#sherlock & co q&a

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Sherlock & Co QnA with Joel Emery

GUYS THIS WAS AN AMAZING EVENT!

We learned so much stuff: behind the scenes process, how they approach adapting the stories, where they're going (no spoilers), and what they hope for the future.

Also, I got a question answered at about the halfway mark.

Go take a listen! It's really great!

(I'll work on getting a transcription for the event too!)

[xvampbxyyy]

Does Sherlock and John listen to Will Wood? I assume Aiden does 24/7. He looks like it.. I know what he is..

"Ah yes, the American musician and comedian, Will Wood. Well, I have to say I do enjoy his personality and the meanings behind his songs, but I don't listen to him much. I mostly listen to classical music."

"Yeah, I've had a listen. Not too bad but it's not exactly my kind of taste, y'know? As for Aiden.."

[msue0027]

Modern john watson would repeatedly ask questions on r/AITA regarding his behaviour towards holmes

[protectionsquad24601]

When I first listened to the first episodes of the podcast, and got to the 221B Baker Street part: Well, I was pacing around a dark kitchen at 2am in the morning like a normal person. My first thought when I heard it from Mariana, I think, was, "she said the thing!!!!!!" And my second (i did have to pause so i could do a few laps in delight) was,"oh my god that's, like, his full home address. You left it on there??? John you idiot". Before that I was confused why it was 221A and had one bed ("is this gonna be BBC Sherlock or johnlock??") But anyway 👍

[chronically-enthusiastic]

32:14, episode 7. Was that 'honey' I heard?

[ghostofnuggetspast]

Oh I hadn't read this! Nice

did you know there was a sh&co interview done by john and sherlock bc it's like. the cutest thing i witnessed this year and i need yall to read it

[ghostsandmermaids]

Podcasts To Listen To If You Like OFMD

Today is the anniversary of the finale of Our Flag Means Death season 2. One whole year without our favorite pirates :( But if you miss OFMD as much as I do, I have some podcast recommendations I think you'd enjoy!

If you want more queer pirates:

Trice Forgotten

Trice Forgotten is a found-family, pirating adventure. Alestes puts her head down working as a merchant, couriering deliveries and carrying travelers to destinations across the seas. Only, her travelers gradually become permanent crewmates, until she realises her ship has become a floating museum, laboratory, vault of repatriated ‘treasures’ and chef’s kitchen. After spending most of her life with the understanding that nothing changes, no matter how hard you fight, Alestes is faced with a choice: Will she use her new network of allies to build safe harbour and potentially a future for her new community, or will she once again put her head down and drown in her sea of excuses…

Queer neurodivergent pirates of color! Found family! Homoerotic sword fights! What else do you want? (And they even talk about OFMD in one of the Below Decks episodes!)

The Ballad of Anne & Mary

It's 1721, and London is abuzz with news of notorious pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, currently languishing in Newgate Prison. It’s the perfect time for debt-ridden journalist Nathaniel Mist to exploit the public appetite and ghost-write a sensational (and hopefully best-selling) history of pirates. But as the balladeers and gossips on the streets of London build myths around the blood-thirsty, perverse lady pirates, Mist is forced to reckon with the real Bonny & Read… Featuring musical sensation Christina Bianco, actress and comedian Sooz Kempner, Hamilton star Karl Queensborough, drag legend Le Gateau Chocolat, and more.

If you can't get enough of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, listen to this podcast musical about them!

If you want more queer comedies:

Welcome To Night Vale

Welcome To Night Vale is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. Turn on your radio and hide.

Okay, it's a horror comedy and can be creepy at times, but it's also one of the few shows that have made me laugh as much as OFMD.

Starship Q Star

When a space agency sends the “first all woman and non-binary crew” on a blatant PR mission to Mars, they inadvertently end up the last six humans in the universe. Lead by Co-Captains (and exes) Aurelia and Sim, Starship Q Star follows this madcap crew on their quest across the galaxy in search of a new home… which is basically one hilarious mishap after the other.

I suppose if you found the absolutely two perfect ex-girlfriends and sent them to Mars, then they could potentially… co-captain?

If you want more queer historical comedies:

Fawx & Stallion

London, 1889. When the residents of 221B Baker Street leave town for the weekend to solve one of their most famous cases, no one is left to clear a poor housekeeper’s name of a crime she didn’t commit. Well, no one except for their neighbors at 224B…

Tonally, this is probably the closest to OFMD. I started this podcast yesterday and fell in love with it immediately. If you like OFMD and Sherlock Holmes, please check out Fawx & Stallion!

The Kingmaker Histories

On the 19th of February, 1911, in the Valorian Socialist Republic, an assistant tailor named Colette Geise experienced a migraine that ruined her life. This is a historical account of what happened next. THE KINGMAKER HISTORIES is a steampunk weird fiction podcast about being gay and doing crime, brought to you by the freaks who brought you Less Is Morgue.

Alternate history + magic + comedy + queerness. Do I need to say more?

If you want more (queer) rom-coms:

Me and AU

When Kate “ACunningPlan” Cunningham sparks up an online friendship with a fellow fanfiction writer it seems like the perfect distraction from a summer stuck in her hometown of Kamloops, B.C., not to mention the coming terrors of her final year of university and the Real Adult Future beyond. (Seriously, please don’t mention them.) After all, Hella--Enchanted is funny, smart and writes canon-divergent werewolf fic like no one else. She’s everything a fandom could ask for. But… what if she’s everything Kate could ask for, too?

Me and AU is not only an adorable sapphic rom-com, but also a love letter to fandom! Go listen to this, it's so cute!

Life With LEO(h)

A sci-fi(ish) romantic comedy podcast starring a repressed lawyer, a criminal client, a pesky sister and her fiance, an infuriatingly sexy coworker, and an android in the mood for love. Jeanine Bell​ is a robotics intelligence lawyer whose laser focus on her career has come at the expense of her romantic and social lives. After successfully keeping AI genius Penelope Lane out of prison, Jeanine receives the gift of LEO(h),​ an android with Synthetic Sentience. LEO(h) is Loving, Empathetic, Optimistic, and (only sorta) helpful. He's programmed to love Jeanine. He’s also very, very illegal.

I'm only two episodes in and already so invested in this story! Jeanine and LEO(h) are absolutely adorable.

(Note: as far as I know, the main romance isn't queer, but there are other queer characters in the show.)

If you want more queer found families:

Hello From The Hallowoods

Darker than your dreams, and farther North than you remember, there is a forest where life and death meet… Come walk between the black pines! In this award-winning queer fiction podcast, a cosmic narrator follows the increasingly connected residents of the forest at the end of the world. It's a bittersweet story that explores queer identity, horror genre tropes, and finding hope in humanity's last moments.

Did I only add HFTH to the list because it's my all-time favorite podcast and I want more people to listen to it? Maybe. But I also genuinely think that if you like OFMD, you are going to love some of these characters. Check out my fandom manifesto if you want to learn more!

Starfall

Starfall is a fantasy audio drama about the adventures of the Carouvel Traveling Acting Troupe - a theatre troupe that uses magical items to create illusions for their shows as they move around the Falstenian Empire. The story begins as the troupe is joined by Leona, a young warrior with a mysterious past and even more mysterious powers. With their new guardian in tow, the troupe traverses the continent, encountering the dangers of humans, fae, and greater forces alike, all while still trying to put on a good show.

Remember Stede's fuckery play in S1E6? Now you can listen to a fantasy theatre troupe put on magical plays! How cool is that?

If you want more of the cast:

Kisses in the Dark

Against the bright lights of Blackpool, a supernatural killer is at work and a dark and dangerous love affair begins… A sinister, disturbingly romantic seven part podcast drama written by Marty Ross (BBC’s Catch My Breath & Ghost Zone and Audible’s The Darkwater Bride) and starring Con O’Neill (Chernobyl, The Batman) and Rhiannon Clements. A contemporary Gothic horror tale set against a background of life on the narrow edge between Pleasure Beach and wild cold sea, between secret desire and a deadly evil. Also starring, Kyle Rowe, Pamela Mayoss, Steven Gidwaney, Patrick Price & Ryan Clayton.

Con O'Neill plays one of the main characters!

What Will Be Here?

In What Will Be Here?, five friends send a rocket to space with a collection of recordings on it that document the world’s decline, the stories they want to tell, and their efforts in building this rocket to get their message to the stars. They wonder what their world will have become by the time their message is listened to. At its core, this show is about living and creating when things feel pointless. It's a story that came out of the pandemic, and the landscape in which this story was written and produced greatly influenced how it turned out. What Will Be Here? is set on earth 200 years in the future, where large-scale crises are fully normalized. But despite the bleak backdrop, this story is one of hope - of overcoming challenges, of making things that might be temporary, but also things that might be launched into space and continue on forever.

Vico Ortiz plays one of the main characters!

Dungeon Masters

Dungeon Masters takes a behind-the-curtain look into the world of Dungeons & Dragons, told through the lenses of the creator of the game, Gary Gygax, played by Wil Wheaton and of private investigator, William Dear, played by Jon Hamm, a swashbuckling tough guy in 1979. Gygax guides the audience through this incredible true story as our Dungeon Master, as we follow Dear on his quest to find Dallas Egbert, a Michigan State student, who supposedly disappeared in the steam tunnels under his university while enacting a real-life version of D&D. What Dear encounters on this journey and ultimately discovers, defies all expectations, and changes the culture as we know it.

Kristian Nairn plays one of the main characters!

The Diaries of Netovicius the Vampire

Neto is an artist first, an immortal vampire second, but for now he's being kicked out of his Beacon Hill apartment in Boston Mass. That's where we begin, but more than a year into this audio-series I can't believe the journey Neto, and me, the creator have been on. But that's a longer story than I can get into here. For now, I hope there is something in this audio-series for you. It's about vampires, but ultimately it's about recovery, from trauma, from alcoholism, even from cults. It asks: Does time really heal all wounds? Featuring VAs known for Valorant, Diablo IV & Overwatch

Written and performed by Hugo Pierre Martin!

The Cryptid Factor

Three best buddies - Rhys Darby, Dan Schreiber, and Leon 'Buttons' Kirkbeck bring you The Cryptid Factor - a podcast dedicated to all things weird that are yet to be defined by science. Since 2008 they have passionately (and often awkwardly) been discussing 'cryptids' and monsters like Yeti, Chupacabra, Bigfoot and Nessie - as well as weird news of the world, UFO's, Time travellers, robots and space stuff. Though they take these pseudosciences as seriously as they can, they struggle to take themselves seriously at all. Hosted by comedian and actor Rhys Darby, star of top rating podcast 'No Such Thing as a Fish' Dan Schreiber - and Pulling it all together is their best friend, 'Buttons'. If anything goes wrong, it is probably his fault.

Rhys Darby is one of the hosts!

Date My Abuelita, First!

From Executive Producer Wilmer Valderrama comes a dating show that proves abuelita knows best! Host Vico Ortiz alongside our resident abuelita, Liliana are ready to meet their match! Three single contestants will compete for a date with one lucky guest. Through speed-dating rounds, hilarious games, wildly silly and genuinely heartfelt introspections, and grandmotherly love, one contestant will either be a step closer to love or be sent back to the apps. Abuelita holds all the cupid power, so let the chispas fly!

Vico Ortiz is one of the hosts!

[multiashking]

Sherlock and Co! It very much took a hold of my life now, so here's some fanart from a Q&A session! (No proper spoilers)

[sapphicthunderhead]

TMAGP 21 Spoilers Ahead!

Right out the gate we get yet more confirmation that Sam is trying his best to do the right thing, but that his curiosity is a substantially greater motivating factor behind his actions than either his self-preservation instincts (which may be nonexistent) or his moral principles. This is positively fascinating characterization.

Also, this episode really uses setting to help establish tone in a much subtler manner than a lot of podcasts, which require the characters describe to the setting verbally (Penumbra, Sherlock & Co., Malevolent). Of course, I don’t think it’s quite on the level of setting-through-sound-design that The Silt Verses pulls off, but environmental storytelling isn’t as necessary to the plot and world-building in TMAGP as it is in TSV, so that’s not necessarily a criticism.

Celia cracks me up with her talk of “complicated immigration status.” Every scene featuring Celia is heavy on Dramatic Irony from the perspective of we who Know (have listened to TMA) and bring an element of mystery to the plot for any and all audience members, be they in the Know or not— just a little bit less for the former. Reminds me of the early days of TMA in the way. Jonny does a great job of introducing a mystery element seamlessly into all his horror fiction, and I think the two complement one another perfectly. For another example of this, see his book 13 Storeys (it is spelled that way deliberately). I highly recommend the audiobook on Audible.

(Did anyone else subconsciously assume Jack was some sort of sinister Fear receptacle before this episode? Celia seems genuinely emotionally attached to him, so I’m a little less concerned now.)

On to the statement itself: FUCKING MAGNIFICENT. I am positively infatuated with this one. So much suspense! So much information, such a beautiful bit of storytelling, and yet NO ANSWERS! I am dying for an explanation here, in the best way possible— because I also found myself perfectly content to just enjoy the events unfolding while I was listening.

I really felt that the authorial tone and style Jonny used for this character, Mr. Kennings, harkened back to one of the major inspirations for TMA: the ghost stories of M.R. James, one of my favorite horror authors (alongside Shirley Jackson). I first read his collected works after Jonny mentioned him in a Q&A, and I was hooked; I have since re-read his work a couple of times.

But it wasn’t just the style of this episode I enjoyed. The substance was also very satisfying. I find the idea of the scholars and administrators of the Institute bickering like petty children whilst using their most formal jargon, attempting to conceal their contempt for one another behind a flimsy facade of civility, incredibly amusing. I also found Kennings’ jabs at the British monarchy and his concern about soil toxicity and its effect on the laborers and foremen at the construction site allowed me to follow his perspective somewhat sympathetically— although I was horrified when he did nothing to assist the poor man whose decrepit old doppelgänger emerged from the earthen wall of the ditch to drag him underground. But I should have expected it. Kennings worked for the Magnus Institute, after all.

As an aside, this tragic event could have a couple of possible symbolic meanings. The description of the haggard elderly counterpart of the younger construction worker, who drags himself out of a wall of dirt that Mr. Kennings specifies exhibits “tell-tale indications of heavy metals in the earthen edges of it,” evokes the idea of a young man confronting what his life looks like if he continues to sacrifice his health and safety to this dangerous line of work. It could also be the reverse: the old man killing a younger version of himself who made poor choices (because he had so few choices or none at all, because he had to support himself or a family, who knows?) that would otherwise have killed him slowly and perhaps agonizingly, the toxic gas seeping out of the soil and into his lungs and blood. By the end of the statement, I was surprised that the writers had titled the statement “Breaking Ground” instead of “Poisoned” or something along those lines.

Alice trying to protect Sam from the scary little men in the computer was very amusing. Silly Alice, he serves the plot now! There’s nothing you can do to stop him, my dear! Mwahahahaha!

Lena Kelley being worried about Gwen wasn’t entirely unexpected, but does further emphasize the contrast between her and Jonah-Elias. Still unclear whether Lena is a cog in the Fear machine or is actually doing anything to protect humanity, but she clearly thinks she’s doing the latter. Can’t wait for her disillusionment arc, epiphany, and/or moment of self-awareness.

Then we have Gwen, Ink5oul, and…. What the fuck is that. What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck? That can’t be Jon. Another Archivist? Gertrude? Doesn’t sound like it. Who? What? Definitely an extension of the Eye, but the voice is unfamiliar.

Returning to the subject of Kennings’ statement: this series continues to emphasize that there are no clear delineations between Fears. Doppelgänger? Stranger. Dirt? Buried. Pollution? Extinction. All of the above? It’s just fear. That’s all that matters.

[eardefenders]

Excellent answers and I LOVE the way you visualize them!

For the Sherlock and Co ask game:

👤 🎨 🎞

👤 - What character are you most excited to see that we haven't yet?

I really want to see how they adapt Mycroft!! I hope him and Sherlock have a healthy relationship again 😭 love the autism brothers (flame gif, flame gif)

🎨 - How do you visualize the characters?

kinda like this, im still figuring out their design

🎞️ - What story are you most excited to see adapted?

THE THREE GARRIDEBS !!! OMG .. imagine THE scene with these adaptations..... also, the final problem and the empty house bc I love angst

[eardefenders]

🕰️🕷️🌩️ for the ask game!

🌩️ - Unpopular headcanon?

I'm taking this to mean what's an unpopular headcanon I hold: Sherlock is a sex neutral to positive ace-spec character in this adaption. I think he would have sex and enjoy it in the moment if it was with someone whom he really enjoyed being around, but doesn't actively feel a drive/need/attraction to fulfill. Don't think he'd do anything with his mouth though (which valid).

🕷️ - What are your thoughts about The Final Problem getting adapted?

MANY. I keep flopping back in forth between it's going to be a silly adaption or extremely serious.

If it's silly it's going to be like Sherlock falling off a short height or Moriarty being a rival podcaster and both Sherlock and John are like, "Who??"

But in the most recent adventure, Silver Blaze, we were introduced to Chekov's SD card: An SD card that randomly cuts out and loses data. One that could maybe cut out during the waterfall fight with Moriarty and so John doesn't get to hear whether or not Sherlock survives the fight and subsequent fall. So I'm leaning much more heavily towards serious adaption these days.

🕰️ - When did you first start listening to s&c?

December 19th, 2023. I saw @voilaammayi post about the Blue Carbuncle on my other blog and I was like, "I adore Blue Carbuncle, I need to check this out since it doesn't always get adapted." and fell in love, obviously. *gestures to this blog*

[xvampbxyyy]

Hello! I love ur blog! What's one of Sherlock's most annoying habits? (Directed to John and Aiden)

"Thank you for the question, I'm glad you like our blog!! To answer that, personally, it's Sherlock's habit of playing the violin in the middle of the night. I suffer through migraines and insomnia so I kind of need that sleep!"

"It helps me focus, when you moved in it was in the agreement. You should invest in some ear defenders if so."

"Uh, Well. Probably when he doesn't get any jokes I make and I have to awkwardly explain to him what it means. Well, I can cope it's not really horrible or y'know, it's just-"

"I fear jokes are just unfortunate, John."

"Thanks."

[msue0027]

john three continents watson hasn't got laid in, more or less, six months, and he's quite upset and mildly irritated by it

[eardefenders]

@solangelo-is-godsdam-kjut said: "I'm only in one of the discords, is there a link for one of the others?"

I can't link to the Sherlock & Co server cause that's the Patreon access one, but here's invites to the other three:

18+ Sherlock & Co Discord

Sherlock & Co girlies (gender neutral)

Sherlock & Co Supremacy!!

They expire on 4/18/24.

Will there be a discord server, for everyone taking part?

I personally won't be setting one up. The event already has space on each of the four Discord servers for Sherlock & Co that I know of:

Plus while I'm not going to stop you from sharing amongst yourselves, the idea is you and your partner work in secret without revealing what you're doing to the other participants. Then you submit and at the end everyone's works get revealed together!

Everyone will be working off the same prompt and it'll be interesting to see what everyone comes up with separate from each other!

[eyeballmarshmallowtea]

Sherlock and Co QandA

So yesterday was Sherlock and Co's 1st birthday, and Botler did a q and a on the fan discord. I listened to pretty much the whole thing (missed the last two minutes, I was making coffee) but one thing stood out.

Sherlock is queer

In the podcast, Sherlock is queer.

The chat began to scream, and I was so incredibly happy. I started hyperventilating pretty much, I could feel that weird rising feeling when you cannot contain all the joy in your body. I started crying.

As I have previously said, I am queer myself and so this meant the world to me to have this confirmed. And even if it is never explicity said in the podcast, we now know.

And as well, I would just like to thank Sherlock and Co. I started listening 2-3 months ago after I found it when I was fixated on BBC Sherlock, and it has actually changed my life. Tuesdays are my favourite day, walks and waits and journeys are no longer boring and what could have been an awful year (my cat I've had since I was born died, I was bored the entire time, my school messed up form groups and it was bad) is amazing. In fact, I was answering 70 random questions earlier and it asked me if this has been the best year of my life. And I think, with everything new I have found, everything I've done, everything that's changed, all the friends I've made off and online, even with the bad things that have happened, this year has been the best so far.

And yes, I think that this podcast has done some of that. Because although to others, it is just a silly little podcast, it means so much to me and the others in the fandom

So happy birthday to Sherlock and Co for yesterday, and I'm looking forward to 2 years.

Thank you.

-Sophie

(why do i make emotional blogs in the early hours of the morning i really need to sleep)

[sandcobingo]

Hello and welcome to the Sherlock & Co Bingo Event!

In this event, you will get a bingo card of tropes and AUs, then create something that relates to a prompt on your card. 

Sign-ups will run May 15 to May 25

Cards will go out May 26 to May 31

Card rerolls will close June 5

Submissions will run May 26 to September 30

Ao3 collection link

Further info can be found under the cut!

How will this work? Once sign-ups open, I will post a link to a Google form with some questions. You’ll pick the card size you want (3x3 or 5x5) and how you’d like to receive your card. Once sign-ups are closed, you’ll receive a bingo card with your prompts. Once you get your card, you have until September 30 to create something and fill your card up.

Submission requirements;

Fic/Podfic - 500 words minimum

Art - 1 piece

Playlist - 10 songs

Collage/Moodboard - 5 images

Common questions;

Q: What ratings are allowed?

A: Gen, Teen, and Mature. Explicit works are not allowed for this event.

Q: Can I include ships?

A: Absolutely! You can make your prompt shippy, or keep it general.

Q: What if I don’t like my prompts?

A: You can request a reroll once. 

Q: Can I combine prompts?

A: Yes!

Q: What does "free space" mean?

A: It means you can do whatever you want for that square. Go crazy!

Q: Where can I post my works?

A: You can post them to the AO3 collection, submit them to the blog, or post them on your own blog and tag this one so it can be reblogged.

Q: What if I get a bingo?

A: Congratulations!! Maybe try going for a blackout next?

Q: What if I get a blackout? A: WOAH!!! Nice job!!! You can either be done, or ask for a new card to go again.

Q: Is it okay if I don’t get a bingo/blackout? A: Absolutely! This is a low-stakes event. You’re not gonna get in trouble if you don’t get a bingo. Just have fun!

If you have further questions, please feel free to send an ask, or reach out to me at @daemonbreath