1) Hey, look! ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
melannen wrote a story about Dr. Watson having a psychic wolfbond! (I woke up this morning and realized I was apparently extremely confused and attributed the story to the wrong author??) (I know this is kind of like, "I thought Dr. Watson was the psychic wolfbond," but the story addresses this.)
...This is ACD-flavour, but there are a helluva lot of animal soulbond stories in Sherlock fandom; it's what genderswap was at one point to ST:AOS. I don't really have an explanation. Or rather, I think genderswap makes a meta-point about ST:AOS, but maybe Conan Doyle fans are just prone to liking animal soulbond stories. It's one of the nicer things that could be said of a fandom, I feel. XD
2) The Honourable Schoolboy: TTSS is not at all in the same style as Le Carré's early novels, which didn't surprise me. It does surprise me that this one isn't in the same style as TTSS, because it's a direct sequel. But it's like the dude abruptly discovered The Satirical Omniscient (I am thinking of a 19th century writer, but I'd be bullshitting if I named one), and wielded it, unmastered, like a golf club if not a sledgehammer - not refined to an icepick yet, I mean - rambling on and on about "colour" characters I am not 100% convinced I ought to care about. They'll return later in the book... probably. Meanwhile, George Smiley is onto a phase I recognize with cold horror, namely that after you drop the bomb and turn in your report, they make you manage organizational change. ( Cut for mildly spoilery character hilarity. )
Anyway. Much of this takes place in Hong Kong (Tufty Thessinger is still alive in bookverse, if sidelined) and I'm kind of hoping it doesn't turn out to be the "Blind Banker" of the trilogy... but now that I've said it, etc.
( Niggling movie details )
** It would be ridiculous because that would mean movie!Circus was built to the exact same layout as the clerks' office in Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Naval Treaty". AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NAVAL TREATY.
melannen wrote a story about Dr. Watson having a psychic wolfbond! (I woke up this morning and realized I was apparently extremely confused and attributed the story to the wrong author??) (I know this is kind of like, "I thought Dr. Watson was the psychic wolfbond," but the story addresses this.)...This is ACD-flavour, but there are a helluva lot of animal soulbond stories in Sherlock fandom; it's what genderswap was at one point to ST:AOS. I don't really have an explanation. Or rather, I think genderswap makes a meta-point about ST:AOS, but maybe Conan Doyle fans are just prone to liking animal soulbond stories. It's one of the nicer things that could be said of a fandom, I feel. XD
2) The Honourable Schoolboy: TTSS is not at all in the same style as Le Carré's early novels, which didn't surprise me. It does surprise me that this one isn't in the same style as TTSS, because it's a direct sequel. But it's like the dude abruptly discovered The Satirical Omniscient (I am thinking of a 19th century writer, but I'd be bullshitting if I named one), and wielded it, unmastered, like a golf club if not a sledgehammer - not refined to an icepick yet, I mean - rambling on and on about "colour" characters I am not 100% convinced I ought to care about. They'll return later in the book... probably. Meanwhile, George Smiley is onto a phase I recognize with cold horror, namely that after you drop the bomb and turn in your report, they make you manage organizational change. ( Cut for mildly spoilery character hilarity. )
Anyway. Much of this takes place in Hong Kong (Tufty Thessinger is still alive in bookverse, if sidelined) and I'm kind of hoping it doesn't turn out to be the "Blind Banker" of the trilogy... but now that I've said it, etc.
( Niggling movie details )
** It would be ridiculous because that would mean movie!Circus was built to the exact same layout as the clerks' office in Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Naval Treaty". AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NAVAL TREATY.
