Golden Globes

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Oh, do stop thinking about this.

[He waves off any comments the mun wishes to make.]

Clearly they are idiots.

[He clears his throat.]

It's fine, really. It just goes to show that Americans don't know a good thing when they see it.

[He sighs heavily.]

Yes, I know you're an American, I would say you're the exception.

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[flatmatewatson]

Who are the idiots this time?

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[He rolls his eyes.]

I hate repeating myself. I've told you: most people.

[flatmatewatson]

[Patiently] Yes, so you've said. Any particular group in mind or just general poopooing of the human race?

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[Sherlock pulls a face: Poopooing? Really, John!]

Well. I don't have an issue.- beyond the normal anyway. I was trying to make my writer feel better about how a certain award ceremony turned out.

[flatmatewatson]

[It's a word! Fairly certain it is...]

Ah. I take it one or both of us didn't do well? [This mun missed the globes]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

When looking at the other nominees? We weren't even in the running. Didn't stop my writer from having hope, though.

[He sighs heavily.]

Dreadful thing, hope.

[flatmatewatson]

[John looks sympathetic to Sherlock's mun.]

That's too bad. Maybe next year then.

[But Sherlock gets a reproachful look.] Hope is a very important thing to have. Keeps people going and striving for something better.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[The mun is grateful. Sherlock not so much.]

God. Don't encourage the writers! What are you thinking?

[He sighs.]

Look, hope is like sentiment - it's found on the loosing side.

[Mostly because what does the winning side need hope for? They're winning, but let's not go there.]

[flatmatewatson]

Sherlock...you could at least try to be [nice? inoffensive?] not rude to the person writing you. May I point out that they are writing YOU. So they cannot be all bad.

Hope is not like sentiment in the least. [Pick your battles, Watson.]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

The fact that this individual writes me, says everything about the writer that you need to know.

[At the second remark, Sherlock pulls a face.]

Explain.

[He means he doesn't understand how that could possibly be true when he just said the opposite.]

[flatmatewatson]

[Sherlock, you are not always right. Other people (see: John) can be right too]

Okay, for example, someone kidnapped or stranded, you can't just say they should not hope for rescue. That hope might be one of the only things keeping them alive. It's a vital part of a persons well-being. Sentiment is more of a bonus feeling about others.

[He's giving it his best shot, likely though Sherlock will not get it.]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

But if they are kidnapped or stranded, they are already loosing, therefore hope is only found on the loosing side, like I have said.

[Nope, doesn't get it at all, sorry, John.]

[flatmatewatson]

[Frustrated sigh through his nose.]

I suppose then you should count yourself as losing the moment you take on a case? Because you hadn't caught them yet? Hardly seems right in either case.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[Sherlock is about to reply and then stops himself. He glares at John for a few moments and then comes up with a proper answer.]

Being challenged isn't the same as 'loosing'.

[Yes! That should work!]

[flatmatewatson]

[Aha!]

So the "rules" change for you?

[Now John just looks amused. He's not dead set on winning this argument but it's enough that Sherlock had to pause and think like a normal person.

And he's got half a notion the next time they'really on a case, he'll just put in now and again "Well we've no hope of finding that..."]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

The "rules" only apply if you believe in something as ridiculous as hope.

[Sorry, John, that really wasn't what he said at all. He glares, John can stop looking amused any time now.]

[flatmatewatson]

[Nope, still smirking.]

It's only ridiculous to you, Sherlock. You're a minority.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[He shrugs.]

Usually am.... problem?

[flatmatewatson]

.....no, I suppose not. [Agree to disagree. John being a doctor, sometimes hope is all he can give someone. But Sherlock's occupation doesn't use things like that. So he can almost understand both viewpoints.]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Good. Now that we've got that settled, was there something you actually wanted to ask me? Or did you just want to come yell at me for setting my writer straight?

[Because, well, that will still happen, of course.]

[flatmatewatson]

I...hardly would call that yelling...

[Maybe Watson missed Sherlock...so says the mun :)]

I'm not admitting to that. He'll be insufferable.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Well, perhaps it was a bit of an exaggeration.... And yet by "not admitting that" you are in fact, admitting it. Really, John, I thought you had learned better from me.

[Sherlock's feeling like a failure now.]

[flatmatewatson]

[Nooo, don't feel like a failure.]

Let's say I'm avoiding a certain event. [Denial of Reichenbach till third season.] It's definitely not boring to have you around.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

You can avoid it all you want, it doesn't mean it won't happen...

[Nice, Sherlock. That'll help with denial.]

[flatmatewatson]

[Watson is looking extremely serious now, no more joking around. THAT ICON IS NOT HELPING!]

Stop it. [warning tone]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Stop what? Telling the truth? You know I can't do that.

[John brought it up... making Sherlock think about it. No one ever thinks/asks Sherlock how he feels about it.]

[flatmatewatson]

No, no... [John wouldn't expect Sherlock to quit telling the truth. It's just.....very hard to think about Sherlock being dead.]

Maybe we can talk about something else? [DENIAL]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[He sighs.]

I suppose. But! Only because it would be pointless to talk about that before the show provides us with more information. Not because you've asked me.

[Sherlock can be such a twat.]

[flatmatewatson]

Fine.

[He'll take what he can get. Ah, but his mun has read the books. She knows what will happen next~]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Well. If it isn't too much bother for you, John.

[Having read the books means little in the face of fanboying that is Gaitiss.]