I love Sherlock Holmes; have since I was a kid. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was my entry into both adult fiction and the idea that “yes, you too can read the classics!” So, kinda defining stuff there.

And now Guy Ritchie is taking my childhood favorite and smashing it with a big, heavy rock. 

This morning I happened across this amazing site, Strange Maps. 

I get a lot of surveys and while answering them truthfully is rather dull, using a persona is fabulous fun.  Hence, my 'Quiz Done' tag  ;-)

Space, the final frontier... so I never intended to become a Trekkie (I'm not doing the Trekker distinction, it's stupid) anyway, I never intended anything of the sort.  But I was a certain age when Star Trek: the Next Generation started airing and it just happened.  TNG led me to DS9 which fed me right into Voyager.  Now, in my defense I stopped watching DS9 once it became the Worf show and bailed on Voyager soon after 7 of 9 showed up.  I consider the fact that I managed to avoid Enterprise with Scott Bakula a badge of honor.

Now that I've defined my level of Trekkie, please note that I didn't mention the original series in there.  That's because I never really watched it.  Sure, I caught an episode here and there but there was never a set time I sat down for some good ol' fashioned Shatner viewage.  Mostly what I knew about TOS came from sci-fi osmosis.  The knowledge was just there, like knowing the Knightrider car was Kitt and Hutts are a species not a name or rank.

Then the goddamn reboot came out, and I watched it. And the fanfic started dropping, and I read it.  And now I'm hooked and my geek level went up another notch and I swear a retainer spontaneously appeared in my mouth!  That said, this fic, Switch, took me up another notch because it's Kirk/McCoy in the academy and oh my god it's so good I want to buy a ferret and name it Bones.  Or two ferrets and name them Kirk and Bones.  And I hate ferrets, but it's what I've been told geeks do and there's no denying it now so why even bother?! 

So yeah, read the fic, you won't be disappointed.  It's freakishly, impressively good.  

The chapter kind of gave me fits.  Maybe it was pacing, it's a very moody piece so it had to be just right.  I think I got it pretty close to perfect, but it was a near thing.  I was tinkering with word choice right up to posting.  It's shorter than my usual chapters, but I couldn't see adding another scene to the end of such an important bit.  I like the balance I got between Bruce/Batman.  There's something very appealing about how it turned out.

In personal news, I start back at school on Tuesday.  It's been like 10 years since I've had a normal, daytime college class so I'm weirded out by possible age gaps.  Though I don't look 32, I definitely don't look 18.  I chose mass media/communications as a major this time around.  Last time I was poli-sci (which I can't imagine now) and then philosophy (no future), at least I can delude myself and picture writing for a magazine while I work my way through classes.  We'll see.

Awhile back I wrote a Clue themed term paper for my English 102 class.  This is that paper  (and yes, those are footnotes  ;-)