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*

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[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

I'm reasonably convinced that my Mum wouldn't be able to get past my password, but I make sure never to leave my laptop on if I'm using it at hers and have to go out. She's pretty broad-minded, but she really doesn't need to know about some of my bookmarks... *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much depending on my mom's total antipathy towards computers, since I was leaving the file open and the computer only sleeping. If she'd flipped up the lid, she would have gotten an eyeful.

My mom is this odd combination of broad-minded (is totally cool with my gay cousin and his husband) and not (had a huge argument with me, back in the day, about her church's decision to ordain openly gay ministers), so I have no idea which way she'd go if she found out what my hobby really is.