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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-08 03:27 pm

Fic for lxvenderjewel: The Paladin's Bond

Title: The Paladin's Bond
Recipient: lxvenderjewel
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: G
Summary: It is the day before the Winter Solstice when Watson arrives home to find Holmes studying a hat. A Thra-set twist on the Blue Carbuncle.
Note: This is an AU which crosses Granada with Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal. Please do not worry if you haven't seen the film or TV series. In this fic, Holmes is a Gelfling, an elf-like race with pointed ears and large eyes. There are seven clans of Gelfling, and Holmes is a member of the most powerful clan. Watson is Podling, a smaller race who enjoy getting dirty and having a good time. Those that work are usually employed as cooks or servants. Watson is unique in that he is a paladin to the leader of the Gelfling.

Read on AO3: The Paladin's Bond
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-07 10:15 pm

Fic for iwantthatcoat: Aconitum

Title: Aconitum
Recipient: Iwantthatcoat
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & co
Characters/Pairings: Victor Trevor/Sherlock Holmes, Mariana Ametxazurra & Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: Gen
Warnings: none
Summary: > After the disaster that was the case of the Gloria Scott, Victor Trevor has been trying to work up the courage to message Sherlock and try to rekindle their childhood friendship.
But what if it is already too late for that by the time he is finally ready to reach out?
A tentative Viclock story set after The Final Problem.

Read on AO3: Aconitum
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earlgreytea68 ([personal profile] earlgreytea68) wrote2025-12-07 07:31 pm

Advent Drabble 7 - Reference

For [personal profile] postynotemusing .

Matt says, “It’s a very unfortunate thing for me that, if I want to get this internship, I need references, and the only people I can use for a reference are…not exactly people.”

Brem looks at him without comprehension. “What’s a reference?”

Matt sighs. “Spoken like someone who has never had to have a job.”

“I have many jobs,” Brem retorts. “I have to help save the universe a lot. It’s a big job.”

“Doesn’t require references to vouch for how good you are at it.”

“I suppose I could line up a couple of Daleks. A Cyberman or two.”
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-07 04:42 pm

Fic for bluebellofbakerstreet: By Any Other Name

Title: By Any Other Name
Recipient: Bluebellofbakerstreet
Author: REDACTED
Verse: BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: none
Summary: The name on his wrist, William, was a common one, but he just knew he would recognize his wristmate as soon as he saw them.

Read on AO3: By Any Other Name
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-06 10:47 pm

Fic for flowing_river: Pitfall

Title: Pitfall
Recipient: flowing_river
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Canon
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings:
Summary: An investigation in Kent goes awry.


Read on AO3: Pitfall
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-06 08:02 pm

Art for Eardefenders: Doctor Watson and Nurse Holmes are IN

Title: Doctor Watson and Nurse Holmes are IN
Recipient: Eardefenders
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Co.
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/Mariana Ametxazurra/John Watson
Rating: Explicit, 18+
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Even 8-month-pregnant women enjoy some erotic attention. Mariana's devoted partners conduct a very personal OB-Gyn check-up.

Read more... )
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earlgreytea68 ([personal profile] earlgreytea68) wrote2025-12-06 07:51 pm

Advent Drabble 6 - Alien Holiday

For [personal profile] auntiesuze

“It’s just like Christmas,” is what the Doctor assures all of them as the TARDIS landed on Bop Pidiamop.

“So Father Christmas is going to be here?” says Athena.

“Welllllllll, no.”

“There’s going to be Christmas presents?” asks Brem.

“Not that, either.”

“But I bet there’s going to be pretty trees!” exclaims Fortuna.

“Ah, not quite.”

“So,” Rose says, “when you say it’s just like Christmas…”

“I mean that there are gingerbread men.” The Doctor pauses. “Living gingerbread men. Who you then have to behead to eat. Like a turkey.”

“So maybe not at all like Christmas, then,” remarks Rose.

(there are still a couple of slots available here)

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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-06 05:00 pm

Fic for B2BMilde: Together Forever

Title: Together Forever
Recipient: B2BMilde
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings:
Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: Suitable for General Audiences
Warnings: No Warnings
Summary: "Watson stared at Holmes who sat in his armchair, smoking a cigarette. He could still hardly believe his eyes, that Holmes was here and alive and had been all these years. He almost felt as if he could not look away, lest Holmes vanish once again."

Read on AO3: Together Forever
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hamsterwoman ([personal profile] hamsterwoman) wrote2025-12-05 09:31 pm

Reading: catching up on RoL, and year end meme (movies, television, books)

I'm giving myself a couple of Taskmaster-free weeks, even though I do have some TM NZ s6 I could catch up on, because Champion of Champions 4 is coming on Dec 22 -- so excite! The poster gives a full look at the costumes, answering the question of whether Mathew was going to wear EVEN SHORTER shorts, and the people on Reddit provided the extra context that John's Freddie's Harlequin outfit is associated with "We Are the Champions", and that Andy is wearing the cricket uniform associated with the one-day cricket as opposed to test match -- and I love the added meanings from these two nerds. (If there's a deep explanation or Maisie's nun or Sam's bellhop, that has yet to be shared. So far the hypotheses seem to be that Sam's is a reference to TM Hotel and Maisie's is going for something that will keep her knickers covered this time, or possibly another classic musical reference, Grease --> The Sound of Music.)

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In the spirit of catching up on things, I went and got myself up to date on Rivers of London (especially as I'm requesting it in Yuletide and [community profile] fandomtrees. This is the first year I've had to catch up on it -- I've had a copy of the novel since early July, on preorder, and kind of forgot that Stray Cat Blues had been out for almost a year when I ordered it in October, and then proceeded to not touch for the next two months. But, well, I'm enjoying this patch of story less than previous ones, I guess, so there's less of an impetus to stay current even though I do still love the characters and the world.

5. Ben Aaronovitch, Stone and Sky -- This one was an odd experience... I've been keeping up with the novellas and GNs, but it's been 3.5 years since I read the last novel, and this one seems to be continuing the trend where it's taking me longer to read each book than the preceding one, in the post-Faceless Man arc of the series: False Value I didn't like that much (relative to the series preceding it), but read in 1-2 days; Amongst Our Weapons I liked more but took several days to finish; and this one I read over the course of weeks, setting it aside and going back to it, and I'm not sure how it compares to the other recent ones for me because it just didn't feel like a Peter book, it felt like something else, and that something else didn't work for me as well as the Peter books, but also it was trying for a different thing. More, with marked spoilers )

6. Stray Cat Blues (RoL GN #12) -- it does go well with Abigail's heavier and more independent presence in Stone and Sky. But it was mostly meh as a stand-alone story (spoilers). ) Abigail was also the only one whose art I liked in this outing. I mean, I don't read these for the art, but this was more meh/downright ugly than most of these.

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More year-end meme: movies, television, books this year )

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And, the year-end meme was a good impetus to dust off the fannish goals I'd put together in early January and have not checked in on since end of May, LOL.

Fannish goals check-in )
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-05 08:28 pm

Fic for happyeverafter72: The Acceptance of the Buzzing Bees

Title: The Acceptance of the Buzzing Bees
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Art in the Blood - Bonnie MacBird
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Additional Tags: Nonbinary Sherlock Holmes; Autistic Sherlock Holmes; Queerplatonic Relationship with Victorian Language
Summary: Holmes and Watson have retired together to the countryside, but they still keep in touch with the children they've helped, even as those children have grown into adults with children of their own. A visit from one of them prompts discussions of the past and the future, and what an ideal relationship might look like for them both.

Read on AO3: The Acceptance of the Buzzing Bees
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earlgreytea68 ([personal profile] earlgreytea68) wrote2025-12-05 07:05 pm

Advent Drabble 5 - Christmas pudding

For [personal profile] chocolamousse

“I think,” says John, “that it’s a bad idea.”

“Of course it’s a bad idea,” Mycroft agrees drily.

Sherlock keeps fiddling around with his creation. “You always want me to be more festive. You always ask me to participate more in the family traditions.”

“I don’t ask that,” Mycroft denies. “Mother asks that.”

“And now I have finally taken an interest in the Christmas festivities.”

“Yes, but the Christmas festivity in question is lighting the pudding on fire,” John points out. “Using a special compound you developed yourself.”

“It’s a little experiment.” Sherlock shrugs. “What’s the worst that can happen?”
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-05 06:03 pm

Fic for randomquadballpun: Collecting Stardust

Title: Collecting Stardust
Recipient: [personal profile] randomq
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Co.
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mark Stamford & John Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Summary:
If you ask John Watson, he really has no idea why he decided to major in astronomy.

Astronomy major and perpetually single John Hamish Watson makes friends with a constellation. Turns out, he's not crazy.

Read on AO3: Collecting Stardust
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pegkerr ([personal profile] pegkerr) wrote2025-12-05 12:23 pm

2025 52 Card Project: Week 48: Thanksgiving

We gathered at my sister Betsy's this year, and we had a lovely evening together. Because everyone in my family is a marvelous cook, the food, of course, was delicious. It's a matter of great joy to all of us that my mom is still with us to celebrate the holidays.

I hope you all had as wonderful a Thanksgiving as we did.

Image description: Top: a buffet set with Thanksgiving foods. Below that: a family gathered around a Thanksgiving table. Lower center: a mother and daughter smile at the camera. Bottom: a caramel cheese cake, surrounded by decorative squashes.

Thanksgiving

48 Thanksgiving

Click on the links to see the 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-04 10:34 pm

Fic for armchair_elvis: The Terror of the Night Is Lessened By Your Presence

Title: The Terror Of The Night Is Lessened By Your Presence
Recipient: Armchair Elvis
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Daughter
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson, Amelia
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: When Watson admits to having nightmares Holmes finds a way to help.


Read on AO3: The Terror Of The Night Is Lessened By Your Presence
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-04 07:48 pm

Art for Ghostofnuggetspast: Shatter the Darkness (Let the Light In) [ART]

Title: Shatter the Darkness (Let the Light In) [ART]
Recipient: Ghostofnuggetspast
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Hoping this Sherlock in Sheer Harem pants, Bangles, Henna Tattoos and Belly Button Gem hits the mark!

:D

View on AO3: Shatter the Darkness (Let the Light In) [ART]
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earlgreytea68 ([personal profile] earlgreytea68) wrote2025-12-04 07:17 pm

Advent Drabble 4 - Falling

For redwinterbloom

“Okay, but,” Arthur says, frowning at Eames, because he’s always frowning at Eames, “that’s not what you were supposed to do.”

“Yes,” Eames explains patiently, “but, darling, sometimes things do not go according to plan and then you have to improvise.”

“So you improvised kissing me?”

“Yes. It was important to the plan.” Eames peers out over the edge of the rooftop they’re standing on. He says, “We’re going to have to jump.”

“Not so fast. I’m not done having a conversation about—”

Which is when Eames kisses him again. And simultaneously flings both of them off the roof.
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-04 04:47 pm

Fic for paradiseandcola: A Peculiar Affection

Title: A Peculiar Affection
Recipient: Paradiseandcola
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Canon.
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson, Holmes/Watson.
Rating: T
Warnings: Alusion to period typical homophobia and transphobia, along with background mentions of a transphobic family.
Summary: There are places in London where a man of my nature might find temporary companionship or a short physical liaison. I was well acquainted with them even before I left for my Afghan service, and after my return, I reacquainted myself with them. But after I took up lodgings with Sherlock Holmes, I lessened the frequency of my visits until I had all but ceased to go entirely.

It was not solely my fear of discovery that kept me away, though that concern was most certainly a factor. Holmes was, after all, a man of exceptional perceptive ability, and I would not like for him to know what kind of establishments I was frequenting. Rather, it was my growing feelings for him that kept me from seeking out any other man’s company.

Read on AO3: A Peculiar Affection
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gywomod ([personal profile] gywomod) wrote in [community profile] getyourwordsout2025-12-04 01:01 pm

[admin post] Admin Post: Choosing Your GYWO 2026 Pledge

With GYWO 2026 Pledges opening next week, which pledge to choose is hopefully on your mind. Instead of letting everyone stew in their personal hells, we’re running down a few of the common things the mods tell panicked participants, and then offering up a pledge calculator to help you make this somewhat difficult decision.

If you have any questions about GYWO or what it's like to aim for a specific pledge, the comments are open for all your concerns. Sometimes talking to a writer currently working on a pledge can help you come to a pledging decision!


If you're new to GYWO and have a question related to our membership requirements, general guidelines, monthly check-ins, or what words or activities count, please visit our website. More information about pledging for 2026 will be released around Dec 12.


Word Count Pledge Vs Habit Pledge
Deciding between a Word Count Pledge or Habit Pledge can be a difficult decision. Here are some things to consider as you make your choice:
Choosing Between Word Count and Habit )

Habit Pledges
Choosing between Habit Pledges comes down to deciding how much you plan to write each month:
  • If you plan to write mostly on weekends, choose the 120 Day Pledge. That’s weekends + 16 days.
  • If you plan to write mostly on weekdays, choose the 240 Day Pledge. That’s weekdays – 20 days, giving you a few days off.
  • If you want to write every day, choose the 350 Day Pledge!
  • If you've participated previously and 120 Days was too easy, but 240 Days was too hard, try the 180 Day Pledge to land right in between!
  • If you've participated previously and 240 Days was too easy, but 350 Days was too hard, try the 300 Day Pledge to land in between!
  • If you haven’t tried writing daily before but want to, we recommend the 180 Day Pledge as a way to ease into a semi-daily writing habit before tackling a more challenging pledge.


Word Count Pledges
First Time with a Word Count Pledge?
If you’ve never tracked your word count for the year, take a moment to assess how many words you think you’ve written in the past year. Consider things like whether or not you participate in word-count based writing challenges, how much you’ve published in the last year (self or traditionally published, fanfic, blog, etc), and how much you tend to revise your work (writing it entirely over or just editing lines).
  • If meeting your goal is more motivating, choose a goal that matches a conservative estimate of how much you wrote in 2025.
  • If you think you’ll lose interest if you meet your goal early, choose a goal that matches a liberal estimate of how much you wrote in 2025.
  • There are no penalties for not meeting your pledge, so don’t be afraid to choose a pledge you may not be able to meet!


Pledge Calculator
Thinking about what projects you'll work on next year is another common way writers make decisions about their GYWO pledge. To aid that, we've created the Pledge Calculator. Click the link and download or make a copy to use the spreadsheet.

    To save it to your Google Drive, you can go to File > Make a Copy from the web. If you are on mobile from a phone or tablet, tap the 3 dots at the top right, and go to Share & export > Make a Copy

    To download in another format, go to File > Download from the web. On mobile, tap the 3 dots at the top right, and go to Share & export > Save as….

Fill in the title of your projects, estimated word counts, or estimated number of days you'll work on the project. The calculator will recommend a Word Count Pledge and a Habit Pledge based on the information you provide.


download or save the Pledge Calculator



Whether you've done GYWO before or used the calculator, you might have narrowed your choice to two goals. Here’s our advice for choosing between two word count goals…

Go Big on Word Counts )
Step Back on Word Counts )
Keep Your Word Count Consistent )

The best advice we have is to look at your schedule and figure out where writing fits into it. Use the pledge calculator (or pen and paper) to list the projects, ficathons, and stories you might write next year and consider the word tallies or time involved. Really think about what's motivating for you—knowing you'll hit a goal or chasing down the finish line.

And if all else fails, you can do what some of our current GYWO members have suggested and pick your pledge based on the associated pledge color. 😉

    Habit Pledges120 Days (Backpacker), 180 Days (Excursionist), 240 Days (Explorer), 300 Days (Adventurer), and 350 Days (Globetrotter)
    Word Count Pledges75K (Light), 150K (Modest), 200K (Basic), 250K (Moderate), 300K (Difficult), 350K (Herculean), 500K (Outrageous), and 1M (Ludicrous)


As a reminder, your GYWO pledge is locked in for the full year.
You cannot change pledges mid-year.
If you hit your goal early, you're still part of the same pledge group.
So choose a goal to sustain you ALL year.



In the comments, let us know your pledging woes! Wonder how difficult another pledge is? Still need clarity on the pledge types? This is your opportunity to ask. After some discussion, hopefully you'll come away with a confident decision.

Note: Commenting to this post does not constitute pledging for 2026. Come back next week and follow the instructions in the Pledges & Requirements post to make a pledge for 2026.
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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2025-12-03 10:31 pm

Fic for windows_to_nowhere: 5 times Joan didn't tell Sherlock she had fallen in love with her +1 ...

Title: 5 times Joan didn't tell Sherlock she had fallen in love with her + 1 time she did
Recipient: Windows_to_Nowhere
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson by Kate Hamill (play)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/Joan Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: Discussions of societal and internalized homophobia
Summary: Joan has a lot of reasons she's not told Sherlock she loves her.
Eventually, she runs out of those reasons.

Read on AO3: 5 times Joan didn't tell Sherlock she had fallen in love with her + 1 time she did
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earlgreytea68 ([personal profile] earlgreytea68) wrote2025-12-03 07:02 pm

Advent Drabble 3 - Adolescent Lucky

For anonymous.

“It’s the latest thing, Arthur,” Eames says. “It’s all anybody wants this year for Christmas.”

Of course Eames would know all about the hot gift, thrusting it into Arthur’s lap.

He studies it in confusion. “It’s…a weird monster stuffed animal holding…makeup?”

“Collectibles with skincare, darling.”

“You know I don’t approve of makeup yet,” Arthur grumbles, constantly resisting this aging shit.

“Not makeup, skincare.”

Arthur gives Eames a look.

“Anyway, she’ll be the most popular girl at school with one of these. Can’t find them anywhere.”

Well. That’s a telling sentence. “Where did you get this?” Arthur asks suspiciously.

Eames grins.