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kouredios's friending meme, I feel like I have a duty to post things. Here goes.
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Isk invented a new food the other day. He explained, very carefully, that he wanted a bread quesadilla. You know, a quesadilla, but with bread instead of a tortilla.
I paused. "You mean a grilled cheese sandwich?"
"No," he said, in that tone of voice that children use when correcting stupid adults. "A. Bread. Quesadilla."
"Oh. OK." And I made him one.
Points for decolonizing the grilled cheese?
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We are behind on getting reading for the December holidays. Today is the first night of Hanukkah, and we're going over a friend's house to do candlelighting and latkes with her and her daughter. I feel a little bad about it--I wanted to do Hanukkah with another family who celebrates it, because I wanted to show Isk that there are actual Jews in the world who celebrate it. (Long story short: Leigh's dad was raised Jewish by very Jewish family, but decided the path to success involved passing as a WASP from his teens on; Leigh was raised Quaker, not really aware of her Jewish roots, and I converted to Quakerism as a teenager after leaving the Catholic Church; we decided as parents to bring back some basic identity with Judaism as culture/tradition/spiritual practice in our family, while remaining Quakers.) But I kind of feel like I was all "hi Jewish friend! be Jewish for us!" I think it's fine, I just feel weird if I got tokenistic there by accident.
Isk and I made cookies to bring for dessert, because clearly the thing to do in this case is to bring Christmas cookies to Hanukkah dinner. (Mint chocolate chip cookies, made from this recipe. BTW, this is my favorite GF baking blog at the moment. I've also made one of her pies, and it was a hit. And the cookies are excellent.)
Tomorrow we'll probably go get our tree from the tree farm. Because we live in the country, and so can do that. We didn't buy an advent calendar this year, so probably I'll hold off on doing Advent/Jesus-y stuff until after Hanukkah is over. One holiday at a time, you know.
Also I should take down the Halloween decorations.
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Odd thought: am I unusual in Sherlock fandom for *not* being a fan of the broader Sherlock Holmes canon? I mean, it's not like I'm opposed to it. I'm a highly educated and bookish Anglophone person, so I'm familiar with the ACD stories, though I haven't read many of them; we watched a lot of PBS when I was a kid, so I watched the Granada series on Mystery because it was there, and I remember liking it; I saw the first of the Ritchie movies because it looked fun, and I enjoyed it. But I'm not fannish about any of those. And then I did the whole fannish-imprinting thing I do on the BBC version, such that it has eaten my brain, and now not only can I not watch Elementary because of feelings (which sucks, because it seems like it is fun, esp. for a procedurals junkie like me), I don't want to consume any of the other iterations. Like, I am happy when I read fic that consciously draws from ACD canon, because I am into meta, but I don't feel any desire to write it, or to go read the ACD stories for inspiration. I'm glad all the rest of it is there, but I don't have feels for it. But it seems like the majority of the DW/LJ based fans I interact with seem to be fannish about the broader canon.
Maybe this is because I hang out with other bookish, highly-educated Anglophone folks? IDK.
kouredios's friending meme, I feel like I have a duty to post things. Here goes.***
Isk invented a new food the other day. He explained, very carefully, that he wanted a bread quesadilla. You know, a quesadilla, but with bread instead of a tortilla.
I paused. "You mean a grilled cheese sandwich?"
"No," he said, in that tone of voice that children use when correcting stupid adults. "A. Bread. Quesadilla."
"Oh. OK." And I made him one.
Points for decolonizing the grilled cheese?
***
We are behind on getting reading for the December holidays. Today is the first night of Hanukkah, and we're going over a friend's house to do candlelighting and latkes with her and her daughter. I feel a little bad about it--I wanted to do Hanukkah with another family who celebrates it, because I wanted to show Isk that there are actual Jews in the world who celebrate it. (Long story short: Leigh's dad was raised Jewish by very Jewish family, but decided the path to success involved passing as a WASP from his teens on; Leigh was raised Quaker, not really aware of her Jewish roots, and I converted to Quakerism as a teenager after leaving the Catholic Church; we decided as parents to bring back some basic identity with Judaism as culture/tradition/spiritual practice in our family, while remaining Quakers.) But I kind of feel like I was all "hi Jewish friend! be Jewish for us!" I think it's fine, I just feel weird if I got tokenistic there by accident.
Isk and I made cookies to bring for dessert, because clearly the thing to do in this case is to bring Christmas cookies to Hanukkah dinner. (Mint chocolate chip cookies, made from this recipe. BTW, this is my favorite GF baking blog at the moment. I've also made one of her pies, and it was a hit. And the cookies are excellent.)
Tomorrow we'll probably go get our tree from the tree farm. Because we live in the country, and so can do that. We didn't buy an advent calendar this year, so probably I'll hold off on doing Advent/Jesus-y stuff until after Hanukkah is over. One holiday at a time, you know.
Also I should take down the Halloween decorations.
***
Odd thought: am I unusual in Sherlock fandom for *not* being a fan of the broader Sherlock Holmes canon? I mean, it's not like I'm opposed to it. I'm a highly educated and bookish Anglophone person, so I'm familiar with the ACD stories, though I haven't read many of them; we watched a lot of PBS when I was a kid, so I watched the Granada series on Mystery because it was there, and I remember liking it; I saw the first of the Ritchie movies because it looked fun, and I enjoyed it. But I'm not fannish about any of those. And then I did the whole fannish-imprinting thing I do on the BBC version, such that it has eaten my brain, and now not only can I not watch Elementary because of feelings (which sucks, because it seems like it is fun, esp. for a procedurals junkie like me), I don't want to consume any of the other iterations. Like, I am happy when I read fic that consciously draws from ACD canon, because I am into meta, but I don't feel any desire to write it, or to go read the ACD stories for inspiration. I'm glad all the rest of it is there, but I don't have feels for it. But it seems like the majority of the DW/LJ based fans I interact with seem to be fannish about the broader canon.
Maybe this is because I hang out with other bookish, highly-educated Anglophone folks? IDK.
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I don't think you're unusual. I haven't been a huge ASD-canon fan either. I've only started reading most of them now, as a result of BBC Sherlock. I'm interested, academically, in the way that new iterations of a thing can introduce new people to it over, and over, and thus keep Holmes immortal. But I can understand having your brain eaten by the BBC version. it's very, very pretty (both visually and plot-wise). :D
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It occurred to me that I obviously *can't* be in the minority in Sherlock fandom broadly, given the level of Cumberbatch-driven hysteria in the fandom.
I'm interested, academically, in the way that new iterations of a thing can introduce new people to it over, and over, and thus keep Holmes immortal.
OMG, YES. That's one of the things I love about Sherlock as a fandom, how it has all these other universes to be tied to, how it belongs to something bigger. I don't have the same feelings about the rest of the world, but it's a great element of it. (I did some weird moping about this around the time of the beginning of the Elementary squee here--I still haven't managed to watch Elementary, but I'm hoping to get around to it at some point when my ~~feels~~ calm down.)
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I'm more or less like you, in my relationship with the broader Sherlock Holmes canon. I have absorbed bits of it (mostly the books and a few other adaptations) over the years but it doesn't do anything for me, fannishly. Sherlock has pretty much kidnapped my fannish heart and it's still holding it captive, basically.
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First off, hello! Second, you gave me an excuse to use my harpoon icon. Hooray!
I also love Sherlock but was never really fannish about other iterations of the source. I was never really much a fan of procedurals or detective shows, and I mostly fell in love with Sherlock for John, his relationship with Sherlock, and the pretty visuals (in that order). So it's interesting to me that you're not excited about other Sherlock Holmes stuff. I'm not interested in Elementary mostly because it's been described to me as a fairly standard procedural, though I'm open to giving it a try if I hear descriptions that sound more up my ally.
Love the story about the bread quesadillas. :)
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It's definitely about the codependent friendship(/love story) for me as well. And then I imprinted and came to so profoundly overidentify with bits of both Sherlock and John in this interpretation, and now, ~~~FEEEEEEEELINGS OVERFLOW.~~~
From what I've heard, Elementary is a mediocre procedural that's all about the character dynamics. It should be my type of show, but my overidentification with one Sherlock unfortunately gets in the way of my ability to watch another on my tv. I'll have to check it out when I'm feel less antsy about it...
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Mint chocolate chip cookies!
I think (hope) you will love Elementary once you get around to watching it.
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Kids today, etc.
Leigh keeps being surprised that I haven't read all of the ACD stories. Hey, honey, you read Conan Doyle and Christie, I read Bradbury and Asimov. Parallel young nerd tracks, there.
Those cookies, man. I keep having to go eat another one. They're dangerous.