#marta-bee

Send me the name of a character and I will tell you my:

1: sexuality headcanon My headcanon is that Molly is more compelled by death than by life --hence her choice of career (not to mention her morbid sense of humor).  I think this is a big part of what draws herto Sherlock.  Who else is ever going to understand and perhaps even shareher little kink?  Certainly not Tom.  I think every time Molly setsaside body parts for Sherlock, it’s a twisted love letter and he knows it.  Faking a corpse with him wasn’t a sacrifice, it was foreplay.

2: otp I think she has no trouble picking up sexual partners when she feels like it, but she hesitates to form close bonds with anyone but Sherlock.  Though I bet her brief fling with Jim seemed like it had potential before it went tits up. 

3: brotp Again, I imagine she has plenty of friends but she doesn’t let anyone get very close.  Except Sherlock, whom she knows would never judge her. 

4: notp Molly/Sally.  I get why it seems cute, but in my headcanon Sally would *definitely* consider Molly a freak. 

5: first headcanon that pops into my head Molly doesn’t remember any nursery rhymes so she recites anatomical vocabulary to soothe Rosie to sleep.

6: one way in which I relate to this characterTelling jokes that bomb at parties full of normal people.

7: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this characterI think Molly radiates so much dignity (even in some pretty humiliating situations) that I can’t ever feel embarrassed for her.  

For what it’s worth, I did a semester abroad at Keele U., which is in a pretty rural area and a good number of students lived on campus. That was mostly study bedrooms (essentially what Americans think of as dorm bedrooms, but for just one person), sometimes with a personal bathroom (en suite), sometimes with just a sink in-room and a group bathroom for every 6-8 rooms. There were also full, shared kitchens since pretty much everyone did their own cooking.

Offcampus housing tended to involved either shared flats or students with their own families who needed more space and just let the whole unit. My uni had a rental-listing site, if you’re interested to see the kind of thing that’s available.

Worth noting: Keele really is in a rural area (lovely! and great school! but worlds apart from King’s College in London, or even U-Man….) and definitely trended toward the American-style “campus” in a way a lot of British schools don’t. So I suspect you’d have less uni-owned study bedrooms and more flatshares at that kind of school.

So I did a bit of searching because this stuff fascinates me, and my completely amateur read on the situation is this: all stories published pre-1923 are completely in the public domain in the US. Stories posted after that, if you’re using specific elements from those later stories, either quotes or specific details about the characters introduced for the first time or just working in specific plot points, you’re open to copyright issues.

So take one example. “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” was published in 1924, so still under copyright. Now, the idea that Holmes and Watson lead dangerous lives and could get hurt is nothing new. Also nothing new: looking at how one of their deaths impacted the other. But if you have your Watson talking about how it was worth many a wound, or if you have the set-up leading to the shooting parallel what’s going on in that case, I suspect you’d have a problem. Which is sad, because there’s so many fun moments to work with here!

Btw, according to Wikipedia, here are the stories first published 1923 or later:

“The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier” - 1926 “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” - 1923 “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client” - 1924 “The Adventure of he Lion’s Mane” - 1926 “The Adventure of the Retired Colourman” - 1926 “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place” - 1927 “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” - 1924 “The Adventure of the Three Gables” - 1926 “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” - 1924 “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger” - 1927

@marta-bee Oooh, I see what you mean now! Yeah, I’ll definitely have to be careful with copyrights when it comes to story elements! I was thinking of the character itself, not details and things. Thanks so much for clarifying that!! 

Do you ever think of Sherlock announcing at home he can only solve your murder but John Watson will save your life, and just want to sit down and cry? Honey, if you only knew.

How do you even write 65k words in two weeks? Well done!

I HAVE NO IDEA. IF I KNEW I WOULD DO IT ALL THE TIME.

Aw, thank you ^.^