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Title: Secondary Messenger
Author [personal profile] mafief
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: G
Length: Four haikus
Content notes: Maybe slash (if you want it to be). Major character death (if you want it to be). Warning: liberal use of scientific terminology.
Summary: Secondary messenger: n. A substance whose release within a cell is promoted by a hormone and that brings about a response by the cell. Examples of secondary messengers are calcium, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), and inositol triphosphate (IP3)



Adrenaline binds
cAMP starts cascades
The game is afoot

Acetylcholine
Mobilizes calcium spikes
Processing puzzles

Dopamine signals
IP3 binds to targets
Caresses affirm

Misregulation
Uncontrolled cell division
Stills the Doctor’s hands

Comments

[personal profile] owl_by_night wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2017 01:12 pm (UTC)
I'm not sure I've seen ever such a wonderful use of story telling by science, and I like it very much despite the rather painful ending implied.
mafief: (Default)
[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2017 04:34 pm (UTC)
Oh my goodness, thank you. This is such a wonderful comment and seriously made my day.
smallhobbit: (Holmes Watson deerstalker)
[personal profile] smallhobbit wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2017 04:15 pm (UTC)
Extremely clever!
mafief: (Default)
[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2017 04:37 pm (UTC)
Thank you. :)

But, SmallHobbit, I killed a Watson!!! Well, implied killed a Watson, but still. Arg, feeling slightly bad for doing it (and I know I'm being silly dramatic).
smallhobbit: (JWP 2016)
[personal profile] smallhobbit wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2017 04:39 pm (UTC)
I kill a Watson at least once a year - it's [personal profile] scfrankles who objects ;)
mafief: (Default)
[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2017 04:56 pm (UTC)
Lol, noted.
Ha! Your icon is wonderful but NOT helping my guilt. :P
china_shop: Admin Frannie in her civilian aide uniform (Frannie admin)
[personal profile] china_shop wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2017 08:06 pm (UTC)
Congratulations -- you've earned a name tag! I've gone back and added it to your previous entries too. :-)
mafief: (Default)
[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 11th, 2017 12:27 pm (UTC)
::does happy dance:: Yahoo! :D
ride_4ever: (BBC Sherlock Not Dead LOLZ)
[personal profile] ride_4ever wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2017 10:31 pm (UTC)
This is brill and you did say "major character death if you want it to be". *points to icon*
mafief: (Default)
[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 11th, 2017 12:31 pm (UTC)
I'm not entirely sure what brill means, but I'm going to assume it is good.
Haha, true I did say that. He's not dead so Icon!John stops judging me. ;)
ride_4ever: (BBC Sherlock - Sherlock Says Wrong)
[personal profile] ride_4ever wrote:
Sep. 11th, 2017 02:20 pm (UTC)
Heh, did not want to leave you wondering what I meant. "Brill" is slang for "brilliant". That is a good thing.
mafief: (Default)
[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 11th, 2017 07:12 pm (UTC)
Oh good. :) Thanks for clarifying.
thewhitelily: (Default)
[personal profile] thewhitelily wrote:
Sep. 11th, 2017 01:30 am (UTC)
This is really really cool. I love it. (Even with the last one.
:P)
mafief: (Default)
[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 11th, 2017 02:01 pm (UTC)
I’m ecstatic that you love it, despite the ending. :D
Oh my goodness, I confused my spouse so badly when I was counting syllabus with my fingers. I was a crazy lady that day.
ride_4ever: (RayK - on the inside I'm a poet)
[personal profile] ride_4ever wrote:
Sep. 11th, 2017 02:23 pm (UTC)
I write a lot of haiku and a lot of tanka, so I am familiar with "drawing attention" for counting syllables on my fingers. *g*
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[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 11th, 2017 07:16 pm (UTC)
Nice, I'm glad I'm not the only this happens to. ;)

::googles tanka:: I didn't know that existed until now. I'll take to look into those.
ride_4ever: (Taming the Muse)
[personal profile] ride_4ever wrote:
Sep. 11th, 2017 08:21 pm (UTC)
The very first fic I ever posted was a story written in fifty stanzas of tanka (because I am poetry-crazy like that).
mafief: (Default)
[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 12th, 2017 10:42 pm (UTC)
Wow! That's awesome! :) what fandom was it for or was it an original work?
ride_4ever: made for me by oldtoadwoman (Default)
[personal profile] ride_4ever wrote:
Sep. 12th, 2017 11:15 pm (UTC)
It was for due South, the fandom of my heart *points to icon*.
mafief: (Default)
[personal profile] mafief wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2017 01:23 am (UTC)
Nice. I watched due South years ago and I remember liking it. ,
:::points at icon::: hey them's fightin' words :P ;) (I'm being silly)
But in all seriousness, thanks for reading outside your fandom.
ride_4ever: made for me by oldtoadwoman (Always on My Mind)
[personal profile] ride_4ever wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2017 01:43 am (UTC)
*smiles and points to less aggressive icon*

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