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LOL is a figure of speech
Aug. 12th, 2011 12:35 pmIt's a good thing my noise-intolerant neighbor* doesn't live directly under my apartment anymore, because I was laughing unreasonably loudly, at an unreasonable time of morning. I don't know how it happened, but the noise-intolerant neighbor now lives two floors down, and the apartment directly under mine is occupied by somebody I haven't met. They seem to have lived there since March without complaining.
I started reading "The Perilous Affair of the Batshit Blogger" (http://archiveofourown.org/works/170096?view_full_work=true) at about 2am, one of those nights last month when I was too hot and itchy to sleep. (I'd downloaded it to my Blackberry months ago, but not gotten around to it, as one does.) It was howlingly funny. It contained the first drunk joke in many, many years to get past my "that's not funny!" response and really make me laugh.
I was aware that it wasn't neighborly to laugh that much, that loud, in a thin-walled apartment at that hour. I hardly ever realized that the next line was going to strike me as hilarious, so it wasn't feasible to bite the pillow. My next-door neighbor is polite and good-natured, but I don't like imposing too much on that...maybe she has a loud air conditioner. (What? You think I wanted to stop reading in the middle of the story?)
I recommend it to my friends who don't usually read fanfic. (I probably don't have to push as hard, for the rest of you.) The basic conceit is that John Watson and the Holmes brothers live in Manchester in 2011, with personalities similar to those of their namesakes in London in the 1880s, but modern jobs. There is apparently a TV show with a similar conceit, but the story does not depend on it. (There may be references to other movies or TV shows that I didn't notice and didn't miss.) I don't think the story calls for any particular background knowledge of UK government shenanigans--I could follow enough that I think I was laughing at the right places. It was written before the Murdoch scandal broke, but I think it might have become even funnier since then.
One bit of background knowledge that is useful, perhaps necessary, is that the batshit blogger character was inspired by a real person. A woman from Los Angeles
moved to Manchester with the firmly stated intention of finding personal enlightenment and true love in six months. I think my summary is enough for understanding "The Perilous Affair," but if you want to see the direct evidence and lots of people making fun of it, you can look over here. http://legionseagle.dreamwidth.org/61556.html
*http://adrian-turtle.dreamwidth.org/3075.html#comments
I started reading "The Perilous Affair of the Batshit Blogger" (http://archiveofourown.org/works/170096?view_full_work=true) at about 2am, one of those nights last month when I was too hot and itchy to sleep. (I'd downloaded it to my Blackberry months ago, but not gotten around to it, as one does.) It was howlingly funny. It contained the first drunk joke in many, many years to get past my "that's not funny!" response and really make me laugh.
I was aware that it wasn't neighborly to laugh that much, that loud, in a thin-walled apartment at that hour. I hardly ever realized that the next line was going to strike me as hilarious, so it wasn't feasible to bite the pillow. My next-door neighbor is polite and good-natured, but I don't like imposing too much on that...maybe she has a loud air conditioner. (What? You think I wanted to stop reading in the middle of the story?)
I recommend it to my friends who don't usually read fanfic. (I probably don't have to push as hard, for the rest of you.) The basic conceit is that John Watson and the Holmes brothers live in Manchester in 2011, with personalities similar to those of their namesakes in London in the 1880s, but modern jobs. There is apparently a TV show with a similar conceit, but the story does not depend on it. (There may be references to other movies or TV shows that I didn't notice and didn't miss.) I don't think the story calls for any particular background knowledge of UK government shenanigans--I could follow enough that I think I was laughing at the right places. It was written before the Murdoch scandal broke, but I think it might have become even funnier since then.
One bit of background knowledge that is useful, perhaps necessary, is that the batshit blogger character was inspired by a real person. A woman from Los Angeles
moved to Manchester with the firmly stated intention of finding personal enlightenment and true love in six months. I think my summary is enough for understanding "The Perilous Affair," but if you want to see the direct evidence and lots of people making fun of it, you can look over here. http://legionseagle.dreamwidth.org/61556.html
*http://adrian-turtle.dreamwidth.org/3075.html#comments
