Okay, this is an amazing comment. I don't even know where to start. ;)
they kind of knew each other through and through since their very first encounter, like Moriarty and consulting detective and all that are just details, something you say when you meet someone for the first time and they ask you what do you do in life, but doesn't define who you are.
Ack, I love this. So much. My beta trickerquinn once used the word kin to describe their relationship, and I think she was driving at the same thing you are here - that, along with Jim, these two are fundamentally lonely people who so rarely find any sort of real connection with anyone, and when they do met someone like them the draw of that - however unconscious it may be - is too much to resist.
it's perfect, almost biblical in a very twisted way
*claps hands delightedly*
people are wrongly led to believe "strong female characters" means "bitchy with a sword and a mithril bikini".
YES. This is one of my constant complaints about the way female characters are written in current popular culture. It's like - Buffy. When Buffy is a 'strong female character', it's not because she can kill 8 foot demons with her bare hands, it's because she's written like a complex human being with flaws and strengths and a past and a goddamn mind of her own.
*blinks* Sorry. I can get a bit carried away on that one.
Except if they read your fic, give you tons of money, and then adapt it for series two.
Yeah, um, despite the quite remote possibility that anyone from the show will ever read this, I'd just like to state for the record - I am entirely behind this plan. In case you were wondering.
I'll stop babbling incoherently now
No, thank you for babbling! I'm so glad you enjoyed the fic enough to babble about it. ;)
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they kind of knew each other through and through since their very first encounter, like Moriarty and consulting detective and all that are just details, something you say when you meet someone for the first time and they ask you what do you do in life, but doesn't define who you are.
Ack, I love this. So much. My beta
it's perfect, almost biblical in a very twisted way
*claps hands delightedly*
people are wrongly led to believe "strong female characters" means "bitchy with a sword and a mithril bikini".
YES. This is one of my constant complaints about the way female characters are written in current popular culture. It's like - Buffy. When Buffy is a 'strong female character', it's not because she can kill 8 foot demons with her bare hands, it's because she's written like a complex human being with flaws and strengths and a past and a goddamn mind of her own.
*blinks* Sorry. I can get a bit carried away on that one.
Except if they read your fic, give you tons of money, and then adapt it for series two.
Yeah, um, despite the quite remote possibility that anyone from the show will ever read this, I'd just like to state for the record - I am entirely behind this plan. In case you were wondering.
I'll stop babbling incoherently now
No, thank you for babbling! I'm so glad you enjoyed the fic enough to babble about it. ;)