V's Voyeurisms

May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.

I read Piranesi again...

I had to compress the hell out of this gif to upload. If you want to see a nicer, bigger version you can do so here on my AO3.

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

recycle your darlings

Walking Couple by Moonlight, 1654, by Gesina ter Borch, the Dutch watercolorist and draftswoman who produced mainly watercolour paintings capturing her observations of daily life.

Sleepy doodle

The Mortal Anniversary (5997 words) by mistyzeo Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Mary Morstan/John Watson Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Past Relationship(s), Past Character Death, Canonical Character Death, Ghosts, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Cuckolding, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Floor Sex, Desk Sex, Community: holmestice Summary:

I've always appreciated that the fandom is old and so the fans come in all age categories.

If you think this might be interesting, please share.

Now with added quick survey!

Please if you can spare 2min let me know your thoughts.

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EDIT 1

At 800 votes: (it basically didn't change much from about 200 votes onwards)

Liked: GO3 12.5% Disliked: GO3 59.1% Neutral: 14.1% Didn't watch: 10.7% Results only: 3.7% If I remove the neutral, didn't watch and results only: Liked: 17.5% vs Disliked: 82.5%

Liked 12.5% vs disliked 59.1% vs neutral 14.1%

Age composition of each opinion group:

(In other words: Within each group (liked/disliked/neutral), what percentage of respondents were Under 19, 20–39 or 40+?)

Under 19: 24% vs 9% vs 20% 20–39: 50% vs 59% vs 50% 40+: 26% vs 32% vs 30% This does NOT mean that 24% of under-19s liked GO3. It means that 24% of the people who liked GO3 were under 19.

Because this poll combines age and opinion in a single question, I don't know how many fans there are in each age group overall. Sorry it was my oversight and I didn't think of it until after I posted it.

The google survey will have more data though. If more people fill it, I will try to add some numbers here.

EDIT 2

1000 VOTES

Thanks @whitecat007! If I got this right then for those that picked: Like vs Neutral vs Dislike

Under 19: 28.7% vs 22.6% vs 48.7%

20–39: 12.3% vs 15.2% vs 72.4%

one billion seconds ago, it was the 1990s

normal dash is for in-between words, like in in-between!

n dash is usually for numbers, like when you're saying, "I did 4–7 things today."

m dash is for interjecting a sentence to add context—extra information or thoughts and lists of things—without making said context seem less important than the rest of the sentence (which would be the case with brackets).

on mobile keyboards, you can usually hold down on the dash to make the other dashes appear

like so.

Make up London city’s elite

You have to be tough

When you’re sleeping rough

And together the team can’t be beat

-=<+>=-

Holmes often has need for surveillance

For them it’s just child’s play, since

To the despicable

Kids are invisible

(And it’s on the job training in patience)

-=<+>=-

Watson knows the boys are nomadic.

Lestrade thinks they're quite "problematic"

Holmes lays down the law –

“Good manners for all!”

(Mrs Hudson finds them too traumatic!)

-=<+>=-

Are all the Irregulars boys?

(They aren’t - they just make the most noise!)

Sometimes the best

Is wearing a dress

And the best of the best Holmes employs

-=<+>=-

When the Rose Speaks its Name 🌹

Showcasing Queer Holmes & Watson

CHECK OUT THE ANTHOLOGY HERE

Inspired by the canon of Arthur Conan

Doyle and featuring work from

international Holmesians passionate

about love, truth, and storytelling, this

anthology supports a community

focused on safety, comfort, and joy.

-=<+>=-

Thank you @ghostgirl666artist for helping to promote this anthology raising funds to help LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 youth in London

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