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Elementary, My Dear Raven
Jan. 31st, 2020 07:57 am I don't know why I'm surprised that people are people. But I'm also pretty far from where I'd have been even five or ten years ago when I'd have said, "Everyone sucks and everyone's an asshole." Nah, we're just people - every single one of us is human, and humans will be humans. You just have to let them do it and not feel like everyone's got to be a certain way for your happiness. Nothing in particular prompted this observation - no one did anything to me or said anything, so I'm not trying to "vague blog" about anyone.
I was trimming hangnails last night and cut one on my right thumb - actually, I managed to take a sizable chunk out of the flesh next to the nail. It bled a lot, and this morning it stings, especially since it's right along the edge that I typically hit the space bar with. Yay :)
Last night I was also poking Reddit a little and one of the subs I'm in is for book recs. I'm actually in a couple of book subs, but thinking of ditching the main r/books. Anyhoo. Someone was wanting or listing good detective fiction and one of their points was "Sherlock Holmes/Solar Pons." So, a bit of my backstory - I grew up a massive Holmes nerd. Like, fandoms weren't even a thing in the 80s the way they are now, but as people have pointed out, Holmes fans have been "like that" since Conan Doyle was alive. My parents made the grave mistake/brilliant move of gifting me a set of complete Holmes for Christmas one year. I devoured that, read it multiple times, found BBC and movie adaptations, wrote some awful fanfic and generally was just my obsessive little self. Dad even bought me a deerstalker hat once, but a couple of years later one of the cats destroyed it.
I'd heard of Solar Pons, of course, but for whatever reason never sought out the books. We didn't live anywhere near a good used book shop, and the only other way to obtain books was either to score them at the library, or literally actually fill out one of those forms in the back of another book and mail it in. And seeing the name last night on Reddit made me think, "Why did I never read those?" I still don't know why I didn't, but after browsing a while this morning I may look for them, because it sounds like I might enjoy them. Pons was the creation of August Derleth - yeah, that one. And while the stories are basically pastiche of Holmes - everyone fills the same roles but has different names and they all live in America - they have a fan following for a reason. Which, apparently, is that Derleth managed to create an entirely new character who isn't a Holmes clone, but a similar type of person with an entirely separate personality. One blog I read describes him as being more lighthearted and less prone to brooding, and pointed out that some of the stories are crossovers, and that those are often humorous. There are crossovers with HP Lovecraft and with the guy who created Dr. Fu Manchu. So ... sounds like fun!
And since I don't really watch much television, I never quite got into the series with Bareback Cumberpatch. I did get a kick out of the BBC series, and it took a long time, but finally got to see some of the really old ones with Basil Rathbone. I also saw the movie with Robert Downey, which was pretty good, IMHO.
Anyway, got another page of comics knocked out, and rewrote the rest of the story so that it's now ten pages. Nothing much scheduled. Fox's work sent him an email forbidding him to travel to China. ROFL he wasn't planning on it, but like me, now that they've said he can't go he kind of wants to go. Fox doesn't really need to travel for work much, since they can do just about everything remotely. I kind of keep hoping they'll send him to India, because I could probably find a way and a reason to tag along on that.
I was trimming hangnails last night and cut one on my right thumb - actually, I managed to take a sizable chunk out of the flesh next to the nail. It bled a lot, and this morning it stings, especially since it's right along the edge that I typically hit the space bar with. Yay :)
Last night I was also poking Reddit a little and one of the subs I'm in is for book recs. I'm actually in a couple of book subs, but thinking of ditching the main r/books. Anyhoo. Someone was wanting or listing good detective fiction and one of their points was "Sherlock Holmes/Solar Pons." So, a bit of my backstory - I grew up a massive Holmes nerd. Like, fandoms weren't even a thing in the 80s the way they are now, but as people have pointed out, Holmes fans have been "like that" since Conan Doyle was alive. My parents made the grave mistake/brilliant move of gifting me a set of complete Holmes for Christmas one year. I devoured that, read it multiple times, found BBC and movie adaptations, wrote some awful fanfic and generally was just my obsessive little self. Dad even bought me a deerstalker hat once, but a couple of years later one of the cats destroyed it.
I'd heard of Solar Pons, of course, but for whatever reason never sought out the books. We didn't live anywhere near a good used book shop, and the only other way to obtain books was either to score them at the library, or literally actually fill out one of those forms in the back of another book and mail it in. And seeing the name last night on Reddit made me think, "Why did I never read those?" I still don't know why I didn't, but after browsing a while this morning I may look for them, because it sounds like I might enjoy them. Pons was the creation of August Derleth - yeah, that one. And while the stories are basically pastiche of Holmes - everyone fills the same roles but has different names and they all live in America - they have a fan following for a reason. Which, apparently, is that Derleth managed to create an entirely new character who isn't a Holmes clone, but a similar type of person with an entirely separate personality. One blog I read describes him as being more lighthearted and less prone to brooding, and pointed out that some of the stories are crossovers, and that those are often humorous. There are crossovers with HP Lovecraft and with the guy who created Dr. Fu Manchu. So ... sounds like fun!
And since I don't really watch much television, I never quite got into the series with Bareback Cumberpatch. I did get a kick out of the BBC series, and it took a long time, but finally got to see some of the really old ones with Basil Rathbone. I also saw the movie with Robert Downey, which was pretty good, IMHO.
Anyway, got another page of comics knocked out, and rewrote the rest of the story so that it's now ten pages. Nothing much scheduled. Fox's work sent him an email forbidding him to travel to China. ROFL he wasn't planning on it, but like me, now that they've said he can't go he kind of wants to go. Fox doesn't really need to travel for work much, since they can do just about everything remotely. I kind of keep hoping they'll send him to India, because I could probably find a way and a reason to tag along on that.
