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Art Title: Titlecard for “The Tale Of The Ruined Vacation” Fandom: BBC Sherlock/Elementary Link: fic is over here Warnings: None Bragging Rights: I was mainly chuffed to be able to find high quality photos of them looking happy for this.
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Art Title: Titlecard for “The Tale Of The Ruined Vacation” Fandom: BBC Sherlock/Elementary Link: fic is over here Warnings: None Bragging Rights: I was mainly chuffed to be able to find high quality photos of them looking happy for this.
So uh, I have a lot of WIPs
Tagged by @raeofalbion, thank you! ^^
The rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Followers can send an ask with the title that most intrigues or interests them in exchange for a snippet or info about it.
Tagging: I have no idea who did or didn’t do it, so I sort of want to just... let you do it if you feel like it? But also I’m pretty sure @theteadetective hasn’t done it so there. XD
Happy first day of Aggressively Aro-spec Week!
Sherlock Holmes: greyromantic and heterosexual
Joan Watson: aromantic and heterosexual
Sherlock and Joan are work partners and roommates on the show Elementary. They both have many troubles regarding their romantic relationships. Sherlock is only known to have been romantically interested in two women and has a very active sex life throughout several seasons. Joan has had many boyfriends but ends the relationship whenever it starts to get serious. They currently see their friendship with one another to be the most important thing in their lives, to the point where Joan has followed Sherlock to London when he can no longer legally remain in the U.S. Joan may or may not go through with her desire to adopt a child.
So uh, I guess now we know why he got stuck in Norway for a while?
B, N, and P for the ask meme, please? ^^
B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
I’m the most easy person to influence when it comes to fictional pairings, honestly. Unless I can’t stand one of the characters involved, you’ll never get a firm “NUH” from me (you may get one after I try and decide it’s not my cup of tea, but I’ll always be willing to hear it out first). And I’m also usually the first one to bring up all the weird pairings, much to my poor friends’ horror when I stumble on a new one and start ranting about it. x)
However. There was that one time I stumbled on a Morland/Joan werewolf-verse story and went .__. because I hadn’t considered them at all. Well, I’m super glad I clicked. The story was amazing and frankly it made me look back on all those Morland VS Joan confrontations in season 4 with fresh eyes (and much amusement).
N - Name three things you wish you saw more of in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
1 - Meta-analysis that isn’t written around pairings, including pairings I’m interested in, because sometimes I get sick of all fandom things being filtered through the lens of relationships. My main fandoms lately are TV shows, so how about rants on camera language, use of light, colour schemes, what they’re trying to achieve, and how this affects the perception of characters involved in a scene (theirs and/or ours)? How about analysis of scene composition, of narrative arcs over a season beyond how characters bond with each other, of character portrayal depending on who writes them? Tell me about recurring themes and language quirks of writers across their episodes, about the things that worked and didn’t work in episodes directed by main actors on the show, about all those allusions to the source material those shows were inspired of. Hell, especially with TM because at least Elementary did a little bit of that in early seasons, give me an exploration of how character arcs are affected by issues that define them in a significant way (race, multiculturalism, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, etc.). Or for God’s sake someone give me signs there would be interest if I was to rant about those things myself.
2 - How about going back to “Your Kink Is Not My Kink (And That’s Okay)”, “Ship And Let Ship”, and “Don’t Like, Don’t Read”? Seems like we could all do with more of that.
3 - Very selfishly, more Joshua Vikner content please.
P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
Kurland’s Moriarty series: Hmmmmmmm how about a Good Omens AU in which Moriarty is Aziraphale (misanthropic book seller with a sweet tooth and a marked loathing for parting with the books he collects) and Holmes is Crowley (reluctant agent of chaos with an unhealthy fascination for his angelic colleague). Would work well, no? XD The other way around would probably work just as well, but it wouldn’t be as funny to me. ^^
Elementary: You know what, there’s this one thing I’ve been thinking about for a while but never took the time to put into words. See, in my culture we have this very particular brand of magical realism deeply rooted in Catholicism? It’s a bit of an unholy union between the Bible, Irish fae folklore, and Native American myths, where any number of supernatural beings walk amongst us because they belong here the same way we do, but at the same time they’re always just waiting to trick you into an unholy pact and/or do miracles for you depending on what you say and do when you interact.
And I’d love to see Sherlock and Joan deal with a world like that. Being called when cops suspect the crimes they're investigating have a supernatural element to them for example, possibly because the cops are too scared to get on the bad side of the creatures responsible for trouble, and Sherlock doesn’t give a damn about the risks he personally incurs. Possibly in turn because Jamie is a supernatural creature who claimed Sherlock as her own, and those beings are known to get very possessive with their humans so nobody can get in their way directly without suffering Jamie’s wrath. (And she’s scary. 0.0)
Or perhaps Sherlock is himself a renegade creature who got striped of his powers, so now he uses this insider knowledge to help solve supernatural crimes, undo harm, and generally cause trouble for his own kind. Can you imagine on what apocalyptic level the traditional Holmes/Moriarty pissing contest would occur the moment Jamie realises this damn human getting in her way isn’t actually a human at all? Or the impending crisis when Jamie just casually claims Joan, partly to protect her (in a “you’re mine to harm or cherish as I see fit, others can piss off” way), partly to annoy Sherlock who cannot do it himself anymore?
I could go on (relationship with the 11th precinct, Morland vs Jamie, Mycroft) but I’ll stop here because this is getting long, sorry. ^^; But, yeah. The possibilities with that kind of world are endless and all of them make me clutch my face in glee. x)
Alphabet Ask
Tagged by: @almostshadydelusion, thank you! ^^
Rules: List your 10 favourite female characters, one per fandom, then tag 10 people.
ONE per fandom?? That’s never going to happen lol sorry.
1 - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) Literally the first female character I ever identified with so she takes first spot, that’s non-negotiable.
2 - Teresa Lisbon (The Mentalist) My favourite TM character. I cannot for the life of me understand her inner workings, but I love her to bits nonetheless.
3 - Eve Polastri (Killing Eve) With the caveat that I have only seen season 1. She feels real in ways none of the others on this list do and I love her so much for it.
4 - Alice Morgan (Luther) The one bright light in an oh-so-depressing show.
5 - Joan Watson (Elementary) Funny, sensitive, caring, and with a level of intelligence she isn’t recognised enough for, Joan Watson is a queen and the very reason I absolutely refuse to limit myself to one female character per fandom. I can play favourites inside a fandom when needed, but for a top 10 across fandoms? She’s head and shoulders above half the characters on this list already so I’m not leaving her out, no way. <3
6 - Eurus Holmes (BBC Sherlock) I wish she had been in someone else’s hands. Most of that show makes me feel like they were sitting on troves of unexploited potential and badly handled everything they touched, but with her it’s the worst.
7 - Madeleine Hightower (The Mentalist) One of the most well-rounded and complex TM characters. Clever, competent, ruthless, emotionally vulnerable, a bit of a schemer, deeply loving and protective, politically motivated but family oriented... I could go on. Her character has a range I’m not even sure some of the main characters had. She’s wonderful and same as Watson, leaving her out just wouldn’t have been possible.
8 - Arya Stark (ASOIAF) Literally the reason I started reading those books in the first place, waaaaay before they even started talking about making a show. Two fanarts, one quote, that was enough for her to own my heart.
9 - Jiya Marri (Timeless) My sweet, desperate, badass nerdy girl. Another character with potential lost, who should have been in the hands of better writers.
10 - Jamie Moriarty (Elementary) I wish I could explain, but every time I try to find the right words, it ends in stammering and emotional overwhelm. She’s everything to me, that’s just how it is.
Tagging: @theteadetective, @raeofalbion, @archiegoodwin, @extasiswings, and @lettersdeeplyworn. (Feel free to do it even if you’re not in that list, there’s five invisible tags there, one of them might be you.)
That OTP ask thig! Jane and Lisbon- 6 Jamie and Sherlock- 15. X3
(-meme-) Hey! ^^ Didn’t expect this question to pop up, hehe. Let’s see…
6. Who would run into a burning building to save a stranger while the other calls 911.
LOL. Okay so this is actually quite funny because I expect the situation would be somewhat similar with both of those ships, with one key difference between them. But for Jane and Lisbon, it would go like this:
- Jane and Lisbon are going to interrogate a suspect. When they get there, the house is on fire.- Jane notices their suspect in the living room behind the closed window, realises what is going to happen, and freezes in horror for a very short moment.- At the very same time, Lisbon immediately takes out her phone to call emergency services.- The suspect screams, Lisbon finally notices them and realises by the time emergency services get here they’ll die. She tosses her phone at Jane, tells him to call 911, and runs right into the building.- Jane calls 911 while running after Lisbon, screaming and trying to prevent her from going into the house.- Lisbon is fearless and doesn’t hesitate going in. Jane isn’t fearless and recoils when he feels the heat of the fire on his skin. In the second it takes for him to control himself, Lisbon is inside and out of sight.- Jane runs inside the house after Lisbon, trying to find her, but there’s smoke everywhere and he gets lost.- Meanwhile Lisbon finds the suspect and pulls them along to the exit. They’re singed a little but aside from missing eyebrows and a cough, they’re fine.- Lisbon realises Jane isn’t anywhere and goes back in to find him. Meanwhile, emergency services arrive.- Lisbon follows the sounds of coughing and finds Jane crouching on the ground, trying to call for her and unable to get a sound out because his lungs are filled with smoke.- Lisbon wants to pull Jane out of the house but at this point she’s starting to have trouble breathing, and she gets dizzy with lack of oxygen.- The emergency services end up pulling them both out and treating them for smoke inhalation.- Killer or not, that suspect is going to be very sorry. x)
Bonus => with Sherlock and Jamie, the key difference would reside in the fact that Jamie probably wouldn’t even bother with the emergency services the moment she realises Sherlock is running into the fire, and from that point on Sherlock would have to physically fight her every step of the way while she screams creative insults in his face and tries to pull him out. And at some point when they’re inside Jamie would probably take the lead just to get Sherlock out more quickly, but Sherlock wouldn’t let her because he doesn’t trust her intent so they would keep fighting and lose a lot of time there, until emergency services get them all out (because the neighbours called even after Jamie didn’t). Otherwise same outcome, and I suspect Sherlock will be just as sorry as the suspect because Jamie is definitely going to make him pay as well. XD
15. Who would fight an impossible battle to give the other time to escape.
Asdfghjkllkjhgf this is the hardest possible question and I sort of want to say… both of them? Except, it would have to be a spur of the moment thing because if asked, Jamie would definitely say she’d save herself first (but considering how she stays in jail for four whole-ass years just to be able to trade letters with him, I think canon established -repeatedly- she doesn’t really have her own best interests at heart where he’s concerned lol). And of course, unless Watson pulls Sherlock out of there herself, they’re probably both going to die together trying to get each other to escape. So, yeah. (Why would you ask that sort of question T_T)
(But also, to be fair, Jamie and Sherlock would probably find a way to out-smart whatever is getting in their way if they stay there together because who better to defeat the impossible than Sherlock Holmes and Jamie Moriarty? Getting them to work together is more likely to be the impossible thing. XD)
Bonus => uhm, Jane and Lisbon, exact same scenario. Except considering there’s two whole teams to pull them out of there, neither are going to die because nobody would let Lisbon die ever, they’d all sacrifice themselves first, and they’re also way too used to saving Jane’s ass by now. XD
This is a thing now.