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[sevenswells]

I feel super tired. Forced myself to draw. Still wrestling my fucking script, I swear if I'm still alive by the time I finish it, I'm gonna go and get drunk for the first time of my life.

So, here: young!Sherlock and young!Mycroft because I'm ridiculously obsessed. Safe for work. Monochrome with super-quick shadowing cos supposedly I don't have the time. =0=



*returns to work* *endless moan*

Comments

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HEEE I LOVE YOUR LONG COMMENTS BB ^0^//

in theory, Benedict Cumberbatch should do nothing for me.

Look, actually, same here. I don't even think he's that handsome. It's like Viggo Mortensen and Aragorn. I don't really care about Viggo; he's cute and all, but he just doesn't do it for me; not my type at all. But as Aragorn... I'd tap that. Any day. Well this example to show that sometimes I can very well dissociate the actor from the character they play. No problem. Okay.

Now theoretically, Benny was supposed to be the same deal. Contrary to you, I'm very prone to like his cheekbones (and his nose), but I don't really like his natural hair colour, for instance, or even his face in general, and he seems like a very nice person and not a sociopathic bastard at all -- I thought I'd totally do him only as Sherlock, with those jet-black curls that make his skin eerily pale and the character's venomous tongue and cold piercing eyes, but I'm not supposed to find Benedict Cumberbatch sexy. Oh no. It's just that recently, and I don't know how, but he's managed to turn me into a total stan, with just a few photos and quotes and his constant playing with small objects with his fucking beautiful hands when he's being interviewed and... now I'm obsessed Sherlock and Benedict. And I swear it wasn't supposed to happen. I fought it every step of the way ("He's a great Sherlock, and I find him sexy because of the character's charisma. Yeah. His eyes are definitely too far apart, and I don't even like his mouth... okay but his eyes are still gorgeous, and their being apart gives him a little something else... and yeah the shape of his mouth is odd but it still looks unnervingly kissable, like a wine which you can't determine whether it's good or not and that's precisely what makes this wine subtle and unique and kind of heady... Also his legs... OMG his legs, they're endless..." And so it went. No, seriously, I'm pathetic. I tried. And miserably failed.)

I also know what you mean about his voice. I think I could orgasm just from hearing him say phrases as stupid as "You're an army doctor, are you", or "Nine million quid". Scratch "I think I could": I totally did. And I die each and every time he imitates Alan Rickman, it just kills me.
And the way he moves, yeah, that too, I think I didn't really know what elegance meant until I saw him. No, really. He's so fucking elegant. The kind that makes you say he could wear a potato sack and still work it like a motherfucker.

AUTUMN 2011 IS TOO FUCKING FAR. Well good thing the second Guy Ritchie movie is coming up before that, AND IT BETTER HAVE EVEN MORE SLASHY PARTS THAN THE FIRST ONE, YOU HEAR ME RITCHIE??? I NEED MY FIX.

Still have a veeeery vague memory of the original books. I read The Hound of the Baskervilles, of that I'm pretty sure, but I was little and I think I didn't really get the slash XD Well anyway I must admit, I really don't know anything about canon!Sherlock verse (except for what I've learned from wikipedia when I was doing my research for my Holmes brothers fic XD)

But now that you've explained, I kind of see where you're coming from -- and the Holmes' relationship seems interesting in canon too, I had no idea.

I think I’ll just have to make a Sherlock post in my journal.

FUCK YEAH!!!

BTW, do you like Merchant Ivory films?

I have no idea what they are!

Have you seen Maurice?

Yes, I saw Maurice two or three years ago, loved it to bits, it's a great film indeed! =DDD And you made me want to see it again aaaaaarrrhhh! And now that I'm officially obsessed with Benny I need to see Hawking and Stuart. Sheesh. Damn those sexy British actors! *shakes fist to heaven*

Aaaaah, Rupert!Lestrade. He's such a SMEXY fox; if Sherlock and John wasn't such an unbreakable OTP in my head, I'd totally slash him with Sherlock too; but I'm way too much of a "Team Watson" to even read Sherlock/Lestrade fics.

I’m re-watching the pilot.

YOU MEAN THE UNAIRED PILOT?? HAVEN'T GOT THE TIME TO WATCH IT YET, FML, ARRRRRHHH >0<

;_____;

Hey, you said you liked long comments, not my fault. *hides*

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Re: Viggo: another (unconventionally?) hot man who does rien for me. Fascinating company, I'm sure, but my hormones don't budge, even when he's Aragorn. Yawn. Seriously, during the Aragorn/Legolas mania, I was wondering what was wrong with me, because ALL I could think about was Sean Bean and Boromir. Mmmm, 90s Sean Bean.

I do admit (even if he, himself, wasn't my style) I saw the world's point about Orlando Bloom once he was out of costume. Such a pretty boy/man. As Legolas, though... meh. WHY SO DED, Boromir.

LOL at how you had to give into the Cumberbatch attraction. Brave fight. I've managed, so far (FAMOUS LAST WORDS), not to fancy the actors (so rare for me), but I bet this won't last long. In the meantime, if Mr Cumberbatch wants to come and read the phone book to me...

He really has a very elegant stance/walk. And it's funny, I can't figure out if he's just "skinny" or "skinny but well-built" (does this make sense?), or "not that toned, but skinny enough to look it". In the show's suits+Coat of Dreams, he looks rather like he'll fall over if Watson sneezes. In the pilot, he has a slightly different style (fewer coats, more tight jeans) and, surprisingly, the tighter stuff makes him look more... muscly? -ish? Still very slim (and yum!), but less starved, know what I mean? I wonder (not that it matters at all) if he lost weight after the pilot or if it's really just a matter of costumes & lighting.

Speaking of the pilot... Girl. See it. It's 60 min., reward your recent good work with it. See it. I want to geek out with you about it! Sherlock in tight jeans. Faux Drunk Sherlock! Quick, tiny spoiler for the beginning of the pilot's climax below:

Sherlock: (stumbles drunkenly, almost gets run over by a car, taps on cab window; cabbie shakes head) Hey, hey, come on!
Cabbie: Sorry mate, not on duty.
Sherlock: 221 (hic) B, Baker Street.
Cabbie: I'm not on duty mate, you see the light?
Sherlock: Just round the corner, it's Baker Street!
Cabbie: There's plenty of other cabs around here, get another cab.
Sherlock: *stumble* 221 BEEE!
Dir. of Photography: This is a good time for a close up of Sherlock's utterly smashed face clicking back into sobriety.
Me: AGREED.

Gah. The scene gets better and I don't want to ruin it for you. I'm sure you know the pilot is in essence a shorter A Study in Pink, roughly the same ending, but they go about it a bit differently, and I can't tell you about it because you have a Real Life and won't watch it gaaaah.

Quick, non-plot-spoilery note, though: dunno if that's Benedict's real hair colour in the pilot but that colour/cut (and, I suspect, the milimetrically arranged style) frame his face beautifully. I love the black curls on Sherlock, but I love the pilot style on Benedict. He looks gorgeous. I'd tap that in a hot second. These, btw, are the words of someone who's indifferent to Benedict's looks. How am I doing? ;)

... OMG, I hope he and his girlfriend don't read your journal, and specifically this entry. In the extremely unlikely event that I ever meet them here in behind-the-scenes London, I'd die of embarrassment before they even noticed me. *pause* Like I said, extremely unlikely. Pilot!Benedict, yes, please

... fantastic. I can't watch Atonement again. Do Not Want to see Sherlock as that creepy bastard. :( I IZ A MATURE VIEWER Y/Y?

"Merchant Ivory" was set up by producers/directors (wait for it) Merchant and Ivory--they made some huge period films, including Maurice. which sort of set the tone for "quality" period films to come. Because of that, I've seen the phrase "Merchant Ivory" used to describe a "style" of period film, not just the actual Merchant Ivory ones, but I wouldn't know if that's an "official" convention, or if people were just making a quick comparison. Some people don't like the style--but you liked Maurice, so YAY. Isn't it so good? And baby!Lestrade is yummy.

And so is grown-up!Lestrade, holy crap, I hadn't seen him in ages. Hello there, DI!

(cont.)

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Oddly enough, I'll take whatever slash comes my way happily (I'll be watching Ritchie!Sherlock for Jude Law and the slash, not even gonna lie), but re: Sherlock I'm happy with friends!Sherlock&Watson. I mean, if they end up in bed, all the better, but if not, my slashy self won't think it's sacrilege, or anything. I think I'm just having a violent reaction to the idea that people (specifically men) can't be friends. The thing I like most about Sherlock and Watson is that they are SUCH GOOD FRIENDS. They need each other so much. And that's such a beautiful thing, I think it might be the only time I go... "How is that not meaningful enough?" That said, I'm loving the show's winks to the slashy crowd (yeah, producers, some people will make assumptions if two guys move in together, but not all of London! I C WAT YOU DID THAR)

TL;DR: love Watson so much, but Lestrade needs some love, because LOOK AT HIM. GET HIM LAID, FANDOM. I DON'T CARE WITH WHOM.

Book!Mycroft is great. They're both great, and I won't bore you with more Mycroft stuff. I'll save it for my now inevitable Sherlock post. Let me just leave you with book!Mycroft's very first appearence:

[The Case of the Greek Interpreter]

"Because my brother Mycroft possesses [deductive skills] in a larger degree than I do."

(...) a hint that it was my companion's modesty which made him acknowledge his brother as his superior. Holmes laughed at my suggestion.

"My dear Watson (...) When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth."

[after meeting Mycroft]

[Mycroft:] "Look at these two men who are coming towards us, for example."

"The billiard-marker and the other?"

"Precisely. What do you make of the other?"

The two men had stopped opposite the window. Some chalk marks over the waistcoat pocket were the only signs of billiards which I could see in one of them. The other was a very small, dark fellow, with his hat pushed back and several packages under his arm.

"An old soldier, I perceive," said Sherlock.

"And very recently discharged," remarked the brother.

"Served in India, I see."

And a non-commissioned officer."

"Royal Artillery, I fancy," said Sherlock.

"And a widower."

"But with a child."

Children, my dear boy, children."

"Come," said I, laughing, this is a little too much."

"Surely," answered Holmes, it is not hard to say that a man with that bearing, expression of authority, and sun-baked skin, is a soldier, is more than a private, and is not long from India."

"That he has not left the service long is shown by his still wearing his ammunition boots, as they are called," observed Mycroft.

"He had not the cavalry stride, yet he wore his hat on one side, as is shown by the lighter skin on that side of his brow. His weight is against his being a sapper. He is in the artillery."

"Then, of course, his complete mourning shows that he has lost someone very dear. The fact that he is doing his own shopping looks as though it were his wife. He has been buying things for children, you perceive. There is a rattle, which shows that one of them is very young. The wife probably died in childbed. The fact that he has a picture-book under his arm shows that there is another child to be thought of."

I began to understand what my friend meant when he said that his brother possessed even keener faculties than he did himself. He glanced across at me and smiled.

Sherlock smiled. Sherlock smiled. It's a game. It's fun! And he's proud of showing off his brother to Watson! And just before they show off together, he'd been happily telling Mycroft how he'd solved the case Mycroft had given him the answer for in advance. The AWWW, it kills me.