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Sherlock fandom.
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John hates it, Sherlock loves it.Â
“Too many people. Crowded. Hateful,” John grumbles.
“Yes, to the amount, no to latter. It’s fascinating,” Sherlock tells him.
John huffs and holds on to the sleeve of Sherlock’s coat when the train comes rushing into the Embankment station.
“Don’t even try to get rid of me,” John hisses when Sherlock tries to wrestle his arm free from John’s iron grip.
Sherlock looks at John and realises that perspiration is coating John’s forehead, and his eyes have something reminiscent of panic about them. He moves closer to John, interlacing their fingers together.
“I’m sorry,” Sherlock murmurs in John’s ear.Â
John relaxes and exhales shakily when they walk through the doors to the carriage. Ever since Sherlock came back from the dead, John’s been dreading being apart from him, particularly when they’re taking the tube. In a flash, Sherlock may vanish again, deliberately or not, but John has a hard time coping. He tries, but today is not a good day for it.
“Come here,” Sherlock says, manhandling John to stand beside the opposite doors.
He crowds in on John, shielding him from the other passengers with the Belstaff, creating a cocoon for the two of them. John holds on to the lapels of the great coat and takes steadying breaths to calm himself. Sherlock’s low murmurings help too.
“I’m here, John. Safe. Home. With you. Always. I love you.”
John’s on the brink of tears and leans his forehead against Sherlock’s chest, listening to the steady heartbeats.
“Alive. Safe. Home,” John whispers to himself.
The train is loud and fast, racing through the tunnels of London’s underground. Steady, like heartbeats. Reliable when there’s no strikes or other obstacles.Â
John understands why Sherlock loves it. After all, he’s always on the move himself. Even when he’s lying on the sofa at Baker Street, his brain is running the halls of his mind palace.Â
Before the Fall, John thought nothing of taking the tube. He did it all the time, though he did prefer a proper train. The speed felt slower, and there wasn’t a rush to get off and change lines. And you were mostly overground. Things to look at. Less crowded.
Screeching brakes bring John back from his reverie. He’s still enveloped in Sherlock’s embrace, his smell, his even breathing, his reassuring heartbeats.
“This is our stop,” Sherlock says softly. “Ready?”
John looks up into cerulean eyes that are concerned, worried. He cradles Sherlock’s cheek and nods.
“Let’s do this,” John says confidently. “How hard can it be?”
“Well, if anyone would know, it’d be you, John. You did after all invade Afghanistan,” Sherlock quips and kisses John’s palm.
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Number 55 in a series
Others in this series: Basil Rathbone (Fox), Martin Freeman,  Jude Law,  Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams,  Jonny Lee Miller, Vinette Robinson, Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Andrew Scott, Nigel Bruce (Fox), Robert Downey, Jr., Jon Michael Hill, Two Violets, Mark Gatiss, Basil Rathbone (Universal), Nigel Bruce (Universal), Rupert Graves, Evelyn Ankers, Louise Brealey, Lucy Liu, Edward Hardwicke, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Una Stubbs, Gayle Hunnicut, Hugh Laurie. Robert Sean Leonard, Yasmine Akram, Ronald Howard, Martin Freeman (TAB), Benedict Cumberbatch (TAB), Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan/Richard Larke, Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock, William Gillette, Edward Fielding/Burford Hampden, Kay Fielding, Rosalie Williams, Andrei Panin, Ingeborga Dapkunayte, Igor Petrenko, Rosalyn Landor, Gareth David-Lloyd, Ben Syder, Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Jared Harris, George Zucco/Ida Lupino. Yuko Takeuchi, Shihori Kanjiya, Tomoya Nakamura, Kenichi Takito, Ran Ito
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Repeat after me:
It is OKAY to have content preferences and to be uncomfortable with certain ships or topics, controversial or not. It is OKAY to distance yourself from such content and block certain tags or creators.
It is NOT OKAY to actively hate and harass real people for creating content of fictional characters that features things that make you uncomfortable.
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Inferno: Silvergirl and 7PercentSolution (sequel to Drawn to Stars)
Roberto, his son Luca, and Rosie are in a safe house together. Roberto's been teaching Rosie game strategies, and having some feelings.
N.b.: dialogue in italics is in Italian.
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“I knew your Ba seven, eight years ago.”
“Then you didn’t know my Ba. He wasn’t my Ba then.”
She's right: I don’t know the man he’s become. Did I know the man he was then?
When I look up again, Luca's standing by the stairs. Who knows how long he’s been watching us? I thump the sofa beside me and say, “Come play with us.”
Rosie’s face lights up and Luca, as kind as his sister underneath all his bounce, sits beside me and pokes me in the ribs.
“O ba’, how come you never gave me strategy lessons?”
And there it is. My son felt—feels—as though I haven’t cared about his interests and pastimes.
“Because I was stupid. I should have done.”
He looks startled by my candour, then says, “Doesn’t matter.”
“Yes, it does. And I have no excuse. Your grandfather taught me better than I taught you.”
Now I’ve embarrassed him, and Rosie’s looking from me to him, perplexed. Not quite following, I hope.
Luca gives me a light punch on the arm. He doesn’t want his father’s soul-baring, that’s clear. Maybe I’m apologising too late.
“Come on, Dad. You taught me to dance and how to pull. What more could I ask?”
He's trying to reassure me, even if it’s more to ease his discomfort than mine. He’s—there’s no other word for it—a lovely kid, and I hope he knows I love him, no matter how far from him my work takes me.
But it isn’t only my work. I’m suddenly aware, with a sour pang of guilt, that my emotional focus has excluded him and Chiara to a degree I’d have thought impossible, once. Maybe that’s inevitable, even mutual. Clutching at a child’s shirttails out of personal neediness is unbecoming in a parent, surely. We need to let them go.
But in some corner of my mind I’m afraid I walked away, in the grip of an amorous—erotic—obsession.
“Did your Ba teach you how to dance too?” Rosie puts the “too” in the wrong place, but that’s all she misses.
“Well, he taught me how not to dance, which is just as useful.”
Rosie doesn’t get the joke. Her Ba also taught her to dance. Another painful jab of memory and desire.
“Go on, Luca, dance with the lassie.”
“And Chiara’s always on at me to avoid dialect words!” But he takes Rosie's hand and turns up the radio, which is playing some pop song about “putting a ring on it.” At least it chases off my melancholy, watching the two of them dance, kindness in Luca’s eyes, stars in Rosie’s.
But I wonder if Sherlock remembers how we danced together. I wonder if he remembers any of what we did together. I’ll never forget.
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Court dress called “Joséphine” (Attributed to Jean-François Bony) (France, Lyon), circa 1804-1810
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I want to play a game with you all.
You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.
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"School districts that don’t respect transgender and nonbinary students’ pronouns or force them to use restrooms that don’t align with their gender identity could be committing federal civil rights violations beginning this fall.
Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced the issuance of a final rule under Title IX to protect people in public schools from sex-based discrimination and harassment. The announcement marks a significant update in federal efforts to combat sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. During a call with reporters, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona emphasized the administration’s dedication to ensuring that Title IX effectively serves all students by providing safe, welcoming, and rights-respecting educational environments."
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Five Fics Friday: March 8/24
Happy Friday everyone!! It's a shorter weekend for those of us in North America, so may as well spend all the time you got with one of these fantastic fics added to my MFL list!! Enjoy! :D
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Freeing from the Chains by writingismydivision (G, 1,552 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TFP, Angst with Happy Ending, Good Friend Molly) – It was like being held by chains, to be in love with him.
Echoes of the Heart by reveling_in_mayhem (T, 4,478+ w. || 3/8 Ch. || WiP || Magical Realism AU || Hurt/Comfort) – Sherlock Holmes is nine years old when he makes a wish. John Watson is twelve years old when he starts to dream of a boy with sad eyes. Sometimes, the wishes we make come true. Sometimes, eventually, we wish for something different. This is the story of how one wish changes the lives of two boys forever.
My heart is yours by Lock_John_Silver (E, 5,864 w., 2 Ch. || Holidays, Established Relationship, Marriage Proposal, Fluff, Light Dom/Sub, Wedding, Love Poems, Wedding Rings) – During the holiday in gorgeous Tuscany, John makes a decision for this year's Christmas. Their last night in Italy doesn't change his mind in the slightest.
Oyster and Mushroom Soup by meet_me_in_samarra (M, 8,922 w., 3 Ch. || Pining Sherlock, Jealous Sherlock, Awkward Flirting, Oblivious John, Humour and Crack, Internet Seduction Advice, POV Sherlock, Clueless Sherlock, Getting Together, Cooking) – What does a helplessly pining but absolutely clueless Sherlock do in order to woo an oblivious John? He turns to the internet for advice on the art of seduction and notes the experiments in his secret laboratory journal. Sherlock's second try to win over John involves a lot of special cooking recipes. Part 2 of the Sherlock´s Secret Laboratory Journal series
The Acquisition Of One John Watson by lookupkate (E, 17,976 w., 16 Ch. || Serial Killer AU || Serial Killer John, Vigilante John, BAMF John, Infatuated Sherlock, First Kiss) – Sherlock watched John looooooong before they ever met. John has a secret.
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Chapter 17 is now on AO3
The Murder of Sir Emory J. AmatÂ
by ChrisCalledMeSweetie
A Sherlock Holmes mystery, as recounted by Dr. John H. Watson.
Can you follow the clues to deduce whodunnit?
Chapter 17: Frank Kent
“A deduction of mine, that was all,” said Holmes mildly. “I am famous for my deductions.”
“Are you really?” asked Anderson, studying him with a befuddled expression.Â
Superintendent Baynes went into a roar of laughter.Â
“Many’s the time I’ve heard Inspector Lestrade say that. Mr. Holmes and his deductions! Too fanciful for me, he’d say, but always something in them.”Â
Nodding his head in a sage manner, Holmes walked out into the street.Â
He and I lunched together at an hotel. I know now that the whole thing lay clearly unravelled before him. He had got the last thread he needed to lead him to the truth.Â
But at the time I had no suspicion of the fact. I overestimated his general self-confidence, and I took it for granted that the things which puzzled me must be equally puzzling to him.
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Or there's this brilliant picture by @navydream
Hello,
I recently saw a piece of brilliant fan art that combined Sherlock with Hot Fuzz. However I now can't find it. Do you have any idea who the artists is?
Some details I remember where Sherlock being told off for being at the crime scene and then rebuking the two officers by saying it was against regulations for officers to shag in their police car on duty.
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Hey Nonny!!
AHHHHH okay I spent a bit trying to find it myself, without much luck. So hopefully instead I can call on the wider audience to help us out with this one!!
Anyone know which fanart Nonny's referencing? I don't think I've seen it so I'm not sure if I'm just not seeing the right one, LOL.
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