thealogie:

john has the most complex fucked up perception of sherlock. like on the one hand he knows him better than anyone and refuses to believe people who don’t think he’s vulnerable and he absolutely believes sherlock is the most human human-being he knows.  and on the other hand he is too deep in love so he has to protect himself somehow and he keeps telling himself sherlock doesn’t feel things that way and he hears sherlock call love “human error” and asks who sherlock would bother protecting. and still he believes the best of sherlock WHILE ALSO also believing sherlock doesn’t experience romantic feelings (or at least not for him.)  like…save this man how has his brain not burst yet, accommodating so many contradictory beliefs about the person he is in love with who he thinks doesn’t love him back like….p l e a s e