My soap opera is complete!

I finished it exactly 1 year after I began it. I updated every Friday and special days for the whole year. 90 chapters 252,000 words.

Ungrateful (252026 words) by okapi
Chapters: 90/90
Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin, Park Jimin (BTS)/Original Male Character(s), Kim Seokjin | Jin/Kim Taehyung | V, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Min Yoongi | Suga, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Kim Namjoon | RM/Min Yoongi | Suga, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Kim Namjoon | RM
Characters: Jeon Jungkook, Park Jimin (BTS), Original Characters, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Min Yoongi | Suga, Kim Taehyung | V, Kim Seokjin | Jin, Bam | Jeon Jungkook's Dog, Kim Namjoon | RM, Kim Taehyung | V's Mother
Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Jeon Jungkook, Omega Park Jimin (BTS), Omega Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Alpha Min Yoongi | Suga, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Mention of Attempted Suicide (Past), Endgame Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin, Secrets, Drama & Romance, Beta Kim Seokjin | Jin, Omega Kim Taehyung | V, Seokjin is the doctor, Hoseok is the Gardener, Yoongi is the Cook, Jimin is the Young Husband, Jungkook is the Undergardener, Taehyung is the Manservant, Knotting, Explicit Sexual Content, Everyone has a Past and Everyone has a Secret (or 10), Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Implied/Referenced Drug Addiction, Angst with a Happy Ending, Minor Character Death, Namjoon is the Detective, Mpreg
Summary:

Gratitude only goes so far—and for so long.
Chapters 1-30: A wealthy Alpha hires gardener Jungkook to see to the heats of his young Omega husband Jimin. Nothing goes as planned.
Chapters 30-60: A wealthy Alpha is dead. Valuable art is missing. Everyone has a motive--including the detective in charge of the case.
Chapters 60-90: A wealthy Alpha has been laid to rest, and everyone is moving on with their lives. But old sins cast long shadows...

Omegaverse. Jungkook/Jimin. Taehyung/Seokjin. Namjoon/Hoseok/Yoongi.

SUGA day

It's SUGA day. I hope he's okay wherever he is. Here are two collages I did last year.



And a moodboard:

Sherlock Sunday: Bacherlor & Beryl

"The Case of the Noble Bachelor" was published in the UK in April 1892.

In this case, Lord Robert St Simon visits Sherlock Holmes because his fiancée, Miss Hatty Doran, disappeared on the day of their wedding.

So it turns out Hatty's first husband (thought dead) pops up at the wedding, and she runs away with him. And Holmes thinks it would be a great idea to invite everyone to supper (the happy reunited couple, Watson, and the Noble Bachelor of the title, Lord Robert St. Simon, who loses his rich American heiress.). That seems a bit mad, to be honest.

Did Hatty commit bigamy by not stopping the service and making a scene at the church (when she sees her thought-dead first husband)? She did marry another man while being aware (by minutes) that her husband was still alive.



"The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"

In this case, the banker Alexander Holder goes to Baker Street to tell Holmes his story: he lent £50,000 to a client (thought to be the Prince of Wales) who gave him as collateral the famous beryl coronet. Of course, the coronet is stolen, mangled and three of the stones lost.

Beryls are stones which, when colored, are gems. Green beryls are emeralds. Blue-green beryls are aquamarines. The story doesn't tell us what color these beryls are.

Holmes determines that it was the banker's niece and not his son who is responsible for the theft, aided by an unscrupulous older lover Sir George Burnwell.

I said during Sherlock 60 that I think the relationship between uncle and niece is a bit fishy and the fact that she escapes with a disreputable older man confirms my suspicions.

I am using The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes edited by Leslie Klinger and there is a note by one critic that whenever Holmes has occasion to pull a gun, he gets as near as possible to the person, this critic claimes, owing to poor marksmanship. And in this story he does 'clap a pistol to Burnwell's head.'

Also, they say that even damage to the coronet would be bad and it is damaged, twisted and stones broken off, but the banker runs off at the end to make amends with his son whom he had falsely accused instead of to a goldsmith to get the thing repaired by Monday when the Prince of Wales wants it back. But could the Prince of Wales pawn a public item, national treasure such as that? Hmm.