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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[stewardess.livejournal.com]

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

Hey, it worked for Laurie King who was actually writing Mary Sue het. :D

[(Anonymous)]

I know! I read the first four of those, though I think I'm officially done with them. I couldn't handle the Mary Sue-ness, nor the fact that she made Watson an idiot.

[przed.livejournal.com]

That was me, BTW. Stoopid LJ, not accepting my sign-in.