Sunshine Challenge #6 (no. 2): Hyacinth

I realized I have things I can post for the main prompt of challenge #6 hyacinth (I was derailed, I confess, at the beginning because I had 'hydrangea' and 'hyacinth' confused.

The collage is to preserve the flower that Minisculus gave me on one of our first 'family' walks during the pandemic when there wasn't much else to do and we didn't really know what was going on. And the poem is about that. And because I'm me, I actually have a fic called Hyacinth. It's ACD porn for a Season of Kink bingo fill for waxing/shaving so, you know, not everyone's cup of tea.

grape hyacinth by okapi

remember that spring when to all hives went all bees?
I remember these purple flowers
without knowing their worth, how circumstances would seize
grape hyacinth, they are what towers
above all, all normal things, the everyday sneeze
in memory consigned import
plump and clustered, scattered and short
found unexpectedly and of interest, that breeze
what created islands of all
must’ve carried seeds, let them fall
much discussed and debated, woes and cries and pleas,
as seasons changed, the raisin stems,
while everything changed, and changed, and changed, with ease,
rested in sight like shriveled gems
I’ve forgotten all but the hands which gave me these




Hyacinth (3000 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Crossdressing, Crossdressing Sherlock Holmes, Shaving, Waxing, Watson has a Smooth Leg Fetish, Oral Sex, Intercrural Sex, Sherlock Holmes is Violet Mohels, Hand Jobs, Anal Sex, mention of prostitution
Summary:

Miss Violet Mohels goes undercover as music hall performer Miss Hyacinth.

PWP. Crossdressing Holmes/Watson. Smooth leg fetish. This is in the same 'verse as Hand in Glove.

Sunshine Challenge #7: Red Rose and Zinnia

I have enjoyed doing collages for this year's Sunshine challenge. It turned out I had fewer red rose stickers than I thought but a zinnia sticker, too. So I did two collages.





And I wrote a little Sherlock Holmes (ACD) ficlet for the zinnia prompt: Score of Zinnias.