Awakening

[chocolamousse]

Title: Awakening
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Category: Romance
Rating: PG-13
Beta: The brilliant arianedevere
Word count: 869
Translation into Chinese available here (thank you, Lowtension!), into Czech available here (thank you, miamam!) and into Russian available here and here (thank you, Little_Unicorn!).
Summary: In which not a word is uttered but many things

Comments

[arianedevere]

Ariane was a very lovely beta

Really? I thought I was like Arthur Shappey on peach schnapps. *whispers* I was terrifying!

But it was fun - and I tell you what, gang, working with a not-first-language English speaker is amazing - it really makes you think about your everyday language and consider why you say certain things that you just take for granted.

Plus, of course, I got to see this a couple of days before everyone else. And I knew the story would be amazing when I was already filling up with tears at the bloody summaryI'm so proud of you, Choco - your writing improves with every story (and it was bloody brilliant to start with), and you have a natural ability to get inside the heads and hearts of your characters and show us what they're thinking and feeling, with such a beautiful soft narrative voice that I find myself leaning closer to the screen to listen

[chocolamousse]

Really? I thought I was like Arthur Shappey on peach schnapps. *whispers* I was terrifying!
You were terrifyingly lovely, if you prefer. :D

You're a very lacrymal person, aren't you? I give you pining, you cry. I give you UST, you cry. I give you fluff, you cry. I give you happy endings, you cry. It's only when I give you a celeriac and aliens that you don't cry. But it's fine. Tears and wibbling are very good to my ego. :D Thank you again for your very patient and very helpful beta-ing, you've been adorable!

you have a natural ability to get inside the heads and hearts of your characters
Well, for want of getting inside their bed...

[verityburns]

Yeah, she cried a lot when I sent her 5,000 word chapters which had enough random punctuation to render half of tumblr grammatically correct.

It must be an eye problem - I wouldn't worry about it :D

[chocolamousse]

By the way, she didn't delete any comma in the fic this time. And she added only two. I was rather proud. I think I start to master this comma isssue. :D

[verityburns]

She ADDED two commas?! Where are they? Those babies are MINE!

[arianedevere]

The skip outside my house which is full of your commas, Verity, was starting to get smelly. So I've got to dump the buggers somewhere, and seeing as France sent Britain some weird smells last week, it seemed only appropriate to send a couple of the commas over to France.

(But I was kind - I washed them off a bit and sprayed them with Febreze before packing them off.)

[sorrel_forbes]

LOL, this thread. I have a near-fatal weakness for semicolons if anyone wants to take a few off my hands...

[arianedevere]

Well, I cleared a bit of space in the skip by palming off a few commas on Chocolamousse, so send 'em over! They'll be in good company.

[sorrel_forbes]

;)

;) ;)

(grit in my eye; I swear!)

[arianedevere]

There's nothing wrong with a good cry, whether it's because something is sad or because it's beautiful. It's not my fault if celeriac doesn't make me weep.

*sniffles just for the sake of it*