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@flangst made this and I just discovered it and it made me fall...

@flangst made this and I just discovered it and it made me fall in love with these two all over again, so I thought I’d share! <3

holmescon:What do you do when you don’t like the path you...

holmescon:

What do you do when you don’t like the path your favourite show has taken?

You fix it!

If you’ve ever wondered why so many authors were “fixing” S3, come along to our Improving Canon panel at HolmesCon 2023, where we will be discussing fix its, rewrites, and canon divergence.

@silentauroriamthereal @sherlockwatson-holmes @totallysilvergirl @shelleysprometheus @calaisreno

Heyyyy, so… this is a supremely exciting thing to announce! In all my several many years in fandom, I have never, ever “revealed” my real life self in any official, large fandom thing (though I’ve met handfuls of people in both the Harry Potter fandom and in Sherlock), but it’s happening at last: I finally agreed to come and speak on a panel!!! It’s this one!!!! I’m so honoured to have been asked to be a part of the Improving Canon panel at HolmesCon in London next summer! I mean, fix-it fic is sort of my Whole Thing, so this is obviously an area of tremendous excitement, and it’s unbelievable to get to share this space with my good friend @totallysilvergirl​ and the other talented folk on this panel! Tickets are on sale until late December, I believe, so - get your tickets and get your butts to London next August!! 

calaisreno:wip last line memeThank you, @keirgreeneyes , ...

calaisreno:

wip last line meme

Thank you, @keirgreeneyes , for tagging me! 😍

I’m working on a ghost story (no title yet), and the last line I’ve written is: “He ran.”

Since that’s sort of cheating and would only require me to tag two people, I’ll give you the line before that:

As frost on a window melts when breath meets it, he sank into the floor and was absorbed.

That’s eighteen words, and I’m not sure there are eighteen people left who haven’t done this, but I’ll give a few tags:

@jobooksncoffee @iris-best-taken-in-small-doses @a-different-equation @simplyclockwork @shelleysprometheus @blogstandbygo @silentauroriamthereal @arwamachine @raina-at

I’m missing a lot of people, I know, so please feel free to jump in if you like!

Hey, thanks for tagging me, @calaisreno​! This is literally the last thing I wrote in my current project, which is a sequel to Isosceles: 

John leans in and presses his lips to Sherlock’s jaw. “Good night,” he says, and is asleep within the minute.

Tagging anyone out there who has a WIP going right now! 

calaisreno:whatisthisnonsense:hermannsgayhands:i made this for...

calaisreno:

whatisthisnonsense:

hermannsgayhands:

i made this for the discord but its important

You forgot a step

@silentauroriamthereal @totallysilvergirl @sherlockwatson-holmes

Insert Captain Phillips meme here, lol. I WRITE THE CANON NOW!

SANDY.MY BEAUTIFUL LONGED NECKED MAN. HIS FRECKLES AND HI...

SANDY.

MY BEAUTIFUL LONGED NECKED MAN. HIS FRECKLES AND HIS MOLES. THAT ONE MUSCLE THAT ALWAYS JUTS OUT. SO BEAUTIFUL.

AND WE CANNOT FORGET HIS NAPE CURL. GAWD. I LOVE HIS LITTLE NAPE CURL. LIKE A QUOTATION MARK DIRECTING YOU TO SOMETHING WONDERFUL.

AND AND AND. IN A SCARF. HIS NECK IS MADE FOR SCARVES TO BE RIPPED OFF IT.

OH GOSH. THIS IS A GOOD POST™.

@jnerd925, HERE’S A NECK POST.

lesbiacebian:shoutout to boring queer people who don’t do...

lesbiacebian:

shoutout to boring queer people who don’t do shit. just go to work or school and then come home to watch shows. while gay

The true queer agenda: just living life. While being queer.

jobooksncoffee:WIP Ask GameRules: post the names of all t...

jobooksncoffee:

WIP Ask Game

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips (please repost, don’t reblog). This isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? DnD campaigns? Any unfinished project counts!

Thank you @helloliriels for tagging me… My WIPs, let’s bring them out to the light. In order of posting probability, and “working” titles.

We’ll Always Have Vasteras Parentlock Angst MonsterCan’t Take My Eyes Off Of YouSherlock hurt/comfortBadass JohnAmnesiaThe Westwood SuitCloud Nine

Tagging, @elwinglyre , @the-reading-lemon , @cumbercurlygirl , @kameodouglas , @sherlock-gnomes , @shelleysprometheus , @silentauroriamthereal , @fellshish , any fan that wants to share their WIPs!

Oh, I got tagged, so I have to do this! Lol. Ironically, someone literally just sent me an ask about this fic. I have a hard-and-fast rule about only working on one thing at a time, so what I’m working on right now is a sequel to Isosceles called Trapezoid, because obviously the sequel had to have a stupid shape name to match the original! :D There is significance to which shape I chose, though…

Hello, I saw you were writing a sequel to Isosceles, and I was wondering if you felt comfortable sharing something about the plot if there is one, or if it’s more a slice of life kind of thing, etc. I know you’re taking your time, so no pressure, I’m just

Hey! I don’t mind sharing at all! It’s set about nine months after Corey’s time in London and starts with him inviting Sherlock and John (together, obvs) to come visit him in LA, officially to consult on British crime laws for a film he’s producing, but really to get their help on vetting a co-star he has a thing for and maybe also figure out if it’s worth a big, public coming-out for, etc. Also it gets… spicy. And that’s all I’ll say about the spicy bit, haha! It’s all set in LA, at Corey’s place, more or less. Another of his superhero franchise movies is about to come out, so he’s hosting a big premiere party and such. :)

Eeeee! My story Sine Nomine just attained its first 10,000...

Eeeee! My story Sine Nomine just attained its first 10,000 hits!!! This is so exciting! This is one of those stories that I wrote at a time when I was going through a lot of things and worked some of it out through this specific story, so it’s one that means more to me than some. 

This is my main pandemic story, frankly. During the first phase of Covid, I found myself very suddenly working from home with under 24 hours’ warning. My workplace closed for 2 weeks initially, then they added 2 more weeks, then an additional month, and then another month after that. By the time we re-opened, Covid was still on, George Floyd had been murdered, the BLM movement had taken off enormously, and my workplace went through an enormous, very public scandal around racism and homophobia. During those three months, I was told to find myself something to do to justify still getting paid. I spent it on research, which is adjacent to my job, but not exactly my job. I researched Syria, a topic I already had close to my heart for a lot of reasons (the main one is that I spent a chunk of time there back in 2000) and had wanted to learn more about their attempt at an Arab Spring revolution and the refugee crisis that came out of it. It was grim research, but has stayed very close to my heart and I’m now my workplace’s resident expert on Syria, have made connections with the local Syrian refugee community, and continue giving presentations on what’s happened there in the last 11-12 years now through the illegal revolutionary art that Syrians have made about all of it. 

Sine Nomine is set, officially, in an unnamed village in Serbia. The vibe is meant to resonate more with the Srebrenica Genocide in Bosnia than anything in the Middle East, but the nameless ghost town I created in this story is, for me, Syria. 

Beyond that, this story was meant to ask the question of why Mycroft didn’t do something when he saw the footage of John beating Sherlock to a bloody pulp in the morgue that day. It opens with him rewatching the footage for the umpteenth time and revisiting his original question about John: Will he be the making of my brother? Or make him worse than ever? He’s basically made his decision, and decides to give John one last chance: a test. 

It’s truly a chiaroscuro story, with the scuro parts being pretty grim, but then the chiaro comes through, I promise! If you’ve read this one, you have my heartfelt thanks. If you haven’t and you decide to give it a try, I thank you in advance! <333333333333333333

musthaveblackedout:fuckyeahfightlock:So I honestly can’t...

musthaveblackedout:

fuckyeahfightlock:

So I honestly can’t believe I’ve never seen anyone talking about the art direction of this scene. If I’m repeating something, Ah,well. But I’ve honestly never seen it pointed out that this is the very first time we see Mary, and there are three important things here:

Mary reaches for John’s hand. John takes it, of course—he is used to being offered comfort for his loss, by now—but he is not reaching out to her for comfort in his sadness. She is inserting herself into his grief. Reflexively, he lets her.

We only see the back of her. It’s unusual to introduce a major protagonist any other way than by showing their face pretty much immediately. A major antagonist, however…a baddie…well, they often are introduced in a cloud of cigarette smoke, from a distance, in the shadows, as a mysterious voice on a phone, or in some other way that doesn’t tell us right away who they are. Our first glimpse of Mary gives us only the most vague information about her. Obviously a woman, obviously someone John is close to, as he holds her hand. Other than that…who is she? We don’t know.

Finally, it’s no mistake she is wearing a long, grey coat which flares slightly from the waist, and a blue scarf. But they are paler shades of those colours than Sherlock’s coat and scarf were, because Mary is but a pale imitation of the person we are used to seeing standing beside John Watson (even once, when they were handcuffed together, holding John Watson’s hand in a manner similar to what we see here). Her coat and scarf look cheap, “less than,” and her denim jeans are “less” than Sherlock Holmes’s designer trousers. Her dark hat is a visual echo of Sherlock’s dark hair. This whole shot is set up not only to remind us that Sherlock used to stand here at John Watson’s side, but also that This is some lesser, fake, replacement-Sherlock standing at John Watson’s side, and whether consciously or unconsciously, John has chosen a pale imitation indeed.

This

is how

the show

introduces

literally

every

single

villain

and antagonist

I mean, it doesn’t take a huge analysis to prove that the person who shot the title character is a villain, but that said, this is a brilliant piece of analysis!