Nerd, me? What?

[tenlittlebullets]

I should like to pretend I had something substantive to update with besides the way "I loved you even as I saw you, even as it did not matter that I did not know your name" keeps ricocheting around in my head, but--

Ah! I'm reading the collected Sherlock Holmes stories. I can't believe I never did that before. They're so much fun; I'm nursing a mini-crush on Holmes in all his sarcastic, egotistical, bipolar glory, and I am positive that even if I weren't wearing my slash goggles as I read, Holmes and Watson would still make Batman and Robin look like amateurs on the ambiguously gay duo front.

Actually, no, it's not so much a crush on Holmes as the desire to have a drink and a conversation with him. Or see him and Javert having drinks together--I doubt they'd see eye to eye on all matters, but it would be an excellent scene to witness.

Comments

[devils-child7.livejournal.com]

Sherlock Holmes stories are amazing! I first read them when I was in elementary school (naturally sans slash goggles), although I re-read them last summer. Holmes/Watson is a rather obvious pairing, I think, which is probably due to Watson's unwavering loyalty to Holmes (for whatever reason).

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

Yes! I had a mad crush on Holmes in a rather nonsexual way when I was 13 or so.

And the most recent film totally played up the slashy - and not because of Rupert Everett but because Quirrel (my brain is fried and I don't feel like looking him up) was the slashiest Watson like ever. He did the nagging to perfection. (and it was impossible to believe that he would have married Helen McCrory, which just encouraged me to believe all the dirty things in my head *g*.) Crap plot, though - if BBC wants to do another Rupert as Holmes film, they should refilm one of the proper stories. Preferably one that includes Holmes in a dress *g*.