Sleeping Dragons Ep 03 - finished!

The Epilogue to "Smiths & Joneses" has been posted to otherworlds_lib and to FF.Net. All loose threads and unanswered questions will be dealt with in "Episode 04 - Atonement". My heartfelt thanks to all those who took the time to read and comment Episode 03 - it was a long ride, but a delightful one.

Enjoy the rest of the story!

Sleeping Dragons Ep 03 - finished!

The Epilogue to "Smiths & Joneses" has been posted to otherworlds_lib and to FF.Net. All loose threads and unanswered questions will be dealt with in "Episode 04 - Atonement". My heartfelt thanks to all those who took the time to read and comment Episode 03 - it was a long ride, but a delightful one.

Enjoy the rest of the story!

Random thoughts of a Sherlock addict

Wrong userpic, but I don't have a Sherlock icon. Yet. But I will be. You see, I'm a convert. And it's all saki101's fault. Had she (at least I think she's a she) not posted all those intriguing Sherlockfic snippets at picowrimo in the last 2 months, I'd never have bought the series while in Hamburg and never gotten addicted. As things are now, I believe I've reached the stage beyond all hope.

I've never fallen for a new fandom this fast and this hard; and those who know me also know that I'm not interested in contemporary stuff, as a rule. Unless it's vampires, of course. Sherlock has swallowed me as a whole. Most other DVDs I bought in Hamburg and Lübeck, and I bought an indecent lot of them, never got beyond the checking phase (had to see it they're okay). Sherlock, OTOH? I've already watched both seasons twice, plus once all episodes with the audio commentars, and the Making of extras, and so on. And I've read tons of fanfiction, some of it truly excellent. I put those on my favourites list on FF.Net. I can't get enough of it.

So, what's that caught me so irresistibly in Sherlock? I think it's the friendship between the two main characters. It's something truly unique in todays television. And this is what makes the whole series so authentic to the source, despite the modernization. This friendship originates in an earlier time when bromance was a completely natural and accepted thing in society, without people thinking of a gay relationship by every touch, every fond glance. When two men could simply and honestly have a deep friendship, without tingled with sex.

Moffat and Gatiss called it man-love in one of the audio commentaries, teasingly saying that it could be abbreviated as MOVE. And that's a beautiful thing to watch, especially as Cumberbatch and Freeman bring it over. Those two guys are absolutely brilliant.

Now, those who know me also know that I'm not against slash. In fact, I read - and write - a great deal of it. However, there are some "pairings" where the mere idea rings wrong for me. Frodo and Sam in LOTR is one of those things. Sherlock and John is another one. This is just my personal feeling, mind you, and I don't judge anyone who ships them; in fact, a few of the stories I favourited are slash. But I find the friendship aspect much more appealing - especially in the current inflation of slash stories, too many of them concentrating on how to put Character A into Character B with a minimum of fuss.

Friendship is something that ought to be explored a lot more than it is nowadays. I ruefully admit my own sin by neglect in this area. Aside from being supremely entertaining and visually beautiful, Sherlock has also opened my eyes on the relative one-sidedness of my own writing, and for that, I'm grateful.

Random thoughts of a Sherlock addict

Wrong userpic, but I don't have a Sherlock icon. Yet. But I will be. You see, I'm a convert. And it's all saki101's fault. Had she (at least I think she's a she) not posted all those intriguing Sherlockfic snippets at picowrimo in the last 2 months, I'd never have bought the series while in Hamburg and never gotten addicted. As things are now, I believe I've reached the stage beyond all hope.

I've never fallen for a new fandom this fast and this hard; and those who know me also know that I'm not interested in contemporary stuff, as a rule. Unless it's vampires, of course. Sherlock has swallowed me as a whole. Most other DVDs I bought in Hamburg and Lübeck, and I bought an indecent lot of them, never got beyond the checking phase (had to see it they're okay). Sherlock, OTOH? I've already watched both seasons twice, plus once all episodes with the audio commentars, and the Making of extras, and so on. And I've read tons of fanfiction, some of it truly excellent. I put those on my favourites list on FF.Net. I can't get enough of it.

So, what's that caught me so irresistibly in Sherlock? I think it's the friendship between the two main characters. It's something truly unique in todays television. And this is what makes the whole series so authentic to the source, despite the modernization. This friendship originates in an earlier time when bromance was a completely natural and accepted thing in society, without people thinking of a gay relationship by every touch, every fond glance. When two men could simply and honestly have a deep friendship, without tingled with sex.

Moffat and Gatiss called it man-love in one of the audio commentaries, teasingly saying that it could be abbreviated as MOVE. And that's a beautiful thing to watch, especially as Cumberbatch and Freeman bring it over. Those two guys are absolutely brilliant.

Now, those who know me also know that I'm not against slash. In fact, I read - and write - a great deal of it. However, there are some "pairings" where the mere idea rings wrong for me. Frodo and Sam in LOTR is one of those things. Sherlock and John is another one. This is just my personal feeling, mind you, and I don't judge anyone who ships them; in fact, a few of the stories I favourited are slash. But I find the friendship aspect much more appealing - especially in the current inflation of slash stories, too many of them concentrating on how to put Character A into Character B with a minimum of fuss.

Friendship is something that ought to be explored a lot more than it is nowadays. I ruefully admit my own sin by neglect in this area. Aside from being supremely entertaining and visually beautiful, Sherlock has also opened my eyes on the relative one-sidedness of my own writing, and for that, I'm grateful.