Fic for etherai: the good fight (3/3)

[holmesticemods]

The Good Fight -- WORK NOTES:

1. Me, prior to writing this: ugh IDK if I'll be able to fulfill the assignment... do i even have 1000 words' worth of joanlock feelings that i can use for this? i guess i'll rewatch a couple of s4 episodes, write a kind of coda.

       Me, two weeks later, contemplating this monster of a fic: oh... my... god... b*tch shut UP already       

1. If you read this and caught the line I quoted nearly verbatim from Grey's Anatomy, congrats. Who else misses Addison Montgomery-Shepherd, yo? Sometimes I do.
2. Also congrats if you read this and caught the Parks & Rec quote I included verbatim. I miss that show a lot,y’all. It was such a ray of sunshine in this grey world.
3. Inspiration for the general mood of this story: all of Beyoncé’s foundational established-relationship ballads, but especially “Superpower,” “Sandcastles,” “XO,” “Love Drought” and ”All Night.”
4. I apologize for the inordinate amount of dream sequences in this section.
5. If you haven't read anything by Siken or Winterson yet do not wait another second. Go. Read 'em. You'll love it.
6. As a writer, I’m very drawn to the role played by addiction in Sherlock’s story and how it makes up his characterization, but having never undergone that particular struggle myself, my understanding of it is, naturally, limited to what I can research and imagine. So I apologize if despite my best efforts I have failed to address the issue properly.
7. I acknowledge that the opinions expressed by some of the characters at different points in the story may not necessarily be healthy -- I have merely strived to make them in-character.Joan and Sherlock especially are works in progress in every sense of the word, and both my version and the show’s “canon” reading of the characters underscore that these two people are on a path to recovery and might therefore occasionally have unhealthy thoughts/attitudes or poor judgment.
8. About the reference to Athena & Minerva: when reading my original draft, amindamazed very wisely pointed out that I’d merged two sets of women into one: the Lynch twins, who appeared only once in s1 and were played by a single actress, and Athena and Minerva, played by two very different actresses, whose relationship to each other is unknown. So, for the sake of expediency and simplicity, in this story -and perhaps also from now on in my personal canon-, Athena and Minerva are sisters, just not twins; their last name is (at least for now) unknown, and they bear no relation whatsoever to the Lynch twins.
9. I have no excuse for the Pacific Rim/Preacher I just a) love Pacific Rim so much and think Joan would also and b) want Joan to have watched Preacher ‘cause it’s exactly the ~edgy~ kind of show that fake!asss nerdboys are always trying to monopolize. I headcanon Joan as a real geek girl, therefore Joan would at least attempt to get into Preacher.
10. Many thanks to sanguinity for being so patient w/ my dumb questions about formatting this.