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I spent literally the entire day today, minus half an hour cleaning the kitchen and twenty minutes for toast (please note: the toast came after the cleaning! There were no toast-related explosions), writing fanfic.

AND I FEEL FIIIIIIINE...

Actually I do. I finished the Rulesverse fic for DW season five, so now it's all tweaking and betas and re-reading for any bits where I momentarily slipped into past-tense. It is gary-stu-tastic. I mean, Rulesverse has always verged on that because the entire thing is told from the POV of an original character, but his own issues get more airtime in this than usual, and he's kinda magical, and in many ways I do not care. I had a blast writing it.

"Two thousand years people've been trying to get into the Pandorica," Nicholas announces, though he's not really sure who he's talking to. Amy staggers and manages to stand, leaning heavily on him. "Mystery of the ages, it is. Puzzle of scholars across the globe. Turns out there's a hot girl inside."

I am also working on the Most Excellently Epic White Collar Fic that I started last season and then burned out on for a while. My sense of subtlety is all skewed, in good ways and bad, by the show itself, which makes it a challenge. On the other hand, everyone in White Collar is weirdly easy to write for.

The Codex Leaf was beautiful. From the second Peter opened the briefcase, Neal wanted to get alone with it and buy it a drink. Mozzie occasionally made fun of Neal's infatuations with works of art, joking that he didn't want to find a wet spot on a priceless painting, but art was purer than sex and sometimes, depending on the art (and the sex), more fun. Sometimes a piece just took Neal's breath away. Whether the passion was brief or eternal, he enjoyed it when it happened.

I wonder if I can get away with doing this all day tomorrow, too. LET'S FIND OUT.

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Happy Sunday!

I have just one thing to say to you all:



(That's from Tonight's The Night, which is John Barrowman's usual combination of mildly painful and utterly charming. It doesn't do the his pink shirt justice, but I didn't know they even made day-glo pink dress shirts. I suppose he has them done custom. "Hey, could you make it pink...and blinding?")

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Here's the thing: Like John Watson, I am easy for Sherlock Holmes.

I'm not a fan, really, not in the way I'm a fan of many things. I don't usually analyse the stories, don't make notes on them or study their subtext, rarely write fic. I'm certainly not a fan in the way old-school, hardcore Holmes fans are; the body of work they've put out is precise, thoughtful, and a little unbelievable.

I just like the stories. When I was six my dad read me The Speckled Band as a several-night featured bedtime story, because my dad never really grasped the whole concept of "impressionable", he just wanted me to love something he loved and figured by then I had the vocabulary for it. He gave me The Adventures with all the original Strand illos for my birthday the same year, and I ate it up. I wanted to be Dr. Watson. Holmes could do the thinking, I'd shoot people and write stories about it. Hell yes.

Anyway, easy for Holmes, that's me. So tonight I watched Sherlock, the new offering by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, which I guess is a pilot for a show that never got bought? I'm not sure, there are three ninety minute episodes and this was the first. While I would have watched it regardless (see: Sherlock Holmes Not The Good One) I saw the trailer and thought it looked intriguing, saw who'd written it and thought it was well worth a try. Updating the canon and characters and setting them in the twenty-first century could be so terrible if done wrong, but it seemed to play nicely with convention and I liked the look of the thing.

About fifteen minutes in, I paused it to make popcorn. And then I proceeded to enjoy the hell out of Sherlock.

It's rough in spots, but well worth a viewing if you like Sherlock Holmes or character-driven crime procedurals (as opposed to science or law driven; my goodness we put out a lot of crime shows, as a species). There's a definite whiff of Doctor Who about it, and a bit of Jonathan Creek; given that House MD is also based on Sherlock Holmes the comparisons will probably be drawn, but I think they're superficial and likely to fade if the show goes further.

As it's ninety minutes, I broke the Three Things a little, so welcome to (spoiler warning!) ( Sam's Six Things About Sherlock. )

6a. "We can't giggle! It's a crime scene!" Oh Watson. You are in so much trouble.

So yeah, in all, totally enjoyed it; will be watching the next episode, would watch it if it were picked up for a full season. I think there are some issues with it that could make it problematic as a full-season show, but anticipating wreckage seems folly when the current thing is so good.

As I am likely to get asked for links to download, please be aware I don't have any -- I pulled it off torrent. Still, feel free to comment saying you'd like a copy, and perhaps a good samaritan from the Cafe will help you out. :) Just be discreet, kids.