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Snowflake Challenge: Day 3
Jan. 3rd, 2019 03:55 pmThe Snowflake Challenge Day 3 is:
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
I decided to discuss Victorian Turkish bath.
In the original Sherlock Holmes stories, there are two mentions of the Turkish bath. At the beginning of "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" Holmes questions Watson's enjoyment of the Turkish bath [Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?], but by "The Illustrious Client," both Watson and Holmes have a weakness for the Turkish bath and, that greatest gift of lines: It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of the drying-room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else."
Oh, Artie*, really, you shouldn't have!
* meaning Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
( In which I squee about Turkish bath & the fics they inspire )
Here are some Sherlock Holmes (ACD) Holmes/Watson Turkish bath fics. All are explicit or mature rated. There may be mention of a case, there may be feels, but the focus of these is mostly two fellows getting off with each other at the bath.
Benefits of the Turkish Bath and Head of Steam by tweedisgood. The first is three drabbles. The second was written for the Come at Once challenge.
Anything stirring by gardnerhill. Written for the Come at Once challenge.
But Why Turkish? by mistyzeo. A commissioned work.
How Sherlock Holmes Was Compelled to Remember One Festive Occasion Per Year: A Reminiscence by John H. Watson, MD by MirithGriffin. I consider this the gold standard in Turkish bath fic.
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
I decided to discuss Victorian Turkish bath.
In the original Sherlock Holmes stories, there are two mentions of the Turkish bath. At the beginning of "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" Holmes questions Watson's enjoyment of the Turkish bath [Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?], but by "The Illustrious Client," both Watson and Holmes have a weakness for the Turkish bath and, that greatest gift of lines: It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of the drying-room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else."
Oh, Artie*, really, you shouldn't have!
* meaning Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
( In which I squee about Turkish bath & the fics they inspire )
Here are some Sherlock Holmes (ACD) Holmes/Watson Turkish bath fics. All are explicit or mature rated. There may be mention of a case, there may be feels, but the focus of these is mostly two fellows getting off with each other at the bath.
Benefits of the Turkish Bath and Head of Steam by tweedisgood. The first is three drabbles. The second was written for the Come at Once challenge.
Anything stirring by gardnerhill. Written for the Come at Once challenge.
But Why Turkish? by mistyzeo. A commissioned work.
How Sherlock Holmes Was Compelled to Remember One Festive Occasion Per Year: A Reminiscence by John H. Watson, MD by MirithGriffin. I consider this the gold standard in Turkish bath fic.