1) ( casting spoiler for Sherlock Holmes 2: may cause intense \o/ )

But I watched the new Sherlock and I have Things I Am Thinking About! So, ( spoilers for Sherlock 101 )

Today, to make you smile, I present: emotionally bizarre people say "I love you." I've been in a lot of fandoms, and in most of those fandoms there was an OTP who had their own idiosyncratic little way of expressing their affectionate feelings - in X-Files, it was "I trust you;" in due South, it was always some version of "Partners?" "Partners." ( Read more... )

I have too too many recs and links to give you guys! I think I'll fall back on that old friend . . . THE NUMBERED LIST ( Read more... )

1) This post by bookshop is . . . it pretty much says everything I've been feeling over the last few years, captures exactly the feelings I have about fic and slash - I really could not have put it better myself. I emphatically agree with every last single damn word of that post. I had this dream a couple years ago, in which John and Rodney kissed - ( Read more... )

. . . I finally went today to see the new Sherlock Holmes film. I know, I know, you'd think I would've been first in line, but look, it was COLD, the movie theatre is FAR AWAY, and moreover I spent the last couple weeks wearing pajamas and wrestling with my festivids vid, so anyway I kept not going to see it despite good intentions ( Read more... )

fandom: Sherlock Holmes
pairing: Holmes/Watson, soooort of Watson/other
rating: S for Salaciousness (that's Victorian for sex)
words: ~8600
content notes: contains sex between someone who's 30 and someone who says they're 15, with definite eroticization of the age difference, the underage sex, the underage body, and the may/december power dynamics ( Read more... )

1) how gay is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, with Jeremy Brett? A: SO VERY. If megaupload stops stalling every single thing larger than 50MB that I try to upload, I am going to upload them all for you, the internet, because oh my gosh, they're so great. Here, have a clip, while we wait on other uploads: in this clip, Holmes and Watson hang ( Read more... )

You can always tell I've gotten helplessly headoverheels into a fandom when I start watching bad youtube vids for it. My process is generally, get into source material, maybe read some fic, suddenly become obsessed with exhausting all the good fic, watch all the good vids, reread/watch source material, reread one or two favourite fics, WATCH BAD ( Read more... )