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May 26, 2020
sussexbeeinchelsea
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LOVE all of your work! Have read these 5 and others numerous times. So GLAD you write in this fandom. xox
You sweetheart! Thank you so much for this! <33333333333333333333
auroradragon1:
theladyjanedoe:
thealphawithin:
Peacock cake...
Peacock cake and cupcakes
RAD AF
That is just so extreme!
Wow, I just found my wedding cake! Just need to find someone to marry now…
totallysilvergirl
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I knew this would be...
totallysilvergirl
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I knew this would be really hard,…
Oh, you! :) Thank you for this!! I don’t know that Best of Three is my lightest, or even my silliest! That award has to go to my little crack story The Revenge of the Moustache, which features Sherlock drugging John just to shave off his horrible series 3 moustache, which instigates John’s rage and escalating revenge. It could be subtitled The Hair Wars of Baker Street. But yeah, I deliberately refrain from mentioning Best of Three in any such list because it still infuriates me that it’s so much more popular than any of my other fics. I wrote it to give myself a break from the three heavy, well-plotted series 3 fix-its I had just written (Deductions of a Lesser Mind, Act IV, and Vena Cava) in a nonstop fury of feverish oh-God-have-to-fix-all-the-shit-right-now, and I was exhausted). I’m resigned to it now, but I would never actively promote, lol. (Witness my leaving out a link to it here!) :P Thanks for your kind words! <33333333333333
aloneinpsylence
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All so good I have...
replied to your post “Five favourites”
All so good I have reread them, except for Scars. It is amazing writing but as you say it goes dark and I haven’t felt up to revisiting it. I have lost track of how many times I have read Bridging the Ravine. It is a go when I want a boost. Thank you for sharing your talent!
You darling! Thank you for telling me that! And I mean, bless you for even reading Scars once, you know?? There are some journeys that only need to be taken once… if that! :P I’m so happy that Bridging the Ravine is a go-to for you! That makes me so happy! :) Fun fact: when I edited it, I realized that I had used the phrase “freshly-baked baguette” like, FIVE times in it! I took several of them out, but several still remain, and they make me laugh every single time I come across one. I guess I was really feeling the bread when I wrote that one… :P
May 25, 2020
bakingsherlycakes:
@totallysilvergirl @silentauroriamthereal...
@totallysilvergirl @silentauroriamthereal @annecumberbatch @jolieblack @jobooksncoffee if I have to swoon, so do you
Why, yes. Yes I do. Thank you!
Five favourites
So, @totallysilvergirl and @anindoorkitty and at least one other lovely person (I’m so sorry that I’ve forgotten who you were!!!) tagged me in a thing that I wasn’t going to do it, because picking only FIVE favourites out of EIGHTY-SIX fics feels like an unusually cruel task to set before me, but I’m caving to the pressure. I thought about rebelling and doing ten, because I do have a significant output here (just tipped 2.3 million words!!)… but then it gets even harder to choose! This was still just so, so hard. If someone asked me “if I could only read five of your stories ever, which five would you prefer that to be?”, I GUESS I would give them these ones. And yes, I can count. It’s six. Deal with it.
Against the Rest of the World. I mean, you knew this would be on here. It’s my longest story (in this fandom, at least), clocking in just below 152,000 words. It took me four solid months of working on it daily to write. It’s in first person voice, which is something I’ve almost never done for any other character apart from Sherlock, but writing it that way made it feel like I was living directly inside his head for those months. I missed him when the story was over. It’s the fic upon which my unpublished novel is based. It took me more location research than anything else I’ve ever written. Every single place in there, be it a street, restaurant, hotel, store, etc, is a real place. Much of this story was set in countries that has not (yet?) permitted google maps access. That added to the challenge for sure. It’s not perfect and may well not be my best writing ever, but this thing was a beast to write! I was updating with new chapters on average every six days. I never want to live like that again, which is why I never post unfinished WIPs anymore - I can’t handle the pressure! I might post it in chunks, but it’s always finished first.
Bridging the Ravine. I just found this universe so much fun to live in! It has a record number of named OCs (over 20, I believe!), some of whom are fully-fledged people who come back in the sequel, etc, plus the luxurious atmosphere of the spa-like retreat centre, the added bonus of getting to write Sherlock and John some much-needed therapy following series 4, the need to pose as a couple for the case anyway (fun fact: this was my first time ever knowingly writing a known trope!), the unabashed romance of it… yeah. It was fun. :)
The Wisteria Tree. For sheer emotional impact alone, I think this is some of my best writing. Multiple readers have told me that they cried throughout. I hadn’t even known that “amnesia fic” was a Thing was out there, in my sheltered little life over here! The concept of this story is that Sherlock suffers memory loss spanning over five years and wakes up from a coma to discover that, in that time, he and John got married. His furious attempt to retroactively catch up to the person he had become is both painful and, I hope, romantic as John struggles with having lost what they had, too. But they find their way.
Scars. If you want to see how dark my writing can go, look no further. There’s a scene in this story I finished writing, stood up even as I was closing my laptop, put on shoes and walked out of my apartment. I just had to get physically away from the fic. I did a heap of research on this one, too, specifically following the questions of: was Mary’s behaviour toward John in series 3 (this was written before series 4 aired) gaslighting and emotionally abusive? And if it was, how does that behaviour typically play out in female->male spousal abuse situations? I talked to three different therapists, only one of whom had seen Sherlock. I showed the other two the opening scene between John and Mary in HLV and without hesitation, they both agreed that it was absolutely textbook gaslighting. I asked all three of them how, if left unchecked, abusive relationships of that nature typically progress. This story goes there, and it’s ugly. It gets to a good place by the end, but there’s a journey you have to endure first. I’m proud of this one notwithstanding, particularly of a scene in chapter 5 (where Sherlock finds out the full extent of what happened). But omg, read the warnings first if you haven’t read this one and are thinking of trying it!!
Vena Cava. I have written so very many series 3 fix-its. I love all of them for their own reasons, but if you put a gun to my head and made me choose my favourite of them, it would still be this one. The dual hurt-comfort structure (Sherlock is suffering physically from Mary’s shot; John is suffering emotionally from it), the fact that it’s all set within HLV, and the bathroom kiss scene just put it up there for me.
The White Lotuses. A classic example of a SilentAuror domestic comfort fic! So much good food in this story, plus a delightful (I hope!) slow burn. A go-to for a bad day that needs salvaging. :)
Honestly, ask me again on a different day and I’ll give you five (or six!) totally different stories. This is too hard!! Seriously, so mean. Lol.
totallysilvergirl:
sherleck:
The clear, hard eyes were dimmed...
The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking.
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
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May 24, 2020
This is everything I needed tonight
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