Fic for Alexcat: Née Kitty Winter

[holmesticemods]

Title: Née Kitty Winter
Recipient: alexcat
Author: ancientreader
Verse: ACD
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson; Kitty Winter/OFC
Rating: T/PG
Warnings: mentions of serial murder and not-entirely-voluntary prostitution
Summary: The Morning Post "had the first police-court hearing of the proceedings against Miss Kitty Winter on the grave charge of vitriol-throwing. Such extenuating circumstances came out in the trial that the sentence, as will be remembered, was the lowest that was possible for such an offence." ("The Adventure of the Illustrious Client")
The world never did learn what happened after Kitty Winter's release.

Author’s notes: Dear alexcat, I started out fully intending to write you a Victorian comedy, and this is what came out instead. Whoops! At least it's a basically happy story, and I hope it gives you pleasure. Happy Holmestice!

Many thanks to SCFrankles, who bent over backward to help me answer some of those annoying finicky questions that plague writers of ACD fic. Google-fu failed me, but SCFrankles did not.

ColebaltBlue and Sanguinity, as moderators of this exchange, had absolutely no obligation to do any research for me, but they did anyway, because they're like that, and it was a big help. Thank you!

To REDACTED, as always, my sincere thanks for making me want to tear my hair out by finding the first draft unsatisfactory. To the extent that this is a better story now, that's because REDACTED told me to fix it.

For the purposes of this story, the anonymous wife in "Blanched Soldier" was a beard, and let's have no "Lion's Mane" nonsense about Watson passing beyond Holmes's ken. Honestly.


Read on AO3: Née Kitty Winter

Fic for Graycardinal: The Adventure of the Retired Novelist

[holmesticemods]

Title: "The Adventure of the Retired Novelist: The Simply Unacceptable Version"
Recipient: graycardinal
Author: iwantthatcoat
Universe: Solar Pons with MCU Crossover
Characters/Pairings: Solar Pons, Dr Stephen Strange, Dr Lyndon Parker, Venler, Wilgreve, Peter Quill, Rocket, Gamora, Groot, Drax, and Mantis. (With a special appearance by The Buttstallion from Borderlands 2)
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None. This story does allude to events in Infinity War, though I do not believe it constitutes an actual spoiler. Please note there are occasional non-British spellings and other errors regarding Brit-picking. This is a deliberate action in tribute to the similar mistakes made by American author August Derleth.
Summary: Does Lord Venler's appearance in "The Retired Novelist" seem a tad brief? And who came out of the mysterious wormhole hitherto unknown to science? (Spoiler: It is not Isadora Persono.) Dr Lyndon Parker, in his years chronicling the many adventures of Solar Pons and himself, certainly knows which parts of a story might be safely presented to the general public and which are simply unacceptable. Here is the simply unacceptable version- otherwise known as the far more complicated truth. Solar Pons (an established Holmes pastiche)/MCU crossover, with a guest appearance by a videogame horse with special powers and a passing reference to a character I sincerely hope OP will enjoy.


Read on AO3: The Adventure of the Retired Novelist: The Simply Unacceptable Version