Fic: The Jumper Patch

[sorrel_forbes]

Title: The Jumper Patch
Author: sorrel_forbes
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: ~500
Notes: This ficlet was very passionately beta-read by dulcemia, who prevented me from indiscriminately tugging at loose threads and thereby unravelling the whole project. Many thanks are due to her, and any remaining awkwardness is all my own.

Excerpt: He

Comments

[drinkingcocoa]

This is beyond crack. This is divinely surreal. And yet charming to the last fiber. And...the hallmark of any good fic... in character.

I don't know what world they live in...in my world, we make jumpers by taking the hair off sheep, twisting it into long ropes, then wrapping it in a continuous stream of intricate but repetitive loops around two sticks -- preferably conjoined by a flexible cable because otherwise the loops tend to fall off and then we curse mightily and sweat and endeavor to replace them onto the sticks in roughly the correct order and orientation...and this takes months before the jumpers reach maturation, sometimes years if we take a hiatus in the middle during which we attend to less trying aspects of our lives...

...yeah, okay. They clearly have the right idea.

But I already knew I wanted to live in their world.

Yet somehow, I feel that I already do.

NOW I'M CONFUSED. Can I blame you for this, or is it all really somehow my fault?

...and it's only Monday morning.

[sorrel_forbes]

I'm not sure that I can make a case for it being your fault, exactly, but the story grew (as it were) from contemplation of the John's Jumper Patch I used in your pencil case. Oh, the tantalising tangibility!

[rifleman_s]

" It took pride of place to catch the morning sun, had been mulched with tea leaves and interesting newsprint;"

Oh I wish I could see into your mind palace as to where you find all these fantastic ideas!

*laughs loud and long*

Also . . . awwwwwww.

[sorrel_forbes]

Associative cross-polination, I think. I'm glad it worked for you, and thanks for letting me know!

[shadowturquoise]

Fantastical and utterly adorable! Thanks for making me smile on a Monday morning.

[sorrel_forbes]

Monday morning smiles are a fantastic outcome; happy to have obliged :)

[kizzia]

Well that was just fabulous! I do adore the way you think and how you made the surreal feel so normal. Really lovely. Thank you for sharing!

[sorrel_forbes]

Thank you for the lovely compliments. For more believably surreal in the same sort of vein, Edward Lear's nonsense botany illustrations are definitely worth a look.

[theantipam]

Oh how I wish my time in the garden yielded comfy sweaters instead of weeds and dead stalks *sigh*

I enjoyed this little corner of a wonderful otherworld!

[sorrel_forbes]

Thank you :) I like poking around in different otherworlds too!