This idea was lingering before series 3, and boy, did the season give me fuel for the flames.

On Archive of Our Own:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1194345 

Directly on YouTube:

[url=http://youtu.be/_Ks34fwEndMEnjoy! Fillyjonk]http://youtu.be/_Ks34fwEndM[/url]

Enjoy! 

Fillyjonk


 

They're not leaked - they're official.  Just go on YouTube and type in "BBC One  Christmas Trailer 2013."  There are a couple versions, but the long one has these Sherlock shots woven carefully into "Baby Please Come Home" every time they say something like, "I remember when you were here" or "Please come home."  :D

Fillyjonk

I'm learning a new image editing app for my iPad, and also reveling in the season 3 titillation from Moftiss.  So, why not relive "Reichenbach" in image form?

First:



Then:



And too bad, so sad:



Hope you enjoy.  Fillyjonk

Just a note on John and his therapist (and Mrs. Hudson, for that matter):

I'm toying with the idea that John has read between the lines of his last conversation with Sherlock ("It's a trick.  It's just a magic trick") as well as the peculiar events surrounding the suicide.  I mean, John knows about Moriarty, and knows they're in a dreadful, dangerous game with him.  And then, from out of the blue, Sherlock lies and says he's a fake and jumps from Bart's.  It doesn't make any logical sense.

I believe that John believes Sherlock is dead - but John would see through the "fake" thing and link this to Moriarty - and likely would suspect something bigger at work.  Sherlock told him to "tell anyone who will listen" that he was a fake and a fraud.  So, perhaps John (knowing Sherlock would have good purpose if he killed himself) is complying with Sherlock's wishes.  

When the therapist asks John to tell her what happened, and again to say the "stuff" he wanted to say, she may be asking John to violate Sherlock's last wish.  He can't tell her what really happened, because Sherlock asked him to tell a lie.  Likewise, at the cemetery, John waits until Mrs. Hudson is out of earshot before he tells Sherlock "no one will ever convince me that you told me a lie."  He can't speak the truth if anyone will hear.  

I'm thinking John is primed for a second act here - whether he knows it or not.

Fillyjonk

Howdy,

New to the fandom, but I have a fanfic history elsewhere.  Couldn't stop myself from writing a post-RF fic from John's POV.  (I know, it's not like it hasn't been done.  But can you ever get enough?)

I don't want to be embarrassingly American, and would love to have some British fans read the fic over before it goes to the Internet.  Check for glaring Britpick problems, but also for more subtle things like language use and word choice.  Anyone willing to offer the favor, in exchange for about 1500 words of angst and the possibility of a joyful reunion?  Maybe you'll cry.

This is G-rated but it can be Johnlock, if your mind wants it to be.

Here I am a good American trying to do what's right for the fandom by firmly editing myself.  Can you help a sister out?

Here's a link to the Fanfiction.net posting. 

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8861448/1/Half-Life

Many thanks in advance.

Fillyjonk

I just started watching episodes 11 days ago, and have gone over the top into the fandom vortex here.  What an amazing show.  Reichenbach Fall might be my favorite television viewing, ever.  The acting and music are absolutely sublime.  And it only took a few hours for me to go from "That lead actor is bit strange-looking" to "Oh, my, he's simply, simply beautiful!" 

Any adult British fans out there who love fanfic care to Britpick a post-RF story that flowed out of me this week?

Here's some incentive: it's a sad, sad story but holds out hope for a happy ending.  Told from John's POV, so angst abounds.  You might cry.  Teaser snippet:

Eight weeks and he has not yet ticked off the half-life of violent memory. He has not gone one hour waking without the loop: the black shape falling you and the roaring in his ears and the metal smell of blood yours on red pavement.

In every shop the papers sell your eyes your coat collar your hair


I'm looking for an adult reader, someone who can not only point out things like "crisps" instead of "chips," but also pick up on flow and more subtle language differences between the US and Britain.  (There's a certain tone - a formality - to language on the show and in educated British adult speak that goes beyond vocabulary and slang.  There are speech patterns and word orders and obscure things like that.)

I'm a fairly experienced writer and vicious self-editor, so never fear.  You don't have to critique the characterization, pace, etc. (though you'd certainly be welcome to).  I really just want someone to catch me if I'm making silly American errors in usage.  And, hey, you can read a sad-John story while you're waiting for new episodes.

Thanks in advance if anyone is willing to take this on.  You can contact me at fillyjonk at verizon dot net.

Fillyjonk