[ SECRET POST #2542 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2542 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 027 secrets from Secret Submission Post #363.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/8uwvstD.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

anon also approves of the Paget secrets of late keep up the good work !

[(Anonymous)]

I'm afraid I don't understand why you think Holmes should feel "the pressure of being a muse." It's not his (or anybody's) responsibility to fuel someone's writing. If it happens, it happens and that's great, but the pressure to be good rests solely with the person writing.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think they're saying that Holmes ought to feel such a pressure; they're wondering whether he does feel such a pressure and how he would deal with it.

[(Anonymous)]

"I never know whether to feel sorry for...Holmes for the pressure of being someone's muse."

Sounds to me like blatantly stating that being a muse is inherently a pressure-filled circumstance, but maybe Holmes can handle it.

[(Anonymous)]

eh. doesn't sound that way to me but that's how it goes to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I literally have no earthly clue how you read those words and come to the conclusion that you did.

Secret 3 - Sherlock Holmes

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is an illustration from the "Sherlock Holmes" books featuring Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes. One of them is standing up and reading something to the other, who is sitting down on an armchair and resting his feet on another chair.]

I wish we had more insight into the process by which Watson wrote his stories. I never know whether to feel sorry for Watson when Holmes insults stories that Watson wrote specifically in the hopes that they would please him, or to feel sorry for Holmes for the pressure of being someone's muse.

Bonus secret: Whoever came up with this practice of writing secrets on Page illustrations: good idea!

[(Anonymous)]

I think it was the person who posted that secret about imagining Sherlock Holmes with the head of a pelican. That's the first Paget secret that comes to mind anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you trying to make us think more than one person is creating these secrets?

[(Anonymous)]

I find the possibility of more than one Paget!anon kind of sad. I liked the idea of one super-awesome Holmes fan making all these secrets and searching for just the right Paget illustration to use.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I thought it was dreemyweird, since dmw is the F!S Resident Sherlockian. (The rest of us are just Baker Street Irregulars, LOL.)

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to burst your bubble! I'm one of the recent Paget!anons and I did not make this secret and I haven't made all of the previous ones. (I don't know if it's me and just one other person, or a few different people. There seem to be quite a few Holmes-anons.)

[(Anonymous)]

da

Recent Paget!anon, dreemyweird, and ???? I think there's at least one more.

I don't why I find this interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. I never even thought there was only one Paget!anon. Maybe because I've made exactly one Paget secret in the past few months...I somehow kinda assumed that it was several different people, each of whom were only making one or two.

But maybe I just strange secret-making habits (I can't stand making multiple similar ones, or multiple ones for the same fandom in quick succession).

[intrigueing]

I never thought about there being just one Paget anon O.O I just sort of thought a few people had revved up their interest in Holmes due to Sherlock season 3 coming out or something like that, and the resulting secrets had reminded other people of Opinion They Have and spurred them into posting yet more Holmes secrets in turn. Isn't that how waves of interest usually work on F!S or am I just making assumptions?

[tweedisgood]

I thought the same, although I hoped it wasn't solely on account of BBC Sherlock.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure there's more than one. Quite a few of them are clearly different people (like, there was at least one OP who had only recently started reading the books after only seeing BBC and RDJ, right? While other secrets seemed to have been made by long-time fans.)

[(Anonymous)]

Does Holmes count as Watson's muse though? I always thought muses were people who inspired artists'/writers' imaginations in their creative process of writing fiction or coming up with ideas of what to paint/sculpt, whereas Watson explicitly writes about Holmes's adventures.

[intrigueing]

Or you can say neither is in the wrong or right, and it's just one of those perpetual running arguments between the two of them due to a disagreement in stylistic preferences.

Though, after The Blanched Soldier, I'd say it's pretty clear Watson won. Holmes can't write for shit. :D (Did I ever mention that one of my favorite potential epistolary fics would be a copy of that story just covered in fuming red pen scribbles from Watson?)

[(Anonymous)]

PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE THIS

(also I agree and I think it's pretty clearly just a friendly argument)

[tweedisgood]

Not art (which I agree would be great) but:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/390941/chapters/641483



Yes, self-reccing, and only 60 words. But someone did ask.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never thought about Holmes being Watson's muse before, anon. That's a pretty delightful thing to think about :)

Of course, it made me think of this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MuseAbuse

[intrigueing]

DARK!WATSON STRIKES AGAIN.

[rbhudson]

Agreed. Also the bonus secret made me giggle.