Still on the Quest

(All gen and without warnings unless noted otherwise.)

For Holmestice, I wrote:

Goose (8626 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

( And then there was Yuletide... )

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6965844/1/Two_Doctors_A_Nurse_A_Detective_and_A_Scot

Silliness, but fun silliness. And I'm checking out ff.n's new "share" function at the same time!

There's a neat article here: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/a-picture-of-language/ about diagramming sentences.

I wasn't taught grammar for the first 8 years of school beyond "verb" "noun" "adjective" "adverb" level. I learned what I knew in Spanish classes (and later Latin.) Then we moved to Omaha and in 9th grade I was suddenly in a class full of people who had been diagramming sentences since the third grade. I thought it fun, but I never really learned the nuances. I still am unclear on gerunds and participles. But it never occurred to me to apply the diagrams to learning other languages.

Interesting...

Lookie at what gardnerhill has done!

http://watsons-woes.livejournal.com/510185.html?thread=3043305#t3043305

*falls off chair again, still giggling*

The Timelord has nudged out Sherlock. But if you've got a moment to decide between Aragorn and Severus...

Vote On!

http://berlinghoff79.livejournal.com/536592.html

This is much harder than Superman...

Item 22 over here:

http://berlinghoff79.livejournal.com/535516.html

Yes, it's silly. :D

http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2007/08/no-sex-please-w.html

A professor looking at the Victorians and their coded ways of talking about sex in literature. Which is cool.

But oh, my gosh, look at the USEFUL LINKS down the side of the page! *drool*

I actually wrote something lately! Then I went and submitted the things I wrote to and couldn't tell anybody about any of them except for my brilliant beta janeturenne. Of course, the good thing about giving is that you receive too, so let's start with the prezzies I got:

For Holmestice I was given Most Peculiar which is a lovely character study of Watson by lelek.

For Yuletide I was given In This House Everything Is Twice, by Jay Tryfanstone, which is based on the book The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston.

( And then there were the things I wrote for other people: )

But I didn't have time or brains to make it shorter. Follow the link if you want to see a ficlet: Holmes/Watson, in response to a very pretty picture over here.

eta, the lj entry no longer has the pic, but it is here if anyone is curious.