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Bengal tiger ! Moran / King cobra! Moriarty
*used animal photos for references
What is love? ’tis not hereafter;
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare (1601-1602) // "The light of the street fell full upon his face." Sidney Paget, The Strand Magazine (1903) // The Tyger, William Blake (1794) // Tiger's Head, Abbott Handerson Thayer, oil on canvas (1874) // The Sniper, Liam O'Flaherty (1923) // The Killer, David Fincher (2023) // A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller (1932-1953), Anaïs Nin (1987) // Tiger and Snake, Eugène Delacroix, oil on canvas (1862) // Seduction, Frank Bidart (2006) // "Professor Moriarty stood before me." Sidney Paget, The Strand Magazine (1893) // Rattlesnake, Stanley Vestal (1928) // Inferno, Franz von Stuck, oil on canvas (1908) // How to Maintain Eye Contact, Robert Wood Lynn (2021) // Ripley, Steven Zaillian (2024) // Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare (1601-1602)
So that fic which did spark an entire modern universe
It is largely the same although I have revised it a bit actually in my novel as I developed certain ideas and gave Moran more trauma and as it did become a part of something much bigger and not just a one off thing.
And I have a lot of feelings about Moran expecting this to be just once only casual sex, and he's not even expecting it to be that great, he's expecting Moriarty to be mostly just interested in his own pleasure and not in him and to end up feeling pretty used like he often does when he lets men fuck him. He doesn't think it's going to mean anything.
But then it's not like that at all. It means something. It means everything.
And that's actually kind of terrifying to him.
Help I'm thinking about Sebastian Moran being "the epitome of the history of his own family" again, being cursed by his family name, seemingly not really having anything more expected of him ever than to just... be a Moran, Augustus's son, with most of his life never really being his own, being controlled and steered by his father and school and the army, nobody ever thinking about what he wants, never really being allowed to develop any real personality of his own. Even one of the main things Holmes knows about him, tells us about him, is who Sebastian's father is and his job, and Holmes is the one who refers to Sebastian in that way, with the epitome line, as if Moran's family is the main or most important thing about him.
And Moran's act of rebellion is to turn to crime and he does this most likely before he meets Moriarty. Is the reason he does this his way of trying to gain some control over his own life? Some identity of his own that isn't just being his father's son, being just another Moran in a line of Morans with the typical careers in the army or politics? Maybe he "began to go wrong" because that was the only way to do right by himself, to pull himself out of the shadow of his father and his family and be his own person, even if that means acquiring an "evil name", because at least that's him and it's his, his name, his reputation, and that's the thing Moriarty seeks him out for. Moriarty seeks him, and Moriarty sees him. He sees Sebastian, not just the son of Augustus Moran.
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There was that post I reblogged recently about sex as character study and that just made me start thinking about writing 'advice' I've seen where it talks about writing 'realistic' sex scenes and how people supposedly don't really do all that explicit talking about consent or talking everything through before they get down to it in real life and I just come away from stuff like that thinking my god how do you people even function if you think it's normal to never talk about anything
(The main pairing I write sex for is two guys, both are autistic, one has major issues with intimacy because of trauma and the other one is asexual. For all Moran's promiscuity and Moriarty's openminded when it comes to sex, if they didn't explicitly talk things through sometimes they'd literally never have sex with each other)
(Also I'm laughing at how many people giving advice seem to think everyone who wants to write sex scenes is really embarrassed about actually writing them. LOL, nope)
what really sold me on mormor was that scene after the lighthouse collapses. the way Moran softly says "Professor..." when he finds Moriarty, the way Moriarty reassures him, and how angry on behalf of Moriarty Moran is when he says he'll find Holmes and Watson. That and Moriarty being a fruity ass mf, like sir, do you know it's illegal in your time?
God that scene. That they explicitly paralleled it with Watson finding Holmes when they could have just made Moran not seem to care, but there's an odd degree of tenderness there. That he does call him Professor and not just 'sir'. That he offers his hand to Moriarty like it's instinctive for him to reach for him. That it's only when Moriarty reassures him he's all right that he goes after Holmes and Watson. That Moriarty does bother to reassure him he's all right, he doesn't just yell at him to go after them or something (I feel like a lot of adaptations would have just had Moriarty call Moran stupid or something like that for wasting time checking on him first). That Moran snaps at the other people but his words to Moriarty are showing concern or swearing vengeance for them trying to harm Moriarty, essentially. And just Moran's ferocity immediately after that, his single-minded focus on hunting these people and getting some kind of revenge on them with no thought for his own safety.
And yeah I do think they were maybe coding Moriarty as queer in this, which is very much like the canon. I think again some adaptations would have still tried to give Moriarty some kind of female love interest, maybe even tried to suggest something sexual/romantic had gone on between him and Adler. Instead we have the softly spoken opera and pigeon-loving guy who intimidates Adler without ever touching her and who only gets more hands on with his male 'nemesis' and whose closest companion is another man who is supposedly just a 'gun for hire' yet who is devoted enough to him to get himself shot trying to avenge him even when he already knows Moriarty isn't badly harmed (also: Moriarty saying he likes Switzerland because they respect a man's privacy there. Sir what specifically are you up to there that you need privacy for it?). It's definitely very suggestive.
Suddenly thinking about Moran who hates being touched without consent and if you do touch him without warning or too abruptly or in the wrong way it's usually a toss up between him physically lashing out or him just kind of freezing while his soul essentially exits his body for a while and he especially hates being pinned down and feeling trapped but when he's panicking or spiralling out of control Moriarty can usually genuinely calm him down by getting hold of him and pinning him down (sometimes it's a sex thing, sometimes it isn't anything to do with sex). Also Moriarty stroking him, soothing him with physical gestures, especially when he's got hold of him like that, him pinning Moran's arm down and stroking his thumb across Moran's wrist or him rubbing circles over Moran's palm with his thumb or against his back with his knuckles.
(And it can go the other way too. I think Moran can use physical touch to ground Moriarty (who also dislikes being touched without permission) too, to calm him, to bring him back when he's got too much into his own head and he's got too much data to work with and his thoughts are spiralling out of control and becoming too disordered)