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I am steamrolling right on to a dramatic...well, not a conclusion, I don't think, but at least a stopping point on Mise, which is good, because Andrew has spring break next week which means he's going to be home All. Day. Long. (Note my enthusiasm. I love my son, but omg he has energy.) There is a plan amongst the other mothers in the complex to try to come up with ways to distract our wayward children while they're at home. Unfortunately it doesn't allow for a lot of time off, so I'm not entirely sure how much writing I'm going to get done.
(If I'm really lucky, I might actually get to my stopping point. Well, if I'm lucky and not easily distracted. It's the second part that seems to be the really tricky thing. So far I'm doing all right. I had to do a bit of rewriting today - a kid mysteriously popped up while I was writing, but I axed her today so that's fine. It's not that I'm against kid!fic, I think kid!fic is a lovely thing. It's just that I don't want Mise to be a kid!fic.)
In the meantime, I've started writing the Sherlock 60s again. It occurred to me last week, after I was bemoaning the fact that everything I'm writing seems to be turning into Epics of Massive Proportions that I did have at least one thing that wasn't going to spiral out of control. I'm majorly far behind - the community is about 15 stories ahead of where I stopped - so I figure I'll write one of the backstories along with the current story every week until I'm caught up, the year ends, or Series 3 is aired, whichever happens first.
Anyway, in reading the story from fifteen weeks ago, I realized why I stopped: it was The Dying Detective, which frankly, I hated. I mean, really horrible I-cannot-stand-this this-is-not-the-way-this-friendship-works sort of hate. And I realized that the way I feel about this story is the exact way that most Doctor/Rose shippers feel about the DW episode The Girl in the Fireplace. "NOOOOOOOO!!!" And then you're obligated to write a fic explaining it, or explaining why you're ignoring it. Like a rite of passage.
I spent most of the story wanting to slap them both upside the head. Holmes for being so horrible to Watson - and Watson for taking it. I mean, come on, your best friend basically tells you that you're a rubbish doctor, and you're still going to sit there by his bedside and not move a muscle for two hours? WTF, Watson? STAND UP FOR YOURSELF AND KICK HIM. You know perfectly well you're not a rubbish doctor and that Holmes is an asshole of the highest order!
(This must be one of the stories that are used as proof that Watson can't lie, because clearly Holmes doesn't trust him to tell him the truth about his supposed medical condition.)
I wonder - do all fandoms have that one story or episode that a segment of the fandom ignores? The Dying Detective for me, or The Girl in the Fireplace for Doctor/Rose shippers, or the epilogue in the last Harry Potter book (because I'm sorry, Albus Severus is the dumbest name ever, and you know that child was beaten up at least once a week). Pretty sure most Star Trek fans ignore Enterprise as a whole. (I still have trouble buying Scott Bakula as a starship captain; I kept expecting Al and Ziggy to come around the corner and tell Sam what he'd need to do to get home that week.)
(I wonder what LOTR or Avengers fans ignore? Hmm.)
(If I'm really lucky, I might actually get to my stopping point. Well, if I'm lucky and not easily distracted. It's the second part that seems to be the really tricky thing. So far I'm doing all right. I had to do a bit of rewriting today - a kid mysteriously popped up while I was writing, but I axed her today so that's fine. It's not that I'm against kid!fic, I think kid!fic is a lovely thing. It's just that I don't want Mise to be a kid!fic.)
In the meantime, I've started writing the Sherlock 60s again. It occurred to me last week, after I was bemoaning the fact that everything I'm writing seems to be turning into Epics of Massive Proportions that I did have at least one thing that wasn't going to spiral out of control. I'm majorly far behind - the community is about 15 stories ahead of where I stopped - so I figure I'll write one of the backstories along with the current story every week until I'm caught up, the year ends, or Series 3 is aired, whichever happens first.
Anyway, in reading the story from fifteen weeks ago, I realized why I stopped: it was The Dying Detective, which frankly, I hated. I mean, really horrible I-cannot-stand-this this-is-not-the-way-this-friendship-works sort of hate. And I realized that the way I feel about this story is the exact way that most Doctor/Rose shippers feel about the DW episode The Girl in the Fireplace. "NOOOOOOOO!!!" And then you're obligated to write a fic explaining it, or explaining why you're ignoring it. Like a rite of passage.
I spent most of the story wanting to slap them both upside the head. Holmes for being so horrible to Watson - and Watson for taking it. I mean, come on, your best friend basically tells you that you're a rubbish doctor, and you're still going to sit there by his bedside and not move a muscle for two hours? WTF, Watson? STAND UP FOR YOURSELF AND KICK HIM. You know perfectly well you're not a rubbish doctor and that Holmes is an asshole of the highest order!
(This must be one of the stories that are used as proof that Watson can't lie, because clearly Holmes doesn't trust him to tell him the truth about his supposed medical condition.)
I wonder - do all fandoms have that one story or episode that a segment of the fandom ignores? The Dying Detective for me, or The Girl in the Fireplace for Doctor/Rose shippers, or the epilogue in the last Harry Potter book (because I'm sorry, Albus Severus is the dumbest name ever, and you know that child was beaten up at least once a week). Pretty sure most Star Trek fans ignore Enterprise as a whole. (I still have trouble buying Scott Bakula as a starship captain; I kept expecting Al and Ziggy to come around the corner and tell Sam what he'd need to do to get home that week.)
(I wonder what LOTR or Avengers fans ignore? Hmm.)