A Holmesian Solstice

Title: A Steady Man
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Author: a_candle_for_sherlock
Verse: ACD canon
Characters/Pairings: Sussex!Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: none apply
Summary:
“Watson has always been a steady man, since I have known him: steady mind, steady hand, steady heart. And while he has called me a man of habits, I have found his habits more reliable by far. When there is danger he will stand to meet it, and where I go, he will want to go.

But it did surprise me that he agreed to retire with me.”

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Title: the night shift
Recipient: Blistering_Typhoons
Author: beamkatanachronicles
Verse: ACD canon
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: n/a
Summary: "Holmes," Watson rumbles, his voice low and woolly with sleep. But the warning is toothless. He sighs as Holmes, still fully dressed, insinuates himself into the contours of his partner's body. "You know I hate to go to bed alone."

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Title: conductor of light
Recipient: lucygturbin
Author: rachelindeed
Verse: ACD Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, James Moriarty
Rating: G
Warnings: one mention of harm to animals in a wartime context, nothing graphic
Summary: Dr. Watson is a shadow-catcher, newly returned to London and weighted with the regrets of Maiwand. Sherlock Holmes is a light-caster, but one far more interested in casework than spellwork. The slowly growing connection between them proves to be, in many ways, enlightening.

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Title: A Letter From France
Recipient: graycardinal
Author: rabidsamfan
Verse: ACD canon
Characters/Pairings: John Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: World War 1,
Summary:
Watson writes to Holmes after becoming the commander of an Ambulance Train just before the Battle of the Somme.

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Title: like lightning (make the earth like day)
Recipient: tepidspongebath
Author: armchair_elvis
Verse: ACD canon
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Mature
Warnings: brief mention of suicide, some violence
Summary: A snippet; a bare-bones retelling of HOUN with a little magic added. With a shadow at the end, a hint of things to come.

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Title: Yet Another Brain-Wave
Recipient: inkonice
Artist/Vidder: mundungus42
Verse: ACD
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: non-graphic BDSM, caning, blindfolds
Summary: Watson has an exciting commission but is stuck on what to call the story. Holmes has an inspired suggestion.


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Title: Mary Keeps House
Recipient: escott/nakbabakla
Author: tepidspongebath
Verse: ACD Canon
Characters/Pairings: Mary Morstan
Rating: gen
Warnings: period-typical homophobia
Summary: “I will tell my husband should it become necessary,” said Mary, setting the cow creamer back on the sideboard. She was already beginning to look at it with a good deal more fondness as Mr. Lestrade propped up Mr. Narramore and put him in handcuffs. “And I suspect that Mr. Holmes already knows. But I intend to continue keeping house as best I know how."

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Title: A Restless and Impatient Creature
Recipient: Everyone who loves a trans!Holmes story
Author: bendingthewillow
Verse: ACD Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson & Colonel Hayter
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Vague description of injuries; Reference to drug use.
Summary:

Inspector Forrester and Mr. Acton had departed, Colonel Hayter seeing them out, and I sank back on the sofa, as my feeling of victory and success began to mix with a rising fatigue and the aches and pains from my fight with the two Cunninghams. Watson stood at the sideboard, studying the bottles the Colonel had lined up there.

Neither of us spoke until Hayter returned.

“Ah, Watson, pour us all three a drink, would you?” Hayter said when he saw Watson standing there. “Perhaps all this fracas is commonplace for the two of you, but I could do with something to steady my nerves after all that excitement.”

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Title: Correspondence
Recipient: INKONICE (inkfeathers on AO3)
Author: thefruitviking
Verse: Books: Canon
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mrs Hudson
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply (but there are references to drugs and to depression)
Summary: Correspondence from the months of April and May 1894, following the return of Sherlock Holmes to the land of the living. An epistolary work.

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Title: Scenes From an Arrangement
Recipient: aceredshirt13
Author: gardnerhill
Verse: ACD
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John/Mary Watson, Sherlock Holmes & Mary Watson
Rating: PG
Warnings: blood, violence, polyamory
Summary: Love can move mountains and take on criminal masterminds.
Word Count: 6258

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