A Holmesian Solstice

Title: A Foregone Introduction
Recipient: starfishstar
Author: graycardinal
Verse: kitten!Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Dr. Stamford, Murray, Sherlock (kitten!Holmes), Watson (kitten!Holmes)
Rating: All audiences
Warnings: None
Words: 650
Summary: A fateful meeting takes place at the Bartholomew Street Animal Shelter.

Notes:
This story draws its initial inspiration from a single image: that of a tabby kitten with a deerstalker and calabash, which appears at the end of the closing credits for the 1980s television series Remington Steele. Readers will quickly discern that it also departs from that image in a key respect. This is because, in working out the dynamics of the scene presented below, the breed characteristics made much more sense once they had been flipped. Here, then, is the prospective foundation of a kitten!Holmes story universe….

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Title: Reign of the Kadins
Recipient: Inatshej
Author: dryadinthegrove
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: John Watson, Harriet Watson
Rating: NC17
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con, Non-graphic violence (??)
Summary: Injured during the Battle of Impermanence Field, can Prince Juno rally from further deadly blows as he recovers in Corinth Hospital, home of the most out of control Alphas and Omegas? Stolen from the Army of Recovery, will Prince Juno have what it takes to navigate this new world and find the man he's destined to marry? Most of all, will he retain his sanity?

Find out in Prince of All Worlds, book eight in the best-selling Romance series, Reign of the Kadins!


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Title: A Charming Picture
Recipient: fleetsparrow
Artist: ghostbees
Verse: Rathbone films
Characters/Pairings: Holmes &/ Moriarty
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: “Then we shall walk together through the Gates of Eternity hand-in-hand.” / “What a charming picture that would make.”
Artist’s Note:So happy to have got to draw those two for you! I never really see much Daniell Moriarty content, but he is absolutely wonderful and that scene you mentioned in your signup post is honestly everything. The funky colours are inspired by the original lobby cards for The Woman in Green.

( A Charming Picture )

Title: What It Is To Be Lonely
Recipient: ohlooktheresabee
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & Dr John Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: With Holmes’ retirement looming in the distance, Watson has a question for his friend.

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Title: Matters of Luck
Recipient: queenoferebor
Author: graycardinal
’Verse: Elementary
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Joan Watson, Jonathan Bloom, historical characters
Rating: teen audiences
Words: ~6100
Warnings: none
Summary:
“Those who depend on luck least will be rewarded most generously.”
When Jonathan Bloom offers Holmes and Watson a challenge, little do they expect that resolving it may require rewriting history.


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Title: Partnerships
Recipient: ohlooktheresabee
Author: BookGirlFan
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Summary: Sherlock doesn't understand why John doesn't like it when he calls them partners.

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Title: Her Own Circle
Recipient: sanguinity
Author: tepidspongebath
Verse: ACD Canon
Characters/Pairings: Mary Sutherland, Isadora Klein, Mrs. Ronder
Rating: Gen
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Surely it would have been kinder to have told me of the falseness of Mr. Hosmer Angel straightaway? I might not have believed him at first, so consumed was I by the notion of my tragic romance, but I like to think that I am sensible enough to have followed his reasoning had he chosen to share it with me.

Mary Sutherland - she of the disappearing bridegroom - discovers what her stepfather has done and takes her life into her own hands.

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Title: The Lion's Roar; or, The End of Albion
Recipient: trobadora
Author: thedoubtfulguest
Verse: A Study in Emerald
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & Moriarty
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Summary: The consulting detective and his chronicler trade the vile alleys of London for the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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Title: The Cure for Grief
Recipient: oldshrewsburyian (Oldshrewsburyian)
Author: Merfilly
Verse: ACD canon
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: grieving for a spouse
Summary: "...the first case I joined my friend upon in the aftermath of becoming a widower involved theft and murder..."

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Title: Workin' for a Livin'
Recipient: write_out
Vidder: Dee Laundry (deelaundry)
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Greg Lestrade, Sally Donovan, DI Dimmock, DI Carter, DI Hopkins, Chief Superintendent, Philip Anderson, Mrs. Hudson, Policeman, Young Policeman, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Rating: Teen/TV-14/PG-13 (same as show)
Warnings: Visual triggers: Flashing lights. Depictions of police: Police acting in their capacity as law enforcement throughout the vid. Violence: Bloody nose, dead body (not a major character).
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant detective, but he also picks and chooses. Not so the dedicated members of New Scotland Yard and other police forces: they are workin' for a livin'.
Notes: Thank you to my hard workin' beta who will be named later. Special shout-out to actor Eric Kofi Abrefa whose character was only called "Policeman" but is a standout in this vid. And in case you say, hey, haven't I seen that that Young Policeman before, he's Luke Newberry, who played the teen-zombie main character in BBC's In the Flesh.
Music: "Workin' for a Livin'," Phil Vassar with Huey Lewis, originally by Huey Lewis and the News

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