Fic & Other Recs, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes

[neadods]

Misc. Links
There is now a tumblr called 221 Baking Geeks

Olympics video is being pulled down as fast as it goes up, but The Montreal Gazette has the Benedict Cumberbatch opening sequence. (And do not even START me on NBC's coverage. The only thing that could have been more offensive than NBC's censoring of the tribute to terrorist victims is NBC's patronizing response to being called out on it.)

Folk on Twitter: Tomorrow a twitter-based online murder mystery goes live.

John Finnemore has a Cabin Pressure FAQ up on his blog. Yes, there will be a 4th season, with the same cast... whenever he can get his mitts on the cast and writes the episodes. His comment on unsolicited scripts and fanfic is a masterpiece of diplomatic humor.


Holmesian Canon Links
The Mystery of 221 B Baker Street - mapping out where the original flat was, and how it was supposed to look, with photos of various recreations.

Abbreviations Reference Card. Holmesians tend to refer to the canonical stories with a 4-letter code taken from the title. (As you've noticed; that's extended into Sherlock fandom, with references to the episodes, in order, as PINK, BANK, GAME, BELG, BASK, and FALL.) Fortunately, there's enough wriggle room in multi-word titles to distinguish between The Canon and Sherlock canon: The Hound of the Baskervilles is HOUN, so The Hounds of Baskerville became BASK. Equally, Scandal in Bohemia is SCAN, while Scandal in Belgravia is BELG.

Sherlock Links
Misc
Another theory on "IOU" in FALL

Heartbreaking post-FALL painting We Are Always Under the Same Sky

Downloadable Sherlock Clue(do) game board

Fic:
What She Saw Molly's POV watching one character react to another's death, because she's seen this before. The sole warning is for character death; as someone who recently put a pet to sleep, I would have appreciated a warning for those extended scenes, so here that warning is.

For once I'm not reccing slash because of the slash part - TBH, I think the final set of "we're gonna get it on" texts is the weakest part of On Lacuna and Conjunction. It's all the texts leading up to it that amuse me.

Speaking of amusing me, here's an AU with a twist: John is John. Sherlock is the monster under the bed. Bump in the Night and its Mycroft-centered sequel, My Brother's Keeper. Mycroft makes an even better monster-under-the-bed than Sherlock: Scaring a child in their bedroom is a petty pleasure, intimidating whole countries with a few words and a tilt of his head in an utter joy.

Chutzpah award to whoever turned a robot vacuum review into Sherlock fanfic.

Comments

[roobarb.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen the olympic or tweet things, thank you for sharing :)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I particularly like the Olympics bit; classy and exciting. And also means that Ben got to be part of it all.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Did NBC actually mention the Falklands war when Argentina walked in? Someone mentioned in today's Guardian that they had. (Actually, I'm more amused than offended; livening up the parade of nations with references to the grudges each individual country might hold against the host nation could turn into quite a decent drinking game, given a bit of effort and a lot of Google.)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I honestly couldn't tell you. The parade of nations bores me to tears, so I was either out of the room or had the TV on mute for most of it.

Making a drinking game out of the grudges would have livened things up considerably. When I was listening, it was either the bubbleheaded woman cooing "Look at the colors!" about national dress or the guy bloviating about how fill-in-country never won a medal.

[hildy.livejournal.com]

It was either comments on the national dress, fill-in-country never won a medal, or the country-of-the-moment's awful history of war/genocide/etc. Several moments of "Did they really use that???" I really want the commentators on a separate channel like SAP so I can turn it on or off as necessary.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, PLEASE! I wanted to claw out my own eardrums as whatsherface went on and On and ON about how nobody really knew who Tim Berners-Lee was.

[legionseagle (from livejournal.com)]

Of course, in the drinking game scenario, people would probably have passed out before they got to Egypt ("Suez, 1956, large drink) having had to go via Afghanistan ("Four drinks; there was that business in 1918") and Ecuador ("Assange, enough said, let's finish the bottle")

[neadods.livejournal.com]

There is that, yes.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

The British coverage brought it up, particularly in that (for privacy and security) the Argentines actually do their final training on the Falklands. NBC might have said something similar, but I was in a pub and couldn't hear the commentary in any clarity.

I would have gone ape-shit if I heard the ignorance when Sir Tim Berners-Lee showed up. The Brits are very proud of him.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

I think you may be thinking of this controversy with regard to Argentinian training on the Falklands?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I *was* going apeshit, mostly because bimbo seemed so *proud* of not knowing him and so insistent that nobody, absolutely nobody in American would have a clue. I could understand spelling it out to Mr. & Mrs. Off The Grid in Podunk, but you could do so without sounding so aggressively patronizing to everyone.

[legionseagle (from livejournal.com)]

There was an epically funny tweet from someone about her co-presenter's suggestion that viewers Google him:

"Google Tim Berners-Lee. Because of Tim Berners-Lee, you can."

[fyrdrakken]

Yes, they did indeed mention the Falklands. I remember that bit.

[legionseagle (from livejournal.com)]

British tweeter's account suspended for criticising NBC coverage: see details

"Today we mourn the death of the First Amendment to the United States constitution. Its remains will be cremated and flown to Olympia, Greece

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Incidentally - and this is from a right-wing British newspaper - this is how the opening ceremony was seen locally: here