#sunken-standard

I was on the fence between two, then my choice got made for me. Not even sure if there will be any race by the time my primary rolls around (end of April), which is utter bullshit. I'd at least like the illusion of choice, y'know?

Louise Brealey in Heard Pt 1

Oh my goodness! I can’t tell you how much I love this ask!! 

Yay! I’m so excited! :D

Drinks all of the coffee - I’d say …Molly. Of course we know that Sherlock drinks black, two sugars, but I can see Molly being the coffee drinker in the mornings while she’s a walking dead personified before she wakes up properly. She just drinks one cup after the other being all zombiefied as she tries to muddle through the morning ritual, and not paying any attention to the steadily emptying coffee pot. She drinks it white, no sugar. 

Brings up adopting a pet - Surprisingly …neither. They didn’t actually come to talking about it before either one of them stumbled upon this poor homeless little creature. It stays with them ever since. (wasn’t there a goat once in your Ficlet Cementary? I can see them keeping it XD Bonobo always had a fair chance too, in my mind! ;))

Kills the bugs - MOLLY! LOL, I can see her taking this warrior like attitude as she takes her weapons of choice (a slipper or so) and fights them (mosquitoes, flies, spiders, etc) to the kill all with war like yells and shouts while Sherlock watches her firstly bemused then highly amused and eventually… aroused. Lol. While not being squeamish himself Sherlock did squeal in a high pitched voice once as a particularly big bug crawled his upper chest while he was in is Mind Palace. The be fair he was naked at the time and it was the very first thing he saw upon coming to the reality. But boy, what Molly got from that blackmail material later on *smirks*.

Cooks the meals - Oh, I hc Sherlock as being a genius but lazy cook (read: doesn’t cook at all) and Molly more as a baker than cooker (read: Mycroft will do ANYTHING for her. ANYTHING). But they are both actually very proficient cooks and often find themselves wanting to cook at the same time. Ergo: cooking competitions or fights over the kitchen. Later on when they have children and the offsprings are at the grandparents they experience mild empty nest syndrome with Sherlock baking tons of comfort foods and Molly walking from room to room unsure to what to do with herself. 

Starts getting into holidays way before they should - (not a native speaker here so holidays as Christmas etc?) Hm, I think Molly is the more festive one, but I can definitely seeing Sherlock deciding how their next Christmas goes …during a lazy day in the middle of June. He of course buys everything they’ll need right away. If by holidays you mean going on some kind of trip: Molly prepares like two weeks before they are supposed to go, putting off her fav clothes and etc, while Sherlock often goes like “Molly, we’re leaving to Bahamas in two hours, everything is settled down, let’s go.” While Molly experiences mild life crisis for there are tons of things she should have packed and prepared and checked and there is no time… ;)

Initiates the couple selfies - Sherlock - especially in the early stage of their relationship. But of course he had already lots of Molly’s pictures on his phone and in his wallet, even way before the TRF. Of course it’s for a case, what else? definitely not for sentiment (His logical explanation is as follow: always easier to persuade potential witnesses if you can share your personal life with them - a wife, a girlfriend, a sister [that one is a rare thing, especially when he shows the lingerie one]. - I picked this headcanon from some stories, one of them was published recently.)

Forgets the birthdays and anniversaries - Hm, I don’t see either of them forgetting those. Molly for sentimental reasons and Sherlock for being Sherlock. Once he commits he goes all in. So I can see him doing elaborate planning for each one of those. 

Always ends up with too much junk food after grocery shopping - Molly, but only because Sherlock tags along and puts all of them in the cart (and yes, this is a vague callback to your wonderful Tom’verse :D)

Nicknames the other - Oh! Sherlock and Molly are …an odd couple, right? Loving, even sweet, but well by society standards …odd. So the nicknames, if they decide to use any, will be something unique too, imho. Right. This headcanon is based on cactusnell’s latest story The Natural Science of Happiness Hormones. In this one Molly is disparaging that Sherlock is too pretty for her, calling him a peacock a couple of times and all and he replies to that with something alongside the lines of “you should have watched the nature programs, Molly, peacock is only showing of his plumage for his less flamboyant peahen who is the most beautiful thing to him. You are my peahen”. And ever since I’ve decided that I can see Sherlock and Molly referring to each other as something as odd as My Peacock/Peahen with an amused mischievous glint in their eyes. But in general I don’t think they will be for nicknames at all. I think the closest one will be Sherlock calling Molly, My Molly. I can’t see Molly calling Sherlock any sort of nickname. *shrugs*. Hm, there was one ficcy with Molly calling Sherlock Bumblebee to his Honey Bee for her. So I suppose a Queen Bee for Molly, Bumblebee for Sherlock and Honeybee for children might be one of the nickname sets I can see them using. 

Of course I immediately thought of @sunken-standard‘s hilarious Sherlolly story from her Ficlet Cemetery collection. 

Needless to say, I was barely able to control myself in order to keep from lmao in public (I was alone, after all). I did manage to calm down in the time it took to return the book so I could take a picture afterward without losing it entirely. 

Whheeeeee!!!  Requests!

25.  a song with a great music video

Ooohh a tough one right out of the gate.  I am a child of the early days of MTV and music videos were my passion.  I got to cut a package of the best videos for a VH-1 show and I was in absolute heaven I got to put them ALL in.  But to choose just one????  I’ll take the one that immediately popped into my head, and that’s Duran Duran’s Rio, but then there’s Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer and INXS’s Need You Tonight and David Bowie’s Ashes to Ashes and and and….

33.  a song you have ZERO patience for

American Pie.  I hate it, everyone else loves it, and it’s END. LESS.

From this salty ask list. Feel free to ask me other questions, I am salty enough to require high blood pressure pills!

11Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Morstan-Watson. Sorry, Rosamund Mary the elder and much-missed. She was smart, she was sassy, she had a fantastic backstory; she was messy and flawed and made bad choices but she loved fiercely and unreservedly and I will always always ALWAYS miss her.

Also Molly “Yes Dammit She DOES Have a Backbone, What Freaking Show Are You People Even Watching” Hooper.

16 If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

Unkill Mary and increase the amount of screen time for Molly.

23 Unpopular character you love?

Did I mention Mary - Rosamund Mary - Morstan - Watson?