Crossposting is about to commence...

Just a quick word of apology/warning, to those of you who have me in your friends feed... I'm going to start crossposting my fics here, which means a small flood coming soon. (Two Holmestice fics now, then a bunch of Yuletide fics after they de-anon).

I seem to be one of the few people who still do this – post the fic itself to Dreamwidth in addition to AO3, not just an announcement or link. But I have always been an intense and sometimes inconvenient completist, and I have always posted my fics here (well, originally Livejournal, now Dreamwidth + Livejournal) so that they can also all be collected in my masterlist here. So, I am still a completist, and am still going to do that. :-)

Final count, between Holmestice and Yuletide, is seven fics in five fandoms, plus meanwhile I've also finished another fic in another different and new fandom... During late November/early December, I had so many projects going at once that I had to make myself a chart to keep track!

And now, for the first time ever, my AO3 dashboard has that little "expand fandoms list" button, because I've finally written in more than 5 fandoms. :D

Do You Observe? (221B Baker Towers)

DO YOU OBSERVE?

Fandom: 221B Baker Towers

Summary:

Life with Holmes is nonstop.

Characters: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson

Words: 1,600

Notes:

Forsanguinity, for Holmestice.

A million thanks to grrlpup for such a detailed and enthusiastic beta, and to smallhobbit for fast and knowledgeable britpicking.


About this ‘verse:

221B Baker Towers is a fan-created universe, in which Sherlock Holmes is a young, black British man on a London council estate. As concept originator sophistry put it:

“…if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. […] If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by…”

I’ve also drawn from various additional headcanons that can be found on the 221B Baker Towers tumblr, most notably that Watson is from Afghanistan.


About this fic:

Inspired by rachelindeed’s ACD Holmes story “Literary Shortcomings”, which is where I first came across the “1 sentence” format. Credit for the format and the prompts belongs to 1sentenceorder, theme set delta. Where I have strayed a bit from the format, it’s my fault, not theirs. :-)


Read on AO3, or here below:


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The Glorious Disguise (My Dearly Beloved Detective)

THE GLORIOUS DISGUISE

Fandom: My Dearly Beloved Detective

Summary: On a quiet night in front of the fire at 221B Baker Street, Shirley tells Jane about the greatest disguise of her career.

Characters: Shirley Holmes/Jane Watson

Words: 2,700

Notes:

For sanguinity, for Holmestice.

Dear Sanguinity, you are a pillar of the Holmestice community in general, and an inspiration to me in particular, and here is a Holmestice treat for you! You asked what led Shirley and Jane to apply for these roles; and you often mention your love of “old and deep relationships with a lot of history in them.” I’ve tried to give you a little of both those things.

To those who may not know “My Dearly Beloved Detective”: In this ‘verse, Sherlock Holmes is fictional, but people kept looking for him and his detective skills, so eventually a real detective agency was set up at 221B Baker Street. Shirley Holmes and Jane Watson are the two women who stepped into those famous literary roles.

And by the way, in the film Shirley and Jane part ways at the end, but in my world that never happened. :-)

Thank you to colebaltblue for betaing and enthusiasm!

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