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THIS MEETING OF LIKE MINDS

Fandoms: Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King, Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers

Summary: Two women, both alumnae of the same esteemed university, meet one day at the Bodleian Library.

Characters: Mary Russell, Harriet Vane

Notes: Created as a Holmestice gift for

language_escapes. Many thanks to

sanguinity for alpha and beta reading this project, and for the Oxford setting. (Shifting this to Oxford was inspired.)

Here the role of Harriet Vane is played by Dorothy L. Sayers herself, and the role of Mary Russell is played by the inimitable Katharine Hepburn...admittedly she's nothing like how Mary Russell is described in the books, in terms of appearance, but there's a certain similarity in attitude and personality that seemed right!

View this work on AO3, or here below:

( This Meeting of Like Minds )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/112870.html

LA RONDE CORVI

Summary:

“We can talk about something else,” Blue offered.

Then Ronan realized “something else” meant: something other than your nightmares.

Or: five ficlets in which each of the gang gets a chance to help one another through past and present traumas.

Characters: Ronan Lynch, Blue Sargent, Adam Parrish, Noah Czerny, Richard Gansey III

Words: 4,500

Read on AO3, or here below.

( La Ronde Corvi )

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Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/107415.html

HEART, AND BRAIN, AND ALL

Summary: If Gwen is the conscience, and Tosh is clearly the brain – then what, Ianto ponders, are the rest of them?

Characters: whole team (Ianto, Jack, Gwen, Tosh, Owen)

Words: 800

Rating: G

Notes:

In honour of the fact that I’m IN CARDIFF RIGHT NOW (!!!), a Torchwood ficlet.

This was an idea I had a million years ago, inspired by a line Tosh says in “Wonderland” by nancybrown. I always wanted to incorporate this into a much larger, plottier fic, and maybe I still will someday; but for now, this. :-)

Read on AO3, or here below:

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( Heart, and Brain, and All )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/105115.html

SINCE YOU ASK ME FOR A TALE OF MAGIC

Fandom: John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme

Summary: Well, since you ask me for a tale of magic, I do have one account you may find…enchanting.

Characters: Finnemore (the Storyteller), plus a bit of a stealth crossover character

Words: 1,500

Notes: A Yuletide treat for calliatra.

Dear Calliatra, I was so delighted to be matched with you; we share at least two fandoms and clearly also a ton of interests, and you had SO many fun prompts! My “official” gift to you is the Penguin Diplomacy fic, but for some reason first my brain dashed off this absurdity, which I hope you enjoy.

This story sounds better if you imagine it in John Finnemore’s voice, but then, you knew that already. :-)

(With apologies to everyone else in the world, because this doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you avidly follow John Finnemore’s work. Possibly it may not make a lot of sense even if you do!)

Thank you to the kind, delightful and funny

scfrankles for beta-reading.

Read on AO3, or here below:

( Since You Ask Me for a Tale of Magic )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/101857.html

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:

( Do You Observe? )

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Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/100079.html

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/85496.html

( Chapter Four: The Most Amazing Place )
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Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/85067.html

( Chapter Three: A Day at Diagon Alley )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/84954.html

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/84552.html

IF YOU'VE GOT A LANTERN HOLD IT HIGH

Summary: Three years after the war, a stranger arrives at Hogwarts with a letter addressed to Minerva McGonagall by the familiar hand of an old friend. Before the summer is through, the contents of the letter will bring together several lives that might otherwise never have touched.

Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Andromeda Black Tonks, original characters (Serena and Joy from "Raise Your Lantern High"), Teddy Lupin, briefly Hagrid, offscreen but alluded to often: Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks

Words: 12,900 / Chapters: 4

Notes:

Set a few years after “Raise Your Lantern High” (not a sequel, since that story is complete – more of a “bonus extra”!) but it also works as a standalone if you haven’t read that story.

“Raise Your Lantern High” followed Remus and Tonks throughout HBP; the two original characters in this story, Serena and her daughter Joy (also known by her werewolf name, River), are characters Remus got to know during his time living with a werewolf pack that year. I’ll include some more background at the bottom of chapter 1, if you’d like to know more, but again, I don’t think you’ll be confused if you just dive in!

(Note for those coming here from “Raise Your Lantern High”: the character was known as Joy in that story, because it was from Remus’ perspective and he thought in human names; here you’ll see her as River, because it’s from her own perspective. And yet I’ve used Serena’s human name here, because she’s among humans and thus using her human name …And yes, I do realise I made this complicated for myself when I created the construct of werewolf vs. human names!)

My great thanks to

gilpin25 who provided such a thoughtful beta-read of this story. (And Brit-picking, too!) I appreciate it so much.

Read here, or on AO3.

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( Chapter One: A Visitor at Hogwarts )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/84428.html

TWENTY YEARS ON

Summary: Twenty drabbles about twenty characters, and where they are twenty years on from the start of the Harry Potter series – in honour of the twentieth anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, first published on 26 June, 1997. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARRY POTTER!

Characters: Aberforth, Andromeda, Angelina, Arthur, Charlie, Dean, Draco, Fleur & Bill, George, Ginny, Hagrid, Harry, Hermione, Luna, Minerva, Molly, Neville, Percy, Ron, Teddy

Rating: G

Words: 2,000 exactly

Notes:

By “twenty years on from the start of the Harry Potter series” I mean I’ve set this roughly in the summer of 2011, so it’s 20 years after the start of the main action of Philosopher’s Stone (1991: Harry’s 11th birthday/getting his Hogwarts letter), and 13 years after the end of Deathly Hallows (1998: when Harry’s nearly 18).

Probably some small deviations here from Pottermore and latterly JKR revelations about characters’ post-canon lives, since I tend to view those as interesting expanded universe but not strictly canon, and because in some characters’ cases I’d already written stories and established headcanons before JKR’s info came out. Minor stuff, though! Details like where Fleur works. :-)

Read on AO3, or here below:

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( TWENTY YEARS ON )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/83182.html

LITTLE AMUSEMENTS, OR HOW ANTHEA GOT HER NAME

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary:

She made up secret personas each day to keep from going mad with boredom at her job. It amused her, and it didn’t matter since no one noticed anyway.

Until Mycroft Holmes noticed.

Characters: Anthea, Mycroft, original character

Words: 3,500

Notes: This is for

indybaggins, who once said "I'd be curious to see how you portray Anthea," so ( . . . a little bit later . . . ) here she is.

I suppose I should further note – though it’s not hugely relevant for this particular story – that as a whole I’m pretty much ignoring the existence of S4 . . . so I’m writing the characters as they were around S1/S2-era or so. :-)

Thank you to

pipmer1 for betareading!

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( Little Amusements )

or read it on AO3.

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Crossposts: http://starfishstar.livejournal.com/81452.html

IN TWENTY MINUTES

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary: After the hug, what then?

Characters: John, Sherlock

Words: 1,900

Notes: Ages ago

pipmer1 left a prompt wanting to see “what happens between Sherlock and John right after that epic hug.” That stuck in my brain, and months later I’ve ended up writing my version of it…even though I’ve otherwise been trying valiantly to delete S4 from my brain entirely. ;-)

Thank you to

indybaggins for betareading! We realized we were both writing fics about the exact same canon missing moment (though very different in tone) and decided to swap betaing. It was fun! And thanks as always to

arianedevere, whose transcripts are a fandom resource and treasure.

Rated T for discussions of grief, and John’s swearing.

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( In Twenty Minutes )

or read it on AO3.

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Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/81183.html

Inspired by bfcure's Russian translation of my short Torchwood fic "Foreign Languages," I thought it would be fun to try my own hand at a translation...into German. This would not have been possible without the German-beta-work-extraordinaire of

vulcan_rhapsody. Thank you!!

FREMDSPRACHEN

Summary: Jack lernt sein Team in fünf verschiedenen Sprachen kennen.

Characters: das Team: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh und Owen.

Words: 5x100

Rating: G

Notes: Ursprünglich geschrieben für Challenge #342 bei

tw100: “foreign language”. Übersetzt von mir; Beta:

vulcan_rhapsody. Diese deutsche Version ist auch zu finden bei AO3: "Fremdsprachen".

Story:

( Fremdsprachen )

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HOLLY TO THE IVY

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary:

It’s Christmas – Sherlock’s first Christmas home from uni – and neither Holmes brother needs anyone.

Definitely not.

Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft, and briefly Mummy Holmes

Words: ~2,700

Notes: To me, this completes the arc of my Mycroft and Sherlock stories – a series of one-shots about the two of them as kids/young adults that I'm now calling “Brothers, Bitter and Sweet.” This story can stand alone, or can be read as continuing the themes in those stories ("Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas," "The Truth Will Break Your Heart," "Shadow and Shade"). And I find it pleasingly congruent that this story is set at Christmas, and so was my very first Sherlock story, one year ago.

Thank you to

stereolightning for beta-reading!

Story also at AO3!

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( Holly to the Ivy )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, shimotsuki! Thanks for inspiring us all with your Kaleidoscope stories, for bringing us together as a community in places like rt_morelove, and for being such a supportive friend and reader of others' stories. As soon as JKR announced that Sirius Black shared a birthday with you, I knew I had to write you something for the day…it was simply a question of what. Hope you enjoy!

Sirius Black and the Case of the Missing Dirigible Plums

Summary: There’s a mystery afoot in Gryffindor Tower, and Sirius is going to get to the bottom of it: Who stole the dirigible plums?

Characters: Sirius Black, James Potter, Lily Evans

Words: ca. 2,500

Notes: Happy birthday, shimotsuki! This fic is for you, who share a very special birthday with one Sirius Black. As I pondered “What Can I Write About That’s Sirius-Centric And Shimotsuki Will Enjoy?” I thought of your love of mystery stories, and our shared appreciation of Dorothy L. Sayers’ books. And I had a very silly idea.

Characters belong to J.K. Rowling; plot elements shamelessly and zanily lifted from “Talboys” by Dorothy L. Sayers. (Forgive me for leaving out the snake and the child-rearing debates...but you’ll find most of the rest intact!)

( Sirius Black and the Case of the Missing Dirigible Plums )

RELENTLESS SUNSHINE

Summary: Sometimes, the young have wisdom for the old. A rare sunny moment in the Order of the Phoenix.

Characters: Mad-Eye Moody, Lily Evans Potter

Words: 760

Notes: For the

rs_games' ficlet activity; I’m not even playing in the Games this year, but I can never seem to resist a prompt. Mine was Mad-Eye Moody + Lily Evans Potter + the phrase “relentless sunshine.” (And yes, I realized belatedly I’d read the prompting chart wrong, and my secondary character was supposed to be Albus Dumbledore, not Lily. Oh well, at least he got a mention in the fic!)

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( Relentless Sunshine )

SHADOW AND SHADE

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary:

“I didn’t need your help,” Sherlock sniffed, turning back to his object of study.

Mycroft sighed. “Yes, yes, I’m sure you didn’t.”

Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft

Words: ~1,900

( Shadow and Shade )

FIRST KISS

Summary: Perhaps the best part about a first kiss is telling a best friend.

Characters: Sirius Black, Remus Lupin (gen; Sirius/OC)

Words: 445

Notes:

Dear

huldrejenta, happy birthday! You are a pleasure to know. I saw your prompts at the

sirius_black comment fest, and thought I’d use those as inspiration to write you something for your birthday. I’m betting this is not at all what you intended when you wrote this prompt, but I hope you enjoy it anyway! Just a small bit of silliness, really.

The original prompt was:

Prompt: First kiss
Optional prompt: Rain, curfew, Remus

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( First Kiss )

BROTHERS

Summary: Brothers choose each other. Always.

Characters: Sirius Black, James Potter, Regulus Black

Words: ~400

Notes: Tangentially inspired by something huldrejenta wrote ("Brother") and more directly inspired by gracerene’s comment on that story.

Thank you to stereolightning for giving this a beta-read!

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( Brothers )

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This Meeting of Like Minds (Mary Russell x Lord Peter Wimsey, art)
La Ronde Corvi (The Raven Cycle)
Heart, and Brain, and All (Torchwood)
Since You Ask Me for a Tale of Magic (John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme)
Do You Observe? (221B Baker Towers)
If You've Got a Lantern Hold It High – master post
If You’ve Got a Lantern Hold It High, chapter 4: The Most Amazing Place
If You’ve Got a Lantern Hold It High, chapter 3: A Day at Diagon Alley
If You’ve Got a Lantern Hold It High, chapter 2: A Stranger in the House
If You’ve Got a Lantern Hold It High, chapter 1: A Visitor at Hogwarts
Twenty Years On
Little Amusements, or How Anthea Got Her Name
In Twenty Minutes
Fremdsprachen ("Foreign Languages" in German, Torchwood fic)
Holly to the Ivy (BBC Sherlock)
Sirius Black and the Case of the Missing Dirigible Plums (BIRTHDAY FIC for shimotsuki)
Relentless Sunshine
Shadow and Shade (BBC Sherlock)
First Kiss
Brothers

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Entries tagged with genfic

This Meeting of Like Minds (Mary Russell x Lord Peter Wimsey, art)

La Ronde Corvi (The Raven Cycle)

Heart, and Brain, and All (Torchwood)

Since You Ask Me for a Tale of Magic (John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme)

Do You Observe? (221B Baker Towers)

If You've Got a Lantern Hold It High – master post

If You’ve Got a Lantern Hold It High, chapter 4: The Most Amazing Place

If You’ve Got a Lantern Hold It High, chapter 3: A Day at Diagon Alley

If You’ve Got a Lantern Hold It High, chapter 2: A Stranger in the House

If You’ve Got a Lantern Hold It High, chapter 1: A Visitor at Hogwarts

Twenty Years On

Little Amusements, or How Anthea Got Her Name

In Twenty Minutes

Fremdsprachen ("Foreign Languages" in German, Torchwood fic)

Holly to the Ivy (BBC Sherlock)

Sirius Black and the Case of the Missing Dirigible Plums (BIRTHDAY FIC for shimotsuki)

Relentless Sunshine

Shadow and Shade (BBC Sherlock)

First Kiss

Brothers