A Twist of Things to Come

My smart phone has a brain. I know this because it apparently has epilepsy. Most of the time it's fine, and then it has a seizure and is just all over the place. One of its fits interrupted a call with hominysnark this evening.

A nice reboot or battery-removal/shutdown/restart every so often seems to put it to rights, but heaven only knows how long that will last.

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I keep feeling like I've forgotten or misplaced something, but what it is that my Beloved is not here. I miss him quite intensely. It's almost comical.

We will have been married 20 years this year, and I still get twitchy if I can't touch him. Just to be able to walk into the next room and hug him would be fabulous. But, he will come home for a visit in the next few weeks, I hope. *sigh*

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The boys encouraged me to have people over, so Sunday night I had my friend W. over, while her beau (my BIL) played video games with my progeny. I finally got her to watch "The Great Game" and was gratified when she said it was much better than the other two episodes (which she liked okay), and made her want to watch more. So I've infected another one. :D

Also, some of you may know that splix (a BNF from TPM fandom as well as various Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean centered fandoms) is now a well and truly converted fan of The Bandersnatch, but did you know she started a community called cumberbatch_fic?

Well, she has. :)

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I'm trying rally hard not to be too political, but this Jezebel headline was just too funny:

Rush Limbaugh Continues to Insatiably Screw Self as 12th Sponsor Flees

Heh.

Not that I think this will succeed in shutting his flap, but it is kind of funny to watch him dig the hole he's in even deeper. With his tongue. And then have the nerve to look surprised about it.

I don't know. The world may be changing. I hope that the high level of guano-crazy that has infiltrated what passes for national discourse in America lately may be enough for the sane and reasonable among us to stand up and hit the brakes. If it doesn't happen soon, we may be in need of an American Spring.

As some of you may know, the recent BBC incarnation of Sherlock Holmes has handily re-ignited my nearly life-long love of the character. And, being the person that I am, I have kept an eye on a few fanfiction sites (mostly AO3) to see what fandom hath wrought in the area of transformative works.

I've read/skimmed extensively, and my tastes in this fandom surprise me. I've mentioned more than once that the slash potential for Sherlock Holmes in general and this series in particular is exceedingly high. There is a lot of Sherlock/John out there, and since the core cast is all male and mostly attractive, the permutations on this theme are all accounted for (Sherlock/Lestrade, Sherlock/Mycroft, Mycroft/Lestrade (sometimes referred to as "Mystrade" and clearly the second most popular slash paring) John/Everybody, Sherlock as furry -- plus dozens of other types of stories (het, femslash, genderswap stories (both sexual and non-sexual), asexuality (ace), casefic, general fic of all types, really, and some I hadn't thought existed). As a novelty-seeking type, I find this awesome, even when it's kind of bad. (A Criminal Minds crossover Sherlock/Spencer? REALLY? Really. They're practically the same person. Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

( My favorite stories in this fandom are Case!fic and Ace!fic, but I go on a bit about how much stuff is out there, and how the more different it is the better I seem to like it, given a minimum level of writing proficiency. )

( Why I think ace!Sherlock is closest to canon, and what that has made me start to consider about the gender binary and the value of sex in a relationship )

( Why I like case!fic stories, and how they can be taken in too many different directions to name, and why it often dances on my happy button. )

But this week, I read one that blew the top off my head, for several reasons.

I'll tell you all about them in the next post.