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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. :-)


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