Hi this is Sherlock, and these are my wings and also me playing at the school show with people watching. We don't really have spotlights but I drew them anyway and also the wings are smudgy because I was trying to use my white oil pencil to make them whiter but it didn't really work on white paper and I don't have not white paper. And the sequins aren't blue but I don't have silver and grey was stupid. Really they are white and silver.
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Very nice, Sherlock. Is one of the kids in the choir on his/her knees?
Thank you for posting a picture, Sherlock! Those wings look very dramatic, indeed. Very proud of you for playing for everyone.
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, and enjoy all of your presents and treats! Did you ask for anything special this year?
DEGUS! I should definitely get them, I walked Snoopy for MILES.
Desert Wanderer, everyone was supposed to sit down while we did our part but most people didn't and some just knelt and one of the four year olds picked his nose.
Those wings do look lovely! Thank you for the picture, Sherlock. Form your descriptions, it sounds like it was an amazing performance.
Ah, still on the Degus, huh? You did walk Snoopy quite a bit, true, and that's a big committment for a kid. But of course, that's up to John and Lestrade whether you get those. Small animals are actually a lot more work to care for than you'd think. We had guinea pigs for almost 10 years and they were a delight, but lots of fiddly care.
(Not to stir, but...when you say "Degus" I assume you mean more than one. Do they live in groups like guinea pigs, then?)
Thank you for not drawing the kid picking his nose, then, Sherlock.
I thought the point of walking Snoopy was not so much the walking but demonstrating that you were responsible enough to remember on your own and to care about Snoopy's welfare to John's satisfaction. What is the collective noun for a group of degus?
Of course a picture of a show must have spotlights or how else would we know it's a show? And blue was definitely a better choice for the sequins than grey, since grey would kind of disappear into the markings for the pattern of the fabric. This way I get a very good idea of how beautiful your wings are--very dramatic indeed. You really are very good at capturing the important parts of a scene--it's a wonderful picture, Sherlock, thank you for making it for us.
That *is* quite the dramatic scene, Sherlock. Well done! I love the wings. I have a pair of black ones, but yours look much nicer. I hope that everyone admired them properly. Have a great Christmas!
Mazarin, you're not supposed to have just one because they get lonely. I want six, but two would be okay. I would take care of them and train them to do things and sit in Lestrade's hair.
Desert Wanderer, what's a collective noun?
The name for a group of one kind of animal. Like a group of lions is called a pride, a group of turtles is called a.bale, and a group of cockroaches is called an intrusion. A group of crows is called a murder and a group of ravens is called an inconvenience.
Sherlock, your pictures are very good. Thank you for letting us see them.
Why do you want degus to sit in Lestrade's hair?
And a group of crows is called a murder.
Toodles!
Bronwyn
SH - he's been obsessed with them perching on me since the idea first came up. Apparently he's going to lace my hair with porridge oats to tempt them up there, then train them to stay.
I don't know, DI, Person to kiss, pack horse, Degu stand, cook, cleaner upper of glitter, taxi service - my talents are endless.
You all seem a bit obsessed by murders... (Is a group of rhinos or hippos or something called a crash? I quite like that. And Owls are a parliament, I know - bet they get a lot more done than our parliament, an all.)
I was wrong, Sherlock, I'm terribly sorry. A group of ravens is called an unkindness, not an inconvenience.
I like an exaltation of larks.
And I'm sure you'd look very cute with a degu or two on your head. :)
An inconvenience of degus perhaps?
Ha! Probably.
Did you geese in th ground is a gaggle, but geese in flight are a skein? There's a nice image.
Sounds more like I'll be getting a fedora of degus or something.
Well, if you're going to have degus on their head, one question might be to find out if you can litter box train them. :D
And its good to know that Degus are better in pairs or more. My son is getting a hamster, and they are definitely better single.
On *your* head. Gah.
Make sure you handle the hamster a lot when it's little mazarin, it will repay you later. My daughter's was very happy to be handled.
This is of course the hamster she bought herself and then four months later got a job where she lived in and couldn't take the hamster.
I think I read that they just designate their own little corner of their cage for a toilet. Unless that's just wishful thinking. Doesn't sound Like I'll have any choice anyway.
I don't want to go to work. I will be lonely, after a day like today.
If I get degus, you could take one to work with you and then you wouldn't be lonely and you could keep it in your pocket or under a hat.
That's very thoughtful of you, Sherlock. But wouldn't the degu left home alone be lonely?
That's a very kind offer, but I think it would get bored and nibble paperwork. And I don't have a crash helmet to fit a degu.
"Detective Inspector? Is that a degu in your pocket or are you inappropriately happy to see me?"
Bronwyn
I'm never inappropriately happy to see anyone.
Had to leave John and the boys with Molls... may not see any of them until.the new year now.
Not until the new year? Did something happen, L?
I just mean John will need a pack of wild horses to drag Sherlock and Mycroft away from Molly and her mortuary. They seemed fascinated.
Or you may find yourself wrapping disembodied feet for Christmas . . .
Never inappropriately happy to see anyone? Not even John? How sad! ;-P
Merry Christmas,
Bronwyn
Bet she doesn't run into that reaction every day--she must be pleased!
(I feel/look like I ought to be one of her "patients" but at least I've made it out of the bathroom. Mostly.)
Oh RR, what's wrong?
Bronwyn
It's not inappropriate when it's John
It is if the boys are standing there looking traumatized.
L-- :)
Bronwyn--stomach flu. Extra strength.
Bronwyn - given our lives and our jobs, and society's intolerance toward such things, let's not even go there.
L, the only way you or John could ever hurt those boys is by not being part of their lives. Trust me.
Doesn't matter what you or I think, RR, Mrs Holmes notwithstanding, if someone wanted to make trouble for us, they could pretty easily. And mud sticks, especially in this job.
Grrrrr.
I hate it that you have a point.
sorry, not trying to be on a downer, just something I'm acutely aware of every day.
Hard to figure what you have to apologize for. *hug* (you can't catch anything from a virtual hug, right? :) )
Hope you don't feel anything like I did when the river tried to turn me inside out.
You don't have to answer this, but I'm wondering, those of you who often offer hugs and things via the internet, are you naturally very... tactile, in your everyday lives?
Well...not me. I'm not all that big on being touched, for the most part. I'm tactile with close friends, though, so maybe Internet friends count under that heading? Hmmm.... Good question, L.
It's been a very unpleasant *calculates* 10 hours now. I hope the worst is over.
As for hugging, etc--This is turning out to be trickier than I thought to answer, since I've started over 3 times, now. (!). I guess I'd have to say it's how I want to be, and am more than I used to be. For one thing, I'm quite shy, and certainly don't go around hugging strangers, or even acquaintances. And I don't have all that many friends. Also, Jewish law throws in a complication--we're not allowed to touch someone of the opposite sex. The actual Bibical quote says "in a loving way", and the word used really means sexual in my--and indeed a number of other--opinions. The right wing of Orthodoxy just flat out says no touching, the left wing goes with friendly is okay. I've moved to friendly is okay, and I've been doing that more as I've gotten older. So. I don't go around hugging random people. I only hug people who hug me first--don't want to cause hurt feelings for a kindly-meant gesture--or people I care about--and I make sure it would be welcome before I grab.
Did that even answer the question?
those of you who often offer hugs and things via the internet, are you naturally very... tactile, in your everyday lives?
Not even remotely. It's one of those areas of contention between husband and me - he's very tactile, I'm not (my parents didn't touch or hug me much, and I was a very solitary child, so.) For me, it's a shorthand way of offering comfort when I'm too stupid to say anything more intelligent that might actually help. But saying, "It's ok," on the internet doesn't seem to carry the same sort of comforting tone that a good *hug* does. Now, that said, I'd for real hug the stuffing out of all of you guys, seriously. But I'd ask first! :D
I don't hug people in person unless they are close friends, doing it on the net just seems so weird to me. Dunno why, it's just words, but it seems more than that to me.
I suppose because words is all we have so they are even more important
As a side note, I have discovered that if/when you meet in real life people you have *hugged* online, a lot of them will immediately hug you in real life. So I try to be mindful of that online. :)
I don't hug people unless I know them very well (or am slightly drunk, lol) but over the internet? I think it's a good way to send "good vibes." It can be weir to say, "I'll keep you in my prayers." Or "I'm sorry for..." But offering an internet hug seems to be a universal way of saying, "I'm here for you, even if we've never met face to face."
So...some of you use 'hugs'as a sort of shorthand, but don't actually imagine there being real hugs?
I just find I struggle with the concept slightly. And never know how to respond. If I'm honest it does make me feel slightly awkward. I mean, me saying 'hugs' back would be an empty gesture, I think. I don't know, it is hard to explain.
Like mazarin I grew up with little physical contact, but I've met friends through the internet who I quite happily hug. So my conclusion is that by offering hugs on the internet I would equally hug in person.
I don't like being touched at all, but feel like saying "hugs" on the Internet is empty, too. Not that y'all don't mean it, but I wouldn't hug you in real life, so I can't hug people online, either. That's why I tend to use <3 for shorthand. As a sort of "my heart goes out to you" kind of thing?
Lestrade, you seem to be a tactile person, at least with those you choose to love and let love you. But I think I understand how hugs from random people would be a bit odd.
It's not obligatory! If it makes you uncomfortable, you certainly shouldn't say it. And if you rather we didn't, please say so--I for one wouldn't be at all offended.
For what it's worth, I do think of you as someone I'd be comfortable giving a hug to (assuming I don't get hit by a sudden fit of shyness, which happens) but I would never want to hug anyone who'd rather not be, having been on the "please don't" end of touching more times than I can count.
Oddly, I very rarely offer hugs online, but in real life, I am a terribly tactile person. I pat heads, backs, shoulders, hug people, hold hands, squeeze hands, poke sides, tug ears and kiss cheeks. Online? Not so much. I can't explain it.
Also, when I spoke of looking traumatized, I was referring to the exact look my brother gets when he sees our parents kiss. Somewhere between an eyeroll and deep resignation. I didn't mean to set off any internal alarms.
Tinkerty tonk!
Bronwyn
DW - That's exactly it. I am very tactile with a few people, yes. John, obviously. Sherlock, but that's because he clambers on me so much, needs carrying, all of that. Mycroft and I have a mutual respect for personal space, but we'll hug on occasion. Nicky and I are fairly tactile - we'll shove each other, nudge, rest against each other, that sort of thing. But then we are very close.
The rest of the time, I'm really not, much. Partly upbringing, partly the job - obviously at work even the most casual contact can put you in all sorts of trouble. You literally can't lay a finger on people, unless it's fighting!
I'm probably better with kids, because they don't have any problem shying away or grabbing hold of you, so you know where you stand.
You know, now that you mention it, I'm better with kids, too. I have no problem with hugging kids or whatever. Maybe it's because a touch from a kid doesn't communicate "threat" like it does from an adult.
DW - exactly. You just know where you stand with them. No threat, no worry about misreading anything, no games.
Which is why it's so endearing when Sherlock clambers onto us and makes himself comfortable. He clearly trusts us so completely, which is such a difference from when we first met him.
Right then, I'll find something else to embarrass you with, no problem. ;)
I grew up in a very non-tactile family myself (my dad looked surprised when I went to kiss him goodnight every single night until I stopped) but one of my sisters raised her kids by smothering them in hugs and kisses (still does), so whenever I saw them I'd get hit on all sides but exuberant hugs. That's pretty much what made me think it might be a good thing to loosen up some.
Didn't he kick you in the shins? At least you knew precisely what he thought of the situation. Which I suppose proves your point.
I suppose I should add the addendum that I try very hard not to touch people who don't want to be touched. I'm very aware that not everyone is as tactile as I happen to be.
Bronwyn
It doesn't embarrass me, RR. I just feel the sentiment is somewhat wasted on me.
And I don't think it's a case of loosening up, it's just doing what you feel is appropriate to each person, that's all.
Bronwyn - he mainly ran away, with the occasional bit of shin kicking thrown in. And exactly - he was quite happy to show us what he thought of us. But he was also testing us, to see how easy we were to scare away...not easy, as it turns out ;)
John worked wonders on him, gaining his trust, showing him affection, working to get him to drop a few barriers, and then, I suppose, because John trusted me, the boys did too. A long road, but one we're all travelling on together now.
I didn't mean it that way--I meant,..well, I was thinking very specifically of myself. I mean, I'd go stiff as a board when children that love me would hug me because I really never touched anyone, and I really just wanted to change that.
Fair enough, RR.
It's all context for me.
There are people I know online who I would (and do) absolutely hug in person. When I say *hugs* to them, I mean "if I were there now, I'd be giving you a hug right now".
There are people I know who I can imagine hugging if I knew them better. For them, it means "if we are on hugging terms, and I were there, I'd hug you now".
Sometimes it's just a way of offering support, to let someone know that I'm thinking of them. There's no specific intent to hug.
I would echo what others have said - you shouldn't feel obliged to say it, either to initiate it or in response to someone (and I'm not sure that *hugs* is a response to *hugs*, tbh). FWIW, if I offer hugs here, it's in the second or third of those contexts. And I 'm sorry if I ever made you feel uncomfortable.
(BTW, I tend to be more uncomfortable around kids than adults. I can read adults easier, I'm far more used to being around adults, and I can deflect unwelcome attentions from adults easier than from kids with mucus-covered faces :-p)
Thanks for the explanation, Nameless. It's interesting to see how different people think of it.
And I can see how deflecting attentions can be easier with adults than kids! Kids are very determined little beasts :)
"If we were on hugging terms", that should have said.
To me the idea of hugging in the internet sense also means offering support and comfort, or whatever is needed, in a way appropriate to the person.
And I can see how deflecting attentions can be easier with adults than kids!
Heh. Depends on the adults.
Have you escaped the mortuary, Danger?
We were there...for a while. A long while. And then Sherlock was a bit excited when we got home. I was glad Molly liked the card though.
I didn't think his eyes could get any wider when she showed him all her tools for opening up corpses.
Don't stay up too late, will you? I know what you're like :)
SH - thanks. I think my brain takes it far too literally!
I can't imagine Molly let them watch an autopsy...or did she? O_O
What are your thought about Internet hugs, John?
No, RR, just showed them all her tools for doing so.
Although Sherlock was almost climbing the walls with the wish to see a full autopsy. Maybe when he's MUCH older he can get in on a class for it with her.
She'd love it. And so would--will--he. :)
Sherlock, that's a great drawing. You must have looked fantastic up on stage, with your violin and beautiful wings.
Hope you're not too excited to sleep after your visit to Molly today. How lucky!
L - I'll try.
RR - they're fine, I have no objection to them. I probably won't be offering them though. The concept of virtual gestures is still a bit odd to me.
Lestrade - seems reasonable to take it literally unless someone tells you they mean it otherwise. I've been kicking around the internet for far too long, and I forget that what seems like a straightforward convention for me is actually anything but. It's been really informative seeing everyone's take on this :-)
John - I find it much easier to keep adults at bay, everyone expects you to just accept being glomped by kids. God, I sound awful, don't I? I'm just not hugely comfortable around small kids.
Sounds like Sherlock has had a good day. What did Mycroft make of it all?
I suspect it has a lot to do with the particular forum or whatever where a person first starts interacting with others online. I started in a very gestural forum, so it just seeped in. I have to say I never really gave it any thought until Lestrade asked.
Nameless - I can see that. If adults won't leave you alone, at least everyone knows they're being rude. With kids, they're just being kids and there's often no consequences for getting snot all over you. Before Sherlock and Mycroft, I can't say I've had a huge amount of experience with kids, apart from patients, which is a bit different.
Mycroft doesn't have the sheer glee about dissecting things to see how they work that Sherlock does, but I think he enjoyed it too. Molly answered all their questions, and it's rare they'll run out of questions before the person they're questioning runs out of patience.
Danger, going to throw myself headlong into my paperwork and turn my email notifications off. If you can't sleep give me a ring? I'm literally all alone in the office, unless I get a call out.
Miss you.
I miss you too. Good luck with the paperwork.
The one good thing about nights is I might achieve my goal of getting it all done by Christmas.
Provided no one decides to do a bit of murdering.
Greg - I hope you have an extremely quiet night, filled with nothing but paperwork, a few (!) cups of coffee, and air-guitar breaks with Christmas carols.
=)
~A from NW
Well, if you need a break, we're here (certainly those of us in the US are. Til then, have a fruitful and quiet night.
Cheers. Quiet so far...
That's almost halfway through, right? Quiet is good.
RR, how're you feeling?
DW--um. Well, I'm not currently upchucking, so I guess better. But I feel like I might again, so...I just want to be mobile for Sunday and the family Chanukah party.
L, you said something earlier about hoping I didn't feel as bad as you did when the river got you (or something like that). So I just went and found it your and John's blogs. Yeah, something like that, only the vomiting did stop after about twelve hours (not that stopped by body trying to empty itself of internal organs from the other end). And now I'm afraid to doze off because I'm getting nauseous again and will probably have to be sick some more.
Yeah, TMI. Ignore. If I were not running a fever I'd probably delete instead of posting but I'm miserable enough to share regardless.
What a nice picture, Sherlock. I'm sure you looked very fetching. ^_^
I don't honestly remember if I've used *hugs* on here or not... I mostly use internet gestures by degrees varying by how well I know the person and the amount of distress I feel on their behalf. So I may *hug* someone I don't know very well even they've just had a really awful experience or something. I am quite tactile in real life among people I like, though. I have to consciously remind myself not to touch my favorite coworker because she is a very non-tactile person. My university friends and I were always in puppy-piles and hugging each other (to the extent that several people thought my room mate and I were in a sexual relationship, which no, she's like a sister to me). *shrugs*
I don't have a problem with people offering hugs, I think my mind just translates it into something a lot more literal than most of you mean, and occasionally it does make me feel a but awkward, but it also does no harm, so I'm not suggesting you all stop or anything. I just wondered about it, that's all.
I mean, I now assume, from what most of you have said, that you wouldn't actually hug me if we were to meet, whereas before...well, I did wonder :)
(and yes, this message does mean I'm free from work! Paperwork pile is significantly shorter.)
Well, if we were to meet then we'd no doubt communicate by smiles and eye contact and all that stuff, which would be a lot easier. And saying *smiles* in a post just sounds silly. And *offers appropriate gestures* could be taken entirely the wrong way.
Yeah, that's what I mean, in real life you'd read the body language and work out what to do, whereas on here you just say it as an offer.
It's been my experience that you can get to know people really well on t'internet, offer hugs, etc - and then when you meet in person, you do all the normal stuff of reading body language, negotiating boundaries, seeing what feels comfortable. It's pretty much doing it all twice, once online, once again in person.
Some of the people I've know for years online I'd still only hug in person in extremis, others I hug every time I see them.
Anyway, I think you're safe :-)
Yay for clearing the paperwork! You guys got plans today?
Yeah, I think you've got it exactly right, L.
Nameles, today is all about cake decorating. Sherlock wants ghosts and zombies....skeletons, stars, comets and wants lights on it.
We shall see...
Christmas, Halloween--a holiday is a holiday!
(Real lights? )
The ghosts would naturally be of Christmas past, present, future...
And we've agreed on candles, not lights.
Ah, I should have thought of that. About the ghosts.
Candles seem like they'd be more Christmasy.
(And the zombies and skeletons? It must be a really big cake!)
So how did the cake come out? Can we get a picture? ;)
(Yes, I'm bored. But I also am quite curious!)
I don't see the problem with skeleton on a christmas cake. That's why the Nightmare Before Christmas is the perfect holiday movie ! Two holidays in one ! (I saw it in theater as a child and though for a while that Halloween was at the same time that Christmas -we don't have halloween in my country and I hadn't be exposed to it yet) (then again I also was confused because Jesus was a baby in december and died a grown man six months later, I was a very literal child)
My niece has reached a very huggy and tactile stage where, once she knows someone even a bit, she'll climb all over them, hug and kiss, and tell them she loves them. Blessing of being 4, I suppose! I am only tactile with people I'm very close to; I'm not terribly keen on strangers touching me -- which many do, particularly since I have waist length hair which seems to be an invitation for people to come up and touch it :[
All the same, I use *hugs* as Internet shorthand for "I want to offer y support and comfort" as sometimes finding the right words isn't easy, especially since tone on the internet is easy to misinterpret.
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