A Holmesian Solstice

Title: Thawing Out
Recipient: Randomquadballpun
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: After solving a case on a snowy day, Holmes is cold and cranky. Watson is happy to both warm him, and try to find a way to cheer him up.

Read on AO3: Thawing Out

Title: Tinge It With Romanticism
Recipient: iwantthatcoat
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Watson’s Sketchbook
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Violet Hunter
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: Set post “A Case of Identity”, Holmes looks through Violet’s Strand collection

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Thank you so much for another wonderful round of Holmestice! The mods want to say THANK YOU to all the creators who joined us this round. Being in this community with you is a joy and an honour.

Reveals and the Master List go up on June 20 (Baker Island time). Until then, please enjoy and comment on all the lovely fanworks. (If you haven't thanked your creator for your own gift yet, please do!) Creators, please do NOT respond to Dreamwidth comments with your name attached or post your works elsewhere on the Internet until reveals go up in the community. You may of course reply to comments on AO3, which preserves your anonymity.

Meanwhile, stay tuned: treats are coming up! We have a bumper crop this round! For anyone thinking of making a treat, we will accept treats until reveals, so if there's a prompt that inspires you, please have at it! Just use the regular submission guidelines and send your headers to holmesticemods@gmail.com.

If you'd like to guess who created what in this round, here's a list of all the contributors for the main gifts. (You'll have to put in some extra work to guess the treat-makers!) Go ahead and take a guess! It's all in good fun.

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Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice artists, authors, podficcers, and vidders! See you again on the 20th, when we reveal who made what!

Title: you had to go (i know, i know, i know)
Recipient: mom2boys
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Co. (Podcast)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
“I’ll stay,” he says.

“Are you insane?” Watson asks. “I’m not gonna leave you alone when there’s some murderous criminal mastermind chasing you.”

At the edge of the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock makes a move. Then, he makes a promise.

Read on AO3: you had to go (i know, i know, i know)

Title: The Adventure of the Baskerville Burglary
Recipient: beamkatanachronicles
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Sherlock Holmes, Granada Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson/Sir Henry Baskerville,
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: On holiday in Cornwall, after recovering from their experience with the Devil’s Foot poison, Watson receives a letter from Sir Henry Baskerville imploring them to visit Baskerville Hall and solve a mystery involving an archaeological dig, a priceless artefact and an unquiet spirit. Holmes is more than happy to relieve the boredom of enforced rest and Watson is keen to see his friend again. But there is more to it than a simple haunting: could there be a connection between a spate of thefts and the new occupants of Merripit House—a white-haired old invalid and his nurse? And does Sir Henry have an ulterior motive for inviting Watson to his home?

Read on AO3: The Adventure of the Baskerville Burglary

Title: Hole in the Sky
Recipient: EstelRaca
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD canon/ Cthulhu Mythos
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, John Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: Horror, (minor?) Character Deaths, Bittersweet Ending
Summary: In the early days of the Great War, battles are fought on many fronts. Some will never make the mundane news. Some weapons are never thought to be such. Many sacrifices are lost to history forever - and without them there might not be a history at all.

Read On AO3: Hole in the Sky

Title: Singularly Unique
Recipient: A_Candle_For_Sherlock
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: Victorian era ideas and taboos around homosexuality
Summary: Watson is happy with his life with Holmes, but things are going to change after a man from Watson's past contacts him.

Read on AO3: Singularly Unique

Title: The Pubs of London
Recipient: Bluebellofbakerstreet
Author: REDACTED
Verse: BBC
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson:
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: John rewards Sherlock for entering out into the city for hobnobbing with the goldfish. Also, a history lesson.

Read on AO3: The Pubs of London

Title: A Walk in Hirosaki
Recipient: gardnerhill
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Miss Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock & Wato
Rating: g
Warnings: none
Summary: Inspired by gardnerhill's fic Hana Yori Dango

View on AO3: A Walk in Hirosaki

Title: Good Boy, Sherls
Recipient: Kameo
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: BBC
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes
Rating: E
Warnings: Explicit Sexual Content
Summary: When you get desperate, you’ll do anything for relief


View on AO3: Good Boy, Sherls