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• i've studied how to properly love by aceredshirt13

  Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (Cartoon), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  30 Apr 2023

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century)
  • Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
  • Watson & Beth Lestrade
  • Watson (Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century)
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Beth Lestrade
  • Mentioned John Watson
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • let’s just say that I have taken a number of liberties with the canon
  • but also the show doesn’t even have internal consistency within the same episode so like
  • Dystopia
  • Grief/Mourning
  • In a sense
  • Unrequited Love
  • in a sense????
  • Wrong Watson Feelings
  • obsessed with the fact that that tag exists
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Delusions
  • Suicide Attempt
  • poor holmes
  • Identity Issues
  • Androids Feeling Emotions
  • Internalized Android Discrimination
  • what a tag
  • Bittersweet Ending
  • this fic is just me going insane about the deeply upsetting implications of a children’s cartoon
  • title taken from “world.execute(me);” by Mili

  Summary

  He knows he isn’t Watson. Not really. No matter how much he wishes he were.

  But he tries to be all the same.

  (Or, the unnecessary diary of a machine, and his fond observations of a broken man.)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,467

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  32

  Kudos:

  67

  Bookmarks:

  16

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  452