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1. Snow is for the young. It makes my feet hurt, my ankles hurt, my knees scream, and for some reason gives me cramps on the inside of my thighs the way nothing has done since riding a horse when I was 11. And I walked in it all today and all yesterday, and will be walking in it for quite some time to come. The only good thing about snow is being able to shovel it away. And I can't do that because a very little careful cleaning makes my neck nerves twinge warningly. So I shall be sliding over many people's churned-up slush as well.
2. The BBC Sherlock is marvellous for taking me Elsewhere. I have no idea why this should be so. I'm a little discomfited that it's also made the original impossible to read. Maybe the taste for Holmes will come back when the taste of Cumberbatch has left my brain.
3. It's been years since I've read fanfic in quantity. Partly I haven't had fandoms that needed it. If I want more Pratchett, say, Pratchett himself provides. Or else I've wanted it-- 100 Demons, say-- but practically no one was writing. But now I've been through AO3's collection of Rivers of London fics because I very much want more Peter, and Aaronovitch isn't providing it fast enough, and other people are. The quality varies, but I remember now what the inescapable lure of doujinshi was, ten and twenty years ago. More of these marvellous people, and maybe someone else's take on what they're all about. Most satisfying.
Which reminds me that I should see if anyone wrote Points fic. Which is a case in, um, point. It exists, but to date hasn't scratched whatever particular itch I have. More doesn't do it with the Points, alas. New and useful is what I want, and generally what I've seen hasn't been either. No, actually, I want more settei-- more background-- and that's not something fanfic is good at providing.
2. The BBC Sherlock is marvellous for taking me Elsewhere. I have no idea why this should be so. I'm a little discomfited that it's also made the original impossible to read. Maybe the taste for Holmes will come back when the taste of Cumberbatch has left my brain.
3. It's been years since I've read fanfic in quantity. Partly I haven't had fandoms that needed it. If I want more Pratchett, say, Pratchett himself provides. Or else I've wanted it-- 100 Demons, say-- but practically no one was writing. But now I've been through AO3's collection of Rivers of London fics because I very much want more Peter, and Aaronovitch isn't providing it fast enough, and other people are. The quality varies, but I remember now what the inescapable lure of doujinshi was, ten and twenty years ago. More of these marvellous people, and maybe someone else's take on what they're all about. Most satisfying.
Which reminds me that I should see if anyone wrote Points fic. Which is a case in, um, point. It exists, but to date hasn't scratched whatever particular itch I have. More doesn't do it with the Points, alas. New and useful is what I want, and generally what I've seen hasn't been either. No, actually, I want more settei-- more background-- and that's not something fanfic is good at providing.
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I love BBC's SHerlock. Me and the little boy has watched it. And thankfully it hasn't put the boy off reading Doyle. He has read some of the Adventures and the Memoirs. (I joked with him that since daddy's -maternal- granny was a Scottish Doyle, that you never could know but he could be a secret long lost descendent of his. ^_^)
Anyway yes .. ... may the new year dawn bright and beautiful, and with less snow and slush.
Much love , zan
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Err- isn't Sherlock a bit over a grade-schooler's head? I had to watch it with subtitles on and a lot still went past me. Doyle of course is perfectly accessible...
Happy new year to you and yours as well.
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What Sherlock is for me is a lovely background to Aaronovitch. It does look too pretty to be Griffin.
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Now that you say it, I think it might partly be that the BBC producers clearly chose very sunny days for the filming, and slapped a bunch of filters on their cameras to boot. Doyle at least had realistic weather XD I was there this past July, and I don't think I ever took my jacket off.
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By contrast, Peter's roots are outside central London (I think?), but that's where most of the action is. Thus Peter feels more Holmesian to me than Matthew.
The oddity about London weather is that any time I've been there in summer (and here we're going back to my childhood, when my mad mother dragged all four of us to Europe at 'much too young to be travelling' ages like 5) it's sweltered: blazing sun, breathless heat, indistinguishable in my memory from Rome. But the few sunny days I recall from winter London did look very like Sherlock's sun.
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I suppose I'll see The Hobbit eventually, maybe, when I can watch it slow and without 3D glasses. It's not my favourite book of all time, which may make it easier to watch. Only- umm- do the dwarves wash their hair? I couldn't bear to see parts 2&3 of LotR, and it was mostly because of Aragorn and Boromir's greasy hair.
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