Mostly Mark/Mycroft
Okay, after mainlining a series or two of League of Gentlemen, I have apparently started fangirling Mark Gatiss as well. This I can cope with; in fact, it feels so tremendously familiar and comfortable, it just makes me pretty much completely happy. Right age; right look; right type. Or, to quote the great sage Arthur: "Like, for instance, when you get into a bath quickly and it's just the right temperature, and you go 'ooooh'. I mean, really, no one gets any happier than that." I mean, there's already a handy mental niche right there between Chris Barrie and Paul McDermott and directly above Hugh Laurie, so I don't even have to rearrange the furniture.
Also, amongst other nice things, it's reminded me that it is entirely possible to fangirl calmly, and with a certain amount of dignity, AND NOT TURN INTO AN INCOHERENT FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD STUCK IN CAPSLOCK MODE EVERY TIME THE OBJECT OF ONE'S INEXPLICABLE AFFECTIONS SHOULD RANGE INTO VIEW. UNLIKE WITH SOME PEOPLE. *cough*. Yes, I have ongoing Cumberissues. You'd be amazed how much I spare you. Well, most of you. But trust me, it's not pretty.
But, Mark Gatiss, people. Yes. What a gorgeous, funny man. Let me love you. Sedately *g*
The lovely and very systematic Val Denton
Mr Chinnery, the so-not-Herriot (or Tristan, even)
Mickey, the sweet, hapless job-seeker
Iris the charlady
Phil from 'educational' theatre group Legz Akimbo
Brian attempts to tell the Mao-Mao joke
Fic site rec: Because sometimes I feel like a Jaded Fandom Hag, I loved going through http://sherlockoddfic.tumblr.com/ for the weird and wonderful in Sherlock fic. Tentacles, dragons, awesomely smutty six-inch high John (Microphilia), and even one where a certain part of Sherlock's anatomy is kept separately from the rest of him, in a bedside drawer (Olisbos). Yeah, it took me three passes before I was even game to click on that last one, because I figured it couldn't really be good, and if it really were good, it couldn't be hot, not with a ridiculous premise like that. Wrong on both counts. It's on that site for a reason. Ack.
Fic I didn't know I needed until I read it: The Case of the Suicidal Brother by starjenni (no incest). Mycroft ends up in hospital - but what really happened? I think the title makes it sound much more potentially clunky and melodramatic than it is; it's written with a light hand and semblance of plot rather than being gratuitous angst, which I appreciated. But mainly I didn't realise until reading it how it's always Sherlock everyone worries about (now that I think about it, it was the same with Mulder. Some things never change). This one's for Mycroft.
Fic I adored against all my usual instincts: Not a fan of 'when characters were children' fic, generally, but I loved Ducks All In A Row by kirstenlouise (who also wrote the magnificent Mycroft Manifesto). Eight-year-old Sherlock has already decided who he's going to marry when he grows up. Don't look at me like that; I can see you rolling your eyes from here. But it truly is lovely (and innocent). And it's even better if you either read the manifesto or were observant enough to notice that Mycroft does wear that mysterious ring *g*
Also, amongst other nice things, it's reminded me that it is entirely possible to fangirl calmly, and with a certain amount of dignity, AND NOT TURN INTO AN INCOHERENT FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD STUCK IN CAPSLOCK MODE EVERY TIME THE OBJECT OF ONE'S INEXPLICABLE AFFECTIONS SHOULD RANGE INTO VIEW. UNLIKE WITH SOME PEOPLE. *cough*. Yes, I have ongoing Cumberissues. You'd be amazed how much I spare you. Well, most of you. But trust me, it's not pretty.
But, Mark Gatiss, people. Yes. What a gorgeous, funny man. Let me love you. Sedately *g*
The lovely and very systematic Val Denton
Mr Chinnery, the so-not-Herriot (or Tristan, even)
Mickey, the sweet, hapless job-seeker
Iris the charlady
Phil from 'educational' theatre group Legz Akimbo
Brian attempts to tell the Mao-Mao joke
Click to viewFic site rec: Because sometimes I feel like a Jaded Fandom Hag, I loved going through http://sherlockoddfic.tumblr.com/ for the weird and wonderful in Sherlock fic. Tentacles, dragons, awesomely smutty six-inch high John (Microphilia), and even one where a certain part of Sherlock's anatomy is kept separately from the rest of him, in a bedside drawer (Olisbos). Yeah, it took me three passes before I was even game to click on that last one, because I figured it couldn't really be good, and if it really were good, it couldn't be hot, not with a ridiculous premise like that. Wrong on both counts. It's on that site for a reason. Ack.
Fic I didn't know I needed until I read it: The Case of the Suicidal Brother by starjenni (no incest). Mycroft ends up in hospital - but what really happened? I think the title makes it sound much more potentially clunky and melodramatic than it is; it's written with a light hand and semblance of plot rather than being gratuitous angst, which I appreciated. But mainly I didn't realise until reading it how it's always Sherlock everyone worries about (now that I think about it, it was the same with Mulder. Some things never change). This one's for Mycroft.
Fic I adored against all my usual instincts: Not a fan of 'when characters were children' fic, generally, but I loved Ducks All In A Row by kirstenlouise (who also wrote the magnificent Mycroft Manifesto). Eight-year-old Sherlock has already decided who he's going to marry when he grows up. Don't look at me like that; I can see you rolling your eyes from here. But it truly is lovely (and innocent). And it's even better if you either read the manifesto or were observant enough to notice that Mycroft does wear that mysterious ring *g*