through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered . . .

So! In the finest tradition of students smack in the middle of finals panic, I have found my very favorite procrastination tool. Which, in this case, happens to be the Sherlock prompt meme. Naturally, I've picked up plot bunnies from browsing it, some of which are viable and some of which not so much. (Will someone please talk me out of the crossover with frigging Twilight where Anderson goes to work in Forks and, thanks to having picked up deductive techniques from Sherlock, is the only one on the force who figures out that vampires have been making kills in the area? It's not even my idea and it WON'T GO AWAY.)

Here is one that was good for a quick snippet! It's a Sherlock/Doctor Who crossover, because since when do I write Sherlock fic that's not crossed over with something? (I'm going to try to do it before new canon surfaces on the first, but I promise nothing.) Assume spoilers for everything that's aired for either show, though they're more implied than anything.



( When the air in the flat starts blowing around, accompanied by some kind of godawful wheezing noise, John's first thought is that one of Sherlock's experiments has gone horribly wrong. Or, possibly, horribly right. )

Things I should have been doing this weekend:

* Class reading I fell behind on during vacation, because vacations render me incapable of summoning the brain power to even do things I want to do, never mind things I am merely obligated to do.

* Writing papers I have due tomorrow and Wednesday, because ditto.

Thing I actually did this weekend:

* Write several thousand words of self-indulgent Gossip Girl near-future fic after having spent the past month or so rewatching and catching up on everything I missed since wandering away during season three and being frankly horrified by some of the shit that went down in my absence, especially in re: Blair and Chuck. (At some point I also want to do this massive, angry meta post about Jenny's character arc, but that requires analytical power I should really be saving for those papers, so fic it was.)

This fic has spoilers for everything that has happened as of last week (5x03) and is based on some of my own speculation for what could conceivably happen given the plot threads they've set in motion thus far in the season. It will not be continued because it's frankly mediocre (except for the first scene, which I think could stand as its own fic with some polishing), and also because it becomes increasingly evident that a) I suck at writing Blair and b) that is not okay because this is her story and definitely should be from her POV, not Dan's. Whoops. But I'm posting it anyway just because it might be fun to compare and contrast later in the season. And I do like some of the character interactions. Maybe I can salvage them somehow for something else.

There are no actual spoilers for future eps that I'm aware of, because I live in a spoiler-free zone.



( click here for an example of why I don't write ninety percent of the fic ideas I have. )

Hey guys! Amazon is giving away music!

Enter FIRSTMIL and get a credit for a buck twenty-nine in the Amazon MP3 Store.

I love the Amazon MP3 Store. No DRM! It's awesome.

I love Amazon lately, period - each of my classes this semester has assigned approximately four squillion books. Seriously, I think I have somewhere around twenty used book packages heading in my direction. And even with the shipping - expedited, in a few cases - it's still way cheaper than hitting up the campus bookstore. I'm so glad that whole Rank Fail thing got sorted out; it was stupid and personally affected a friend of mine, plus boycotting and shopping elsewhere would really have cramped my style this semester.