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The Empty Hearse - 5 Second Reaction Post
I've been staying off the Interwebs since the beginning of the year to avoid major spoilers for Sherlock S3 and I'll continue to do that until episode three. But having just seen The Empty Hearse I have a few very quick preliminary thoughts.
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Happy Anniversary
Today is my LJ anniversary. Like many people I'm spending more time on Tumblr these days. But I rarely produce content there. -
On The Writing of Sherlock Fic
So I finally finished my first Sherlock piece about half an hour ago. It took ages and I'm still not entirely happy with it. It's a double 221B and I'm finding that I liked drabbles because I think they encouraged tight writing but the "b" part of 221B always makes the ending seem artificial. Anyway, time to give it to my betas and brit-picker ( Read more... ) -
Skagit Bridge Collapse
I'm okay and so far everyone I know is fine. My brother may be stranded in Bellingham overnight.
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On the Perils of Malfunctioning Fire Alarms or: Why I Didn't Get Any Sleep
So in January my apartment building installed new fire alarm/carbon monoxide detectors because under state law they had to have carbon monoxide detectors installed. About 2:30 a.m. mine started giving three beeps. Since they didn't give us any documentation, I had no idea what that meant. I knew there wasn't a fire and I was pretty sure carbon ( Read more... ) -
On the Perils of Not Tagging and Also On Sherlock AUs
I regularly reblog things on Tumblr and up til now I never bothered tagging anything. Then I wanted to find a picture of Ben Whishaw that I'd seen somewhere. It wasn't on the Tumblr I thought had originally posted it so I tried to go through my own Tumblr to see if I'd reblogged it. But I kept getting to the same place and then Tumblr would ( Read more... ) -
Playing Catch Up (again)
The thing I liked about the TV meme (which I still need to finish) is that I posted almost every day. It wasn't terribly substantive though, so I will try to do better.
I attended Norwescon this weekend and had a lovely time.
I finally got to meet lishwitch in person. She was intelligent and fun and generally as awesome as I knew she would be. I only ( Read more... )