For the Love of Writing

Title: Fic Cover For "Deserves a Quiet Night"
Recipient: Vulgarweed
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: A fic cover for Deserves a Quiet Night by Vulgarweed.
Notes: I know this fic already has art, but I found the perfect cap of Sherlock at the pool and just had to do something with it for the fic.

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Title: Art Inspired By "Follow the Lights"
Recipient: Vulgarweed
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Art inspired by Follow the Lights by Vulgarweed.
Notes: The dialogue between Sherlock and John on the image is pulled directly from the fic.

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Title: Art Inspired By "Leaves Tremblin' On the Tree"
Recipient: Vulgarweed
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Irene Adler/Mary Morstan
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Art inspired by Leaves Tremblin' On the Tree by Vulgarweed.
Notes: The song lyrics I used in the art are from “Atlantic City” by Bruce Springsteen and are used in the fic.

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Title: Fic Cover For "The Veil Dodger"
Recipient: Vulgarweed
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: BBC Sherlock/Good Omens
Characters/Pairings: Mrs. Hudson/Madame Tracy
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: A fic cover for The Veil Dodger by Vulgarweed.
Notes: I hope you enjoyed the blended image! Finding a good picture of Madame Tracy and Mrs. Hudson was hard, but I think it turned out well.

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Title: The Necessary Calm
Recipient: iwantthatcoat
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: The Beekeeper’s Picnic
Characters/Pairings: H/W
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: A post-picnic piece, with text from E. M. Forster’s letter to Florence Barger dated 25 August 1917.
Notes: Something sweet for you, dear Coat. I saw you reblog this quote and couldn’t get out of my head how perfectly it fits this particular version of 1920s Holmes and Watson.

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Title: The Affair of the Statutory Duel
Recipient: oui_oui / OuiWee
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock Holmes (ACD); The Grand Duke (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Characters/Pairings: Mycroft Holmes., Sherlock Holmes, Grand Duke Rudolph
Words: ~2600
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Either the following material is an out-and-out forgery...or just possibly, Gilbert and Sullivan owe the central plot device of their last operetta to none other than Sherlock Holmes. (Which is to say, the story to which this summary is attached raises a hell of a lot more questions than it answers.)

Read on AO3: The Affair of the Statutory Duel

Title: Afterglow
Recipient: Snycock
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: M
Warnings: n/a
Summary:
Afterglow (n). 1: A glow remaining where a light has disappeared. 2: A pleasant effect or feeling that lingers after something is done, experienced, or achieved.

Solstice, sex, and Sherlock and John basking in the afterglow.

Read on AO3: Afterglow

Title: a study in violin
Recipient: graycardinal
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Elementary
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson; Sherlock Holmes & Morland Holmes; Sherlock Holmes & May Holmes; Sherlock Holmes & Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes & Victor Trevor; Sherlock Holmes & Jamie Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes & Kitty Winter
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: Sherlock's relationship with his violin through the years

Read on AO3: a study in violin

Title: i'm the board, the lightning, the thunder

Recipient: ghostbees/vernets

Author: REDACTED

Verse: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

Characters/Pairings:
Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, Jenny Vandeleur/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson

Rating: Teen and up, for a couple of mild references to drug use and violence, but both are canon-typical.

Warnings: none

Summary: The Silk Stocking case is Holmes' last. After he retires to Sussex, Jenny knows better than her husband exactly what Sherlock Holmes needs.

To my recipient:
Hi, Ghostbees. I hope this story fulfils your desire for character-centred musings and introspective portraits; I've tried to facilitate that by bringing Jenny to the foreground.

This is a retirement-era fic, but cosy domesticity is always juuust off waiting in the wings.

This Holmes is happily gay, and I used Jenny's (canonical) tolerance to avoid any period-typical homophobia, but I hope you'll forgive me for letting Jenny realise that fact well in advance of her husband.


Read on AO3: i'm the board, the lightning, the thunder

Title: Gone to Ground
Recipient: edosianorchids901
Author: REDACTED
Verse: A Study in Emerald
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Culverton Smith
Rating: T
Warnings: minor character death, eldritch horror, drug use
Summary: It is in the nature of monsters to be monstrous but what must one think of those who choose to become so?

A reimagining of The Dying Detective in the universe of A Study in Emerald.

Read on AO3: Gone to Ground