stonepicnicking_okapi

[to help me keep track!]

Fannish 50 #1: Sherlock Holmes
Fannish 50 #2: Many Fandoms - Fannish Items I Own
Fannish 50 #3: Agatha Christie
Fannish 50 #4: Museums
Fannish 50 #5: Hard Boiled Detectives

I am fannish about hardboiled detectives, specifically Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade, created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. I also like the Marlowe pastiche The Black-eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black. To a lesser extend, I like the more pessimistic genre noir, too, such as works by Cornell Woolrich.

I like the language, I like the motifs.

I have done a few hardboiled AUs, and the latest one I finished last night/early this morning for the

reeltimefest. It was a mash-up of films The Maltese Falcon and The Shape of the Water. Sebastian Moran of BBC Sherlock (my version of him) is dreaming he's a Hollywood detective a la Spade and Marlowe. I am happy because I missed my posting date but managed to make it in Amnesty Week for the challenge. Also, I've got 99% of my word count for the month in one fic! Hurrah!

I have also done one with Crowley of Good Omens as the detective. And I've done Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon fic, too. [in the cut]. And there's a fic that lives in my mind, a little noir-ish, of Joe from The Old Guard as the detective (amateur, guy trapped in a weird situation, Hitchcock-style) and Nicky as femme fatale. I've never written it and I've moved on from The Old Guard but writing this fic brought back the urge to get it down on electronic paper.

The Shape of the Maltese Water (11228 words) by okapi
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sebastian Moran/Jim Moriarty
Characters: Sebastian Moran, Jim Moriarty, Irene Adler (Sherlock Holmes), Zelda Fuller, Brewster Fuller, Molly Hooper, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade, Richard Brook
Additional Tags: Dreams, Deus Ex Machina, Inspired by The Shape of Water (2017), Inspired by The Maltese Falcon, Alternate Universe, Private Investigators, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Detective Noir, Sebastian Moran-centric, POV Sebastian Moran
Series: Part 7 of The Sniper Vanishes 'verse (Moran/Moriarty)
Summary:

Sebastian Moran watches the films "The Shape of the Water" and "The Maltese Falcon" and falls asleep on the sofa, dreaming he's a hardboiled private investigator being tailed by dames, wise guys, and Fish Men.

For DW ReelTimeFest.

yours in black lace (20525 words) by okapi
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Detectives, Alternate Universe - Detectives, Private Investigators, Alternate Universe - 1930s, Detective Noir, Alternate Universe - Noir, Case Fic, Eventual Smut, Wall Sex, Desk Sex, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, First Time, Crowley Has a Penis (Good Omens), Aziraphale Has a Penis (Good Omens), Letters, Anal Plug, Sleep Sex, POV Crowley (Good Omens), 6000 Years of Pining (Good Omens), 6000 Years of Repression (Good Omens)
Summary:

Hardboiled, hell-fried private investigator Anthony J. Crowley is just trying to survive a hot, boring August, but a new case and a series of anonymous naughty letters signed only 'yours in black lace' are about to make things interesting.

Chapters 1-3 are case fic. Chapter 4 is smut.

For the 2020 DW Unconventional Courtship challenge based on a summary of the Mills & Boon novel Yours in Black Lace by Mia Zachary.