idk who needs to hear this, but low engagement does not mean your writing is bad.

engagement doesn’t solely depend on the quality of the work. whilst it can play a role, other things such as fandom, ship, tags, tropes and posting at the right time of the day/week play a SIGNIFICANT role.

so keep writing what you love. keep writing what makes your heart happy. your work is amazing. the fact that you’re even putting words out there is amazing.

do not let numbers define you or your work.

Put your age in your bio. It's not hard. And it's important. Period.

Stay off my page if you're under 18.

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I don’t think I can emphasize enough just how much Elementary understood the core of Sherlock Holmes’ character, and the kind of cases and people he is drawn to, right from the very first episode.

The pilot opens with a wealthy woman’s murder. The prime suspect is a man who is a patient of the woman’s husband, a doctor, for help with his mental disorder. The man is desperately trying to avoid any triggers that may cause him to become violent, as he has been in the past. The doctor decides to use this man as a tool to kill his wife to collect her life insurance. He manipulates both his patient and his wife, alters the man’s medications, and ignores the man’s pleas for help, in order to set a scenario that is guaranteed to trigger the man’s violence - resulting in his wife’s death and later his patient’s.

When Sherlock pieces this together, he confronts the doctor, which leads to this:

And that’s what drives Sherlock to confront the doctor directly. There’s no smugness in being right, or for figuring out who the murderer was and how he did it. Sherlock realizes that this man’s patient was just another victim - someone who desperately wanted and sought help, only to be mistreated. Sherlock Holmes in this adaptation cares so deeply about people, especially those who are denied help when they need it most, and we learn all of this from the very first case.

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I might've laughed way too hard at this edit.

we should call it this again

i have a ten scene outline for this fic and i vaguely know the ending ('ambiguous') but i don't yet know how to get from point 10 to point ?? so i don't know how much i still need to plan, and also i am at the 'worry about plot holes/strained credulity' stage of planning where i am questioning every choice except the psychic cat.

i have 790 words of this fic now which is not very much of it at all but it is much better than none and also means it'll be long enough that i don't have to worry about every single word and can get away with the occasional duff sentence to move the plot along.

since loyalty is such a big theme in the night manager, i am curious how they'll explore this in the coming episodes. because the line, "the servant is slipping from the master's grasp," in the context of the Roper-Teddy father-son relationship feels so loaded. especially because Teddy considers himself as Roper's disciple. it would be cool if Teddy's loyalty to Roper is tested because of his new relationship with "Matthew." and if that's the case, i wonder how Teddy will react once he learns of "Matthew's" own deception.