Creature of Mad Enthusiasms

I haven't read the newsletter in so long that I despair of even finding a place to start catching up or, with the exception of a few authors, finding anything worth the effort; I remember the time I checked 75 stories in a row and hated them all.

That said, Big Brother is Watching You has hit the rec list and I'm laughing myself sick at the mildly Johnlocky, massively cracky story about John and Sherlock trapped in the Big Brother house.

Gemi and John spend two hours on the sofa talking about daytime talkshows, until Sherlock sits down next to John and starts talking about putrefaction rates.

Gemi leaves after Sherlock uses the phrase 'liquifying tissue'.

John appears to be equally interested in both conversations.

THIS WEEK
It's been a strange week. Two days were snowed out, so you'd think there would be more done on the accomplishment side of things, but still, work has been done.


ACCOMPLISHED:
Learned how to poach an egg in the microwave. Coincidentally learned how to explode an egg in the microwave.

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READING:
Fanfic
Flatmates (and lizards) should know the worst about each otter Bonkers, bittersweet, and beautiful. I'll let the pitch talk for it: John is an undercover alien agent and it's time for his mission to end, but he can't bring himself to leave Sherlock behind. That turns out to be a mistake

Audio
-- Finished Pagan Spring, G.M. Malliet
-- Snowflake, Big Finish
-- podfic of A Trope Too Far (John is traveling between fanfic trope universes trying to find his way back home. NSFW.) And let me just say that I loooooooooove a world where you can get audiobooks of fanfic!

Today: planning to listen to BBC Radio 4 Drama of the Week (As You Like It)

Print
-- Finished: Guns and Roses by Taffy Cannon.
-- Started: Death Under the Dryer, Simon Brett

Links recced to me and archived here

reading, writing, reblogging | Sherlock Meta
http://knackorcraft.tumblr.com/SherlockMetas

Mars — TSoT meta posts: here we go again
http://marsdaydream.tumblr.com/post/72396113177/tsot-meta-posts-here-we-go-again

acafanmom
http://acafanmom.tumblr.com/post/72147504432/meta-that-makes-me-swoon-links

Drinkingcocoa
http://drinkingcocoa-tpp.tumblr.com/tagged/sherlock-meta

Pennswoods (A Johnlocker’s Guide to Series 3 Meta There’s been...)
http://penns-woods.tumblr.com/post/73093908477/a-johnlockers-guide-to-series-3-meta-theres-been

Sherlock Meta | Archive of Our Own
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/SherlockMeta

While the 12 days of Christmas are still happening, argyle4eva's short, seasonal, and silly the First Day of Christmas.

A general and generally disorganized gallimaufry.

Night Vale Mitts. There's no pattern, but the color progression is lovely; I'm going to have to remember this one!
gunslingerannie: Your daily shades of the sky...
http://knitonepurlonedroponecurlone.tumblr.com/post/58048745613/gunslingerannie-your-daily-shades-of-the-sky

Cute Elementary art
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/58089020409

Kiddie fic, wherein Mycroft adopts his half-brother... John Watson
Starting Over, in 2 parts
http://dimity-blue.livejournal.com/692631.html
http://dimity-blue.livejournal.com/692777.html

Molly and Sherlock S3 story. PLOT SPOILERS FOR SHERLOCK S3
Familiar Concepts
http://archiveofourown.org/works/910640

I'm... not entirely sure if I'm reccing this because I like it or because I'm boggling at the idea of Basil of Baker Street hurt/comfort (mostly hurt) fic.
All Things Bright And Beautiful
http://pompey01.livejournal.com/12326.html

Sherlock/Elementary crossover cartoon. Considering the proclivities of JLM's Holmes, they'd be the perfect match
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/57421207676/bakerstreetbabes-makokitten-unrelatedly-who

One of my favorite passages from Pratchett beautifully illustrated (and demonstrated) in Sherlock photos
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/57457569187/iamnerdlocked-dduane-with-a-tip-of-the-hat

I'm reccing this because it made me laugh like a hyena. Sherlock.
http://221bsherlock.livejournal.com/296380.html#cutid1

The Elementary writers continue to tease me with Clyde shows I'd watch the hell out of
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/57323764958/season-2-clyde-oceanic-injustice

Again, laughed like a hyena SHERLOCK S3 TRAILER SPOILERS
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/57234045887/tumblebuggie-who-you-gonna-call-i-cannot

World's Most. Hilarious. AU. John offers himself as a *cough*not*cough* virgin sacrifice to a dragon
Sacrifices Must Be Made
http://archiveofourown.org/works/904589?view_adult=true
“Are you honestly suicidal?” the dragon hissed in annoyance, a thin ribbon of steam coming from its mouth.

“I came up here to be eaten by a dragon,” John said, “I’m hardly expecting to be improved by the experience.”

....

The dragon sat down in front of him, his head still slightly above the level of John’s. “I believe the traditional gift is a virgin sacrifice.”

"Yeah, well...” John’s cheeks went a bit red, “it’s a small village, and there’s not really much to do when it’s not harvest-time.”

Abso-frigging-lutely nothing to do with Holmes in any universe; just a nice creepy story/perspective about Labyrinth
And Though She Be But Little, She is Fierce
http://daughterofavalon.tumblr.com/post/56877339789/glamdamnit-my-sister-asked-if-the-events-of

RDJ does a nice thing
His Name Is Robert Downey Jr. « Quest for Kindness
http://aliciabessette.com/blog/2011/02/his-name-is-robert-downey-jr-2/

I was amused by this carousel art of the Sherlock characters. These also make good phone backgrounds
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/56914375850/cumberbatchweb-elasmosaurus-sherlock-john

There are so many Disney-style remakes of Sherlock that I'm not sure if I've recced this one before or not. They certainly make good computer wallpaper
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/55692026082/cosmic-nerd-angel-if-sherlock-was-an-animated

Sherlock Holmes Book Scarf by storiarts on Etsy
http://www.etsy.com/listing/126267992/sherlock-holmes-book-scarf?utm_source=OpenGraph&utm_medium=PageTools&utm_campaign=Share

Out of Print T-shirt for Hound of the Baskervilles (that's the company name, not the sales status)
http://shop.outofprintclothing.com/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_book_cover_t_shirt_p/b-1007.htm

This has nothing to do with any fandom, I just thought it was really, really cool
Using Stain to Make Artwork! {Burn pile Buffet Part 2}
http://www.sawdustandembryos.com/2012/07/burn-pile-buffetpart-2-using-stain-to.html?m=1

The linkdump is filling up with non-Holmes stuff, so I thought I'd post this before everything Holmesian was lost in the rest. (If you ever wondered about the random stuff that ends up in the linkdump, it includes this, this, and this at the moment. )


Anyway, on to Sherlock!
I may have posted this before; speculation about FALL: IOU Explanation – Grimm’s Fairy Tales Cipher
http://eva-christine.tumblr.com/post/27733467733/iou-explanation-53-8-92-grimms-fairy-tales-cipher

Alternate take:
http://eva-christine.tumblr.com/post/32560017981/reichenbach-explanation-richard-brook-was-real

More FALL speculation:
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/52893480009/constellationof2

I am vastly amused by the meme going around Facebook saying "What if Moffat doesn't know how Sherlock survived the fall and he's waiting for the Internet to tell him?"

Great Sherlock Holmes Debate 4 - Elementary slides
http://www.slideshare.net/greatsherlockholmesdebate/great-debate-4-cbs-elementary-sherlock-holmes

Recced on one of the Holmesian lists I'm on: The Lighter Side of Sherlock Holmes: The Sherlockian Artwork of Norman Schatell
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lighter-Side-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/1780924046

This place does literary-themed earrings, bracelets, and cufflinks. I will doubtless pony up for some of the Austen ones; here are the canon Holmes ones.
http://www.jezebelcharms.com/collections/sherlock-holmes

Sherlock DC discusses Scintillation of Scions VI
http://sherlockdc.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/scintillation-of-scions-vi/

Downloadable PDF of Sherlock DC's presentation for Scintillation: All Roads Lead to Holmes: How New Media Builds Connections Across the Sherlockian Ages
http://sherlockdc.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/all-roads-lead-to-holmes-how-new-media-builds-connections-across-the-sherlockian-ages/

I would watch the hell out of this:
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/52626325466/elementarystan-i-knew-it

I have got to learn to not let my linkdump get so big. But as I'm behind on the newsletter for a whole week, better to clear out the old cache than add to it.

Someone ties imagery from the Elementary opening sequence to the first season. Spoilers if you haven't seen the last ep.
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/51327705177/calvinahobbes-in-the-sequence-of-the

I don't think this art...
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/51142141608/buddy2blogger-vasily-livanov-as-sherlock-holmes

...looks like this guy. But I really LIKE that drawing.
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/51141873975/buddy2blogger-sherlock-holmes-and-dr-watson

Cartoons of all the Holmeses as cats (House, films, Sherlock, Elementary, canon)
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/51239572304/lifeandotheroddtales-different-sherlock

I can't say I've even read "Amphibians." But I can't not mention that there's a Sherlock BBC/Persuasion crossover out there. Appears to be completed.
http://innie-darling.livejournal.com/246782.html

I can't remember if I've recced "Comrades in Arms" before
http://sherlock-remix.livejournal.com/38568.html?style=mine#cutid1

Lovely scratchboard style art of Sherlock (BBC)
http://cumberbatchcoffeeklatch.tumblr.com/post/48958320678/bakerstreetbabes-i-brodsky-took-me-long

Nice Elementary art
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/48837279492/ignify-holmes-and-watson-pieces-side-by-side-as

Waaaaaant!
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/48769487525/bakerstreetbabes-bronze-smith-a-friend-of

I should get this for cons until such time as I can make a pilgrimmage to Speedys. (That's really what having a Speedys mug or T-shirt is... proof you've been to The Holy Land, at least as fans recon it.)
http://www.litographs.com/products/sherlock-t

Post reichenback symbolic art. I don't entirely know if I want to cry or go "awwwwww"
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/48607323708/ireallyshouldbedrawing-sentiment

Omegaverse porn. Apparently I have no shame left.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/627442?hide_banner=true&view_full_work=true

I know everyone is going to be talking about the new episode tonight (that'll be me too in about two hours), but in the meantime, the linkdump has been growing exponentially and hasn't been cleared out in months.

So...

Elizabethan Lemon Cake Recipe

Lemon Cakes, part 2 | Inn at the Crossroads
http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/2011/04/11/lemon-cakes-part-2/

These are mostly for me, but public for the interested - I want to learn muffin-tin cooking, as it seems both bento-sized and pre-portioned.

Do You Know the Muffin Pan?: Muffin Pan Recipes
http://www.doyouknowthemuffinpan.com/p/recipes.html

10 Things to Cook in a Muffin Tin
http://www.feelslikehomeblog.com/2010/07/10-things-to-cook-in-a-muffin-tin/

CUPCAKE PAN COOKING
http://pinterest.com/shellymabe/cupcake-pan-cooking/

Muffin Tin Cooking
http://pinterest.com/lc5970/muffin-tin-cooking/


General
Someday I have to actually stop and read this sometime:
Mindfulness Meditation Could Lower Levels Of Cortisol, The Stress Hormone
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/31/mindfulness-meditation-cortisol-stress-levels_n_2965197.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living

Hilarious Star Trek-based Barbershop Quartet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHIrlcmHTME

This is for me, but I'm adding it because other folks may be having trouble arranging the part of your house where you dump stuff on entering - The "landing strip" (Who knew it had a name?)
All About Landing Strips: Projects, Ideas and Inspiration | Apartment Therapy
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/all-about-landing-strips-project-ideas-and-inspiration-184493

The 10 Best Moments in "The 24 Hours of Gallifrey One" - Exactly what it says on the tin.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2013/02/top_10_gallifrey_one_daleks_sylvester_mccoy_freema.php

Another archive for me, but useful to all knitters - all kinds of advice, including bindoffs, needle pushing, increases, etc. I"m going to have to go through the whole archive... someday
http://techknitting.blogspot.ca/2008_12_01_archive.html

Whole index here:
http://techknitter.blogspot.com/2010/04/revised-unified-index-for.html

Cabin Pressure
Cabin Pressure mini-icons: spoilers for all of series 4
http://redscharlach.livejournal.com/247574.html

John Finnemore discusses the Wokinham episode, and includes a picture of the scene where Martin's brother picks him up... and the actor playing him picks up Ben. I cannot actually figure out where Ben's legs are.
Forget What Did: Wokingham
http://johnfinnemore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/wokingham-place-holder.html

Elementary
Elementary meta discussing a scene from about 8 weeks ago. My general dislike made me bleep over this moment, but the OP made me stop and rethink because this IS a big deal; like the OP, I can't think of a similar situation on TV (and precious damn few in real life):
I wanna talk about this scene for a second. Until that moment I never realized that I needed to see this on television; a man asking a women that she seek out opinions other than his.
http://nursecafe.tumblr.com/post/43156950715/i-wanna-talk-about-this-scene-for-a-second-not

Sherlock

Like this black and white art of Sherlock
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/46952772412/sdkay-is-amazing

The story I was raving out earlier. Snapshots of a long J/S life - Genus: Apis
http://kate-lear.livejournal.com/21522.html

Red Scharlach takes a line from the new Star Trek movie promo and turns it into a put-your-drinks-away-from-the-monitor icon
http://redscharlach.livejournal.com/248445.html#cutid1

If you are EXTREMELY phobic about the SLIGHTEST suggestion of a spoiler, don't click this one. For anyone else, Red is riffing off of a twitpic of part of the set, which in my mind doesn't tell you anything. Except that Red's funny.
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/45916630261/redscharlach-more-sherlock-season-3-excitement

Vashtra and Jenny recreate a scene from Holmes canon
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/45254541496/tumblebuggie-vastras-sketch-of-events-in-my

Mark Gatiss plays with the skull onset
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/45205769042/rox712-arwel-wyn-jones-arwelwjones-i-just

More Holmes canon art, now with snarky subtitles. Some bad language, if you work at a very conservative workplace
http://boyinthemachine.tumblr.com/post/42502721410/okay-by-just-looking-at-the-artwork-i-deduce-that

Ghostbees points out that "I hear 'punch me in the face' every time you talk; it's usually subtext" applies nicely to canon
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/45177835891/ghostbees-a-taste-of-your-own-medicine

The evolution of Ben and Martin at Sherlock readthroughs
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/45136157888/suddenlyfalling-sherlock-read-throughs

"A gaze from Watson is..." (gigglesnort indeed!)
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/44932127825/gigglesnort

I just like this art
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/44885972151

Remember that story where Martin Crieff was Sherlock's half brother and Martin had a stuffed airplane named Planey? Turns out it's part of the Thicker than Water series.
http://archiveofourown.org/series/10156

The crackiest of crack: a zoologist's report On the Courting Behaviour of the British Sherlock
The Sherlock was standing on the top of an outcrop of rocks to one side of his enclosure, staring out over the zoo in a dramatic fashion. Posing, thought Poppy privately. Despite the lack of breeze his coat and scarf swirled around him as though caught up in a storm. No one had been able to work out how he did it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/428236

Moffat & Gatiss are such geeks that they cast a former Holmes as a cameo in the Diogenes Club
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/44135018380/tea-at-221b-douglas-wilmer-as-sherlock-holmes

Exactly what it says on the tin
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall – live chat with the co-creators
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/may/21/sherlock-reichenbach-fall-live-chat

Scenes from BELG done Disney-style.
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/42613983671/cosmic-nerd-angel-if-sherlock-was-an-animated

Molly done Disney-style
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/42342410693/artbylexie-disney-lock-study-of-molly-hooper

Yet more Disney art; Sherlock (looking remarkably like the guy from 101 Dalmations)
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/42342397879/artbylexie-disney-lock-a-study-in-sherlock

Sherlock: Last Friday Night vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT0CKpxe0gg&feature=youtu.be

I spent rather a lot of a work night reading up on this series about little Sophie growing up on Baker Street. (This is not the same as the Sophie Lestrade series). What can I say, it has a ferret in it.
http://archiveofourown.org/series/19811

My linkdump post has nigh onto 100 links in it, including several recipe sets, a variety of garb and sewing patterns, and who knows what else in it. Time to clean virtual house! (Although I do need to remember that I can get a Hyperbowl app. I do love Hyperbowl.)

Anyway!

RDJ & Jude Law promo shot.
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/40761000902/sherlock-holmes-promos

Recipe: Randomly left because it sounds like that ur-potato soup I was looking for
http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/creamy-any-vegetable-soup

Fic: Most Ghosts Are Idiots I may have recced this one before. My favorite ghost AU is etothepii's It Feels Like Home When I'm With You, but this version, with a live John moving into the flat haunted by a bored Sherlock is a lot of fun, especially when John sasses back at the hauntings.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/367174

For the knitting fans: Sherlsocks
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/41092921791/redscharlach-i-recently-received-an-anonymous

A note from our Guest Director, Benedict Cumberbatch » Cambridge Science Festival
http://www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/2013/01/18/a-note-from-our-guest-director-benedict-cumberbatch/

wendymr's been doing drabbles; this is a heartwrenching post-FALL one: The Greatest Betrayal
http://wendymr.livejournal.com/283049.html

Guess who reads John's blog!
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/40128558606

Fic: The Bone Fiddle I'll be honest, I haven't read this Appalacian AU all the way through. It's definitely one for the long-fic lovers. But I like what I've seen, and the slash followup is hella hot. Smutfic, but more than that, casefic
http://archiveofourown.org/works/573857?view_full_work=true

Anthea art
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/40013127568/marla-rose-anthea

IO9: Why can't any recent Sherlock Holmes adaptation get Irene Adler right?
http://io9.com/5972417/why-cant-any-recent-sherlock-holmes-adaptation-get-irene-adler-right

Relive your favorite Doctor Who deaths in The Gallifreycrumb Tinies
http://ca.io9.com/5971255/relive-your-favorite-doctor-who-deaths-in-the-gallifreycrumb-tinies

No spoilers, just a description of the Cabin Pressure recording, 16 December 2012 Tony Head is a guest voice (I have completely fallen behind in listening, but as the whole series will be legally available from Audiogo in mid-Feb, I'm just going to mainline on the way to Gally.)
http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/49077.html

Molly art
http://marla-rose.tumblr.com/post/36824953883/molly

Elementary fic: Halfway up the Stairs. I doubt they'll ever do this onscreen, but it's nice to see Joan calling out Sherlock on the sexism that gets ladled onto her by his associates.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/559875

Baker Street Blog on what Sherlock and Elementary get and don't get from canon (Not an Elementary-bashing article; very evenhanded)
http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2012/12/six-cases-which-i-have-added-to-my.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BakerStreetBlog+%28The+Baker+Street+Blog%29&utm_content=LiveJournal

Recipe: Sherlock spicy sugar cookies
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/37786787038/gatissimo-sherlocks-spicy-sugar-cookies-just

Visual Hobbit pun
http://redscharlach.tumblr.com/post/37662365526/the-more-i-see-people-bemoaning-the-invention-of

The best commentary on the "fake geek girl" crap I've seen
http://www.dorktower.com/2012/12/04/fake-geek-girl-dork-tower-04-12-12/

Recipe: ChocoVine Chocolate Red Wine Cake Yeah, another one for me. I've got a couple bottles of chocovine kicking around and this looks like fun
http://thehairpin.com/2012/11/the-chocovine-chocolate-red-wine-cake

RDJ bromancing Jude Law
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/36728591758/i-feel-about-jude-the-way-sherlock-feels-about

At some point - probably the point where I catch up on everything from Holmesian_news for the last 8 or 9 days - I'm going to have a full fic/essay rec. But I'm not going to wait to pass on one of the best straight-faced sporkings I've ever read: Lyndsay Faye's scholarly essay Upon the Clear Distinction Between Fandom and the Baker Street Irregulars

Excerpts:
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Note: for the purposes of this intellectual exercise, the possibility that the BSI may potentially be a storied and erudite literary society and a happily thriving fandom simultaneously will be ignored. This decision was made in light of the fact that a noun cannot be two things concurrently, the way the Empire State Building is not both a functioning office tower and a tourist destination, and the way Bill Clinton is not both a former president and a saxophone player.
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Denizens of the fandom community fail to confine their “avid enthusiasm” to mere discussion of hobbits and tribbles; they also, as a group, have a marked tendency to collect memorabilia relevant to their favorite characters, spending precious funds in pursuit of items such as action figures and animation cells. ... Irregulars of my acquaintance have amassed collections of Sherlock Holmes art, Sherlock Holmes books, Sherlock Holmes knickknacks, Sherlock Holmes pins, Sherlock Holmes translations, Sherlock Holmes reference volumes, and Sherlock Holmes talismans such as magnifying glasses or pipes, but as these are clearly objets d’art, they find no equivalency within the realm of fandom.
----

It just gets better; do read the whole thing. It's only a pity that Issac Asimov isn't around anymore to get a giggle out of his invocation therein.