"Day after day that I'm gone you anxiously wait for that call it's almost as if you would miss me."

[nausicaa83]

News and links, for I'm stuck here for another couple of hours and I'm bored. :D

The biggest Sherlock community, sherlockbbc is on hiatus. The community in itself was great, the users are amazing, and I met so many friends there, but I wasn't the only one who had a problem with the mods' administration, and now they decided to shut everything down for a while. So, for anyone who needs them, here's a bunch of helpful links for all your fandom needs. ^^

Communities
bbcsherlock
johnsherlock
fyeahmystrade
221b
holmesian_news
221b_recs
holmes_finders

On Tumblr
An Army Doctor
Fanfic Recs
Blanket For Your Shock

My personal recs would be my Bookmark Page on AO3, obviously.

And my Tumblr is here, just in case. I think Tumblr isn't a proper instrument for a fandom: it's great to share links and recs, but you can't properly comment and discuss with other users, at least not without spamming everyone, and I'm convinced that should be the core of it. But yes, if you're looking for links and recs, that is definitely the place now.

I'm trying to follow everyone from my f-list on AO3 and tumblr too, but in case I somehow missed you, drop me a line with a link here. ♥

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On real life news, nothing much happening, but for Sakura still taking her syrup, and me crossing all fingers that it works because if I have to carry her another time to the vet during the next week she'll just pack her bags and leave. Definitely.

And Game of Thrones keeps getting better and better with every new episode, while making me cry for minor characters I didn't even notice I loved so much until now.

Tomorrow I'm going to visit a couple of friends I haven't seen in months, I'm so happy! We have so many things to talk about, and I missed them a lot! *___________*

Comments

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

The best thing that came out of this is that I had no idea there were so many fascinating comms here on lj, and now they're going to get so many new users. *__________*

All this "fandom is serious business" attitude over there was getting so old. I always say, even when talking to myself: "did you find the cure for cancer? did you invent the pacemaker? no? then get off your high horse, it's not important"

It always helps to have some perspective in life, and I'm sorry to say it, but the mods over there completely lost it when they started attacking users because of the #believeinsherlock campaign. =_=

[lotherington.livejournal.com]

For me it was obligatory beta week. I don't tend to use betas unless I'm required to do so for a challenge so I was really tempted to create a sock account with an anagram of my username and credit that. In the end I just waited to post, but yeah, you've got it in one with their 'fandom is srs bsnss' mentality.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

YES, THAT TOO. I can't believe I had forgotten about it. What was that all about? It made no sense, and it only felt an awful lot like bullying the other kids in the playground. Like when I was in kindergarten, and there was this kid who decided all the rules of the games, and we couldn't play in the yard unless we did it the way she wanted. Except that she was 5, while they don't have the same excuse.

[catnap99.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe that beta week either! I thought, are they just trying to discourage people from posting? As an avid fanfic reader, I don't require someone have a beta for pete's sake! I was pissed because I'd rather read someone's sweet little h/c peice that has some typos in it than never read it at all because it wasn't beta'd. I can live with typos, missed grammer, whatever, and for some people English is not their first language. This was a fan site, right? Not a major publishing company.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY.

[scruby.livejournal.com]

Your fics are amazing. Long Ago and Far Away is one of my favorite fics ever. If because of them you haven't posted there for a week then fuck them.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

*applause*

[scruby.livejournal.com]

fandom is serious business lol that's the last thing it is.