Three black-dark gray-light gray hats. (100 Things Day 48)

Lion Brand Kaleidoscope, wool.

Finishing up a reread of Newlywed Blues by (AO3 and LJ)Maggie_Conagher and remembering just how much of my Mycroft headcanon (and some of my Greg headcanon) comes from that story. But this time I went back and finished the stories that inspired it, Indestructible: The Sherlock Casefic Adventures by (AO3 and LJ)Ghislainem70, and I'm glad I did because when I first started reading the "Indestructible" stories I got sidetracked by other stuff before I got to the Mystrade parts, and reading those parts made "Newlywed Blues" a lot clearer (though you don't have to read "Indestructible" to understand it).

It was like the summer between freshman and sophomore year when I was really enjoying The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel and I was about a quarter of the way through it before I realized there were three books before it. I'd gotten the book for a dollar at a garage sale and then went and got the previous three at full price at Waldenbooks (because Waldenbooks still existed back then *sniffle*). And the one after, which came out right around the time I graduated from high school. (There's a sixth book too, and I bought it right away in hardcover, but I haven't read it yet because I plan to read or listen to the whole series again so I'll know what's going on.)

And since I was reading "Newlywed Blues" on my Nook last time, this time I was reading on my phone and it's a lot easier to take down quotes that way, so those'll be in a quotes post prolly sometime this month. I highly recommend both "Newlywed Blues" and the "Indestructible" series, especially if you're into epicfic.