and it is always eighteen ninety-five

[freckles_and_doubt]

Imprinting is a bitch. Sherlock Holmes was probably my first serious crush - the literary character, from Doyle's stories, when I was about 14. Inaccessible, intellectual men and all that. There's something about that archetype which is tailor-made for impressionable, geeky, hyperliterate teenage girls such as I was. The ones who don't actually get to talk to real people much and live exciting imaginative lives instead. (I moved on to Christopher Reeve's Superman, make of that what you will.) At any rate, my current state of hopeless fangirling over the BBC Sherlock is firmly and inevitably rooted in the sludgier and more generative depths of my psyche.

So setlock photos ("setlock" being the term used by fans of Sherlock to refer to photos taken by fans of filming in process, which is currently happening in Bristol and elsewhere for the Sherlock special due sometime this year) suggest that the special is going to do something interesting with a Victorian setting. Leading to images such as this:



That did something to me. Quite what I'm not sure, but I'm wibbling.

(My subject line is from Vincent Starrett's 221B, the ultimate celebration of the eternal moment of the stories. This post brought to you several days delayed by orientation stress, post-orientation migraine, and the curious fact that since Friday loading LJ on my home computer has caused my internet connection to crash in a mysterious and sinisterly Russian fashion. Posting this from campus.)

Comments

[jeanniewal.livejournal.com]

BC looks somewhat delicious in that getup.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Alas, yes. Even more so than usual. They should think of the fangirls before they do this sort of thing.

[jeanniewal.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. I lost a fair number of work-hours after those pictures came out. Part of them were devoted instead to reading ACD Sherlock fanfiction. Sjoe-whee!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I love ACD Sherlock fanfic. Some of those writers have a beautiful command of the Victorian voice. Do you read Katie's stuff on Liquidfic? Case in point...

[jeanniewal.livejournal.com]

I haven't, but now I have a name I shall seek her out! I've been sticking mostly to AO3, and the acd_holmesfest has been a treasure trove recently.