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So, you guys, I have a somewhat bizarre confession to make. I appear to be becoming a Sherlock Holmes fangirl.
No, really. No one has hijacked my journal. This is me, professing my ever-increasing fascination with a canon that has very little in the way of Awesome (Old) Ladies (though, Mrs Hudson, yay I love you, predictably).
I blame this entirely upon Awesome Teacher, who is a blatant Holmes fangirl (I suspect not a fannish one, though I'm sure if she was, she'd rather set herself on fire than admit it to her students/colleagues, like most of the fannish academics on my flist). She set 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' as part of Gothic lit last semester, and 'A Study in Scarlet' for Victorian lit this semester, and geeked out like a geeky thing in the former lecture, and, well, I suppose enthusiasm is catching? Because, inspired by said enthusiasm, I tuned in to Elementary a few months ago, and now I am also watching the first two seasons of Sherlock. And I may have also bought All The Books on ebay last night (for like ten bucks, seriously wtf awesome).
Whaaaat. But yes. Sherlock Holmes! Apparently, I am a fan. Though I think really it's Watson that I like more (though more fascinated by Sherlock, IDEK). I am absolutely loving Elementary, and quite enjoying Sherlock (problematic depictions of women notwithstanding), and, just yeah. I have no idea if this is an Enjoyment Only sort of fannishness, or a Will Eventually Lead to Fic fannishness - I tend to be fairly monogamous as a fic writer, and I don't think my long-term relationship with HP fandom is through, but you never know. I have dabbled a little outside of HP, and maybe I'll do so again. Currently, I find myself fascinated with Sherlock's sexuality in Elementary, and his characterisation of himself as a sociopath in Sherlock, which I think is bullshit but an interesting thing to think about yourself, both of which I could potentially explore in fic. I also possibly have some Mrs Hudson/asexual Sherlock feels, which may or may not ever want to become fic.
Of course, the possibility or not of writing Holmes fanfic is not something I am thinking about right now, because I have ten days to write a
hoggywartyxmas fic, and need to get on with that. And after I've done that I think I'd like to try and finish the story I started writing for minerva_fest. Although possibly somewhere in there I'd like to write some Yuletide treats, since I didn't sign up this year (felt bad, not finishing last year, and dear god I didn't think I could face another deadline after my uni stuff and then hoggywarty), so there could maybe be some tooling around in Elementary requests for that, we'll see.
Anyway, yes. Ten days to write hoggywarty, so I should be writing right now. Therefore, have a meme.
Type these words into the search bar on your iTunes and list the first song that appears in the results.
happy: So Happy I Could Die - Lady Gaga
love: Crown of Love - The Arcade Fire
hate: Handsome Furs Hate This City - Handsome Furs
light: Mother of Light - Epica
dark: The Dark Side of Love - Birds of Tokyo
good: Good fight - Creed
bad: They Say I'm a Bad Boy - Draco and the Malfoys
smile: Smile - Lily Allen
cry: The Dolphin's Cry - Live
girl: Pansy (You are the Girl of My Dreams) - Draco and the Malfoys
boy: (it's the same as 'bad', so, next) My Boy Builds Coffins - Florence and the Machine
lost: Everything's Not Lost - Coldplay
night: Infinite Wisdom Tooth/My last Night in Bed With You - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
day: Rise Today - Alter Bridge
wolf: Werewolf - Fiona Apple
robot: Robot - The Futureheads
dance: i can't dance - bonaparte
time: Time - Creed
life: Come to Life - Alter Bridge
death: In the Veins of Death Valley
No, really. No one has hijacked my journal. This is me, professing my ever-increasing fascination with a canon that has very little in the way of Awesome (Old) Ladies (though, Mrs Hudson, yay I love you, predictably).
I blame this entirely upon Awesome Teacher, who is a blatant Holmes fangirl (I suspect not a fannish one, though I'm sure if she was, she'd rather set herself on fire than admit it to her students/colleagues, like most of the fannish academics on my flist). She set 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' as part of Gothic lit last semester, and 'A Study in Scarlet' for Victorian lit this semester, and geeked out like a geeky thing in the former lecture, and, well, I suppose enthusiasm is catching? Because, inspired by said enthusiasm, I tuned in to Elementary a few months ago, and now I am also watching the first two seasons of Sherlock. And I may have also bought All The Books on ebay last night (for like ten bucks, seriously wtf awesome).
Whaaaat. But yes. Sherlock Holmes! Apparently, I am a fan. Though I think really it's Watson that I like more (though more fascinated by Sherlock, IDEK). I am absolutely loving Elementary, and quite enjoying Sherlock (problematic depictions of women notwithstanding), and, just yeah. I have no idea if this is an Enjoyment Only sort of fannishness, or a Will Eventually Lead to Fic fannishness - I tend to be fairly monogamous as a fic writer, and I don't think my long-term relationship with HP fandom is through, but you never know. I have dabbled a little outside of HP, and maybe I'll do so again. Currently, I find myself fascinated with Sherlock's sexuality in Elementary, and his characterisation of himself as a sociopath in Sherlock, which I think is bullshit but an interesting thing to think about yourself, both of which I could potentially explore in fic. I also possibly have some Mrs Hudson/asexual Sherlock feels, which may or may not ever want to become fic.
Of course, the possibility or not of writing Holmes fanfic is not something I am thinking about right now, because I have ten days to write a
hoggywartyxmas fic, and need to get on with that. And after I've done that I think I'd like to try and finish the story I started writing for minerva_fest. Although possibly somewhere in there I'd like to write some Yuletide treats, since I didn't sign up this year (felt bad, not finishing last year, and dear god I didn't think I could face another deadline after my uni stuff and then hoggywarty), so there could maybe be some tooling around in Elementary requests for that, we'll see. Anyway, yes. Ten days to write hoggywarty, so I should be writing right now. Therefore, have a meme.
Type these words into the search bar on your iTunes and list the first song that appears in the results.
happy: So Happy I Could Die - Lady Gaga
love: Crown of Love - The Arcade Fire
hate: Handsome Furs Hate This City - Handsome Furs
light: Mother of Light - Epica
dark: The Dark Side of Love - Birds of Tokyo
good: Good fight - Creed
bad: They Say I'm a Bad Boy - Draco and the Malfoys
smile: Smile - Lily Allen
cry: The Dolphin's Cry - Live
girl: Pansy (You are the Girl of My Dreams) - Draco and the Malfoys
boy: (it's the same as 'bad', so, next) My Boy Builds Coffins - Florence and the Machine
lost: Everything's Not Lost - Coldplay
night: Infinite Wisdom Tooth/My last Night in Bed With You - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
day: Rise Today - Alter Bridge
wolf: Werewolf - Fiona Apple
robot: Robot - The Futureheads
dance: i can't dance - bonaparte
time: Time - Creed
life: Come to Life - Alter Bridge
death: In the Veins of Death Valley