Prompted by this comment from warriorbot.

One of the many enjoyable bits about writing Sherlock fanfic is the chance to refer to strange scientific studies I have come across. A number of them have already lurked (mostly unacknowledged) in my fics, so here is a brief list, where I can remember them.

(Alluded to in Ricochet and another ( Read more... )

I have two lectures to write for this week and a bust filling to get fixed, so may not have time to post much. (I know, what a wimp - Mycroft doesn't let a little thing like root canal work stop him running the country). But one of my fics is up over at the 221 B slash fest, so you can go and try and find it (or just read lots of other ones instead

I found this on the Jesus College Cambridge website:

The eighteenth century also saw the residence of the two most famous literary figures to have passed through the college: Laurence Sterne (1733) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1791)...Samuel Taylor Coleridge was awarded a Rustat scholarship, which was offered to the sons of deceased clergymen; but ( Read more... )

Most of the time it's clear to me that BBC Sherlock and its fanfic exist in a stylised fantasy world that has absolutely nothing to do with mundane reality. There are times, however, when I feel that although the plots may be unreal, some of the characters are a little too close for comfort, and I'm not so much inventing dialogue as overhearing it ( Read more... )