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Wouldn't it be fabulous if I had those? My fanart would get 1295873302856 times better in about two weeks and a few thousand failed attempts...

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I think I've finally settled on a favourite band, or at least one favourite band. Snow Patrol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHUhLy2obSw&

But they are still WEAK!

Yeah, I guess. But what about this? (From Ariane DeVere's transcript:) MYCROFT: No – he’s recently had his hair cut. You can see the little hairs adhering to the perspiration stains on the inside. (Sherlock looks down at the hat, pouting slightly.) SHERLOCK: Some women have short hair, too. MYCROFT: Balance of probability. SHERLOCK: Not that you’ve ever spoken to a woman with short hair – or, you know, a woman.

Psst -- Emma Watson also played as Sam in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

...when you see cookies and all you can think is

So he's socially incompetent, just like Sherlock!

Spinach is ridiculous. Cook one pound of spinach and it ends up being little clot of green you can hold in your hands. They are WEAK, I say. WEAK.

He's maintained an enduring relationship with Sherlock, albeit a bumpy one. And he also admitted that it was a mistake when he sold Sherlock out to Moriarty in TRF.

I can see Mycroft fitting the first and maybe the last criteria, but not the rest.

See, introversion versus extroversion is a spectrum, with the middling areas being ambiversion. Maybe Sherlock's ambiverted with a slight preference for introversion.

Let's pretend I didn't forget to read the name of the thread before I posted. :/

I think Mycroft is just really mean. Look at how he treats Sherlock.

That's a symptom of depression in men -- they feel like they have nothing to lose, so might as well risk it all. I feel that this is relevant:

I'm not following you. When have we seen Sherlock having full-blown suicidal thoughts? The thing is, Moriarty in the asylum scene is just a metaphorical construct for Sherlock's darker side -- all his negative thoughts and fears and anxieties whispering to him, trying to pull him under. Perhaps mind palace Moriarty's remark, "Just die, why can't you?" doesn't necessarily imply suicide. Maybe it's more of a give into the darkness sort of thing, you know?

Oh thank goodness. *phew*

It takes more than just self-doubt to have full-blown suicidal thoughts. Or maybe Mycroft had something to do with Redbeard's death. "By the way, Sherlock -- do you remember Redbeard?" Isn't that what we all think? On a side note, this is my favourite part from that article you linked:

One time I got a call from a phone number marked 666-666-6666 and didn't sleep well for the next two nights.

I've just realized that in ASiP, John is probably the first person ever to think Sherlock's deduction skills are fantastic, not freakish.

Which makes me think -- is Sherlock's whole arrogant-and-egotistical thing just an act to cover up agonisingly low self-esteem?

Well, in the American version, it's there.

Not just sheer determination -- have you noticed how as soon as the mind palace Moriarty mentions John, Sherlock gets back up, albeit painfully so.

Fun Fact: In Order of the Phoenix, "Umbridge" is the first word on page 666. On a side note: Sherlock's Magnussen seems to have become the fandom's own Umbridge.

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