A thing that is now happening: arguing tiny points of characterization – actually, not even that, just a random background details? – by ficlet. Here’s my contribution, and @xparrot had better post hers soon because it is adorable and breaks my heart. (I am maybe even willing to concede the point because it’s so good!)
“Hey Da Qing, it says here that cats can’t see color,” Yunlan says, frowning.
“They can’t.”
“But you can!”
“Yashou see color.”
“Oh. Okay. Well – do you know why cats like to knead things with their paws? It says that perhaps, um. Yeah, they don’t really know?”
“It feels good,” Da Qing says with a sniff. “Why else would you do it?”
“Mm, I don’t know. It says cats rub their faces on things to make them smell like them…?”
“And it feels good when things smell like you. Right?”
Yunlan giggles. “Da Qing. Humans can’t smell stuff like that!”
“Really?! But I thought that’s why you kept stealing my blanket! Because you wanted it to smell more like you.”
“Da Qing. We only have one blanket. It’s not your blanket.”
“I put my smell on it the night we got it from Mrs Wang!”
“How was I supposed to know?!”
Da Qing huffs. “Your sense of smell really is pathetic.”
“That’s because I only have… Let’s see. What did they say? Oh yeah. Five million smell-things. Um. Those.”
“And cats?” Da Qing asks, smug.
“Up to – 80 million?! Wow. That’s a lot.”
Da Qing preens. “Cats really are superior in every way,” he says.
“You sleep on average sixteen hours a day,” Yunlan retorts.
“See,” Da Qing says. “Superior.”
Tag: for-the-flail
sherriaisling replied to your chat“Me: This was in an email update from babycenter. You can tell why I…”
OMG!!! Baby! Oh wow, so very many congratulations to the both of you! I’m very happy for you, and I’m frankly amazed that you apparently managed to get her into fandom this young. She already has great taste if she’s going around emulating Sherlock.
Aww, thank you! ❤ (I wouldn’t be surprised; she already has a tardis onesie, too, thanks to random-nexus.) She’d probably be bertter off emulating John, but we’ll see what we can’t do to keep her level. XD
omg you made a baby girl and now she’s out there in the world living, breathing and sherlocking 😀 congrats to you and the hubby and embarrassing babying noises to your little girl! hope you have helping hands to give you bits of time off to rest 😉
Thank you, sweetie. It’s exhausting, but hubby and the family try to help where they can. Still miss sleep, though; I’m starting to forget what it feels like. (She’s quite fond of embarrassing baby noises, but her new favorite thing is ‘bweebling’. Only when she’s doing it, though.)
silverbit replied to your chat“Me: This was in an email update from babycenter. You can tell why I…”
Oh man you had the baby! It’s a she baby! What did you name the tiny human you made?
She is~! Our tiny human is named Samantha, and she’s a bundle of adorable. Worked out she was a she, too, since I’d been banned from naming our child after ‘anyone I’d written fic about’, since hubby – rightly, I’ll admit – thought it might be a bit awkward when they found mommy’s fanfiction, otherwise. XD
for-the-flail replied to your chat“Me: This was in an email update from babycenter. You can tell why I…”
Holy shit. Baby. Congratulations! And your baby is Sherlock! …is that good or bad?
Thanks, sweetie! (Also, how’ve you been? We haven’t talked in ages <3) I’m going to go with a hopeful ‘that’s good’ and have fun trying to make her her own little bellstaff coat, if she’s already to big to fit in the one I made for bearlock – which now that I mention it, I really should go check. She’s getting bigger every day. XD
Sorry this took me so long; I got sick, then the baby got sick (for all that I’d just about taken hazmat precautions to avoid getting her sick) then I got sick again. It’s been a busy, uncomfortable month. Now, to put things back in my queue while I have two minutes to myself…
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