A Holmesian Solstice

Title: Mary Keeps House
Recipient: escott/nakbabakla
Author: tepidspongebath
Verse: ACD Canon
Characters/Pairings: Mary Morstan
Rating: gen
Warnings: period-typical homophobia
Summary: “I will tell my husband should it become necessary,” said Mary, setting the cow creamer back on the sideboard. She was already beginning to look at it with a good deal more fondness as Mr. Lestrade propped up Mr. Narramore and put him in handcuffs. “And I suspect that Mr. Holmes already knows. But I intend to continue keeping house as best I know how."

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Title: A Restless and Impatient Creature
Recipient: Everyone who loves a trans!Holmes story
Author: bendingthewillow
Verse: ACD Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson & Colonel Hayter
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Vague description of injuries; Reference to drug use.
Summary:

Inspector Forrester and Mr. Acton had departed, Colonel Hayter seeing them out, and I sank back on the sofa, as my feeling of victory and success began to mix with a rising fatigue and the aches and pains from my fight with the two Cunninghams. Watson stood at the sideboard, studying the bottles the Colonel had lined up there.

Neither of us spoke until Hayter returned.

“Ah, Watson, pour us all three a drink, would you?” Hayter said when he saw Watson standing there. “Perhaps all this fracas is commonplace for the two of you, but I could do with something to steady my nerves after all that excitement.”

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Title: Correspondence
Recipient: INKONICE (inkfeathers on AO3)
Author: thefruitviking
Verse: Books: Canon
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mrs Hudson
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply (but there are references to drugs and to depression)
Summary: Correspondence from the months of April and May 1894, following the return of Sherlock Holmes to the land of the living. An epistolary work.

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Title: Scenes From an Arrangement
Recipient: aceredshirt13
Author: gardnerhill
Verse: ACD
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John/Mary Watson, Sherlock Holmes & Mary Watson
Rating: PG
Warnings: blood, violence, polyamory
Summary: Love can move mountains and take on criminal masterminds.
Word Count: 6258

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Title: The Nature of Refraction
Recipient: paradiseandcola
Author: tadhana_writess
Verse: ACD Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: Astronomy and Sherlock Holmes were as far from each other as the east was from the west; incompatible. At least that was what Watson told himself.
It takes an attack, a night in Lyon, and Reigate for a truth deeper than the stars to reveal itself.

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Title: A Problem of Trust
Recipient: (AO3) tadhana_writes ; (DW) tadhana_writess
Author: graycardinal
Verse: ACD
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mycroft Holmes; Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: all ages
Words: ~1900
Warnings: none
Summary:
The astute reader may wonder why neither Watson nor his literary agent were ever brought to court by Professor Moriarty or his relations. The truly serious reader is likely to ask the more intriguing question: given the sterling public reputation ascribed to the professor, and the care which Moriarty took to protect it, why would he, his heirs, or his business associates not take legal action against Watson and Conan Doyle?
Some few of those devoted to the close study of Watson’s writings have deduced the answer. Insofar as I am aware, however, no one has ever satisfactorily explained who – or why – someone might have chosen to invent Moriarty in the first place.

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Title: a walk of wildflowers
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Artist: paradise-and-cola
Verse: Canon, Granada
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: After stories like The Reigate Squires or The Devil's Foot, one must wonder sometimes if it's ever possible for Holmes and Watson to ever go on a holiday for holiday's sake, without being distracted by thefts and murders. Well, hopefully they get on more peaceful walks in their retirement years.

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Title: Somewhere, Somehow, Soon
Recipient: john_watsons_ocean_eyes
Author: gowerstreetcat
Verse: Canon Sherlock Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Dr John Watson/ Sherlock Holmes
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: Dr Watson, in the midst of grief, searches out the means by which to contact other realms.. One evening ,an unexpected message reaches him…

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Title: The Importance of Being, or, The Adventure of the Disorderly House
Recipient: Neche
Author: mundungus42
Verse: ACD Canon, Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Inspector Lestrade, a soupçon of Holmes/Watson/Lestrade
Rating: PG
Warnings: Victorian attitudes, references to domestic violence
Summary: In the aftermath of The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, a former suspect reappears to demand the return of a priceless gem. Holmes is distracted, Lestrade gets into a strop, and Watson must chronicle one of their queerest conundrums to date.

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Title: The Morning After the Night Before
Recipient: Mundungus42
Author: bendingthewillow
Verse: Canon - Arthur Conan Doyle
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson, past Watson/Mary Morstan
Rating: T
Warnings: Grief/mourning, recovery
Summary: When I woke that morning in late September 1896, I found myself alone in my bed. The sun was shining merrily between a crack in the drawn curtains, announcing that the day had long since begun.

On any other morning this would have been no cause for concern but considering the events of the night before I found myself vaguely distressed. For Holmes and I had fallen into bed rather abruptly the night before with no prior discussion and while I understood the expediency that might lay behind Holmes leaving my bed, after all, it would not do for him to be caught here naked and asleep, I could not help but feel uneasy at waking up alone.


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