My girls are being lovely these days, but I'm still grateful that school is back in session after a three-day weekend plus half-days last week on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  I'm parking my fandom-writing and quiltmaking to-do list here on LJ:

Due March 1

Submission for the Baker Street Babes' anthology, The One Fixed Point in a Changing Age.  2000-4500 words.


Due April 1

Eight small quilts for coffee shop, probably all baby quilts.  I'll update this list as I get ideas.  I'm not going to stress too much over making Art.
1.  colorwash checkerboard
2.  leaf batik morning star
3.  OT3 color scheme
4.  Tree of Life block
5.  cherry blossom print
6.  
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8.


Due May 9

Four Misti-Con talks.
1.  Sorting the BBC Sherlock characters, 5 min.  Done!  2/17
2.  Reading HP with Geeklet, 2500-3000 words
3.  Unspeakable Initiation speech, 5500-6000 words
4.  Snape and the Malfoys, 2500-3000 words


Thanks to the adored emmagrant01 for pointing me to the Baker Street Babes anthology!  I am not sure what I want to write.  They will take a maximum of one essay per writer, no matter how many essays you submit (and of course, who knows how many submissions they'll get and what my chances will be).  I wasn't going to add this to my writing list, since my Misti-Con talks seemed like quite enough for now, but I think I shall stop resisting.  It's a short deadline, but that might help make me feel that it doesn't have to be perfect.

So, what should I write?  Help me decide!

The Baker Street Babes blurb says this anthology is intended to show that the online Sherlock fandom "can be just as scholarly as the big boys," which points toward the queer essay topic.  I don't know if there will be lots of entries with queer perspectives, since that's a big part of online Sherlock fandom as far as I can tell, or if there'll be a surprising scarcity of them.

But the submission rules say this is supposed to be representative of the newer generation of Sherlock fandom, the online/tumblr generation, and I came to Sherlock through HP fandom, so the Sorting topic might work well.  Plus, the Sorting topic would get heavily into character analysis in my usual way, with lots of close reading of the episodes, whereas the queer topic would be more meta and might be more "socially important" and less "oooh let's talk about the show and the characters we love."  Bonus for the Sorting topic:  the quick talk I wrote for Misti-Con could serve as an outline, making less work for me.  Plus, pennswoods could contribute to it, since she and I have complementary takes on sorting John Watson.

Finally, I just got done recording (despite contributing many technical glitches!  ugh) my contribution to the Sorting Moriarty roundtable for the Three Patch Podcast, so now I'm all geared up for a close reading of just what the heck Moriarty meant when he said he owes Sherlock a fall, why he's obsessed with Sherlock, and how this is deeply similar to Voldemort's obsession with Harry and how Harry came out the victor in that one.  This would be pure close analysis.  Eh, this is probably more of a conference presentation or LJ post than an essay submission.  But polls look better with three options than two.  :-)

Poll #1897405 What should Drinkingcocoa submit to the Baker Street Babes anthology?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

What topic would be best?

Comments welcome!