1. Friends appear to have given me something resembling flu, which explains a lot (including why it took me far too long to realize that a sudden onset of persistent mild headache, severe fatigue, achiness, loss of appetite and depression were more likely a cause than a result of me doing unwise internet things.)

Curse you, actual physical existence and social life! *shakes fist*

2. Same friends who gave me what-is-probably-flu also gave me a copy of the Evelyn Evelyn tie-in book, because they are good friends and they like me, or at least I thought they did. (Don't worry, they got it free too, there was no money changing hands here.) I have said I will pass it on to anyone willing to give it the internet sporking it deserves.

...because it is terrible. Yes, it is full of hipster-irony-classism and ablism and whatever, but it is also just plain bad. I can't even get far enough into it to talk about the more systemic things that are wrong with it, because it's just horribly badly written and the art, well, the art multiplies the badness of the writing rather than mitigating it. I would almost hope the badness is more hipster irony except the whole thing is far too smugly pleased with itself for that.

3. Said friends also got together so we could all finally watch the last episode of BBC Sherlock together.

...I'm pretty sure they like me. :P (Actually I've been watching it mainly because it's so much fun to, um, argue politely, about it with lindentreeisle afterward, don't give me away.)

It will probably give away no spoilers if I mention that there was at least one point at which I screamed "WHY SO FULL OF DUMB, SHERLOCK?" at the screen. (There was at least one other point at which I shook my fist at the screen and growled "moffat".)

4. While languishing I have been giving a fair amount of thought to petra et al's Lupercalia multifandom minifest, in which we are all encouraged to give our favorite characters soulbonded psychic wolves of their very own, dubcon gangbang scenarios encouraged but not required.

Now I haven't actually read (yet) Monette & Bear's A Companion to Wolves, which is the main inspiration for the fest, but I have read dira's Every Marine a Wolfbrother stories. Repeatedly. And every time I do, I so very much want to write every other fandom in that AU, but I was hesitant to just take over her worldbuilding. But now there is a fest! Now there an excuse to ask for permission!

So far I have ( basically done a lot of thinking about soulbonded wolves. )

5. So. I am now looking for a chronology of the original Holmes stories. There is The Layman's Guide to the Holmes/Watson Relationship which is a pretty good outline of the chronology of events as I understand it, however it doesn't list many of the short stories. All of the chronologies which attempt to list the short stories are far too detailed, and also the vast majority of them either really twist up the order of events or insist on Watson being married multiple times.

Is there any good chronology out there which uses a basic outline of events like the one I linked above, but fits the short stories in? I mostly just want to be able to quickly see "okay, these stories happened early on, these stories happened while Watson was married, these happened after the Great Hiatus", etc., without necessarily needing to check sunrise times in order to get exact dates, and in fact based at least as much on the development of Holmes & Watson's relations as on more specific temporal evidence...

I could probably do it myself (I seem to be in the middle of yet another re-read anyway) but this is Holmes fandom! Surely somebody else has already done it?

¹yes, I know, I have a fetish for biological realism in my crack porn, and? This is why I wind up doing thing like reading scientific papers about the erectile function of turtle penises...