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Looking ahead . . . in spite of it all

The last time I published an unofficial list of Dame Sarah Connolly’s upcoming performances, it was with hesitation, knowing that she had months of treatment for breast cancer ahead of her and that she might need to withdraw from some of her performance engagements. That was in late October, 2019. I had, at the time, no inkling that a then-unknown respiratory virus would begin infecting humans over the winter and rapidly break out into a deadly pandemic, resulting in the widespread closure of public spaces and devastating the performing arts.

The change log appended to my previous unofficial schedule post shows that on March 23, 2020, I made the first round of edits to reflect corona-cancellations. Since then, I have been quietly monitoring the status of Dame Sarah’s scheduled gigs and crossing them off as their cancellations have become known to me.

I have also picked up on a few new dates that we can very tentatively look forward to. It is hard to say how long the coronavirus crisis will go on; even when large, indoor public gatherings become possible again, some arts organizations may have had to slash their offerings—or may have succumbed completely—due to the financial fallout of the pandemic. In the meantime, we are starting to see some companies like the Bayerische Staatsoper, Wigmore Hall, and the Royal Opera House offer small-scale, live musical performances with no live audiences, just online streaming.

Now that Dame Sarah is about to perform in one such livestream-only concert—tomorrow’s Das Lied von der Erde in Covent Garden, also notable for being her first live performance since withdrawing from the stage for cancer treatment over the winter—it seems like the right moment to refresh my list of her upcoming performances and start anew.

See my current list after the jump.

This is the point in the post where I normally give a condensed list highlighting the cities where Dame Sarah is scheduled to appear in live performance, so that readers can tell at a glance whether she is coming anywhere near them. This list must now be read with a giant asterisk, as some performances may be online-only (so it doesn’t matter where you live), and others may be much more prone to cancellation than normal!

That said—British performance sites on the horizon at the moment are the Royal Opera House (for online viewing only) and Wigmore Hall in London, plus the Lieder Festival in Oxford (also online only). Audiences in continental Europe might get to see Dame Sarah in Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, or Luxembourg. An as-yet-unconfirmed operatic run may be in store for the 2021-2022 season in New York.

The usual disclaimers:

This is not an authoritative list. These are the upcoming performances by Dame Sarah Connolly that I have been able to learn about from Dame Sarah’s new website, Dame Sarah’s agent's website (Askonas Holt), Operabase, Bachtrack, Dame Sarah's Twitter, and generally ferreting around the web.

I sometimes list concerts that are not yet officially confirmed; you should of course check official sources before making plans and be aware that cast changes and cancellations can happen at any time. This obviously goes triple in the COVID-19 era.

I have added links to venue, ticketing, and broadcast information where available. Tips on new information are always welcome! Please contact me via email (verdiprati [at] selveamene [dot] com), Tumblr messaging, or ask box (plain prose only in the ask box; anything with links or an email address will get eaten by Tumblr filters) with corrections or additions.

[Livestream only] Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde at the Royal Opera House, London, June 20, 2020. With David Butt Philip and members of the ROH orchestra; Antonio Pappano conducts. The performance will be livestream-only; no audience will be seated in the house. Tickets are £4.99 and grant you not only live access, but also the ability to view the concert on demand for two weeks following the performance.

[New!] Recital at Wigmore Hall, London, September 16, 2020. With Malcolm Martineau, in the Wigmore’s 1:00 p.m. “lunchtime” slot. Songs by Poulenc, Roussel, Mahler, and Bridge, capped by a pair of songs newly written by Bob Chilcott for Dame Sarah. At the time of this writing, Wigmore Hall expects to admit live audiences of 10%-20% capacity during the autumn season under socially-distanced reopening guidelines, but the situation for live performance in the UK remains fluid, to put it mildly. The website says that “More details on how to access tickets will be released in the coming weeks. All concerts will go ahead, with or without an audience.”

[Livestream] The recital, like all the others in Wigmore Hall’s autumn 2020 season, will be streamed for free on their livestreaming site. It appears that you can also use this YouTube link.

[Canceled] Recital at Wigmore Hall, London, September 30, 2020. With Roderick Williams and Julius Drake; the first concert of the Wigmore’s Mendelssohn and Liszt series. Public booking is scheduled to open on July 14. UPDATE: As of July 31, this recital is no longer listed on the Wigmore Hall website. Update, August 22: see above for a newly-scheduled Wigmore recital by Dame Sarah.

[New! Livestream only] Handel, Solomon (title role) and Foundling Anthem with the English Concert, October 1, 2020. Also starring Sophie Bevan, Soraya Mafi, and James Way; conducted by Harry Bickett. Selections from both works will be performed as part of a concert titled “Handel – The Philanthropist.” Tickets to the livestream are free; donations are requested to both The English Concert and Bart’s Heritage, the fund for renovating St Bart’s Hospital, which will be the venue for the performance.

[Livestream only] Recital at the Oxford Lieder Festival, October 10, 2020. With Eugene Asti (pianist) as well as “emerging artist” William Thomas (bass)—apparently part of Barbara Hannigan’s Momentum initiative, which is supported by both Dame Sarah and the Oxford Lieder Festival. Schumann’s Fraunliebe und -leben and Mahler’s Rückert-lieder bookend an assortment of songs by Haydn, Arne, Bush, Quilter, Howells, and Britten. The livestream ticket (£12, or £5 for under-35s) includes access to a post-performance Q&A session with the artists. Video will remain available until November 1. Notably, the £250 “Pioneer Pass” for the whole festival gets you bonus goodies including “Two guest tickets to Dame Sarah Connolly’s recital, to share with friends” and “Exclusive artist interviews and other content.”

[New!] “Pappano & Friends” chamber concert at the Barbican, London, November 1, 2020. With Ian Bostridge, the Carducci Quartet, and Antonio Pappano. Tickets are being sold separately for a limited live audience (£20) and for a video livestream of the performance (£12.50). The listed program comprises just two works: Ralph Vaughn Williams’ song cycle On Wenlock Edge and an arrangement of Ernest Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer. I don’t really know either work, but a little googling suggests to me that Bostridge will sing the RVW and Dame Sarah will sing the Chausson. Tickets go on sale to the general public on September 11 at 10:00 a.m., and a few of the live audience tickets will be held back from the earlier Barbican members’ sale for the general sale, so if you want to try to attend in person, be ready to act swiftly at that time.

[Livestream] As mentioned above, there is a fee of £12.50 for access to the livestream. The Barbican website says, “We advise you to watch the performance live, but the stream will be available to watch back for 48 hours after the live broadcast.”

[New!] Mozart’s Requiem with the English National Opera, London, November 6 and 7, 2020. Fellow vocal soloists are Elizabeth Llewellyn, Toby Spence, and Brindley Sherratt. With the ENO Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins. As of this writing early on September 15, the ENO website says “Ticket details will be announced soon.” ENO plans to perform for a live, socially distanced audience; livestreaming has been mentioned only as a backup option in case government restrictions make it impossible to host a live audience in the Coliseum.

[New!] Forum participation, International Vocal Competition, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, December 2, 2020. Having postponed its opera and oratorio competition until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IVC announced that it would sponsor a multi-day series billed as “IVC Mozart Masterclasses & More” late in 2020. Masterclasses will be led by Vesselina Kasarova, Roberta Alexander, and Thomas Oliemans; Dame Sarah doesn’t seem to have the same role, but the IVC promises that she will be among several “leading professionals” who will “talk with the participants about the future of their profession” as part of “a forum ... about the future as it now looks for (young) singers.” Singers who were born no earlier than December 5, 1987 and who can cough up €500 for the experience may register by October 1, 2020. Members of the public may buy tickets to the events beginning “at the end of August.”

Handel, Agrippina (title role) at the Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, January 17-29, 2021. The production is Barrie Kosky’s (previously seen at the Bayerische Staatsoper and the ROH, and later moving on to the Staatsoper Hamburg). Ottavio Dantone conducts; co-stars include Ying Fang (Poppea), Franco Fagioli (Nerone), Gianlucca Buratto (Claudio), and Tim Mead (Ottone). As of this writing (June 19, 2020), single ticket sales are indefinitely suspended due to the coronavirus crisis.

Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex (Jocaste) at the Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, March 10-27, 2021. In a double bill with the new commission From ‘Antigone’ by Samy Moussa. Other singers in the Oedipus cast include Sean Panikkar (Oedipus), Bastiaan Everink (Creon), Rafał Siwek (Tiresias), and Ramsey Nasr (Speaker). Erik Nielsen conducts; Wayne McGregor directs. As of this writing (June 19, 2020), single ticket sales are indefinitely suspended due to the coronavirus crisis.

Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex (Jocaste) with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Hamburg, April 10 and 11, 2021. Even though these concert performances follow on the heels of Dame Sarah’s engagement for the same opera in Amsterdam, the two gigs appear to be administratively and artistically unrelated. Her co-stars in Hamburg include Brenden Gunnell (Oedipus), Tomasz Konieczny (Creon), and Sir John Tomlinson (Tiresias); the MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig supplies the men’s chorus. Alan Gilbert conducts. The program also includes Le sacre du printemps. Under a special policy instituted in response to the uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic, tickets can be pre-ordered starting May 26, 2020, with payment due when it is confirmed that the performance will go forward, no later than six weeks before the concert. There’s some background information about the Stravinsky pieces on the NDR website.

Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex (Jocaste) with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, April 19, 2021. Co-stars, conductor, and chorus are the same team as in the Hamburg performances, and the Luxembourg program likewise includes Le sacre du printemps. Tickets go on sale February 22, 2021.

[New!] Recital for St Luke’s Music Society, London, May 8, 2021. With Joseph Middleton. Repertoire TBA. Note that “during the COVID crisis tickets may be restricted to Friends only.” Tickets are £18 and Friends membership is £35; the tickets for Dame Sarah’s recital go on sale December 13.

Recital at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 18, 2021. With Julius Drake. Songs by Mendelssohn, Liszt, Elgar, Debussy, Ravel, and Chaminade.

Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Berlin, May 27, 28, and 29, 2021. With Allan Clayton and Roderick Williams, as well as the Rundfunkchor Berlin; Simon Rattle conducts.

[Livestream] The concert on the 29th will be livestreamed on the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Digital Concert Hall platform.

[Unconfirmed / details TBA] Tour with the Wiener Symphoniker, October 2-5, 2021. Dame Sarah’s name appears along with that of conductor and violinist Andrés Orozco-Estrada (who will take over as music director of the Wiener Symphoniker in the 2020-2021 season) in this list of orchestra tours on the website of agents Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm. Details of the repertoire and cities for the tour will presumably be revealed when the Wiener Symphoniker announces its 2021-2022 season.

[New date!] Recital at Sant Pau Recinte Modernista [PDF], Barcelona, November 15, 2021. With Julius Drake. Part of the LIFE Victoria series of recitals; originally announced for November 27, 2019, but postponed due to Dame Sarah’s treatment for breast cancer; rescheduled for October 2020, and further postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Themed as a “Viennese journey by the hand of Alma Mahler,” the recital includes songs by Brahms, Wolf, Debussy, Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, and Zemlinsky.

[Livestream? TBC] This article in the Catalan newspaper La República says of the combined 2020-2021 season that “Tots els concerts es retransmetran en streaming, independentment de si pot assistir-hi públic o no” (“All concerts will be streamed, regardless of whether the audience can attend or not”). I have been unable, however, to confirm this detail on the LIFE Victoria website or in the PDF of the combined season announcement.

[Unconfirmed / details TBA] Brett Dean, Hamlet (Gertrude) at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, sometime in 2021-22. Allan Clayton, who starred in the title role of Brett Dean’s Hamlet at Glyndebourne in 2017, mentioned in an interview with the Telegraph that he would be reprising the role at an unspecified date and venue in the US. When prompted on Twitter, Dame Sarah indicated that she would be participating in the revival, too (“I shall be misunderstanding my confused boy again”). In a later interview with Opera News, Clayton reportedly specified that he would reprise Hamlet at the Met. The Future Met Wiki places the production at the Met in the 2021-2022 season (as does this New York Times article). Hat tip to Christopher Lowrey, who sang Guildenstern in the original production at Glyndebourne, whose tweet praising Allan Clayton brought the Telegraph interview to my attention. (No indication whether Lowrey will also be cast in the American revival.) Additional hat tip to the Tumblrer who submitted information on this topic via the ask box.

Previous versions of this list can be found under the schedule tag on this blog. This list published June 19, 2020. Updated June 22 to reflect the further postponement of the LIFE Victoria recital. Updated July 22 with the new date of the LIFE Victoria recital and the addition of the IVC forum. Edited July 28 to correct the closing date of DNO Agrippina to January 29 (not 27). Edited August 1 to reflect the cancelation of the September 30 recital at Wigmore Hall. Edited August 22 to add the September 16 recital at Wigmore Hall and update the Oxford recital with more details. Edited August 29 to add the English Concert livestream and fill in the repertoire for the September 16 Wiggy recital. Edited September 8 to add the Barbican “Pappano & Friends” concert. Edited September 15 to add the ENO Mozart Requiem and belatedly fill in some details on the Oxford Lieder Festival recital. Edited September 21 to add the recital for St Luke’s Music Society. I may continue to edit this list as I receive new information.

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How Many Registered Republicans And Democrats In The United States

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How Many Registered Republicans And Democrats In The United States

Understanding The Reasons Behind The Numbers

What If Republican and Democrat States Were Separate Countries?

The researchers factored in additional considerations when interpreting the data. Among these was the natural progression of infections from urban areas, such as New York City and Seattle, to rural areas.

Urban areas more often have Democrat governors, while rural regions favor Republicans. Even so, this did not fully explain the data.

The Johns Hopkins researchers cite previous studies that depict how Democrat governors employed stricter safety measures than their Republican counterparts. These measures include mask-wearing, physical distancing, and stay-at-home orders.

Blue state governors enacted such steps more quickly than red state governors.

Republican governors also withdrew safety measures as early in the pandemic as spring 2020, which the study says may have contributed to increased cases and deaths.

Also, the study suggests that actions Republican governors took might function as an upstream progenitor of multifaceted policies that, in unison, impact the spread of the virus.

The federal government has little direct control of behaviors that influence the spread of infections, such as SARS-CoV-2. Despite a more coordinated federal response this year, says Dr. Benjamin-Neelon, governors still play a key role in the pandemic response.

As were seeing, she adds of recent events, several states have lifted mask requirements even though we have yet to make substantial progress in controlling the spread of the virus.

The Issue Of Slavery: Enter Abraham Lincoln

In the mid-nineteenth century, slavery was a widely discussed political issue. The Democratic Partys internal views on this matter differed greatly. Southern Democrats wished for slavery to be expanded and reach into Western parts of the country. Northern Democrats, on the other hand, argued that this issue should be settled on a local level and through popular referendum. Such Democratic infighting eventually led to Abraham Lincoln, who belonged to the Republican Party, winning the presidential election of 1860. This new Republican Party had recently been formed by a group of Whigs, Democrats and other politicians who had broken free from their respective parties in order to form a party based on an anti-slavery platform.

Voter Turnout In 2020 And Beyond

The new census data makes plain that the 2020 election was record-breaking in terms of the magnitude of its voter turnout. Yet there are two aspects of this turnout which need to be emphasized. One is the sharp rise in the turnout among white non-college votersa group that has strongly favored Republicans. The other is the accentuated turnout among young people and people of colorrepresenting the increasing influence of voters who heavily lean toward Democratic presidential candidates.

Both of these groups exerted countervailing forces on the results of the 2020 election, leading to close popular vote totals in a handful of states. However, the underlying demographics of the nations voter population show that Democratic-leaning voter populations are on the rise in both fast-growing and slow-growing parts of the country.

This raises the question as to whether even greater turnout among white non-college voter groupsor Republican efforts to alter voting requirements in their favorwill be enough to counter the influence of young voters and voters of color in future presidential elections.

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Cook Partisan Voting Index

Another metric measuring party preference is the Cook Partisan Voting Index . Cook PVIs are calculated by comparing a state’s average Democratic Party or Republican Party share of the two-party presidential vote in the past two presidential elections to the nation’s average share of the same. PVIs for the states over time can be used to show the trends of U.S. states towards, or away from, one party or the other.

The Swing State Voting Patterns That Decided The Election

Given the importance of the state outcomes in the Electoral College, it is useful to study turnout patterns in swing or near-swing states from the 2020 presidential election .

Three such states in the rapidly growth South and West regions are Georgia, Arizona, and Texas. The former two gave Biden a razor-thin win over Donald Trump; the latter, which Trump won, showed a smaller Republican margin than in recent elections.

In all three states, turnout was highest for white college graduates, and lowest for nonwhite voters. Yet in each case, 2016-to-2020 turnout increases were greater for non-college white voters than for white college graduates. Each state also exhibited sizeable gains in their nonwhite turnout rates, which countered the Republican-leaning impact of the non-college white turnout increase. This was especially the case for the large Latino or Hispanic populations in Arizona and Texas, and modestly for the Black population in Georgia.

It is the case that the white non-college bloc voted somewhat less Republican in each of these states in 2020 than in 2016. However, it appears that the rise in white non-college turnout helped to make the races in Georgia and Arizona close, and in Texas, kept the Republican margins from shrinking further.

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Rising Violent Crime Is Likely To Present A Political Challenge For Democrats In 2022

But there are roadblocks to fully enacting Democrats agenda. Their thin majorities in both chambers of Congress mean nearly all Democrats have to get on board with every agenda item in order to push through major legislative priorities. And without adjusting or eliminating the legislative filibuster in the Senate, Democrats need 10 Republicans to join them for various legislation a near-impossible task.

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What Is The Difference Between Republicans And Democrats

Republicans and Democrats are the two main and historically the largest political parties in the US and, after every election, hold the majority seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate as well as the highest number of Governors. Though both the parties mean well for the US citizens, they have distinct differences that manifest in their comments, decisions, and history. These differences are mainly ideological, political, social, and economic paths to making the US successful and the world a better place for all. Differences between the two parties that are covered in this article rely on the majority position though individual politicians may have varied preferences.

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Acting President Of The United States

An acting president of the United States is an individual who legitimately exercises the powers and duties of the president of the United States even though that person does not hold the office in their own right. There is an established presidential line of succession in which officials of the United States federal government may be called upon to take on presidential responsibilities if the incumbent president becomes incapacitated, dies, resigns, is removed from office during their four-year term of office; or if a president-elect has not been chosen before Inauguration Day or has failed to qualify by that date.

If the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office, the vice president automatically becomes president. Likewise, were a president-elect to die during the transition period, or decline to serve, the vice president-elect would become president on Inauguration Day. A vice president can also become the acting president if the president becomes incapacitated. However, should the presidency and vice presidency both become vacant, the statutory successor called upon would not become president, but would only be acting as president. To date, two vice presidentsGeorge H. W. Bush and Dick Cheney have served as acting president. No one lower in the presidential line of succession has so acted.

Map 2 And Table : Party Registration And The 2016 Presidential Vote

In Battleground States, Newly Registered Democrats Are Outnumbering Newly Registered Republicans

Of the 31 party registration states, 24 were carried in the 2016 presidential election by the party with the most registered voters in it. Donald Trump swept 11 of the 12 states with a Republican registration advantage, while Hillary Clinton won 13 of the 19 states which had more registered Democrats than Republicans. Four of the Democratic registration states that Trump took were in the South, led by Florida and North Carolina. He also overcame Democratic registration advantages in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to win both. The only state with more registered Republicans than Democrats that Hillary Clinton carried in 2016 was New Hampshire, where the outcome was very close.

Notes: An asterisk indicates states where there were more registered independents than either Democrats or Republicans in October 2016. Independents include a comparatively small number of registered miscellaneous voters who do not fit into any particular category.

Richard Wingers Ballot Access News for October 2016 party registration data; America Votes 32 for 2016 presidential election results.

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Presidential Ballot Access 2020

There were 21 candidates on the ballot each in Vermont and Colorado, more than in any other state. Arkansas and Louisiana came in second, with 13 candidates each. Twelve states featured only three candidates on the ballot.

The following map shows the number of presidential candidates on the ballot in 2020 in each state.

For information from previously presidential election years, click “” below.

Public opinion on the two-party system In 2017, Gary Johnson, a former Libertarian Party candidate for president, claimed that “the largest group of American voters are actually neither Democrats or Republicans” and “the overwhelming majority would like to have more choices than just the two ‘major’ parties.”Was Johnson correct about party affiliation and public opinion on the two-party system? Read Ballotpedia’s fact check Â»

Why The Number Of House Members Hasnt Changed Since 1913

There are still 435 members of the House of Representatives a century later because of the;Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which set that number in stone.

The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 was the result of a battle between rural and urban areas of the United States following the 1920 Census. The formula for distributing seats in the House based on population favored urbanized states and penalized smaller rural states at the time, and Congress could not agree on a reapportionment plan.

After the 1910 census, when the House grew from 391 members to 433 , the growth stopped. Thats because the 1920 census indicated that the majority of Americans were concentrating in cities, and nativists, worried about of the power of foreigners, blocked efforts to give them more representatives, wrote Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology, medicine and public policy at New York University, and Jacqueline Stevens, a professor of political science at Northwestern University.

So, instead, Congress passed the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 and sealed the number of House members at the level established after the 1910 census, 435.

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Abortion Trends By Party Identification

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following graphs display Gallup’s full trends on U.S. views about abortion by party identification.

The first set of graphs provide views since 1975 about the legality of abortion.

The second set of graphs display self-identification since 1995 as “pro-choice” vs. “pro-life” on the abortion issue.

Emergence Of New Conservatism

The relief programs included in FDRs New Deal earned overwhelming popular approval, launching an era of Democratic dominance that would last for most of the next 60 years. Between 1932 and 1980, Republicans won only four presidential elections and had a Congressional majority for only four years.

Though the centrist Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was president from 1953 to 1961, actively supported equal rights for women and African Americans, a conservative resurgence led to Barry Goldwaters nomination as president in 1964, continued with Richard Nixons ill-fated presidency and reached its culmination with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.

The South saw a major political sea change starting after World War II, as many white Southerners began migrating to the GOP due to their opposition to big government, expanded labor unions and Democratic support for civil rights, as well as conservative Christians opposition to abortion and other culture war issues.

Meanwhile, many black voters, who had remained loyal to the Republican Party since the Civil War, began voting Democratic after the Depression and the New Deal.

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Richard Nixon: Resigned In 1974

People read about President Nixonâs resignation outside the gate of the White House in August, 1974.

Despite being complicit in one of the greatest political scandals in U.S. presidential history, Richard Nixon was never impeached. He resigned before the House of Representatives had a chance to impeach him. If he hadnt quit, Nixon would likely have been the first president ever impeached and removed from office, given the crimes he committed to cover up his involvement in the Watergate break-ins.

On July 27, 1974, after seven months of deliberations, the House Judiciary Committee approved the first of five proposed articles of impeachment against Nixon, charging the president with obstruction of justice in an effort to shield himself from the ongoing Watergate investigation. Only a handful of Republicans in the judiciary committee voted to approve the articles of impeachment, and it was unclear at the time if there would be enough votes in the full House to formally impeach the president.

But everything changed on August 5, 1974, when the Supreme Court ordered Nixon to release unedited tapes of his Oval Office conversations with White House staffers during the Watergate investigation. The so-called smoking gun tapes included Nixon proposing the use of the CIA to obstruct the FBI investigation, and paying hush money to the convicted Watergate burglars. The transcript included the following:

NIXON: How much money do you need?

NIXON: We could get that.

Republicans Cut Taxes For Rich People And Corporations In 2017 Biden Wants To Reverse Course

The full details of what Bidens tax proposal will look like are still a little fuzzy. According to , which recently reported on the presidents planned tax hikes, much of what he is likely to put forth is in line with what he campaigned on.

On the campaign trail, Biden proposed increasing the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent as well as increasing the income tax rate on families making more than $400,000. He proposed changing capital gains taxes meaning how taxes are applied when someone sells an asset, like a stock for people making more than $1 million, so that they would be taxed the same as income.

Also on capital gains, Biden proposed overhauling how they are taxed on a stepped-up basis after people die. Its a little wonky, but say youre Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a lot of your money is tied up in Facebook stock your wealth goes up over the years, but as long as you dont sell the stock, you dont pay taxes on it. After you die, say $1 billion of the stock gains go to your kids, and they might turn around and sell it later for $1.1 billion. But they would only be taxed for $0.1 billion the difference between the cost when they got it and when they sold it not the full $1.1 billion. Bidens plan would change that.

Ahead of the 2020 election, the Tax Policy Center Bidens plan would raise $2.1 trillion over a decade. As notes, his White House proposal could be smaller.

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Lots Of Consistency Elsewhere

In the rest of the country, there was much more consistency between party registration totals and the 2016 election outcome, with only three non-Southern states voting against the grain. On election eve in Pennsylvania, there were 915,081 more registered Democrats than Republicans; Trump carried the state by 44,292 votes. In West Virginia, there were 175,867 more registered Democrats; Trump won by 300,577 votes. And in New Hampshire, there were 24,232 more registered Republicans than Democrats in the fall of 2016, but Hillary Clinton took the state by 2,736 votes. Thats it. The other 22 party registration states outside the South were carried in the presidential balloting by the party with more registered voters than the other.

And in many of these in sync states, the registration advantage in recent years has grown more Republican or Democratic as the case may be, augmented by a healthy increase in independents.

The registration trend line in California is a microcosm of sorts of party registration in the nation as whole. Democrats are running ahead and the ranks of the independents are growing. Yet registered voters in both parties appear to be widely engaged. That was the case in 2016, and likely will be again in 2018, with Trump flogging issues to rouse his base. In short, this is a highly partisan era when party registration totals, and the trends that go with them, are well worth watching.

Democrats Make Their Move

US: Top Democrats accuse Republicans for ‘poisoning’ the democracy | Joe Biden Vs Donald Trump

The Democratic effort at a national voting law centres around passage of the “For the People Act”. It represents one of the most expansive federal reforms of the US election system in a generation.

The bill would guarantee that voters can receive a mail-in ballot if requested, mandate a minimum of 15 days of early voting before every federal election, require paper ballots and set standards for voting machines.

It would prohibit states from disenfranchising felons who have completed their sentences and enact new restrictions on undisclosed so-called “dark money” political contributions.

Many new voters would be automatically registered under the legislation, which also requires technology companies to disclose information about political advertising, create new government support for small donor-funded candidates and seek to end the practice of “gerrymandering” voting maps for partisan advantage.

In March the US House of Representatives approved the bill by a nearly party line vote, with one Democrat – Bennie Thompson of Mississippi – opposing because of concerns that the redistricting provision would disadvantage black voters.

Three months later, Republicans in the US Senate blocked passage of the For the People Act by use of the filibuster, a parliamentary procedure that requires 60 votes to pass major legislation. The bill only received 50 votes – all from Democrats in the evenly divided 100-seat chamber.

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My personal Sherlolly fanfic bests so far...: 2017

I started making this list in 2014 and updated it in 2015 and in early 2017 as 2016 update. This is 2017 update, belated again, with a few additions to each category. The new items (not necessarily published in 2017) are in bold.

The categories have been developed out of those in the original SAMFA held in 2012 and 2013, but now looks rather different. This list is based on my personal preferences. Also, I haven’t read ALL Sherlolly stories. (Who can?) So it is never intended to be authoritative or exhaustive.

The stories with an asterisk are not complete. (M) indicates respective author’s own rating, some for explicit sexual expression, others for some other reasons.

Please reblog if you like it! Many many thanks!

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I Told You So by Writingwife83

A saga here refers to a series of multi-chapter fics that traces the couple’s history.

By coloradoandcolorado1

The Lonely

Broken Pieces

The Distance

Innuendo (M)

Monster

Overkill

Dark Reaches of the Night

What Lies Ahead*

By Flaignhan

Schoolgirl Crush

Nadir

Miracles

Full Circle

Honesty

Dust in the Air

By Gypsy Rose2014

Gabriel’s Wish

Of Small Boys and Sandwiches* (M)

Ginger Lollipops*

Wishes (M)

A Summer Story* (M)

Trimming the Tree

Under the Mistletoe* (M)

By thedragonaunt

Life After Death - A Post-Reichenbach Trilogy

Part One - Aftermath (M)

Part Two - Consequences

Part Three - Unfinished Business

Demon (M)

Mother Love (M)

The Other Woman (M)

Loose Ends (M)

Gold (M)

Stolen (M)

Fatal Breath

Holmes for Christmas

Until Death (M)

Grounded*

Quiet Sunday

Benefits of Boredom by Writingwife83

Blue Christmas (M) by MrsMCrieff

Catching a Runaway Bride by TheSapphireSky

Days May Not Be Fair by darthsydious

Her Own Tale of Love by theheartofadetective

Sleepy Beauty by PlatinumNib

So This is Love by onceinabluemoon0013

The Knight’s Return by theSappyireSky

The Professor and Mr Holmes by likingthistoomuch

The Pulse Says It All (M) by SherlollyShock

The Queen’s Man by writingwife83

Always Molly by LaMorenaReina

Back-up Plans by EllisHendricks

Not So Little by PhoebeSnow

The Sherrinford Tale by Millie 1985

Did You Miss Me, Molly Hooper? by Sherlocked-Fangirl-x

Fireplay for Beginners* by hobbitsdoitbetter

Landing on His Feet* by Vitawash

Outlaw by AsteraceaeBlue

Sorcerer’s Apprentice* by patemalah21

The Ghost and Molly Hooper* by Doctor WTF

The Honest Thief by hobbitsdoitbetter

The Pirate and the Doctor (M) by Petra Todd

When White Petals Fall* by Irisang

City of Dreams (M) by MrsMCrieff

Double Cross by steffy2106

Fatal Breath by thedragonaunt

Just Human by Lanceletta

Monster by coloradoandcolorado1

The Return by D. A. Smith

The Detective and the Debutante* by EloiseAtThePlaza

The Lark Ascending by whirligigkat

Tinderbox by Anne Louise 2000

Blind Ambition by OpalSkyLoveDivine

Dear Sherlock, by MudbloodPride

Deconstructing Death by Emmyjean

Demon (M) by thedragonaunt

Dust in the Air by Flaignhan

In the End (M) by Lono

Long Way to You by Lanceletta

Pulling Strings by AuntDidi

Racing Daylight by Flaignhan

The Journey by Abisian

Through the Looking Glass by SherlollyShock

Down Under by cactusnell

Gentlemen at War by Quarto

Message Received by Emmyjean

My, How you’ve grown, in a world of pure imagination by lilsherlockian1975

The Accidental Boyfriend by lizzieBdarcy

The Custody Agreement of an Adorable Calico Demon by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

The Diary of a Small Angry Pathologist by lilsherlockian1975

The Million Dollar Shot by milkforthesouffles

The Natural Science of Happiness Hormones by cactusnell

The Wiggins Chronicles by lilsherlockian1975

Winds of Change by Writingwife83

I haven’t been in the mood to read angsty stories for quite a while. So no addition to this category this time. Sorry!

Always and Never (M) by theheartofadetective

Asylum (M) by Adi Who is Also Mou

Far from the Tree by Petra Todd

Our beginnings Never Know Our Ends by Elixir.BB

Return to Me by MizJoely

Schoolgirl Crush by Flaignhan

Telling the Bees by satin_doll

The Beekeeper by Ditsypersephone

A Beautiful Mind by jankmusic

As You Wish by Alydia Rackham

Beyond Words by SilverGlimmers

Delicious by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

I Will Try to Fix You by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

Louder than Words by Samwise221b

Secrets by Fiji Dreamer

Smoke Damage by cactusnell

The Attribute of the Strong by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

Holiday Romance (M) by MrsMCrieff

More (M) by Liberi Ad Somnia

Mother Love (M) by thedragonaunt

Of Small Boys and Sandwiches* (M) by Gypsy Rose2014

On Paper by MizJoely

On the Side of the Angels by Supervillegirl

The Family Detective by I 4 2 write

Tiny Ways by Flaignhan

WillyougooutwithmeMollyplease by Dreamin

Each in Its Own Fields* by dietplainlite

Fireplay for Beginners* by hobbitsdoitbetter

Ginger Lollipops* by Gypsy Rose2014

Mr Holmes and His Maid by Silencebeyondthestars

(The author has deleted this story on major fan fiction sites and it is not available anywhere on the web now. I’m keeping this in my list, though, because Molly in this story is so powerful and convincing. Hope the author will put it back somewhere in the future.)

Pulling Strings by AuntDidi

Secrets by Fiji Dreamer

The Diary of a Small Angry Pathologist by lilsherlockian1975

Tinderbox by Anne Louise 2000

Training Session by cactusnell

Arthur in Of Bellstaff’s and Twigs by rainbow letters

Benjamin in I’m Out Here by Fayth3

Gabriel in Ginger Lollipops* by Gypsy Rose2014

Georgina in Uncle Mycroft by TheSapphireSky

Lydia in Lydia Listens by MizJoely

Melisande in Daughters, Sherlolly Family by Maejones

Olivia in All You Have by blogyourfeelings

Penelope in Sherlock’s Near Death Experience by jankmusic

Scarlet in Ginger Lollipops* by Gypsy Rose2014

Scott in All We Have by writingwife83

Will in Defining Family by GunterRae

William in Life after Death Part Three: Unfinished Business by thedragonaunt

A Dogs Life by TheSapphireSky

Gentlemen at War by Quarto

Overdressed for the Occasion, in The Anthology by jankmusic

Sherlock v Toby: Winner Take Molls by MizJoely

The Cat Clause, in Negotiations by HeayPuckett

The Diary of a Small Angry Pathologist by lilsherlockian1975

The New Doctor by writingwife83 (Toby makes his appearance from Chapter 4 onwards.)

Toby and His New Pet by Moonunit

Whose Flat Is It Any Way? in A Window into Change by Writingwife83

Blackbeard in A Dogs Life by TheSapphireSky

Cat in Of Small Boys and Sandwiches* (M) by Gypsy Rose2014

Delfina in Untitled Tumblr post by jankmusic

Molly Cocker in New Can at the Pack, Sherlolly Archives (M) by MoniMcCoy

Redbeard in Benefits of Boredom by Writingwife83

Redbeard in Epilogue of In the Quiet Places (M) by Kyerie

Readbeard in Quiet Sunday by thedragonaunt

Smaug in A Dog Fit for Sherlock Holmes by FluffySherlollyFan119

Toby in Loss Restored by Amalia Kensington

I don’t normally read many of this kind, but these are so compelling as a story. I have no addition this time, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any good fics in this category. I just don’t know about them.

dreams, like soap bubbles (M) by broomclosetkink

Holiday Romance (M) by MrsMCrieff

Love Stories and Tournaments of Lies (M) by Nocturnias

Parva Victoriis (Little Victories) (M) by MizJoely

The Boyfriend Experience (M) by hobbitsdoitbetter

#Sherlock #Molly #sherlolly #fic rec #my personal sherlolly fanfic bests so far

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kyuukancorbie · 7 years

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JG Novel Summary 1-3

Robinson 1939

Main character: Kazuo Izawa (和夫　伊沢)/Kaminaga (神永)

Disclaimer: 1. This is intended to be the summary of additional info though I know it turned out to be long. What the anime has covered I will assume everybody knows. 2. The information is based on the Chinese version of Joker Game, I do not claim credit for translation. Anyone who’s going to actually translate the novels are more than welcomed. 3. Everything is quoted, I will put my personal notes in parenthesis. 4. Please do not post the summaries outside of tumblr. 4. Any corrections are welcomed.

I start with chapter 3 of volume one because: 1. the first two chapters have already been translated. 2. This chapter contains a lot of information left out in the anime.

Which means I will list my notes in order with the plot scenes and I will generally skip scenes the anime has already shown unless the anime had a different staging. Also, Robinson contains a special reference to Goethe’s Der Erlkönig which I will denote with asterisks “*” . See the end note for more.

Opening: how to stalk and avoid being stalked.

- Kazuo Izawa (Izawa) notices that he's being followed by 3 people after leaving the Grand At Trafalgar Square, stops by the Daily Telegraph pretending to be reading newspapers.

- One is a middle build man in a grey suit and hat, keeping 10m distance looking into the shop. Another is across the street entering a bread shop. Both seem to be pros.

- Izawa moves onto Fleet Street, takes a detour to the Crowned Clown restaurant for a coffee, and later spots a third follower. He takes note of the relative position of the three.

- He leaves the restaurant, buys a copy of the London Evening Standard, pretends to suddenly remember something and quickly hops on a bus that came right then.

- He arrives at the tube station during rush hour, buys a one-way ticket, gets on the last carriage, when the train is about to leave he forces the door open and jumps back into the station. No one comes out with him. Izawa gets on a train in the opposite direction towards Charring Cross Station.

- He waited for the first two cabs parked in the station to pass, and took the third one, got off somewhere else, changed another two cabs before telling the driver a location two districts away from his destination.

- He finally arrives at building facing Oxford Street near dusk. The shop reads "Maeda Photography" (or whatever you call those shops that takes photos for you).

(Note: In the novel, Izawa’s starting point is referred to simply as the “Grand Hotel”, while there are 4 hotels in London that fit the name. The choice of the Grand at Trafalgar square is based on this analysis of Izawa’s trail in London. In the mainland version, Izawa’s got out of his cab two “blocks” away from his final destination while the distance is two “districts” in the Taiwan version. Still based on the same analysis I chose district instead of block as the distance makes more sense to avoid being discovered. If you read Chinese I recommend reading both the first and second part of the analysis for a detailed speculation of the exact checkpoints in Izawa’s journey and how much D-Agency money he wasted spent tagging around 1937 London. Even if you don’t, just check out the nice maps and pictures and reference links.)

Notes on Maeda.

- Yataro Maeda opened this photography shop when he arrived in London 15 years ago. At first he lets his customers wear kimonos of geishas and took their photos with Mount Fuji in the background, used the oriental flavor as a seller. Recent years he's earned a reputation a artful and trustworthy photographer, not only among Japanese people in London but noted by locals as well.

- Maeda has sinced aged and suffers from ill health. He returns to Japan with his wife and leaves his work to his nephew "Izawa Kasuo", who's been studying photography in Japan.

Second scene in the shop: first reference to Der Erlkönig.

- Izawa goes to the back door of the shop first. He stuck a strand of hair at the side of the door earlier that day before going out, and the hair is as he left it. A basic saftey procedure, but he was called out suddenly today, so this was better than nothing.

- The shop has black curtains, and so it is completely dark inside after the sun set.

* Izawa whistles a tune from Schubert's Erlkönig. The novel depicts a brief scene from the song, the Erlking intends to trick a boy's soul with sweet words, the father holds his son while urging his horse on, only to return home and see --- * the scene cuts off

- Izawa is caught by surprise and arrested in his home. Thus follows the anime.

Notes during the questioning.

- Izawa is questioned directly by Marks from the start, though he does not immediately recognize the man due to the strong light. When he does, he feels more settled, and mentally prepares for an exchange between spies.

- Instead of photos he is simply given the recording of the new ambassador's words that blows his cover from the start. The ambassador is named Satomura and he's compromised by a sex spy.

- The questioning lasted a week. In the anime it is implied to be a full day and night without letting Izawa sleep.

- Izawa initially thought the contact he met with at the Grand blew him but realized the British doesn't know about that person yet.

- At the mention of Yuuki, Izawa bursts in rage in calls him: a cold-blooded animal, flesh seller, hooker, messenger of hell, vampire sucking young people's life, and a weirdo. (Note: In the Japanese version it was initially written "homo". In later versions this changed to "sadist". Both Chinese translations are milder.)

- Izawa isn't tortured, nor is he given a truth serum until right before his escape. He "exchanges" information with the British for a week, Marks gives him the injection in the end to make sure of his intentions. From this he finds that besides encryption, each spy in the D-Agency has a personal style of sending codes, recorded in the Agency like fingerprints.

Flash backs to Yuuki's class on the art of being interrogated.

- Yuuki states that torturing should not be feared, their body will shut down if pain goes over the limits, and fear is what breaks the mind. They merely need to learn how to overcome an exaggerated fear for pain.

- What Izawa learned from the agency: always deny allegations at first, giving away intelligence at first is always a bad idea and causes suspicion; learn how much the enemy knows by letting them speak, if they resort to violence it means they don't have much evidence; provoke the enemy, give away information as if cowered by the pressure to earn trust; let the questioner feel that they found out the information; subtly give them hints so they unconsciously try to deduct and infer.

Flash backs regarding Robinson

- Izawa finds the white-centralism in Robinson distasteful, but finds Robinson's insistence on staying English on a no-man-island interesting from a spy's perspective.

- Enduring physical and mental loneliness isn't much of a problem for spies, it's simply a matter of experience and seeing it as your job. Like actors, magicians, gamblers, most people have the capacity to lie.

- The real " Kazuo Izawa" was summoned by the army and sent somewhere completely detached from outside contact for service.

- We already know about the metaphor of Robinson and Defoe's occupation.

- Before falling asleep Izawa feels he's getting close to the answer to Yuuki's Robinson.

* Vaguely he hears a whistle in the tune of Erlkönig. Then follows a series of flashes of the father, the child, and the Erlking. But the Erlking is a shadow, it turns out to be Yuuki (...).* Izawa wakes up from his daze caused by the truth serum.

Flash backs to Yuuki's class on Judo.

- Yuuki shows the students how to throw an opponent twice his weight.

- A student who's been studying abroad for many years (ahem, we do not know who this is) comments that it's like magic. And is scolded by Yuuki using his iconic line "are you an idiot".

- He states that in the future whoever says that combat and survival techniques are magic cannot stay in the agency.

- Sometimes experts are invited to teach these classes, sometimes Yuuki teaches. The novel vaguely hints that Yuuki is particularly good at Judo.

Izawa's escape is the same as in the anime.

Flash backs to Yuuki's class on being interrogated, field practice.

- Students are woken without warning at night, taken to a single room, and interrogated for hours, sometimes for several days, as part of their training.

- The interrogations do involve violence and use of truth serums.

- Yuuki asks the students to layer their consciousness so they only give away superficial information.

- The students are sure they can do this because they have super big egos.

- Sending perfectly accurate codes are help signals. D-agency spies must escape by themselves within 2 hours of sending the signal and reach check point, where a contact will take them to safety. If they are more than 20 minutes late the contact will consider the escape failed and leave. There will never be a future rescue.

- Apparantly Izawa "almost" failed.

On his way to the coast

- Izawa wonders if this mission means that Yuuki trusts him, or rather doesn't trust him.

- He decides it's too complicated to be summed up by trust, and recognizes he's just a particular part of Yuuki's set up to do the army a favor and stop the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from leaking intelligence.

- He thinks Yuuki an astonishing monster, the Erlking of the Agency.

- He recalls Goethe's Der Erlkönig, the Erlking stole the child's soul with sweet words and the father was helpless no matter how hard he tried to make the child stay.

- Izawa wonders what words will their Erlking Yuuki twist next time to steal his soul.

- He reasons that they will hire a small ship next, and sail to the continent, where he will receive further orders from Yuuki.

- Izawa falls asleep briefly after getting within sight of the coast, a ship (boat?) ready to sail for Europe waiting on the shores.

Final note:

The story refers to Der Erlkönig so "Erlking" or fairy king is the word I used. However, in Japanese the original word is "魔王", which is literally the demon king, the devil, Satan himself if you push it a little. Personally I prefer to think of Yuuki as the devil mastermind, but I also think a fairy king (and fairies are by no means all good fairies, more like little deamons, but deamon king sounds weird) is a reasonable translation.

What about the Erlking stealing the Kaminaga’s soul? Don’t ask me...

But I do think Izawa has complicated feelings about the Devil Yuuki.

@jgfiles

#joker game #kaminaga

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cath100 · 7 years

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My personal Sherlolly fanfic bests so far...: Updated 2016

MizJoely has recently shared a list of her favourite fics. (Thanks Miz for providing the link!) Mine has been made from a slightly different angle. So I thought it might be a nice companion. I started making this list in 2014 and updated it in 2015. The one I'm sharing with you now is the one I had in my draft box, untouched since maybe April 2016. So anything published after that are not included, not because I don't like them. I simply didn't have time to follow them.

There are some new additions and a couple of new categories. They are in bold. Please reblog if you like it! Many many thanks!

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This list is based on my personal preferences. Also I haven’t read ALL Sherlolly stories. (Who can?) So the list is never intended to be authoritative or exhaustive.

The stories with an asterisk are not complete. (M) indicates respective author’s own rating, some for explicit sexual expression, others for some other reasons.

I Told You So by Writingwife83

A saga here refers to a series of multi-chapter fics that traces the couple's history.

By coloradoandcolorado1

The Lonely

Broken Pieces

The Distance

Innuendo (M)

Monster

Overkill

Dark Reaches of the Night

By Gypsy Rose2014

Gabriel's Wish

Of Small Boys and Sandwiches* (M)

Ginger Lollipops*

Wishes (M)

A Summer Story (M)

Trimming the Tree

By thedragonaunt

Life After Death - A Post-Reichenbach Trilogy

Part One - Aftermath (M)

Part Two - Consequences

Part Three - Unfinished Business

Demon (M)

Mother Love (M)

The Other Woman (M)

Loose Ends (M)

Gold (M)

Stolen (M)

Fatal Breath

Holmes for Christmas

Until Death* (M)

Quiet Sunday

Benefits of Boredom by Writingwife83

Blue Christmas (M) by MrsMCrieff

Catching a Runaway Bride by TheSapphireSky

Days May Not Be Fair by darthsydious

Her Own Tale of Love by theheartofadetective

So This is Love by onceinabluemoon0013

The Professor and Mr Holmes by likingthistoomuch

The Pulse Says It All (M) by SherlollyShock

Did You Miss Me, Molly Hooper?* by Sherlocked-Fangirl-x

Landing on His Feet* by Vitawash

Sorcerer’s Apprentice* by patemalah21

The Ghost and Molly Hooper* by Doctor WTF

The Honest Thief by hobbitsdoitbetter

The Pirate and the Doctor (M) by Petra Todd

When White Petals Fall* by Irisang

City of Dreams by MrsMCrieff

Double Cross by steffy2106

Just Human by Lanceletta

Monster by coloradoandcolorado1

The Return by D. A. Smith

The Detective and the Debutante* by EloiseAtThePlaza

Tinderbox by Anne Louise 2000

Blind Ambition by OpalSkyLoveDivine

Dear Sherlock, by MudbloodPride

Deconstructing Death by Emmyjean

Demon (M) by thedragonaunt

In the End (M) by Lono

Long Way to You by Lanceletta

Racing Daylight by Flaignhan

Through the Looking Glass by SherlollyShock

Down Under by cactusnell

Message Received by Emmyjean

The Accidental Boyfriend by lizzieBdarcy

The Custody Agreement of an Adorable Calico Demon by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

The Diary of a Small Angry Pathologist by lilsherlockian1975

The Million Dollar Shot by milkforthesouffles

Winds of Change by Writingwife83

Always and Never (M) by theheartofadetective

Asylum (M) by Adi Who is Also Mou

Far from the Tree by Petra Todd

Our beginnings Never Know Our Ends by Elixir.BB

Return to Me by MizJoely

Schoolgirl Crush by Flaignhan

Telling the Bees by satin_doll

The Beekeeper by Ditsypersephone

A Beautiful Mind by jankmusic

As You Wish by Alydia Rackham

Delicious by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

I Will Try to Fix You by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

Secrets by Fiji Dreamer

Smoke Damage by cactusnell

The Attribute of the Strong by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

Holiday Romance (M) by MrsMCrieff

More (M) by Liberi Ad Somnia

Mother Love (M) by thedragonaunt

Of Small Boys and Sandwiches* (M) by Gypsy Rose2014

On Paper by MizJoely

On the Side of the Angels by Supervillegirl

The Family Detective by I 4 2 write

Each in Its Own Fields* by dietplainlite

Ginger Lollipops* by Gypsy Rose2014

Mr Holmes and His Maid by Silencebeyondthestars

(The author has deleted this story on major fan fiction sites and it is not available anywhere on the web now. I'm keeping this in my list, though, because Molly in this story is so powerful and convincing. Hope the author will put it back somewhere in the future.)

Secrets by Fiji Dreamer

The Diary of a Small Angry Pathologist by lilsherlockian1975

Tinderbox by Anne Louise 2000

Training Session by cactusnell

Benjamin in I’m Out Here by Fayth3

Gabriel in Ginger Lollipops* by Gypsy Rose2014

Melisande in Daughters, Sherlolly Family by Maejones

Penelope in Sherlock’s Near Death Experience by jankmusic

Scarlet in Ginger Lollipops* by Gypsy Rose2014

Scott in All We Have by writingwife83

Will in Defining Family by GunterRae

William in Life after Death Part Three: Unfinished Business by thedragonaunt

Overdressed for the Occasion, in The Anthology by jankmusic

Sherlock v Toby: Winner Take Molls by MizJoely

The Cat Clause, in Negotiations by HeayPuckett

The Diary of a Small Angry Pathologist by lilsherlockian1975

The New Doctor by writingwife83 (Toby makes his appearance from Chapter 4 onwards.)

Toby and His New Pet by Moonunit

Whose Flat Is It Any Way? in A Window into Change by Writingwife83

Cat in Of Small Boys and Sandwiches* (M) by Gypsy Rose2014

Molly Cocker in New Can at the Pack, Sherlolly Archives (M) by MoniMcCoy

Redbeard in Benefits of Boredom by Writingwife83

Redbeard in Epilogue of In the Quiet Places (M) by Kyerie

Readbeard in Quiet Sunday by thedragonaunt

Toby in Loss Restored by Amalia Kensington

I don't normally read many of this kind, but those listed here are so compelling as stories that I was unable to abandon them. I'm sure there are others that are as good. I just haven't read them.

dreams, like soap bubbles (M) by broomclosetkink

Holiday Romance (M) by MrsMCrieff

Love Stories and Tournaments of Lies (M) by Nocturnias

Parva Victoriis (Little Victories) (M) by MizJoely

The Boyfriend Experience (M) by hobbitsdoitbetter

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