My Favourite Hobby

[chocolamousse]

Title: My Favourite Hobby
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Category: Romance
Rating: PG-13
Beta: The amazing verityburns
Word count: 1594
Translation into Chinese available here (thank you, Lowtension!) and into Russian available here and here (thank you, Little_Unicorn!).
Summary: John loves going to the theatre. So does Sherlock - but only if John is with him. And

Comments

[arianedevere]

Once again I’m going to reproduce what I wrote to you when you first let me see this glorious piece of writing, back when it looked like you were never going to publish your fic and let other people see it:

I wish, I really really wish you could have watched me over Skype or something while I was reading this, and could have heard the noises and faces I was making at the time. There were so many moments of "aww" and gasps and "oh bless" and giggles of adoration - aimed both at the boys and at the writer ... and then I got to the last paragraph.

And now I'm weeping. Literally there are tears streaming down my face.

My good God, Choco. You can write. It is such a tragic waste, and a huge loss to the fanfic community, that you don't allow these stories to go public. It is a godamned waste that your stories are only seen by a few people. And we are so lucky and privileged to see such tenderness and adoration and affection expressed between our favourite characters by such a talented writer

[arianedevere]

And then, once I’d got my breath back a bit, I wrote more:

I still can't read My Favourite Hobby without my eyes filling with tears. I'm so glad I didn't read it for the first time while I was at work, or I would have disgraced myself with all the noises and then the weeping, but I'm sitting here in the office now (thankfully alone, although the boss may wander in at any time) and I can only look at the story in small doses, otherwise I'll be blubbing again. It's so damned clever; and so what if it's a similar idea to The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of? Half of my stories are inspired by somebody else's, or a line from somebody else's, or even a line from (gasp) real life or other fiction. And you are, after all, talking to the woman who plagiarised her own fiction by doing two versions of Author, Author! Besides, Dreams was such a fabulous concept in the first place, so using it again in Hobby is not a problem at all. You could even make it into a series ... ooh, now there's an idea: Five Times Sherlock And John Didn't Realise They Had

[chocolamousse]

What's wrong with Lj today, I've got notifications for comments HOURS after they were sent to my journal! I hope you haven't got a notification for my posting yesterday hours after I posted it too. Ah well.

First, thank you for deleting the first lines of your original answer, you know, the “Damn you damn you damn you damn you damn you damn you. You stupid bloody idiot woman, what the hell are you thinking?”. It's very considerate from you. :D

I'm glad you reproduce what you wrote the first time you read the story because it's a really amazing and long and detailed answer and it still makes me very, very happy, especially when you say I've really got inside Sherlock's head and heart. What a great compliment! I love that you tell me what you like best, especially when it's what I like best too, like Sherlock showing how much John's feelings affect him or how much he's possessive with him. And I'm very glad you like My tender-hearted sociopath because I spent a lot of time looking for something which would express sweet mockery,

[anarion]

When are you going to write more?!
Before we can see the third series. Happy now?

YES! *goes to track choco's journal*

[chocolamousse]

Hey, give me a break! I wrote THREE FICS IN TEN MONTHS, I'm knackered!
*remembers she's talking to someone who writes a 221B a day*
Well, I mean I, er... *clears her throat* Right.