#2021 Advent Ficlets

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Christmas and New Year's Eve 2023 Pt 1: New Bookmarks and WiPs

Happy holidays everyone! Let's get into the holiday spirit with some new Christmas fics I've recently added to my Bookmarks and MFL lists! LOTS of stories, so this list is split up into two lists! PLEASE check out the lists below for past bookmarks and MFLs! If you have a WORK IN PROGRESS that you'd like added to this list, PLEASE add them in the replies/reblogs and I'll add them to subsequent posts of this list!

The second list posting shortly is my MFL list, so if you have a finished fic you'd like me to add to the lists, please add them to the next post!

Thank you so much!! <3 Merry Christmas!!

[PART TWO]

See also:

Christmas Fics (Dec. 2017)

Christmas: Oblivious That One or The Other is In a Relationship

Christmas 2019 Part 1 (All Bookmarks XMas and New Years)

Christmas 2019 Part 2 (Marked for Later)

G / T / K+ Rated Christmas Fics (Dec. 2018) (Updated Dec 2021)

Community Recs: Christmas 2020 (Updated Dec 2021)

Christmas Trees / Decorating

Christmas-Time Love Confessions

New Year’s Fics (Jan 2023)

Christmas 2023 Pt 2: Marked for Later

BOOKMARKS

Santa Knows by Itsallfine (T, 1,719 w., 1 Ch. || Christmas Party, Love Confessions, First Kiss, Fluff, Matchmaking, POV Sherlock, Pining Sherlock) – Sherlock and John both get exactly what they want from the Yard's secret Santa exchange. Pure holiday fluff.

The Way to Start the New Year by glass_rose_paperweight (G, 4,251 w., 1 Ch. || New Year's Eve, Fluff, Pining John) – On New Year's Eve, Sherlock drags John to America for a case, much to John's frustration. However, a mistake in booking looks like it might lead to an even worse New Year's Even than John originally thought ... or, maybe it's just what the boys need.

This Year by DiscordantWords (T, 6,283 w., 2 Ch. || TEH Divergence / No Mary, New Year’s Eve, John’s A Mess, Jealous John, Awkward Conversations, Trapped in a Closet, Estranged After Return, John POV, Semi-Reunion, Angry John, First Kiss, Reconciliation, Clueless Sherlock, Happy Ending) – Last year, Sherlock Holmes showed up at the Landmark with a fake moustache and a bad French accent and threw John's entire life into disarray with two words: "Not dead." This year, there are more surprises in store.

Wonderful, Etcetera. by VictoryCandescence (T, 16,955 w., 3 Ch. || Wonderful Life AU || Alternate Timelines, Brotherhood, Homophobia, Suicidal Ideations, Mentions of Drug Use, Friendship, Different TRF, Sherlock’s Past, Victor Trevor is Past Boyfriend, Depression, Hallucination?, Love Confessions, Christmas, First Kiss) – Sherlock thinks everyone would be better off if he had never existed, including and especially himself. When he finds himself in a world in which his wish has been granted, he begins to think perhaps even he could be wrong – but it takes an unlikely chaperone to make him not only observe, but understand.

Deck the Halls by itsalwaysyou_jw (T, 31,018 w., 24 Ch. || Advent Fic / Multiple One-Shots, Assorted Tags) – One Johnlock ficlet for every day leading up to Christmas. Who is ready for pining, first kisses, established Johnlock, and everything in between? This collection of stand-alone ficlets will have it all. 

Not Broken, Just Bent by Schmiezi (E, 87,585 w., 43 Ch. || Pining, Love Confessions, Rape/Sexual Assault, Torture, Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst, Villain!Mary, Suicidal Ideations, Main Character Death, Sherlock First Person POV, Parentlock, Sherlock’s Mind Palace, Grief/Mourning, Emotional Love Making, Possessiveness, Depression, PTSD, Kidnapping, Virgin Sherlock, Eventual Happy Ending) – "For a second, I allow myself to remember teaching John how to waltz. There is a special room in my mind palace for it. A big one, with a proper parquet dance floor. For a second, I go there. I remember holding him, closer than the World Dance Council asks for, excusing it with the fact that we are training for a wedding, not for a competition. For a second, I feel his hand on mine again, smell his sweat, hear the song we used. For a second, I allow myself to love him deeply. For a second, only a second, that love reflects on my face." Fix-it for S3, starting at the end of TSoT. Evil Mary.

Bakers with Benefits by Raina_at (E, 88,130 w., 14 Ch. || Great British Bake Off AU || Strangers to Lovers, Switchlock, Friends with Benefits, Mentions of Alcoholism / Past Drug Use, Banter, Flirting, Fluff, Light Angst, Semi-Public Sex, Past Sherlock/Victor, Mutual Pining, POV Sherlock, Obsessive Sherlock, John’s Bum) – Sherlock Holmes has a successful YouTube baking channel, but what he really wants is his own bakery. When an old friend sends him a call for the very first Great British Bake Off, he seizes the opportunity to finally win a sponsor for his bakery. Here's the plan: Win Bake Off, get the bakery, don't fall in love with the handsome Army doctor at the neighbouring station. Easy.

The Lost Special: Family Matters (As Do Relationships) by ShirleyCarlton (M, 144,688 w., 40 Ch. || S4 Fix It Fic / Meta Fic, Unreliable Narrator, John’s Mind Bungalow, Friends to Lovers, Happy Ending, Demisexual Sherlock, Holmes Family, John Whump, Gay Mycroft, Misunderstandings, Drug Addiction, Parenting, TFP is a Nightmare, Virgin Sherlock, Slow Burn, Minor Character Death, Switchlock, John’s Past, Sherlock’s Past, Eurus, Love Confessions) –Sherrinford is not really the name of some high security prison. That was just a figment of John’s frantic coma dream. And Eurus is not actually Sherlock’s sister. That’s just something random she said to John before shooting him. Sherlock and John were never actually estranged. That was just their act to cover up what really happened to Mary – or Rosamund Moran, as her real name has turned out to be. Sherlock does have a secret sibling, though, and his name is Sherrinford. After finally eliminating Moran – though in a rather dramatically different way than they had envisioned – and exposing the truth about Eurus, John encourages Sherlock to delve into his past and to find out whether the reasons to keep Sherrinford away from Sherlock were the right ones, and to discover what really happened in 1981. Along the way, Sherlock and John gradually, finally, stop keeping each other at a distance, and eventually become a proper family of their own.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Christmas with You by hey_there_buddy (NR, 3,258+ w., 11/? Ch. || WiP || Christmas, Marriage Proposal, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Established Relationship, Waltzing, Morning Kisses) – Sherlock wants to propose John and he came up with his own idea.

From the First Time That I Saw You by BookGirlWithLove (E, 6,813+ w., 4/16 Ch. || WiP || Actor John AU || Christmas, Meet Cute) – Sherlock Holmes very rarely paid any attention to popular culture. He didn’t listen to the radio or watch telly. He seldom watched films. Unless that film had a certain actor in it. A certain actor who, while he might not be on everyone’s favourite list, was most certainly on Sherlock’s. In fact, he was the only celebrity to ever give Sherlock pause, which said a lot. That actor was John Watson. Who was currently standing in Sherlock’s sitting room, awkwardly holding two bottles of wine.

Christmas in Honeycutt by helloliriels (T, 25,768+ w., 12/16 Ch. || WIP || Christmas in Connecticut AU / WWII AU || Kidnapping, Spies / Secret Agents, Codes & Ciphers, Past Relationships, Developing Relationship, Fake Marriage, Fluff and Angst, Happy Ending) – John's publisher asks if his family could entertain a war hero at their idyllic estate in Somerset for Christmas. Only ... John doesn't have a wife ... or a daughter. Or an estate. He has a bedsit. In London. And some wounds of his own to recover from ... but he can't tell his publisher that or he'll get fired … What's a writer to do? Cracking Codes. Super Spies. Sherlock in Disguise. A wild Christmas romance set in the countryside! Just what the doctor ordered! Part 6 of the Liriels Chaptered Fics series

The Prince of Hearts by prettysailorsoldier (M, 46,206+ w., 12/? Ch. || Modern Royalty AU || WiP || Matchmaker Sherlock, Prince John, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Sexual Tension, Mutual Pining, Christmas, Fluff) – Sherlock Holmes is making big waves in London as the head of a thriving matchmaking firm, his unconventional approach earning him the title 'The Chemist'. To Sherlock, love is in the data, a collection of variables plugged into equations to calculate the perfect match, but, when the royal family of the small country of Galerre hires him to find a spouse for the crown prince, he will find that some matters of the heart are not so easily solved.

Since First I Saw Your Face by Stavia_Scott_Grayson (M, 398,966+ w., 19/22 Ch. || WiP || ACD Canon / 1884 Victorian AU || Friends to Lovers, Pining, UST/URT, POV Sherlock, Christmas, Developing Relationship, Turkish Baths, Victorian Attitudes, Sussex Holiday, Cocaine, Holmes’ Childhood, Cold Cases, References to Canon) – During the Great Hiatus, Holmes, studying in Tibet, reflects on his first meeting with Dr John Watson.

[putonmyfavoriteshow]

putonmyfavoriteshow's master fic writing post on-going ~ Violetta the heart of pretending (future franletta/leonetta reverse fake-dating au dramedy; my passion project) Soy Luna ...and they were roommates (post show jazmilia/delfma; self-indulgent rom-com chaos for side-characters who deserved more) BIA the celestial goat & her cosmic fish (platonic-for-now chiarleste's great astrology debate; a dynamic exploration between my favorite kind of bickering sidekicks) finished multi-chaps ~ Violetta a perfectly perfect gift (luty ft. franletta - my first official dcla multi-chap!) luty month (daily prompts from @iristhedeadflower) franletta month (daily prompts from @weirdthoughtsandideas) finished one-shots/two-shots ~ Violetta no boys, no problems (right?) (franletta s2 alternate ending to italy arc) an unexpected evening (jadangie fix-it fic - dcla gift exchange 2022 + bonus dcla pride month chap) midnights (a ludmila pov luty fic + bonus luty month chap) playing murder (and all that jazz) (violetta gang halloween fic - canon pairings) go figure (a naty pov luty fic) the mistletoe experiment (a natila story based on a dcla advent calendar prompt from @countessofravenclaw) welcome to new york (christmas version) (violetta gang xmas fic - canon pairings) it is what it is (luty - angsty ficlet) the deadfast club (violetta gang horror two-shot - luty focus ft leonetta/camcesca)

Soy Luna elevator goes up, elevator come down (simbar s3 missing scene - tumblr soy luna fic week 2021) unlock my heart (when lutteo got locked in the dressing room, except it's jazmilia aka the best non-canon ship ever made by a random wheel) there's a great big beautiful tomorrow (lutteo/gastina tomorrowland adventure - dcla gift exchange 2023) BIA losin' sleep (thiana s2 missing scene inspired by @assim-eu-sou) dream date (romantic chiarleste debut to ao3) non dcla ~ my sorta friend's sister's funeral (victorious - jori - angst/fluff one-shot) even crows have wings (six of crows - kanej - sl/roller skating au one-shot) page 55 (the villains of valley view - hartmy - missing scene drabble) if we were a horror movie (the villains of valley view - hartmy - hartmy watch jennifer's body)

other fan content: my tumblr edits tag my tumblr gifs tag

[ourimpavidheroine]

hi! any plans for more fics in the wukoverse coming up? im a 20yo college student btw and i think about your fics. all the time

Hi!

First off, thank you! So much. Believe me when I tell you, it means a lot to hear it.

I haven't written in a long time. The lockdown was hard on me and there were some other fairly shitty things going down and my mental health took a nosedive. I know I'm not alone there, lots of folks are having a hard time right now. However, I went to Eurocon in the beginning of the month and spoke on a few panels and got to see a bunch of friends in person I've been missing thanks to the pandemic and it really gave me a boost in all aspects of my life.

I have two WIPs right now in the Wukoverse. One is the final chapter of the Advent 2021 collection (I know, I know!), whose prompt was Kissing and that was supposed to be a little ficlet with Jai and Poppy that turned into something much bigger and waaaaaaay too smutty to go there. It's been a year and half writing that thing! I would really like to finish it, because I personally love their dynamic.

The other is a chaptered story about Izumi's 80th birthday, where she steps down and Juziya is crowned Firelord. I actually have 4 chapters of it written. It takes place when Naoki is 16, Zhi is nearly 12, Meili is 9 and Sayuri is nearly 2. The family attends, along with Beifongs and Airbenders. Shenanigans happen, as they so often do in my stories. (Wu gets a new airship! Sayuri gets the nickname that will stick the rest of her life! Hemadri misbehaves as only a draconic teenager can! Baatar Jr just wants to go back home! Five year old Poppy is five year old Poppy! All of the Next Gen give a bending demonstration for the Firelord! Jewelry is distributed!) I really, really want to finish it because I am enjoying it, or at least in my own head.

As always, I have a few little ficlets bubbling away in there. (And a RWBY fic that desperately needs finishing as well as a very silly Xianxia mash-up crack fic I have been writing for a friend.)

I actually did some writing on the Jai and Poppy story yesterday and it is nearly done. If all goes well I will post within the next week. Fingers crossed! It would be really good to finally put that collection to rest.

I hope you are getting a nice summer break before heading back in the fall. :) Watch this space or subscribe on AO3 for the Jai and Poppy ficlet, at least!

[polikszena]

Ficlet Advent Calendar 2022

In the past 3 years I was doing an advent calendar challenge to write a short fic every day from December 1 to 24. And since I was having a lot of fun with these little ficlets, I decided to do this challenge this year, too. (Although I’m not sure if I can finish it on time - I could only do that two years ago when the usual Christmas Chaos was cancelled due to covid)

Like in the previous years, I’ll be taking prompts as well: I have a list of Christmas/Winter writing prompts, so feel free to send me some with the characters and/or pairings you’d like me to write it, and I’ll add it to the challenge! Also, if something comes to your mind that’s not on the list, you can send me that, too! I only use the prompt list as a guideline anyways. Although I do reserve the right to say no to a prompt.

My advent calendar challenges are multifandom, so it can happen that in one chapter we have Mr Carson decorating the Christmas tree and in the next one Kingsman agents are having a sleepover. Just like in the previous years, you can expect some silly festive fluff with a bit of angst, and there will be Christmas sweaters as well.

Based on the current state of my brain, this year’s challenge will most probably be related to Top Gun (both films), Downton Abbey, Gossip Girl, Our Flag Means Death, Ted Lasso, and The Bodyguard (which is my Kingsman - Eurovision Song Contest crossover), but other fandoms might be involved as well, so if you have a prompt from a fandom that’s not on the list, please still send it in!

Also, this year I’ve decided to put together some “best of” posts from the previous challenges to give those fics some love, because some of them turned out pretty neat and when else shall I re-share my Christmas-themed fics than in December? Those will be organized by fandoms (like Christmas at Donwton) or by topics (Santa Claus or Snow).

Since this challenge will be quite intense, my other fics will be on hold, so there won’t be any updates on Dancing on the clouds below and on For a little bit of sunshine during the challenge. Although this doesn’t mean there will not be chapters set in the same verse as these fics. ;)

Lastly, if you’d like to be notified about the updates on the challenge, please let me know and I’ll add you to the tag list.

The pervious advent calendar challenges can be found here: 2019 I 2020 I 2021

And the prompt list is here. (It’s rebloggable, so others can use it, too)

[thecartoongirl]

November has been a busy month, so I'm not as far ahead as I'd like to be, but I'll be doing a Nick/Greg advent calendar this year as well. I'll be posting a drabble/ficlet each day from the 1st to the 24th of December, based on various prompts I found online.

In the meantime, here are the links to two advent calendars I did in the past, just to get into the Christmas mood:

So this is Christmas - Good Omens Advent Calendar 2020

Nick/Greg Advent Calendar 2021

[fuckyeahfightlock]

Advent Ficlets 2021, Day 16

Stuck At Home

When his sobs at last subsided, Sherlock sank fast into sleep and stayed there for nearly three hours. John stayed nearby, at first in the bed with his phone, reading journal articles and first-person accounts, searching for nearby resources, frankly trying to learn what he could do to help. He’d his own issues, of course, but everyone was different, and Sherlock seemed to have been a lengthy slide to where John had found him that morning, shaken apart by a soul-wrenching cry.

Eventually he got up and dressed, made tea, set a cup on the table next to Sherlock’s side of the bed but didn’t wake him for it. He shouldn’t sleep the day away, but he clearly needed to catch up on it at least a bit. Looking back over the past few weeks, John discerned a pattern of extreme late nights and oversleeping in the daytime--late morning lie-ins, catnaps on the sofa--and so decided to leave him to it. Sleep was healing; it felt like a kindness he could manage.

On waking he still looked bleary-eyed and blank, sat up in the bed pulling at his lip and staring, a gesture John had often thought of as contemplative, but which now looked simply lost. Forlorn. After a while John successfully persuaded him to shower, laid out fresh pjyamas for him on the bed, a clean dressing gown, cashmere socks if he wanted them. Tried to tempt him with comfort food--tomato soup from a tin and a cheese toastie sliced into soldiers he could dip into the mug if he liked, and Sherlock agreed, sat at the table and ate dutifully, slowly, a little less than half. He frowned and pushed the rest away, then offered John a grateful ghost of a smile.

“It was good,” he assured. “I’m not very hungry.” He got to his feet and made for the sitting room. “Still a lot to do,” he said, and fussed with a familiar length of white fluff he unrolled to reveal, one after the next, slender glass icicles that easily passed for real, each with a loop of silver thread at the top. He began to hook them over this fingers, carried them to one of the trees and began to hang them.

“Don’t feel like you have to,” John said, surveying the explosion of sparkling, scattered decor covering every surface of the sitting room.

“It’s fine,” Sherlock said, and he worked for a while in silence until John turned on the bookshelf stereo and classical music poured forth, filling up the space between and around them, relieving the pressure to fill the silence with conversations neither of them seemed ready or willing to have. Sherlock seemed to move at half-speed, but steadily, and eventually John was able to assist him, taking murmured direction, asking simple questions.

By half past two, Sherlock had sunk into his chair, held his pen and his little notebook for a while but didn’t write anything. John’s chair opposite him was covered with stacks of faux pine and fir branches, red velvet bows, and the crystal punchbowl. He made more tea, and this time Sherlock drank it before it went cold. He curled up and sank sideways, and closed his eyes.

“If you need to sleep, you’d be more comfortable in bed,” John suggested.

“I’m not sleeping,” Sherlock replied. With eyes still shut, body folded but slack, he offered, “Mycroft told me I need medication.”

“And how do we feel about that?” John stood behind his chair with his hands resting on its back, keeping his vigil, grateful for a guiding clue.

“I don’t know that the situation is that dire.” Sherlock shrugged a little. “Lots of people have depressive episodes at the holidays. It’s not always suggestive of something serious or long-lasting.”

“True,” John allowed. “Did medication help in the past?”

“I don’t need it,” Sherlock said, with finality, and John did not press the issue.

“OK.” After a beat of silence, he asked, “Am I on suicide watch?”

Sherlock’s eyes came open, and narrowed to show Sherlock’s seriousness.

“No.”

John exhaled, and his shoulders dropped an inch or two. Sherlock let his eyes close again, but John rounded his chair and caught Sherlock by the hand, laid a palm on his shoulder. “I could use a bit of a kip, myself,” he said. “Let’s take a good old-fashioned long winter’s nap, hm?” Sherlock allowed himself to be persuaded upright and then led by John’s fingers on the cuff of his dressing  gown’s sleeve. “We’ve nowhere to be, and all this will wait.”

Once they were settled side by side on the bed, with just the topmost quilt pulled over them and tucked in around their feet, Sherlock said, “I’m sorry.”

“Nope,” John replied, and raised Sherlock’s hand to kiss the backs of his fingers. “I told you we’ll get you through. Don’t apologise. We can talk about it later.”

“What, medication?”

“Whatever you need.”

[forineffablereasons]

2021 Fic Recap!

WHAT A YEAR AM I RIGHT. I wrote a lot in 2021 and I keep trying to remember that because I keep feeling like I wasn't productive enough, which is just ye olde anxiety having a go. so here is everything I wrote last year! #s 2 and 3 were actually fics I started in 2019 and 2020 and finished in 2021, but they count.

anyway, I have so many beautiful and fantastic and funny things planned for 2022! but 2021 wasn't bad either. thanks for coming along for the ride!

1. easy like sunday mornings. this was really an exercise, for me, about writing consistently and about letting go of some of my anxieties regarding what's "AO3-worthy." I wrote it, dang it, and I wanted to put it somewhere. also there is something dead comforting about a nice good morning ficlet.

2. holding steady. this was actually a johnlock fic I started writing before Good Omens aired, and the last chapter had sat unfinished in my drafts for, I kid you not, more than three years. never say never! I finished it!

3. like lightning. started this in 2020, finished this in 2021, now we are here. Crowley got to be a spooky boy. I played in this one with a lot of perspective switching and I really enjoyed it.

4. the thirteenth night. asking the question: what happens in a haunted house if the ghosts get sick of you and your pining bullshit?

5. Dessert First. collab baby!! I wrote chapter 2. the loves of my life wrote the other chapters. it's tasty business, you should read it.

6. the absentee angel. technically, it's never too late to post an awake-the-snake fic. this one was fun! i wrote the same chapter twice: one in my usual style, and the second in a "children's book" style.

7. seems nice. this fic is a great example of how long things take me. I started this fic draft in June 2019, and it finally posted April 2021. I just have to let go of my anxieties sometimes about these long timelines and let the fics live!

8. the tin soldier. written for the @blissfulimperfectionzine, Aziraphale's true form is the armor we see in Wessex. that's right kids, he was naked.

9. rumors (and other things that thrive in the dark). written for the @unleashthechaoszine. the origin of the fucking shit up jacket.

10. truth (and other things that thrive in the light). written for the sexy version of the unleash the chaos zine. fucking shit up jacket, my beloved.

11. the nice list. written for @chamyl's filthy advent calendar for the prompt: just the tip. Aziraphale's making a list and checking it twice.

12. statuesque. 666 words of Crowley being a little shit. what's not to love.

13. worth celebrating. this was my birthday gift from me to fandom - Crowley has a birthday!

14. blue jeans, white shirt. I'm kind of a sucker for fics about A/C and all the humans getting together and being a family. there's also sex on a beach later.

15. being comfy. Aziraphale's kink is Crowley being cozy. I'm sure that surprises exactly zero people.

16. side effects. ah, migraine fic, my own heart. it took me five years to write this fic, but I did it.

Good Omens fandom, thanks for being here this last year. I love you. I can't wait to see what 2022 brings.

[missdaviswrites]

Christmas Ficlet Prompts Masterlist

I'm not putting out a new list of prompts for 2021, but if anyone wants to write (or draw or paint or do whatever you want with them), I've collected the holiday prompts from all the lists I've made over the past few years. There are almost definitely some duplicates on here, but feel free to pick and choose whatever you'd like.

1. Bundled up / Peppermint / Holiday Décor / Snowflake / Tis the Season

2. Wish list / Shopping / Star / Wish / Bells

3. Fruitcake / All dressed up / You better watch out / The more the merrier / Chilly

4. Snowball fight / Winter sports / Snowman / Lights / Deck the Halls

5. Mistletoe / Decorating / Believe / Wind / Shepherd

6. Cold / Cozy / Fireplace / Angel / Joy

7. Christmas cards / Candles / Memories / Ashes and soot / Blankets

8. Warming up / Scrooge / Music / Warm bath / O Christmas Tree

9.  Ghosts of Christmas past / Wrapped up / Gift / Festive / Making a list

10. Eggnog / Food and drink / Do you see what I see / Once a year / Candle

11. Christmas carols / Violin / Comfort and joy / Chimney / Dashing through the snow

12. Happy Hanukkah / Winter Wonderland / Gingerbread / Bah humbug / Visiting

13. In front of the fire / Pine-scented / Frost / Family / Storm

14. Elf / Naughty or nice / A beautiful sight / Not a creature was stirring / Hope

15. Seasonal illness / The Case of the Frozen Corpse / Toy soldier / Midnight / Jolly

16. Yule log / Stuck at home / Season's greetings / Baby please come home / Twinkling

17. Scarf and coat / Christmas telly / Warm and cozy / Wonder / Let nothing you dismay

18. Christmas crackers / Favorite tradition / Celebration / Exhausted / Gifts

19. Father Christmas / Travelling / Silent night / Escape / Faith

20. Stocking stuffers / Icicles / Home / Christmas present / Sweets

21. Winter solstice / Longest night / Hopes and fears / Winter / Darkness

22. Party time / Under the tree / Feast / Miracle / Friends and family

23. Family visit / "Did you bring your gun?" / Nightmare before Christmas / Sentiment / Love

24. Holy night / Mittens or gloves / Peace / And to all a good night / Merry Christmas

25. It's Christmas / "I feel the same"

26. Boxing Day / Cleaning up

27. Post-holiday blues / "Thank God that's over"

28. Many happy returns / Toys

29. Bored / Bad weather

30. Auld Lang Syne / Resolutions

31. Last night / New Year

And if you want to read some Sherlock holiday ficlets, here are all the Christmas ficlets I've written since I started in 2015:

Put a Little Love in Your Heart

So This Is Christmas

Welcome Christmas

Christmas With You

Breaking Christmas

Imagine the Christmas Dinners

For even more holiday cheer, check out these collections with all the fics other people have written using the prompts above:

Sherlock December Ficlets

2018 Advent Ficlet Challenge

2019 Advent Ficlet Challenge

2020 Advent Ficlet Challenge

[discordantwords]

dw’s 2021 year in review

Welp, in spite of my best efforts, this was not as productive a year for me as I’d hoped. My personal and professional situation has not been very conducive to writing, especially in recent months. I've been clinging to fic and fandom in general like a lifeline, so all of you wonderful readers and writers and artists out there have my most heartfelt thanks.

Here's hoping that 2022 brings better things.

Completed Fics:

Treading Water As their personal and professional relationship slowly unravels under an intangible strain, a case forces Sherlock and John to spend the night inside the London Aquarium.

Missing the (Fixed) Point John doesn't know Sherlock. Sherlock doesn't know John. The universe is not so easily dissuaded. Or, five times Sherlock interrupted John's plans, and one time John interrupted his.

Ficlets:

Favourite

Scribbles

Wrong Number

WIPs Begun in 2021:

Whirlwind New job, new truck, new fiancée... John Watson, former storm chaser, has settled into a comfortable new life.

There's only one problem: John's already married. And the the divorce papers he's been sending to his former partner, Sherlock Holmes, keep going missing. So with his fiancée Mary by his side, John reluctantly makes a trip to see him in the hopes of finalizing their divorce once and for all.

But John arrives in the midst of a very active storm season, and Sherlock very clearly hasn’t let go of the past. Against his better judgement, John finds himself talked into riding along after one last storm.

Again It never seemed like the right time. And then time ran out. This is a belated Christmas advent fic updating daily with very short chapters.

I’m not going to tag anyone, but if you see this and would like to share your 2021 projects, please do so!

[dramioneasks]

Christmas Fics 2021 (Part 1)

Lilac Dress by Dominitschka - M, one-shot - When nine-year-old Draco finds himself in the Muggle world at Christmas, he is astonished to encounter magic there of all places when he hears a girl with brown frizzy curls singing in a church. What initially becomes a miraculous, magical event for him in his childlike naivety, however, permanently changes his life and plunges him into darkness, coldness and emptiness as he flees from his personal purgatory.

Musings by athingofbeauty - T - A collection of unrelated and mostly random Dramione ficlets. Tags and characters will be added, rating may change.

Almost Endurable by MamaRaya - T, one-shot - "I don't know what you see in this tall drink of charged water, but after you get to know him he's almost endurable." A White Christmas inspired holiday oneshot. Nottpott, Dramione

Make The Season Bright by xjustakay - T, one-shot - Finding out that Draco and his two best friends weren’t bothering to decorate for Christmas shouldn’t have come as the surprise that it did. Three pureblood Slytherin wizards living in a lavish apartment that was hardly a downgrade from the family manors they had grown up in, why would they bother with something so trivial? Hermione thought it was somehow sad, however, and —in what Draco called ‘typical overbearing Gryffindor fashion’— took it upon herself to help them.

Holiday Boredom by AshJuillet - T, one-shot - Hermione is so bored that she decides to follow Draco around the castle during the holidays. Apparently, he has a secret he doesn't want anyone else to know.

Parallels by Anonymous - T, one-shot - Draco just wants one thing for Christmas.

Richard by In_Dreams - M, one-shot - Not all holiday memories are bright, and Draco finds the ghosts of his past in a young dragon―and the complexities of life and love with a co-worker―as Christmas approaches. Written for the 2021 Dhr Advent.

Tangled up by Maysprings14 - T, one-shot - This little fic was inspired by the DHr prompts page on twt and obviously by the xmas season!! December just begun but I'm so excited for what's to come already!! I've wanted to write for so long now, so I'm finally giving this a go!! If you are reading this I hope you like it!! I had so much fun doing this The prompt was "We're trapped"

I'm Never Lonely When I'm With You by PacificRimbaud - M, one-shot - "I won’t take the room." She shakes her head emphatically. "Living with you is totally out of the question." "Obviously." “But if I did—" His brow furrows. "Would you?"

Glimpse of Desire by JessiRomantic - T, one-shot - Hermione Granger is a woman of logic. She knows what she has with Draco is a house built on sand but for now, she wants to believe it will not fall into the sea.

Twelve Nights of Pegging by dracoslefteyebrow - E, one-shot - Yay Christmas! Yay Pegging! Sorry for the misleading title, but this only contains one night of pegging :( A night where Hermione has to say sorry, and Draco is all but willing to forgive her. What will she do to make it up to him?

Blame It On The Mistletoe by GaeilgeRua - G, one-shot - What happens when Draco and Hermione decide to give those meddling in their lives something to talk about?

Holiday Haze by raskaray - not rated, WIP - Why must Draco always find a way to be a part of all of Hermione's holidays?

Yule Be Mine by hstraven - E, WIP - She heard Malfoy shove his chair back and he came to stand next to her. His hand appeared in front of her and she looked up at him in confusion. “What?” she said. “Come and dance with me,” he almost snapped at her. “What?” she repeated, this time she heard the shock in her own voice. Malfoy huffed at her and grabbed her hand, hauling her up and practically dragging her towards the dance floor. His hand was big and cool and his grip on her was a little disconcerting. Had they ever touched each other before? “Come the fuck on Granger. It’s criminal no one has asked you to dance yet.”

How Draco Malfoy Stole Christmas by FicWitch3 - M, one-shot - "My boss is the Grinch. A Scrooge. A Dursley amongst Harrys." - Jana Aston, Reindeer Falls vol 1. I've worked hard to get where I'm at in my career and I love my job. It allows me to help others and exercise my need to plan and organize, all while getting paid to do so. There's just one little problem: My new boss is none other than Draco freaking Malfoy. Oh, and one more thing. He's absolutely gorgeous.

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Omg I just read Caught In the Act too and I love it! Now I'm in need of more parentlock or johnlock + kid fics (not necessarily their kid). Think you can help me out? Thank you, Steph, I really appreciate it!!

Hey Lovely!

Firstly, the series:

Caught In The Act Series by ShirleyCarlton (E, 9,217 w. across 7 stories || Est. Rel, Voyeurism, Character POV’s, Masturbation, Switchlock) – This is a series of six scenarios written from the points of view of six different people as they accidentally walk in on Sherlock and John having sex.

Secondly, using your ask to start a new list! Cheers! Hope you enjoy!

As usual, friends, please add your own recs!

PARENTLOCK Pt 3

See also:

Parentlock

Parentlock Pt. 2

Adoption

Single-Parent Sherlock

Sherlock Soft With Children

Parentlock with Rosie (Dec 2021) (Comm. Recs)

Evermore by SosoHolmesWatson (G, 2,068 w., 1 Ch. || Post-S4,  5-Year-Old Rosie, Love Confessions, Song Fic, Parentlock, Oblivious John, Pining Sherlock, First Kiss, Love Confessions, Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Disney Songs, Beauty and the Beast) – For the past years, John and Sherlock have lived at Baker Street again, raising Rosie together--as friends and nothing more. Ever since the little girl has watched her first Disney movie, she is obsessed with princesses. When John comes home one day, he finds his friend and his daughter in the middle of a reenactment of her current favourite. Part 1 of Made of Music

Permanent Fixture by vitruvianwatson (E, 18,836 w., 9 Ch || Post-S4, Parentlock, Slow Build, Friends to Lovers, They’re Good Parents, Blushing Sherlock, First Kiss/Time, Explicit Consent, Sexual Content, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Mutual Pining, Big Feelings, Crying, First Kiss, Fluff, Anxious Sherlock, Inexperienced Sherlock, Emotional Communication, Love Confessions) – Now, as Rosie sat curled up against Sherlock’s side, John watched and wondered exactly how he had ended up here. Domesticity had never suited him before, not at any point in his life. His disastrous marriage had been proof of that. But somehow, here in the warmth and safety of 221B Baker Street, here with Sherlock Holmes reading medical jargon to his daughter, Sherlock’s bony feet nudging against his leg, John couldn’t imagine anyplace that would make him happier. 

A Quiet Life by DiscordantWords (M, 25,176 w., 6 Ch. || Post S4, Retirement, POV Sherlock, Awkwardness, Established Relationship, Family Dynamics, Minor Character Death, Questionable Parenting Choices, Non-Linear Narrative, 20 Year Old Rosie, Meddling Mycroft, Pining Sherlock, First Kiss, Love Confessions, Angst, Sherlock Whump) – There had been three days of silence and a funeral. Sherlock had the terrible feeling that whatever happened next would depend, entirely, on him.

How To Unfold a Heart by elwinglyre (E, 25,477 w., 7 Ch. || Post S4 Fix It, BAMF John, Mentioned Eurus, POV First Person Sherlock, Case Fic, Fluff, Slow Burn, Topping from the Bottom, 3 Yr Old Rosie, Introspection, Sexual Fantasies, John Worship, Ogling, Hand Holding, Kidnapping, Domesticity, Sherlock Whump, First Kiss/Time, Doctor John, Caring John, Soft Sherlock, Sensuality, Touching, Crying, Love Confessions, Anxious Sherlock, Rimming, Toplock, Fingering, Bossy Bottom John) – To Sherlock’s dismay, John’s return to Baker Street with Rosie is only temporary. Sherlock’s daily visits to Regent Park with John and Rosie illuminate his lost childhood memories and missed opportunities. But with each trip to the park, Sherlock also feels a growing sense of hope. That is until the past horrors return unexpectedly in a cryptic note folded in the shape of a heart. To decipher the message, Sherlock must uncover the nature of the hearts around him, including his own.

Deck the Halls by itsalwaysyou_jw (T, 31,018 w., 24 Ch. || Advent Fic / Multiple One-Shots, Assorted Tags) – One Johnlock ficlet for every day leading up to Christmas. Who is ready for pining, first kisses, established Johnlock, and everything in between? This collection of stand-alone ficlets will have it all. 

Repairing the Broken Things by BakerTumblings (M, 75,252 w., 15 Ch. || S4 Compliant, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Medical Trauma, Hospitals, Big Brother Mycroft, Misunderstandings, Realizations, Severe Accident, John Whump, Pneumonia, Medical Procedures, Bed Sharing, First Time, Healing, Happy Ending) – "I'm calling today to notify you that there's been an accident."

Not Broken, Just Bent by Schmiezi (E, 87,585 w., 43 Ch. || Pining, Love Confessions, Rape/Sexual Assault, Torture, Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst, Villain!Mary, Suicidal Ideations, Main Character Death, Sherlock First Person POV, Parentlock, Sherlock’s Mind Palace, Grief/Mourning, Emotional Love Making, Possessiveness, Depression, PTSD, Kidnapping, Virgin Sherlock, Eventual Happy Ending) – "For a second, I allow myself to remember teaching John how to waltz. There is a special room in my mind palace for it. A big one, with a proper parquet dance floor. For a second, I go there. I remember holding him, closer than the World Dance Council asks for, excusing it with the fact that we are training for a wedding, not for a competition. For a second, I feel his hand on mine again, smell his sweat, hear the song we used. For a second, I allow myself to love him deeply. For a second, only a second, that love reflects on my face." Fix-it for S3, starting at the end of TSoT. Evil Mary.

Kintsukuroi by sussexbound (E, 91,823 w., 20 Ch. || S4 Compliant / Post-TLD, Grief / Mourning, PTSD, Internalized Homophobia, Therapy, Past Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Nightmares, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Depression, Anxiety, Bed Sharing, Love Confessions, Cuddling, Suicidal Ideation, Masturbation, Minor Character Death, Sexting, Frottage, Inexperienced Sherlock, Rimming / Anal / BJ’s, Emotional Turmoil, Finding Each Other) – “I love you.” Sherlock sees the words hit John with almost physical force. He reels back a little, jaw twitching and eyes filling. “I love you,” he repeats, a little softer, a little more gentle, as earnest as he possibly can. Because they’ve been teetering on the brink of this thing for years, and it had become painfully obvious over the last few months that they were at a tipping point. This had to happen. Now it has. Now they can see where they end up. The tears in John’s eyes spill over, and he wipes at them angrily. “Do you even know what that means?”  

[lathalea]

The Hobbit Advent Calendar 2021 is almost there!

Starting Wednesday, this blog will be filled with bite-size ficlets every day until December 24th. Are you ready? :)

I’m really excited to share all those little snippets and stories with you.

If you’d like to be tagged every time I post a new fic this month, let me know! The same goes for everyone who already is in my regular tag list: you’ll be tagged by default, but if you’d like to skip the December event, just DM me.

See you soon in Middle Earth! 💙

[polikszena]

Fanfic writer asks: D E S

Fanfic Writer Ask Meme

D: What’s the most personal fanfic you’ve written?

I'd say Father and son from last year's ficlet advent calendar that deals with being a disappointment to your parents (or rather with thinking that you're a disappointment when you're actually not) because you decided to follow a different path than then one they imagined for you. When I was writing it, it hit me hard and it still does, but I have to add that since there isn't really any canon information about Trent Crimm and his father, his whole backstory is entirely my headcanon and I did a fair amount of projection when I was putting it together.

For a little bit of sunshine is also quite personal; partially because it deals with the same topic (I mean, my OC's callsign is Letdown), and because it touches the progress of becoming a confident woman (especially in chapter 3 and 4) which is something that has been on my mind a lot recently. However, Maggie is way more ahead on this journey than I am.

E: What character do you identify with most?  Is there a certain fic of yours that captures these qualities particularly well?

Right now I'd say Liz Lemon from 30 Rock: a pseudo-adult trying to do the right thing (but often failing), has a disastrous love life, a Star Wars fan, an overthinker. I haven't written a lot about her, only a few chapters in the last ficlet advent calendar (like this one), and I have absolutely no idea if I managed to capture her qualities in those ficlets. I'd like to think I did, but I can't be sure.

S: How do you feel about fan art inspired by your writing?

It has never happened yet, but I’d be absolutely thrilled if my writing inspired anyone to create something related to it.

[kathonyxbee]

Kathony Advent Ficlets

Starting a new Advent project for 2021 with Kathony - a ficlet for every day of Advent (December 1-24). Hope you enjoy!

Day 1 - 'All is Fair in Love and Snowball Wars' ficlet is below the cut ❄️🌷🐝

Aubrey Hall is surrounded by a blanket of beautiful, blinding white snow. And Kate has the sudden urge for some spontaneous fun involving her husband.

He turns, a little shocked at first, but soon he catches on, and his expression becomes determined.

She doesn’t even see him make the move before something cold and wet lands on her chest.

“Oh, I am going to get you for this!” she hisses, bending down to gather another snowball.

“You started it, you menace,” he shoots back, attempting a glare. “It’s only fair, don’t you think?”

“You’ll pay…” she threatens, drawing her arm back.

He grins in that annoyingly devilish way of his, “oh, I’m aware, my dear wife,” he quips.

“Choose your next words carefully, husband,” she retorts and throws.

He doesn’t even blink before he launches his next attack. “Who said anything about words, my lady?”

She snorts in amusement, “oh, you’re on,” she sing songs.

He just grins, and before she can launch her next attack, she’s hit by yet another snowball.

“Now, that is not fair, Lord Bridgerton!” she shrieks, both from indignation and the cold, but mostly the cold.

“Who said anything about playing fair, Lady Bridgerton?” he quips, still smirking devilishly.

“Well, you know what they say, all is fair in love and war,” she remarks, snowball at the ready.

“And snowballs are your weapon of choice?”

She hits him squarely in the chest, this time. Just to make things even.

He just chuckles before throwing another one. They go on like this, pelting each other with snowballs until, without her realizing it, Anthony wraps his arms around her claims her lips for a rather cold kiss.

“Oh, I do love you, Anthony,” she murmurs once they pull away, bringing up one gloves hand to cup his cheek.

“I love you, too, my lovely menace,” he mutters, smiling happily.

And, as she tilts her head for another kiss, she thinks that he does have a rather pleasing smile, after all.

[fuckyeahfightlock]

Advent Ficlets 2021, Day 1

So I got kudos this morning on a previous (2019?) advent ficlets-based johnlock alternate-meeting story, A Party on Christmas Eve, so I reread it, and it was cute and funny and I remember it being fun to write.

So this year I’m writing a sequel.

@missdaviswrites​ gave us a collection of her previous Advent prompt lists, and I am (virtually) rolling a 5-sided die to choose which prompt I will use each day.

'Tis the Season

Despite the cold against which he had turned up his collar, zipped up both his top layers, and even brought out the muffler and gloves, John was feeling cheerful on his walk back to the flat. It was half-three and the sun had begun its quick slide down, disappearing behind the tallest buildings, and a biting wind went from steadily chilling to frigid gusts at senseless intervals. John picked up his pace, more to get home quickly than to get out of the cold. Soon enough it would be full dark, but in the sitting room at 221B, there would be candlelight, and glimmering tiny bulbs in the boughs of two lovely fat trees--one visible through each window on the Baker Street side--and sparkling reflections from every mirror, photo frame, rocks glass, and beaker in the place.

Sherlock really tarted up the place for Christmas, John knew--it was the first thing he’d learned about him when John had taken the tiny flat downstairs, the previous December--and he did it all on the first of the month, left it up until the Epiphany on the sixth of January, which also happened to be his birthday; John was unclear as to whether it was the traditional twelve days of Christmas Sherlock felt were worthy of his lavish decor, or the one day of Sherlock. Either way, John found it all quite jolly and beautiful. He was looking forward to the transformation of their sometimes dowdy, oft-times dim, ever-dusty flat into a holiday showplace. Sherlock had not only enthusiasm, but a real eye for it. Just one among many delightful surprises--one might say “quirks”--in Sherlock’s hidden depths, which John had had the pleasure and honour to delve since they met, one year before, to the day.

“Hey, Sherlock, I wasn’t sure what you wanted, so I got whisky and wine,” he called out, as the giveaway stair groaned beneath his tread. “Woman at the shop guided me to this pinotage she says is good.”

The flat was just that--drab and unadorned, though two of the several boxes of decorations had been brought in and set on the floor by the coffee table--and Sherlock sat at the kitchen table with a leatherbound notebook before him, open to a blank page he tapped thuddily with the heavy end of a gold-trimmed black pen.

John scanned the disconcerting scene, quickly shrugged it off. Sherlock had cases. He may have been out most of the day (though his state of dress--pyjama bottoms, t-shirt, bare feet, dressing gown--belied that idea). Christmas was still over three weeks away, and technically there was no rule to say Sherlock must decorate for it on the first. John probably had only expected it because it had happened to be the first, last year. Anyway, there was important business to address.

“Happy anniversary,” John smiled, cupping a hand on Sherlock’s shoulder and dropping a kiss onto his automatically-proffered cheek.

“Of?”

“The day we met,” John said, tilting his head in a manner that indicated Sherlock had better be joking. “You borrowed matches.”

Sherlock’s face rearranged itself into a smile, and he fussed with the pen and notebook, closing, stacking, sliding into place in the table’s center, out of the way.

“Of course,” he soothed, and if he really had forgotten (unlikely; he forgot nothing, ever, except the combination to the lockbox under the bed where he kept his false passports, a small gold bar, and a lock of hair he’d yet to explain), the sweet low tones and smiling eyes made up for it. “Time does fly, doesn’t it?” He stood, and as John shook free of his coat, Sherlock embraced him, and sighed. “It was an excellent day.”

“I agree.” John quick-kissed the side of his neck, and asked, “Can I take you out to dinner? To celebrate?” He let Sherlock go, and they went their ways, John folding the shopping bag and Sherlock examining the labels on the fresh-bought bottles. “Start off the month in a cheery way. ‘Tis the season, as they say.”

Sherlock hummed. “I rather think I’m in for the evening. If that’s all right.”

“Fine,” John agreed. “Fine.” He switched on the kettle, and as he went into the cupboard for mugs and the sugar bowl, and then into a drawer for a spoon, Sherlock drifted away, stood near the unopened boxes in the sitting room, tugging thoughtfully at his lip with fingertip and thumb. John tucked tea sachets into each waiting cup, claimed the milk from the fridge. Sherlock rounded the coffee table, lifted a watch plaid wool throw-blanket from the end of the sofa, and encircled his shoulders with it, then moved to his favoured chair and folded himself into it. He picked up his phone from the side table, woke it, swept one finger upward along its screen, set it down again. He picked up a book from beside the phone, found his place, held it, did not appear to be reading.

John brought the tea, and eventually turned on the telly.

[kakairu-rocks]

We are excited to introduce our new holiday event, the KakaIru Advent Calendar Battle 2021!

Since the holidays is a busy period for everyone, and there are fans who don’t create, we decided to make this a non-creation event, which will run from 1st Dec - 31st Jan!

How It Works:

This is a trope battle to find out which holiday trope is the best, so we want you to nominate a trope! You can do this here from 1st - 30th Nov!

Each week, from 1st Dec, you will vote on your favourite tropes; and at the end of the week, the bottom three (the ones with the least amount of votes) will be removed from the list.

In the final vote, the trope with the highest amount of votes will be the winner; and the person who nominated the winning trope will receive a prize of a ficlet 500 - 1000 words, using the trope they submitted!

Like an advent calendar, there will be 24 tropes to choose from for the main event, so if there are more than 24 nominations, there will be a preliminary round so that everybody gets a chance to compete!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

We hope you can join us for this event!