But to be honest I didn't have to analyse it - as soon as I read the sentence I 'heard' your specific online voice (you have an English accent in my head, btw ^_^). I'm just so familiar with it at this point.
What a delightful idea, that my online voice is English! I love that <3 <3 My real voice tragically lacks such an accent, as my recent foray into podfic attests :)
you essentially wrote out Mary and I had to ask myself if you'd be comfortable doing that
Interesting observation! Yes, for this story I needed Holmes and Watson to give the strong impression of being attached even before Reichenbach, which raised the problem of 'what about Mary?' Personally, I'm much more comfortable writing Mary out - 'she is another literary trick Watson uses to shield Holmes's and his private affairs from public suspicion' - than I would be in writing a version in which Watson hurt her or took advantage of her. I would never write Watson marrying her under false pretenses, or being unfaithful to her. My own personal headcanon is that, in this story, Mary is another of Watson's literary inventions. But of course there are plenty of other possibilities that readers can bring to the work - perhaps Mary is lesbian and the marriage was a mutual bearding; despite appearances, maybe Watson is not fully aware yet of the nature of his feelings for Holmes and thus both his marriage and Holmes's adoration are sincere; or perhaps they are all three happily polyamorous...basically I left it wide open so readers can fill in their preferred 'what's going on with Mary?' explanation. Mr Melas was never to know :)
I can often read something and think in abstract it's beautiful but your fics seem to plug straight into my emotions too ^^
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What a delightful idea, that my online voice is English! I love that <3 <3 My real voice tragically lacks such an accent, as my recent foray into podfic attests :)
you essentially wrote out Mary and I had to ask myself if you'd be comfortable doing that
Interesting observation! Yes, for this story I needed Holmes and Watson to give the strong impression of being attached even before Reichenbach, which raised the problem of 'what about Mary?' Personally, I'm much more comfortable writing Mary out - 'she is another literary trick Watson uses to shield Holmes's and his private affairs from public suspicion' - than I would be in writing a version in which Watson hurt her or took advantage of her. I would never write Watson marrying her under false pretenses, or being unfaithful to her. My own personal headcanon is that, in this story, Mary is another of Watson's literary inventions. But of course there are plenty of other possibilities that readers can bring to the work - perhaps Mary is lesbian and the marriage was a mutual bearding; despite appearances, maybe Watson is not fully aware yet of the nature of his feelings for Holmes and thus both his marriage and Holmes's adoration are sincere; or perhaps they are all three happily polyamorous...basically I left it wide open so readers can fill in their preferred 'what's going on with Mary?' explanation. Mr Melas was never to know :)
I can often read something and think in abstract it's beautiful but your fics seem to plug straight into my emotions too ^^
What a lovely thing to say. Thank you so much <3