#ACD johnlock

[sakanayasan414]

GIVE ME THE MOST FLUFF SAPPY HAPPY JOHNLOCK STORY I DON’T CARE WHICH ADAPTATION OR ACD HOLMES, JUST GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE ME KICK AIR AND HAVE TO CLOSE THE TUB EVERY 10 MINUTES BECAUSE ITS SO CUTE PLEASE

[calaisreno]

Re-Read Recs: Victorian Edition

Thanks to @totallysilvergirl for pointing me to this post by @acethatlovesdinos asking for more Victorian Johnlock. Your timing is great; I was just compiling a list of Victorian setting fics for my next RRR post!

If you go searching specifically for Johnlock in a Victorian setting, part of the problem, as always, will be finding things. As admirable as the AO3 tagging system is, when you're searching for something specific, you still have to dig a bit.

Many people, myself included, assign all their Victorian stories to the fandom tag "Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle."

But some writers add "Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle" to all their stories, including those set in BBC or other adaptations, because they wish to attribute the characters' creator.

And some do not use the ACD tag at all because their stories, even those in a Victorian setting, are inspired by the BBC adaptation and imagined with those characters.

There are other tags: Victorian, Victorian Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Victorian Holmes/Watson, Victorian Johnlock.

(My own approach: readers may imagine whatever actors they prefer; I tag by the setting. Even so, I've tagged stories set in the 1920s and 1820s as ACD, even though these are outside of the Victorian Era.)

There is no one-click method to separate out all the stories, and only the stories, where Watson and Holmes are together in a Victorian setting. AO3 lets us use tags however we wish; it's a folksonomy, a collaborative system. For the number and variety of stories contained there, it is the most practical method.

You can search an individual author's works, filtering and sorting by kudos, hits, relationships, tags, and other things. You can search anyone's bookmarks in the same way. (I'm always surprised when people don't know this!)

If you search my works, for example, you will find 60 stories in the Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle fandom. A couple of those are tagged 'timetravel,' so if you don't want that, you can exclude that tag. If you don't want any stories with Mary Morstan married to John Watson, you can exclude John Watson/Mary Morstan under Relationships.

However you search, if you filter your search results by hits or kudos, you will find that stories in the ACD/Victorian Johnlock category have many fewer of these. AO3 went live only a year or so before BBC Sherlock began to air, and it was one of the top fandoms for many years. There are a huge number of stories in the BBC fandom.

But there are dedicated and talented authors who have been writing Holmes/Watson for a long time, and today I'd like to point you towards a few of them. Here are some of my favorite re-reads:

Memento Vivere - @mydogwatson - The life stories of Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes and John Watson. An alternate history.

My Gentle Sin Is This - janeofarc - It takes a near miss for Holmes to realize that he cannot imagine his life without Watson.

Missing Pages - @PlaidAdder - a group of interlinked short stories (most between 2000 and 7000 words) which tell the story of how Holmes and Watson really came to be separated at the Reichenbach Falls, and how they found each other again

Missing - @Random_Nexus - Holmes is missing. Watson is trying to figure out where he is and what happened.

Oubliette - gardnerhill - A series: a treatise on love and grief. Watson is kidnapped by a gang; Holmes must find him before it's too late.

Laphroaig in the Lumber Room - wordybirdy - Holmes & Watson discover a bottle of Laphroaig inside the lumber room at Baker Street. A drinking game of truth results in intimate confessions.

All of these authors have written many excellent Victorian Holmes/Watson fics. But there are many more you should look at if you want to read more of our boys in their original canon setting. I think I will have to write a Part 2 for this post!

Thanks for reblogging!

@totallysilvergirl @lisbeth-kk @helloliriels @keirgreeneyes

@redmondcollege @raina-at @7-percent @lhrinchelsea

@a-victorian-girl @ghostofnuggetspast @friday411

@meetinginsamarra @inevitably-johnlocked @copperplatebeech

[library-of-ash]

It’s the fact that people are pulling the “they were roommates” shit on Holmes and Watson. Have they even read the books? Just a quick little look? They are the gayest motherfuckers. ACD constantly refers to them as “intimate.” John’s own wife accuses him of using her to seem straight while he’s actually getting off with his bestie. Be for real.

[son-of-drogo]

No but do kind of a redo of Young Sherlock Holmes but make it more like Sherlock Holmes and less like an episode of Young Indiana Jones. Unfortunately that movie just doesn't really get their characterization right.

Watson is kind of a jock, a rugby player, who's pretty popular among his peers but can be a bit of a bully. But he comes back for his final year, changed after he loses his older brother, his only family. He finds himself alone more often and starts seeing a new student hanging around the same solitary areas he frequents.

It takes a couple weeks for them to get to know each other because the other boy is very guarded, but eventually he finds out his name is Sherlock Holmes.

Holmes was expelled from his school for fighting- or more accurately defending himself. He was seen as odd, no one understood him, and he read a couple people whose fathers had standing a little too hard. The headmaster was looking for a convenient excuse to get him out.

Watson takes a shine to him. Sure he's odd but he likes listening to this kid talk for hours about bees or tobacco ash. He takes Holmes, who is two years behind him, under his wing and kind of becomes his protector.

Anyway, a murder or something happens and the two of them solve it, but at the end of the year they part. Holmes still has two years left of school and Watson gets accepted into university to become a doctor and later joins the army.

When he returns home in 1881 in a bad state both physically and mentally, he'd almost forgotten Sherlock Holmes. Until he brings up to Stamford that he's looking for a flatmate.

He remembers that he liked Holmes and that he enjoyed the little adventure they had had. So when they meet, it's more of a reunion that goes something like this:

"I've found it! I've found- Watson, is that you under that mustache?"

"It is indeed, Holmes. Tell me, what did you find?"

The whole time Holmes is showing him about the results of his experiment, Watson can't help but wonder when the hell his friend got so hot.

'He was just as tall and lean as I remembered, but the awkwardness of boyhood had left him. He had grown into his limbs quite nicely in the last nine years and there was a confidence I had not seen in him in our school days.'

No matter what happens, in their darkest moments, they will find each other.

i really just want an adaptation that follows the entirety of holmes and watsons lives. since childhood, in parallel worlds, seeminly never to cross. the loneliness of holmes' adolescence. the brightness of watson's youth. the shared despairs both expereinced, but in different ways. holmes with the struggles of fitting into a society that seemingly has no place for him. watson with the sinking feeling that perhaps he has failed at everything, despite being seen as a succes by his peers. then to find that perhaps, not all is lost. they find one another. and from there, they are able to help heal wounds that they didn't inflict. it just.... yeah.

[haedraulics]

do you think they explored each other's bodies

[bunnyryuz]

nerds

[grim-philosophies]

me and my malewife boyfailure lurking

[nulledrequest]

The best part about the Sherlock Holmes fandom is that, at the end of the day, we all agree that Holmes and Watson are soulmates. Whether you read them as romantic, platonic, or otherwise we can all agree that they were MEANT to find each other in every timeline and they will.

[kagilasgilas]

"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age."

Bonus :)

[noodles-and-tea]

Some good ol’ ACD Holmes and Watson

[jonk-md]

Fellas is it gay to send your flatmate a picture of yourself for him to cherish, with a caption saying you miss him?

And is it gay to then track down the flatmate who says he misses you, send him a photograph in return, and show up where he is?

Also Please someone spot the Polari please please please please please plea

[sakanayasan414]

Acd Holmes are Watson are so cute like what do you mean Mary thought Watson only married her to cover up his sexuality and actually is in love with his best friend?? What do you mean??

[tremendously-crazy]

Sherlock Holmes fans don't want much. They just want to see a universe where Holmes and Watson actually get to be together.

[tinkerbitch69]

Sherlock: Unbelievable. Here I am, the perfect wifeguy, and yet you haven’t even tried to propose to me >:(

Watson: wot

Sherlock: wot

[22ndnervousbreakdown]

You're Sherlock Holmes.

You're unique, and you know it. You're one of the smartest people in the world, and you take pride in it. You refine your skills, use them and make a living out of it like no one else could. It's not always good, though. You don't fit with others. No one truly sees or understands you — and at this point, you're sure no one ever can.

You move in with a new flatmate. You have him figured out pretty much from the moment you met him: he's quite simple, really, there's not much to learn. It's not long before you know his every habit, every expression — his expressions are so easy to read, the man is an open book. He's good company, though. And he doesn't seem to mind your eccentricities, so that's nice. You bond, somewhat.

And then — then, he surprises you for the first time. And the second. And the third. He's smarter than you thought, braver than you thought, more loyal, more stubborn than you ever realised, and as you live on together for longer and longer, as you grow closer and closer, he doesn't ever stop surprising you. Just as you think that this time, surely you know all there is to know about him, it turns out there's a new side to him you've never yet experienced. Just as you think you can always predict how he'd behave, he turns to do something unexpected. You spend years together, he's your closest friend, your other half, and there's still so much to learn about him, you know your study will never be complete.

And just as you realise how you can never truly learn all there is to know about him, he learns all there is to know about you. Your habits are unique, strange, unconventional, and he knows them all. Your expressions are unreadable, misleading at times, and he can read every one of them. Your moods are fast-changing, and he anticipates them, and knows how to deal with each one. He knows your opinions, your tastes, what you'll find interesting, what'll make you bored and irritated. At times, you think he knows you better than you know yourself.

He understands you. You never thought anyone could — but then, John Watson always surprised you.

[haedraulics]

h/w sketches and notes from the past few weeks <3

the first drawing based off the classic Go For It, Nakamura! meme