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impulsereader) wrote2012-07-08 07:22 pm
impulsereader) wrote2012-07-08 07:22 pm
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I am so much cooler on the internet.
Today I met up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pargoletta for tea, lunch and a mini-lecture on Bartok, and she proved to be just as funny and eloquent in person as she is on her journal - do go read her fic Nearer My God to Thee as her rl experience informs a great case!fic and she gives us boatloads of Competent!Doctor!John as well as a wonderful Sarah.
As I am significantly less funny and eloquent in person, she asked me how I got into Sherlock and I stumbled around telling her that KR had watched it without me, mentioned it was good, and then we watched it again together, but that I hadn't gone completely around the bend until after S2 aired. Well, my origin story is actually just a little more interesting than that - not by much, but considering hers involves both a trip to England and seeing the TBB original airing plus Benedict Cumberbatch in a Harrow uniform (ETA oh yes, this could also be the story which involves her plane catching fire while landing and the plane's evacuation by emergency slide) I really felt the need to raise my game just a little now that I'm back in an environment where I'm a bit more funny and clever - with a keyboard in front of me.
Back in my very first journal entry I said:
So, if anyone cares what prompted this, keep reading.
I recently found myself writing my first fanfic. The sequence of events was something like this:
1. ABC decides to marathon aired episodes of Once Upon A Time. I fall for it and watch them all at one go. I set new eps to record.
2. Skin Deep airs - please note I’m initially unimpressed. I’m not mortally offended that they’ve made Rumpelstiltskin the Beast, I’m not comparing it to the Disney version which I have very fond memories of, I’m just kind of meh about the whole thing. It all seemed a little too easy and that sort of itched at me, but they’ve only got forty-something minutes to work with and they had to simplify.
3. I went onto LiveJournal to see what was up with the denizens and Once Upon a Time. I’ve been a casual lurker in dribs and drabs previously. I discover Rumpel/Belle is quite the discussion of the hour.
4. I start to read some of the fanfic, just because it seems like I’m getting in on the ground floor and there’s some really good stuff out there.
5. I read a few key pieces all in one day, and bam, I’m writing a story. I’m almost finished in fact and I hope to post it pretty soon which is why I took the plunge and signed up for a journal.
6. I still feel pretty meh about the characters and the episode itself. ETA - Robert Carlyle is a god, and I'm not sure why I left this off the first time.
7. I ask myself if I’ve gone crazy. I’ve written more than five thousand words about a couple that I have almost no investment in whatsoever. I’ve poured hours into it. I love my story, but where the hell did it come from?
Then, a little later I hopped on and said - OK, it's longer than I remember so I'm just linking to the original post here.
So now I've written a lot of Sherlock fic. A lot. And that - is my origin story. It still does not include BC in a Harrow uniform, alas.
pargoletta for tea, lunch and a mini-lecture on Bartok, and she proved to be just as funny and eloquent in person as she is on her journal - do go read her fic Nearer My God to Thee as her rl experience informs a great case!fic and she gives us boatloads of Competent!Doctor!John as well as a wonderful Sarah.As I am significantly less funny and eloquent in person, she asked me how I got into Sherlock and I stumbled around telling her that KR had watched it without me, mentioned it was good, and then we watched it again together, but that I hadn't gone completely around the bend until after S2 aired. Well, my origin story is actually just a little more interesting than that - not by much, but considering hers involves both a trip to England and seeing the TBB original airing plus Benedict Cumberbatch in a Harrow uniform (ETA oh yes, this could also be the story which involves her plane catching fire while landing and the plane's evacuation by emergency slide) I really felt the need to raise my game just a little now that I'm back in an environment where I'm a bit more funny and clever - with a keyboard in front of me.
Back in my very first journal entry I said:
So, if anyone cares what prompted this, keep reading.
I recently found myself writing my first fanfic. The sequence of events was something like this:
1. ABC decides to marathon aired episodes of Once Upon A Time. I fall for it and watch them all at one go. I set new eps to record.
2. Skin Deep airs - please note I’m initially unimpressed. I’m not mortally offended that they’ve made Rumpelstiltskin the Beast, I’m not comparing it to the Disney version which I have very fond memories of, I’m just kind of meh about the whole thing. It all seemed a little too easy and that sort of itched at me, but they’ve only got forty-something minutes to work with and they had to simplify.
3. I went onto LiveJournal to see what was up with the denizens and Once Upon a Time. I’ve been a casual lurker in dribs and drabs previously. I discover Rumpel/Belle is quite the discussion of the hour.
4. I start to read some of the fanfic, just because it seems like I’m getting in on the ground floor and there’s some really good stuff out there.
5. I read a few key pieces all in one day, and bam, I’m writing a story. I’m almost finished in fact and I hope to post it pretty soon which is why I took the plunge and signed up for a journal.
6. I still feel pretty meh about the characters and the episode itself. ETA - Robert Carlyle is a god, and I'm not sure why I left this off the first time.
7. I ask myself if I’ve gone crazy. I’ve written more than five thousand words about a couple that I have almost no investment in whatsoever. I’ve poured hours into it. I love my story, but where the hell did it come from?
Then, a little later I hopped on and said - OK, it's longer than I remember so I'm just linking to the original post here.
So now I've written a lot of Sherlock fic. A lot. And that - is my origin story. It still does not include BC in a Harrow uniform, alas.