Sherlock fic: The Problem with Personal Blogs, Part 21

[mariole]

Title: The Problem with Personal Blogs, Part 21/21
Characters: Holmes, Watson, Lestrade, the BBC gang (Molly, Sarah, Donovan, Anderson)
Rating: PG to Strong Adult - this part R
Warnings: Excessive estrogen, biology
Summary: Sherlock finds himself the recipient of unwanted attention, thanks to the Internet.
Notes: Thank you winterstorrm for the beta and

Comments

[gilli_ann]

Enjoyed this all the way to the end... not that I was ever in any doubt of that! You made me chortle and grin so many times while reading. The happy and entirely competent gang of middle-aged fanficcers! :D Molly finally proving assertive and persistent and getting her way, in so *many* ways! :p Erotica-positive fangirls inadvertedly contributing to solving a crime!

Delightful storytelling throughout. Your prose seems so enviably effortless, snapping and popping and burbling along at a brisk pace, which obviously means you must have been going to considerable efforts. I especially love your dialoges. It takes considerable skill, doing so much storytelling through conversations, managing to convey and maintain each individual character's personality traits and quirks, and doing it with such enthusiasm, not to mention sheer *glee*.

Better late than never: Thank you for a great read!

[mariole]

Bless you! *gives you hugs and chocolate and some really great salmon* I especially appreciate your comments on the "effortless" prose, because this story was a bear to write. It actually stalled and I couldn't push forward on it for almost a year. Just, an amazingly hard push. Then I went through it again and cut out even more, to make it a little more sprightly, because parts just dragged. So I'm very glad and relieved that the end result shows the "fun" that I'd always wanted, and the sweat and grief was safely excised and left on the cutting room floor

[gilli_ann]

...If you read the original Sherlock stories, which I can't remember if you have...

The only one I'd ever read was The Hound of the Baskervilles, long time ago, and not from an interest in the detective story, more because I had a horror/fascination back then for "alien animals" and anything in that vein. Mothmen, Nessie, Yeti, Black Dogs of the moors.... uhuh! I remember liking the story but I can't remembr anything about the writing.

So I was unaware of ACD's way of storytelling through unattributed dialogue. Strangely enough, it's a writing technique I've become more conscious of, and vastly more appreciative of, after haplessly having read the first novel in the Twilight saga (I got it as a gift: "Hey Maeg, you like vampire stories don't you?" :rolleyes: That one does it W-R-O-N-G. Every line of insipid dialogue seemed to end with he/she said + adverb. "She said happily." "He said lovingly" "She whispered pleadingly" etc etc. I do not understand where the editor of the drivel was.

You know, this is us. I'm so glad to be a

[mariole]

Hound was a departure of his usual style in many ways, because of the extended narrative and much of the events being conveyed as a letter or journal. For a good example of unattributed dialog, see "The Adventure of the Reigate Squires" -- probably any short story will do, but I recall that one because I recently reread it. Holmes is on my soothing, bedtime reading list. :)

> "She said happily." "He said lovingly"

ACK ACK ACK I'm dying STOP ALREADY STOOOOOOOP!!!! Where was the editor, indeed! *shudders* You are brave, to make it through that.

> There was this one restaurant in London, once

Was that the Chinese restaurant with the helium balloons, when the owners finally kindly asked us to LEAVE? Because that's a highlight with me also.

Truly, we are an excellent bunch of hell-raisers. Long live us! *hugs you again, just because*

[missyvortexdv]

I've had to try so hard to suppress my giggles (lest I wake my housemate up at nearly 1am) reading the last few chapters. Highly amusing and enjoyable read.

[mariole]

Aw, I'm delighted! Thanks so much for reading and commenting-- even more for giggling. The Sherlock fandom does lovely angst, but we need a few good laughs, too. And Sherlock needs to be reminded now and then that he doesn't always get everything quite right; there's always more to learn.

Thanks so much for your comments! I really appreciate it.

[shadowfireflame]

OMG, I’ve been reading through this and really enjoying your writing. I love how baffled Sherlock is about the popularity of John’s blog. :)

Sherlock shuddered. "I can't even imagine. Who would want to read about me having sex? And fake sex, at that. It's boring enough on its own, without making up any more of it."

Ahahahaha, Sherlock, if you only knew. *pets him*

With Sherlock's addiction to the dramatic and his sartorial flair, picking out a potential stalker from amongst the many who were innocently drawn to his flamboyant style would not be an easy task.

LOL, this is so accurate! How to tell the difference between a stalker and a person just interested in Sherlock as he walks down the street?

John bit back his observation that Molly would probably agree to come if Sherlock had a take-away carrier drop off a note scrawled in crayon.Love this-perfect description of Molly, and such an amusing image, too. And more about Molly in this story-I have such a kink for Sherlock being all reluctant when it comes to sex and others taking

[mariole]

Thank you for your delightful comments, ShadowFF! I have to admit, I have that dub-con kink going on. Some people were a little upset about some of it, frankly. Maybe I'm twisted, but I thought it was funny. Sherlock is impervious to emotional repercussions (and very accommodating