A Holmesian Solstice

Title: Butterflies and Orchids
Recipient: beamkatanachronicles
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Canon
Characters/Pairings: Watson &/ Henry Baskerville
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: Just two blokes on the moor when the powers of evil aren’t exalted.

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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?

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Title: Rumour Has It
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Holmes (& Terry Pratchett’s Discworld)
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Summary: A mysterious illness is spreading throughout Ankh-Morpork and the city’s population is scrambling to find the culprit behind it. The rumour mills are running wild. Unable to get to the bottom of it all, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch seeks the advice of a long-retired detective and his faithful chronicler - How could Sherlock Holmes resist a case as puzzling as this one?

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Title: The Affair of the Statutory Duel
Recipient: oui_oui / OuiWee
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock Holmes (ACD); The Grand Duke (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Characters/Pairings: Mycroft Holmes., Sherlock Holmes, Grand Duke Rudolph
Words: ~2600
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Either the following material is an out-and-out forgery...or just possibly, Gilbert and Sullivan owe the central plot device of their last operetta to none other than Sherlock Holmes. (Which is to say, the story to which this summary is attached raises a hell of a lot more questions than it answers.)

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Title: A Steady Man
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Author: a_candle_for_sherlock
Verse: ACD canon
Characters/Pairings: Sussex!Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: none apply
Summary:
“Watson has always been a steady man, since I have known him: steady mind, steady hand, steady heart. And while he has called me a man of habits, I have found his habits more reliable by far. When there is danger he will stand to meet it, and where I go, he will want to go.

But it did surprise me that he agreed to retire with me.”

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Title: the night shift
Recipient: Blistering_Typhoons
Author: beamkatanachronicles
Verse: ACD canon
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: n/a
Summary: "Holmes," Watson rumbles, his voice low and woolly with sleep. But the warning is toothless. He sighs as Holmes, still fully dressed, insinuates himself into the contours of his partner's body. "You know I hate to go to bed alone."

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Title: conductor of light
Recipient: lucygturbin
Author: rachelindeed
Verse: ACD Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, James Moriarty
Rating: G
Warnings: one mention of harm to animals in a wartime context, nothing graphic
Summary: Dr. Watson is a shadow-catcher, newly returned to London and weighted with the regrets of Maiwand. Sherlock Holmes is a light-caster, but one far more interested in casework than spellwork. The slowly growing connection between them proves to be, in many ways, enlightening.

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Title: A Letter From France
Recipient: graycardinal
Author: rabidsamfan
Verse: ACD canon
Characters/Pairings: John Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: World War 1,
Summary:
Watson writes to Holmes after becoming the commander of an Ambulance Train just before the Battle of the Somme.

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Title: like lightning (make the earth like day)
Recipient: tepidspongebath
Author: armchair_elvis
Verse: ACD canon
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Mature
Warnings: brief mention of suicide, some violence
Summary: A snippet; a bare-bones retelling of HOUN with a little magic added. With a shadow at the end, a hint of things to come.

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Title: Yet Another Brain-Wave
Recipient: inkonice
Artist/Vidder: mundungus42
Verse: ACD
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: non-graphic BDSM, caning, blindfolds
Summary: Watson has an exciting commission but is stuck on what to call the story. Holmes has an inspired suggestion.


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