( Mostly about shipping, but there are some spoilers for the Sherlock season première behind the cut )

Earlier today I was standing in the freezing cold rain waiting for my bus, when I randomly started thinking about Rupert Graves and smiled soppily to myself ( Read more... )

Down on his luck army veteran Gregory Lestrade finds himself caught up in a murder investigation. While assisting Detective Inspector John Watson, Greg comes to the attention of Mycroft Holmes, amateur detective and older brother of the most dangerous man in the British government, Sherlock. An AU retelling of A Study in Pink with the major roles ( Read more... )

I once read a fanfic where John Sheppard was into bears. He had this revelation when he looked at gay porn with his girlfriend. At the sight of a massive and hairy guy sucking on some twink's balls, he thought, "yeah, that’s what a man looks like ( Read more... )

How to spot a Mystrade writer in the wild:

1. Does not know how to use commas for shit2. Is so afraid of calling someone "him" that they over-use epithets to a parodic degree ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot of Lestrade fic lately (at some point I really will have to construct a rec list of my own), and it's kind of upsetting, to be honest.

He wasn't left in the best position at the end of series 2 of Sherlock (newly divorced or at least separated from a wife who cheated on him, believed his friend of five years to be dead, ( Read more... )

But look! Rupert Graves! Being all hot and predatory!

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I know, I know, looking at this with post-colonial eyes means accepting that Mr Riddell no doubt has a lot of blood on his hands, but just let me keep the mental image of Rupert Graves in jodhpurs seducing dancers left and right for a while longer, OK? I can contextualize next week.

I've watched a bunch of stuff with him today.

1. Room to Rent. Rupert plays Mark, the slutty gay guy with a heart of gold. I loved him, but I wasn't crazy about the main character. I get that Ali was supposed to be a naive dreamer, but he was just acting like an idiot for the most part. He had this dream of becoming a famous screen writer, but ( Read more... )

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First off, I just need to say that I really love Rupert Graves voice. Especially when he's playing Lestrade. There's something about the accent he uses (that I, not being British and also possessing a tin ear when it comes to that kind of nuance, can't place) that just does things to me. Everything he says sounds so warm. I just want to bask in it ( Read more... )