Good intentions and Sherlock Holmes offerings.
So... I failed in my intention to post my podfics or get them into the competition I was going to enter. Partly this was because at the time of the deadline, the man got one of his 3-monthly paydays (oh the joys of contract work!) which means he takes me away and gets me drunk or we otherwise pretend we're rich for the week.
But mostly... mostly it was an attack of insecurity-based procrastination, wherein I decided the podfics were too dreadful to release. Although I usually feel this way about stuff I create, and cope by pressing submit and getting it over with, in this case I knew I had to first figure out how to turn them into respectable m4b files with cover art, and I couldn't face it. I am now probably going to let my procrastination guilt fade a bit before I try to look at them again, or I will throw myself back into a tizzy and possibly delete them. Such is my process, and I try not to judge it any more, and also to talk frankly about it because it helps a little.
Instead I offer up something else which I have been sitting on for ages, as in probably more than five years. I have no idea where to find the sorts of people who might be interested in this, so I shall just release it into the wild and see what happens. It's Holmes/Watson. I love Holmes/Watson, it combines all my favourite tropes and relationships with Victoriana, and of course a canon with a rich, thick layer of intense slash subtext. Anyway, here it is on AO3:
An Account of the Principal Deceptions of J.H. Watson (12744 words) by AnyaElizabeth
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Additional Tags: Awesome Mary Morstan
Summary:
Yet there is one account above all others which I have censored quite shamefully, willfully, and without an honourable motivation - nor with any particular grace. In my defence, it was not entirely unnecessary, or entirely deliberate in some places, and at the time I was both inexperienced in the field of biography and lacking the honour of Mr Holmes's blunt perspective. I refer, of course, to the case of Mr Jonathan Small and the Agra treasure, the case I entitled, 'The Sign of the Four'.
X-posted from DW.
But mostly... mostly it was an attack of insecurity-based procrastination, wherein I decided the podfics were too dreadful to release. Although I usually feel this way about stuff I create, and cope by pressing submit and getting it over with, in this case I knew I had to first figure out how to turn them into respectable m4b files with cover art, and I couldn't face it. I am now probably going to let my procrastination guilt fade a bit before I try to look at them again, or I will throw myself back into a tizzy and possibly delete them. Such is my process, and I try not to judge it any more, and also to talk frankly about it because it helps a little.
Instead I offer up something else which I have been sitting on for ages, as in probably more than five years. I have no idea where to find the sorts of people who might be interested in this, so I shall just release it into the wild and see what happens. It's Holmes/Watson. I love Holmes/Watson, it combines all my favourite tropes and relationships with Victoriana, and of course a canon with a rich, thick layer of intense slash subtext. Anyway, here it is on AO3:
An Account of the Principal Deceptions of J.H. Watson (12744 words) by AnyaElizabeth
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Additional Tags: Awesome Mary Morstan
Summary:
Yet there is one account above all others which I have censored quite shamefully, willfully, and without an honourable motivation - nor with any particular grace. In my defence, it was not entirely unnecessary, or entirely deliberate in some places, and at the time I was both inexperienced in the field of biography and lacking the honour of Mr Holmes's blunt perspective. I refer, of course, to the case of Mr Jonathan Small and the Agra treasure, the case I entitled, 'The Sign of the Four'.
X-posted from DW.