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Stop giving fathers redemption arcs. That old man sucks and you know it

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TURTUTS MY DEAREST! ♡☆

(The wishes under the cut °•.*~)

Aaaah @topsyturvy-turtely , I wanted to wish you all the bestest things to ever thing! (One day late, I know because I set myself a reminder last year! Sorry, I hope you don't mind.) I just read your yesterday's post and my heart breaks a little for all the bad things you had to endure this past year. I want you to know you are super strong and amazing and I'm so proud of you too, and I'm so glad you're feeling a little better. I wish you lots of health, love, strength, rest, joy of heart and peace of mind. Hugging you very tight across the part of Europe that is between us (I tried to cound it in countries, but my math failed me) 🫂. Through John & Sherlock I'm sending The Best cake flavour and Only You Know What in a gift. And also some wonderful champagne, but about those I know very little so I let them choose (if it's bad just pour it into some potted plant). And also also, don't mind Sherlock’s face, he's been up with me all night to bake the cake. And the toot-tooters don't amuse him.

Be well sweetie <3 throwing badly cut out paper hearts at you ;)) (*TOOT!!*)

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(Any changes to the taglist, just tell me! <3)

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Sherlock & John portraits - (2025)

It seems it's the right day to post this 🥳

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HAPEE BIRFDAY SHARLOCK

I GOT YOU MURDERS

why that’s just lovely thank you jawn~<3

padontworry: Today is a Sherlock’s birthday! Can you draw something about it? <3

brittnm89: How about something for Sherlock’s birthday! It’s on the 6th!

edit: haha oh fuck lestade let me fix that

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The evidence supporting that 6th of January is Holmes’ birthday is flimsy but screw it, he gets birthday cuddles today (even though he loathes them).

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Would anyone like to join me in my New Year's tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?

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Johnlock January 2025 #3 - Three

Written for prompts posted by @chriscalledmesweetie.

Chapter rating M.

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All I have to do is close my eyes, in a moment of quiet, and I'm living it over. I think I always will.

“Again?” I say, as the dawn begins to creep in around the windowshades. I’m not sure if we’ve exactly slept all night – just drifted from kissing – why haven’t we done this before, it’s amazing – to where kissing takes you (I go off like a shot, it’s been too long, but Sherlock’s got some kind of weird Zen capacity to take it to the edge and regroup, I don’t want this to end, John.)

No fear there; after he finally comes apart in my hands, after we’ve floated somewhere between sleeping and waking, me spooned around that perfect long back, that sculpted arse, he's there again, guiding my hand back to wrap around him, a prodigy for the researchers. Sorry, not sharing him.

There’s more leisure the second time, to breathe in the scent that I realise I’ve been calling home for so long now, that’s on his clothes when I pick them up from the carpet or the backs of chairs (you can tell when someone grew up with domestic help, guess I’m it now), or on his coat when he throws it round me after getting me drenched in the Thames or frozen solid on some rooftop watch. To touch the warmth of what’s always looked as perfect and distant to me as the Elgin Marbles, without the excuse of stitching him up or taking his pulse. It’s a second time in more ways than one, a chance to do over what we got wrong all those years, to get it right.

But the third? When the sun’s already high, but we’re both knackered and lazy, only that part of him’s not and now I’m starting to think about getting its scent in my head, its texture on my lips. Not gay, right. Just Sherlock-sexual.

“Yes, John,” he says. “Again.”

“There’s a saying, you know,” I say, kissing my way down from his chest, where my head seems to have been resting (comfy, I have to say). “Do something once, it’s curiosity. Twice – mmph – is confirmation. Three times, it’s a habit.”

“Indeed,” he says. “And you, John Watson, are a habit which I have had for some while. One which, unlike others, I have no intention of giving up.”

“Good,” I say, and proceed.

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The way John just floats into shot over Sherlock’s shoulder as Mycroft says “so who loves you?” MWAH

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Ok but how did I end up with so much angst in my crackfic?

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I wish all my writers a happy new year. May all your stories finally be written, sentences be completed, emotions be evoked with beautifully crafted words, readers be moved to tears, the urge to create be satisfied.

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I got this tattoo from Kati Green at Blue Ox tattoo yesterday.

It is a list, so that the notes I’m always writing on my arm are organized and pretty.

It is also a ruler. The lines are spaced at 1/2 inch, with the dots on the right showing 1/4 in and the ones on the left showing 1 cm. The compass rose is an angle finder.

The flowers are my favorite ones from my grandma’s garden when I was growing up. Gravenstein apple blossoms, marigolds, and wisteria.

I love it and am so excited for when it is heal enough to safely use.

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new year new mountain goats

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shoutout to the writers who posted zero words on ao3 this year. you are so smart and so brave and so pretty and also hot. <3

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It’s not “A Study in Scarlet”, but it may be “A Detective in Scarlet Sheet”. 🔥❤

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life is too short not to believe that man is gay