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[sanguinity]

Name: Sanguinity
AO3: sanguinity (all lower-case; with a capital is someone else)
Contact email: sanguinity at gmail

 
I will create: fic, vid
In the following parts of fandom: Elementary, Watson & Holmes (comic), New Russian Holmes, My Dearly Beloved Detective, Bert Coules (both the canon adaptations and the Further Adventures), Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Without a Clue, Baker Street (webseries) Asylum "Dinosaur" Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and Zombies (comic), Basil of Baker Street (books), Sherlock Hound, Sheerluck Holmes (aka Tomato!Watson and Cucumber!Holmes), Conned Again Watson, 22nd Century, Granada, ACD.
For the following pairings: Holmes/Watson (except Elementary), Holmes & Watson, Watson/Mary, Holmes/Stackhurst, Joan/Marcus (Elementary), Watson/Mrs. Hudson (New Russian), Holmes/Tchaikovsky (Private life), various ACD femslash.
I like working with the following categories: Gen, het, slash, angst, friendship, schmoop, domesticity, missing scenes, backstory, episode tags, crossovers, fusions.
I am willing to create for the following kinks: None.
 
I want to receive: fic, vid
In at least one of the following parts of fandom: Watson & Holmes, New Russian Holmes, My Dearly Beloved Detective, Baker Street, Bert Coules, Conned Again, Sherlock Holmes and Zombies, ACD.
For at least one of the following pairings: None, Holmes/Watson, Holmes & Watson, Holmes/Stackhurst, Watson/Mary. Additional fandom-specific pairings: Watson/Mrs. Hudson (New Russian), Holmes/Mrs. Ricoletti (Further Adventures). Or threesomes that are a mash-up of any of the above listed pairings. Alternatively, I’d also be happy to receive something focusing on the various women of ACD canon, femslash or not. (There are some excellent women in canon!)
I like stuff in the following categories: happy endings; jealousy resolved / relationship negotiations; BAMF!Watson; Watson in peril and Holmes losing his shit; fusions; crossovers.
I wouldn’t mind any of the following kinks: I am comfortable receiving dub-con (as long as it's consensually resolved later) and explicit sexual content, but I am not specifically requesting it.
 
Please include further details about what you’d like to receive:

In general, I am a big fan of doing right by Watson. I enjoy a Holmes who is besotted with Watson (although he doesn't need to be particularly overt about it), and who attempts to live up to what Watson deserves. I like old and deep relationships with a lot of history in them, people who know each other very well but still mistake each other's meaning and intentions sometimes. In general, I find the question of what one does with being in love far more interesting than whether one is in love. However, I'm also well aware that a few of my requested fandoms position Holmes and Watson early in their partnership, so exploring these two sorting out exactly what it means to be a Holmes to the other's Watson, and vice versa, would be just as satisfying to me. And as you might guess from all that, my actual kink is the intricacies of navigating a relationship.

I’m also a big fan of intertextuality, of talking back to canon, of dealing with canon as a constructed text, of wrestling with the great unwieldly mythic legacy of canon and its adaptive traditions… These things are catnip to me, and if you’ve got some idea you want to play with concerning them, please do. Same with crossovers and fusions — I’m obvs familiar with anything I’ve offered to write/vid, and I’m happy to read/watch other adaptations/pastiches, if there’s something buzzing around in your head that you want to do. (I will say that I’m not keen on a BBC fusion, thank you.) If it’s an extra-Holmesian crossover you’re interested in doing (someday I will talk someone into writing a Great Brain x ACD crossover for me), grrlpup can give you some insight as to whether I know the other canon or not.


Specific suggestions with respect to the various fandoms I requested:

Watson & Holmes: I love the interrogation of what Holmes’ career would be like without some of his usual social privileges, along with the re-examination of who the police are and why Holmes might choose to work outside of them. I love how level-headed Watson is about making sure that all the practical details like back-up are covered, and what a strong part of the partnership he is, right from the word go… I would be thrilled to receive nearly anything from this fandom; if there's something you want to do with these two, please do it!

New Russian Holmes: I love the show's explicit engagement with ACD's canon being a constructed text -- the Holmes of canon is an idealization created for the public taste! -- and if you wanted to play further with that, I'd be thrilled. I also adore that the show complicated the usual Holmesian narrative about Holmes and the police. (They are sworn public servants! They are a bunch of corrupt thugs interested in maintaining their own power! Both!) I’m not at all a fan of what they did with Irene Adler, so if you felt like writing a fix-it for her, that would be awesome. I love the boxing throughline (yay punching!); I adore these two dorks flailing about who they want to be, and what to do with their fascination with each other… And I could be here a long, long time discussing what I love about this series. I assume that if you’re offering this series, you loved it, too: it's fine to throw my ideas to the wind and show me what you loved about it.

My Dearly Beloved Detective:  Another one that plays with the idea of canon having a weight and heft that can shape people’s lives, in this case to the point of someone (who?) casting a real Holmes and Watson to fulfill society’s desire for the fictional Holmes and Watson. I’m curious to know what drove these two to apply for those roles, what stepping into them felt like, if they ever rebel against them, what building their own very real partnership in the shadow of that mythic partnership felt like, all of it. Or fast-forward to the other end: what does retirement look like, from roles that are both real and not-real, in a post-atomic world? Or if you wanted to write some classic Holmes/Watson between the two of them, that would be lovely, too: I didn’t get nearly enough of that in the movie. With respect to tone, do whatever suits you best: stick with the farce or dial it all the way to earnest, I trust you to know what works for what you want to do.

Baker Street: I love the hard-fought push and pull between them, how quickly they flip between Jane being the voice of authority, to Sherlock being it, and back again. I also like how rocky the building of trust was between them: their relationship was such a quick build, with genuine reasons to doubt each other, tested before their trust for each other was fully certain. The series had so few minutes available to show how their relationship developed, and so I’d love further exploration of that. Missing scenes, post-canon, whatever makes you happy.

Bert Coules: ...aw, man, the Coules adaptations. I adore how they flesh things out and attempt to bring canon into a coherent whole, and I love that the farther you get with them, the richer and snarkier and slashier they get. (Their LION is the best thing ever. But oh god, their LAST hurts.) And I adore the Further Adventures; so many of them are stories that canon all but begs for. (Spiritualism! Holmes trod the boards! How Holmes learned to see past the blinders of his class and education!) If you want to expand on any of these stories, I'm totally down for it, oh yes.

Conned Again, Watson! You’re probably not familiar with this one; it’s a layman’s introduction to probability, game theory, and mathematical fallacies, mostly told via Watson doing something stupid and Holmes being a patronizing arse about it. (Strictly speaking, no one who is interested in doing right by Watson could be a wholehearted fan of this book, but even with that bias aside, both Holmes and Watson are often wildly OOC in here, and sometimes in deeply offensive ways.) However! The chapter “Three Cases of Relative Honour” is a game-theoretic analysis of the train ride to Dover in FINA, and it is beautiful: Holmes went up against Moriarty when math was on the line, and then fucked up the math. I’m used to narratives making less sense when you know the math, but this one actually gets better. (If you really want to tackle this aspect of the prompt, k_e_p is familiar with the math, and might be able to beta for you. Also, here is a shared folder of game-theoretic discussions of FINA, in case such things inspire you.) If you are not inspired by the math, but still want to play with Conned Again, you might explain how Holmes got his hands on a game theory text in 1900 (does the Diogenes have a time machine? is it connected to L-Space?), or even follow through on “Good Intentions” and have Mycroft go through with arresting Watson for murder. (Hahahahaha! did I mention I love Watson in peril and Holmes losing his shit? and having Holmes have to figure out something that Mycroft didn’t/couldn’t in order to save Watson, oh, I would enjoy that immensely, if you did this. Although I will say that the original case is a disaster of offensive offensiveness, so you might have to do some fixing up along the way. :-/ ) Basically, I’m willing to play along with whatever inspiration you have from these cases. Well, as long as you give Watson his due, because the author really, really didn’t.

Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies (comic): Only Holmes gets to bite Watson! My copy of the comic is inexplicably missing the scene where Holmes has to make absolutely sure that Watson did not get scratched or bitten by a zombie. (Perhaps yours is, too? Bonus points if Holmes won't let Watson see to his gunshot wound until Holmes has made sure NO BITES OR SCRATCHES.) Also, if you could also fix all those LIES LIES LIES about Watson considering letting Holmes go fight zombies alone, that would be great. Basically, I want ALL THE SLASH for this one. Pretty please.

ACD: …you know, if you got this far in this letter, you already know lots about the kinds of things I like, and probably already have ideas about how they would tap into original canon. I will add that there are many lovely women in ACD canon: a further exploration of any of them (pre-canon, post-canon, canon from her own pov) would be something that I would enjoy, too. Crossovers delight me, also, as I mentioned up top. Go make a thing, I’m sure I’ll love it. :-)


Special requests: I'm quite happy to write sexual relationships, but I'm not a good choice for someone who wants something explicitly sexual; I tend to fade-to-black at the earliest moment that I can justify it. And there are actually more ships and ‘verses that I'd be willing to write or vid than I mentioned here; if you're having trouble making a match, ping me and I'd be happy to discuss it.

Comments

[garonne.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very interesting signup! I just downloaded all those game theory pdfs, thanks! (Well, I know they were intended for your assigned writer, not for some random passing stranger, but thanks anyway ;) ) I didn't know the book Conned Again, Watson either. It looks great. I'm always on the lookout for good non-fiction that actually has Holmesian content (rather than just using Holmes as a gimmick in the title/on the cover).

[sanguinity]

I am happy to share them with anyone who would enjoy them! The 48% solution one makes me laugh, because it's nothing but academic slapfight -- with an opponent who is dead, even! -- from end to the other. :-D

Ah, now I almost feel guilty bringing Conned Again to your attention: it's the worst sort of jam!Watson, and every once in a while he starts advocating things that turn my stomach. Holmes doesn't feel that much more in character. However, the book is written as Holmes & Watson case-fic, from one end straight through to the other (even though I don't get the impression that the author knows or loves canon all that well).

Books where Holmes really is just a gimmick in the title / on the cover: Sherlock Holmes in Babylon, much to my disappointment.

[holmesticemods]

Ugh, I've almost convinced myself to sign up so that I can assign you to write me a Bert Coules pastiche (modly privilege and all that). I think I said this last round too.

[sanguinity]

You did!

And if you were to do so, I would do my best to deliver something that satisfied. :-)