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All That Is the Case by wax_wings
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
22 Oct 2023
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In the heady early days of post-war London, a naive and romantically inexperienced codebreaker falls in love with a dashing veteran, but he soon discovers that they may both be unwitting pawns in a new kind of war.
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Fic of a fic — companion piece to "figure out a window" by funki (munki), a.k.a. the HR Laurent fic which took the fandom by storm.
A collection of one-shot vignettes exploring various alternate directions that the story could have taken, such as:
What if Laurent had been better at communicating after [spoiler]? What if his sexuality worked slightly differently? What if Damen had asked before [spoiler]? What if [spoiler] had found out about [spoiler] in a different way? (Or in this other way? Or in these five different other ways?) The possibilities are simply endless!
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01 Dec 2025
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Particular Peculiarity by saavik13
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
17 Nov 2013
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“How high is your regard for me, Watson?” He asked abruptly, his eyes still trained on the fire. “If I were to confess my darkest secret would you leave? Would you abandon me here to my melancholy?”
A case forces Holmes to reveal the truth to Watson and risks both their reputations and their liberty. Just how understanding is John Watson?
Can be read as either ACD or Granada.
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12 Oct 2025
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The Vast Profundity Obscure by mistyzeo
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
06 Feb 2013
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More than a year after Sherlock Holmes's return from the dead, his cohabitation with the good Doctor has more or less returned to normal. With their daemons at their sides, Holmes and Watson are as keen a pair of crime solvers as they ever were. Deep in the winter of 1895, their limits as a team are tested when a young woman's daemon is stolen from her side and destroyed. It is not the first of such attacks, Watson learns, and he and Holmes immediately set out to find the culprit of the horrifying deed. They are led into a web of back alleys and gambling debt that leads ultimately to the heart of the government, all in the pursuit of the elusive element of Dust. But their investigation is not a secret one, and the duo's fame in the city of London brings them more trouble than expected and forces them to take some measures to protect one another that violate many a social taboo.
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05 Oct 2025
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“So,” Damianos says. “Hypothetically. If two people are dating. Two people who both work here. Is that something one or both of them would get fired for?”
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03 Sep 2025
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Sleep won’t come, but Paschal says pretending to sleep is almost as good, so Laurent sets a timer and spends twenty minutes with his eyes closed, on his back on top of the covers, hands folded over his chest like a corpse. Yesterday was Labor Day; he took today off too, to supervise the furniture delivery and finish painting the bathroom and slip the plastic cover onto Nicaise’s bed, redoing his sheets afterwards. He still has his books and some kitchen things to unpack, and some pictures to hang, but otherwise the apartment is thoroughly habitable.
When the timer goes off the texts are still there.
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14 Aug 2025