Family, Meet Fandom

[przed]

The awesome thing about having a laptop is I can work on the latest story when we're up north visiting my mom.

The not-so-awesome thing is my mom is a snoop.

Mom: What are you working on?
Me: Um, nothing.
Mom: ::moves amazingly fast for an 80 year-old recovering from knee surgery and peeks at laptop screen:: Holmes? Watson?
Me: Yeah, I'm writing a Holmes pastiche. Deal with it. ::wipes forehead in relief that the visible scene did not involve Holmes, Watson and a blowjob::
Mom: And who's the guy in that picture. ::points at desktop::
Me: Robert Downey Jr. He's the new Holmes.
Mom: ::gives weirdo daughter a long-suffering look::
Me: ::makes laptop font teeny tiny so 80 year-old eyes will have more difficulty reading it and changes desktop picture temporarily to Hokusai's The Great Wave::

Also, I'm terribly amused that I can call Holmes fanfic "pastiche", like it's almost respectable. *g*

Comments

[przed.livejournal.com]

I think we should use pastiche for all fanfic. 'Cause it totally is. *g*

That, or all writers of pastiche should be forced to use the term fanfic. 'Cause it also totally is. *veg*

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

I can go either way.

And often have.

;-)

Hope you're having fun with Mom!

[przed.livejournal.com]

We just got back, which is how I can post this. The Great White North is still a black hole of no internet for us. Maybe some day we'll talk mom into a computer and broadband, but I'm not holding my breath.

The visit was lovely, though. Ros loves the beach park, it's nice to see Mom, and we got to be all productive and help out with odd jobs around the house.