I have discovered a new drug

Make Me a Monday posts over at the Sherlock comm.

So many great little plotbunnies and ideas. It's been years since I've written this much and this frequently, and been so excited about it. I've needed a new fandom for a while, I think, and it looks like Sherlock might have been it. I've got loads of ideas flying around, but I think I'm going to force myself to finish my Yuletide before starting on anything new.

I have discovered a new drug

Make Me a Monday posts over at the Sherlock comm.

So many great little plotbunnies and ideas. It's been years since I've written this much and this frequently, and been so excited about it. I've needed a new fandom for a while, I think, and it looks like Sherlock might have been it. I've got loads of ideas flying around, but I think I'm going to force myself to finish my Yuletide before starting on anything new.

Goddamn this Man to Hell

A few fic recs, all by woe_in_a_hoodie. I do not know how he does it, but he takes things that would usually have me back clicking like mad, and makes me want more. He's clearly a mad genius.

Chips - Sherlock had always been a stimulants man; Mycroft was the opposite, and far more discerning. A comparison of the Holmes brothers, seen through the lens of their preferred vices.

Warnings: Pre-slash/homoerotic content, smoking and drug use, feeding fetish, breathplay, somnambulism/Night Eating Syndrome, mentions of off-screen original character death, one instance of accidental injury, implied thoughts of incest (non-graphic), use of the word 'fag' in reference to cigarettes
Rating: R
Pairing: Sherlock/Mycroft

Just look at that warnings list. How could my curiosity NOT get the better of me after reading that one? The fic itself is so not at all as scary and fucked-up as the warnings suggest. The comm just has really strict warnings rules, which often makes fics seem darker and more messed up than they really are. This one is a great example of warnings gone wild.


Dessert - Sherlock likes to feed Mycroft sweets.

Warnings: Pre-slash, homoeroticism between brothers, feeding fetish.
Rating: R
Pairing: Sherlock/Mycroft

I only read this one because I'd read Chips, and felt safe with the author. It's a tiny little thing with Sherlock and Mycroft being odd with a box of chocolates. I think they're being odd, anyway. But I still liked it.


Recommended Dosage - Sherlock needs his medicine; John administers it.

Warnings: Slash, drug use, medical fetish, needles, reference to mild injury (someone gets cut during a case), a bit of cursing.
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sherlock/John

I'm not even going to try to explain this one. Just go read it.

Oh. That's why

I've just remembered why I cut off all my hair to begin with, and have kept it barely longer than completely shaved off for ten years.

If I let it get long enough, it gets all curly and awkward in a completely ridiculous and unmanageable way, until I look like a spaniel. Seriously, I'm beginning to resemble James May. This is not a particularly attractive look when the person with the hair is female.

Damnit. Now I'm not sure what to do.

Oh. That's why

I've just remembered why I cut off all my hair to begin with, and have kept it barely longer than completely shaved off for ten years.

If I let it get long enough, it gets all curly and awkward in a completely ridiculous and unmanageable way, until I look like a spaniel. Seriously, I'm beginning to resemble James May. This is not a particularly attractive look when the person with the hair is female.

Damnit. Now I'm not sure what to do.

100 book meme

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, underline what you've read more than one, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.

01) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06) The Bible
07) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20) Middlemarch - George Eliot
21) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
24) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I feel like I should, like, increase the font or something on this one)
26) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28) Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
34) Emma -Jane Austen
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40) Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41) Animal Farm - George Orwell
42) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52) Dune - Frank Herbert
53) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65) Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68) Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69) Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72) Dracula - Bram Stoker
73) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74) Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75) Ulysses - James Joyce
76) The Inferno - Dante
77) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78) Germinal - Emile Zola
79) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80) Possession - AS Byatt
81) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83) The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87) Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94) Watership Down - Richard Adams
95) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97) Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
98) Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Of most of the ones I bolded, I read in high school, much to the annoyance of my English/lit teacher, actually (whom I had for two years, and hated). I wound up failing English so many times, because I refused to read the books assigned to us, on the grounds that they were drivel.

It wasn't after getting stuck in a remedial English/lit class that I was able to get any enjoyment out of the affair, because that teacher (whom I had for the next two years) realised that the reason I'd kept failing my classes was because I found ACD far more entertaining than some lame book that M Knight Shamammallama would later rip off and turn into the Village (which also sucked).

100 book meme

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, underline what you've read more than one, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.

01) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06) The Bible
07) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20) Middlemarch - George Eliot
21) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
24) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I feel like I should, like, increase the font or something on this one)
26) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28) Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
34) Emma -Jane Austen
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40) Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41) Animal Farm - George Orwell
42) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52) Dune - Frank Herbert
53) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65) Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68) Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69) Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72) Dracula - Bram Stoker
73) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74) Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75) Ulysses - James Joyce
76) The Inferno - Dante
77) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78) Germinal - Emile Zola
79) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80) Possession - AS Byatt
81) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83) The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87) Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94) Watership Down - Richard Adams
95) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97) Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
98) Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Of most of the ones I bolded, I read in high school, much to the annoyance of my English/lit teacher, actually (whom I had for two years, and hated). I wound up failing English so many times, because I refused to read the books assigned to us, on the grounds that they were drivel.

It wasn't after getting stuck in a remedial English/lit class that I was able to get any enjoyment out of the affair, because that teacher (whom I had for the next two years) realised that the reason I'd kept failing my classes was because I found ACD far more entertaining than some lame book that M Knight Shamammallama would later rip off and turn into the Village (which also sucked).