You know your "Sherlock" obsession is bad when...

[J.P.]

...when you find yourself constantly waiting. For the taser of the teaser, the teaser itself, for the Special, for Hamlet next week (one week to go, YAY!), for Wreckers at WeAreColony tomorrow, for Mark G on BBC in ten minutes. Life is what happens while you wait.

[Arcadia]

¡Yo no soy un psicópata, soy un alto grado de sociópata!

[J.P.]

Hmmm... still waiting for this alto grado though :P

[joanneta1]

Nosotros somes un alto grado de Sherlocked! Yo soy mas ou menos normala! Certo yo no soy un alto grado de sociopata!

I couldn't even begin to transcribe this in Polish, sorry, J.P. !

[J.P.]

Now I lost you. :D I actually don't speak Spanish at all. But I know some words and Sherlock quotes, the rest was deduction.

[sfmpco]

...when you pay $20 for a ticket to see the NTLive showing of Hamlet in a local theater on October 15 - this on  top of the $125 you paid for a Barbican ticket on Oct. 27 that you can't use... so Hamlet has been expensive for me... okay, not exactly a Sherlock thing, but you know... it still counts because it's BC related...

[J.P.]

 sfmpco, you can return your ticket to Barbican AFAIK. Or re-sell it.

[Arcadia]

Nosotros somes un alto grado de Sherlocked! Yo soy mas ou menos normala! Certo yo no soy un alto grado de sociopata!

I couldn't even begin to transcribe this in Polish, sorry, J.P. !

Now I lost you. :D I actually don't speak Spanish at all. But I know some words and Sherlock quotes, the rest was deduction.

Loosely: "We are a high degree of Sherlocked. I'm more or less normal. Certainly I'm not a high-functioning sociopath."

 

 

 

 

[sfmpco]

 sfmpco, you can return your ticket to Barbican AFAIK. Or re-sell it.

 

Well, since I'm in the USA and the ticket is being held at the Barbican box office, I'm not sure how that works.  I am actually waiting to hear from them.

[J.P.]

I've seen they had plenty of returned tickets. Maybe you should call them?

[sfmpco]

I've seen they had plenty of returned tickets. Maybe you should call them?

 

I'll give them another day or so and then see what Monday brings.  

[SherlockedCAMPer]

This...

 

 

After watching the video JP linked to in the Steven Moffat News thread.  Google knows me so well.

[sfmpco]

When you buy your first Sherlock poster and then realize you need to buy a frame.  Duh!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Been there!  :D

[Arcadia]

Hm, frame, why didn't I think of that ... thanks, gang, I think I just figured out what to do with the mini posters I got from JP......(for some strange reason I feel stupid just pinning them to the wall............) (what's even stranger is that it seems perfectly normal to me to frame them ... yeah, obsessed, I see it now ... :D )

[sfmpco]

....when you get to know a fantastic portrait artist via Twitter, and she's done lots of BC/Sherlock, and you offer to trade her some custom Sherlockian jewelry for a custom piece of art... and she agrees...!!!!  So I'll have to frame that as well.

[Inge l-w]

Sorry, are you ladies serious? Posters on the wall, framed or unframed belong to the late teen period! Sherlock jewellery is just a fad, and you can find all sorts of Sherlock art on tumblr and Sherlock, a site dedicated to fan art, which posts a painting each week! *sigh* whatever!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Alex and I (both of us well past our teens!) have a nice big (24 x 36 inches or 61 x 91 cm) Sherlock and John poster (in a poster frame) hanging in a prominent spot on our living room wall.  We have a limited amount of wall space, so we don't hang stuff because the experts say it's good; we hang it because we like it and enjoy looking at it.

 

We figure adulthood is when you are comfortable admitting what things you really like and what things you really don't like.  ;)  In fact, Alex was just quoting something a bit similar to me this afternoon -- something about it being mentally healthy to stay in touch with your child self.  I'll have to ask him how that went and who said it.

 

[Inge l-w]

Dear Carol, as I said, we're Generation X, posters on the wall are definitely a thing of the past, framed paintings have replaced them! As for staying in contact with your inner child, teaching twenty-somethings keeps you young in mentality and on your toes enough, so with the young'uns at home and the older ones at college, one is constantly reminded of slowly but inexorably growing old! :D

And may I say, you are singularly blessed in having a husband who shares your hobby, not all do.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Dear Carol, as I said, we're Generation X, posters on the wall are definitely a thing of the past...!

 

Speak for yourself, Dearie!  ;)

 

When I was in my twenties, I decided it was time for me to "grow up" and cease active participation in Star Trek fandom.  When a friend asked if I'd like to accompany her to the first Trek convention (just a couple of hours away by train), I regretfully declined, telling myself it would be childish.  I'm still regretting that decision.

 

I asked Alex about that quote I mentioned.  Turns out it's from a Radio Times interview with Mark Gatiss:

 

"The child in all of us is what we should be responding to. It keeps you fit and alive I think because you’re responding to the same things that you got enthusiastic about," says Gatiss. "But at the same time I think it’s also nice to give yourself permission to change your mind."

 

I think the key there is giving yourself permission to change your mind -- at any age.  The important thing is to stay in touch with yourself and honor your own curiosity and your own excitement, regardless of what's supposed to be "appropriate."

 

[T.o.b.y]

Sorry, are you ladies serious? Posters on the wall, framed or unframed belong to the late teen period! Sherlock jewellery is just a fad, and you can find all sorts of Sherlock art on tumblr and Sherlock, a site dedicated to fan art, which posts a painting each week! *sigh* whatever!

 

For the record: When I was a teenager, I would have rather died than be caught hanging a poster on my wall. I was way too dignified for that. Neither would I have called myself a fan of anything. (An affected silly little smart-arse, that's what I was). Only as I grow older do I find pleasure in being unashamedly enthusiastic about anything related to entertainment.

 

As for fads, well, something can be a fad for one person and a lifelong hobby for another.

 

Try not to judge... Whatever rocks people's boats, okay?

 

[sfmpco]

I had 3 framed original movie posters on my wall for years... gave them away when I moved as I had no way to ship them into storage nor did I have anyone to store them for me. I still have tons of original 1-sheets that I would like to frame.  Doesn't make any difference to me if it's a Sherlock poster of a Gone With The Wind poster.  I even still have a poster from the video release of the movie that I sold to Disney.  Have never framed it because well... it's not really the kind of poster artwork i care for even though that was the only poster ever released for the movie.  Maybe I'll find a cheap frame for it someday.  You tape a poster to your wall, it's not much.  You put the time and money into having something professionally framed, it becomes art for your wall.

 

I will be so delighted to go to the USA SHERLOCKED convention in 2016, if I can.  I will purchase those framed bits of original wallpaper that they sold at the UK convention.  And I will proudly hang it on my wall.  Probably will sell a lot of my jewelry there.  I will meet a lot of like-minded people who totally get it.  Cosplay won't be my thing, but I will delight with others who do it.

 

I will continue to make jewelry that is Sherlock-themed, and I not only make it but I wear it, and I wear it proudly.  I have the most fabulous BBC Sherlock-themed charm bracelet on the planet.  I am quite sure of it. Fox has the 2nd most fabulous one.  :D

 

I now have starting collecting the Sherlock Titans.  I have 7 of the 17 available.  Collecting knows no age.  Fandom knows no age.  My female neighbor who is 62 still collects Star Trek stuff.  She totally understands collecting and the people who collect.  She understands fandom.

 

BTW, Carol, plenty of Star Trek conventions happening all the time... it's never too late.   ;)   I would love to go to one sometime.  I would love to go to a Comicon some day.

[Arcadia]

..... We figure adulthood is when you are comfortable admitting what things you really like and what things you really don't like.....

 

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” - Dr. Seuss :D

[Carol the Dabbler]

BTW, Carol, plenty of Star Trek conventions happening all the time... it's never too late.   ;)   I would love to go to one sometime.

 

I know there are still Star Trek conventions, and I've been to a few.  They're fun, but they're not the same kinda thing at all.  That era has ended, I'm afraid.

[Van Buren Supernova]

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” - Dr. Seuss :D

:lol:

 

Oh yeah. Love the quote.

I don't want to grow up. Never feel like an adult and never want to if that means I couldn't do fun stuffs.

 

Here is to illustrate my point.

We had a race in the office. It's during one Christmas, the event was grand and the winner was from my side, represented by Kiwi! Actually all of those are mine. This was just one leg of many others, inclusive a walking worm, jumping duck, pig, turtles etc belong to collegues. And we were way way way waaaaay beyond teenager.