new muse.

[observe]

I shouldn't be surprised, nor should anyone - really. You're exhibiting typical behavioural patterns. I must say you do harbor a certain preoccupation with my character.

Do take precaution.

I am quite a subtle man.

[ subtlety doesn't work that way, sherlock ]

Comments

[wiggin]

As subtle as a spaceship.

[observe]

[ and then he searches the banks of his brain attic to make a connection. 'space' is an empty box wedged right in a difficult to reach corner. ]

An interesting comparison. Do you take to sarcasm often?

[wiggin]

[the sarcasm painfully obvious this time, though on purpose.]

Me? Never.

[enarms]

You're fine to use the word obsession. Really. Unless it's not subtle enough for you, in which case carry on.

[observe]

Now, now. I wouldn't want to be a hypocrite, would I? I don't think a former addict gets much merits in talking about obsession.

[enarms]

Well, okay. But according to thesaurus.com, you could call her preoccupied until the cows come home and still be saying the exact same thing. And according to dictionary.com, obsession's "an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind." It's basically the same word written with a blunt pencil.

[ john cool your man chest dictionary dot com and thesaurus dot com aren't exactly resources to be smug about ]

[observe]

[ h-hey man he can't judge you for not pulling up miriam webster , that is your choice and your choice alone bro. ]

And there, you've proven a point with your sentence alone. A message can be the same but a choice of pencil is a mark of a person as well. Also you fail to consider how the word was written, how the person interprets it's delivery in the sharpness of it's word. They are two very separate things, Man Watson.

[enarms]

[ i was going to be annoyed by how clever you are but then i got distracted ]

Man Watson. That's my name now, is it? Man Watson. How am I supposed to interpret that delivery, pray tell.

[observe]

Aren't you in possession of male genitalia? Ergo. Man Watson. Male Joan.

[enarms]

Or I could just be John. John Watson. That's fine too.

[observe]

That's not an answer to the inquiry about your genitalia.

[enarms]

If you really need to ask, I'm doing something wrong.

[observe]

[ without blinking. ]

You have notoriously feminine eyelashes.

[enarms]

[ WITH BLINKING ]

Feminine eyelashes. Notoriously?

[cruciverbalist]

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind

[observe]

If you quoted Goethe, I'd have marked you for being pithy.

I APOLOGIZE 4 NOTHING

[cruciverbalist]

2LEGIT2QUIT

B)

[observe]

ICURTTBC.

[ it stands for : i see you are trying to be clever. ]

[cruciverbalist]

WAMFFIEL.

( well acronymed my fellow friend in evolutionary language. Holmes, acronymed isn't even a word. )

[observe]

IP2TXT KTS.

[ I prefer to text, it keeps things simpler. ]

[cruciverbalist]

[ Thats interesting. He prefers to talk. Helps process thoughts. Texting is actually quite annoying for him, hence his stupid acronyms. But. Suppose a welcome is in order. ]

WB2 THE MUSE WORLD HOLMEY.

[observe]

ISS. TY. IOFA.

[ it seems so, thank you. incepted upon first airing. ]

[cruciverbalist]

STEP FORWARD IN TO YOUR CAVE.

oops

[ex_elucidation693]

And yet subtlety without context can be construed as stupidity by your peers, yes? Not an uncommon assumption to make if you were one of the masses, unfortunately, but it is as it is.

[observe]

There's a tell phrase about that. When you assume, you make an ass out of of 'u' and 'me', also I should remind you that most of my peers tend to gloss over what is fact and what isn't.

[ex_elucidation693]

Wouldn't you say the assumptions made, in turn, informs about their state of mind? A person's background would color their opinions sufficiently, and one can deduce from that any other particulars worth paying attention to.

Well, to a degree. Not everyone can be exceptional.

[observe]

[ ah but what do these statements say about you sherlock. ]

And not everyone can think above what their backgrounds dictate to them. Ah. Again, it is all reliant on the separation of the truth and the truths the purveyor wishes to believe.

And do you consider yourself upon that bracket of exceptional individuals?

[ex_elucidation693]

Please.

[ the same could be asked about you, but introspection isn't something you indulge in either, is it? not the sort people demand you try, anyway. don't do what everyone else does, it's a disappointment. ]

The pitfalls of assuming - mm, our word of the day - a certain perspective is the inescapable limitations of it. One can't just fake the view without the immersion.

[observe]

[ a fair amount of introspection and self loathing. What does that say about your character, Mr. Holmes? ]

Perhaps, that is why then experience is the best teacher.

[ a pause. ]

One can fake anything if he sets his mind to it. Is that not the point of lying? I could pretend to be an expert of pigs by simply dropping a few facts here and there and speaking with utmost confidence. Perspectives and assumptions can be wrong.

[ex_elucidation693]

[ only that one should ask if your most recent companion is more effective without the sexual affection. it seems to have a 'positive' effect. ]

Lying for the sake of lying is not only inefficient, it's unnecessary. In and of themselves, yes, opinions can be and often are inherently wrong, but the details surrounding the opinions cannot all be absolutely wrong, can they? No, there's always something, at least the one thing that will be based on hard fact. One simply has to navigate through the rest of the nattering and come to the correct conclusion.

And how is your companion doing?

[observe]

[ he doesn't meant to be pointed, he doesn't mean to be anything - really. the tone is easy, like a statement of facts and little bits of information pieced together. ]

Much better than your companion. I heard you left Johnny in quite the state.

[ he's getting high and mighty because reichenbach hasn't happened to him quite yet, no. he and joan are just taking the baby steps in that direction as far as camaraderie is concerned. ]

[ex_elucidation693]

[ it's a hypocritical reaction, but sherlock is a mite annoyed — and other things too, but annoyed is easy. There wasn't enough time, at least not for John; Sherlock had done exceptionally well even by his own standards then, on that roof, but unfortunately not everyone is like Sherlock. One of the few who could have been shot himself in the head on that roof, how's that for an encapsulation of his life? ]

Alive is better, Shirley. Even you - especially you - wouldn't refute that.

[observe]

[ ah - he wonders what he would do when placed in the same circumstances. but he's positive, at this very much - abandonment is not something he'd do. ( he's a hypocrite, maybe in the bottom of his chest - he's aware of this possibility - it all really quite depends on how his moriarty plays out ).

there's an ample amount of self depreciation when you realise you'd be openly annoyed with yourself. ]

Circumstantial.

[ he's like sherlock in more than one way, but at the same time he's different. ]

Oblivion was once something I'd have favoured.

[ex_elucidation693]

[ with a clarity that comes from having been forced to deal with people in manners other than logical, sherlock offers his other self a pitying smile. schadenfreude is still gratifying, even if it's toward someone so familiar.

he never did pretend to be a nice person, for someone who's on the side of angels. ]

And without the variables forced into your life by your family you would remain favorable, but that too is semantics, isn't it.

[observe]

[ a scoff. semantics? when has he ever adhered to semantics. but holmes has never thought himself a man worth any admirations. a man who's been tamed and owned by his follies shouldn't be worth admiring. but this sherlock is more grown, more attached to joan - no john and it shows.

( brothers not in blood but in bond, after all ) ]

Triviality. And yours wasn't hired by daddy, I presume?

[commuovere]

( That large snort coming from Anne should seem impossible to come from such a tiny girl in the funniest white and yellow outfit one has ever seen. )

If I ask you for an example of what you think its subtle I bet it's going to be like breaking into someone's home and wiping your shoes before leaving. Or something.

[observe]

[ yeah he's just shamelessly judging that outfit. he wishes he was kidding. but anne, this is a bloke who blends the letters of loved ones. ]

Well, I'd be an awful housebreaker if I left my foot prints everywhere.

[commuovere]

( It could be worse. Yellow puffy pants or speedos if she had been given a different class by the dumb game. )

Being a housebreaker is awful period, you know. ( Seriously tho. It is. But. This is coming from a little girl who stole from her salamander consorts so. ) Did you actually break into someone's place? I won't tell, promise. Not there's anyone to tattle for goodies anyway.

[scrupling]

[ subtle. in what universe is that even remotely subtle. in any way shape or form. ]

Subtle.

[ NO DO YOU HEAR EVERY TINY BIT OF SERIOUSLY IN HER TONE, SHERLOCK. DO YOU? ]

[observe]

[ OH MY GOD. HE IS THE SUBTLEST CREATURE R U GOING TO JUDGE HIM JOAN. }

Naturally. Who else would think otherwise?

[scrupling]

[ A STAMPEDE OF ELEPHANTS IS MORE SUBTLE THAN YOU, MR. HOLMES. don't be lying to yourself, sherlock, this is what gets you in trouble. ]

You honestly want me to answer that? [ oh see that question was actually asked a rhetorical one so let's hop over it and into: ] I can think of several people.

[logicals]

Subtlety, I've been informed, isn't our strong suit.

[predominates]

Precaution and subtle. Two words you won't ever see paired with the name Sherlock Holmes. But clearly you don't need me to tell you that. You're doing a perfectly good job of hearing it from yourself.

[formersurgeon]

Of course you are.

Besides, there's plenty of reasons anyone should take precautions with you. Even if subtlety isn't one of them.

[aggresses]

You know what the problem is with describing yourself? People tend to overestimate themselves. Not that it isn't nice to give yourself a good old pat on the back every once in a while, but most of the time people try to describe themselves, they just end up sounding like some deluded twat who's got a lot to learn about the world.

That's why autobiographies are a shite idea. Hope you never write one, mate. You're off to a bad start already.

[zordaar]

Mm.

[She takes a moment too look over him thoughtfully, face occupied with a faux-polite non-expression she doesn't have to waste too much brainpower on.

Decisively:]

Nope.