Another commission from the absolutely amazing shootbadcabbies, who was incredibly sweet and had this ready for my birthday. I adore shootbadcabbies and I am in love with Mycroft helping Sherlock blow out his candles.
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
-Sherlock HolmesBorn on 6th January.
Sherlock spends all day at the tailor’s perfecting what he calls his “birthday suit” and then blushes furiously when John explains to him what that expression means.
#birthdayboffin
*pulls up to the fanfic drive-thru window* uh yeah, i’ll take a fake relationship with a side of mutual pining and thinking the other isn’t interested, thanks
#*bored author’s voice over the tannoy* d’you want fluff with that? (via @amarriageoftrueminds)
#sure and if you can throw in an extra “sharing one bed” trope, that would be great.
How much is it to supersize to smut?
So if you get smut and fluff from a drive thru where do you go for angst and dark?
That you order from the guy in the trenchcoat in the alley.
“You want angst? I got angst”*sticks my withered goblin paw out from under the bed* psst kid i got ‘they both think the other one is dead for like seven chapters’
Reader: “How much will that be?”
Author: “Just a comment. Please for the love of God leave a comment.”
Lol, that last one.
drinking hot coffee out of clear cups is weird. hide that drink.give it a house.
sometimes i wish writers could do live streams like artists, but then realize that, even if there were a way to make this not boring as fuck, the act of having other people watch me write would reveal that my writing/plotting/editing techniques are horrific and should not be witnessed by any living human
a normal artist streaming: doo dee doo gonna go through this process in a logical order and show off my skills isn’t this fun?
me, a Word Goblin: and here’s the part where I delete five paragraphs for not making any sense and then start jotting down unrelated plot ideas in an incoherent form of shorthand
#hmmm yes watch me turn this 3000 word draft into a 500 word salad that somehow makes even less sense now ( @iamneversleepingagain)
RIGHT?
Oh! And let us not forget all the weird, embarrassing, and sometimes (incredibly) sketchy things I have to google in the middle of writing a sentence. No one needs to know how long I spent researching the Vietnam draft lottery or trying to find that one word I know that I know but can’t think of by going through ten layers of thesaurus.com
The only reason no one usually sees my weird google searches while I’m streaming is because I have 2 monitors and the stream is only capturing 1 (one).
…..TWO MONITORS WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT
I’d do a writing stream but people would get like 10 min of writing and then 45 min of my tumblr dash. With about 15 min of thesaurus.com sprinkled in there somewhere.
I mean I actually did this once and like, one person showed up as I was getting ready and then left so I never did it again. I was like. I can write alone and fuck around on Tumblr without also streaming it
I feel like this is something you can only do with really close friends usually who are actually writers. It isn’t streaming, but I do write in googledocs with people using the chat feature, but not a fun showing off way. More like ‘a dear god can you help keep me focused long enough to finish writing this piece’ sort of a way.
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