#sherlock holmes is canonically a bottom

[sherlockianscholar]

look at holmes holding onto watson's arm. even in 1893, everyone knew that holmes is a bottom.

[olderthannetfic]

So, you mentioned low standards of research in podcasts. I don't listen to podcasts or watch a lot of videos about fandom analysis, but I have seen error corrections happening in the wild for what I have listened to, so I can only imagine how annoying it is when you know your shit.

Do you have any resources that come to mind as things everyone who likes fandom should be comfortable with, or specific essays on uniquely important fandoms (such as Sherlock Holmes or Star Trek) that everyone should read? Obviously the OTW resources are up there; what else?

Aside from resources, do you think there are any skills that are especially vital for getting to the bottom of fandom trends? Interview skills are probably pretty high up there.

Any pitfalls you see a lot of young fans falling into?

(I do a lot of fandom history research. It is the thing that gives me joy in fandom; other people like shipping or AUs, I like my little mini-anthropology sandbox and watching how ideas spread. I'm not necessarily good at it, but it's fun!)

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Well... it's the usual things.

For example, a lot of fans claim to love fandom stats, but the ones that get passed around come from like three people. The people doing those stats, including me, don't usually have a statistics background, which doesn't automatically make them bad, but it really seems like people are just trusting anything with a pie chart.

We've recently seen people discover that those year-end AO3 ship stats have a seriously weird methodology. They don't show the thing their fans are actually trying to find out. People were pissed. But most of the time, they don't even bother asking what the methodology is or trying to do anything themselves.

There's far too much sitting back and waiting for some BNF to spoon feed one publicly-available information.

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The big failings aren't usually the math itself but, of course, not knowing what question to ask, so it pertains to history research, not just stats.

You'll see a lot of stuff on shipping that looks at AO3 because AO3 shipping numbers are easy to pull... But AO3 shipping numbers don't just happen to be easy to pull: that is both an effect and a cause that is directly related to AO3's content. Someone interested in meta shouldn't be asking "What do AO3's numbers show?" as their first question. They should be asking "Why is this metadata available or not available and what does that mean on a sociological level?"

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Thing two is the eternal I Have Apparently Never Heard of Anime problem. A fuckton of people theorizing about fandom trends seem to know fucking nothing about whole massive sectors of fandom or treat them as afterthoughts. This is okay if you're writing a history of Media Fandom. It is criminally stupid if you're trying to talk about what makes a piece of media have fic when another doesn't, what kinds of websites make fandoms take off, etc. Those kinds of broad questions need a broad understanding of what's out there.

It's not anime-specific, and I'm not asking for a high degree of knowledge.

I have routinely had people tell me that best friend ships and mystery/crime as a genre aren't popular, and that's why AO3 has this or that pattern... Meanwhile, buddy cops are the bedrock of oldschool slash fandom and make up basically all of the longest-running Western m/m fandoms that aren't Star Trek. CSI slop tends to have legions of future canon het shippers, and they make plenty of fanworks. It's just that some of this is more visible on FFN or older places, not AO3.

I'm always seeing things like someone speculating about how this and that anime fandom thing or bit of mid-00s FFN community drama led to this other thing on AO3, not realizing that AO3 came out of LJ Western fandom slash culture. To them, FFN is so central that it must be the main reference point, not the bajillion and one archives AO3 founders ran or Usenet or mailing lists or LJ.

I once saw someone asking on twitter about where a prominent Ranma fic might have been posted in the mid-90s. People claiming "My professor is an authority!" came out of the woodwork in droves to blither about K/S zines and then LJ. Not only was this entirely wrong, but the right answer was blindingly obvious if you knew enough to interpret the google results. I can only assume that the person tweeting had never heard of Usenet and didn't recognize the acronym for the big anime fanfic group that literally everything like this was first posted to.

I'm talking people insisting that fandom only goes for white characters when it's very obvious that fandom goes for majority leads who are not othered. All the bawwing in the world about "People assume anime characters are white" won't get rid of The Untamed or Kpop thirsters or whatever.

I'm talking sweeping pronouncements about gender and fanfic writers where the person hasn't even heard of FIMFiction or SpaceBattles or Dark Lord Potter cheesefests.

I've been in fandom for a long time, but I wasn't in all these parts, and I wasn't around for 80s zines. You don't need deep knowledge until you pick a research topic. But it's shocking how little shallow, broad knowledge a lot of people have when they're writing their Theory Of All Of Fandom History.

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People are stupid as shit about survivorship bias, and fandom history is no exception. They're also dumb in the opposite direction, assuming that the thing they like now has always existed in this exact form.

For example, someone got mad at Fanlore for supposedly not documenting the history of f/f zines. Others have searched and searched for the zines of their old show they got into last year and are bewildered to not find any. The reality is that Fanlore editors are attempting to document every Media Fandom zine and have combed through old adzines looking for any mention of anything. Because of the methods of distribution—because it was expensive—small fandoms often had no zines at all.

Femslash fandom doesn't seem to have gotten enough critical mass to do much until Xena. The internet has really democratized things, but even the early internet was still somewhat in that old mindset where only certain popular things have a fandom. I think Yuletide itself, which started in 2003, really helped spread the idea of rare-but-existing fandoms being a thing. FFN and perhaps some other multifandom archives like Media Miner played a huge role.

Nowadays, we think of fic as just how you respond to media, any media, even if there are only two fics for that one car commercial, but that isn't how people saw things in every era—or at least it's not how fandom infrastructure worked. A lot of the time, the big hosting spots were single-fandom archives, often with restrictive content rules. Finding somewhere to post a m/m/f OT3 fic used to be hard. Never mind early zines when photocopiers didn't even exist yet and you had to sell out your print run of 500 to make a go of it.

All good research starts with a lot of preliminary investigation to figure out what you're even trying to look for.

Actually bothering to look for fans talking about their own history or casually chatting with your interview subjects before the formal interview will put a person miles ahead of many of the cringeworthy fandom ~papers~ I've seen.

The biggest mistake people make is going "Okay, these numbers aren't perfect, but some numbers are better than no numbers".

Bullshit.

As soon as there's a pie chart of the false numbers, everyone's brain turns off and they never look at the chart subtitle, never mind the research notes.

Bad numbers are often worse than no numbers.

Look at the logic behind the methodology first. Look at the social context. Basic understanding of human nature and familiarizing oneself with the shape and hangout locations of a community will get you most of the way there before you sit down for a specific interview or try to collect any specific numbers.

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None of this is a fandom thing. Research is research. It's just that most people think "research" means watching a tiktok that the algorithm likes and were never taught how to evaluate a source for reliability.

Evaluating sources is a skill. I had explicit lessons on it in school. Lots of people don't, and that sucks.

Honestly, watching the more thoughtful debunking content on non-fandom topics, like Miniminuteman's stuff on pseudo-archaeology or Dan Olson's... everything, is a good window into critical thinking, and that's most of what's missing from bad fandom history.

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But more than any of that, more is more. Not the crap stats, but the narrower, more personal accounts, the interviews. The more fans who investigate their little corner that isn't the same old AO3 site-wide "Why is there so much m/m?" ship stats or the same canned "Everything comes from K/S" history, the better.

What I object to is not amateur efforts but efforts that pull from the same small pool of data or that just reblog a tiny handful of supposed authorities.

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If people are going to read just one thing... hmm... go try to look up a history of rec.arts.anime.creative, not because I think it's the most important fandom history out there but because it's at the nexus of things a lot of current fandom history work miss.

[fazedlight]

I’m frustrated by how F/F fandoms seem to hyperconsolidate female characters.

And I will say upfront, I 100% support people deviating from canon (including in ways that don’t personally resonate with me!). Deviating from canon in your art/fic is a perfectly valid way to have fun. And it’s also a perfectly valid way to pour yourself into a character when you don’t see much representation. I particularly enjoy butch re-interpretations of characters, because butches are so fucking rare in media. 

So I just want to be super clear, I see absolutely nothing wrong with deviating from canon. In fact, one of my favorite reinterpretations is getting a lot of steam right now - Wicked musical, my beloved.

But when talking about canon itself, I often see people reference how different characters from different shows are “the same character”, in ways that I feel flatten them. Sometimes it feels like F/F ships have to try to fit the two boxes of “sunshine golden retriever butch service top” and “grumpy black cat femme bratty bottom”. People will describe a character as butch who isn’t, describe a character as sunny who isn’t, etc.

Again, this isn’t about fanworks, but analysis of the original source material. If someone watched the Wizard of Oz, the message isn’t about how the Wicked Witch is a misunderstood freedom fighter - that’s a reinvention for Wicked.

This isn’t something I’ve noticed happening with male characters. I’ve never seen anyone say that Mulder and House were the same character, merely because they were snarky/closed off/clever about piecing clues together. Heck, even House and Sherlock Holmes feel allowed to be distinct, despite the very direct line between them.

Maybe I’m just not seeing where this is done to male characters. But from where I sit, it feels like male characters are allowed to be unique and iconic - allowed to embrace all the little quirks and decisions that make them them, giving men a wide array of characters to resonate with.

I just want to embrace that for women too.

[yawneon]

PROJECT : REBUS !

a/n : my second little fic thingy on this app 🤭 i’m writing this at 4am, sorry if there’s any little mistakes. (i’m feeding my own mattheo riddle delusions)

pairing : mattheo riddle x gn!slytherin!reader

summary : you hated mattheo riddle, loathed him almost but all shit hits the fan when things go missing in your and his dorm, so the only logical thing to do is to band together and find out what in merlin’s name is going on.

!!! : sherlock holmes era, im funny i swear, fluff, enemies to teammates to lovers, im gonna write this one longer promise, a little bit on y/n (we love them), nicknames, references of non-canon slytherin characters (lorenzo berkshire, mattheo riddle.. obviously 😭😭), half-blood reader, mattheo is annoying

part 1! / …

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it wasn’t out of the ordinary for mattheo riddle, son of the dark lord, to be annoying you in some way. it was his hobby, (or atleast that’s what he’d like to call it). no matter how many times you tell him to fuck off or leave you alone he just could never grasp the idea of it, it was out of his nature to leave you alone because it was like you two were made for eachother (again what he would like to describe it as).

“back off riddle.” you warned. you were currently at a slytherin party, your team had just won the quidditch match and your whole house seems over the moon. well everyone but you.

“come on, jelly bean.” mattheo looks at you with a shit-eating grin on his face. he pokes your side causing you to swat his hand away in an instant. it was hard to hear him over the blasting music and the sight of blaise on a table singing his heart out but you just knew that whatever he said was a teasing little snarky comment. “riddle.” you warn again giving him a stern look, “just one dance cookie and then i’ll leave you alone..” he gives you a fake pout, his bottom lip jutting out. looking him up and down you fake gag causing him to pout even further, a cheeky smirk ghosting on his lips.

you roll your eyes at him and your legs move away from him (for what felt like the fifth time that night ((it was.)) and he tries to follow you to annoy you further but he’s interrupted by a soft hand on his forearm pulling him, with one quick look to the hufflepuff student who somehow found themselves snaked into the party. his gaze leaves you as he’s quickly distracted by the person and you keep walking. it was going to be a long night obviously so since they had only just started.

you find yourself stood with your friends pansy, daphne, theodore, and draco . you stood around drinking a mystery concoction made by lorenzo and you wonder to yourself who the fuck gave him the job of making these drinks. “these are deadly, merlin.” you groan wincing at the burn in your throat as you swallow the liquid in the cup. pansy snickers at your comment bringing the red cup to her lips, “i mean yeah look who’s behind them.” she laughs taking a sip. “hey [name], are you and mattheo like a thing?” daphne ask, fiddling with her golden necklace that hung around her collarbone. you almost spit your drink out and the two boys around you chuckle at your reaction. “why would you ever make such an assumption?” your face must contort into a disgusted confused mix because everyone around you starts chuckling to themselves.

“well, i’ve got a friend in ravenclaw and i’d think they’d be a great match. it’s just that he’s always around you so i just assumed you guys were i don’t know.. into eachother?” daphne smiles shyly, her intentions seem true and you knew that she doesn’t like mattheo since he’s not really.. her type. “daphne..” you put a hand on her shoulder comically, “you can have him.. on one condition.. you make sure he never speaks to me again.” you snicker, daphne beams and nods profusely promising you that you will not be disappointed.

you and mattheo had been what seemed like enemies since like forever. the first thing he did to make you hate him was when he dunked your head into a volubilis potion in first year causing you to sound like a chipmunk for 3 days and since that day you have never had a break from mattheos constant efforts to humiliate you. first it was the potion, then pushing you off your broom, setting your robe on fire in transfiguration, the list goes on really. but mattheo continued to play dumb all the way up to sixth year. it was weird, the fact he acted absolutely oblivious, but you thought he was just teasing you again.

the night died down slowly and after about 3 hours of talking, laughing and drinking you head back to your dorm. you arrive at your dorms door, met with it slightly ajar. you think that it was weird before venturing onwards sinking yourself into the chair at your desk, you were a lucky student, having a dorm to yourself was a blessing. hearing daphne’s and theodore’s constant complaints on snoring, messiness and fights you found yourself encapsulated in the warm fortunes of being able to have a room to yourself, (even if it did get lonely).

sitting up from the wooden chair, you shower and change into more suitable sleeping attire which was obviously your pajamas you brought from home accompanied by slippers. you fall into your bed with a tired sigh, your eyes wandering over your dorms ceilings, then walls, the lights, the desk and your jewellery stand in which your rings that your family have kept as an heirloom for years centuries were missing.

they were missing.

the. rings. were. missing.

you sit up from the bed in a comical way, you could’ve sworn there were onomatoepias surrounding the air around you. jolting up quickly you rush to look for the rings. you check in the holder, on the desk, on the floor, in the blankets, under the pillows, anywhere you could think of. if you were found to have lost your prized family heirloom your mother would have your head on a stick and you would be fed to the dogs. you HAVE to find the rings. even if you died doing it.

you were searching for that shit, like it was your life elixir. as if it was the elder wand. people would hate thought you were crazy by the way you were looking. it was funny almost seeing someone squirm and rush around such a small area. your sheets were being yanked off your bed and your chest at the foot of your bed was being emptied and rearranged. you looked like you were on drugs, it was bad. you looked like a lunatic, it was horrid. but you gotta do what u gotta do..

to say you were panicking would be an understatement. you were frantic, desperate even. you were on all fours checking every single crevice and crack of that room 15 times over just for there to be nothing. it hasn’t even been an hour since you stepped foot into your dorm. your eyes are wide with anxiety sinking in and you unconsciously start pacing your room.

your mind runs laps thinking about any and every possibility. maybe they grew legs and walked away, maybe there was no rings in the first place and you were just crazy, maybe you’re family was crazy. maybe nothing was real like ever.

you paced up and down your room, hands in your hair basically clawing at it thinking of every scenario possible and every single step you took that day.

1. you woke up.

2. you went to the bathroom and did your business.

3. you changed into your uniform.

4. you checked the rings were still there, they were.

5. you went on about your day.

every single day you check the rings are there. you wouldn’t wear them incase they got damaged so you settled with keeping them on a porcelain plate next to your notebook. every single friend and basically everyone in your year knows how valuable they are and you would a word (avada kadavra) anyone without hesitation if they touched them so no one ever did.

well there is one person that might have and would if he felt especially annoying that day.

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you found yourself pounding on mattheo riddles dorm door. the knocks echoed throughout the hall. some partygoers are still hung around in deep conversation, lorenzo seems to be off his shift as the bartender and he is seemingly in his dorm.

you wait for an answer at the door for what feels like eternity (2 minutes) and you being hammering at the door next.

a muffled voice pleads for you to stop and blaise opens the door groggily, fatigue from the party taken over his state of mind.

“where is he.”

“where is who?”

“you know who blaise.”

blaise looks behind him, looking over the beds in his dorm. enzo is in bed, and blaise just got out of his. he looks at mattheos bed and its unmade but its empty.

“not here.” blaise sighs, wiping a tired hand over his eyes.

“then where is he?” you grumble.

“astronomy tower maybe, he likes taking a smoke out there at night. to see stars or some sappy shit.” blaise replies.

you thank blaise quickly and you apologise for the intrusion before quickly picking up your feet from the floor and going to the astronomy tower.

the halls of hogwarts when it was empty were always cold and a bit uneasy when you walk through them at night. knowing that there are ghosts in the walls and there might be other students or things around frighten you but the only thing your running on right now is the drink lorenzo made and pure anger.

your slippers tap on the tile beneath your feet echoing through the walls. you twist up the astronomy tower stairs quickly and you silently enter the icy breeze of the open class. the smell of smoke quickly comes over you, foretelling you that your target was indeed here.

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“riddle.” you growl looking at the boy. he felt as if your eyes were piercing holes straight through him and he turns around slowly cigarette still in his mouth. mattheo’s eyes were wide and his face looked guilty.

“i swear whatever theo said he’s lying.” mattheo blurts out quickly. his eyes trail down to your slippers up your long fuzzy pajama pants and then to your night shirt, a quiet smile grows on his face but he’s quick to hide the pink on his cheeks with a snarky remark. “cute outfit, [name]” he laughs taking a long drag of his cigarette.

“did you steal my stuff mattheo?”

“who?” he replies, his lips curl into a smile.

“what?” you make a weird face at him, “did you steal my things?” you say again.

“you said my name.” he laughs out softly his eyes meeting the sky above him. “also no.” mattheo sighs out.

you walk to the ledge of the astronomy tower where he stood and you lean your elbows against the chill metal. “riddle-“ you try to begin but your cut off instantly, “mattheo.” he says. “call me mattheo please.” he says almost shyly, you narrow your eyes at him before shaking your head giving into the boys request.

“mattheo i really need you to be honest with me okay?” you turn to look at him, “did you steal my stuff?”.

“i didn’t [name].” he looks back at you, “right.” you reply, slight mistrust laces your tone but mattheo ignores it as he finishes up smoking his cigarette.

“im being serious!” he whines, the top of the cigarette being dragged across the railing. you give him a nod, coming off a tad sarcastic but mostly trusting.

“my stuff went missing too.” mattheo blurts out, he looks at you breathing out a smoky sigh. you look at him puzzled, you squint your eyes at him trying to read his expression.

with your squinted eyes and mistrusting expression an idea pops up into your head.

not one you like and most definitely not one you’d pitch to mattheo riddle.

but it was better than just sulking around.

“well if we both got robbed, on the same night what are the chances it was the same person?” you sigh out your eyes drawing to the stars above you.

“high?” he replies,

“so as much as i hate this- why dont we help eachother out and look for them together.”

“are you asking me to become your detective partner, honey bun?” he teases you with a sly grin.

“don’t make me change my mind riddle.” you glare at him.

“fine.. i will since your prrrractically begging me to ~” he smiles childishly, a slight gleam in his eyes.

you roll your eyes and groan,

this was a bad idea.

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@yawneon

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Five Fics Friday: August 16/24

Happy Friday Everyone!! Check out these fics to start off your weekend!!! Hope you enjoy!!!

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[meetinginsamarra]

Fanfics I Really Liked in March 2024

So. Since I keep a list of what I´ve read anyway (there´s always a list), I will rec all the fics I´ve wholly enjoyed on a monthly basis. Old and new, canon or AU, big or small authors, long or short but nearly always Johnlock (-ish).

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Adrift by BakerTumblings

John Watson has certainly been dealt a rough hand. And there are some choices he's made that aren't helping his state of mind. Neither is the alcohol. Sherlock Holmes has been dealt a rough hand, as well. His choices, also not always the best. Neither are the substances. Certainly, once a person has hit rock bottom, the only place left to go is up, right? With a lot of support from friends, family, and - eventually - each other, they'll do more than manage. They'll thrive.

A very painful beginning after the events of TLD but it slowly gets better until a happy (and dramatic) end.

Through a Glass, Darkly by Calais_Reno @calaisreno

It begins in an alley. Two alleys, to be accurate. John and Sherlock, chasing a suspect. Holmes and Watson running for their lives. While John and Sherlock try to clear their names in ACD universe, Holmes and Watson are solving a missing persons case.

Another timey-whimey fic and I absolutely loved the juxtaposition of the BBC and ACD incarnations and what they do to solve the case.

Because Blah Blah Blah Happy by cwb

John is entirely done with the milk situation and gives Sherlock a list of shit he's pissed about. Sherlock sets out to make John happy. John is happy. Sherlock makes his own list. They are both very, very happy.

This is so much fun!

Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus by CaitlinFairchild

Closing his eyes, Sherlock allows himself a brief swell of feeling--let’s not put a name on it, just call it a feeling--for his big brother. He knows that when Mycroft opens that steel door again, every man now inside will be a fresh corpse.

Serbia and its aftermath and a BAMF Mycroft.

many of horror by hailholylight

Sherlock traces the pattern of the bruises under the dim light of a lamp to the right of him. It's the only light he can stand being on. They're the last traces of Victor he has left on his body.

Sherlock is in a bad place after the abusive relationship with Victor but a caring Lestrade and meeting an ex-soldier help him with coping.

[ren-rambles-often]

Hello.... If you don't mind me asking, who are your favorite romantic relationship's couples in books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series (can be canon or non-canon)? Feel free if you want to write the reasons or not of why you love them...Thanks if you want to answer....

Thanks for the ask and damn I'm always so excited when it comes to these so ofc I don't mind, also warning I'm about to kinda go off. It's a pretty long list so I'll only talk about the ones that left the biggest impression on me.

Warning for mentions of twincest, incest and age gaps.

Starting off with the ship that indoctrinated me into the bl life style *drumroll*

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter (aka Drarry); enemies/rivals to lovers, blond x ravenette, they basically set the precedent for every ship I pick up like a stray cat these days.

Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku (Bakudeku): Enemies to lovers, plus constantly on each other's mind as a motivation in one way or the other. I love them so much.

Mikage Reo/Nagi Seishiro (NagiReo): one of my current hyperfixations, mainly cuz they're one of the few ships I have that wasn't introduced as rivals from the start as well as being extremely close canonically. They click so well despite their miscommunication (more like no communication but I'll probably get to that another day).

Gojo Saturou/Itadori Yuuji (GoYuu): Most of my blog will you a clue already lol.

Sukuna/Itadori Yuuji (SukuIta): Number one toxic ship rn, but would you believe I prefer their siblings falling in forbidden love trope?

Mikaela Hyakuya/Yuuichiro Hyakuya (MikaYuu): Found family lovers that will give anything for each other? Sign me up.

Tyki Milk/Allen Walker: I walked into the D.gray man fandom late and I will never not regret it, I need more people that at least know who they are (〒﹏〒)

Eren Jeager/Armin Arlet & Eren Jaeger/Levi Ackerman (Eremin & Ereri): Getting these two out of the way at the same time cuz while I think Eren is undeniably his best self a lot with Armin, I love the thought of Levi being there as his inspiration.

Itoshi Rin/Itoshi Sae: Their beef is adorable but they need to fuck.

Roy Mustang/Edward Elric: I love their banter and they've both been through way too much together.

Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent (Superbat): one is batman the other is superman...Need I say more?

Dick Grayson/Tim Drake: I watched Titans and they had me.

Luka/Adrian (Lukachat): I stopped watch Miraculous at like S3 but these two are the only salvageable treasure from that mess to me.

Sherlock Holmes/William James Moriarty (Sherliam): From Moriarty the Patriot not any other adaptations please. There was that one movie tho. I love how they're constantly teasing and trying to outsmart each other like yeah babes, burn that city down to get his attention.

Kageyama Tobio/Hinata Shoyo (Kagehina): I haven't finished Haikyuu S2, spare me.

Kagami Taiga/Kuroko Tetsuya: what's with sports anime and K names, that aside, I don't know but their separation leaves me in tears everytime.

Yukio Okumura/Rin Okumura: Rin cares so much, Yukio stop being a yandere you closeted brocon! I know you!!!

Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji: I have a thing for broody possessive tops and oblivious bottoms and they were my awakening.

Hideyoshi Nagachika/Ken Kaneki (Hidekane): Receiving Tokyo ghoul spoilers of how things ended kept from finishing the show or starting the manga, what even is the point .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·.

Draken/Mikey/Takemichi & Draken/Mikey: DraMiTake is something I'd consume if I find it cuz I read this one precious fic I will forever cherise but DraMikey has way too much angst potential on its own. Tugs my heart to know Draken keeps Mikey grounded.

Baji Keisuke/Chifuyu Matsuno: Kazutora I will never fucking forgive you.

Hanma shuji/Kisaki Tetta: psychotic boyfriends, we love to see it (✿ ♡‿♡)

Reinhard Van Astrea/Natsuki Subaru: They are literally my banner plus he's one of the few people that doesn't give Subaru a hard time (I only watched S1)

Sebastian Michaelis/Ciel Phantomhive: Butler x master, what else do I need to add. I do absolutely adore the thought of Sebastian being cheeky when putting his young master in his place. I also love soft Sebastian, go figure.

Carnegie/Jonathan Sterling: No one remembers Darkside so I won't even dive into it. These two are the reason I'm trying to finish the series right now, book girlies, read Darkside by Tom Becker and come find me please ಥ‿ಥ

Dante/Vergil: It just makes sense ngl.

If you made it this far...why did you lollll, but honestly thanks for reading, talking about ships is one of my things and be free to ask again if you want me to expand upon or analyze any of these, that or if you just want recs. I'm down for anything.

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Rare(ish)-pair Yuumori ideas that I may or may not ever write (but they're like, bottom of my ideas list, so if anyone is inspired by these have at it, I can always do my own versions later lol. Tag me tho, I wanna read stuff!)

(These are for the most part absurdly off-canon and varying degrees of cracky. Roll with it.)

Bond/Albert in which Albert is a virgin and Bond has never had sex post-transition. Bond tops. It's like a very affectionate friends-with-benefits deal where they're learning new things together.

Billy and Louis friendship fic where Louis expects to find Billy annoying because he's kind of boisterous and overly familiar and whatnot, but instead finds himself surprisingly charmed and then they're buddies.

Billy and Bond fic where they bond over being Americans who faked their deaths and changed their identities. They may or may not kiss, idk.

Jack Renfield/Queen Victoria 😂😂😂😂

Mycroft and Miss Hudson have an incredibly tame, mature, and vanilla romance that is absolutely fascinating to everyone around them because they're all crazy people (affectionate). They do gentle missionary for the first time on their wedding night and have a baby precisely forty weeks later and everyone claps.

Mycroft/Moran. Has anyone done this? I literally have no reason for it other than that I was playing around with the character profiles trying to see which people might actually have anything in common based on age etc, and huh. I could find a way to make this work. They never have sex beyond handies because they can't agree on who would top. 🤣

John and Moran fic. Probably just a friend fic. Frankly this should be considered more in general in Holmes adaptations: these two are foils of each other, each the loyal soldier at Holmes' and Moriarty's respective sides. They should be drinking buddies in the Yuumori-verse, but in everything else they should be enemies with belligerent sexual tension.

Mycroft/William set in between A Scandal in the British Empire and The Final Problem, in which they have a lot of technically very good but very miserable sex while pining over each other's brothers and picking apart each other's brains brutally.

William/Billy thing where William after the coma is still working things through and is kind of emotionally distancing himself from Sherlock because he's still not Okay, and Billy is there for him. (Vermissa gets pushed later in this.) They get quite emotionally entangled in bonding over their similarities, but nothing actually comes of it, and Billy is the one to ultimately give William the push he needs to open up to Sherlock. It ends on a bittersweet note with the implication that Billy is more than a little in love with Liam, but knows Sherlock is who he should be with. Sad gays.

Bond/everyone where he's at the center of the most successful polycule in recorded history. 😂

[mzannthropy]

Baker Street Station, London

I took these pictures at the Baker Street tube station in London. The station happily embraces its Sherlock Holmes claim to fame. The bottom photo was taken by my Canon, the rest with Pixel 7a smartphone.

[hergan416]

hi!

for the end of the year meme: 🥰 and 📝

🥰 a piece i’m really proud of and why

Ok, next answer is Poison Paradise. I just. Cannot believe that I have written something that has connected me to so many people. It is really an essay in the truest, most etymological sense of the word -- an attempt that has led me to so many people in this fandom. I have so many plans moving forward, and it's probably what I would consider my most "recommendable" fic of the year.

(Poison Paradise is rated E(xplicit) because I'm thirsty, even when I tell a long story. The main focus is on sherlouis, but there is a small side of AW for your viewing pleasure. It is a canon divergent retelling for the sole purpose of the sherlouis relationship.)

📝 a line or paragraph i’m really happy with

This is longer than requested but I am very fucking partial to the opening lines of Poison Paradise, although I now think they might be too dense for the rest of the story.

His elation as he slid into the booth was tempered, briefly, by a noxious glare. Mercury sulfide side-eying his presence, which had disturbed a relaxed posture into ramrod rigidity, curt, clipped words, and an attempt at a polite excuse to leave. He overstays his welcome, arguing against the feeble logic as much with his words as with his unwillingness to move, trapping the younger Moriarty into the booth. Liam could just as easily end the farce by removing himself from the table. Instead, he indulges Sherlock, locking his eyes. In contrast to his brother's venom, Liam's eyes are a deep lake, bathed in sunset and tinted in the iron of its rocky bottom. Calm, warm, inviting. And when — after Sherlock can't help but divulge himself to them, after Sherlock throws a baseless accusation into the already-ruined atmosphere for the hell of it, to see what Liam will do —  when the edges of Lake Vermilion crispen with autumn breeze, it takes his breath away. "Catch me if you can, Mr. Holmes." Catching Liam ... there was nothing he would like more.

If I have to choose one, it's Lake Vermillion, but it is best in the context of the rest of it.

I ... might have an obsession with the train scene lkj;ljkdfjkaf; I just realized that I'm re-writing it for the third? time? I think? I might be forgetting some attempts from earlier in the year.

Third time is smut but STILL

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Lethal Distraction

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Y1VMQF5 by ocean_eyes_221 A series of meetings between Sherlock and Jim during which nothing really happens... Until it does. Words: 1665, Chapters: 1/7, Language: English Fandoms: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Jim Moriarty Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes & Jim Moriarty Additional Tags: Sheriarty - Freeform, jimlock, POV Sherlock Holmes, POV Jim Moriarty, 5+1 Things, 5 Times, Smut, Sexual Tension, Flirting, Enemies to Lovers, Canon Divergence - The Reichenbach Fall, Canon Divergence - His Last Vow, Explicit Sexual Content, Bottom Jim Moriarty, Top Sherlock Holmes read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Y1VMQF5

[bl4ckr0se-3006]

Looking for a Sherlock related Rp. I would playing to some degree my own take on Arrhur Conan Doyle’s famous detective, who I honestly adore. My version of Sherlock is based on the books and the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock and I recently started watching the Anime Moriarity the Patriot, which I am being honest I love and no it has not changed the way I view Sherlock in the slightest.

Trigger warning: Drug abuse/addiction and Mental illness, smoking and drug overdose.

For this RP I would be looking for my partner to play John Watson and Mrs Hudson (yes Mrs Hudson not Miss Hudson, this isn’t entirely based on Moriarty th let Patriot, it does also to some degree have links to the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock TV Show and I personally fell like having the 221B landlady as an old lady makes more sense.)

These first 3 pictures above show to some degree the physical appearance of Sherlock I am wanting to use for this Rp. Since Benedict Cumberbatch has Sectoral Hereochrimia that makes his eyes both blue and green at the same time I play Sherlock with Sectoral Hereochrimia and blue-green eyes also. The bottom image shows what his eyes look like when blue. The top one is without freckles, I used Faceapp to add the freckles and top one and middle two show what his eyes look like when green. One of the middles ones has freckles. And one of them shows full suit. I got the images off Pixai art generator. The pictures below show the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock and Morairty the Patriot Sherlock who inspired my own view of Sherlock as I want to play him.

Do I have plot ideas for this well I am glad you asked. I am happy to come up with one together. Or I do have one plot idea which we can use, however trigger warning the plot would contain drug use/addiction on Sherlock’s part, as well as I would be playing Sherlock to be High Functioning Autistic and have Bipolar Disorder also. As well as I would play Sherlock as having an IQ of 190.

The plot idea:

John moves back into 221B Baker street following Mary’s death, with his baby daughter to find the place is a complete mess, which of course the mess is Sherlock’s fault, since the house he was living in with Mary was two large. Sherlock of course wouldn’t be expecting this and maybe the two weren’t really talking to begin with at the time. But we’d go from there. I do have one scene in mind where Sherlock would either be drunk or high before he’d end up accidentally admitting to having feelings for John if you’re interested please pm me. This can work for a platonic without the scene where Sherlock gets drunk/high or romantic with that scene.

I want to keep with Mary’s main storyline from the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock Tv Show though the setting can be either Victorian or Modern. I don’t mind. We can discuss in Pms. I would ask that my partner be familiar with The Sherlock Holmes books, the Benedict Cumberbatch Tv show adaptation of Sherlock and Moriarty the Patriot Anime, I have yet to finish the anime and yet to read the manga. I am currently reading the Arthur Conan Doyle books and have finished the Benedict Cumberbatch adaptation of Sherlock.

The head cannons which for Sherlock I want to use for this rp are:

1. He is Asexual and Biromantic, he can fall in love though doesn’t really understand it. That’s why he tends to act the way he does around Molly.

2. He is Autistic, specifically High Functioning Autistic (this one is kind of recognized in canon anyway, John brings up a reference to it). It’s not impossible for someone who I’d autistic to be a genius, it can happen and honestly I picked up several signs in Sherlock which led me to accept this headcannon, and I am a strong believer in it. I could go on a rant about it but this isn’t that kind of post this post is simply to set out the Headcannons I have for Sherlock.

3. He suffers from Bipolar Disorder. He swings between hypomania and depression and in general his mood swings in combination with the fact he’s neurodivergent make him almost impossible to deal with by the wrong people - for example Sargent Sally Donovan and Philip Anderson (For the Benedict Cumberbatch Adaptation of Sherlock) and Assistant Inspector Gregson (For Moriarty the Patriot) - for my Sherlock all of them, being three such people.

[foulbearobservation]

Ava: Columbo

Beatrice: Poirot

Camila: Miss Marple? Jessica Fletcher?

Lilith: ???

lilith is sherlock holmes! but specifically she's the cbs elementary version of sherlock holmes that exists in my head. the camilith elementary au goes SO hard you have no idea. lilith is neurotic. she's a recovering addict. she's canonically into bdsm. she's a bottom. she solves mysteries by crawling around on the floor. she's obsessed with camila. she got broken up with once and it ruined her whole life.

camila to me, and I'm so sorry about this, is sidekick coded. she's the watson to lilith's holmes. she's sgt. wilson (that one neurotic cop columbo works with a few times). she's a sidekick to her very core. THAT'S NOT A BAD THING! It's just a fact of life! Some characters are written to be sidekicks!

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Fanfic Masterlist (last updated July 14th 2024)

Where the east wind doesn´t blow (in progress) fandoms (crossover): Sherlock (BBC) x Enola Holmes movies chapters: 6/? quick summary: „Enola.“ Sherlock rolled the word in his mouth. It felt odd, yet strangely at home on his tongue. „That´s “alone“, spelled backwards.“ Enola simply smiled as she looked away, outside the window to the streets of then rainy London streets. It was a brief look, seemingly without a reason. It began to rain outside. „My mother´s a big fan of word games.“ She said, her eyes turning to the ground. Sherlock noticed her hands began to shake again as she partially curled up on herself.

Someday you´ll return (and I´ll be gone) (finished) fandom: The Sandman (2022) chapters: 3 quick summary: Once upon a time, there was a fairytale about a beautiful lady trapped in a tall tower by an evil witch. The lady in the story was incredibly beautiful, with golden hair so long they reached the bottom of the tower when she let them down through the window – the only way in and out of her stone prison. As stories often go, there was truth to it, one that had since morphed into something slightly different after being passed from mouth to mouth to ink and paper, written down into a book with a considerable amount of creative liberty. Let´s tell the story once again, now unchanged. And let´s tell it properly - from the beginning.

Two halves of the same orange (finished) fandom: Our flag means death (2022) chapters: 11 quick summary: A continuation of season 1, very minor difference to canon. It´s basically a collection of my headcanons with a bit of stuff that could possibly happen in canon and very poor integration of Spanish (I tried). First fic i finished (yay). additional note: I may put out additional content for this story (short stories and POVs that didn´t make the final cut) in the future, but for now, this is it.

The story of a storyteller (in progress) - DISCONTINUED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE fandom: The Sandman (2022) chapters: 14/? quick summary: An ordinary girl named Sarah suddenly appears to be transported to a different universe, one she considered nothing more than a good story. Running into the characters she only read about, however seems to put that view to the test. additional note: OC-centric, Hob x Dream in this one is present, but off to the side. Is this self-indulgent ? Unapologetically, but i will at least try to treat it with respect. I haven´t seen a single one story anywhere which deals with OC (or hell, even a reader insert) having knowledge of the Sandman universe so I´m looking forward to writing the rest of this very much. another additional note regarding content warnings: some chapters deal with heavier topics than the majority of the story. Those chapters have specific content warning in the notes at the beginning of the fic. Reader discretion advised.

The party goes with you (finished) fandom: The Sandman (2022) chapters: 1 quick summary: The days melt into each other for Hob Gadling once his old friend disappears. When Death comes to deliver the news of his demise, however, there is yet a shard of hope about the air.

The skin of a killer, the song of a longing heart (finished) fandom: The Sandman (2022) chapters: 1 quick summary: Hob wants to know more about Dream. Dream can only know about Hob what he directly tells him because he literally can´t see or hear any of his dreams. Things take an interesting turn. Or What 600 years of longing can do to two people who have very romantic feelings about one another with nowhere else to put them

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Five Fics Friday: May 17/24

Happy May Long Weekend, everyone!! It's the unofficial start to Canadian Summer, so let's start it off right with some fantastic reads to enjoy out at the cottage! Be sure to give the boosted fic some extra love too!!!

Love y'all!

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Wolfhound by KtwoNtwo (M, 20,783 w., 9 Ch. || ACD Canon || Canon-Typical Violence, Werewolves, Period-Typical Homophobia) – The Baskerville family curse has allegedly taken a victim and Sherlock Holmes has taken the case. Unfortunately the case itself threatens to expose Dr. Watson's most closely held secrets. Secrets that he has somehow managed to conceal so far from Holmes. A retelling of the Hound of the Baskervilles in a universe where Lycanthropy is not only known but is also a death sentence.

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The Five Steps of Nesting by emptycel (M, 34,965 w., 10 Ch. || Omegaverse || TBB-Adjacent, Mpreg, Protective John, Romance, Case Fic, Fluff, OOC Sherlock, Omega Sherlock) – Sherlock and John get some surprising/happy/deeply stressful news and decide that Sherlock will have to take a break from crime solving once his 'delicate condition renders him useless.' They decide to: sneak in a high profile case before then... which gets a bit more complicated than they planned, to just 'take a look' at this smuggling ring business (What could go wrong?), all while trying to get through the five steps of nesting, which play with Sherlock's instincts and turn him into a madman of snuggling and cleaning. John is understandably tired. Part 2 of First Steps

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Inamorato

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by Vivirki

Newly bitten Sherlock Holmes Struggles to control his new urges and finds himself thirsting after a certain criminal.

Words: 3156, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Jim Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Greg Lestrade

Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, Vampires, Blood, Blood Drinking, Non-Consensual Blood Drinking, Morally grey sherlock, Murder, Mates, Human/Vampire Relationship, vampire!Sherlock, Human!Moriarty, Anal Sex, Hate Sex, Masochism, Dom/sub, Bottom Jim Moriarty, Top Sherlock Holmes, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, no beta we die like jim moriarty, Detective Work, Season 1, Episode: s01e03 The Great Game, AU, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Behavior, Magic, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Witchcraft, Potions

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