Elementary My Dear Watson
Good quality mystery stories, high reader investment in discovering the truth.
A good mystery gives you clues but doesn’t explicitly explain everything for you step by step and hold your mental hand to drag you to the solution. Get in the dirt and do some digging. Work those mental muscles, soldier.
Or, alternately, it holds you hostage trapped behind a sound-proof one way mirror, forced to watch as well-written characters with conflicting goals/motivations slowly untangle the lies in a devious well-crafted plot while you have no way of helping them. The most satisfying kind of helplessness.
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The Cut Sleeve by Holdt
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
03 Oct 2026
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A man comes and inspects your teeth and your hands and fingers, your bone length, your wrist width. He speaks a number to your father. Your father silently holds out his hand, and will not look at you.
Clark Kent is twenty-two when the Assessor's cart comes to Smallville. Forty-two silvers, a compass, and a long road east — and the boy who grew up in the wheat fields of the Western Reaches is delivered to the imperial household of House Wayne, Sovereign of the Eastern Delta. In the palace, concubines are currency, rank is survival, and names are the first thing they take from you.
Clark can't stop looking people in the eye. He gets beaten for it. He does it anyway.
The Sovereign sits behind guarded doors and doesn't look at anyone. But someone inside the walls is trying to kill him — hemlock in the training house, foxglove in the tea cabinet — and the unranked tribute from a province no one considers fully human is the only person who can smell the difference between medicine and murder.
Clark Kent was raised by good people in a quiet field, and that means you carry what you can for the ones you love. Even when — especially when — what you're carrying is a lie.
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Home of the New Gods AU
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All stories are ordered chronologically, but not necessarily written in that order. I recommend you start with the title fic "The New Gods" and read the others how you please.
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Bruce - a god of Justice, One of the Trinity - The Judge
Dick - a god of spectacle (previously bloodsports and circuses)
Jason - a god of child victims (narrowing into a god of school shootings)
Tim - a god of cold cases & true crime
Diana - a god of Resolve, One of the Trinity - The Executioner
Clark - a god of Commonwealth, One of the Trinity - The Jury
Stephanie - a human, currently dating Tim
Damian - a demigod born of Bruce and Talia
Hal - a god of confidence
Wally - the god of highways
Meloni - a demigod born in the late 1800's
Bart - a god of household electrical inventions
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"You're new Sam, so you don't know. This will be the only warning you get. Don't trust your eyes or you'll be tricked. Nobody in Amity is who they seem. Nobody."
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KakaSaku. War is coming to Konoha and Sakura is far from home, uncertain of her future. But one thing is for sure, Sakura will protect her unborn child at all costs, whether it be from Konoha's enemies... or from its own father.
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