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[mightbeagoodone]

Since we've got a few characters in the bar from "Sherlock," and possibly a few others from other Holmes'verse properties lurking around, I thought it was time for a plotting comm. Welcome!

Comments

[just_cant_lose]

I've never seen Deadwood, and I am lol'ing all over the place at the idea of Jim as a cowboy. I haven't thought this through as an AU week idea bc I was originally just going to fic it at some point. Jim would be a Jules Vern-era scientist probs sent over from the Royal Society with some experiment, but really there to spy on Sherlock/set up some crime whatever, probably with his pet sniper in tow.

But that was only ever a very vague thing, so I can adjust him to fit into anything people want to do.

[mightbeagoodone]

I haven't seen Deadwood either, though I understand it's pretty good.

I've been keeping a list of AU suggestions for fic for years, would it be helpful to post a few things from that?

[just_cant_lose]

Yes, do! I'm open to any ideas. :D

I was going to chuck Jim in the bar tonight because I'm back home now, but it looks like AU week has already kicked off - probs because Munnin's in an Australian time zone - so I might as well hold off until we've settled on something if we definitely want them to be in from the same AU. Which is always more fun than playing individually anyway. :D

[mightbeagoodone]

Let's see if I can do this on my phone... • Modern royalty AUs • Accidentally read their diary AUs • Egyptologists AUs • Rockstar and groupie AUs • Book club AUs • Met at comic con AUs • Lifeguard AUs • 1920s con artists AUs • Running from the police AUs • Librarian AUs • Rebels against the government AUs • Internet friends AUs • Time traveling AUs Struggling artists AUs • i keep callling tech support because you’re helpful and also your voice is really cute au • rival ice cream trucks au • you helped me get my kayak upright so we’re friends forever au • competitive buskers who eventually form a band au • pen pals who vent at each other every week au • newspaper advice columnists who passive-aggressively diss one another in their advice au • working at a theatre together during the midnight premiere of a blockbuster au • the ‘camp counselors at the same sleep away camp’ au • the ‘my new fbi partner/consultant is really hot’ au • the ‘we have to sing a duet together but i hate you’ au • the ‘i should not be this attracted to the new intern’ au • the ‘you accidentally shipped this weird thing to my apartment’ au • the ‘my new best friend’s sibling is so hot’ au • the ‘forced lab partners’ au • the ‘you just joined the -sports team here- that i’m the captain of’ au • the ‘we both tried to grab the last copy of that book in the shop’ au • the ‘we went to a con/party dressed as a couple on accident’ au • the ‘my roommate’s best friend is really obnoxious but also hot’ au • the ‘we’re the only ones in this subway car and the metro broke down’ au the ‘new bartender at my favorite bar is unfairly attractive’ au

I haven't read these for a while. They're a lot more 'ship oriented than I thought, but there might be some fun sceneries in there.

[notyourproblem]

I've... written more of these than I care to admit to. haha

[mightbeagoodone]

I use them for original fic inspiration all the time, la la la.

[notyourproblem]

I'm quite drawn to rockstars, I think. I think Mycroft would be the micro-managing band manager.

[mightbeagoodone]

I'm leaning toward that one, too.

[just_cant_lose]

ROCKSTARS. HAHAHA. I didn't catch that one - and totes perfect, because I can get icons for that! I saw a play Andrew Scott did last week, where he was a rock star. That'd be pretty damn perfect. :D

[mightbeagoodone]

Also giggling at the thought of a rock star AU. Maybe I could use a Dr Strange icon and Sherlock is a glam rocker? Or he could be a groupie/devoted fan, or even a journalist? my mind is abuzz.

So unless Molly-min weighs in eith a suggestion, shall we do a rock star AU?

[just_cant_lose]

Yessss, lets do it! I'm definitely going to chuck Jim in as a rockstar (hahaha ICONS, the joy, I cannot), and totes okay with whatever you fancy with Sherlock, whether it's rival star/bandmate/journo/fan/anything at all.

And if Mycroft is a micro-managing band manager, SO MUCH THE BETTER. Jim would both be a nightmare, and be somewhat under his thumb. Ahahaha, that could only be hilarious. :D

[mightbeagoodone]

Have you seen Velvet Goldmine? I'm picturing something like Kurt and Brian's relationship for Jim and Sherlock now.

Velvet Goldmine AU, oh my...

[just_cant_lose]

I have not! But I can deffo go read up on it and get the gist right now. *does so*

EDIT: this movie looks really good, and I'm about to rent it so I can watch. :D

[mightbeagoodone]

OMG, see if you can find a clip on YouTube of the "Baby's On Fire" sequence. The parts where they're in stage is one of the hottest things I've ever seen.

[just_cant_lose]

I have found it, cued it up and will watch as soon as the kidlet's in bed. *excited*

[mightbeagoodone]

Yay! Though I will warn you that great cinema it is not, but it's fun and interesting and really ahead of its time.

There's a charming clip from the Graham Norton show of him interviewing Ewan McGregor about it. I can find the link for you if you want.

[just_cant_lose]

YES. I would love that, thank you! I love Graham, and Ewan, and this deffo looks like a fun movie to watch this evening. :D

Now if I can just figure out how to use GIMP to make icons (why the fuck is everything incomprehensible on Windows 10?), I will be good to go.

[mightbeagoodone]

Will do once I get home.

Waugh, GIMP. I never got the hang of that one. Good luck!

[just_cant_lose]

You're a ledge. <3

It's not the easiest program, I'll say that for it. Ah well, I've got some time to poke at it. Catch you later!

[mightbeagoodone]

Some refining to the idea.

Want me to write up the premise for us to link to?

[just_cant_lose]

I am DYING at so many of these HAHA. And also lol'ing because 'my roommate's best friend is really obnoxious but also hot' AU is practically canon, with a bit of tweaking. And now I can't stop laughing at the idea of Jim and John as roommates. Or the other way 'round, with Jim and John being best mates. Either way is GOLD, but would probably work better in-bar if John were actually around to play with.

Anyway, literally any of these could be really fun. I think it'd be really cute to have them as modern, and in a really far-removed situation from the norm. Like the pen-pal AU - they could have been writing for ages, and the bar provides a point where they meet. And either one of them could be the guy on the other end of tech support with a cute voice. But then - TIME TRAVEL. Jim, Sherlock and Mycroft could all be time-travelling adventurers, trying to outdo each other to find the coolest artefact from history/the future.

Gah. There are too many options and I want to play them all. *hands*

[notyourproblem]

I did not know Munnin was in Australia. That explains a lot of things, actually, like why I can never seem to keep a thread going with them. If it's starting now, I'm gonna throw Wilford in later on, once I get back from all my running around.

[notyourproblem]

Oh god, Deadwood is so good. It got all sorts of flack for having the frontiersmen (including Calamity Jane) swearing up a storm, because apparently swearing wasn't invented until the 70s.

I'm pretty flexible on what we do as well, because tbh, I'd probably go a bit more ACD!Mycroft either way. Fat, lazy, and and just kind of... there lol.

[just_cant_lose]

I keep hearing it's really good! I'm just really bad at committing to new TV shows, because they feel like effort.

[notyourproblem]

I am exactly the same way. It's awful.