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"Watson and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day" (July 20 prompt for watsons-woes)

Jul 19, 2011 23:19

Title: Watson and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Author: gardnerhill
Rating: G
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Lestrade. ACD Holmes, but I borrowed Gladstone from the 2009 film.
Summary: Judith Viorst goes Victorian.
Warnings: Extreme AU (Watson hates jam).
Word Count: 672
Author's Notes: For the July 20 prompt (see title ( Read more... )

watsons woes july prompt

Comments 21

minnow90 July 20 2011, 08:04:58 UTC

This is possibly the funniest thing I've ever read! EVER! I'm still laughing LOL
Please, PLEASE, give me the permission to translate this! It's everything Watson's day is not: Wonderful, spendid, No Bad, Very Good ad so on x'D

"He's going to hang; I'm going to Switzerland."--> LOL *still trying to stop laughing* *still unable to stop laughing*

And I don't even know if what I wrote makes sense, someway, written English is not my best skill x'D

gardnerhill July 20 2011, 08:18:21 UTC

Grazie! Yes, you have my permission to translate.

I love the kid's book "Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day," and all I did was mimic the style.

minnow90 July 20 2011, 10:05:56 UTC

Thank you so much! You're very kind (and thank you also for informing me all this is taken from that kid's book because I honestly had not the slightest idea x'D
To be correct here you are the links of your fic, here and here.

In translator's notes I put the link of your story and recomanded to read the original if able to. If you have some other requests, I'd be glad to add everything you'd like.
And grazie a te! I hope to read soon something else <3

eglantine_br July 20 2011, 08:30:20 UTC

Pure Genius...

gardnerhill July 21 2011, 03:44:08 UTC

Thank you. Helps that the book's style is so darn memorable.

tommykaine July 20 2011, 10:15:12 UTC

Sorry if I butt in, I discovered this thanks to minnow90's translation, and wanted to tell you that this is hilarious!

I don't know the original book unfortunately (is the part with Watson writing on the chalkboard a tribute to a scene in it?) but I like the way you wrote this!

gardnerhill July 21 2011, 03:48:13 UTC

Thank you!

The original book is "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" by Judith Viorst. It's a grumpy 10-year-old boy talking about his awful day in precisely that run-on way of talking. At one point the boy does have to write something on the chalkboard at school for talking.

capt_facepalm July 20 2011, 11:39:57 UTC

This is such an beautiful adaptation. It makes me want to both laugh what's written, and cry for what is between the lines.

gardnerhill July 21 2011, 03:49:16 UTC

Thanks. Alas, looks like poor Watson won't have to worry about that Wagner giving him stomach-aches much longer...

rabidsamfan July 20 2011, 12:36:59 UTC

Oh, lovely! And now you've done it, so I don't have to. (My copy of Alexander isn't on the shelf anyway. It's on a reading list this summer, so it keeps vanishing.) I love it that you have managed to catch both Alexander's petulance and Watson's details.

:D

gardnerhill July 21 2011, 03:54:24 UTC

Glad to have taken that off your chest.