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impulsereaderGrandmere is dying to hear about one of Sherlock and John’s adventures. Which ACD story should be adapted for her benefit? Come on – throw me your favourite – Silver Blaze, Yellow Face and Speckled Band are the only stories off the table as I’m trying/planning to use or have already used those.
I’m still not sure what Mycroft is building – or assembling – he has the MJN crew bringing in one element and Sandy Arbuthnot flying in another – there may very well be other components as well... This leads one of the opening scenes in the Much Ado season to feature a dogfight bringing down Sandy’s plane and a group of armed men hijacking Gertie! Luckily, John and Not Anthea look harmless and are taken along as hostages. It does not take them long to return control to Martin (who displays a slightly startling willingness to be Captain even when doing so requires him to be kidnapped at gunpoint. “No, being Captain means taking the bad with the good, Douglas.”).
What is Mycroft building/assembling? Maybe he’s let one of you in on it? He doesn’t seem inclined currently to tell me.
Mycroft refers to the clan as ‘a blizzard of Holmeses’. Do we like that or can you lot come up with something better? I know djarum99 is good at this – a charm of hummingbirds - *happy sigh*.
Do John and Sherlock exchange gifts? If yes, what would you like to see them give each other? Two holidays here, mind…is anyone interested in any other possible gift exchanges?
What do you think might be in the bottle (sealed with lead) which Sherlock pocketed in the attic?
The boys are scheduled for a final fitting of their costumes. I think this requires another canon character (anyone but Donovan *glares at Sally*) to drop by the flat coincidentally while Sherlock is trying on dresses. Who would you like it to be? What else is going on in November at Baker Street? What are we talking about while the fitting is going on? Is there a case on? Maybe we can even put in another ACD adaptation here…go wild!
I’m still not sure what Mycroft is building – or assembling – he has the MJN crew bringing in one element and Sandy Arbuthnot flying in another – there may very well be other components as well... This leads one of the opening scenes in the Much Ado season to feature a dogfight bringing down Sandy’s plane and a group of armed men hijacking Gertie! Luckily, John and Not Anthea look harmless and are taken along as hostages. It does not take them long to return control to Martin (who displays a slightly startling willingness to be Captain even when doing so requires him to be kidnapped at gunpoint. “No, being Captain means taking the bad with the good, Douglas.”).
What is Mycroft building/assembling? Maybe he’s let one of you in on it? He doesn’t seem inclined currently to tell me.
Mycroft refers to the clan as ‘a blizzard of Holmeses’. Do we like that or can you lot come up with something better? I know djarum99 is good at this – a charm of hummingbirds - *happy sigh*.
Do John and Sherlock exchange gifts? If yes, what would you like to see them give each other? Two holidays here, mind…is anyone interested in any other possible gift exchanges?
What do you think might be in the bottle (sealed with lead) which Sherlock pocketed in the attic?
The boys are scheduled for a final fitting of their costumes. I think this requires another canon character (anyone but Donovan *glares at Sally*) to drop by the flat coincidentally while Sherlock is trying on dresses. Who would you like it to be? What else is going on in November at Baker Street? What are we talking about while the fitting is going on? Is there a case on? Maybe we can even put in another ACD adaptation here…go wild!
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Date: 2012-07-07 11:07 pm (UTC)I wasn't sure if it was the whump warning which was putting people off or what. Finally I posted it at the bbcsherlock comm after their reboot - I'd been sticking to the smaller comms - just to see what would happen. It's still not doing well in the kudos to hits ratio, but I'm glad at least some people like it.
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Date: 2012-07-07 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-07 11:38 pm (UTC)Honestly, at this point I'm avoiding attracting attention considering what I'm doing asking for prompts. I really don't need newbies coming on shouting out "Beer!" and "Freebird!"
Is your Holmes fic on AO3? I hadn't checked, was just slowly perusing here on LJ.
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Date: 2012-07-08 06:18 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-08 05:57 pm (UTC)Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-08 06:27 pm (UTC)I now have a mental image of Mycroft hand-embroidering the chair and sofa covers in petite-point...
OH! Okay, now I really want to make BC and MF 1/12 dolls (I doll-make in craft-clay not porcelain unfortunately) and dress them in 16thC period costume... one of them in drag. :D
Or at least draw/paint that. I *am* working on John but your blasted oak is complicating matters, unless I want the whole thing to be is shadow tones...
My Dad - who is 76 - owns a wax-sealed bottle of scotch that is older than he is (sort of, it was 25yo when it was bottled in 1950) which is apparently worth at least £1k. (An 18yo or 21yo Scotch will probably set you back £90-150, as a guide. A decent 12yo is about £30. The youngest aged Scotches are 8yo.)
What else could be in the bottle? Great Aunt Maud's extremely potent home-made elderberry port? What else does one bottle? Messages, naturally... but wouldn't someone have opened it by now?
Something pickled? Walnuts or a shrew or something?
OH! In some parts of Greece they used to bottle scorpions and other venomous beasties in oil - the scorpion-oil was then supposed to be an anti-venom if you did get stung or bitten!!! How about a snake or some such in oil or brandy that was once supposed to be an antidote to all poisons or something? Or *actual* snake oil from the 19thC?
5th November is Guy Fawkes' Day aka Bonfire Night aka Fireworks Night. We remember the foiled Gunpowder Plot when the Catholics (allegedly) tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the King in them (in about 1605!!!) with fireworks and bonfires. It is traditional to have an effigy of a man - representing either Guy Fawkes or the Pope! depending on where you live - on top of the bonfire. I was severely traumatised aged 5 or 6 by the burning of my cousins' extremely life-like "Guy".
"Remember, remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot! I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot!"
And unlike Advent calendars, Advent proper begins in November, 4 Sundays before Christmas. Some people put their Christmas decorations up on the 1st Sunday in Advent.
Any use?
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Date: 2012-07-08 08:44 pm (UTC)Also, you might have a shrewdness (apes), a parliament (owls), an exaltation (larks) or a crash (rhinos) of Holmeses.
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Date: 2012-07-08 10:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-09 12:01 am (UTC)I know, right? Sherlock grocery shopping has to be epic!
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Date: 2012-07-09 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-09 04:13 am (UTC)Will read your miniature via Mycroft response as soon as I can - sorry, I cannot do it justice now, must go to bed so I don't lose my real job and the paycheck which supports all this.
I'm so glad you popped in! Thank you so much! I missed you!
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Date: 2012-07-09 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:40 am (UTC)I will be a pirate and have adventures, I don't care what Mycroft says.
I will have a best friend (a real one not an imaginary one) (and not Mycroft) and we'll have adventures together.
Daddy will like me again.
I will prove that Mycroft broke my violin so he will stop blaming Plutarch.
I will never like sprouts. Not even when I'm really really old like 30.
Re the shopping, I can't help thinking that Sherlock will come home with strange gourmet goods or weird foreign brands (Polish beer, for example. Last time I was in London, the local supermarket had all this Zywiec in, catering for the immigrant Polish population, which amused us no end. Polish beer is excellent, by the way).
I've bookmarked that fic to go read. :) I liked Sarah a lot, so it'll be good to read more of her in fic.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:50 am (UTC)I imagine that after Sherlock has fulfilled his 'gift' of doing the shopping once that John will make sure he NEVER DOES IT AGAIN. Because he still doesn't know what to do with the sixteen cans of catfood Sherlock bought because IT WAS ON SPECIAL.
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Date: 2012-07-09 04:51 pm (UTC)I have to write the shopping now, I just have to. I'm not sure I'll be able to make it as funny as it should be, but I have to at least try. What I really want - oh, god typing is scary - what I just realized I need to do is send Sherlock on his own, but give John something to do to intercut - then we get the reaction scene - You bought WHAT????? Sherlock will very definitely be banned from doing the shopping ever again.
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Date: 2012-07-10 01:48 am (UTC)Shopping SHerlock. THis I want to see. SO MUCH. I suspect that, besides being easily distracted from the mundane task of gathering foodstuffs from the home, Sherlock is probably *deliberately* bad at it, in the hopes that people will stop asking him to do it.
And now I'm wondering if John will be all WHAT THE HELL IS THIS??? and then twig onto Sherlock's evil plans to skive out of household tasks, and grits his teeth and thanks him, and then *makes Sherlock eat the things he bought*.
"NO, SHerlock, if you bought herrings and jam and bread, this is a clear indication of what you want for breakfast. Enjoy. Unless you'd prefer the quail eggs and royal jelly on crackers, because that's the other option." ANd eating it himself, because he was in the army and he knows how BAD bad food can actually be.
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Date: 2012-07-10 02:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-10 04:49 pm (UTC)Re: Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-10 05:04 pm (UTC)Even if Mycroft isn't currently building a miniature of the House, there is now definitely one built by him either in the attic or on display somewhere.
Very useful. I'm having a devil of a time deciding what is in the bottle because I sort of want it to lead to something happening during one of the interludes. I like your ideas very much, and something has to unlock something eventually. Oh! Maybe it's a map...I was stuck on note, but it could be a map...hmmmmmm Could I use this to send the boys on a treasure hunt of some sort? hmmmmmm...
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Date: 2012-07-10 05:40 pm (UTC)Re: Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-10 07:58 pm (UTC)But petite-point is very repetetive and soothing. And I'm always insanely pleased when you like one of my ideas. lol I'm just... concerned.