The Science of Sarcasm

You know you love it. I have more. So many more. But I shall stop now.

God, I know I do. Too much. He’s the best villain in the history of literature, film and television, and in the BBC’s glorious adaptation they couldn’t have chosen a better actor because I find myself fucking mesmerised by the character. The way he moves, the lilting voice and the sudden changes to his voice and mood… it’s like Andrew Scott disappears. It’s not Andrew Scott - it’s Jim Moriarty and he’s adorable but terrifying because he’s so, so erratic and insane and you can see it in his eyes. Fuck, his eyes. I’m still convinced that Mark and Steven shove some sort of demon into him before each scene, because those. eyes. They’re fucking pools of emptiness and insanity- no, they’re fucking endless voids of emptiness and insanity. How the hell does he do that? And every little motion he makes, the way he holds himself, the way he talks… I get caught up in the character and I can’t tear myself away and it’s scary. Fuck, he’s insane and he knows he’s insane and he relishes in the insanity. He likes it. He gets off on what it lets him do, because no sane person would do what he does.

And he’s so bored with existence that he needs a distraction from the fact that he’s alive. That’s freaky. There’s no denying that needing to forget that you, personally, exist is really. freaky. And the way he attached this need to Sherlock is just as freaky. It’s like an obsessive stalker that wants nothing more than to sleep with their victim, but it’s scarier because what Moriarty is doing with Sherlock - the mind games, getting under his skin, toying with his friends - is more intimate than that (that makes more sense in my head shhhh) and he can do it without being anywhere near him but still be at the innermost area of Sherlock’s personal space and i’m going to shut up now before my thoughts become even more incoherent.

I’ve given you a teency glimpse of my Moriarty feelings.

I’m sorry for that.

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