Howdy from Texas! That is likely the last local color you get from me.

I started reading fanfiction a few years ago when a friend I introduced to (read "hooked on") Stargate SG-1, herself an early-days X-Phile, introduced me to the concept of fan fiction (the ol' "tit-for-tat"). I mostly read SG-1, Firefly, ACD/Grenadaverse Sherlock Holmes, and modern BBC Sherlock fic, though I don't have as much time to read as I would like. I still count myself very much a neophyte writer, because I have written now over a fairly decent length of time, but very little volume, and deplorably inconsistently. I tend to get in a groove and feel like I am improving, and then stop for a year and feel like I am starting over again the next time.

I fell in love with the characters in the original 8 years of Stargate, but I came around to the 9 and 10 team, and really loved Atlantis also (never really cottoned to Universe, though I thought the actors/ acting to be lovely). I like to read many different types of stories, though mostly Gen. I am at times shippy, at times slashy, but feel the character interaction (good, bad, or homicidal) is THE draw of the shows I like and also of fanfic.

My favorite low-profile Stargate SG-1 character is Burke. Love him. Way to go, Peter DeLuise and Enrico Colantoni!

10/2013: A quick note about my new short one-shots (so far BBC Sherlock but there may be some BBC Being Human coming; we'll see). I had been on hiatus a long time, and thought I would try to shake the cobwebs loose by experimenting with writing while listening to a song. They are songfics in that regard, and many are related to the song in some way, though they do not typically incorporate lyrics in the story itself. Those which are "postable", I am putting up as individual stories as they cover a wide variety of POV/ characters/ eps so that they will be appropriately searchable

I have several other fandom-interests. In no particular order, the highlights are:

TV: BBC Sherlock, Granadaverse Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett), Firefly/Serenity, Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and yes ENT - I have now watched them ALL including TAS), Star Wars (orig trilogy), Bones, House (waaay behind on it), The X-Files, MacGyver, Castle, Farscape, Being Human (UK), Harry Potter (book and movieverse), LoTR (more officially movieverse - long time since I've read them), Simon & Simon, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Guild, Sanctuary (particularly Tesla and John), Iron Man (movieverse and "The Invincible Iron Man" series of Marvel comics are my preferred versions, but I like a lot of classic comic also).

Not exactly "fandoms" the way the others are to me but a smattering of shows I loved: Eureka, Dead Like Me, M*A*S*H, Life, Remington Steele, Babylon 5, Spaced, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Misfits, Coupling (UK), The IT Crowd (UK), All Things Great and Small James Herriot series (80s UK), The Muppets, The Greatest American Hero, Better Off Ted. Some shows I loved in the 80s that I haven't seen in years but would still claim to have been a part of my formative years: Tales of the Gold Monkey (need to watch now that I just got them on DVD!); Knight Rider; The A-Team; Riptide; Magnum, PI; Scarecrow and Mrs. King; Doogie Howser, M.D.

I am currently watching 30 Rock, Buffy TVS, and The Professionals (70s UK). I have yet to watch Leverage (was removed from streaming a couple eps into my watch), Warehouse 13, or Fringe, but they are on my to-do list. I was addicted to Dr. Who for awhile when they showed them on my local PBS station at midnight on Fridays (I was in middle school/high school). I saw (I'm assuming selections from, not all) from Pertwee, both Bakers, Davison, and McCoy. I really disliked *Colin* Baker, but liked Peri if I recall. My favorite Dr. from the "classics" is Peter Davison, as I have loved him since he was the perennial screw-up brother Tristan Farnon on "All Creatures". I have not seen the new ones but for one failed attempt to watch the pilot with Tennant. I shall try sometime in the future, by myself and likely tipsy, and see how *that* goes.

Some thoughts on Holmes: I love and am extremely familiar with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. I have been reading and re-reading these stories for more than 20 years now. I have snapped up pastiches and reference works and other media and interpretations over the years. The Definitive Holmes for me has always been Jeremy Brett, but I very much appreciate Basil Rathbone, Ron Howard (the *other* one, people), and others. I like movies from "Young Sherlock Holmes" to "The Seven Per-cent Solution". Humorous parodies from Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine's "Without a Clue" to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's completely *terrible*-yet-wonderful "Hound of the Baskervilles". I also watched the first in the Robert Downey Jr. installment with only one eye open at first, but I liked it. It is certainly a different interpretation, punching up the mischievous and downplaying the lack of social ability, but his interaction with the quite passable Jude Law Watson kind of makes up for it for me. RDJ's Holmes is like Holmes-meets-Loki. Regarding literature, I love the original stories (except "The Valley of Fear" - holy bad story Batman!, and in "A Study in Scarlet" the eminently-skippable "On the Great Alkali Plain" through to the part where it picks up "A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D."), and new takes like the short story "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman, all the way to the Boom! Kids comic book series that is a crossover between Muppets and Holmes. Seriously. Though that one I like more for the idea than the actual writing. I believe Sidney Paget's illustrations to be the definitive ones.

All that said, I am in complete fan-swoon ultra-love with the BBC "Sherlock, which just aired its second mini-series. I fell very, very hard for this show. The writing, acting, style/ photography, and music are utterly, *utterly* brilliant. Good things are happening to everyone in that production, and I hope they continue, but I also hope these people never get too busy on other things, or tire of these characters, because what they are doing with them is nothing short of revolutionary and legacy-building. Benedict Cumberbatch's interpretation as the hyper, narcissistic genius is wonderful and crazy and someone who is infuriating but you can't help but love him. A large part of that is the chemistry with Martin Freeman, a solid Everyman Watson, through whose relatable lens we see things in Sherlock worth keeping in awe. Freeman does so much in a very restrained framework of the character. His nuanced acting cannot be overstated. His reactions and especially the closing scene in "The Reichenbach Fall" are complete hotwires to emotions as a viewer. (read: "tears streaming down my face." Not something I am overly prone to, but that episode and particularly the last scene, are completely heart-wrenching).

When I started this profile, back in 2007, I wrote this: "At present, I have an overly ambitious work-in-progress - my very first story - which I am working toward posting. For now, I am writing some drabbles to give myself an endpoint so I can finish something, get the hang of it, and get myself out there." While the story remains overly-ambitious, I have all but abandoned it and it will realistically never be posted. That said, I am still trying to get the hang of writing doing shorter works, and after a years-long hiatus, and with the BBC Sherlock muse, I am plunging back in.

By-the-way, this place counts words strangely. By my/Open Office's count, drabbles and double-drabbles are, respectively, exactly 100 or 200 words. I worked hard to get them right, darnit. Don't believe the hype!

If you ever want to read some great SG, jackwabbit is a lovely place to start. She has many other fandoms as well, and they tend to be bite-sized fics. MacBedh and lothithil are lovely places to start on here for MacGyver. I am fortunate to count these folks as RL friends as well, but I do not think I am too biased in this. I am accumulating some Sherlock favorites also, and I recommend tweedisgood and RabidSamFan for some ACD types, and Morgan Stuart and others below for BBC Sherlock.

My avatar is a quiet stretch of coastline I have been living-in-spirit on since early November, 2007. Even the Spirit who caused me to haunt this coastline has since moved elsewhere, but it's such a lovely place to haunt, I decided to stay. Perhaps she'll join me sometimes.

This foray into uncharted waters is dedicated to the captain. Thank you for steering me here, and continuing to help me pick my way through the rocky shoals from time to time. That, and title suggestions.

Disclaimers: Obvious. Not mine. No money for it. Wish both of the preceding were lies.