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[derien]

I love the conversations that have been happening on Holmesslash, recently. I read a couple of fics, today, but a lot more discussions - one was practically an essay. Someone's being a really good group mod and coming up with topics that are getting responses.

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[derien.livejournal.com]

You're much better at reading the subtext than I am! :) Maybe I should practice that a little more, it might make me better at understanding real people.

When I wrote "her own thing" I had more in my mind than potential other romantic affairs (although that did occure to me as well) but also someone I read (in a book, long ago when that was my single most important source of Sherlockiana) suggested she might have had a successful dressmaking business of her own and that they divorced after a while. I think he didn't want her to die because she was, as you point out, such an admirable character. Still, an amicable divorce with someone who's become the last leg of your V is unlikely to provoke the level of emotion tht Watson exhibits when Holmes shows back up after Reichenbach, so I guess she probably dies. :(

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, I'm a whiz at overanalyzing other people's fictional characters. Terribly admirable. ^_^ I just think about this stuff too much, honestly. And once you've got the slash goggles in place, they do a lot of the work for you.

(I do kind of want to write some kind of fic, immediately post-SIGN, with Watson and Holmes still living together at Baker St. while preparations for the marriage go on, and Holmes just being impossibly bitchy and passive-aggressive about it all, without quite wanting to admit why, even to himself. As a matter of fact, I did have something like this half-written in longhand...and then I lost my notebook. I HATE losing my writing notebooks, goddamn it.)

I had more in my mind than potential other romantic affairs

Oh, I know. That's just the way people usually seem to go with it. Isn't there a series where Mary or one of Watson's other wives moonlights as a detective? 'Cause if there isn't, there really should be.

I guess she probably dies.

Well, "The Empty House" says:

In some manner he had learned of my own sad bereavement, and his sympathy was shown in his manner rather than in his words. "Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson,"

Which sure sounds like a death to me. I mean, divorce was not common in those days, and amicable divorce even less so, especially among the respectable professional classes to which Watson belongs. Sad, but there you go.