. He never saw the way she hid smiles against her hand, pretending to take notes while their professor sputtered and grew angry at being proven wrong again. Sometimes a laugh would escape from her, and she’d sense the dark curly head turning toward her. She hid her face before he ever saw her.
She hated parties on campus but she went anyway, hoping he’d be there too. He never was, and she almost gave up hope. And then one day, he appeared, lounging against the back wall, nursing a beer. For a moment, their eyes met, and the intensity of his bright eyes pinned her to where she stood. She opened her mouth to speak, and instead found herself ducking her head downward, her throat tight. When she lifted her head again, he was gone.She found him upstairs, in an unused bedroom. The needle he’d used was still laying on the floor by his wrist. His skin was sickly pale, but a faint pulse flickered beneath her fingertips.
She waited for the ambulance, and held his cool fingers in hers until the EMTs took him away.
He never returned to uni, and the day she met him again in Barts, years later, it was clear that the events of that night were lost to him. Whether the drugs had caused him to black it out, or if it was a willful deletion, it didn’t matter. It was as though it had never happened. He never knew.
As far as she knows, this is the truth.
The next chapter of Leave Me Be will be up soon eventually!
A character study of Molly Hooper’s thoughts and her feelings for Sherlock.
“He was a great guy. Briliant. We had the same group of friends. We had known each other a long time. I’m not some hopeless romantic. I’ve never allowed myself to be that way. But once I felt - even for a moment - what I felt with you… You ruined me. I didn’t want to settle for less.”
I edited this a couple of weeks ago when I was feeling terribly sentimental and I didn’t want to upload it then. Today I found it again and since I didn’t have time to edit the newest “Nikon Ad” I thought I’d share at least this video with you in the hope that some of you might like it.
So I guess this is as good a time as any.
I wanted everything to be perfect before I posted this up. But I’ve gotten to the point where I think things are pretty good for now and we need other people’s feedback and also interactions.
Lexie, Petra and I have been conspiring for the last few days. We wanted to have a complete community area for Sherlolly fans to go and fangirl out in relative calm. So…
We’ve tried to cover all of the bases of things Sherlolly fans might want to use to interact. So far we’ve got:
- News Area
- Chat Room
- Forum
- Fan Art Gallery
- A Wiki for all things Sherlolly
(We’re currently working on a fiction archive, but there is a spot for fanfiction posting on the forum and a place one can put fic synopsis and links to all the places you can find it)
We’re as ready to go as we will be. The only thing that’s missing is you guys!
We’re not trying to replace Tumblr or any other forum or website… Because how could we possible do that? We just wanted to have a one-stop shop for all your shipping needs.
In order to comment on posts, use the chat, post on the forum, add to the gallery and edit the wiki, you need to register an account. But membership is open!
So… Uh… Yeah. Enjoy, guys. Contribute, interact and look for updates.
YOU SEE, THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU PEOPLE
I needed to properly convey how I feel about this character. For some reason, I felt macros were appropriate. She gives me so many feels.
Molly gets severely overlooked in light of Irene. It’s criminal.
(Source: strawberrypatty)
Molly is, like, my hero. ^_^
Strawberrypatty, you did it! This is a thing now!
*boggles at the number of notes*
happy harmonica
CCB Fill - Long Distance Relationship by ~lexieken
Fill for the cottoncandy_bingo BINGO CARD
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It had started innocently enough, or at least that’s what she told herself.
It was bold for her to have written him that first letter, to leave it sitting beside him on the park bench while he looked to be in some sort of intense concentration.
She’d blushed and nearly gone back for it (his eyes had been closed, fingers steepled under his chin, top hat nearly hiding his face completely), but she’d walked briskly back home and up to her room, feeling faint but strangely proud of herself.
When she didn’t see him again for nearly a month, Molly squashed her disappointment, doing her best not to let it get to her, even if the thought of the mysterious gentleman with the blue eyes she’d seen in her turns about the park still made her heart flutter as if on wings. Logically, she knew it had been a long shot to begin with, it’s not like she’d signed her name on the letter she’d left, and his eyes HAD been closed that day…
So it came as a shock—near panic that had left her frozen in place— when he suddenly materialized before her as she turned around the corner from St Barts hospital. He hadn’t said a word, simply loomed before her for a moment, scrutinizing her with those clear blue eyes before thrusting a letter under her nose and turning abruptly away from her, disappearing into the oncoming fog.
Molly had somehow managed to make it up to her room before shakily breaking the seal on the letter, her eyes flying over the writing inside and feeling her smile grow as she completed it.
She would come to memorize that first letter, first of many that were exchanged between them, rules of society making their exchanges brief and indirect, with the added benefit of mystery to their…relationship.
They’d found common ground in, of all things, the study of science. She wasn’t as well versed as he was, obviously, but he seemed eager to share, the list of books he left for her had her pouring into unseemly hours of the evening in the archives of the library. Their letter became thicker and thicker, more and more frequent as they delved into further topics of psychology and philosophy and she’d surprised him with her knowledge of rare diseases.
And then one day, it happened.
He’d passed her the thinnest letter she’d gotten from him in months, wondering at the tip of his hat as he’d passed. She hadn’t made it home before opening it, her eyes flitting over the words before letting out a short laugh. She looked back in the direction he’d disappeared in, biting her bottom lip to surpress her smile. Tucking the letter safely into her belt, Molly made her way back home. She had preparations to make.
Molly,
I am in need of an assistant.
The name is Sherlock Holmes.
The address is 221B Baker Street.
_____________I have a serious weakness for Victorian!Sherlolly. Because…well, LOOK AT THEM.
Never ending list of OTPs: Sherlock Holmes & Molly Hooper
For Clare, who is the light of my life.
I didn’t just slide off my chair to sit on the floor crying. Not at all.
Petra Todd: A Few Final Thoughts
I really just wanted to add that I watched an interview with Louise Brealey. She said it’s difficult for her to read the Sherlolly fanfiction, not because of dynamic between the two, but because when she plays Molly she’s basically being herself. So, by saying that Molly Hooper is a stereotyped character, you’re also saying that Louise Brealey is. I find Molly to be extremely believable and not at all stereotyped. She’s sweet, shy, and has a crush on someone who she probably knows will never feel the same. Sorry, but we’ve all been there. Even as adults. However, there is something that stands out to me that most people either don’t see, overlook, or disagree with. Molly is awkward and a bit shy, yes, but she’s got a lot more backbone than people give her credit for. She stands up to Sherlock far more than is actually realized, because its delivered in a shy, awkward fashion. He obviously trusts her enough to complain t her about John’s absences, seeks her out for help in the morgue and lab, and utimately, I’m assuming helping to fake his suicide. Do I honestly believe Sherlolly could ever exist? No. For the simple reason that Sherlock Holmes finds women on the whole, distracting, and has no interest in pursuing the matter. At all. That doesn’t mean I can’t ‘ship’ them. Because I ship them like a priority package going through Fedex! Anyway, that’s what I wanted to add, because I feel it needed saying. :DIf you were here yesterday, you might have seen a mammoth post on Molly Hooper and Sherlolly that was being reblogged back and forth: you can find it here and here. (there are two links, because there were two threads and I actually think there were some…
So this is the quote which I found for Loo Brealey:
‘I think she’s very unthreatening and she’s very girl-next-door and I do think that young women, girls, they can identify with her and men don’t feel threatened by her. So, she just a sort of ordinary woman surrounded by these extraordinary people and in that respect she is a way in for the audience and also she’s also quite sweet. If you’re a young woman and you really want to sleep with Sherlock, there’s a young woman on the screen who really wants to sleep Sherlock, you’re going to identify with her.’ Saying this, she states that she’s not like Molly. ‘I wouldn’t let a man talk to me like that however, I think, who hasn’t made a complete tit out of themselves over some bloke?’
*shrugs* Personally I find Loo to be funny and engaging, the few interviews I’ve read of her: she also describes herself as an ardent feminist, which is great for her, but I find the above comments to be a bit troubling personally.
Look, I never said Molly wasn’t a realistic portrait of a woman: Maybe my wording wasn’t perfect, but what I meant was actually the opposite. Maybe the word I should have used was ‘ordinary’ or ‘everyday’. Sherlock is full of fantastical characters, such as Irene, Moriarty, Sherlock himself, so when a John Watson or Molly Hooper shows up, they are indeed meant to be more ‘relatable’ to the audience. Meant not being are, of course, but more on that later.
So, I think she’s meant to be a fairly realistic/ordinary women on the show and also one of the only reoccurring female characters and that’s what’s troubling: that you only have one female character, she’s meant to represent an everyday woman who, by Loo’s own words, is defined by her ‘really wanting to sleep with Sherlock’. I just think that should have been thought about more. Molly in real life IS different: I have a friend like Molly (actually, I have two) and they’re not anti-feminist, but they’re also not the only female protagonist on a male-dominated show. In real life, people are complex, they have many motivations and if you love Molly/ are participating in this conversatonyou see her as being this complex, alive person, you ascribe these hidden depths to her and that’s great. We clearly do the same to all the characters, because we’re Sherlockians and we love these characters. That’s why I’m not disagreeing with you liking her so much: you all clearly have head-canons and analysis floating around by which Molly Hooper comes off as a strong, healthy character, but you’ve got to understand, most people DON’T, they take her at face value and that’s an issue.
Why? Well, this is a show and every character in a show/novel is defined by their primary motivations to the general audience (you know, the people who can just watch a show and not dedicate a blog and lots of analysis to it) and that’s where the problem is: Irene’s primary motivation might be security to them, Sherlock’s might be alleviation of boredom (later changing to protecting his friends), but Molly’s motivation is to sleep with Sherlock? Really? I think the characterization has gotten better/deeper than that, admittedly, but that interview is from June 2012 and that’s LOO BREALEY talking.
Also, about the relationship: I said COULD. As in might, because Sherlock simply walks all over those who let him and I would be afraid Molly would let him. But you guys clearly don’t think so and yup, that’s something I want to look more into, because it’s intriguing about why you don’t.
As for Irene: I too relate more easily to her, but, like I said, she clearly isn’t being set up to be ‘the woman that everyone relates to” (that’s one quote form Loo up there, but there are probably a dozen or so floating around, I’ve seen a few from other members of the cast and crew). She’s one of the ‘fantastic’ set, the people on the show who are crazier and larger than life: like characters from a storybook, really. Sure, some people relate more to them and that’s fantastic, but it’s not their purpose. But I do see your point: I don’t mean to imply she isn’t important, just that she’s a whole other discussion, isn’t she? I personally didn’t think she was in any way anti-feminist and I felt that a lot of the arguments that thought she was were flawed, but again, different discussion.
Again, this isn’t an argument I have to ‘win’ or ‘lose’. I do simply find it interesting and the purpose is not to rile everyone up.
See this is the part I really have a problem with:
In real life, people are complex, they have many motivations and if you love Molly/ are participating in this conversation you see her as being this complex, alive person, you ascribe these hidden depths to her and that’s great. We clearly do the same to all the characters, because we’re Sherlockians and we love these characters. That’s why I’m not disagreeing with you liking her so much: you all clearly have head-canons and analysis floating around by which Molly Hooper comes off as a strong, healthy character, but you’ve got to understand, most people DON’T, they take her at face value and that’s an issue.
You are trying to speak for a lot of people. Who is this vague ‘they’? Stop speaking for everyone and speak for yourself.
And when we present examples of Molly’s character, you brush it off as our headcanon. We aren’t imagining “hidden depths,” we’re referring to what we see her doing onscreen.
- Intelligence- her job requires it and Sherlock relies on her professionally
- Loyalty- she’s willing to do whatever it takes to help Sherlock because she has faith in his abilities
- Sweetness- well that’s obvious. She’s friendly and kind, asks Mrs. Hudson and Lestrade about themselves at the party.
- Sensitivity- is aware Sherlock is troubled when other people aren’t
- Strength- she doesn’t become angry or hateful despite being surrounded by death and negative circumstances, which we have seen on the show. (Rejection, Jim stuff, her work in general.)
Those are just a few characteristics. And they aren’t “hidden depths,” they’re right there onscreen, rather obvious. And her being ‘one of the only recurring females?’ This show has a tiny recurring cast, compared to other TV shows. It’s not like there are twenty guys and just one woman recurring. There are a few, and not many more men recurring. It’s unfair to her character to expect her to represent all women, that she has to be a loud aggressive female character. That may be your wish, but that is not this character. And it is not unfeminist if she is that way.
By the way, we do have an assertive, vocal female who is a very feminist figure in a recurring role.
And the fandom regularly calls Sally Donovan a bitch and a whore, and a whole host of other names. There are good women on this show. If they aren’t appreciated, that’s the fandom’s issue.
