The Theory of Narrative Causality (3a/5ish)
anonymous
May 24 2011, 19:39:41 UTC
fkalsalskalaaaa look at you, you lovely people. you are fantastic, all. &hearts thank you all so very, very much.
for the record, neveryou_again is clara; mrs hudson appears briefly in this, but she'll be rather more important next chapter in which basically everything explodes.
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this is my task force, junior (let_us_trade) wrote in holmeschat,
EDWARD HARDWICKE APPRECIATION POST Well, everyone. A Watson has died, and one of the best, at that. He was quite fantastic, and apparently the kindest man as well, and he's died of cancer at age 78. This is a post for anything that's related to him - obituaries, testimonies, videos, drabbles, fanart, planned watchalongs, whatever - to remember this excellent actor and wonderful John Watson.
Thank you.
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miss_toby Oh, no! I didn't even know he had cancer.
jim_fromit Neither did I, Moll.
And I was thinking - I mean, maybe, you might not want to! - but if you want, I've got the DVDs, we could watch them together? I know your shift this Saturday ends at six, so maybe we could order some Chinese and, you know, meet up? if you want. I don't want to make you if you don't want to.
miss_toby Oh, no, I'd love it! I could bake cookies?
jim_fromit I love cookies!
neveryou_again You two are just plain adorable. :)
jumperfucker He was the best Watson to the best Holmes. R.I.P.
storm_ford There are quite a few obituaries running around - here, here, and here. This one has an extract of an interview of his and Brett's. This one is a review of their playing Holmes and Watson onstage in 1994.
sarah_s WATCHALONG NOTICE
Saturday night, Hound of the Baskervilles, exact hour yet to decide. Anybody's interested?
neveryou_again Count me in. I love Hound.
not_thatbill Same
lass_sirene Thirded.
jumperfucker Ditto, Hound is great and I've an early shift.
To think that Hardwicke thought he was too old and serious to play Watson. He was wonderful.
sarah_s He really was, wasn't he? Brett was marvelous at any age, but Hardwicke really brought in the wiser Watson we can imagine from the post-Hiatus stories.
jumperfucker And he doesn't take any flak from Holmes either - they're so balanced.
sarah_s IKR?
let_us_trade Brett was my favorite Holmes. Sorry, Downey!lovers.
w_harry Boo, you whore ~:O~
jumperfucker The thing about Brett, I think, is that he stuck perfectly to the Holmes of the stories, instead of interpreting him one way or another. He was the ideal balance of energetic and composed, without the hyperactivity of RDJ or the aloofness of Rathbone.
sarah_s Such a good actor. I will never be able to look at Freddy the same, now that I've found out he was the one playing him.
The Theory of Narrative Causality (3b/5ish)
anonymous
May 24 2011, 19:43:02 UTC
jumperfucker Wouldn't you like to know.
Obey the 'stache, man.
let_us_trade You realize we've got a pool running on you two, right? go and flirt in your own damn journals, this isn't the place.
From: theimprobableone, To: jumperfucker,
youve no idea what i can do to you if you dont leave consulting_detective alone
i can call so many people who'll make life real hell for you
From: theimprobableone, To: jumperfucker,
you're not clever enogu for him anyway
From: theimprobableone, To: jumperfucker,
do you really think he wants your company, your forcing yourself on him, you should be ashamed
From: theimprobableone, To: jumperfucker,
LEAVE HIM ALONE OKAY
From: jumperfucker, To: theimprobableone,
Okay, I've been at work so I couldn't answer, but: SHUT THE FUCK UP. You've been banned. Don't come back.
Whatever kind of misjudged adoration you've got going for consulting_detective, you might want to take it up directly with him - at least I'll have the pleasure to see him rip you to shreds.
Insults, sockpuppets and general trolling are not welcome here. Toodle back to the anon meme, kiddo.
consulting_detective is connected.
you (22:12): good evening, you. I've been meaning to ask this for a while - have you heard of theimprobableone? he's been sending me really horrible PMs about you recently really really creepy in an adulating fan kind of way
consulting_detective (22:12): Hmmm. Yes. He is… rather persistent in his admiration. I am sorry he has bothered you. I should have taken care of him long ago, but
you (22:14): … but?
consulting_detective (22:14): I had... better things to do with my time. Trolls are only interesting for so long. I will take care of him, if you like.
you (22:15): much appreciated.
consulting_detective (22:16): How is your Moriarty coming along?
you (22:17): much better, yeah. he's getting… density, I think. which is good. your drawings help oh and i've fleshed out the cabbie from the first part, that's pretty good too. it'll be a bit different from STUD, but I've kept the aneurysm part, and the motive is logical enough. at any rate, it's tying in with the Moriarty timeline, which was my big problem
consulting_detective (22:17): I have a draft ready of the Italian restaurant passage. Are you interested?
you (22:18): tell me, how many of these are you going to make? we're far past the five drawings you were planning on doing at first. of course i'm interested, you big dork, what do you think.
consulting_detective (22:19): What can I say, John. Your words inspire me. Greatly.
you (22:20): oh … that's good, i think. really, really good. I'm glad.
cute enough to shoot you down (jumperfucker) wrote,
Recently there's been quite an afflux of messages in my inbox asking to know who I am and whether we can meet up and where I work and where I live. And, guys, I understand the wish to make friends, I really do, and I'm sorry, but this is where I draw the line.
So I suppose it's time for another one of these:
PLEASE REMEMBER THESE GUIDELINES.
I am not going to tell you my full name, or my address, or the place where I work. I live in London. I'm bisexual. I'm thirty-six years old. I write smutty slash Sherlock Holmes fanfiction. I know a few of you in real life, that's true, but mostly because I either knew them beforehand, or met them through a complete coincidence afterwards.
Re: The Theory of Narrative Causality (3c/5ish)
anonymous
May 24 2011, 19:47:48 UTC
(Which came as an absolute surprise when you realize that the nice, shiny new person in front of you is the fantastic fanartist/fic writer you've been talking to for months online.)
So please, stop asking. No, I won't be meeting up with you in some unknown little pub on the other side of London, that's what cons are for. Nor will I tell you where I work, and who for, because I have a hobby of writing Victoriana slash, and that's not necessarily well-seen outside of fandom.
I'm just. You know. I'm just a guy who happens to like Victorian porn. Remember that, don't harass me (you know who you are, don't do it again), and we'll all be good. Thank you.
Anyhow, to make up for this serious mood, have a ficlet (mostly written in celebration of my having reached the 25,000 mark on BigBang fic):
Title: and there we go, then, together Length: 1,500 words. Pairing: Holmes/Watson Betas: sarah_s and storm_ford, who need to stop massacring my semi-columns on Google Docs. What have semi-columns ever done to you. Rating: PG-13? I can never tell when there's no porn. Summary: John Watson wakes up. And wakes up. And wakes up.
(we've never had a life of our own)
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jim_fromit Ooh, what happened?
jumperfucker Mostly just one asshole, I think - they had a sockpuppet account at first, and after I banned them the anon comments started flooding in. I turned it off for a bit, but quite a lot of people like to comment anon, so I can't keep it down forever just because I can't be arsed to delete a few silly comments.
It's calmed down a bit now, though. Whoever they are, they've got quite a sick fascination with consulting_detective.
jim_fromit That sounds horrible. >:( Good luck, Johnny.
jumperfucker Thanks. :D
miss_toby Good luck getting rid of the troll, John! &hearts
jumperfucker Thank you!
consulting_detective So this is still going on, then.
jumperfucker I'm afraid so, yeah. You might want to try and find out who they are with your mad deducin' skilz.
consulting_detective Anything for you.
"'… Holmes,' I whispered, and as I closed my hand around his upper arm I felt my friend's fine muscles tremble with tension under the sleeve. I did not know how many hours he had been awake - I did not know how many hours I had been awake, and exhaustion rippled through my veins like a sick version of his seven-percent - and his eyes were bright and brittle in the dull dawn. From where I knelt, sitting back on my haunches in a position that drove fine tendrils of pain into my left thigh, I could only see the high slope of his shoulder and his thin, angular profile, twitching with passing thoughts. His brilliant brain had not yet screeched to a halt, as mine had. I wondered if it were not worse, to see, as he did, every dreadful arrangement of the hours and minutes we had before us, and never find a solution quite good enough for the both of us to survive them.
'My dear boy,' he said finally, very softly. His arm shook in my grasp and tore away, only to return in the guise of his fingers, slipping effortlessly between mine. They hooked there, cradled my palm with warmth. I staggered. I was so very tired that I could only squeeze back, and hope that the brush of my wrist against his was a clue he could decipher.
The Theory of Narrative Causality (3e/5ish)
anonymous
May 24 2011, 19:56:20 UTC
'I am so very sorry,' he whispered, and I could have laughed. He had not understood - eight years of partnership and he had not understood a thing just yet. He presupposed me to be driven to exasperation by his antics, and to follow him into his cases, into his dangers, into his life, out of a misguided sense of guilt and adoration. It was a very pretty case of theorizing ahead of the data.
'Self-centered fool,' I said, affectionally enough. He turned wide eyes on me, but I nosed closer - rather like a dog, if the truth be told - and set my chin upon the sharp snag of his shoulder, dusty and dirty as it was. He drew in a breath, very softly and very fast, and then he said nothing at all. I only wished, at this moment, that I had paper and pen to set the morning down - for his eyes and his nose and his mouth, the fine hairs at his nape. I wanted to write him down entirely, be it for the last time.
The dawn dragged on, but I only saw it in his face."
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Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
01. [repeat] Notes:
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anonymous Not AYRT, but I've Sherlock Holmes fandom in mind. Two BNFs? check. Snarking and flirting with each other? check. Being adorably dorky over fanfic/fanart? check.
anonymous - /da all of fandom squeeing over them? check.
anonymous Who are they? come on, you can't just talk about them and not tell us their names.
anonymous Seconded, I need to know like burning!
anonymous Just check out this thread. Oh, and this one. And this, and this, and this…
anonymous This thread is my favourite. ^.^
anonymous D'AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
anonymous Oh my god, the level of UST in these threads!
anonymous Totally agreed, OP, these two need to be a thing.
anonymous If they aren't already… *waggles eyebrows*
anonymous Ooh, there's a pool! everyone weighs in a ficlet or a doodle, winner gets to set the theme.
anonymous ILU.
anonymous I'm calling dibs on First Week Of September.
Re: The Theory of Narrative Causality (3e/5ish)
anonymous
May 14 2012, 05:18:20 UTC
Okay, this may be weird to leave a comment in the middle of the fic a year after it was posted, but this link doesn't work anymore? I am only really disappointed in myself for not having read sooner, but I'm hoping someone (authoranon?) has another link for it?
The Theory of Narrative Causality (3f/5ish)
anonymous
May 24 2011, 20:03:48 UTC
consulting_detective - A TV TROPES ARTICLE
consulting_detective is an (in)famous fanartist in the Sherlock Holmes fandom, a practical genius with pencil and ink, and, according to some sources, one hell of a douchebag. Testimonies differ as to the level of douchebaggery - the fandom seems divided between those who adulate him and those who detest him.
He was involved/started/flounced in such timeless wanks as The Time When Everybody Was A Cat, Why U No Ask The Beeb, Elephants Elephants, and The Case Of The Dog Who Bit The Calf And Tore The Pants. (See a round-up of the fandom_wank reports here.)
consulting_detective is one of the old-school fans who got into Sherlock Holmes fandom in early 2000s, was raised on the ACD stories and the Granada series, and scoffed at the arrival of new fans of the 2009 movie casting Robert Downey Junior and Jude Law. He is said to pride himself on his 'honesty' - i.e., his ability to tell anyone exactly what he thinks of them in vitriolic statements.
More recently, though, he appears to have changed somewhat and mellowed out, thanks to his prolonged involvement with well-known BNF jumperfucker, with whom he is partnered in the Sherlock Holmes Big Bang. The fandom seems welcoming of this change, and likes to speculate on their relationship. At length. This relationship is ongoing, and will necessitate further additions to this page.
Tropes that can be encountered when communicating with this individual:
Ambiguously Gay: according to part of the fandom. Many use this thread, in which he discusses his very large knowledge about tailored, expensive clothing as proof. Awesome By Analysis: almost a Sherlock Scan, appropriately enough. consulting_detective makes no mystery of his applying Holmes' deduction techniques to real life, which would render any other person ridiculous, but he's just so darn good at it. Batman Gambit: in this explosive Where Is My Stick wank. The Chessmaster: in any given discussion, anytime, anywhere. He is always ten steps ahead of you. Clothes Make The Legend: consulting_detective once mentioned owning a long, flapping, tailored Badass Coat. This spawned three memes, several requests of fic at the kinkmeme, and an increasing number of icons bearing the words 'consulting_detective + Teh Coat = OTP'. Dangerously Genre Savvy: he knows fandom and fandom's ways perfectly, and it is often discovered that he has manipulated members into doing what he wanted by using fandom etiquette or popular memes. Deadpan Snarker: played very, very straight. Doing It For The Art: he often argues this when discussing his fanart pieces. Good Is Not Nice: interpreted as such for part of the fandom. Others say he's rather a Jerk With A Heart Of Gold. Others think he's simply a Complete Asshole.
for the record, neveryou_again is clara; mrs hudson appears briefly in this, but she'll be rather more important next chapter in which basically everything explodes.
…
this is my task force, junior (let_us_trade) wrote in holmeschat,
EDWARD HARDWICKE APPRECIATION POST
Well, everyone. A Watson has died, and one of the best, at that. He was quite fantastic, and apparently the kindest man as well, and he's died of cancer at age 78. This is a post for anything that's related to him - obituaries, testimonies, videos, drabbles, fanart, planned watchalongs, whatever - to remember this excellent actor and wonderful John Watson.
Thank you.
(334 comments) - (post a comment)
miss_toby
Oh, no! I didn't even know he had cancer.
jim_fromit
Neither did I, Moll.
And I was thinking - I mean, maybe, you might not want to! - but if you want, I've got the DVDs, we could watch them together? I know your shift this Saturday ends at six, so maybe we could order some Chinese and, you know, meet up? if you want. I don't want to make you if you don't want to.
miss_toby
Oh, no, I'd love it! I could bake cookies?
jim_fromit
I love cookies!
neveryou_again
You two are just plain adorable. :)
jumperfucker
He was the best Watson to the best Holmes. R.I.P.
storm_ford
There are quite a few obituaries running around - here, here, and here. This one has an extract of an interview of his and Brett's. This one is a review of their playing Holmes and Watson onstage in 1994.
sarah_s
WATCHALONG NOTICE
Saturday night, Hound of the Baskervilles, exact hour yet to decide. Anybody's interested?
neveryou_again
Count me in. I love Hound.
not_thatbill
Same
lass_sirene
Thirded.
jumperfucker
Ditto, Hound is great and I've an early shift.
To think that Hardwicke thought he was too old and serious to play Watson. He was wonderful.
sarah_s
He really was, wasn't he? Brett was marvelous at any age, but Hardwicke really brought in the wiser Watson we can imagine from the post-Hiatus stories.
jumperfucker
And he doesn't take any flak from Holmes either - they're so balanced.
sarah_s
IKR?
let_us_trade
Brett was my favorite Holmes. Sorry, Downey!lovers.
w_harry
Boo, you whore ~:O~
jumperfucker
The thing about Brett, I think, is that he stuck perfectly to the Holmes of the stories, instead of interpreting him one way or another. He was the ideal balance of energetic and composed, without the hyperactivity of RDJ or the aloofness of Rathbone.
sarah_s
Such a good actor. I will never be able to look at Freddy the same, now that I've found out he was the one playing him.
jumperfucker
What Freddy where.
sarah_s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0udu4KYv1zI
Don't thank me.
jumperfucker
OH MY GOD. CANNOT UNSEE. AHAHAHAHAH.
Someone needs to request this on the kinkmeme ASAP.
lass_sirene
Done.
jumperfucker
Aw, shucks. :D
consulting_detective
He was quite good. Better than Burke, at any rate.
jumperfucker
I liked Burke! I think it was the blue eyes. And the golden 'stache.
consulting_detective
I recall your saying the same thing about Jude Law.
jumperfucker
Law's 'stache was wicked, though.
consulting_detective
Do you have a moustache fetish, John?
Reply
Wouldn't you like to know.
Obey the 'stache, man.
let_us_trade
You realize we've got a pool running on you two, right? go and flirt in your own damn journals, this isn't the place.
From: theimprobableone,
To: jumperfucker,
youve no idea what i can do to you
if you dont leave consulting_detective
alone
i can call so many people who'll make
life real hell for you
From: theimprobableone,
To: jumperfucker,
you're not clever enogu for him anyway
From: theimprobableone,
To: jumperfucker,
do you really think he wants your
company, your forcing yourself
on him, you should be ashamed
From: theimprobableone,
To: jumperfucker,
LEAVE HIM ALONE OKAY
From: jumperfucker,
To: theimprobableone,
Okay, I've been at work so I couldn't
answer, but: SHUT THE FUCK UP.
You've been banned. Don't come
back.
Whatever kind of misjudged adoration
you've got going for consulting_detective,
you might want to take it up directly with
him - at least I'll have the pleasure to
see him rip you to shreds.
Insults, sockpuppets and general trolling
are not welcome here. Toodle back to
the anon meme, kiddo.
consulting_detective is connected.
you (22:12): good evening, you.
I've been meaning to ask this for a while - have you heard of theimprobableone? he's been sending me really horrible PMs about you recently
really really creepy
in an adulating fan kind of way
consulting_detective (22:12): Hmmm.
Yes. He is… rather persistent in his admiration.
I am sorry he has bothered you. I should have taken care of him long ago, but
you (22:14): …
but?
consulting_detective (22:14): I had... better things to do with my time.
Trolls are only interesting for so long.
I will take care of him, if you like.
you (22:15): much appreciated.
consulting_detective (22:16): How is your Moriarty coming along?
you (22:17): much better, yeah. he's getting… density, I think. which is good.
your drawings help
oh
and i've fleshed out the cabbie from the first part, that's pretty good too. it'll be a bit different from STUD, but I've kept the aneurysm part, and the motive is logical enough.
at any rate, it's tying in with the Moriarty timeline, which was my big problem
consulting_detective (22:17): I have a draft ready of the Italian restaurant passage. Are you interested?
you (22:18): tell me, how many of these are you going to make? we're far past the five drawings you were planning on doing at first.
of course i'm interested, you big dork, what do you think.
consulting_detective (22:19): What can I say, John.
Your words inspire me.
Greatly.
you (22:20): oh
…
that's
good, i think.
really, really good.
I'm glad.
cute enough to shoot you down (jumperfucker) wrote,
Recently there's been quite an afflux of messages in my inbox asking to know who I am and whether we can meet up and where I work and where I live. And, guys, I understand the wish to make friends, I really do, and I'm sorry, but this is where I draw the line.
So I suppose it's time for another one of these:
PLEASE REMEMBER THESE GUIDELINES.
I am not going to tell you my full name, or my address, or the place where I work. I live in London. I'm bisexual. I'm thirty-six years old. I write smutty slash Sherlock Holmes fanfiction. I know a few of you in real life, that's true, but mostly because I either knew them beforehand, or met them through a complete coincidence afterwards.
Reply
Reply
So please, stop asking. No, I won't be meeting up with you in some unknown little pub on the other side of London, that's what cons are for. Nor will I tell you where I work, and who for, because I have a hobby of writing Victoriana slash, and that's not necessarily well-seen outside of fandom.
I'm just. You know. I'm just a guy who happens to like Victorian porn. Remember that, don't harass me (you know who you are, don't do it again), and we'll all be good. Thank you.
Anyhow, to make up for this serious mood, have a ficlet (mostly written in celebration of my having reached the 25,000 mark on BigBang fic):
Title: and there we go, then, together
Length: 1,500 words.
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Betas: sarah_s and storm_ford, who need to stop massacring my semi-columns on Google Docs. What have semi-columns ever done to you.
Rating: PG-13? I can never tell when there's no porn.
Summary: John Watson wakes up. And wakes up. And wakes up.
(we've never had a life of our own)
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jim_fromit
Ooh, what happened?
jumperfucker
Mostly just one asshole, I think - they had a sockpuppet account at first, and after I banned them the anon comments started flooding in. I turned it off for a bit, but quite a lot of people like to comment anon, so I can't keep it down forever just because I can't be arsed to delete a few silly comments.
It's calmed down a bit now, though. Whoever they are, they've got quite a sick fascination with consulting_detective.
jim_fromit
That sounds horrible. >:( Good luck, Johnny.
jumperfucker
Thanks. :D
miss_toby
Good luck getting rid of the troll, John! &hearts
jumperfucker
Thank you!
consulting_detective
So this is still going on, then.
jumperfucker
I'm afraid so, yeah. You might want to try and find out who they are with your mad deducin' skilz.
consulting_detective
Anything for you.
"'… Holmes,' I whispered, and as I closed my hand around his upper arm I felt my friend's fine muscles tremble with tension under the sleeve. I did not know how many hours he had been awake - I did not know how many hours I had been awake, and exhaustion rippled through my veins like a sick version of his seven-percent - and his eyes were bright and brittle in the dull dawn. From where I knelt, sitting back on my haunches in a position that drove fine tendrils of pain into my left thigh, I could only see the high slope of his shoulder and his thin, angular profile, twitching with passing thoughts. His brilliant brain had not yet screeched to a halt, as mine had. I wondered if it were not worse, to see, as he did, every dreadful arrangement of the hours and minutes we had before us, and never find a solution quite good enough for the both of us to survive them.
'My dear boy,' he said finally, very softly. His arm shook in my grasp and tore away, only to return in the guise of his fingers, slipping effortlessly between mine. They hooked there, cradled my palm with warmth. I staggered. I was so very tired that I could only squeeze back, and hope that the brush of my wrist against his was a clue he could decipher.
Reply
Me either. In my mind there's only two ratings - Gen and Porn :DDD
Reply
I am really loving this whole bunches!
Reply
'Self-centered fool,' I said, affectionally enough. He turned wide eyes on me, but I nosed closer - rather like a dog, if the truth be told - and set my chin upon the sharp snag of his shoulder, dusty and dirty as it was. He drew in a breath, very softly and very fast, and then he said nothing at all. I only wished, at this moment, that I had paper and pen to set the morning down - for his eyes and his nose and his mouth, the fine hairs at his nape. I wanted to write him down entirely, be it for the last time.
The dawn dragged on, but I only saw it in his face."
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[ SECRET POST #1667]
⸤ Secret Post #1667 ⸣
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
01. [repeat]
Notes:
Secrets left to post: 7 pages, 120 secrets from Secret Submission Post #250
Secrets not posted: [ 0 - broken links], [ 1, 2, 3, 4 - not!secrets], [ 0 - not!fandom ][ 1, 2 - repeat]
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fscom
16. http://i54.tinypic.com/k9z0uw.png
anonymous
no idea who this is, but it sounds hot
anonymous
I like this secret a lot. &hearts
anonymous
Oooh, is this who I think it is?
anonymous - OP
Depends on who you think it is?
anonymous
Not AYRT, but I've Sherlock Holmes fandom in mind. Two BNFs? check. Snarking and flirting with each other? check. Being adorably dorky over fanfic/fanart? check.
anonymous - /da
all of fandom squeeing over them? check.
anonymous
Who are they? come on, you can't just talk about them and not tell us their names.
anonymous
Seconded, I need to know like burning!
anonymous
Just check out this thread. Oh, and this one. And this, and this, and this…
anonymous
This thread is my favourite. ^.^
anonymous
D'AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
anonymous
Oh my god, the level of UST in these threads!
anonymous
Totally agreed, OP, these two need to be a thing.
anonymous
If they aren't already… *waggles eyebrows*
anonymous
Ooh, there's a pool! everyone weighs in a ficlet or a doodle, winner gets to set the theme.
anonymous
ILU.
anonymous
I'm calling dibs on First Week Of September.
Reply
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Reply
Reply
Hey internet, whoever writes this gets my imaginary firstborn...!
Reply
Reply
Reply
there are these two BNFs in my fandom
who just keep flirting and keep being adorably dorky together
I don't even think they realize it
so on behalf of the entire fandom, you two
cut the bullshit out
and just fuck already
thank you
signed,
all of us
Found through google search: "2zirpqf.png"
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consulting_detective is an (in)famous fanartist in the Sherlock Holmes fandom, a practical genius with pencil and ink, and, according to some sources, one hell of a douchebag. Testimonies differ as to the level of douchebaggery - the fandom seems divided between those who adulate him and those who detest him.
He was involved/started/flounced in such timeless wanks as The Time When Everybody Was A Cat, Why U No Ask The Beeb, Elephants Elephants, and The Case Of The Dog Who Bit The Calf And Tore The Pants. (See a round-up of the fandom_wank reports here.)
consulting_detective is one of the old-school fans who got into Sherlock Holmes fandom in early 2000s, was raised on the ACD stories and the Granada series, and scoffed at the arrival of new fans of the 2009 movie casting Robert Downey Junior and Jude Law. He is said to pride himself on his 'honesty' - i.e., his ability to tell anyone exactly what he thinks of them in vitriolic statements.
More recently, though, he appears to have changed somewhat and mellowed out, thanks to his prolonged involvement with well-known BNF jumperfucker, with whom he is partnered in the Sherlock Holmes Big Bang. The fandom seems welcoming of this change, and likes to speculate on their relationship. At length. This relationship is ongoing, and will necessitate further additions to this page.
Tropes that can be encountered when communicating with this individual:
Ambiguously Gay: according to part of the fandom. Many use this thread, in which he discusses his very large knowledge about tailored, expensive clothing as proof.
Awesome By Analysis: almost a Sherlock Scan, appropriately enough. consulting_detective makes no mystery of his applying Holmes' deduction techniques to real life, which would render any other person ridiculous, but he's just so darn good at it.
Batman Gambit: in this explosive Where Is My Stick wank.
The Chessmaster: in any given discussion, anytime, anywhere. He is always ten steps ahead of you.
Clothes Make The Legend: consulting_detective once mentioned owning a long, flapping, tailored Badass Coat. This spawned three memes, several requests of fic at the kinkmeme, and an increasing number of icons bearing the words 'consulting_detective + Teh Coat = OTP'.
Dangerously Genre Savvy: he knows fandom and fandom's ways perfectly, and it is often discovered that he has manipulated members into doing what he wanted by using fandom etiquette or popular memes.
Deadpan Snarker: played very, very straight.
Doing It For The Art: he often argues this when discussing his fanart pieces.
Good Is Not Nice: interpreted as such for part of the fandom. Others say he's rather a Jerk With A Heart Of Gold. Others think he's simply a Complete Asshole.
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