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To Sleep, Perchance by Marta for Fridaythegowerstreet
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21 Jun 2021
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During the Great Hiatus, Holmes has cause to reflect.
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The Best Revenge by Marta for Trobadora
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
26 May 2019
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"I had of course read Doctor Watson's account in The Strand and my brother's eulogizing letters carried by the Daily Telegraph that preceded it. I was gratified by the latter's kind words, and even Doctor Watson's grudging admission of my criminal accomplishments did not go unmarked or unappreciated. A dead man will naturally have some interest in how he's remembered, or would if given the chance."
In which Holmes and Moriarty both survive the Fall, and meet one last time after it all.
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In Heaven and Earth by Marta for Tazlet
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
10 Jul 2018
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"I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity it is certainly beyond me."
In which Holmes takes on an unsolvable case, and Watson makes some deductions of his own.
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“I didn’t quite mean it like that. Think of it as an experiment, or an experience, of sorts. I just think it would be good for you, quite good, to kiss a woman when there’s no one else, no man, around to see.”
A fix-it of sorts for the way Moriarty treated Molly in "The Great Game."
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And Ye Shall Live, And Ye Shall Know by Marta
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes (Downey films)
27 Jun 2017
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Holmes craned his neck back, tried to meet her eyes so she’d know what he knew. *That* he knew. He suspected his sincerity would be doubted just then, in any event.
She leaned up again, worried his earlobe with her teeth, whispered so only he could hear: “We’ll have none of that. No pleadings, no penance. You are beyond such attempts on your own behalf. Luckily for you, we are not."
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She’d answered the door, barefoot and flannel pyjama bottoms and a cotton tee I recognized as Jim’s, and then had unceremoniously deposited herself back on his couch. The butterfly tattoo on her ankle peaked out at me, a half-hidden secret not quite tucked under her thigh. Jim had looked up from his laptop then, introduced her as a friend of his from his Chicago days who was getting herself settled in London.
That was a lie, of course, but by the time I found out Jim had told so many lies (Galway-born, unassuming system administrator, not-gay, though he had oddly enough been telling the truth when he professed his love for Deep Space Nine), the ones about Irene hardly seemed to matter.
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Telling the Bees by Marta for mainecoon76
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
01 Jun 2015
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A moment from the Great Hiatus, on the road to Damascus.
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Grit on the Lens by Marta for
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV)
03 Jan 2015
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To Mycroft Holmes she would always be the Woman. An attempt to nudge the BBC's version of Irene Adler in a direction more compatible with her Doyle self, and fix some of that episode's more troubling bits at the same time.
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Getting Involved by Marta for dioscureantwins
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (TV)
09 Jul 2014
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"Sherlock's smirk, the arched brow, the teasing humor suffusing his every word: these were chess-moves in a game the two of them have played for long years now, one Mycroft had initiated years ago but which Sherlock had long embraced as well. Mycroft was not bitter, did not wish things could have been different, save perhaps in the way God might move Aquinas's immovable boulder by rewriting the laws of reality. So he had always insisted, to himself most of all."
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Dark Have Been My Dreams by Marta for MonkeyBard
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
29 May 2014
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John Watson was three the first time he dreamed of Death, and eight when he first dreamed of dying. This was not as macabre as it might at first seem.
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The Adventure of the Dancing Man by Marta for lightinastorm, makanivalur
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
18 May 2014
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When the Countess Howard's family heirlooms are stolen, Holmes must take on a rather unusual disguise to recover them.
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Marta's Meta by Marta
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
01 May 2014
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Various meta, speculation, and argumentative essays about the BBC Sherlock series and the Doyle canon. Summaries of individual pieces are included as notes at the beginning of each chapter. Please note that these discussions may include spoilers through the end of series three.
Most recent addition: "On Sherlock's Virginity," on different approaches to Sherlock's sexual history before he met John.
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John must have made some answer. Certainly, his lips were moving and Sherlock was vaguely aware of sounds reaching his ears. His brain, however, thoroughly refused to cooperate, to focus on anything other than the sight laid out before him. John, his coat collar turned up against the rain, taking a long pull on the cigarette that had so recently been in Sherlock's mouth. The way his lips curled tightly around the cigarette, his cheeks hollowed ever so slightly, his eyes half-closed in an expression reminiscent of, well, other pleasures.
This was potentially problematic.
(A gapfiller both for His Last Vow and the pool scene in The Great Game/A Scandal in Belgravia.)
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Olwe and Fingolfin had more cause than most to resent the Valar's tendency to leave dark lords unchallenged. A meditation on courgae, tragedy, and divine inaction.
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The Downfall by Marta
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
16 Mar 2013
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"Nine ships there were: four for Elendil, and for Isildur three, and for Anarion two; and they fled before the gale out of the twilight of doom into the darkness of the world. [...] And all the coasts and seaward regions of the western world suffered great change and ruin in that time; for the seas invaded the lands, and shores foundered."
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When We Were Very Young by Marta
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
13 Mar 2013
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"And it came to pass that Tar-Palantir grew weary of grief and died. He had no son, but a daughter only, whom he named Míriel in the Elven-tongue; and to her now by right and the laws of the Númenóreans came the sceptre. But Pharazôn took her to wife against her will..." (The Akallabeth)
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The King Has Come Unto His Hall by Marta
Fandoms: The Hobbit (2012), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
10 Mar 2013
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After the Battle of the Five Armies, Bilbo and Gloin consider legend's due.
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That Which They Defend by Marta
Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
06 Mar 2013
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"Isildur gave this counsel to Meneldil, that the King should visit the hallow from time to time, and especially when he felt the need of wisdom in days of danger or distress; and thither also he should bring his heir, when he was full-grown to manhood, and tell him of the making of the hallow, and reveal to him the secrets of the realm and other matters that he should know." Faramir tries to follow an ancient custom, with some difficulty.
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"Behold the king!" Faramir's perspective on Aragorn's coronation.
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Once upon a time, before the silmarils and the kinslayings and all the rest, Feanor would have just been a young dad in love.