A Holmesian Solstice

Title: The Monsters Men Are Made Of
Recipient: vulgarweed
Author: estelraca
Verse: ACD Holmes with a bit of Granada (or Granada with a bit of ACD; picturing the Granada crew but wanted the canon version of Three Garridebs)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: T/PG-13
Warnings: Descriptions of physical injuries, blood drinking, supernatural elements (vampires and werewolves oh my)
Summary: The Three Garridebs case went more or less as John Watson recorded it, but his personal writings reveal a supernatural twist that he wished to keep hidden until such time as its revelation would not endanger anyone.

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Title: The Soft Sound of Rain
Recipient: paradiseandcola
Author: edosianorchids901
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: While in between cases, Holmes is displeased by Watson’s suggestion that he tidy their sitting room. But although cleaning can be a dull activity, it’s much more enjoyable with the help of his friend and partner.

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Title: “At this season of the year more than ever”
Recipient: edosianorchids901
Artist: ghostbees
Verse: Granada
Characters: H&W&Mrs H
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Wintery errands
Notes: I thought you might like some Mrs H getting help for her seasonal shopping :)

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Title: isolated summit
Recipient: Lucy G Turpin (MarianafortheWin on AO3)
Author: Blistering_Typhoons
Verse: Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: There are some unusual complexities to staying silent in your own mind, especially once you've died. And so three years pass, and Sherlock Holmes does not think about John Watson.

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Title: The Case of the Missing Metallurgist
Recipient: Dryad
Author: rudbeckiasunshine
Verse: Books: Doyle - Canon; TV/Film: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: M
Warnings: N/A
Summary: A young wife engages Holmes to find her missing husband. Lestrade thinks the man has absconded to America, but Holmes rises to the challenge of Proving Lestrade Wrong. The case turns out to be far more complex and dangerous than they first thought, and Holmes sends Watson to secure Lestrade’s help in bringing a criminal gang to justice. When Holmes gets injured, Watson realises where his heart lies and a little lighthearted banter leads to a tentative confession.

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Title: Elementary!
Recipient: graycardinal
Artist/Vidder: beekeaper
Verse: Elementary; Murder by decree, Young Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek Dear Data; The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson; Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson; Sherlock Holmes & Jane Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary: Holmes and Watson's friendship in different versions, the greatest duo, represented by the song "Elementary" from "Sherlock The Musical"

( Elementary! )

Title: Futurum Perfectum
Recipient: rudbeckia
Author: bendingthewillow
Verse: Granada/ACD
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson, queerplatonic
Rating: All Ages.
Warnings: None
Summary:
Journal of Dr. John Watson, 19__



As I sit here and write, looking out my bedroom window, I can see the last shrivelled leaves the wind has torn off the trees blow past. There is winter in the air. We have already had the first frost and I think it won’t be long until we will see the first snow down here. The climate in the Downs are mild, but still winter comes to us too.

It is a very peculiar feeling sitting here in this small cottage that I now share with Holmes, it is not where I imagined myself when I was young. I always had some vague notion that I would do what was expected of me, marriage, children, settling down, even though I never much felt like it. It was after all what was expected. Had I not met Holmes I indeed might have.

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Title: Bucolic.
Recipient: a-candle-for-sherlock
Artist: neche
Verse: ACD, Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson, Holmes/Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: /
Summary: A bucolic compilation with two certain gents formerly from London.

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Title: Just Dance
Recipient: sanspatronymic
Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: Multiple: BBC Sherlock, Cushing Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Elementary, Frogwares Crimes & Punishments, Granada TV 1984, Great Mouse Detective, House M.D., Howard Holmes, Moriarty the Patriot (憂国のモリアーティ), Murder by Decree, My Dearly Beloved Detective, Mystery Queen (추리의 여왕), 1979 Soviet Holmes (Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона), 2013 Russian Holmes (Шерлок Холмс), Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Rathbone Hound of the Baskervilles, Ritchie Films, Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century, Sherlock Hound, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Whitehead Holmes, Without a Clue, Zero Effect
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, James Moriarty
Rating: G
Summary: Prompt: "I love a good 2000s-style, on-the-nose, every-lyric-has-a-visual-pun kind of vid. Have fun! Use as many Holmeses and Watsons as you like! I also have what has been referred to as "the musical taste of a gas station convenience store," so I will probably love any song that your dad is most likely to play at a barbecue..."

( Just Dance )

Title: "Labours of Love"
Recipient: ghostbees / vernets
Artist: strampunch
Verse: ACD canon, Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Suitable for general audiences (mild nudity in second to last image)
Warnings: None
Summary: After the gift receiver mentioned "scrapbooking" and "English paper piecing" I went down a rabbithole of research and learnt about this wonderful quilting technique.
From the EQS website: "English Paper Piecing is a method of quilting that involves using a paper shape, most commonly a hexagon, to add stability to the quilt. The quilt is hand stitched with pieces of fabric cut a ¼ inch bigger than the paper shape. The fabric is basted to the paper shapes before the shapes are sewn together. Once the quilt top is completed the papers are removed." The technique dates from 1770s and was popular during the early 1800s in the UK, then in the mid 19th century in the US and it made a comeback during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the pattern was called in the sewing magazines "Grandma's Flower Garden", but before that it was simply known as hexagonal pattern or (you guessed it) honeycomb pattern.

The paper used for these quilts were usually recycled from newspapers or scrapped letters, and the fabric used to come from old garments that had seen better days, and since a lot of the times the paper was simply left in these quilts are marvelous time capsules that contain a wealth of information about the person who made them and their environment. I encourage you to look up English paper piecing (EPP) quilts from the early Victorian decades, they're fascinating!
So this little series of illustrations shows Watson dealing with Holmes still indulging in scrapbooking, and how the doctor picks up the discarded pieces and their old 221B era clothes to make something entirely new and uniquely theirs.

(Technique: India ink, watercolours and gouache paint over cold pressed cotton paper)


( Labours of Love )