I'm not even really reading fic these days

But evidently I will keep thinking about this stuff until I get it out of my brain, so:


1) One appreciates the need for a deus ex machina go-to in fic, but when Canon says Mycroft is the British government, can he be like... less literally so? less comprehensively so?... Dudes, have you seen the British government lately? The more control over everything you cede Mycroft in fic, the more I derail mentally castigating a fictional character for shiz that's not even in the fic. It really cramps my style. Also, this is a fascist fantasy. So, yanno, examine that impulse and metaphorize it or put kink quotes around it or whatever, but you have to own it.

If you go back and read ACD!Holmes' explanation of what he meant by that phrase, he kind of makes Mycroft sound like... Wolfram Alpha. Or IBM Watson. A version thereof who belonged to a good club.


2) Mycroft/Lestrade is a crack pairing. We get that much. A lot of it doesn't have much light to shed on the canon. (It does shed light on issues in point 1, which I think is maybe why it exists - fandom unconsciously solving problems of its own creation.) I'm not invested in it, meaning that SHEER HUMOURLESS PEDANTRY is what motivates my annoyance when ppl say, "They don't even meet in canon!" Because: in the cap-C Canon version of BRUC, Mycroft goes to Lestrade first, and they show up at 221B together.


3) I have figured out what it is with White Collar. It's like this isn't the real series; the real series was the stuff that happened earlier, the cat and mouse game between Peter and Neal and their respective teams, romantic interests, underworld enemies... This is a fluffy speculative futurefic by someone who has a kink for collar devices.

To-dos for April

* Kink Bingo amnesty, or be banned :/

* Sort 500GB digital music collection

* Lose 10lbs - taking some fitness classes, cutting out alcohol, butter, red meat, and most white carbs (have already lost the 3 I gained during SXSW due to how my stomach rebelled horribly afterward XD;;; It's 20lbs to "college weight" but I was skinny-fat back then with zero muscle mass, I do enjoy being able to run and lift things particularly as there's no one to do it for me these days)

* Taxes - I am kind of looking forward to this, since I ought to be getting a massive return

* Find new apartment

...That really about covers it.

I got a DeviantArt account

To test their HTML5 painting tool at SXSW. Longish story. Devart really saved my life that day, I was so stressed from having to take work calls and there they were with a lounge full of crayons and craft paper and Wacoms. In return I gave their videographer a glowing testimonial in my capacity as web strategist so they can go home and justify their ROI XD;; They don't want to be known as the go-to repository for crappy teenage anime fanart - I mean, there's a lot of analysis that could be done on the strategy here, if I were getting paid for it, and I don't have as much background on Devart as I do on the misalignment between LJ's business case and their actual user base over the years, because... I basically visit the site to trawl for anime fanart. Bawling. So I'm not helping anyone's case here. But look:
Pas de trois: Tot x Nagi x Omi by ~petroniasabina on deviantART This was done in 2001, in ink pen and coloured pencil on sketchpad paper, with the background and text added in Photoshop. No references, no touchups. Who the heck was that person!? I don't think I could do this now.