Medea, or Why The Hell do I Get These Ideas?
I wanna know where I get these crazy-ass ideas from. This one is a Sherlock prompt, inspired by my class tonight and posted to sherlockbbc_fic 's prompt meme. I won't bother cutting it - there are no spoilers, really.
In Euripides' Medea, (somewhat taken out of context here), Medea says this: 'What do you gain by being clever? You neglect your own affairs, and all your fellow citizens hate you. Those who are fools will call you ignorant and useless when you offer them unfamiliar knowledge. And as for those deemed wise, if people rank you above them, it is something they will not stand. I know this from experience: because I am clever, people are jealous - and the rest dislike me. It would seem I am not so clever after all.[lines 296-304]'
when I read this, it smacked to me of Sherlock and John's separated conversation in A Study In Pink, about how John is 'an idiot, but don't take that personally, everybody's an idiot,' and later John says Sherlock is an idiot as well for taking risks with his life.
So the prompt is this: Fit Medea's statement, or message, or however you want to interpret it, into a ficlet concerning our boys. Don't care how, don't care how long it turns out to be.
Fill this at the prompt meme. I DARE YOU.
EDIT: Someone's filled it! But don't let that discourage you if you too have a fill.
To Have Far Different Views To Most Mortals - postcardmystery
GHEEEEEHEHEHEHE omg. This is far more than anything I could've hoped to dream for in a prompt fill. Go and read it right now, its bloody fantastic.
In Euripides' Medea, (somewhat taken out of context here), Medea says this: 'What do you gain by being clever? You neglect your own affairs, and all your fellow citizens hate you. Those who are fools will call you ignorant and useless when you offer them unfamiliar knowledge. And as for those deemed wise, if people rank you above them, it is something they will not stand. I know this from experience: because I am clever, people are jealous - and the rest dislike me. It would seem I am not so clever after all.[lines 296-304]'
when I read this, it smacked to me of Sherlock and John's separated conversation in A Study In Pink, about how John is 'an idiot, but don't take that personally, everybody's an idiot,' and later John says Sherlock is an idiot as well for taking risks with his life.
So the prompt is this: Fit Medea's statement, or message, or however you want to interpret it, into a ficlet concerning our boys. Don't care how, don't care how long it turns out to be.
Fill this at the prompt meme. I DARE YOU.
EDIT: Someone's filled it! But don't let that discourage you if you too have a fill.
To Have Far Different Views To Most Mortals - postcardmystery
GHEEEEEHEHEHEHE omg. This is far more than anything I could've hoped to dream for in a prompt fill. Go and read it right now, its bloody fantastic.