Present-day Me Is Giving This An Amen, And 12-year-old Me Is Jumping Up And Down On The Furniture.

Selkie’s Birthday Giveaway!

It’s Selkie’s birthday! 

So I thought, to celebrate, I’d do a giveaway!

What am I giving away? 

GRAND PRIZE: An advance copy of THE BOY WITH THE HIDDEN NAME *and* an advance paper copy of the e-novella THE GIRL WHO READ THE STARS, both signed and personalized (and if you don’t have THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS, signed or otherwise, we’ll talk. ;-)) (and your choice of one of the runner-up prizes, too)

TEN RUNNER-UP PRIZES: Your choice: signed swag packs from me (bookmarks and bookplates) OR I’ll give you feedback on a piece of writing of your choice (up to 5,000 words) OR I’ll write you a drabble to a prompt and characters of your choice (original or fannish).

What do you have to do? Nothing! Except reblog this post. (You can also leave a comment on my blog entry or retweet on Twitter for extra entries.)

The first day of fall is officially September 23 this year, so you have until 11:59 pm Eastern time on September 23 to enter.

(P.S. And the giveaway is international!)

The eyebrow raise at the end is what killed me. As floored as John is, he still automatically knows Sherlock needs help realizing - a bit not good. 

"I thought you were dead"

This is amazing. 

Hilarious! I think I peed!

The angels have the phone box

The fanfic writers have Gatiss

or maybe Gatiss had the fanfic writers all along

ANDERSON THOUGHT SHERLOCK FAKED HIS DEATH VIA TARDIS

Now he's just fucking with us. 

And let's not forget all of the other actors who already WERE badasses before they were in Love Actually. Two words: Emma Thompson.  

Several stars who were virtually unknown in Love Actually later became badasses

I love this a lot. 

But I'm having less of a problem with John's reactions - or lack thereof - then many people seem to be. And I've been wrestling with why.

...after here be spoilers...

John is a bit broken. As we all are. He's always been ashamed of it and of the crazy choices it makes him love: war, Sherlock, and now, Mary. He's an apologetic adrenaline junkie. 

Why wasn't John more upset with Sherlock after he 'died'? Easy one. He understands that Sherlock was trying to protect him: It's what he'd do himself. 

Why wasn't John more upset with Mary for lying to him? Still pretty easy. He is upset with her – he doesn’t seem to talk to her for a good long time. And he’s not more upset, in the end, because it is his fault, a bit. He wouldn't have chosen her if she wasn't a disaster that needed fixing. And everybody in the sitting room - all disasters needing fixing - knew that full well.

Now, the hard one. Why wasn't John more upset with Mary for shooting John? John is, at least on the surface, okay with Mary shooting Sherlock because he feels personally responsible. It is his job to keep Sherlock safe and he brought someone dangerous into Sherlock's safe zone. It isn't Mary's fault that she's dangerous - it's her wiring. It's John's fault for putting the two crazy choices together; one was going to hurt the other eventually. It was his job to keep them both safe and he let them hurt each other.

But with that said, while I do believe that John has forgiven Mary entirely for hurting him, I am not sold on the idea that John has forgiven Mary entirely for hurting Sherlock. And I think we’ll see that eventually.

People have been reblogging my John Watson post recently. And I can see why. I re-read it today and I was most struck by this line:

Sherlock may be an undeniable hurricane-strength force whirling through John’s life but John also chose him.

No, says Sherlock in HLV. John chose Mary. And...

http://ivyblossom.tumblr.com/post/98348940620/we-always-think-we-know-people-every-time-we

We always think we know people.

Every time we open our mouths, we reshape the shape people give us inside their own heads. Everyone, even someone we’ve just met, has a whole picture of us, a picture made up mostly of what they imagine about us, things they infer based on preferences, experiences,...

sherlock in the christmas/new year issue of radio times...

These two chairs make my heart hurt more than home furnishings really have any right to.

Thank you