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Name: deelaundry aka Dee Laundry
Contact email: [email protected]
AO3 username: dee_laundry
Treat preference: Yes, please

I will create:
A fanwork of the following type(s): fic, vid
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Podcast/Radio: Sherlock & Co. TV/Film: Sherlock BBC; House MD; Ritchie Films; Granada TV Show.
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Let's give it laldy!

Mar. 22nd, 2026 02:50 pm
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[personal profile] b2bmilde posting in [community profile] holmestice
 Name: B2BMilde

AO3 username: B2BMild
Treat preference: Yes please

I will create:
A fanwork of the following type(s): art
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Books: Doyle - Canon TV/Film:Granada TV Show; Rathbone Films; Howard Holmes; The Great Mouse Detective
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Holmes/Watson, Holmes&Watson Friendship, Mrs Hudson, Lestrade, Mycroft, Fem!Holmes/Fem!Watson
I like working with one or more of the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Post-Reichenbach; Alternate Universe; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Established Relationship; Crossover; Friendship; Humor; Case Fic; First Kiss; Friendship; Drug Addiction; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence; Alternate Universe - Genderswap; Love Confessions; Feelings Realisation; There Was Only One Bed; Drunken Confessions; Miscommunication; Mutual Pining; Friends to Lovers; Enemies to Lovers; Comics and Art
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences;  4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes;
I am willing to create for the following squicks and/or kinks: drug abuse, alcoholism


I want to receive:
A fanwork of the following type(s): art, comics
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Books: Canon TV/Film:Granada; Rathbone Films;The Great Mouse Detective
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Holmes/Watson; Holmes&Watson Friendship; Fem!Holmes/Fem!Watson
I like stuff in the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Domestic Fluff; Post-Reichenbach; Alternate Universe - Genderswap; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Friends to Lovers; Kidfic; Petfics; Friendship; Humor; Case Fic; First Kiss; Friendship; Drug Addiction; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence; Friends to Lovers; Insecurity; There was only one bed; Drunken Confessions; Alternate Universe- Different First Meeting; Running into each other unexpectedly!
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences; 4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes;
I wouldn’t mind any of the following squicks and/or kinks: None

Please include further details about what you’d like to receive:
-I'm a real sucker for romance, so anything like that would be lovely.
-I love fan art that takes the form of different media, like comic book/romance book covers, vintage adverts, movie posters- (eg. rathbone holmes and Watson in a 1940's romantic movie poster/acd Holmes and Watson in a Victorian magazine advert) Have fun playing with tropes and figuring out ways to incorporate Holmes and Watson into different styles of media!
- If you want, try exploring screen adaptations in a genderswap, like rathbone or granada



IMPORTANT-:please no references or explicit mentions or descriptions of sex acts, genitals and sexual arousal. 
I am ok with receiving/creating works that include- kissing, cuddling, flirting, sharing a bed, admiration of looks etc. 

I'm so excited to take part!
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[personal profile] pauraque
This sequel to Maniac Mansion picks up the story five years later, when one of Dr. Fred's tentacle monster creations accidentally drinks toxic sludge that gives him super intelligence and an unquenchable thirst to take over the world. This brings Bernard (the nerdy kid from the first game) back to the mansion, this time with his college roommates Hoagie (a laid-back metalhead) and Laverne (an endearingly nutty medical student). Dr. Fred tries to send the trio back in time to prevent the catastrophe, but Hoagie ends up 200 years in the past with no electricity to power his time pod, and Laverne ends up 200 years in the future when tentacles reign and keep humans as their pets. As the player you control all three protagonists and guide them to ensure that the terrible, eponymous Day of the Tentacle never dawns.

nerdy kid with glasses stands in a hotel lobby with gum with a dime stuck in it highlighted

This was one of my favorite games as a kid, but I hadn't played it since the remastered re-release came out, ten years ago today. When I was looking into it I noticed that it happens to be the #1 rated DOS title on MobyGames. Is this actually the best DOS game of all time? Let us investigate!

Read more... )

Day of the Tentacle Remastered is available on various platforms for $14.99 USD, and on Steam it's currently on sale for $2.99 USD, so if you never got around to it, now's the time!
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[personal profile] gremdark
I love mysteries and heist stories, but I have trouble finding good ones that scratch that particular itch. Does anyone have recs?

I am particularly interested in books and television, but I would happily watch a good movie if you know the perfect one. Fantasy elements and/or strong worldbuilding are a definite plus. If something isn't necessarily a traditional mystery or heist but is similar to things I've listed below in other ways, I'd love to hear about it. I'm not a big fan of cops, but am willing to tolerate them for a strong story.

Behind the cut, I've listed stories I've particularly enjoyed and stories I've bounced off.

Data Points )

tangent from the ballet questions

Mar. 21st, 2026 09:30 pm
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[personal profile] muccamukk
Is there a retelling of Sleeping Beauty (the general plotline, not the ballet specifically) in any media that deals with the whole castle being asleep for a hundred years?

Like, I assume that A Castle is a significant economic unit, and having it fuck off behind a hedge for five generations, and then pop back into life has some effects on the surrounding countryside? (I guess in the ballet they put the whole kingdom to sleep? WHICH I ALSO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT!)

Like your daughter is a maid in the castle, then poof! behind a hedge! But then she's back to meet her great grand nieces?

What if you had a financial relationship with the castle?

What if the neighbouring duke or whatever wanted your land? I assume he'd just take it, at that point, but then poof! the castle's back?

But also, the fey showing up and doing things seems to be normal and expected in this universe, so maybe people are just used to it, and have contingency plans for people stuck sleeping behind a hedge for five generations?

Anyway, is there like a novel that deals with this? If not Sleeping Beauty directly, then something similar, where it's a whole bunch of people forming a significant political and economic unit essentially yeeted out of time for a hundred years?

(Hard no on anything that involves the rapey version of Sleeping Beauty.)

It's definitely spring today

Mar. 21st, 2026 11:30 pm
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness
I wanted so much to go for a hike but I couldn't because a) no one I usually hike with could b) my bad knee is being stupid.

So instead I was going to go shopping in Chillicothe but also I wanted to write. So I stopped at my usual coffee house for a Marshmallow Chick latte (meh, not very strong flavors ah well) got a lot written. Got to Chillicothe, still wanted to write so I went to that new coffee shop in the place where I was going for years. It was bad last time when they were just first starting but they did pick it up and it was much better this time.

I got some crosstrainers! I needed new sneakers in the worst way and I I hate shopping for shoes especially with my weird feet. I am very happy.

Got stuff at Aldi's and I must face the fact my fridge is nothing but cheese, salami and prosciutto so what shall I do about this? Eat a lot of cheese.

Got a few things at TJ Maxx including a few things for Rocket.

Also I went to Ollie's and did something I've never done before. I dropped something and broke it. That was embarrassing. It was cute solar power light (which I ended up not buying any because that would be all I thought about).

No science this Saturday other than this entry for Women's history. I didn't learn this theory in school but I HAVE taught it since I came to my university. I had no idea it was a woman's theory that had been ignored and belittled for years and now it's science canon (at least for now since science does evolve) But DNA has proven her right about mitochondria being bacterial. Anyhow meet Lynn Margulis


Watching something on Hallmark Mystery that is just plain awful. I was excited for something new Nelly Knows Mystery. The acting is bad, the plot ludicrous, good lord. The detective barely knows what he's doing and a uniformed officer seems to be in command (unless she's the sheriff? I have no idea because it's too dumb to pay attention to

Daily Happiness

Mar. 21st, 2026 08:01 pm
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[personal profile] torachan
1. It's still supposed to be unseasonably warm next week, but today seems to be a little break in the weather. When I went out for my walk this morning, it was a bit foggy (though it had burned off by the time I got home), and then while it was sunny for a while midday, around 2pm it got overcast again and has stayed that way. It was really foggy again when we took our walk tonight, too.

2. I made a rhubarb pie earlier and we're going to have some of that for dessert. We still have a bunch of baggies of chopped rhubarb in the freezer from when we were buying it from the farmers market last year lol.

3. Ollie loves to snuggle on my clothes. :)

The Gatherer

Mar. 21st, 2026 07:42 pm
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WisCon 48 exclusive art 'The Gatherer' is presented by Rachel Quinlan.
To view more of her work go to https://www.rachelquinlan.com/

The Gatherer )

Third Time is the Charm!

Mar. 21st, 2026 08:35 pm
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Name: [personal profile] kingstoken
Contact email: [email protected]
AO3 username: [archiveofourown.org profile] kinsgtoken
Treat preference: Yes, I'm happy to receive treats

I will create:
A fanwork of the following type(s): fic, graphics,
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Rathbone Films; The Great Mouse Detective, A Study in Emerald
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Holmes/Watson, Basil/Dawson
I like working with one or more of the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Case Fic; First Time; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence;
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences; 2) non-explicit sexual content; 4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes;
I am willing to create for the following squicks and/or kinks: canon-level violence.


I want to receive:
A fanwork of the following type(s): art, fic, vids, graphics, podfic,
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Rathbone Films; The Great Mouse Detective; Sherlock & Daughter; Sherlock Kisses Watson sketch from The Peter Serafinowicz Show (seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVwntrMQGsQ)
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Holmes/Watson, Basil/Dawson, also enjoy Lestrade and Mycroft as secondary characters
I like stuff in the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Alternate Universe; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Humor; Case Fic; First Time; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence;
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences; 2) non-explicit sexual content; 3) explicit sexual content; 4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes; 5) moderate to explicit graphic violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes
I wouldn’t mind any of the following squicks and/or kinks: I'm okay with canon-level violence, mild torture for hurt/comfort situations,

Please include further details about what you’d like to receive:
Do Not Want: Non-con, Permanent character death, Detailed descriptions of gore like blood, viscera, etc. Anything involving feces or urine, cheating, 2nd person POV, tragic endings

Rathbone Holmes prompts:
-anything about the two of them surviving the real trials of WWII together, like The Blitz, rationing, in one film we saw that Watson had gone to the country to volunteer at a home that looked after wounded soldiers so if you would like to explore Watson's medical service that would be good too. Also, assuming in this universe Watson's army service would have been in WWI, does he have any trauma or PTSD around that, and having to go through another war? Maybe going through all of this together convinces them to stop hesitating and get together.
-in The Spider Woman the villain set it up so that Watson would kill Holmes and not even realize it, we can assume that Watson found out about this afterwards, how did he feel about this? How did Holmes feel knowing that his beloved companion would be the instrument of his own death?
-in The Woman in the Green Dress, hypnotism is used on both Watson and Holmes at different points, and I really thought Moriarty was going to have Watson hypnotized and he would be sent to harm, kill, (or in my fanfic brain) possibly seduce Holmes. Also, what if Holmes had actually been hypnotized and hadn't just been pretending? How does Watson care for Holmes after he was recused from Moriarty?
-in the Pursuit to Algiers at the beginning of the film it is mentioned that Holmes is unwell and the Doctor has prescribed a long vacation for rest, what do we think is the issue? I picture Holmes collapsing from exhaustion after they made sure the prince has made it to safety and Watson must care for him
-sex pollen (or cuddle pollen!), there is exactly one sex pollen fic on AO3 for this fandom and I would love to read another one
-Holmes & Watson having to pretend to be a couple for a case
-Holmes’ enemies hurt Watson to get back at Holmes. So they kidnap him, or beat him up, or something else, to send Holmes a message. You can make it a canonical enemy like Moriarty and his gang, Baron Gruner, etc, or you can make up your own evil villain.
-Watson gets drugged in some fashion (by accident? by some villain?) and it makes him overly affectionate and amorous with Holmes. Also, maybe cue scene after he has sobered up and poor Watson is so embarrassed, but maybe it leads to them having a discussion around their feelings for each other?
-Watson has made the acquaintance of a widow woman on a neighbouring street, and somehow Holmes has discovered that every once and awhile Watson and this woman engage in “intimate relations” i.e. sex. This greatly disturbs Holmes, but he has a hard time understanding why at first, it takes some introspection for Holmes to realize it’s because he has romantic feelings for his Watson (About the widow, I see her being an independent woman about the same age as Watson, and she has no interest in marrying Watson, they just like to have a little fun on occasion)
-Watson sustains a severe head injury, and afterwards he has trouble concentrating or experiences mood swings, or anything else you can think of, and Watson is afraid he is no longer a fit companion for Holmes

The Great Mouse Detective prompts:
-any hurt/comfort is appreciated. Maybe Dawson patches Basil up after his encounter with Rattigan, or maybe Dawson gets hurt/ill and needs to be cared for
-a villain goes after Dawson for some reason (to get back at Basil, because Dawson helped someone the villain hates, etc) and Basil goes into protection mode, no one hurts his companion!
-Dawson adjusting to living with Basil, with his constant experiments, his bouts of melancholy, etc., and maybe Basil having to learn to have a little consideration for his new flatmate. Also, how chuffed is Basil that he has a companion now just like Holmes has Watson, I'm sure he's very pleased about it.
-Basil is in trouble (kidnapped?, trapped?) and Dawson has to try his best to find clues and use Basil's network and tools to find him before it's too late
-If you're an artist and want to show me what you think the mouse versions of Lestrade or Mycroft look like, and what their names would be, that would be delightful

Sherlock & Daughter prompts:
-Watson was so huggy and clingy when Holmes found him because he was drugged, I would love to see more of that, maybe during the carriage ride back or at their return to Baker St. Just Watson not wanting to let Holmes go.
-if you want to explore any internal angst either felt during their separation that would be great, and maybe once they are together again it leads to the two of them revealing their feelings for each other
-Holmes and Watson trying to co-parent Amelia in some fashion, like they have a young woman living with them that might need some guidance on occasion, are they good at it? Bad? Somewhere in between?

The Peter Serafinowicz Show prompts:
-if you would like to try and make sense of the case going on in the background go right ahead
-Holmes appears to become amorous when he solves a case and Watson praises him, has this ever happened or almost happened at inopportune times or places? Do they have to try and restrain themselves until they get to the nearest private room?
-Watson seems quite shocked at Holmes behaviour, obviously they have been working cases before and this has never occurred, what made the dam break for Holmes in this case?

Special requests: N/A

A rare public entry

Mar. 21st, 2026 08:23 pm
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[personal profile] chocolatepot
Just wrote an AH answer for a question that I'd had open in a tab for very nearly two weeks. I love doing that, it feels so much more like an accomplishment if the unanswered question has been bugging me for a while; I get to feel relieved to finally have it off my plate. Hashtag ADHD life.

Likewise trying to organize my writing in terms of plates. The not-Fandom Trumps Hate piece is more than 75% done, so the Regency romance is going to abide for a bit while I just focus on this one thing. And then I will have it done and can stop feeling guilty about it. And then I might celebrate with work on an actual fanfic for a bit, get another chapter in of this very self-indulgent SVSSS genderbend, before going back to work that I intend to sell. (When will I edit Grand and Glorious Feeling? When will I publish Arrow Collar Man? I don't knowwwww, it's scary to put your work out there and depressing to sell like ten copies in six months.)

I will also be mailing out copies of Dandies & Dandyzettes very very soon, and having THAT off my plate and not feeling guilty about it anymore will be incredible. I think it will fix me.

SO many excellent things to watch these days. Serially, I'm most engaged with The Pitt (what a glorious mess!!), but I've been slowly watching the new BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies, which is really excellent on multiple levels. So well done, strongly recommend it.

Have to go to Philadelphia for work next week. Have to DRIVE AROUND in Philadelphia for work next week. Have to drive around in DOWNTOWN PHILLY AROUND INDEPENDENCE HALL AND THE LIBERTY BELL. I am so pissed off but am coming to a point of resigned acceptance that a) I can't get out of it and b) I may very well cry in front of my deputy on those days. So it goes.

Weekly Reading

Mar. 21st, 2026 05:06 pm
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[personal profile] torachan
Recently Finished
Lucky Stiff
Third book in the Lillian Byrd murder mystery series.

The Cartographers
When the MC's father dies, she finds an old road map in his things, the source of a massive fight years ago that resulted in him cutting ties with her and blackballing her from the cartography world. In trying to figure out why her father would have kept the map, she learns about not only the secrets of the map itself, but about her parents. I enjoyed this but it was very slow for the first half or so.

The Hanging Tree
A woman goes on a writing retreat at a remote manor and learns of a local legend about a young woman who was hanged as a witch on the property and decides that's what she wants her next book to be about. The book is told in dual timelines with the present being about her research and the past being the actual events. I liked this, but there was way too much romance focus in both the past and present.

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Graphic novel about the author's relationship with her parents, especially focused on caring for them in their final years. I really liked this a lot.

Huda F Cares? and Huda F Wants to Know?
Second and third books in the Huda F series of YA graphic novels about a very religious Muslim teen loosely based on the author's life. I continue to enjoy this series.

Hatsukoi no Tsugi vol. 3
Final volume in this companion series to Koi-iji. I liked this a lot.
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[personal profile] petra
Quartetto (146039 words) by Sixthlight
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Stella Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski, Benton Fraser & Stella Kowalski, Ray Kowalski & Ray Vecchio
Characters: Stella Kowalski (due South), Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Additional Tags: Polyamory, Slow Burn, Trauma Recovery, Queer Themes, Feminist Themes, Bisexuality, Female Protagonist, Second Chances, Post-Canon, Roman fleuve, Foursome - F/M/M/M
Summary:

So, men. Maybe Stella was over that.

*

This story digs deep into the situation implied in the phrase, "I swing both Rays," in that Stella always has, and so does Fraser. Eventually, after some lovely family tension and gloriously due South coincidences, they find their way to a dynamic sort of domestic peace, in defiance of all the canon's fear of limerence.

This was very, very good for my heart, with its rampant bisexuality and careful, thoughtful exploration of how these characters -- some of whom have solid reasons at the outset not to like each other very much -- find attraction, and joy, and above all banter. The banter is fucking golden. I love Fraser's voice, and this reflects it; I love RayK when he's flustered, and there is plenty to fluster him here; I love Vecchio when he is sharp and sweet and sardonic, and oh my heart.

And. Possibly most importantly, Stella. I have never spent much time thinking about her, but how I adore her in this piece: incisive, driven, sure of herself even when things are going completely bananas all around her, because women are the real straight men in due South, except when they're Frannie. (Who is also great here, don't get me wrong.) Stella's family works very well in their role in the narrative, both as foils of what her parents will tolerate (Francis!) and as what they thought Stella should be (ah, Jean, heartbreaking to get everything right). Stella with her view of reality that isn't quite the parareality of due South -- she may talk to Dief, but she doesn't entirely believe he understands her, nor that he talks back, despite the convictions of the people around her. She lives on a different wavelength than Fraser, and even RayV, as the quintessential Woman Who Got Away, but it is deeply satisfying that here, she doesn't get away, and instead, she gets everything she ever wanted.

Every single bowling reference made me make the :D face. Thank you, sixthlight, for saving Stella and Vecchio from the bad, bad canon, and instead delivering them to this much better situation.

(no subject)

Mar. 21st, 2026 03:30 pm
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[personal profile] gremdark
This time I remembered to queue up two hours' worth of music before locking myself out of my phone with my focus app. I use Focus Friend, which is bare bones enough that I don't need to think about it too much when I use it.

Today's missions are to clean the kitchen, tidy surfaces in the living room, and declutter the bedroom. We ran dishes this morning, and our roommate is out of town, so there's one less person around to make messes. Not too much to do. In between I'm hoping to keep plugging away at my Rare Kink Buffet fills. I had hoped to write multiple short ones, but what originally seemed to be a short idea is ballooning into a multichap. So we shall see. Wish me luck!

Progress! The house is a little cleaner, and I've added about 1200 words to my Rare Kink Buffet fill. This is chapter three, which I had hoped would be the last chapter. I also hoped chapter two would be the last chapter, so it appears that the length of this one is just utterly out of my control.
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[personal profile] sovay
The afternoon's mail brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #86, containing my poem "Northern Comfort." I wrote it out of my discoveries of the ghost-ground that has been directly underfoot all my life and longer, from King Philip's War to Pomp's Wall, and this administration and its murderous terror of history. It shares a page and an issue of emptiness with a precisely targeted incantation by Gwynne Garfinkle as well the equally hollowing fiction and poetry of Kris Schokrowsky, Penny Durham, Carsten Cheung, Jennifer Crow, and more. I almost referred to the covert art by John and Flo Stanton, obscured by shattered webs of negative space or the rust-light of abandoned industries. Subscribe! Contribute! Make the right kind of strangeness in this world. I am off to South Station to collect one north-traveling seal.

Fingers say what?

Mar. 21st, 2026 11:10 am
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I talk with my hands. This amuses A. to no end: She's the one who's part-Italian and yet I'm the one who can't talk without gesticulating. Whether I'm talking about sending an email (fingers typing on a keyboard), sending a fax (hands palm-down, fingertips guiding the paper into the machine), or chopping vegetables (left hand moving the knife up and down, right hand advancing the the vegetable toward it), I don't even think about it, but my hands accompany my words.

Yesterday, we got some small cucumbers and I was talking about using some of them to make oi muchim (a Korean cucumber salad with thinly sliced cucumbers in a gochugaru-seasoned dressing). I was talking about slicing the cucumbers, and she looked at my hands and asked "What's that?" I looked at my hands and saw that my right hand was flat, palm-up, while my left hand was palm-down, in a claw grip, moving back and forth over my right hand. And then it hit me: When I make oi muchim, I don't slice the cucumbers with a knife. I slice them with a mandoline. And without even thinking about it, my hands were doing to the correct motion for the action I would be doing.

I don't even notice that I'm doing this until she points it out, so I don't know if I could stop it if I tried.

(no subject)

Mar. 21st, 2026 10:22 am
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[personal profile] skygiants
I've seen two Boston Ballets in relatively quick succession over the past month, both combo programs featuring two pieces; the first was "The Rite of Spring" (Elo's, not Nijinsky's) paired with Pite's "The Seasons' Canon," and the second was a premiere, Stromile's "The Leisurely Installation of a New Window," paired with Ashton's "The [Midsummer Night's] Dream."

Breaking with the actual curation of the productions, I'm going to talk about "The Rite of Spring" and "The Leisurely Installation of a New Window" together because they both came first in their productions, they had kind of similar vibes, and I experienced similar feelings of mild disappointment about both of them that were not technically the fault of the productions. I was really excited about "The Rite of Spring" because I wanted to see some ballet dancers do a dramatic ritual sacrifice, and I was really excited about "The Leisurely Installation of a New Window" because I wanted to see some ballet dancers slowly install a window. Instead, both of these pieces were kind of abstract explorations through dance of the Relationship between the Individual and Society, and I think both would have been enjoyable for fifteen minutes but ran a bit long at half an hour.

The description for "Window" in the playbill reads:

Eighteen dancers inhabit the work through distinct but interdependent roles. The Seeker stands close to tradition, moving with discipline and clarity. The People operate within shared systems, attentive to both order and its quiet tensions. The Reformers introduce disruption, not as spectacle, but as pressure applied from within.

This did help me understand better what was going on in the dance, as the Seeker stalked around holding a book and then portentously passed it off to some dueting Reformers, but also made it feel a bit like a LARP that I was not participating in. On the other hand Reeves Gabriel of The Cure was There and Participating in Ballet Music (and every bit of marketing wanted you to know that Reeves Gabriel Of The Cure was There and Participating in Ballet Music) and occasionally the music would get very thrillingly electric guitar and you'd be like "Hello, Reeves Gabriel of The Cure!" So it's not that I didn't have a fine time, I just would have been okay with somewhat less of that time.

However, after these very mildly disappointing openers, I loved both "The Seasons' Canon" and "The Dream" very much! The Seasons' Canon is, justifiably, a known Boston Ballet showstopper -- a huge piece with a huge cast, and as you guys know I often have trouble with a piece that is not trying to tell me a story but this piece is truly just Humans Make Big Shapes and it's riveting. Could not take my eyes off it. The trailer here gives a bit of a sense but of course is not that much like seeing it Actually On Stage, but it does let you see one of the things I found most striking about the piece which is how extremely non-gendered it is -- everyone on that stage is dressed identically in pants and nude tank that makes them look topless, the whole corps looks like one and moves like one and there is nothing to distract you from that. Really, really cool experience.

And "The Dream" -- look, I'm a simple soul, and what I have discovered is that I love Ashton's silly panto-esque ballets. They are fun and they are funny and I love it when people get to be funny in dance! Dance jokes are good actually! Titania ballet-hopping her way towards Bottom in a way that manages to be simultaneously fairy-like and hilariously sultry, the arguing lovers constantly picking each other up and pirouetting a partner firmly Away from them Thank You, the rude mechanicals!! we wanted more rude mechanicals but I was so glad we got what we got. A+ Midsummer Night's Dream, would see again.

View from the Window - March

Mar. 21st, 2026 11:21 am
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Not much changes with the view as yet, although the sky is bluer (behind the clouds!)

another solstice, another story

Mar. 21st, 2026 07:15 am
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Name: Rudbeckiasunshine (DW)
Contact email: [email protected]
AO3 username: Rudbeckia
Treat preference: Sure!

I will create:
A fanwork of the following type(s): fic
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Books: Doyle - Canon. Warlock Holmes - G. S. Denning. TV/Film:Granada TV Show; Rathbone Films; The Private life of Sherlock Holmes; 1954 TV show Howard Holmes. Comics/radio/other: Bert Coules radio dramatizations.
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Holmes/Watson; Holmes & Watson; Holmes/Watson/Mary; Holmes/Watson & Mary; Holmes & Watson/Mary.
I like working with one or more of the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Post-Reichenbach; Alternate Universe; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Established Relationship; Crossover; Friendship; Humor; Case Fic; First Time; Friendship; Drug Addiction; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence; Bondage
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences; 2) non-explicit sexual content; 3) explicit sexual content; 4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes; 5) moderate to explicit graphic violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes
I am willing to create for the following squicks and/or kinks: bdsm; alcohol/drug abuse.

I want to receive:
A fanwork of the following type(s): art, fic
In one or more of the following parts of fandom:Books: Canon; Warlock Holmes - G. S. Denning. TV/Film: Granada TV Show; 1954 Holmes (Ron Howard); Rathbone Films, TPLoSH. Comics/radio/other: Bert Coules radio dramatizations; Sherlock & Co.
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Mrs Hudson & Holmes/Watson; Holmes/Watson; Holmes & Watson; Lestrade & Holmes & Watson; Lestrade & Holmes/Watson; Holmes/Watson & Mary; Holmes & Watson & Mariana
I like stuff in the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Post-Reichenbach; Alternate Universe; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Established Relationship; Crossover; Friendship; Humor; Case Fic; First Time; Friendship; Drug Addiction; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence; Bondage
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences; 2) non-explicit sexual content; 3) explicit sexual content; 4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes; 5) moderate to explicit graphic violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes
I wouldn’t mind any of the following squicks and/or kinks: bdsm; alcohol/drug abuse

Please include further details about what you’d like to receive: I like my fluff cut with something sharper. Hurt/comfort is lovely. I adore angst and mutual pining as long as there is a happy ending. MCD is fine (either to write or to receive) as long as it is at the end of a long and happy life together. I have a particular soft spot for old, married, retired Holmes/Watson, and a deep love of Warlock Holmes.

Special requests: None

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