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Happy almost-birthday to me!
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iulia came up this weekend to celebrate my birthday with me. We started off by being incredibly adventurous and going ice skating. I hadn't been in well over six years, and it had been nearly as long for her, but we were both back to roughly our old forms pretty quickly. (Which is to say, I was just as wobbly as ever.)Weirdly, it seems that slowing down, to a stop if necessary, isn't just a cautious-skater tic, it's an actual skill that I have and Iulia, who can skate backwards and cross over and all that, finds really difficult. So as ever we have complementary skills. I'm good at stopping skating, and she is good at all the other parts of skating. *g*
Also, it turns out that when you're skating on a 400-meter/quarter-mile speed skating track you can do a lot of skating without thinking you've done much at all. This is excellent fun except for all of the weird skating-only muscle strains you won't notice until later.
After ice skating we watched football (oh, Wolverines. good try.) and then went out to see Life As We Know It, which was pretty much exactly the rom-com kidfic movie we were both expecting. Afterward we went and got dinner and, as I had already proposed it ages ago, we wracked our brains to figure out which fandom it could be most successfully AU'd to. We eventually settled on it as a Neville/Draco story, and then spent a lot of time working out details.
I briefly tried to fit it to Sherlock, and then realized that "people with nothing in common who don't like each other much but have to move in together to raise a baby" is pretty much just canon plus a baby. Except you'd have to kill Mycroft to get Sherlock to take the baby, and also Mycroft would have to have had a baby and just, no. This led to us coming home and watching the first episode of Sherlock, and then today we watched a little bit of the second episode and all of the third.
Iulia pointed out what hadn't really registered with me before, which is how emphatically not a buddy-pairing Sherlock and John are. I don't even know if modern media sources offer this kind of relationship: the Great Man and his faithful follower. Or, modern media sources offer this kind of relationship all over thed place but it's the Great Man and his faithful female follower. Hm.
Anyway, I guess this bothers me less because the way it reads to my brain is "the very purest form of My Favorite Fictional Type (i.e. Watson) and the guy he loves."
In extremely related news, I'm halfway through Fire from Heaven and oh my god, Hephaistion. ♥______♥
But I do think there's a very direct line to be drawn between Alexander/Hephaistion and Sherlock/John. For whatever that's worth to anyone.
Anyway, then we agreed that Lestrade/Watson is an excellent idea and wouldn't that just show Sherlock the benefits of being a nice goddamn person from time to time. My brain promptly pitched up the Lestrade/Watson/Holmes story where Lestrade and Watson get together and then instead of attempting to keep it from Sherlock or avoiding making him jealous and possessive of John, use his inevitably intimate knowledge of their relationship and his possessiveness of John to teach him, forcibly, the benefit learning to play nicely with others at least once in a while. Sherlock probably spends a lot of it being irate that positive reinforcement works on him even when he knows what they're doing. OTOH, orgasms.
So. That's a thought.
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. . . skipping forward a few posts, THAT is the story i'd want from you.
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I admit, every time I wade far enough down my things-to-write list to find that one, it makes me go "Oooh, yes. I need to write that." FWIW.