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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)
04 Oct 2017
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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.
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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
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I Am A Part Of All That I Have Met by 17 pansies (17pansies) for derwent
Fandoms: James Bond (Craig Movies)
25 Jul 2021
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Posing as a couple with a double-oh was never going to be a simple, straightforward affair.
Turns out, things are even more complicated that Mallory ever expected.
Just another day with MI-6, then.
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25 Apr 2022
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Married AU, set a few months to a year after the end of Skyfall.
James was quite proud of the fact that he had never once been subjected to the office Christmas party, but thanks to Eve, her big mouth and the inability of Q Branch to abstain from gossip, his hand has been forced. The only benefit is that M does look especially good in the suit Bond has forced him to wear.
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24 Apr 2022
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For his entire life, Gareth Mallory has laid everything down for the interests of his country. It has cost him his health, his temper and his marriage. Bond will be damned if he's going to let the stubborn fool sacrifice any more.
Influenced in equal parts by the 1999 adaptation of the End of the Affair by Graham Greene and the Final Ascent score by Hans Zimmer from No Time To Die.
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24 Apr 2022
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‘We may have won the battle, but I fear the war with winter is just beginning.’
The aftermath of war is no laughing matter. Those who died must be honoured, those who are wounded must be healed, and those who remain need food and clothing, peace and sanctuary. With Thorin's life hanging in the balance, it is up to Bilbo and the rest of the Company to rule the rag-tag remnants of Erebor in his place.
Then there is the matter of the gold...
Can Bilbo save both king and kingdom, or is Erebor destined to fall deeper into ruin?
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- Part 1 of The Riven Crown Universe
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19 Apr 2022
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‘I know the agony of loss. I have fallen prey to its ravages, and my kingdom has succumbed to its darkness.’ Thranduil swallowed, hating to admit his frailty and his failings. ‘Neither Thorin nor Bilbo will live an immortal life; I cannot offer them such, but this…’ He trailed off, gesturing to the diamonds sparkling in Gandalf’s grasp. ‘I can offer them this.’
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- Part 2 of The Riven Crown Universe
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19 Apr 2022
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Sometimes, Bilbo finds, not everything goes according to plan.
First an injury and the coming winter delay his leaving Erebor, then word from the Shire leaves him mourning his beloved Bag End. And because getting added to Thorin's council isn't trouble enough, Kili is in love with an elf, Fili may or may not have his eyes on a certain little scribe, everyone seems to think he is a lady hobbit, and Thorin needs to find someone to marry.
Okay. So the last part might not be trouble, exactly, except for the part where it makes Bilbo's rather hopeless attachment even more painful. Or it wouldn't if he hadn't possibly accidentally promised to provide Thorin with an heir... and Dáin just might still be scheming something.
Fortunately, if there's one thing hobbits are good at, it's growing things. And Thorin did promise him a garden.
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- Part 1 of Garden in the Mountain
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17 Apr 2022
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The Road Delivered Us Home by keelywolfe for keyasaurus
Fandoms: The Hobbit (2012), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
30 Jul 2013
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In the years since Bilbo left Erebor, he has lost his respectability, gained a nephew, and gotten on with life at Bag End.
He'd left aside adventure for the comforts and peace of his little Hobbit hole, and for the love of a child who needed him. Though perhaps, adventures can yet find him.
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- Part 1 of Shopping
- Part 1 of The Road Delivered Us Home
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15 Apr 2022
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Echo by museaway for CanneDeBonbon
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
28 Mar 2014
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"So you're older than me," Jim said with a shrug. "You're not dead."
Spock Prime gets his happy ending when he meets a young architect.
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- Part 1 of Jim the Construction Worker AU
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29 Jan 2022
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The Home Secretary summons Bond in the wake of M's funeral for a final, crucial mission.
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15 Jul 2021
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This is really very much what it says on the tin. Fractured fairy tale, fantasy, AU, curses. Mycroft and Greg. I really don't think you need more, especially if you like animal-companion/spouse fairy tales: you know the sort? The Black Bull of Norway? Rose Red and Rose White and the Bear? Yeah.
One thing, for those who may not know. A she-fox is a vixen. A dog-fox is a male fox. When I use the term dog-fox, I am merely identifying the fox as a boy fox, not a dog/fox hybrid of some sort. So sue me--that's the terminology.
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09 Jun 2021
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Sherlock Holmes never expected to live a long life, but he never imagined that it would end like this.
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13 May 2021
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Everyone wears a cuff to hide their soulwords. Everyone but Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
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20 Apr 2021
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The moon shone brightly on the garden, the colours of the roses now muted blue-greys like pebbles along the shore. A shiver ran down his spine as the hairs on his neck tingled.
“Hello?” he said. Looked to the left and the right. Not a soul. “Who’s there?” His grip on the umbrella handle was clammy.
A foghorn bellowed in the distance. Clouds crept over the moon’s face, casting long, gauzy shadows over the garden.
Mycroft stepped back, and shut the door. He tried to quell the racing of his heart as he stood there, listening.
“I’ve been waiting,” the man said, his voice as rough as waves hitting the rocks.
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15 Aug 2020
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Two days to get his head together and sort out what comes next, two days to try to gauge King’s panicked eyes. Two days to figure out how to calm the hummingbird heart he can still feel under his fingertips, a heart belonging to a man so clear-eyed and wise when it comes to everyone else’s relationships, but absolutely at sea when it comes to his own.
But Ram’s okay with that.
Two days doesn’t even come close to stretching the limits of his patience.
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10 Jun 2020
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Once each year, Senator L. Claudius Lupis Victorianus says his other name. (Slightly AU sequel to "Romans")
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21 Nov 2019