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a podfic of The Stress of Her Regard by vulgarweed

Fandoms: The Affair of the Mysterious Letter – Alexis Hall, BBC Sherlock

Summary: Due to an interdimensional traffic accident (or at least I shall make that the official account), two strange travellers find themselves temporarily stranded in early 21st century London, as the locals reckon place and time. At least one makes herself right at home.

Characters: John Wyndham, Shaharazad Haas, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson

Length: 11 minutes

Notes: Written as a gift for Iwantthatcoat, for the winter 2020 Holmestice exchange. Read as a gift for Vulgarweed, for the winter 2022 Holmestice exchange. Betaed by A.

Music credits:
Ne Nehledej - Iva Bittová
So What - P!nk

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MY HEART SHALL NOT REPROACH ME

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary:

John had been his compass then; now it is John who is lost, and Sherlock tries to return that kindness in what small ways he can.

A remix of ancientreader’s “The Thing Which I Greatly Feared Is Come Upon Me.” Scenario and all dialogue by ancientreader.

Characters: Sherlock/John

Words: 2,200

Notes: A somewhat belated Holmestice treat for ancientreader, whose Holmestice sign-up request for a remix of “The Thing Which I Greatly Feared Is Come Upon Me” caught my imagination immediately. Thank you to pipmer1 for betareading!


Read on AO3, or here below:

 

( My Heart Shall Not Reproach Me )

 

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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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I realized recently that I never posted here about finnagain's delightful podfic of my fic "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas." (I linked to the podfic from the story on AO3, but somehow forgot to do it here from LJ.)

Finn's podfic is great, and especially since that was my very first fic in the Sherlock fandom, to have someone show up with a podfic of it was such an amazing, wonderful, delightful surprise!


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Here's Finn's podfic of "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas" on AO3 or on Tumblr!
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(Here's the original fic on AO3 or on LJ – I'll also add a link to the podfic from the fic itself on LJ, which is the step I somehow missed way back when Finn first did this.)

BUDS AND BELLS AND STARS WITHOUT A NAME

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary: Where Greg could have sworn an oak tree had stood a moment before, there was now instead a very posh man in a long, dark coat.

…In which Greg Lestrade has lunch in a city garden, and gets way more than he bargained for.

Characters: Greg Lestrade, Sherlock, cameos from Mycroft, Mrs Hudson, Donovan, Moriarty (sort of) and Redbeard (sort of); eventual Sherlock/Lestrade, but can also be read as mostly gen

( CHAPTER FIVE )

BUDS AND BELLS AND STARS WITHOUT A NAME

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary: Where Greg could have sworn an oak tree had stood a moment before, there was now instead a very posh man in a long, dark coat.

…In which Greg Lestrade has lunch in a city garden, and gets way more than he bargained for.

Characters: Greg Lestrade, Sherlock, cameos from Mycroft, Mrs Hudson, Donovan, Moriarty (sort of) and Redbeard (sort of); eventual Sherlock/Lestrade, but can also be read as mostly gen

( CHAPTER THREE )

BUDS AND BELLS AND STARS WITHOUT A NAME

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary: Where Greg could have sworn an oak tree had stood a moment before, there was now instead a very posh man in a long, dark coat.

…In which Greg Lestrade has lunch in a city garden, and gets way more than he bargained for.

Characters: Greg Lestrade, Sherlock, cameos from Mycroft, Mrs Hudson, Donovan, Moriarty (sort of) and Redbeard (sort of); eventual Sherlock/Lestrade, but can also be read as mostly gen

Length: 5 short chapters (ca. 12,000 words total)

Notes: This was my Winter 2015 Holmestice gift for biswholocked, whose fun requests included: fantasy or magical realism or Sherlock as some kind of supernatural/fae/magical being, emotional exploration between characters, some danger, possibly casefic, and Sherlock/Lestrade…

I'm rather proud of this one, because I did many things that were new for me! In Sherlock fandom, so far I'd mostly only written serious, introspective one-shots about Mycroft and Sherlock (in fact, the final one of those is coming tomorrow!), but this one is longer, with more plot and action and even a bit of romance! Plus fantastical mythical beasts!

Thank you to the thesmallhobbit for such a fast, helpful beta, and to arianedevere for your amazing dialogue file. Phrases you recognise, dear reader, are either drawn from Arthur Conan Doyle himself (namely Holmes’ descriptions of Moriarty in “The Final Problem”) or BBC canon.

Story takes place pre-canon in a slightly alternate universe.

Also at AO3!

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( CHAPTER ONE (I'll post all the chapters now, but I'll hide the subsequent ones from the feed so as not to flood you all! )

THE TRUTH WILL BREAK YOUR HEART

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary: Sherlock had been too intelligent for well-intentioned lies for years now. Mycroft realised he would have to be told the truth.

Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft, Redbeard

Words: ~1,600

Tags/Warnings: Sherlock and Mycroft as kids, discussion of the death of a beloved pet/discussion of putting a pet to sleep, grief, comfort, kidlock, yes: stories of Mycroft worrying over Sherlock are apparently My Thing

Notes: Another story inspired by the musings of those lovely folks over at the Three Patch Podcast (threepatch) – in this case, Shannon, Roane and Caroline in the Sorting Redbeard segment of Episode 35: The Bitter Brother.

Also at AO3!

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( The Truth Will Break Your Heart )

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERY OF FATHER CHRISTMAS

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

Summary: “I did the calculations,” Sherlock said, an incongruous statement in his piping child’s voice. “It doesn’t work. He’d have to visit a whole bunch of houses every single second. He’d have to travel faster than the speed of sound.”

Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft, Mummy Holmes, Daddy Holmes

Words: ~2,300

Notes: Yes, I wrote my first Sherlock fic! I can't quite believe it either.

Inspired by  threepatch podcast's Episode 31, "Holmes for the Holidays", where in the opening segment, hosts Rachael, Finn and Qui mused about what the dynamics of Holmes family Christmases must have been like when Sherlock and Mycroft were kids. Here's the bit of their conversation that inspired this story, roughly transcribed:

"Can you imagine the dad trying to maintain the mystery of Old Saint Nick, and then Mycroft and Sherlock having none of it?"
"I’m sure there's a great story there, and I hope somebody writes that as a holiday fic, if they haven't written it already – Sherlock deducing, as a young child, The Santa Mystery. And being very offended. Or I could see him going the other way and really believing in Santa, being really upset!"
"The heartbreak. Oh! Mycroft could try to have been the person that keeps the myth alive and will go out of the way to continue to trick Sherlock, 'cause he can do that."

Story also at AO3!

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( Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas )