I'm old enough to know better, but like another addict we know, I just can't stay away from it. Cravings kick in anytime I get near a fanfic or AO3 site- got to have a dose of Sherlock or the mind just goes haring off on a tangent. American born, but lived in the UK for more than half my life- so, I can do my own Britpicking, thank you very much. I am really old enough - like twice the age of the average Sherlock writer, but I have always been a writer in my professional career. Now I am teaching social media amongst other things at a unversity, so I suppose that's my excuse. All addicts have excuses- anything to keep them away from the sanity of rehab.

I also take the whole issue of canon and adaptation to modern environments very seriously. I follow the line of thinking best understood as Sherlock being on the autistic spectrum, who does not need to defend or explain his behaviour to an allist world. This helps explain, enrich and inform the character of my favourite detective, whilst at the same time showing us all the need to be more tolerant of diversity, and self-aware about our own prejudices.

UPDATE: May 2021 The Fan Fiction site is slowly becoming non-functional and a lot of automated systems are failing. Let's add to that the fact that I object to my stories being cluttered with adverts which means that someone else is monetising my output. I am going to stop posting new material on it.

PLEASE follow me on Ao3. where all of my material can be found if you search for me as 7PercentSolution.

I am really sorry to have to do this, but when the latest failure (automated password recovery) failed, I've been urged to end it now before everything crashes.