Comments | marysutherland: London meet-up metafic: Death of a fanatic

marysutherland

London meet-up metafic: Death of a fanatic

Jan 31, 2011 16:27

BBC Sherlock

Rating: 12 (implicit slash, explicit weirdness)

Summary: Lots of people have been posting about what happened at the recent London Sherlock meetup. This is what didn't happen. Another metafic in sequel to warriorbot's Going Down With the Ship and my Captain of the Ship. This is crackier. It may even be meta-metafic, I've lost track.

( Another shitty day in paradise, Lestrade was thinking that afternoon. )

blame the author, lestrade's pov, mary sue sutherland, metafic, crack, life jim as i know it, comedy

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kalypso_v January 31 2011, 17:09:14 UTC

Laughing uncontrollably, but a jolly good thing it didn't happen, as it would have been a shame to have missed you in the pub.

So do we have actual illustrations for this one?

marysutherland January 31 2011, 22:14:14 UTC

EmmyAngua has a pic of that bit and so does Lei che sogna. I don't know if anyone else was taking photos at that point (for obvious reasons).

kalypso_v January 31 2011, 22:25:35 UTC

glorfinniel has one showing the fangirls milling about your body here.

ginbitch January 31 2011, 17:13:14 UTC

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Dear God but this is good! And yes, it describes _exactly_ what happened on Saturday - trufax!

Seriously, though, you are the most accomodating corpse it's ever been my honour to meet! Not only do you obligingly lie down on the frickin' freezin ground for photoshoots but you then immortalise your demise in works of glory! And the line about 'Bot's shameful holmescest...! Just perfect!

Absolute joy from start to finish. Rather like the meet-up!

<3 <3 <3

marysutherland January 31 2011, 22:18:06 UTC

What we don't yet know is if Mycroft knows about Bot's Holmes/Holmes stuff - he knows she writes RPF because he was leaving messages on the Study in Pink LJ community, and I can't believe he isn't still tracking in her in some way...

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marysutherland January 31 2011, 22:23:03 UTC

Glad you enjoyed it - but I think it may have fried my brain completely trying to work out who's who in this AU.

gayalondiel January 31 2011, 19:34:21 UTC

I hurt from laughing. This is utterly brilliant. Thank you!

marysutherland January 31 2011, 22:29:12 UTC

I think at some early point in the day that someone was going to have to RPF the meet-up, but I didn't think the plot bunnies were going to ambush me in particular.

fengirl88 January 31 2011, 19:45:10 UTC

this was very cheering to come home to after a tiring day at the Factory...

particularly loved the Mystrade reference and Sherlock's horror at the thought of warriorbot!

seldom can a corpse have been so eloquent.

marysutherland January 31 2011, 22:38:20 UTC

I read some piece ages ago about which queried the idea of Mystrade since we've never seen Mycroft and Lestrade meet canonically - even at the end of Pink, although they're at the same location, they don't necessarily meet. (Of course, some of us know better about how they did meet).

As for the eloquent corpse, ACD turns out to have been right about spiritualism after all, so I'm dictating all this by automatic writing, via a very nice medium called Miss Climpson.

fengirl88 January 31 2011, 23:24:23 UTC

glad to see that Miss Climpson's old cunning has not deserted her...

well, ACD knows a thing or two about Mystrade as well, doesn't he? I hadn't realized this till someone - I think randomly_rusted - pointed it out.

marysutherland February 1 2011, 21:51:18 UTC

I had to look that one up, but yes, in ACD's The Bruce-Partington Plans Mycroft and Lestrade turn up at 221B together. (Lestrade gets called 'thin and austere', by Watson in this one, which is an advance on 'rat-faced'). Mark Gatiss copies quite a lot of the scene in The Great Game, but presumably decided that if you got Sherlock, John, Mycroft and Lestrade all in the same room, the UST would blow up the half of Baker Street that the bomb hadn't.

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