Hullo! It's my birthday! Yay! ✨🎊🎉🥳🎂🥳🎉🎊✨
Have this lil Mystrade doodle I did the other day in celebration, and since I haven't shared them for a long while. 🥰💜💜💜(There will be more soon, worry not 👀💜)
Enjoy, m'dears!!
Hearts,
Carla 💜💜💜
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Top 10 Sherlock fics by kudos in 2023
Top 10 fics completed in 2023 that garnered the most kudos on AO3. Excluded: chaptered "fics" that are actually collections of standalone ficlets and crossovers that are mostly about the other fandom. Fics that began posting earlier (in some cases, years earlier) obviously have the advantage of more time to rack up kudos. Kudo counts as of 2 Jan 2024.
1. 1,720 kudos: The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted by MyDearLadyDisdain (232K, M, Sherlock/Harry Potter)
After an inexplicable case in Surrey, Sherlock is after the strangest criminal he's ever encountered: a mass murderer, that has eluded the authorities for almost 14 years. Unfortunately, Sherlock Holmes is the only one that can see right away that this Harry Potter character is completely innocent. And hang on, is that tea set floating?
2. 1,682 kudos: Shift by stopthat (48K, E, Johnlock)
Sherlock is tired. John senses a shift.
3. 1,102 kudos: Ride On by Silvergirl (38K, E, Johnlock)
After the disastrous reveal at the Landmark, John tells Sherlock there can be no excuse for what he’s done, and no forgiveness. Sherlock leaves London and starts a new life, and not even the British Government knows where. It’s up to John to track him down and make things right, with a trip around the world and a clue only John would recognize.
4. 851 kudos: Till Death Do Us Part (Not Yet, Not Yet) by Civilized_muppets (8K, T, Johnlock)
In which Sherlock and John have been married for years, not that any member of the yard has ever heard of John, much less that Sherlock was married at all, until John is kidnapped from Afghanistan.
5. 797 kudos: The story of the Forgotten Wallet. by Headphones_on_the_Skull (25K, E, Johnlock)
Just some dirty Alpha/Omega Johnlock porn.
6. 788 kudos: Nothing to Celebrate by DiscordantWords (30K, M, Johnlock)
Sherlock Holmes is back from the dead. Things only get worse from there.
7. 726 kudos: A Tale of Two Soldiers by batslikepastel (14K, T, Johnlock, Jolto, Mystrade)
It's Christmas, and Sherlock and John are finally flatmates again after the tumultuous events of the previous year. But a sudden revelation about John's sexuality and James Sholto's unexpected presence throw a wrench into Sherlock's plans, and his jealousy threatens to overwhelm him even as John remains blithely oblivious. Their relationship has reached a turning point, and the ball is in John's court now.
8. 671 kudos: Nightjet by khorazir (22K, M, Johnlock)
Officially deceased for eighteen months and still looking for the last remainders of Moriarty’s criminal empire, an exhausted Sherlock boards a night train in Germany to bring him to his next hunting ground. Due to a mishap with the sleeper cars, he is forced to share a compartment with a stranger – who turns out to be not quite as strange as Sherlock thought. The universe isn’t lazy, after all …
9. 646 kudos: Our Love Keeps the Things It Finds by her_ladyships_soap (25K, T, Mystrade)
Everyone has a soulmate. Everyone. It's simple human biology. Over the course of every person's life, they develop tattoos of the things their soulmate loves most. Though he has always disliked the concept, Mycroft Holmes is painted from head to toe with dozens of brightly-coloured tattoos. Greg Lestrade, once-firm believer and hopeless romantic, has just nine. They are all quietly sophisticated, sketched in smooth shades of black and grey and easy to hide. Neither of them has gained a tattoo in years. But when they both suddenly find new markings, things finally fall into place.
10. 636 kudos: In Fine Spirits by EventHorizon (189K, M, Mystrade, Johnlock)
A very upscale bar/private club needs a bartender and scruffy, punky Greg Lestrade is certain he has the right skills (and needs the job), so walks in to apply in person. He didn't realize that someone else he knew works there, also. Though… 'knew' probably isn't the proper term for a one-night stand where you didn't even learn their name during the fun…
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You said on Twitter you were drawing Ironstrange and Mystrade 👀 Dear god, some of my favorite ships. THANK YOU !!
[In reference to THIS TWEET and THIS ONE]
Hi anon ^^
Thank you so much for your message and your interest in my art. It's very kind of you ♥
Yes, I'm drawing IronStrange (Tony Stark/Stephen Strange) and Mystrade (Mycroft / Lestrade from Sherlock). The first one is not super surprising because I already did it here but when it comes to the second one, I can't even believe it myself. 🤓 Interesting ship. I really love the dynamic between the two characters. That's fandom life I guess: one day you say "I don't even go there" and the next, without realizing it, you read Mystrade soulmate fics on A03. I didn't have this on my bingo card for 2022 but here we are. 😁
Anyway, my IronStrange art is almost done. Here's the line art if you want to have a look (Yes, Tony has no hands for the moment, it's normal, I'm undecided and he'll certainly have different shoes too). As you can see, it's a cute artwork, nobody is sad, nobody dies. 😊
The Mystrade one is still a sketch. I'm undecided. For the moment, it's Greg at the hospital with Mycroft next to him, comforting him. I'll see how it goes. I have two other ideas, but it's still a blur at the moment.
Otherwise, I hope to finish a Steve/Bucky artwork today and I'd like to post it next week if I can (then I'll post the IronStrange one).
Thanks again and have a great weekend ♥
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Everyone has a soulmate. Everyone. It's simple human biology. Over the course of every person's life, they develop tattoos of the things their soulmate loves most.
Though he has always disliked the concept, Mycroft Holmes is painted from head to toe with dozens of brightly-coloured tattoos. Greg Lestrade, once-firm believer and hopeless romantic, has just nine. They are all quietly sophisticated, sketched in smooth shades of black and grey and easy to hide.
Neither of them has gained a tattoo in years. But when they both suddenly find new markings, things finally fall into place.
I finished another fic! (Five days ago, but we’re going to ignore the lateness of this post.)
Our Love Keeps the Things It Finds is one of my favourite things I’ve written. It’s a Mystrade soulmate AU in which people develop tattoos of the things their soulmate loves most.
Word count is about 25,000 and it’s rated T with no applicable AO3 warnings. Contains opera, goldfish, and idiots in love.
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