Mar. 30th, 2025

stonepicnicking_okapi: holmes in silohuette (holmessilouhette)
We are moving into the second collection of stories called The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Horses!

silverblaze2

"The Adventure of Silver Blaze" is the one about horse racing.

Inspector Gregory asks Sherlock Holmes to accompany him at the stables of Colonel Ross in Dartmoor. A stable boy, Ned Hunter, was drugged after chasing a parasite tipster, Fitzroy Simpson. Soon after, Silver Blaze, the Wessex Cup champion has disappeared.

It gives us the second reference to the deerstalker which became an iconic symbol of Holmes and of detectives in general.

Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp eager face framed in his ear-flapping traveling cap

It gives us this Paget drawing which appears a lot in fandom icons.

silverblaze

And we get Holmes talking about 'the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime' [the fact it didn't bark] which has become shorthand for negative inference.

Also, I want to reproduce what ACD said in response to criticism of it.

I read an excellent and very damaging criticism of the story...he explained the exact penalties which would come upon everyone concerned if they'd acted as I described. Half would be in jail, and the other half warned off the turf forever. However, I have never been nervous about details, and one must be masterful sometimes.

Please quote that last bit at any hate comments on your fic and consider yourself in good company.

I did a couple of ficlets.

Title: Pragmatic
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Prompt: pragmatic
Notes: References to "Silver Blaze"
Summary: John Straker's mistress is not ashamed.

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Title: Superior
Author: [profile] stonepicknicking_okapi
Rating: Gen
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Characters/Pairing: Watson & OC
Prompt: Superior
Warnings/Notes: Reference to Silver Blaze
Summary: A new client reminds Watson of Colonel Ross.

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"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" is a dark story about three sisters and a love triangle and the nasty effects of alcoholism and jealousy.

Holmes, Watson and Lestrade visit Susan Cushing, who has just received by mail two human ears in a cardboard box.

box

I had read somewhere that 'brown study' (meaning a vacuous or melancholy state of mind) was racist but apparently it comes from William Congreve's An Imposible Thing: Invention flags, his brain grows muddly, / And black despair succeeds brown study.

We get a Dupin style 'train of thought' deduction by Holmes of Watson, which is nice. And we get Holmes' fascination with Paganini (which I did a whole fic about). But, in general, I think we are left feeling like Holmes when he asks Watson at the end:

What is the meaning of it, Watson? ... What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear?

AO3 Meme

Mar. 30th, 2025 04:09 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi: snoopy typing (snoopy)
I will be curious if this brings any surprises. Taken from [personal profile] smallhobbit and many others.

1. Most Hits:

Cheers is a collection of three hundred, explicit-rated, stand-alone 500-word ficlets in the BBC Sherlock fandom, each titled with a different cocktail, which I added to on from 2016 to 2023.

2. Second Most Kudos:

The Fucking Machine is an explicit BBC Johnlock fic which began as a fill for the kinktober prompt 'fucking machine.' It's an Alpha-for-heat-hire fic with Sherlock as Alpha and John as Omega.

3. Third Most Comments:

Tinkerty-Tonks is a 114-chapter, gen-rated Jeeves & Wooster ficlet collection which I added to from 2018 to 2022.

4. Fourth Most Bookmarks:

Straying from the Path is a PWP explicit Little Red Riding Hood bestiality (human/wolf) fic.

5. Fifth Most Words:

Bunny, how does your garden grow? is a 48,000 words. It's a mature-rated BTS animal hybrid AU. Namkook. With Namjoon as a dragon hybrid and Jungkook as a rabbit hybrid.

6. Fic With Second Fewest Words (That's Not a Drabble):

two poems about a bath is 294 words. Sherlock Holmes (ACD). Remixes of two ficlets by tweedisgood for Wits on Tap 2018 (which was poetry remixes of fic).

7. Seventh Most Common Relationship:

Bertie/Jeeves - 17 fics

8. Eighth Drabble Posted: too tedious to figure out

9. Ninth Most Common Character:

Kim Namjoon/RM of BTS

10. Tenth Mature and/or Explicit Fic:

Night Ferry is a PWP of genderswapped BBC Johnlock having sex on a train from 2014.

11. Eleventh Most Recent Completed Fic:

A Recipe for Roasted Squash is a gen-rated Sherlock Holmes (ACD) fic with supernatural elements about an evil cookbook written for last year's Spook Me ficathon.

12. Twelfth Most Recent Story in Your Sixth Most Common Tag:

My sixth most common tage is 'Hurt/Comfort.' The twelfth fic is When it's dark an explicit BBC Sherlock AU where Sherlock is a vampire, John is a werewolf, and they have an open relationship.

13. Favorite Title That Isn't from a Poem or Song or Shakespeare or The West Wing:

oh, there are a lot. I like puns and nice quotes from the source material

enamored of the Night for her own sake is a Dupin/narrator PWP. Title from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

Catch a Flying Memory and Call it God is a Chthulu-mythos ficlet. Title is the Algernon Blackwood quote Lovecraft uses in The Call of Cthulu

Whose Booty? is Bunter/Lord Peter/Inspector Parker PWP. Title is a pun on Whose Body?

Xenophilia is a Strange Way (to say I'm falling in love). Venom/Eddie PWP.

Wonder Bred a BBC Johnlock AU PWP with pregnancy/fertility/lactation kink fills for Kinktober 2021.

I don't think I've found out anything especially revelatory, but it was an interesting exercise.

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