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I consider this very definitely an AU. Most of my stuff could be shoved into some twisted version of canon compliance. Indeed, most of my stuff plays with various different ways you could color in the vast gaps in canon to create different pictures. This one, though, to me seems at the very least, unlikely. The bottom line is I consider the odds of Mycroft being a virgin OR celibate comparatively slim. Even accepting that Sherlock is wrong about many things, the two brothers seem to be in unhappy conflict over the fact that Mycroft is not a virgin or celibate, but actively gay, and Sherlock at least appears to have started the show celibate.
That said, some of the discussion of shyness, introversion, and hypersensitivity left me wondering about building an AU in which Mycroft knew his orientation, and was comfortable with it--but too shy, reserved, and hyperreactive to have done anything about it barring some preliminary activities that upset him.
So this is a late-life Mycroft is a virgin story set in an adventure. It is proving too big, so I may need to work it out over the week. I expect maybe three total posts.
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02 Jun 2022
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Just a warm-up. I've got Most of the first round of sorting out done since Christmas came and rearranged my life so nicely.
Hope you have fun. It's just a round of playing two different men, each thinking himself "spent" in terms of life and feeling, suddenly realizing it ain't so.
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27 May 2022
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Just me playing again with possible first meetings and first engagement. My familiar tendency to think of more and more ways those two could have started a relationship.
Have fun.
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21 May 2022
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Dramatic Through-Lines and Narrative Spines: What Is the Central Concern? META by Tammany
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
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At this point, more than 100 posts in, I do think it only fair to rewrite this intro. This is a whopping big heap of meta posts, dealing primarily with *Sherlock*, though heaven knows a lot of other literature and art wanders through. The writing quality and style varies from fairly good pseudo-academic to outright fangirl squee. If it's worth reading at all, it's worth reading because it's fun watching someone who really does care how art works go hunting for the engines that drive the show, and to guess at the hidden and not-so-hidden details that may shape the future of the show.
Original intro below:
Of all these little meta digressions, this is more truly an essay and piece of lit-crit. I had a chunk of last night and this morning to think about the structure and nature of how a story is told, and what your perception of the story does to your choices of through-lines. This is a lit-crit essay focusing on *Sherlock*, and using Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie as paradigmatic examples of two different approaches to the development of narrative spines and through-lines. Meta. Essay. Lit-crit. Analysis. Dry. Somewhat academic. Consider yourselves thoroughly warned. My inner honor student shineth forth.
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19 May 2022
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Mycroft and Greg, two lives entwined. A love story, told over a decade. Greg's POV in Human Remains, and Mycroft's in Constantinople Falls.
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25 Apr 2022