I have done all the things. April is always an exceedingly busy month on my end, but this year, for some reason, it was exceptionally so.

I've signed up for holmestice (because another deadline is just what I need), submitted my end-of-year dissertation's first draft to my study director (which is due in June, because more deadlines! mother of god), saw a ( Read more... )

This was intended as a form of introduction for the S2 meta, but after several rewrites of it it simply didn't seem to fit, so I'm putting it up now, perhaps as a prologue. See, ASiP remains my favourite episode pretty much on par with TRF, and I find the echoes between both of these episodes to be fascinating, but upon closer reflection ASiP ( Read more... )

Sometimes I just want to climb up on my university's rooftops and shout LESBIAAAAAAAAANS, just to see what'd turn up: a pissed-off security guard, or a love story.

In that vein: fem!Sherlock is unexpectedly difficult to write. Good to know, but fuck it. It was meant to study the ways the character might turn out as a woman, what changes it would ( Read more... )

FUCKING META, HOW DOES IT WORK. This, I guess, sort of sums it up/introduces it/makes it sound really serious (it's not):

Mirrors, symbolically and especially in art, are often dual - art is said to be the mirror of life, but they are also notable for inverting and altering reality, as well as providing optical illusions. In magic tricks, they twist ( Read more... )

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Finals over. Hitchcock paper handed in. Have some Reichenbach.

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So I got caught up in my semester finals and I have a paper to finish writing on Rear Window, but I'm taking a moment to post this review before Fall airs because HOLY SHIT, HOUNDS.

Mark Gatiss, you goddamn brilliant motherfucker. ( spoilers. )

Okay. Okay. Having slept on Scandal, let's have a more-or-less comprehensive review of this.

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Leaving this here now, because tonight M and I have:

• the Downton Abbey Christmas Special;
• a Granada SH marathon because she's only seen the first two seasons and none of Hardwicke, which is outrageous;
• probably lots of cheap wine.

I love this early New Year's Eve tradition we've got going. So:

the grand tour of europe.
Sherlock/John.
6,500words.
PG-13. No ( Read more... )