Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Fandom: BtVS/Ats
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: Explicit (we'll get there, I promise)
Summary: Spike's been more than done with the high-school and college crowd for years now. Good thing Xander Harris is now very grown up.
Disclaimer: All Buffyverse characters herein are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and affiliated production companies. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warnings: None, except for Xander being a hotasssss.
Word Count: ~2,100 this part
Author's Notes: Thanks bunches to the lovely folks who've commented so far. You make my day and spur me to keep on keepin' on. <3 This is still unbeta'ed, and entirely fueled by my hand-flail-y feelings about daddy-kink!Spike and older!confident!Xander Harris. Now also on AO3.
( FIC: Away From the Numbers (Spike/Xander, Explicit, 3/?)Collapse )
I also just paused to think when I should take a walk today, then realized I have already taken a walk today, around 6:30 this morning. Since I ran into that saying, "Exercise in the morning, before your brain figures out what you're doing," I have been doing just that. It works so well I have actually on several occasion had to really stop and pause and brain to realize that, yup, that actually happened already today. I think I used to know that trick when I was younger; trying to relearn it now (or at least sneak it into my life without my brain catching on).
What are you up to today? Exciting weekend plans? Friday night shenanigans? I should probably have something more thrilling planned for tonight than a mezza-style meal and making Mr. Nous watch Wild Target with me, but on the other hand, that sounds pretty excellent right about now.
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Fandom: BtVS/Ats
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: Explicit (we'll get there, I promise)
Summary: Spike's been more than done with the high-school and college crowd for years now. Good thing Xander Harris is now very grown up.
Disclaimer: All Buffyverse characters herein are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and affiliated production companies. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warnings: None
Word Count: ~1,500 this part
Author's Notes: Look, it's got a header now and everything, so you know it's a real live fic! Part 2 of the Spike/Xander thing I started back in March. Unbeta'ed, and entirely fueled by my hand-flail-y feelings about daddy-kink!Spike and older!confident!Xander Harris.
( FIC: Away From the Numbers (Spike/Xander, Explicit, 2/?)Collapse )
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Pairing: John Watson/Greg Lestrade, John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade (mentioned)
Rating: Explicit
Summary: John Watson tells himself he isn't dating Greg Lestrade. Yeah, they snog and grope and spend time together, but they're just mates. Then along comes Sherlock Holmes, who's far too good at figuring out the truth. (AU - College/Uni)
Word Count: ~1,400 words this part (out of ~9,500 total)
Notes: For full header, please see Part 1. You can read Part 7 here on LJ (below) or over at A03. This story is now complete -- find the entire fic here on LJ or here on AO3.
( FIC: The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth (John/Lestrade, Sherlock/John, mention of Sherlock/Lestrade, 7/7 - *COMPLETE*)Collapse )
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Pairing: John Watson/Greg Lestrade, John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade (mentioned)
Rating: Explicit
Summary: John Watson tells himself he isn't dating Greg Lestrade. Yeah, they snog and grope and spend time together, but they're just mates. Then along comes Sherlock Holmes, who's far too good at figuring out the truth. (AU - College/Uni)
Word Count: ~1,900 words this part (out of ~9,500 total)
Notes: For full header, please see Part 1. You can read Part 6 here on LJ (below) or over at A03. This fic will be updated daily.
( FIC: The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth (John/Lestrade, Sherlock/John, mention of Sherlock/Lestrade, 6/7)Collapse )
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Pairing: John Watson/Greg Lestrade, John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade (mentioned)
Rating: Explicit
Summary: John Watson tells himself he isn't dating Greg Lestrade. Yeah, they snog and grope and spend time together, but they're just mates. Then along comes Sherlock Holmes, who's far too good at figuring out the truth. (AU - College/Uni)
Word Count: ~1,300 words this part (out of ~9,500 total)
Notes: For full header, please see Part 1. You can read Part 5 here on LJ (below) or over at A03. This fic will be updated daily.
( FIC: The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth (John/Lestrade, Sherlock/John, mention of Sherlock/Lestrade, 5/7)Collapse )
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Pairing: John Watson/Greg Lestrade, John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade (mentioned)
Rating: Explicit
Summary: John Watson tells himself he isn't dating Greg Lestrade. Yeah, they snog and grope and spend time together, but they're just mates. Then along comes Sherlock Holmes, who's far too good at figuring out the truth. (AU - College/Uni)
Word Count: ~1,100 words this part (out of ~9,500 total)
Notes: For full header, please see Part 1. You can read Part 4 here on LJ (below) or over at A03. This fic will be updated daily.
( FIC: The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth (John/Lestrade, Sherlock/John, mention of Sherlock/Lestrade, 4/7)Collapse )
That whole situation with the user at ff.net who plagiarized my HP fic seems more or less resolved, so huzzah!
( details on the plagiarism situationCollapse )
On the personal side of the fence -- for those of you following along at home, you may be aware that Mr. Nous and I end up moving. every. single. damn. summer. Well. WE'RE NOT MOVING THIS SUMMER! Boring/stressful details redacted, but basically we're now cleared to stay in this apartment for the next five years!
( general moving blather, and on the completely unprecedented circumstances of staying putCollapse )
Also, we're going to have a summer! A summer without packing tape and cardboard boxes and trying to wrap things before the cats break them! :DDDDDDDDD We may plan a road trip to take advantage of not just being generally tense and exhausted for the duration of what I no longer have to call "the moving months".
Pertinent to summery road trip discussions, I recently had one of those bring your car in for an oil change, find out there are a gazillion other things that must be fixed tout de suite situations, woe! Plus side: my car is running like a dream, and seems very long-trip ready. Grouchy side: it freaking better be, given how much it cost.
Oh, and one more fannish thing! For anyone who vaguely remembers that Spike/Xander featuring older!confident!Xander I posted back in March: I'll have another part of Away From the Numbers up early next week.
How are you all doing these days? Any personal or fannish stuff I've missed or you're just bursting to tell you want to fill me in on? Who wants to help me set up the outside chairs, relax in the sunshine, and drink this pitcher of delicious iced coffee? :D?
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Pairing: John Watson/Greg Lestrade, John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade (mentioned)
Rating: Explicit
Summary: John Watson tells himself he isn't dating Greg Lestrade. Yeah, they snog and grope and spend time together, but they're just mates. Then along comes Sherlock Holmes, who's far too good at figuring out the truth. (AU - College/Uni)
Word Count: ~1,200 words (out of ~9,500 total)
Notes: For full header, please see Part 1. You can read Part 3 here on LJ (below) or over at A03. This fic will be updated daily.
( FIC: The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth (John/Lestrade, Sherlock/John, mention of Sherlock/Lestrade, 3/7)Collapse )
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Pairing: John Watson/Greg Lestrade, John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade (mentioned)
Rating: Explicit
Summary: John Watson tells himself he isn't dating Greg Lestrade. Yeah, they snog and grope and spend time together, but they're just mates. Then along comes Sherlock Holmes, who's far too good at figuring out the truth. (AU - College/Uni)
Word Count: ~1,300 words (this part)
Notes: For full header, please see Part 1. You can read Part 2 here on LJ (below) or over at A03.
( FIC: The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth (John/Lestrade, Sherlock/John, mention of Sherlock/Lestrade, 2/7)Collapse )
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Fandom: Sherlock
Pairing: John Watson/Greg Lestrade, John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade (mentioned)
Rating: Explicit / NC-17
Summary: John Watson tells himself he isn't dating Greg Lestrade. Yeah, they snog and grope and spend time together, but they're just mates. Then along comes Sherlock Holmes, who's far too good at figuring out the truth. (AU - College/Uni)
Disclaimer: All Sherlock characters belong to the BBC, Steven Moffatt, Mark Gatiss, and of course Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warnings: highlight to read **underage character in sexual situations**
Word Count: ~1,000 words.
Author's Notes:
• I’ve taken the title from a common paraphrase/simplified quote of Buddha: “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” See here for details on the canonical original quote.
• This fic is complete (and about ~9,500 words total) but I’m posting it in parts daily.
• The initial inspiration for this came from the College/Uni AU square on my trope_bingo card (this story's the only one to make it to the finish line in time for amnesty).
• Many thanks to wesleysgirl for the helpful beta.
Link: The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth at AO3. Read there or here:
( FIC: The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth (John/Lestrade, Sherlock/John, mention of Sherlock/Lestrade, 1/7)Collapse )
( for other people doing trope bingo, or who are just skilled in fannish bingo challenges or anyone who wants to nod sagely and give adviceCollapse )
I see a couple of people I know are close to being done with a Bingo, so go you! I'm cheering on anyone else who needs it (seriously, I'll pep-talk you in comments if you want ♥).
Luckily I've heard from most Boston-area friends and family that they're home and safe.
Now to re-glue myself to the coverage on television/online. I'll get to emails/comments/etc. another time, sorry.
I personally find it super annoying to look at an AO3 tag and find twenty or so seemingly new fics, and figure out they’re all 100 words long. But on the other hand, those multiple-part “stories” that are really all discreet drabbles just strung together for convenience seem odd to me as well (everything gets all muddled with different pairings, ratings, tropes, kinks, etc.).
How the hell are the rest of you handling this, if you’re writers uploading older works?
How about you readers? Are you glad to see someone’s drabbles collected in one place, or do you find that useless because they’re hard to navigate/just shouldn’t be uploaded in the first place because they’re hella-short?
x-posted from my tumblr, because I recently dusted off my fandom tumblr and am now using it like (semi) crazy
ETA: I should mention that another option is ignoring the drabbles entirely when it comes to uploading! That was my initial plan, to just leave them on my LJ and maybe put a note somewhere in my AO3 profile that if you're searching for short fics, go here, blah blah. Though drabbles related to/continuations of longer stories/series, I would probably upload at AO3 and just designate them, you know, as part of a series with that longer story. Hmmm.
We have one friend running today, so we're waiting on news from her. In all likelihood she's okay, as unfortunately the poor victims in this terrible situation so far appear to have been bystanders.
We're glued to the television and online reports to find out more about what the hell happened. For all that I have to remind myself Patriot's Day exists (it's observed only in Massachusetts, and I spent a fair bit of my adult life living outside of New England), the Boston Marathon always stands out as a significant day celebrating Boston's strengths and welcoming people from all over the world to the city. I've watched coverage of the Marathon most every year of my life -- that day and the Walk for Hunger (in Boston at the start of May) stand out particularly to me as markers of when spring finally comes to New England, and so to me they always represent days of hope, celebrations of life and strength.
How horrible that anyone planned to hurt people so strategically on this day. It boggles my mind. I'm praying for the victims and their families and friends.
Anyway, ( mommy, you don't know how I'm doing ~on the inside~ -- Miss C details, for thems that wants them, along with some musings on family stuffCollapse )
Someone kindly alerted me that a user at FF.net posted my HP Harry Potter/Lily Luna Potter story Daddy's Girl as though it were their own under the title Daddy s girl lily.
This next part is solely for my own records, and probably boring for you to read -- under the cut are details, in the form of my emails to FF.net site admins and to stop-plagiarism about the matter.
( the mundanity of plagiarism -- notes to site admin at ff.netCollapse )
( and more boring details -- the comment over at stop-plagiarismCollapse )
I'd probably post a very cut-and-dry comment at the story itself, giving my own information as proof that the story is mine and asking politely for the user there not to share the story. However, I don't have an FF.net account, so that avenue's not open to me (also can't private-message the "author" because of that).
Okay, boring details over, but how funny is this? ( rambly thoughts on this, possibly also boringCollapse )
Anyway, Happy Plagiarism to me!
- Current Mood:
blah
And read that in as whiny a tone as you like, because I'm so bored and insufferable right now, on account of limiting computer time to almost nil (and yes, I probably shouldn't be on now, but friendlist! *clings*), not watching tv at all (gah, even if my doctor hadn't told me not to, everything's so bright and flashy and hurt-y, I'd avoid it like the plague anyway), and trying to limit reading (I can read, especially with kindle for some reason, for a while, but let's face it, at some point it's pushing it -- I'd cut that out too, but my goodness, I don't actually want to start scaling the walls in here).
Anyhoo, just a note to say I'll be back later when screens cause less wincing.
Expect more of that Spike/Xander thing, whoever might be watching for it, but it won't be for a while yet.
It took me a bit because, well, I've kind of got an eensy concussion. But it's getting better, and I'm super freaking bored with not much computer/tv/reading time and resting to beat the band, so I tapped out this part this morning. Though of late I haven't shared writing-in-progress, only posting finished stuff, I'm throwing this fic out in hopes it'll spur more of the same (writing dry-spells are sucky, as you all know). So, yay, ~1,500 words of the start of something (eventually) excitingly tawdry, though this part is mostly build-up and maybe rated Teen only for violence to a demon who, let's face it, was kind of a jerk anyway.
I'll see what I can do about getting another part of this up pretty soon. Unbeta'ed & etc., woe. I'll get a better header up next time (standard disclaimers and blah blah). Meanwhile, let me know what you think if you have a chance to read!
( FIC: Away From the Numbers (Spike/Xander, eventual NC-17Collapse )
- Current Mood:
curious - Current Music:the jam
But today I was musing about a version of Spike who had zero interest in teen and young-adult Xander, but who comes across Xander when he's late forties, early fifties, has had kids, is a pretty good dad, maybe divorced, handsomely greying and pushing himself to stay in shape. And Spike goes all daddy-issues boing-boing starry-eyes at him and Xander is somewhat puzzled but older and confident and takes it mostly in stride even though at first he's all, no no no, responsible older working dad guy here: don't you go more for the slayer type or the brooding sire type?
But Spike's all, "DADDY ISSUES!" and *_________* and acting petulant and messing things up and/or killing demons to get older!Xander's attention.
And then they finally do it and do it and do it.
Also, all of you who encouraged me to write when I was all flaily and peevish about it are A+, because I wrote 3,000 words after posting that entry and getting your encouraging replies.
Later today I am going to settle in to edit that 3K -- just as soon as I make two more of these dreaded appointment calls. Probably I should more bribe myself with not getting to bake/consume aforementioned fantastic Irish Soda Bread until both of those tasks are crossed off. Plus some of the Irish Soda Bread is going to neighbors (ones who unexpectedly got us Christmas gifts -- which I meant to reciprocate for around Valentine's, and when that plan got fubared by medical stuff, St. Patrick's Day became the go-to holiday of baking choice), and it would be fun to drop those off warm when they're getting home from work. *plots bakishly*
Anyone else having writing aaaangst lately, let me know if you ever want to do word wars or just timed writings alongside on IM. After I hammer at this already written scene a bit, I'm going to try to tackle another burst of writing tomorrow. ♥
So this morning I've cleared time and I've metaphorically thunked myself on the head and scowled at myself about distractions and have sat myself down TO WRITE SOME WORDS, DAMN IT TO HELL!
Gah. It's going to be awkward and murky and awful.
D:
*forges ahead*
Let's toast to March and the possibility of a month that doesn't totally suck, yay!
ETA: Aaaaaand just got a call my mother's in the hospital. It's not a huge emergency, but really, March? Really?
I don't even -- I'm still going for March not sucking, okay? *puts on the knitted wool cloche of determined optimism*
If you want to glance at the card here, I'm doing the middle vertical row -- which, if you don't want to look/don't need the visual, is kidfic, alpha/beta/omega, FREE SPACE, poker/strip poker, and mind control.
And now I have thoughts and feelings about all of these, so let's get down to business blathering about that. No real spoilers for the fics I'm hoping to write -- this is more musing on the tropes themselves rather than specifics for the stories I'm planning, with a slight exception or two.
( more on those tropes! some rambling on the sorts of fics I'd like to write to fill them thar squares, on how I might attack this or that square -- without too many specifics, of course, so I don't spoil the two or three people that might want to read this nonsenseCollapse )
For anyone else working on trope bingo, or a fest, or a prompt or whatever, how are you forging ahead/muddling through these days? If you're working on trope bingo or another bingo, do you have your squares/bingo-making all set, or are you still flailing around like I was until quite recently?
( if this makes no sense to you, you are probably way more stable and normal and should pat yourself on the back and stuff, but omg, *hilarious* to meCollapse )
Also, Happy Valentine's Day! Pretend I am handing the cupcake in my icon right to you! Shhhh, you can eat it, even if you've already eaten chocolates/are having a fancy dessert tonight/have a baker's dozen of cupcakes waiting somewhere. Because this cupcake is made entirely of pure LOVE, y'all.
ETA: I should just say, I'm fine, things will be fine, yadda yadda yadda, I'm just kind of exhausted and reacting oddly to stuff, etc. etc. <3
( ear worm hereinCollapse )
In other news, Mr. Nous had an unexpected day off today, just when I needed serious distraction from something nervous-making. A trip to Sur La Table later, I have three new stirring spoons (fancy wooden ones! and may have danced around the store saying, "New spoons, new spoons!" like the "New steps, new steps!" chant in Strictly Ballroom).
Also purchased: a blue garlic skin remover (you know those roll-y plastic thingies? had one, lost it in some or other move, now have another!); a sturdy Oxo pasta server (so spaghetti can stop besting me); a beeyoootiful long and green-handled microplane zester; and, the cream of the crop, a PURPLE immersion blender, which was on sale for being PURPLE, which is a joke because PURPLE is the color I wanted, yay!
Conclusion: new kitchen stuff -- that's basic but that I would have pshaw'ed/put off buying because do I really need it? -- makes everything bunches better.
My hair is cut! I've not had it cut since...spring, I think. NUTSO. I mean, it went through various stages during that time, some of which were fine, some of which we shall never speak of again. Anyway, now it's very curly (it's wavy/curly anyway, but this cut makes it much more so) and softly styled and no longer making me look like a messy person who just rolled out of bed!
My eyebrows are waxed! Those also have not been done since spring/summer. It's possible I've been neglecting stuff like that because when the going gets tough, the personal me-stuff flies out the window. Anyway, I may have mentioned here a time or two that other people have eyebrows, while I have EYEBROWWWZZZ. So now that those are tidied my face looks a zillion times better, and my eyes, so much prettier this way!
Both hair and eyebrows were done today, so I feel like I should swan around where people can see me and maybe go out for dinner, sit at a prominent table, and toss my head and bat my eyelashes at the server. However, I think instead I will end up staying in, having delicious soup leftovers, and making popcorn with Mr. Nous.
Of course we've already put in calls and emails to maintenance. The heat came on a little bit ago, but it's still pretty sluggish and I don't know I can say it's fixed for sure. The cats seem okay so far, and surprisingly resistant to my attempts to stuff them under the flannel sheets and comforter, so I suppose they're warm enough.
As for me, I'm sitting here in flannel pajamas, a long sleeved t-shirt, a hoodie, a hat, a scarf, and my third mug of hot tea and counting. *glares at heaters*
- Current Mood:
cold
Like you needed an excuse to have pie, right? But in case you did! *makes sweeping gestures*
I'm feeling very remiss, because I have no pie plans for today. Unacceptable! Usually I serve a quiche (or have pizza-pie!) on pie day, followed of course by a sweet pie (if I had to choose right now, it would be a tie between shoofly and apple). However, due to dinner plans tonight, pie will have to be put off until tomorrow. And really, 364 Un-Pie Days are also very, very good for enjoying pie, so I suppose I can't castigate myself too much for my oversight.
Maybe I can somehow fit in a slice of pie at lunch. If only there were really good pie-serving places in my area -- I'm thinking longingly of an excellent diner in Rochester, NY that serves superior pie, and a great bakery in NYC that I would zip over to through a time and space travel portal if I could.
Make some pie plans yourself today, I say! PIE DAY!
♥
I felt a ton better after my freak out garnered your reassurances yesterday, so many thanks for that. ♥
Meanwhile, we have SNOW here (it's a freaking winter wonderland outside my window), Penny and Daisy are being particularly cuddly and we're having delicioso salmon burgers with roasted fingerling "fries" tonight. So pretty much a 1000% better day than much of yesterday. And I'll try not to go all nutso panicky on you for at least a few
I think I might have breathed in some of the dust from the broom bristles as I was doing this.
( cut for very-likely unreasonable medical/disease PANIC!Collapse )
- Current Mood:
scared
Last night we finished watching the 2001/2 live-action The Tick -- good god, it's a freaking crime there are only nine episodes. Arthur/The Tick, a duo-dom of soul-mate-ery if there ever was one! The DVD is on its way to the House of Nous as I write this; the Netflix episode order reflects the FOX's arbitrary airing, while evidently Edlund and the other writers/producers intended the eps to go in an entirely different order, which they are on the DVD, huzzah!
It's an amazingly queer-friendly show, for all of its silliness and satire;
the episode in which Arthur gets committed to an asylum so dodgy therapists can de-program the super out of him (and he's devastated his family can't accept that he's "that way") is fantastic, as is "Couples", when Arthur and The Tick's relationship is disrupted by the utter mess that is the dysfunctional duo The Fiery Blaze/Friendly Fire (with an amazing turn by Ron Pearlman as a drunken, swaggering superhero who drives his poor beleaguered sidekick to form support groups with other 'kicks to talk about how neglected and manipulated they are by their heroes). And the general bickering/domesticity of Arthur/The Tick is tons of fun and adorable to boot (little moments like their disagreements over toothpaste capping, as well as the more obvious, like how The Tick won't let Arthur date unaccompanied, or how Arthur feels betrayed when it seems The Tick is actually married to a woman -- "it's practically bigamy," he fumes, to which The Tick, mistaking for concession and acceptance, agrees, "It is big of you!").
PLUS Nestor Carbonell, (my not-so-secret love from Ringer) as Batmanuel is made of awesome. You know, I think I saw a few of the animated eps from the cartoon series that preceded this one, but I barely remember them (except The Evil Midnight Bomber What Strikes at Midnight) -- anyone recommend I check those out/buy those as well? I don't know if I can have a Tick who's not Patrick Warburton, though. :(
Finally, a very quick (and very overdue!) thanks to
zoolady for the profile gifties. It's lovely of both of you to think of me. <3Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Ron Weasley/Draco Malfoy
Rating: R
Summary: "Everyone would have found out eventually," Draco said. He used his calmest voice, the one Ron absolutely hated him to employ when they fought.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warnings: highlight to read **violence, mind games, references to other-pairing infidelity**
Word Count: 681 words
Author's Notes: For
( FICLET: Come Undone (Ron/Draco, R)Collapse )
My card, if you would:
( trope bingo cardCollapse )
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Fandom: Buffyverse
Pairing: Buffy & Faith
Rating: PG
Summary: When Buffy sees Faith.
Disclaimer: All Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters herein are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and affiliated production companies. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warnings: highlight to read **mild references to violence**
Word Count: 520
Author's Notes: For
lokifan, who asked for "Buffy/Faith, simple." Gah, this is more gen than I wanted (why do my recent prompt-fills keep going all gen-ish on me? the next one is going to be filthy-shippy, I hope). But then even Buffy & Faith always has the flavor of Buffy/Faith to me, so I hope this suits. ( FICLET: The Skin You're In (Buffy/Faith, PG)Collapse )
Author: EntreNous (
entrenous88)Fandom: Sherlock
Pairing: John & Sherlock (some John/Sherlock UST if you squint, which I do)
Rating: G
Summary: "Your present suppositions as to the nature of your gift are undoubtedly specious. Also, the chances of you deducing the contents by that rattling method are slim to none."
Disclaimer: All Sherlock characters are the property of Arthur Conan Doyle, Steven Moffatt, Mark Gatniss, and affiliated production companies. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warnings: highlight to read **None**
Word Count: 1,211 words.
Author's Notes: Thanks to
wesleysgirl, who prompted me with "John/Sherlock with at least one of them enjoying some holiday cheer (in the form of alcohol?)" thus enabling me to make my first foray into writing Sherlock fic. Unbetaed. ( FIC: Sherlock Ruins Christmas (John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, G)Collapse )
I'm slipping in here (haha) to get those good wishes in now, because if I ever get around to posting the entry I have percolating in my head, (a) it will be eighteen pages long and so will take me forever to write and (b) will be eighteen pages long, so that no one will read it even in this please-post-more-to-LJ era.
So by way of update for now I'll just say I had a much better Christmas than I thought I would (just RL stuff that made me think it would be tougher proved mostly unfounded) and that we spent a few days in Brooklyn for the New Year, which was excellent, and now I'm trying to wrench myself back onto a regular (read: suburban) sleep schedule.
I mean to do some kind of year-end wrap-up or ponderings at some point. Shhhh, stop looking so thrilled!
But now, just for the hell of celebrating the New Year, why not prompt me? Buffyverse, HP, Doctor Who (best keep to s1-s3 in terms of companions/canon) and apparently, Sherlock (because I've been reading scads and scads in that fandom and rolling around in Johnlock-y goodness; s1 if you want any sort of verifiable canon referenced, as I'm less familiar with s2) are all fair game. Character or pairing, a word or a few, very brief scenarios, etc., and I'll see if I can get a snippet/drabble/ficlet flung back at you. ♥
So I'm pretty much wrecked for the rest of my awake time, I think. I'm tempted to watch the video of it over and over (alternating with the Pearl Jam one), but that's probably a bad idea (you think?).
Maybe instead you could tell me something cheerful in comments? Pretty pictures also greatly appreciated!
also, I promise I'll post something soon that isn't mostly "hi, I'm a mess!" I'm actually doing much better, I swear.
