through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered . . .

So tonight I went out and had a social life! I went and saw a talk from this woman, which was fantastic, and then went to a bar for a launch party for the latest issue of this because I am in a club at college with someone who works for the magazine. It was fun.

Possibly the best part was when I walked into the place where the talk was at, and a girl near the door took one look at my shirt (Sherlock 2x03 spoiler in the link!) and started laughing. I was DELIGHTED, because my previous experience with geeky shirts for UK shows has been that no one gets them ever. (Which admittedly, was the one shirt, but it was "the angels have the phonebox" and I wore it for three years before it had too many holes to be suitable for public wear, and really it's not like Doctor Who is super obscure.) So I said something like, "I wasn't sure anyone would get it!" and her response was,

"I get it! I get it. *giggly pause* I can't even talk about it right now."

Fandom. I love fandom.

Sherlock.

( spoilers )

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. )

TITLE: "Someone on Whom"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (catslash)
RATING: PG for implied violence and character death; genfic.
WORD COUNT: Approximately 2400.
SUMMARY: "It makes a considerable difference to me, having someone on whom I can thoroughly rely." Doctor Who/Sherlock crossover, set during the year that wasn't.
SPOILERS: For Doctor Who's series three finale arc; none for Sherlock, as it is set mainly pre-canon, but there are a few lines of dialogue borrowed from "A Study in Pink."
THANKS: To mmexlibris for the quick beta and bethan_b_bad for the Britpick. ♥
DISCLAIMER: Doctor Who and Sherlock belong to the BBC; the quotation in the summary is courtesy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I take no credit and make no money.

EDIT: There is now podfic read by the lovely pandarus!



( The name of the man he's taking the package to is of course not written down, but he's had it memorized ever since he agreed to take this ride. )