The Worst Possible Taste

[marysutherland]

BBC Sherlock metafic

Rating 12 (tastelessness)

Warning: this was inspired by a discussion at a Sherlock meet-up in the autumn about limits on writing fanfic, during which two of my previous betas specifically said they would refuse to read any fic I wrote on this topic. This contains no graphic violence, but is nevertheless gratuitously offensive to

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Don't tell Mycroft I'm at a computer

[warriorbot]

*punches air* *goes back underground*

Before I go though: Offensiveness with footnotes. Misery memoirs and prog rock. Our favourite Mary Sue with a three pen problem. I can barely breathe for squee!

Re: Don't tell Mycroft I'm at a computer

[marysutherland]

One of the people at the meetup was Gayalondiel, who's written loads of death!fic, and I'd also been talking to ginbitch about all the different kinky stuff she'd betaed and how almost nothing could shock her now. Ginbitch mentioned how she'd put her cat into one of her stories, and at that point wires in my head crossed and I asked them both if they'd write dead cat fic. And the looks I got...

But I'm starting to worry about Mary Sue, after this. Maybe I'll have to kill her off again. ;-)

[maggie_conagher]

I am a cat parent and I still found this hilarious. :)

[marysutherland]

Glad you didn't object - there's just an awful logic to Sherlock's mind sometimes (and probably mine as well) that makes this sort of idea happen.

[flawedamythyst]

Hah! Awesome. And, really, why shouldn't we make use of our dead pets when meat is so expensive these days?

Uh, does this make me technically immoral?

[marysutherland]

No, it doesn't make you immoral, it makes you a logical thinker, who does not let conventional sentimentality cloud your rational thought. (Well, that's what Sherlock would say, anyhow). There are some more scientific arguments against eating dead carnivores - herbivores tend to taste better.

[shehasathree]

:D
Offensiveness with footnotes, Miss Sutherland, is no less offensive."
But it has footnotes!!

[marysutherland]

My view of academic life is that you can read and discuss anything, provided you have long and reference-packed footnotes, and you cultivate an air of not enjoying what you're discussing, just reporting it. It's how I get away with writing in RL about sex and sexuality.

[shehasathree]

Mmmm, academic life. :D

[fengirl88]

UPDATE: *Please* don't write poems in the comments. You know what happens if you do. (If anyone is new to this blog, and doesn't know, just read the posts tagged: 'haiku incident' and 'scansion for the dim-witted').

*sporfles*