The Holmes Family
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impulsereaderI can't believe I'm doing this. OK. Help me brainstorm.
Members of the extended Holmes family - be as detailed as you possibly can please, because if I'm doing this, I am not doing it alone! Character sketches - give 'em to me!
Go!
I said...My favorite head!canon I got from writing this is the idea of the Holmes family acting out Shakespeare's plays during the holidays.
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221b_hound said...ANd I'll bet they *did* act out Shakespeare.
I said...In my head a country house full of Holmeses choose next year's play after they've finished performing this year's. They choose the play and the setting and assign parts, giving everyone a year to learn their lines and assemble costumes.
Oh dear. Typing always gets me in trouble.
In fact, they still do this every year, though Sherlock refuses to participate these days. Until John finds out about it...
221b said...Oooh. Which play? If it's Midsummer Night's Dream, who plays Puck? I bet Sherlock is exactly like Bottom and wants to play ALL the roles, and gives John a rendition of his Ophelia, about which he's *still* annoyed that he never got to play. And Mycroft is annoyed because the only part Sherlock ever thinks he should play is Falstaff, claiming he's the only one fat enough for the part.
Half of the rehearsals end in sulks, about two percent of them in a fistfight.
Oh but maybe this year they do Hamlet and Sherlock takes the title role, and John plays both Ophelia and Horatio (maybe it's post Reichenbach - CUE ANGST).
Typing seems to get us both into trouble. :/
I said...Hm. Well the obvious choices are the ones I know well. So Midsummer, I just saw Timon for the first time so that's at least fresh, Much Ado, Romeo, MacBeth, Twelfth Night, Tempest - those are the first that come to mind. Much Ado would be good! Oh god, I might actually end up doing this.
Damn you, typing!
221b said...Much Ado! John and Sherlock as Benedick and Beatrice! In that order!! *chortles* Oh, please, do write it!!
And then I gave in and posted this. So, John has spent too many Christmases with Harry during Sherlock's absence, so he talks Sherlock into taking him to his family's annual get together in the country. They see a play. Then they are cast in next year's play.
Members of the extended Holmes family - be as detailed as you possibly can please, because if I'm doing this, I am not doing it alone! Character sketches - give 'em to me!
Go!
I said...My favorite head!canon I got from writing this is the idea of the Holmes family acting out Shakespeare's plays during the holidays.
221b_hound said...ANd I'll bet they *did* act out Shakespeare.I said...In my head a country house full of Holmeses choose next year's play after they've finished performing this year's. They choose the play and the setting and assign parts, giving everyone a year to learn their lines and assemble costumes.
Oh dear. Typing always gets me in trouble.
In fact, they still do this every year, though Sherlock refuses to participate these days. Until John finds out about it...
221b said...Oooh. Which play? If it's Midsummer Night's Dream, who plays Puck? I bet Sherlock is exactly like Bottom and wants to play ALL the roles, and gives John a rendition of his Ophelia, about which he's *still* annoyed that he never got to play. And Mycroft is annoyed because the only part Sherlock ever thinks he should play is Falstaff, claiming he's the only one fat enough for the part.
Half of the rehearsals end in sulks, about two percent of them in a fistfight.
Oh but maybe this year they do Hamlet and Sherlock takes the title role, and John plays both Ophelia and Horatio (maybe it's post Reichenbach - CUE ANGST).
Typing seems to get us both into trouble. :/
I said...Hm. Well the obvious choices are the ones I know well. So Midsummer, I just saw Timon for the first time so that's at least fresh, Much Ado, Romeo, MacBeth, Twelfth Night, Tempest - those are the first that come to mind. Much Ado would be good! Oh god, I might actually end up doing this.
Damn you, typing!
221b said...Much Ado! John and Sherlock as Benedick and Beatrice! In that order!! *chortles* Oh, please, do write it!!
And then I gave in and posted this. So, John has spent too many Christmases with Harry during Sherlock's absence, so he talks Sherlock into taking him to his family's annual get together in the country. They see a play. Then they are cast in next year's play.
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Date: 2012-05-24 11:28 am (UTC)Failing that, there's sure to be some cousins in the works. Maybe smaller children who get very excited and want to play fairies (even though there are no fairies in Much Ado, but maybe they never got over Dream) and the teenager who is being all disdainful and 'I'm too cool' about it, and their twin sibling who is earnest and smart and really into it.
A family friend or two as well? Someone they've called 'aunt' or 'uncle' for years but is just a kind of fixture. Maybe elderly aunt has brought a new boyfriend (or girlfriend), and it's all a bit awkward, because he never got cast the previous year, although s/he turns out to be marvellous at impromptu costuming and props when it turns out that some things have been forgotten.
Anyway. Just flinging some ideas out there for you to take or leave as you please. :D
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Date: 2012-05-24 04:25 pm (UTC)I'm also going to do a glance at Sherlock and John preparing - one for each month of the year.
It is obscene how excited I am about this.
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Date: 2012-05-24 05:11 pm (UTC)And now I really do have to get to bed...
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Date: 2012-05-24 12:48 am (UTC)Also, I love John Buchan's Richard Hannay books- Hannay is actually a Scot who spent many years in Africa and then post-WWI settled in England. Smart, tough, shrewd but not brilliant, he has a cool head and good nerves. Write him in as an uncle by marriage, perhaps- his wife is the former Mary Lamington, Mummy's sister. They have one son, Peter John, a brilliant naturalist who flies a peregrine falcon.
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Date: 2012-05-24 11:20 am (UTC)John has his portrait done! Is it safe to hang it at Baker street? Tune in next week to find out!
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Date: 2012-05-24 12:58 pm (UTC)BTW, Hannay is Major-General Sir Richard Hannay at this point. You might also add in his old friend Sandy Arbuthnot, Lord Clanroyden. Sandy was based on Aubrey Herbert, a British diplomat and world traveller who was twice offered the throne of Albania, pre- and post-WWI. He's visiting since his wife's death and their daughter's work in America means he would otherwise be alone at Christmas.
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Date: 2012-06-13 04:59 pm (UTC)(Mind you, I'm the anon who prompted that Sherlock and Mycroft (as children on the family estate in Sussex) managed to summon Puck by reciting "Midsummer Night's Dream" - a la Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies - and were given hold of all Old England. They should See what they should See and Hear what they should Hear, though it shall have happened three thousand year, and they shall know neither Doubt nor Fear. If you don't know Kipling's Puck stories, I heartily recommend them.)
But Much Ado? Much JOY. :D
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Date: 2012-06-13 11:12 pm (UTC)Did you get a fill by any chance?
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Date: 2012-06-15 02:16 am (UTC)http://sherlockbbc-fic.livejournal.com/16422.html?thread=94366246#t94366246