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caoine.livejournal.com's Not Waving But Drowning and the-arc5.livejournal.com's All That I Have popped up on my flist within an hour of each other yesterday. They're both Sherlock/John, and (as far as I can tell) they're completely unrelated to each other, and by some coincidence/fluctuation in the fannish hive mind, they're telling parallel stories.
A Parenting Thing: The BG is a few days shy of three, and I am thinking three might just be a delightful age.
Tonight she told me we needed to go somewhere and get a puppet.
M: "A puppet??"
BG: "Nooo, a *pumpent*, in a pumpent pass!"
M: ...
BG: ...
M [in tones of discovery to rival Pythagoras in his bath]: "Oh! a PUMPKIN! You want to go to a pumpkin patch and get a pumpkin!"
BG: "Yes! Ehcause, mom," [and here she gets this look of regret and concern, as though she's sharing a hard truth, but doing her best to be gentle about it] "our pumpents are in de *compost*."
(Which they are, but I hadn't realized I was supposed to be broken up about it.)
Finally, two worlds collided: This afternoon I clicked from one parenting blog to another to another and found myself on yet another parenting blog -- one with a URL a lot like mcshep dot blogger dot com (except it was a different blog-hosting service and a different fandom --but unmistakable, trust me). Honestly, it freaked me out -- of course I've met many fans who are parents, but I'm not used to running across parents who are fans. (And what do all her non-fannish readers make of the URL? Do they even get it at all?)
caoine.livejournal.com's Not Waving But Drowning and the-arc5.livejournal.com's All That I Have popped up on my flist within an hour of each other yesterday. They're both Sherlock/John, and (as far as I can tell) they're completely unrelated to each other, and by some coincidence/fluctuation in the fannish hive mind, they're telling parallel stories.A Parenting Thing: The BG is a few days shy of three, and I am thinking three might just be a delightful age.
Tonight she told me we needed to go somewhere and get a puppet.
M: "A puppet??"
BG: "Nooo, a *pumpent*, in a pumpent pass!"
M: ...
BG: ...
M [in tones of discovery to rival Pythagoras in his bath]: "Oh! a PUMPKIN! You want to go to a pumpkin patch and get a pumpkin!"
BG: "Yes! Ehcause, mom," [and here she gets this look of regret and concern, as though she's sharing a hard truth, but doing her best to be gentle about it] "our pumpents are in de *compost*."
(Which they are, but I hadn't realized I was supposed to be broken up about it.)
Finally, two worlds collided: This afternoon I clicked from one parenting blog to another to another and found myself on yet another parenting blog -- one with a URL a lot like mcshep dot blogger dot com (except it was a different blog-hosting service and a different fandom --but unmistakable, trust me). Honestly, it freaked me out -- of course I've met many fans who are parents, but I'm not used to running across parents who are fans. (And what do all her non-fannish readers make of the URL? Do they even get it at all?)