And the lovely cs_whitewolf wrote a wonderfully evocative Arthur/Eames fic for my art, which is all that I could ever want from a fic.

(letting you see) a different side of me
Part 1 Part 2 AO3

Here's the art I submitted:
( (letting you see) a different side of me )

The fic has flirting and office supplies and rainy scenes in foreign countries and 14,000 words. I am so drawing a ton more fanart for it! Whee!!!

New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down by jeannedecarnin. Inception, Arthur/Eames. Lonely Christmas pr0n set in New York.

I really have to do something with all my memories of being lonely in famous cities. Like the time I stormed out of the dorm at 1.30am to march down Bedford Place and Great Russell Street all the way down Oxford Street almost to Marble Arch before I ran out of steam. Or hearing the bells of Venice all ring at midnight. Everyone has moments like this--why can't I turn them into decent fanfic or comics like a normal person?

Woke up at 7, skyped with Mom at 9, now i'm reading things cos I can't get to sleep...

So, a brief moment here to pimp two of my current favourite Sherlock fics!

Two Two One Bravo Baker by abundantlyqueer is a mind-blowingly awesome AU where Sherlock and John meet much earlier, in Afghanistan instead of London. It has scads of action, a cracking mystery, extensively researched details of military life, and more BAMF!John than my little brain can take. Also very graphic slash, so proceed with caution. Not yet complete.

On the gen/het side, The Affair of the Asphyxiated Acafan by AJHall is another great mystery, unusually written from the POV of Sarah, John's is-she-isn't-she girlfriend. It's full of fannish detail and reads like a proper mystery story; I almost feel as if I'm reading a tie-in or watching an episode of the series. Very satisfying and everyone's voices come across just right. Complete!

Also managed to borrow my officemate's copies of Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets; the proper British versions, too. Very pleased, as they're very hard to get here! Have resolved to re-read the books and watch at least some of the movies again before The Big One opens in July.

Title: Catch as Catch Can
Chapter: 1/7
Summary: Sherlock is bored. John devises a game of hide and seek, with a twist.
Warnings: slash (John/Sherlock), abuse of italics and parentheses, and a large amount of geekitude.
Rating: R
Notes: Written to fill this prompt on the sherlockbbc kinkmeme. Beta'd by the wonderful elethe and polkadotsquared.

This fic comes in two flavours: text-only, and extra spicy, with illustrations, maps by polkadotsquared (beta, Britpicker and cartographer!), and links at relevant bits. This is the text-only version; click here for the illustrated chapter.

( Feel, Sherlock. It won't kill you. )

I have been reading a LOT of YA lately, to the point that it's the first section I head for in Fully Booked. This hasn't been the case for 13 years--I got into YA as a genre in itself via lit-major friends (HAI GUYZ) and dropped off a little after we went our separate ways.

But now I'm living in a city with a bookstore that actually believes kids have their own personalities and can think for themselves instead of grabbing the nearest black-red-and-white cover on the Teens' Choice table...

I have these books that I love but didn't realise for years were written by authors who actually wrote more books. E.L. Konigsburg, Jerry Spinelli, Patricia McLachlan and Steve Kluger gave me a genre I had no idea I would love: a world without magic, vampires, fantastic machines or any of my usual favourite tropes, a world in which kids did kid things and realised they weren't enough, a world where kids got older and connected with adults and other kids and...changed, irrevocably, often for the better.

If you have any recs for these authors' books and more authors like them, please let me know.

In the meantime, I re-read The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World and succumbed to the inevitable: William Wilcox/Amedeo Kaplan slash fanfic. Because really, it was RIGHT THERE, hardly even coded at all. Oh, and a bit of het at the end.

Learning Russian
by Pere
EL Konigsburg's The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
William/Amedeo, mostly
PG

( They don't really talk at school. )