So sorry about your migraine. Those things are nasty. Also I kind of figured that folks would be busy with holiday stuff and couldn't always get to fan activity so no harm no foul.
Yeah, I had to make Joan the default Watson in the story - I adore Joan Watson. (Heck, I wrote two Elementary fanfics before the show even debuted I was so excited!) It was also fun to make the white male Victorian Watson(s) the Other in this story - and how surprisingly well they adapted to it. But they respect a command tone and intelligence or they wouldn't hang around Holmes, and they have a lot more respect for women than Holmes does, so it wasn't that much of a stretch for them to follow Joan's lead.
I couldn't resist the title - and yes, it is a DW callback, since it is rather much of the same kind of thing as summoning all the avatars of one character together in one spot.
To Victorians, things like refrigerators and washing machines would be miracle devices. ("Airplanes? That's nice, but turning 2 days' worth of back-breaking and dangerous clothes-boiling into pushing one button and having clean clothes 2 hours later? That's amazing!")
The timeline helped keep all the different white-male Watsons separated too. And since there was no good reason to keep Watson in grief after he'd published FINA, this provided an odd way to reunite them and have it out in a more realistic (and angry) fashion than EMPT implies, and save the poor man from another couple of years' worth of grief.
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Re: Thank you!!
Date: 2017-12-30 08:33 pm (UTC)Yeah, I had to make Joan the default Watson in the story - I adore Joan Watson. (Heck, I wrote two Elementary fanfics before the show even debuted I was so excited!) It was also fun to make the white male Victorian Watson(s) the Other in this story - and how surprisingly well they adapted to it. But they respect a command tone and intelligence or they wouldn't hang around Holmes, and they have a lot more respect for women than Holmes does, so it wasn't that much of a stretch for them to follow Joan's lead.
I couldn't resist the title - and yes, it is a DW callback, since it is rather much of the same kind of thing as summoning all the avatars of one character together in one spot.
To Victorians, things like refrigerators and washing machines would be miracle devices. ("Airplanes? That's nice, but turning 2 days' worth of back-breaking and dangerous clothes-boiling into pushing one button and having clean clothes 2 hours later? That's amazing!")
The timeline helped keep all the different white-male Watsons separated too. And since there was no good reason to keep Watson in grief after he'd published FINA, this provided an odd way to reunite them and have it out in a more realistic (and angry) fashion than EMPT implies, and save the poor man from another couple of years' worth of grief.
Enjoy!