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Inspired by the brilliant Johnlock fic Where It Is Always 1670 by iwantthatcoat for Fandom Trumps Hate. The fic is a crossover between BBC Sherlock and the Polish Netflix show 1670. If you haven’t watched the latter, do.

I took some slight liberties with the costumes, because Restoration fashion is ... a lot. Of basically everything. And for their journey east, I thought Sherlock and John would wear some more sensible attire than tons and tons of lace and ribbons. Their coats actually look more like early 18th century fashion.

John’s garlic necklace also fits nicely with November’s @sherlockchallenge : Onion

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Hello and welcome to the last challenge of 2024! The prompt for December is price.

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@sherlockchallenge October prompt NUMBER

@giftober 2024 Day 31: Free Choice.

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Hello and welcome to the November Challenge. The prompt for this month is onion.

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“Oh hello, boys. If you’re looking for Sherlock and John, they’re out on a case – or so they said. They were all dressed up for Halloween. But do come in, if you’d like to wait. I’d love to offer you some tea and biscuits, but I haven’t got anything in you could eat or drink at the moment, I’m afraid. Haven’t had time for that kind of baking recently, you see.”

“You do not mind that we are ... well ... ghosts, ma’am?”

“Oh no, dear, not at all. There are all sorts round here. Mrs Turner next door’s got married ones, and I’m pretty sure one of them is a werewolf.”

For today’s @dbdpromptober : Spooky

and this month’s @sherlockchallenge : Numbers

I’m working on a Sherlock and DBDA crossover fic, which will be a sequel to my current wip The Case of the Stolen Barrow.

And finally, this art is a companion piece (of sorts), to this one: https://khorazir.tumblr.com/post/666604740494376960/inktober-inktober2021-inktober2021day31-my

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“Not a word, John.”

“I wasn’t gonna—”

“Not. A. Word.”

“Okay.”

“...”

“...”

“...”

“Did you buy semi-skimmed?”

“John!”

For September’s @sherlockchallenge : Milk

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The seat allocations on a passenger jet are HIDDEN in a long code that includes letters and NUMBERS.

✦ GIFTOBER 2024 | Day 12/31: HIDDEN "NUMBER" for @sherlockchallenge

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Well done, John! 🎉 @giftober 2024 | Day 9: "Numbers" @sherlockchallenge October prompt: "Number"

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Hello and welcome to the next Sherlock Challenge (and thank you for your patience once again). The prompt for this October is number.

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For @sherlockchallenge September prompt MILK

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October challenge delay

Hi. As you've probably noticed, some of the recent challenges have been delayed - sadly, the October one will be too. I've not been feeling well recently and of top of that I had to find a new place to stay due to my landlord selling the house... I'm actually moving on the last day of Sept and I already had a few breakdowns, including a massive meltdown last evening when I got overwhelmed by all the packing...

I hope to be able to post in the first week of October - thank you for your patience!

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Hello and welcome to September's Sherlock Challenge (and thank you for your patience once again - life is not great at the moment...). The prompt for this month is milk.

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Ink and watercolour painting inspired by the marvellous A Fair-Weather-Night by @agrlsname This story was certainly worth waiting for.

This is also for this month’s @sherlockchallenge : Language, because in this fic (and its predecessor, the equally beautiful The Sky is Full of Fiddles), the boys have a love language of their own.

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For @sherlockchallenge​​ August prompt LANGUAGE

A bit of German in SHERLOCK

{Translation: Sherlock: Please! Tourist: What does he want? Tourist: Hey, you! What are you doing? Sherlock: Minute! Tourist: Give me my book back!}

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For the @sherlockchallenge August prompt, Language

“Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.” 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Photo

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Sherlock fandom.

When Words Aren’t Enough

“There are no such things as stupid questions, only stupid answers,” Sherlock tells Rosie.

“Since when?” John wants to know. “That’s not what you usually say.”

“Well, I obviously meant from our daughter, John. Do keep up!”

The great detective winks at nine-year-old Rosie Watson-Holmes, who’s seated by the kitchen table at Sherlock’s parents.

“Ok. Names and flowers,” the little girl starts. “I have a flower name, just like Granny and my teacher, Lily. I know that boys also can have them, but that’s not common, right? Why?”

She looks expectantly at her Papa, who ponders the questions. Sherlock takes everything Rosie says seriously, and John is still astonished by how patient he is with her.

“That is correct, bumble. It probably has to do with something absurd, like that a flower related name isn’t masculine enough. And most of such names are more related to plants, herbs, and trees than actual flowers. The infamous Narcissus is the only one with a flower name that springs to mind at the moment.”

“I have another question related to flowers too,” Rosie says, having evidently binned the thought of male and female names for now.

“Let’s hear it,” Sherlock coaxes when his parents enter the kitchen from different directions.

Sherlock’s mother comes through the door from the living room, while Sherlock’s father enters from the garden. The latter is cradling a bouquet of violets in his hand, which he hands over to his wife. Violet Holmes looks at her husband with starry eyes and kisses him briefly on the lips.

“Thank you, my love,” she whispers and turns to find a vase to arrange the flowers.

Walter just turns and walks towards the garden door again, and is gone the next second. Before Violet places the vase on the table, she buries her nose in the flowers and inhales deeply.

“He still does that,” Sherlock murmurs, sounding a bit bewildered.

Violet hums in agreement.

“You know he’s not as good with words as you and me, Sherlock. So, when words aren’t enough, or fail him, this is his way of communicating his feelings. It’s quite wonderful,” she says dreamily and starts to make tea.

“That was what I wanted to ask about,” Rosie whispers.

She seems a bit taken aback by the loving encounter. Not that she’s unused to affection between adults. It’s been years since Sherlock and John were embarrassed to kiss in front of Rosie, but her grandparents doing the same thing, seems to have put her off kilter.

“What was?” John prompts when Rosie isn’t forthcoming with her question.

“Oh…um…flowers. I mean, there’s something called the language of flowers, yes?”

“Indeed!” Sherlock beams. “Let’s investigate that. It might come in handy in my work as well.

John shakes his head when the two curly heads lean over John’s laptop to read about roses, violets, daisies, tulips, gardenia, carnations, and zinnia.

***

Some weeks later, John comes home from work and finds an absurdly grand bouquet of flowers on the kitchen table. Rosie and Sherlock are in the park, so John has the flat to himself for a while. He looks for a card and finds one stuck between two green carnations.

My dearest, John

Words can’t describe what I feel for you, so I have turned to nature for guidance. A thousand kisses if you can decipher the meaning behind every flower.

Yours forever. Sherlock

The card quivers minutely in John’s hand and his eyes fill with tears. He indulges in the sentimentality that fills his body for a few minutes before he hastily retrieves his laptop from the coffee table. There’s no way of knowing how long it’ll be before Sherlock and Rosie return, and John is rather keen on getting the promised number of kisses from his husband.

It doesn’t take as long as he thought to gather the evidence and what John finds make his heart ache with longing and love for the remarkable man that has chosen him as a life companion.

He doesn’t even have to check what the green carnations mean. They are a symbol of homosexuality, closely associated with Oscar Wilde.

Then there are:

Honeysuckle – Bonds of love

Yellow lily – Happy

Myrtle – Love in a marriage

Sunflower(dwarf) – Adoration

Red tulip – Passion

Daisy – Loyal love

White camelia – You’re adorable

Red rose – I love you

Blue salvia – I think of you

Violet – Faithfulness

To John’s glee, Rosie stops at Mrs Hudson when they come home, and John gets to enjoy his prize, willingly delivered by his soppy romantic of a husband.

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This is also my entry to this month's Sherlock Challenge and the prompt language.

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Hello and welcome to the next Sherlock Challenge (and thank you for your patience!). The prompt for August is language.

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