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

[potztausend.livejournal.com]

A wonderful little story - I saw it as a mental picture *g*.

Assuming you are busy writing the blowjob scene and your mother is coming around - maybe she shakes her head while reading it: "Lousy technique, my dear daughter" :-)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that wouldn't be my mom. She would be appalled. Appalled, I tell you.

The Sweetie's favourite story about his mother-in-law happened when we told her we watched Sex in the City every Friday night. Her immediate response: "You don't need any of that!" That's my mom.