My Favourite Hobby

[chocolamousse]

Title: My Favourite Hobby
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Category: Romance
Rating: PG-13
Beta: The amazing verityburns
Word count: 1594
Translation into Chinese available here (thank you, Lowtension!) and into Russian available here and here (thank you, Little_Unicorn!).
Summary: John loves going to the theatre. So does Sherlock - but only if John is with him. And

Comments

[starshine24mc]

I won't say this is sweet, cos that might suggest light and fluffy and sure to make your teeth ache. No, this is rich like dark chocolate ganache and rumballs and hot chocolate with a shot of Drambuie in it. Delicious! Thank you for this!

[chocolamousse]

Dark chocolate ganache and rumballs and hot chocolate with a shot of Drambuie in it?
*drools over*
I didn't choose my username at random, you know! :D Thank you very much, you're very sweet. (And I'm not implying you make my teeth ache.) Also, I love your icon. And I think I'm a little hungry now.

[verityburns]

You've killed me by posting this when I absolutely do not have time to comment as it deserves! I loved it then, I love it now - and I will be back!!!

[chocolamousse]

Hmmm. First Atlin says she went to bed at half past two in the morning and now you tell me you're super-busy. Please tell me that Sherlock is involved. That writing is involved. That porn is involved. :D

[verityburns]

*sighs happily*

A weekend at 'Sherlopalooza' was involved, so that would be a tick in all your boxes, I think! Now that I am back home it has been absolutely lovely to re-read this at my leisure and it's just as beautiful as I remember, if not more so.

I think we have in common an enjoyment of exploring different perspectives, and revealing the misunderstandings which underly so many interactions, and you do it brilliantly here.

I love the John POV section and it sets the scene perfectly... but I must admit that it's Sherlock's voice which really tugs on my heart strings - so many phrases stand out and make me inhale just a little more sharply than I normally would. To select just a few:

- 'I consented. But I sighed a lot to compensate

[chocolamousse]

I still can't quite believe that sometimes I am the one who writes a fic and you are the one who leaves a comment, but I think I could get used to it. :D And once more it's a comment which leaves me grinning like a happy idiot. Thank you so much for quoting the lines you like best, I love that! And never apologize for quoting too long a passage! I have the slight feeling I did that a hundred times in your fics. *coughs*

I love the John POV section and it sets the scene perfectly... but I must admit that it's Sherlock's voice which really tugs on my heart stringsMe too! Of course I needed to have John's POV first but I remember that while I was writing it I felt like telling my future readers, "No! Don't stop reading at once! I know it's not thrilling right now but it's on purpose, it will be better very soon!" :D John is lovely in his quiet happiness, but Sherlock with his quivering heart is... *sighs* Well, you know what I mean. :D

[arianedevere]

Once again I’m going to reproduce what I wrote to you when you first let me see this glorious piece of writing, back when it looked like you were never going to publish your fic and let other people see it:

I wish, I really really wish you could have watched me over Skype or something while I was reading this, and could have heard the noises and faces I was making at the time. There were so many moments of "aww" and gasps and "oh bless" and giggles of adoration - aimed both at the boys and at the writer ... and then I got to the last paragraph.

And now I'm weeping. Literally there are tears streaming down my face.

My good God, Choco. You can write. It is such a tragic waste, and a huge loss to the fanfic community, that you don't allow these stories to go public. It is a godamned waste that your stories are only seen by a few people. And we are so lucky and privileged to see such tenderness and adoration and affection expressed between our favourite characters by such a talented writer

[arianedevere]

And then, once I’d got my breath back a bit, I wrote more:

I still can't read My Favourite Hobby without my eyes filling with tears. I'm so glad I didn't read it for the first time while I was at work, or I would have disgraced myself with all the noises and then the weeping, but I'm sitting here in the office now (thankfully alone, although the boss may wander in at any time) and I can only look at the story in small doses, otherwise I'll be blubbing again. It's so damned clever; and so what if it's a similar idea to The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of? Half of my stories are inspired by somebody else's, or a line from somebody else's, or even a line from (gasp) real life or other fiction. And you are, after all, talking to the woman who plagiarised her own fiction by doing two versions of Author, Author! Besides, Dreams was such a fabulous concept in the first place, so using it again in Hobby is not a problem at all. You could even make it into a series ... ooh, now there's an idea: Five Times Sherlock And John Didn't Realise They Had

[chocolamousse]

What's wrong with Lj today, I've got notifications for comments HOURS after they were sent to my journal! I hope you haven't got a notification for my posting yesterday hours after I posted it too. Ah well.

First, thank you for deleting the first lines of your original answer, you know, the “Damn you damn you damn you damn you damn you damn you. You stupid bloody idiot woman, what the hell are you thinking?”. It's very considerate from you. :D

I'm glad you reproduce what you wrote the first time you read the story because it's a really amazing and long and detailed answer and it still makes me very, very happy, especially when you say I've really got inside Sherlock's head and heart. What a great compliment! I love that you tell me what you like best, especially when it's what I like best too, like Sherlock showing how much John's feelings affect him or how much he's possessive with him. And I'm very glad you like My tender-hearted sociopath because I spent a lot of time looking for something which would express sweet mockery,

[anarion]

When are you going to write more?!
Before we can see the third series. Happy now?

YES! *goes to track choco's journal*

[anarion]

It's my story! *beams*

Still brilliant and I still love it! And now I can link to this from my fic! *yay*

Soon the play will be over and we'll go back home and John will pull me towards the bed and I'll see to it that for a good while he'll only look at me, with more intensity and passion than he ever looked at this stage, he'll look at me and he will be mine and I'll make his heart beat stronger and faster than it beat for these puppets.
This is so hot and sweet at the same time. Also goosebumps.

*hugs*

[anarion]

Seriously? LJ, what are you doing?

Sorry about the repeated edit and the strange way the comment looks, LJ keeps taking out my formating.

[chocolamousse]

Yep, it's your story! I'm so glad you love it. I gave you goosebumps, my work here is done! Your 221B was so lovely and inspiring. And thanks for the link!

P.S. Don't worry about the formatting, it's something in connection with my LJ theme and I'm still baffled about it. Look at the two comments Verity sent today, I guess she formatted them the same way and yet they have a different look. The mysteries of LJ...

[verucasalt123]

oh, that was really beautiful, the two perspectives matching up with their actions & emotions so well.

[chocolamousse]

Thank you very much!