OMG, I LOVE THAT EXCERPT SO MUCH! The kiss like an etching, the selfish apology, give me that rifle you damn fool, it's too good! I so look forward to reading more about this pair!!
I'm really glad you enjoyed the drawings. Those passages quoted here as captions came across so vividly when I read the fic that I wanted to go hunting for images to match. I based Holmes on Claudia Black, who is quite beautiful and with that angular, regal profile you described :)
Jane is based on Merle Oberon, who was Anglo-Indian. That was also the inspiration for the paisley stencil pattern in the backgrounds, which I learned from SCFrankles's research originated as an Indian design and became ubiquitous in Britain.
I was sorry that I couldn't write a story for you as well; that's just not where my muse was headed this round. But I have to admit, I've thought repeatedly about that Anglo-Indian Watson prompt, and I've been particularly struck by the thought that Watson would have been about seven years old when the Sepoy Mutiny broke out, and Harry maybe ten or eleven? I can't help wondering whether that might have worked a sea-change in their childhood if their family were first or second-generation Anglo-Indians living in Britain. I hope at some point the idea grows beyond musing and into a real story -- if it does, I will write it for you :)
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Date: 2019-06-23 03:13 am (UTC)I'm really glad you enjoyed the drawings. Those passages quoted here as captions came across so vividly when I read the fic that I wanted to go hunting for images to match. I based Holmes on Claudia Black, who is quite beautiful and with that angular, regal profile you described :)
Jane is based on Merle Oberon, who was Anglo-Indian. That was also the inspiration for the paisley stencil pattern in the backgrounds, which I learned from SCFrankles's research originated as an Indian design and became ubiquitous in Britain.
I was sorry that I couldn't write a story for you as well; that's just not where my muse was headed this round. But I have to admit, I've thought repeatedly about that Anglo-Indian Watson prompt, and I've been particularly struck by the thought that Watson would have been about seven years old when the Sepoy Mutiny broke out, and Harry maybe ten or eleven? I can't help wondering whether that might have worked a sea-change in their childhood if their family were first or second-generation Anglo-Indians living in Britain. I hope at some point the idea grows beyond musing and into a real story -- if it does, I will write it for you :)