Adler for President

in today’s edition of actual sherlock script or fanfic:

Not only is it clear that the scripts are not the “final versions,” I would also just like to remind everyone, for the hundred thousandth time, once and for all, that Martin and Ben are terrific actors but have absolutely no power to overrule a script. They can ad-lib a line here and there, especially a cute joke (”Am I the current King of England?”), but they cannot change the meaning of the entire show on their own.

new rosie headcanon: at age 4-5 rosie gets really into fairytales and princes and princesses and all that jazz and she adores love stories and sherlock is so good at telling good night stories but they’re never about love, they’re always about adventures and good people defeating bad people and daddy and sherlock running through london at night chasing thieves and villains and it’s exciting but … there has to be more to it, right? so one evening she and john are sleeping over at 221B rosie asks sherlock to tell her a love story and sherlock starts out like “mmh well…um… once upon a time there was a princess in a land far far away,” and he’s already lost because he’s really not good with princes and princesses falling in love, and rosie interrupts him because he’s getting this all wrong anyway, a true love story has to be Real, so she asks if sherlock has ever been in love? and sherlock’s smile falters for a second and then it comes back, brighter than before but a bit bittersweet and maybe a bit sad, and he says “yes, once,” and rosie wants to know if it was a princess or a prince and sherlock tells her it was a prince, a beautiful, brave one who had faught many battles and defeated bad people and healed good ones before he met sherlock, and the very first night they spent together an evil cabbie tried to kill sherlock, but his new friend, his prince, saved sherlock’s life and sherlock fell in love instantly – and rosie asks why sherlock and the brave man he fell in love with are not together and sherlock just smiles and explains to her that the prince didn’t love sherlock back, not like that, he fell in love with a beautiful woman a while later and even married her, and that’s okay because when you really love someone, sometimes you have to give them up so they can be happy. sometimes love stories are a bit sad but they’re still love stories, and sherlock has many happy memories with the man he loves and that’s enough, and sherlock is slowly starting to feel extremely weird, opening up about unrequited love to a 5 year old who should have been asleep 30 minutes ago, the subject of the conversation being her father who’s waiting downstairs with the tea that’s getting cold but… sherlock just keeps going, he can’t really stop, until rosie is sleepy enough for him to give her a good night kiss on the forehead and switch the light off.