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inevitably-johnlocked · 5 months

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Hi Steph! I hope a quick self promotion is okay! I’m always_1895 on AO3. My first ACD-verse novel The Devil At Prayers was taken down this year. The reason is that it was accepted for publication by MX Publishing! We’re running a Kickstarter for preorders now and I’ll get all the proceeds. 20% is also being donated for humanitarian aid. Here’s the link if it’s okay to share, we’re running it until January 4th at 12pm EST. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1119912442/the-devil-at-prayers-an-untold-sherlock-holmes-adventure

Hi Lovely!!

OH GOSH THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!! I would be HONOURED to share the link for you!!

Everyone go give this one some love if you're able to!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1119912442/the-devil-at-prayers-an-untold-sherlock-holmes-adventure

#steph replies #kickstarter #published fics #acd canon fics #signal boost

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elorberryart · 2 months

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not gonna lie, i forgot about this account! this is alex as henry’s (last) oxford boy. he doesn’t care about the paperwork, or henry’s status. :)

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kkangkkangie · 6 months

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I j remembered that Sherlock Holmes canonically doesnt remember the solar system. But Professor Moriarty is know for liking mathematics and astronomy, right?

What if the entire rivalry started because Moriarty heard that this one consulting detective never remembered the solar system b/c it didn’t pertain to a case and he was like ‘I’ll show you a case mf—solar system and planets are important’

Idk just smth that made me lose sleep

#acd holmes #Sherlock Holmes #James Moriarty #this is like head canon #I am not claiming canocity #just a funny parallel #perfect idea for a crack fic #and John’s like oooo finally he’ll remember it #not ‘holmes’ nemesis’ but ‘the savior that enlightened Holmes to the solar system’#professor moriarty

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somethingintheforest · 11 months

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Watson would give Holmes top surgery, i think

#this is a shitpost but also not really #this is a fic i actually concidered writing but i never did #trans!holmes is a headcanon im very fond of and im not really sure why #anyway #sherlock holmes #acd sherlock holmes #acd holmes #acd canon #john watson #holmes/watson #mine #top surgery as an expression of undying love and devotion etc etc

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sherlockianscholar · 5 months

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from the valley of fear

“you have heard me speak of professor moriarty?” [holmes]

“the famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as—“ [watson]

“my blushes, watson,” holmes murmured, in a deprecating voice.

“i was about to say ‘as he is unknown to the public.’” [watson]

god bless acd, this reads like it’s straight out of a fan fic

#is it fan fic or canon? who knows #sherlock holmes #acd canon #john watson #acd holmes #acd watson #acd #arthur conan doyle #the valley of fear #original post

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i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end · 4 months

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Annie hesitated, nervously turning the apple in her hands, lowering her gaze. “I must tell you first,” she mumbled, “that I can’t pay your fee, Mr Holmes, b-but I can help in the garden, or –“

„Oh, but lost animal cases are always free of charge,” Holmes said casually, folding the newspaper and throwing it onto the floor next to his armchair. He is, as I have often stated, really a rather brilliant man.

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After the Great War, Holmes and Watson are living a quiet life somewhere in Sussex. The days of great detective work lie in the past, but when a distressed young client asks them for help with finding her lost cat, Holmes and Watson have to solve a case that might turn out to be just beyond their limits.

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: Gen

Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Relationship: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson

Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson

Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Cats, Sussex, Post-Canon, Domestic Fluff, I didn't specify the kind of relationship Holmes and Watson are in, but they are certainly Very Married TM, you can read this as QPR or romance

Tagging the same people as in my last story and a few others, but please let me know if you'd be rather taken off this list!

@transholmes @teaspoonnebula @neverquiteeden @53rdcenturyhero @randomwholocker @sarahthecoat @amypihcs @plaidadder @huamirly @fruitviking @rainbow-person @bestnoncannonship @forever-1895

#sherlock holmes #dr watson #sherlock holmes fanfiction #sherlock holmes fanfic #granada holmes #letters from watson #john watson #acd canon #my fanfiction #my fic #my writing #i forgot how i usually tag this lol

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gregorovitch-adler · 8 months

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Romance

After Holmes had arrested Jefferson Hope, and I had had a discussion with him that I was going to publish the story in The Strand - to let everyone know who had really solved the case - Holmes had agreed.

A better explanation would be that Holmes did not care. It did not matter to him who received the credit for solving the case in the newspapers. However, it did matter to me. Very much, in fact.

In what world was it fair for the police officers at Scotland Yard to take help from Holmes to solve the case every step of the way and not even thank him publicly? It simply could not happen. Not on my watch.

After having published the story, I decided to show it to Holmes. I was quite enthusiastic about it.

However, I had not expected Holmes to react so badly.

When I brought up the conversation, whilst he was consuming his damn cocaine - with his long and thin legs stretched out on the coffee table - he shook his head ruefully.

“I glanced over it,” said he. “Honestly, I cannot congratulate you upon it. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.”

“But the romance was there,” I remonstrated. “I could not tamper with the facts."

I had feared that this conversation might be going in a dangerous direction. Holmes was not insinuating the obviousness of my feelings for him - that had developed over time - was he?

Well, if he decided to spell it out, I would not hesitate to remind him about how much he had blushed after listening to my compliments about his detective work.

I could not say anything for sure, but as time passed, I had a feeling that there was something between us. A connection, of sorts. One that went beyond what a couple of flatmates usually had.

Holmes may have a habit of pretending that he preferred to be unemotional, but I was his closest friend. I lived with him. I might not be as brilliant as he was, but I could tell that he did not mean it.

"Some facts should be suppressed, or at least a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes by which I succeeded in unraveling it.”

I was annoyed at this criticism of a work that had been specially designed to please him. Moreover, I was hurt to know that he would deviate this much from the truth.

Maybe I had miscalculated. Probably it was only I who felt the connection between us. Not him. I frowned at the thought and swallowed as I stopped pacing and took a seat on my armchair across from Holmes in the sitting room.

I was willing to speak up this time, though.

I inhaled deeply and held my breath as I spoke. "And why, pray tell, do you want to suppress the facts, specifically about romance? Is it because the same facts hit too close to home?"

Holmes came out of his dazed state, dropped his legs on the floor, and sat up straight with his grey eyes widened.

"What are you getting at, Watson?" asked Holmes cautiously.

"We have not been friends for that long, but for what little time I have known you, I've developed a profound respect for you and your work. There is more to it, however. I have grown to have feelings for you. Romantic feelings, in particular."

Holmes leaned forward in his chair and pinned me with an intense gaze. Fortunately, he did not try to interrupt me.

"I think that you have, too. Although I could be extremely wrong on that part, it makes little sense for you, of all people, to want to suppress the facts and events that happened for real. So, I want to know: Am I right about the real reason or not? I would certainly understand if I am completely off the mark and you do not feel the same, but I need to know."

I breathed deeply after having blurted all that out, hoping to dear Lord that I had not messed up everything and ruined our friendship.

"Oh, dear Watson," Holmes breathed. His long and thin fingers were tapping on his sinewy lap vigorously. "You are so exactly on point sometimes. Everything you said - all of it... I feel the same way."

My heart fluttered with excitement and happiness. A ridiculously wide smile spread across my face. It looked as though he wanted to say more, so I let him.

Holmes continued. "And yes, I do not wish for the whole world to know about it through your stories. I see I was a bit too harsh about it, moments ago. I apologise."

Holmes got up to make sure the door was shut and the window curtains had been drawn. They were. Holmes then walked across the room to approach me. I was still sitting, so he looked down at me with the same intensity as before.

I looked up to meet his gaze and locked my eyes with him.

He held out his pale hand to me in an offer.

My heart pounded as I took that hand and got up to meet his eye level.

His eyes were filled with longingness and pain. His brows were furrowed. "The world will never forgive us. They will never acknowledge that we are just two people in love who happen to be men."

He was right, as always. My eyes welled up as I gulped. I was still holding his hand, which felt warm and dry in mine.

"I know. Do you think this is a bad idea, then?" I tried to be prepared for the worst. 'Tried'.

Holmes placed his other hand on my waist and pulled me close. Our faces were just inches away. "I never said that, Watson. I was never the one to go with the rules, was I?"

We both shared a short laugh. Without another word, we leaned in and I captured his bottom lip with my mouth.

He made a desperate sound and we deepened the kiss with our arms wrapped around each other tightly. The dam had broken, and we were unable to let go for a whole minute.

I pulled away reluctantly. "Holmes, I-"

"Sherlock."

My ears had been aching to hear that correction. "Sherlock, I was saying that we need to deal with this in a practical way as well. I will not forgive myself if we were to be arrested because of this," I said with my brows furrowed.

"You are right," he said, holding my face in his hands.

"I suppose we would have to confine our relationship to the rooms of this flat." My heart was heavy.

My lover's ethereal grey eyes lit up with a mischievous glint in them. Christ, the effect those eyes always had on me.

"I have a plan."

Of course, he did. I was now looking at him with expectation and pride.

"You are going to have to marry a woman."

"What the deuce are you -"

"Shh." Sherlock placed a long finger on my mouth. "Just listen. That woman is a distant relative of mine. She is going to be our next client too. Her name is Mary Morstan."

I still did not get what was going on. Was he already pushing me away?

"For God's sake, do not look so heartbroken," he said and pulled my face close by my chin to press another kiss on my mouth.

"Her situation is just like ours. She has fallen in love with another woman too. Only I knew about that until now. She is in a constant state of having to look over her shoulder, trying to keep the prying eyes of this cruel world away. It occurred to me just now that if you married her, we would not have to worry about society anymore. It would be helpful for all four of us."

I sighed in relief and gave this whole thing a thought for a moment. "Excellent plan, Sherlock. This is brilliant!"

Sherlock smiled and looked down as he blushed.

"Just remember to never be on a first-name basis in public. John."

I grinned from ear to ear like an idiot, before pulling him in for a slow, drawn-out kiss again.

I knew what I had to do next. I just had to twist the facts in my next story to make it look like I was in love with Mary or whatever her name was.

Now, nobody would speculate a thing about Holmes and I, would they?

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Sherlock September Challenge

Prompt Romance by @onesmallfamily

Tags: @helloliriels @topsyturvy-turtely @gaylilsherlock @lisbeth-kk @keirgreeneyes @lookingforlifeoutthere @clueless-mp4 @missdeliadili @curlyjohnlock @a-victorian-girl @peanitbear @kettykika78 @calaisreno

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weast-of-eden · 1 month

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hi hello are you busy tonight? yeah didn’t think so. do you like victorian era johnlock? yes i thought so. want to read a wip masterpiece? exactly. read this fic

The Adventure of the Purloined Heart by ladyblahblah

murder mystery pining AND competent watson discussions of male prostitution in 1880s literally what else could you ask for.

#no like this is my magna carta guys you don’t understand #i pray that one day it will be updated but even still i just love rereading it #sherlock holmes #acd holmes #john watson #acd canon #granada holmes #acd johnlock #granada johnlock #fic rec #johnlock fic rec #acd johnlock fic rec #granada johnlock fic rec

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fleurdelait · 1 month

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my fav part of being in the sherlock fandom is i don’t rlly ship johnlock all that much but i love sitting here and clapping my hands like a cymbal monkey at all the art

#me see funny men me clap #sherlock holmes #sherlock #bbc sherlock #acd holmes #it’s just pure vibes tbh #like all the fanart is so yummy #and the fics bang #but if someone were to ask me if i shipped them #id prolly say not really #while reading the most angsty well written johnlock fic ive ever read #but i do live for the queer coding in the acd canon books #watson and i are quite frankly the same #cause i get him #i too would be the gayest little man if my roomie was that hot

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a-candle-for-sherlock · 1 year

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I've read that gay molly houses and gatherings in the 18th and 19th century included a lot of gender play, and that feminine names and dress on amab people were common; I've also read that the 18th century club members often chose their own found families (amab sisters, husband and children) amongst themselves. Does anyone know if that private family system continued into the later 19th century clubs, around Holmes' and Watson's early era? I know some of them were purely transactional, but I've also heard of club romances and weddings from the time.

#deep in the research trenches for this new fic now folks #acd canon #queer history #holmes/watson

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inevitably-johnlocked · 3 months

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Hello Steph!

I need your help once more

So I’m looking for an ACD Holmes fic, if you could help me with that

Alrighty, so I'm looking for a fic in which Holmes is ill and weak and Watson takes care of him. It’s told from Holmes’s POV and he is semiconcious/Aware but not enough to really do anything. Watson basically does a lot of things for him

And there's a part when Watson gives Holmes a bath and notes how Watson's “Scottish burr” was showing up in his speech, a rare event

So that’s it! I hope you and others can at least point me in the right direction

Thanks!

Hey Lovely!!

Oooo, I don't know this one, but it sounds like an AMAZING read!!! I would love to know too!!

Anyone able to help us pinpoint this fic???

#steph replies #johnlock fic reqs #help steph find fics #acd canon fics #sick fics

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wildwoodgoddess · 1 year

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For everyone who wanted a female Sherlock Holmes, A Study In Garnet is now available!

I spent last year serializing A Study In Garnet for my Patreon supporters, and now, as promised, the book is available for purchase in ebook and hardcover for everyone!

I'm so excited, especially about the hardback version. Y'all, it's SO PRETTY! I found a fabulous print-on-demand printer that has made my hardcover dreams come true.

Anyway, before I geek out too much about the print version, I just want to thank everyone who has liked and shared my posts about this book and the research I did for it. I appreciate the support!

Here's the blurb for the book:

January 29, 1881: Afghanistan ruined her body, but London has broken her heart.

Dr. Siân Watson longs to shed the male disguise she used to join the British Army, but when you look like a bloke, it’s easier to amputate a man’s leg on a battlefield than buy a dress in London. Undaunted, she heads to the Criterion Hotel to find help. But when a chance encounter with an old friend leads to meeting the mesmerizing Sherlyn Holmes, Dr. Watson’s plans are upended—faster than you can say “the game is afoot.”

Now, instead of going home to Wales, she’s moving into 221B Baker Street with Miss Holmes, whose piercing deductions are as thrilling as they are unsettling. Life with the world’s only consulting detective is powerful medicine, but as they hunt for whoever is murdering cab drivers across London, Watson fears her growing affection for Holmes might injure her more deeply than any bullet. As Holmes’s obsession with the case pushes Watson into risks she swore never to take again, she must choose: whatever respectability a woman doctor can earn—or Sherlyn Holmes. Both is not an option.

When their quest for justice lands them in trouble with the law, Watson fears she has survived one war only to fall in a different kind of battle—one that may destroy what’s left of her heart.

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I also wanted to share this endorsement from my author friend, Gabrielle Harbowy, because I really loved it:

"If you think you're done with Sherlock Holmes retellings, think again. Meredith Rose has written an excellently researched and executed period mystery with a deeply compelling queer and genderswapped Holmes and Watson. The subtle, masterful brush with which she portrays the queerness of the time, and the intensely caring yet neurodivergent Holmes, carries just the right touch. It's everything I didn't realize I needed from a Sherlock Holmes book." —Gabrielle Harbowy, author of Aether's Pawn

You can get the book in either hardcover or ebook on my shop page. I offer shipping for the print version worldwide, and I'm offering a 15% discount on all my books, using the discount code BOOK15 at checkout.

Thanks for supporting my creative efforts, and I hope you will enjoy the book. If you know anyone who would enjoy it, please forward this info to them. I'm going to be hard at work on book 2, so stay tuned!

Take a look at A Study In Garnet in my shop

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teaspoonnebula · 7 months

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In 1893, knowing that Conan Doyle was going to be killing off Sherlock Holmes, the Strand Magazine decided to fill the void with a series of medical mysteries called "Diary of a Doctor" by veteran magazine story writer LT Meade.

I've always thought it would be fun to reimagine them as adventures Watson had during the hiatus, trying to continue solving mysteries by himself using Holmes' methods, and working through his grief. I also wanted to flesh them out a little, adding in more character moments and scene setting.

So... that's what I've done! This is part mine, part LT Meade's, created from the story 'My First Patient' originally published in 1893.

You can read the complete story here!

#sherlock holmes #sherlock holmes fic #acd holmes #acd canon #acd watson #ao3 fanfic #19th century #literature #I really like LT Meade btw #She wrote a superhuman number of stories and edited a bluestocking magazine #You can tell sometimes she's rattling something out for the paycheque but when she wants she writes a cracking good mystery #just like someone else I know

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chaos-and-sparkles · 2 months

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Fic Commissions?

*puts on hat*

STARR'S FIC COMMISSIONS?!

So yeah, after some nudging from my friends and bc I could really use the funds, I'm officially opening writing commissions!

For context, I go by Chaos_and_Sparkles on ao3, and you can find my fics here :D

How to Commission:

You can reach out to me for a commission by DMing me on Tumblr or via Discord (@star_rynight)!

We can discuss more about the details, and I can give an expected timeline.

Mention the word count range, fandom, ship, the prompt/idea you want, and the ao3 tags that would apply so I can get a feel of the story.

Since I'm juggling college, it can sometimes vary and may be up for discussion, but generally I will take up to two weeks to write the first 1k words, and a week per 1k words after that. I will however take twice as long for NSFW fics as I do for SFW fics (I'm asexual and sometimes sex-repulsed, so believe me when I say this is for the quality of the writing more than anything else).

I'll give regular updates, and snippets if you like, of the fic's progress

You'll have to pay half the amount upfront, and then I'll start working on the fic! Currently I only accept PayPal.

Once the fic is done, it'll be posted to my ao3, as a gift fic to you. If you want the fic sent privately and not posted, DM for further discussion.

Prices:

$10 USD per 500 words for SFW

$12 USD per 500 words for NSFW

Fandoms and Fav Ships:

Spider-Verse (chaipunk and chaipunksong, occasional ghostflower and spiderdads)

Hamilton (jamilton and lams)

Good Omens (ineffable husbands, qpr ineffable husbands)

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (glimbow and glitra)

Marvel (depends on my mood, I do enjoy some frostiron tho)

Sherlock (ACD canon and Sherlock and Co. specifically) (johnlock, qpr johnlock)

Encanto (no ships)

ATLA (all ships welcome)

JJK (Anime) (sukuita, itafushi, nobamaki and satosugu)

Assorted Disney Movies

Assorted DreamWorks Movies

TSoA

Greek Mythology and Lore (patrochilles, persades, anything with odysseus)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (percabeth, solangelo)

These are just my favourite ships, ofc, I'm still up for writing others!

So... yeah! :D

#fic commissions #fanfic commissions #fic commiss #spiderman atsv #hamilton #atla #good omens #spop #sherlock & co #acd canon #encanto #jjk #tsoa #marvel #pjo #greek mythology #ao3 writer #sherlock holmes

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sherlockianscholar · 7 months

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i feel so bad for (exclusively) bbc sherlock fans that read fic. they’ll never know the loveliness of “holmes and watson” to “sherlock and john.”

#sherlock holmes #john watson #johnlock #acd johnlock #acd holmes #acd watson #acd canon #acd canon fic #sherlock holmes fic #bbc sherlock #original post

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hellobitches990 · 2 years

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Watson Love language is " act of service " while Holmes is quality time + words of affirmation

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