A Holmesian Solstice

Sorted by category and fandom, all the amazing fanworks created by this round's participants, for your perusal and entertainment and with names attached! Now comments can be answered and works reposted all over the web, and pimping shall commence far and wide! If you haven't added your fanwork to the AO3 collection, and you want to, you can add it here: Holmestice Exchange - Winter2025. If your work has been on AO3 all along and is in a fast-moving tag ("Sherlock (TV)" or "Sherlock Holmes/John Watson", for example), you might choose to update its publication date to today, so that your work has its turn at the top of the tag.

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And now, without further ado, the Grand Reveal!

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Title: Tried and True
Recipient: paradiseandcola
Author:
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: After straining his bad leg during a case, it’s a bit harder for Watson to get going in the morning. Holmes is quite determined to make sure he has everything he needs.

Read On AO3: Tried and True

Title: In the Thick of Question and Reply
Recipient: BendingTheWillow
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: While recovering from an injury, Holmes finds that he might need a bit more help than usual. Watson is glad to assist in any way that he can.

Read on AO3: In the Thick of Question and Reply

Title: Contributing Factors
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Returning home from a case to find chilly winter weather, Holmes contemplates recent changes to his life, as well as their effects.

Read on AO3: Contributing Factors

Title: Into the Setting Sun
Recipient: EstelRaca
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson & Mycroft
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: When Holmes fails to arrive at Baker Street for a scheduled dinner, Mycroft and Watson go searching for him.

Read on AO3: Into the Setting Sun

Title: To Implore Your Light
Recipient: beaglesbites
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Now that Holmes had returned to London, alive and well, Watson had thought the nightmares would stop. He had the most marvelous proof that the worst had not happened, that Holmes was not lost, his body not left to be battered by the torrent of the Reichenbach Falls forever. Still, the nightmares continued.

Read on AO3: To Implore Your Light

Title: Counterpoint
Recipient: flowing_river
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: “Hiding anything from Holmes was difficult, but in their present circumstances, he was no doubt distracted by the gunmen and the case in general. So long as Watson kept quiet, Holmes need not find out about this injury until later.”

Read on AO3: Counterpoint

Title: Keeping Company
Recipient:
EdosianOrchids901
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Summary: Watson slowly made his way towards the stairs but stopped as he passed by Holmes’ closed bedroom door. There were faint noises coming from Holmes’ bedroom, noises of distress. Watson hesitated, unsure of what to do. His instinct was to enter the room and try to help Holmes, but Watson did not know if his help would be welcome, especially as he would have to intrude on Holmes’ personal space to do so.

Read on AO3: Keeping Company

Title: holy light, oh, burn the night
Recipient: estelraca
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Doyle - Canon
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson, Mycroft
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Brief mentions of drug use and violence
Summary: When two near-strangers intended to share lodgings, it was best that they knew the worst of each other before they entered into an agreement.

Holmes was an excellent violinist and a habitual user of morphia, but Watson did not know that yet. Nor did he know that he could be reduced to stupefied despair by a full moon.


Read on AO3: holy light, oh, burn the night

Title: Notes on a Holiday
Recipient:
kingstoken
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: some vague references to drug use
Summary: Of course a nice holiday with Holmes in this remote and unpeopled corner of England would inevitably become, in short order, The Cornish Horror, but that is a story for another time.

Watson and Holmes have come to a lonely part of Cornwall, but they are alone together.

Read on AO3: Notes on a Holiday