It's ironic this is coming up now. Just this weekend I was having a conversation with a relative about my gay uncle (literally, my father's brother in a long-term romantic relationship with another man, A.; that's not a euphemism), and the other person referred to A. as his "friend." It took me a minute to work out just what she meant by that because to me friend by itself doesn't mean anything sexual. Special friend, maybe, or even good friend, but friend by itself is just a friend to my ear.
But I like this perspective a lot, if only because it's a nice way back around to the basic point I was trying to make in this interpretation: that this isn't so much a way of distancing John from Sherlock as asserting his value independent of that. Though I can also easily see how Sherlock (this version of Sherlock) might misread that.
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Date: 2014-09-16 06:12 pm (UTC)But I like this perspective a lot, if only because it's a nice way back around to the basic point I was trying to make in this interpretation: that this isn't so much a way of distancing John from Sherlock as asserting his value independent of that. Though I can also easily see how Sherlock (this version of Sherlock) might misread that.
I'm glad you liked the photo, too. :-)