Poetry: Recreation by Audre Lorde

Recreation by Audre Lorde

Coming together
it is easier to work
after our bodies
meet
paper and pen
neither care nor profit
whether we write or not
but as your body moves
under my hands
charged and waiting
we cut the leash
you create me against your thighs
hilly with images
moving through our word countries
my body
writes into your flesh
the poem
you make of me.

Touching you I catch midnight
as moon fires set in my throat
I love you flesh into blossom
I made you
and take you made
into me.

Meme: Fandom, part 2

You get to insert your favorite OTP into a new fandom. Who is the OTP, and what fandom? Bonus: Give us a preview!

Holmes & Watson have been inserted into many fandoms and time periods and situations. It's not difficult to see them as Bertie Wooster's peers in the 1920's. He would've known Holmes at school. Maybe Victor Trevor was a friend of Bertie's. I doubt Holmes himself would be, but I can well imagine Bertie *pre-Jeeves* getting himself in a royal soup and needing someone clever to bail him out. And Jeeves and Holmes would have a lot of respect for each other and share observations and wisdom. Watson isn't really a drone but he would appreciate the gentleman's club culture.

What fandom that got a series finale was that most appropriate/most satisfying. Bonus: What about it would you have changed, if anything?

None. See below.

What fandom that got a series finale was the LEAST appropriate/least satisfying. Bonus: How would you have fixed it?

Well, Holmes & Watson don't retire together in ACD canon. And BBC John beats the shit out of Sherlock but they still presumably resume their friendship and solve cases even though Sherlock's sister tried to kill John and John's dead wife manipulated both of them from the grave (???) and John still has (IMO) a very unresolved drinking problem and an even more unresolved anger problem. Jeeves leaves Bertie's employment. And Antiope is killed by a German soldier in WWI-ish. So, yeah, no satisfying endings to be had. Holmes and Watson need to retire to Sussex. John and Sherlock need to rewind to The Reichenbach Fall and have a do-over. And leave Themyscira alone.


What is a fandom that you never thought you'd get into, but did? Bonus: How did you end up getting into it?

Well, I go through cycles of thinking I can't write certain fandoms, thinking the language is too difficult, the voice too challenging, or I just don't like it, and then I end up trying it and liking it and feeling more comfortable. So that's happened with non-genderswapped BBC Sherlock, ACD Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves & Wooster, and I go through it on a small level every time I try to write something new (Poirot, Dracula, Carmilla, Raffles, etc.).