Here's to another solstice

[paradiseandcola]

Name: paradiseandcola
Contact email: paradiseandcola34 (at) gmail.com
AO3 username: paradiseandcola
Treat preference: Yes, please!

Every time when I write my sign-up post I start with examining how many new adaptations I've become familiar with in the last six months, so I could add them to the list. This time I'm sad to say I don't have anything new to add. I am making my way through Elementary (and enjoying it tremendously!) but it's a very slow watchthrough so I can't call myself too familiar with the show yet.

I will create:
A fanwork of the following type(s): art, fic
In one or more of the following parts of fandom:
Books:

• Doyle canon

TV/Film:

• Granada
• Lenfilm (Soviet Holmes)
• Мой нежно любимый детектив / My Dearly Beloved Detective (1986)
• Basil Rathbone movies
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd century
• The Great Mouse Detective
• House MD
• Shekhar Home (2024)

Radio/podcasts:

• Bert Coules' BBC 4 radio dramatizations
• Fawx & Stallion

Webcomics:

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk (the Tumblr webcomic, not the Alan Moore one!)
• Signs of Three

Games:

• The Beekeeper's Picnic

For one or more of the following characters or relationships:

• any canon ship e.g Irene/Godfrey Nortons, Watson/Jane (Coulesverse), James/Archer (Fawx & Stallion)
• Holmes/Watson and Holmes & Watson - I can do platonic, romantic or anything in-between or beyond
• House/Wilson and House & Wilson - same deal
• Holmes/Victor Trevor
• any configuration of Holmes, Watson and Mary Morstan, including poly stuff

I like working with one or more of the following categories:

• Crossover
• Alternate Universe
• Case Fic
• Fluff
• Domestic
• Sickfic
• Hurt/Comfort
• Estabilished Relationship
• Post-Reichenbach

With any of the following ratings:

1. suitable for general audiences
2. non-explicit sexual content;
4. mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes;

I am willing to create for the following squicks and/or kinks:

• Period typical queerphobia
• Period-typical misogyny
• Substance abuse
• Self-harm
• Character death
• Abuse (non-explicit)

I want to receive:
A fanwork of the following type(s): art, fic, music
In one or more of the following parts of fandom:
Books:

• Doyle canon

TV/Film:

• Granada
• Lenfilm (Soviet Holmes)
• Shekhar Home (2024)

Radio/podcasts:

• Bert Coules' BBC 4 radio dramatizations
• Fawx & Stallion

Webcomics:

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk (the Tumblr webcomic, not the Alan Moore one!)
• Signs of Three

Games:

• The Beekeeper's Picnic

For one or more of the following characters or relationships:
(please note that these are just suggestions and you don't have to include all of those characters (in fact, I don't think that would be possible!):

• All adaptations: Holmes & Watson. I prefer an aromantic portrayal of Holmes, with Holmes and Watson's relationship being closer to what we in the 21st century call queerplatonic. *(I do love canonically romantic adaptations with them, like Fawx & Stallion)
• All adaptations: Kitty Winters and/or Shinwell "Porky" Johnson from The Illustrious Client - if you write/design either of them, you will make me happy. I've always felt like there's enough potential in those characters to make a story anthology of their own!
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk: Irene Adler One of my favourite Irenes across all adaptations. If you opt for a LXGF gift, let her be the centerpiece.
• Signs of Three: Mrs Hudson She doesn't appear very often in the comic, but I keep thinking about how she's canonically a gamer.

I like stuff in the following categories:

• Crossover, Alternate Universe: if you're a fan of His Dark Materials like me, I'd love to see a daemon AU of some sort! I love to see what daemons people assign to fictional characters, and the little worldbuilding details of a setting where daemons exist.
• Alternate universe - Magic/Gaslamp Fantasy: Going off the previous HDM suggestion, in general I love where the 19th/early 20th century England setting gets sprinkled with fantastical and magical elements.
• Fluff, Domestic: not every day at 221b is filled with adventure and thrill. Sometimes Holmes and Watson deal with more mundane problems - having their clothes tailored, catching up on the latest newspaper gossip, reorganizing their notes.
• Sickfic: or, sometimes someone is sick!
• Hurt/Comfort
• Case Fic: a difficult feat to write (how did you ever manage it, Sir Arthur?), but if you're up for a challenge, go for it!
• Estabilished Relationship: sharing a room with anyone for 20+ years will lead to irreversible changes in one's psyche. Show how comfortable Holmes and Watson are with each other after all these years!
• Post-Reichenbach: a look into Holmes' adventures during the hiatus would be fun! The different disguises and personas he's invented for himself e.g Sigerson. The places he visited. The plots he's launched to catch the rest of Moriarty's underdogs. Just how much he misses Watson.
• Trans!Holmes: I have seen several delightful fanfics on the subject in the last 12 months alone, but I wouldn't say 'no' to more :D
• Trans!Watson: a much less explored alley, and I believe one that deserves attention. <3

With any of the following ratings:
1. suitable for general audiences;
2. non-explicit sexual content;
3. mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes;

I wouldn’t mind any of the following squicks and/or kinks:

• Period typical queerphobia
• Period-typical misogyny
• Substance abuse
• Self-harm
• Character death
• Abuse (non-explicit)

Please include further details about what you’d like to receive: if you make visual art as a gift, please add an image description!

Special requests: once again a big thank you to the mods doing all the important behind-the-scenes work!