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I love Christmas. [I usually call it Xmas because unlike the bumper stickers I prefer to keep the Christ out of Christmas, but I don't mind the word or the idea or any of it.]

I like the carols. I like the images. I like the decorations and gift giving and baking. I like the films and TV specials. All of it.

This is the first spread I've done in a while. I think it turned out very well.

And, of course, Christmas can absolutely be murder. This is a drabble I did for

adventdrabbles.

Title: Christmas is Murder
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Length: 100
Rating: Gen
Prompt: Day 3: Christmas self-care
Characters: Jim Moriarty (criminal mastermind) & Sebastian Moran (sidekick sniper)
Summary: Jim's got an idea.

“Ah,” announced Sebastian Moran. “I see. I go out and kill very specific villains at an impossible distance and you sit around doing beauty treatments.” He ripped the sheet mask from his boss’s face. “What’s this?”

“Christmas self-care.” Moriarty nodded to box open on the coffee table. “Like it says on the tin.”

“Since when do criminal masterminds need self-care—at Christmas or any other time?!”

“Got an idea. Think of the possibilities, Sebbie. Lethal lotion. Bath bombs which actually explode. This,” he held up the wand, “is called a copperhead massager.”

Seb hummed. “Call it ‘Christmas is Murder’?”

“Yes!”

This is a challenge to post about 50 things I'm fannish about in 2024. I did the challenge in 2023 so to make it more interesting, in 2024, it's Everything is Murder edition. More info & to sign up here:https://alexcat.dreamwidth.org/1357645.html

The List (to date)

Fannish 50: 2024: #1: Jeeves & Wooster
Fannish 50: 2024: #2: Libraries
Fannish 50: 2024: #3: Facial Sheet Masks
Fannish 50: 2024: #4: Venom
Fannish 50: 2024: #5: jhope of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #6: the art of Edward Gorey
Fannish 50: 2024: #7: The works of Edgar Allan Poe
Fannish 50: 2024: #8: SUGA of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #9: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Fannish 50: 2024: #10: Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Fannish 50: 2024: #11: Honkaku & shin honkaku detective fiction
Fannish 50: 2024: #12: Audiobooks
Fannish 50: 2024: #13: Holiday blend coffee
Fannish 50: 2024: #14: Jazz
Fannish 50: 2024: #15: Jigsaw puzzles
Fannish 50: 2024: #16: Sherlock Holmes
Fannish 50: 2024: #17: Poetry
Fannish 50: 2024: #18: Chocolate
Fannish 50: 2024: #19: Detective Matthew Venn series - Ann Cleeves
Fannish 50: 2024: #20: Tarot
Fannish 50: 2024: #21: Poirot - Agatha Christie
Fannish 50: 2024: #22: The ocean
Fannish 50: 2024: #23: Hardboiled detectives/noir
Fannish 50: 2024: #24: Tea
Fannish 50: 2024: #25: Bees & honey
Fannish 50: 2024: #26: Campion - Margery Allingham
Fannish 50: 2024: #27: The language of flowers
Fannish 50: 2024: #28: The moon
Fannish 50: 2024: #29: Gervase Fen detective series - Edmund Crispin
Fannish 50: 2024: #30: James Bond
Fannish 50: 2024: #31: Jungkook of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #32: Inspector Alleyn series - Ngaio Marsh
Fannish 50: 2024: #33: Collage materials
Fannish 50: 2024: #34: RM of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #35: Nanette Hayes mysteries - Charlotte Carter
Fannish 50: 2024: #36: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Fannish 50: 2024: #37: Inspector Littlejohn series - George Bellairs
Fannish 50: 2024: #38: Jimin of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #39: Autumn
Fannish 50: 2024: #40: Halloween
Fannish 50: 2024: #41: Ghost stories of MR James
Fannish 50: 2024: #42: Christmas