I think what I like best about your stories is that you like Mary just as much as I do. It's good to see someone so like-minded.

So, somewhere on the negative scale, then? :D It IS nice! The odd thing is, I felt so alone in despising Mary from the proposal scene forward. In the four stories I wrote between The Empty Hearse and His Last Vow, I tried to be kind-ish to her. Although I will say that I was the almost certainly the first one to write the baby not being John’s (in Liability, which I wrote before HLV aired). I felt very alone in hating Mary, and once she was revealed as a villain in HLV, I felt so relieved - at least until the forgiveness/taking back scene, which left me HELLA disgruntled. When I made my first post about reasons I hadn’t even liked Mary before she shot Sherlock, it was late February of 2014 and people RAINED the hate down on me for posting it. When I made a second lengthy post almost a year later, it was much more popular. It’s been interesting to see the way the fandom has come around a bit more on her… :P I have other Mary posts as well (such as this one, from more recently), but just the contrast between responses to those two has been curious. I’m not much of a meta writer - I usually put all of that into my stories, but either way - I’m really glad we see eye-to-eye on all that! :)