The straightwashing of Irene is such a enormous and glaring thing that your pedantic brain latched onto something smaller so you wouldn't get fic rage fatigue?
No, I'm just more likely to be irritated by the small details, while boggling at the big things. I mean, seriously. It's almost impressively straightwashed. Part of the reason I keep reading is to see if the author ever acknowledges that she's writing a canon queer character as having an exceptionally het backstory. I'm... 26? chapters in, and not yet.
Was Irene not straight in A Scandal in Bohemia? I've never read it, but I read all of Carol Nelson Douglas's Adler series except the last one, and she was very het there.
She's gay in the TV show.
But yes, het in the story.
I'm amused and saddened by properly spelled words that don't mean what the author thinks they do.
Vernacular diseases ftw!
That's right folks, the epidemic of everyone suddenly speaking the same local language caused the apocalypse. Suddenly, no one was able to hide behind geographical or cultural misunderstandings and deliberate heretofore hidden insults, and they blew each other up in a fit of pique.
People on Flickr are often having a cow about Pinterest.
I'm not even sure what Pinterest is. Is that similar to Instagram? Which I also don't know much about. I still upload most of my photos to livejournal scrapbook since I have a paid account and storage there -- why not use it. I have a Flickr account somewhere which I rarely use. I should probably change my default photo uploading site to one of those new fangled places but eh. Too lazy.
Pinterest is a place to put photos you find. It's like a digital corkboard.
Pintrest is great for when you want to make a visual list of things you want to have when you have a zillion bucks and a lot of space.
Yeah, BBC Sherlock Irene Adler is gay, per her words. So writing her as having this heterosexual lost love tragic backstory is... baffling.
As is rating something M when NOTHING happens that warrants it.
It's sometimes amusing to see what ratings people think their stories deserve.
edit: "OMG, there's a penis! It's mature!"
