Thursday, January 02, 2014

FUCKING SNOW. WHAT THE FUCK.

sorry, bro

I was supposed to go to work today.

SUPPOSED TO.

Don’t get me wrong, I do love me a good snow storm, but NOT ON MY FIRST DAY OF WORK.

(Dude, the internet needs a better way to portray anger.)

I work for a state university (on paper, I guess… I don’t know how this all works.) and it’s closed today because of the weather. Rumour has it the world will be shut down again tomorrow.

SO I MAY NOT GET TO START WORK AT ALL THIS WEEK

Motherfucker.

S’OK though… I have a DVR’d copy of “The Empty Hearse” I can watch! That’ll keep me busy for about an hour and a half. I have three iTunes movie rentals, too. So It’s not like I have stuff I can do. (And I suppose I should shovel…)

But I really wanted to go to work today.

Plus, in the shower, I got the idea on how to start / tweak that idea I had for the Johnlock fan fic. I started working on that while I was fucking around with the DVR… and it seems to be coming along OK so far.

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

******SHERLOCK SPOILERS****** (you have been warned)

yep. mofftiss trolls tumblr

I will be watching it again. Several times. Probably starting tomorrow night.

I don’t even know where to start…

1) Anderson ships Sherlolly - and OMG. THAT FUCKING KISS. Loo is one lucky girl.

2) Mrs. Hudson ships Johnlock like a fucking beast. Not that that’s news or anything. (Although, really Mofftiss - was John’s outburst COMPLETELY necessary? You gave us Sheriarty and Sherlolly. Couldn’t we just have one little Johnlock moment? Oh wait…)

3) Fan club girl ships Sheriarty, and damn if that scene on the rooftop wasn’t brilliant. Do you think that Benedict turned Andrew Scott gay? (Benedict!Sexual is now a thing…)

4) We all got the squash ball right!

5) And the fact that Sherlock’s landing was hidden from John via the small building in the foreground (Ambulance station).

6) Fucking Mofftiss gave us three possible solutions to The Fall. No idea which was the real one…

7) Benedict’s parents. BENEDICT’S. PARENTS.

8) Mycroft and Sherlock playing Operation. And that line about the goldfish… (Mystrade, anyone?)

*breathes*

9) “I don’t shave for Sherlock Holmes.” Yes, you do. Don’t lie, Jawn.

10) HAROLD’S GONE. Buh-bye mournstache.

11) The off switch.

12) John’s reaction was perfect. Not like in ACD canon…

13) He kept hearing John’s voice in his head and John attacked a patient that he thought was Sherlock. (Shout out to ACD canon right there.)

14) “And in that moment, I swear we were all Anderson” Yes. Yes, we were.

15) John’s blog. I fucking died when I read the comments. (We are not talking about the mustache.)

16) John Watson flips the bird. To the camera. (How much do you want to be that gets edited out in the American broadcast?)

17) The “Lazarus” code word - Gatiss wrote the episode. Gatiss was in Who as… yep.

18) Sherlock’s french accent… all he needed was a fucking egg whisk and the entire CabinLock fandom would have died.

19) In a weird twisted way, the entire episode was a shout out to Johnlock. No. Seriously. Despite John’s fucking outburst, there’s no doubt that there’s a very deep, very loving relationship between the men. It’s just platonic.

20) I FUCKING LOVE AMANDA AS MARY. I do. I really do.

I am absolutely dying over here.

Seriously.

OK. I need to go watch it again. Right. Now.

Bye!

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Deconstructing Baskerville (BBC Sherlock)

you went on the tube like that? none of the cabs would take me

Watched “Baskerville” last night.

I’ve brought up how Sherlock essentially grows through the six episodes of series one and two, and Baskerville is a great example of that.

He really pisses John off / hurts his feelings when he tells John that he doesn’t have friends. After realising what he did, he tells John that he doesn’t have friends. He’s just got one. The old Sherlock (series one) wouldn’t have paid attention to John’s reaction, wouldn’t have cared. In Baskerville, while freaking out about the hound, he also says the line that, more than anything, sets up the dramatic events in “Reichenbach”:

I’ve always been able to keep myself distant. Divorce myself from feelings. But you see? Body’s betraying me. Interesting, yes? Emotions. The grease on the lenses. The fly in the ointment.

That line is made all the more poignant when John accuses him of being a machine right before the face off with Moriarty on the roof of Bart’s:

Sherlock: What is it?
Watson: Paramedics. Mrs. Hudson’s been shot.
Sherlock: What. How.
Watson: Probably one of the killers you managed to attract. Jesus. Jesus. She’s dying. Sherlock, let’s go.
Sherlock: You go, I’m busy.
Watson: Busy?
Sherlock: Thinking. I need to think.
Watson: You need to— Doesn’t she mean anything to you? You once half-killed a man because he laid a finger on her.
Sherlock: She’s my landlady.
Watson: She’s dying you machine! Sod this. Sod this, you stay here if you want. On your own.
Sherlock: Alone is what I have. Alone protects me.
Watson: No. Friends protect people.

In the end, when it really matters (or is too late to matter, depending), John finally calls Sherlock his ‘friend’. This is significant, because in BBC canon, that’s the first time he does. That’s before he learns that Sherlock jumped to save him from a sniper’s bullet. The scene takes on a life of its own when you see Sherlock in the cemetery watching John grieve over an empty grave. He protected John because John’s his friend.

Emotion

The feels.

It’s stuff like that makes it easy to ship Johnlock, whether it’s in a brOTP or in PWP: the man that doesn’t show emotion gives in, becomes human, because of a person who is everything he isn’t. Despite everything Sherlock has put him through, he is loyal to the end. The very, bitter, end. 

Just like the RAMC motto: In Arduus Fidelis (Faithful in Adversity)

#IBelieveinSherlockHolmes

Saturday, December 28, 2013

For fan fic, Jawn!

can you believe this counts as research?

If one is writing a prompt titled “gazing into each other’s eyes” one better make damn sure they know what colour eyes the characters are supposed to have.

And this is where the line between fiction and reality starts to blur. (Which is the never ending cause of friction between those of us who like to play with the characters and the actors who portray them.)

The problem with radio programmes is that you never see the characters. For example, Martin and Douglas are never truly described in “Cabin Pressure”, so we pull from what the voice actors look like. It gives us a good starting place and allows the fandom to at least agree on something…

 

arthur, douglas, carolyn, martin

john finnemore, roger allam, stephanie cole, and benedict cumberbatch

As any member of the Cumbercollective knows, Martin/Benedict’s eyes are blue/brown/gold/green/grey/silver. Or any combination thereof.

But the best part - and this is a real thing - is that Benedict has an eye freckle.

An. Eye. Freckle.

Dude. Seriously.

Look carefully at the picture.

Does this help?

And now, I have Douglas saying something like, “what the fuck is that on your eyeball, Martin? Is that a bloody freckle?!?!”

Ah, art…

Friday, December 27, 2013

Where am I from?

I’m absolutely fascinated with this dialect quiz the NYT put together.

The first time I took it, it said my three most similar were: Worcester, Boston, and Springfield.

My three least similar: New Orleans, Detroit and Toledo. (insert giggling here)

I took it today and my three most similar are Worcester, Springfield and Rochester NY

My least similar were: Houston, Jackson MS, and New Orleans

At least I’m consistent - I was born about an hourish from Worcester / Springfield and I guess that does inform a lot of my speech.