stonepicnicking_okapi | Entries tagged with fandom: agatha christe (miss marple)

The language of flowers has always been a good source of inspiration for me. I have traditionally used Kate Greenaway's Language of Flowers from archive.org, but I recently found two books at the library: A Victorian Flower Dictionary by Mandy Kirkby and The Complete Language of Flowers: A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz. The first one has short vignettes on 50 flowers and includes references to art, music, and poetry. The second is more comprehensive with very short dictionary-like entries on 1001 flowers. I used the first book to write 4 fills for

vocab_drabbles. Here are 2 of the Miss Marple ones. And here are two more Sherlock Holmes (ACD) ones.

Title: Basil
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christe
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Characters/Pairing: Miss Marple & Dolly Bantry
Prompt: Ostensible
Warning/Notes: Inspired by A Victorian Flower Dictionary: the Language of Flowers Companion by Mandy Kirkby, murder, decapitation, references to A Body in the Library
Summary: Dolly finds something unexpected in a pot of basil.

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Title: Canterbury Bells
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Length: 300
Characters/Pairing: Miss Marple & Dolly Bantry
Prompt: Finifugal
Notes: Inspired by A Victorian Flower Dictionary: the Language of Flowers Companion by Mandy Kirkby, reference to murder, reference to Murder at the Vicarage
Summary: There's something the police don't know.

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I like tea. I drink Twinings Ceylon Black Orange Pekoe. I also drink ITO matcha and the rare Earl Grey. I have a box of manzanilla (an infusion NOT TEA) because sometimes I get a strange 'bone-cold' and it's the only thing that helps for some reason.

I have used tea as prompt for fic for a long time.

My fourth most popular fic of all time is called Oolong and it's part of a genderswapped BBC Sherlock series called 12 Cups of Tea.

I used tea again as a prompt (and made it murder-y) for my last 2024 GYWO Yahtzee fill and for my Intoabar fic.

Old Wives' Teas (3000 words) by okapi
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Raymond West
Additional Tags: Community: intoabar, Murder, Tea, Crack Treated Seriously, Cameo by Miss Marple at the end, Deus Ex Machina
Summary:

Raymond West, novelist and nephew, wants to murder his fiancée. Sherlock Holmes points out the flaws in his plans.

For Intoabar 2024.

And, of course, I did a collage. Not crazy about this one, but I tried.

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Title: Green
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Raymond West (Miss Marple's nephew)
Rating: Gen
Prompt:

Length: 750
Warning: Discussion of murder methods. Deus ex machina. Breaking the fourth wall.
Summary: Raymond West wants to murder his fiancée.

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Title: Ginger
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Raymond West (Miss Marple's nephew)
Rating: Gen
Prompt: apricity
Length: 500
Warning: Discussion of murder methods. Deus ex machina. Breaking the fourth wall.
Summary: Raymond West wants to murder his fiancée.

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Title: Lapsang Souchong
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Raymond West (Miss Marple's nephew)
Rating: Gen
Prompt: petrichor
Length: 500
Warning: Discussion of murder methods. Deus ex machina. Breaking the fourth wall.
Summary: Raymond West wants to murder his fiancée.

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Title: Earl Grey
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Raymond West (Miss Marple's nephew)
Rating: Gen
Prompt: adaptable
Length: 500
Warning: Discussion of murder methods. Deus ex machina. Breaking the fourth wall.
Summary: Raymond West wants to murder his fiancée.

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Title: Orange Pekoe
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Raymond West (Miss Marple's nephew)
Rating: Gen
Prompt: capable
Length: 750
Warning: Discussion of murder methods. Deus ex machina. Breaking the fourth wall.
Summary: Raymond West wants to murder his fiancée.

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I love the ocean. I don't go often but it's a great setting, symbol, inspiration.

It's not difficult to make it MURDER.

Title: By the ocean
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Prompt: Amatorculist
Length: 500
Summary: Miss Marple makes a friend by the ocean.

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I love Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. And it's not difficult to make fannish things related to her and murder.

Four of the five fills I did for my Roll #1 GYWO Yahtzee were Miss Marple + murder.

Miss Marple talking to a young boy about a dog (and a murder).

Miss Marple & Dolly Bantry looking for clues to a young woman's death in her bedsit before the police arrive.

Miss Marple showing her inner Sherlock Holmes fan when she's summoned to a solicitor's office.

Miss Marple on Spanish holiday (and there's a murder).

I also did a collage. The photo is terrible. I couldn't scan it properly because of the large embellishment (the skull under glass). And the book is so thick now it won't lie down properly. But it's a really beautiful collage in real life. We have poison bottle, maze, and skull to represent the wickedness Miss Marple regularly confronts!

Also, because it's poetry month, I did a poem that doesn't seem like a fannish poem until you get to the end.

…arresting scent of lemon zest
and curd from sunny flower-shaped treats…
...dusted with sugary stars lest
confections prove too tart to eats…
…set there, on the plate, giving pause,
and, thus, without probable cause…
…hundreds and thousands [quiet cough]
…hundreds and thousands…scraped right off…

The last two lines refer to the first story in The Thirteen Problems collection of Miss Marple short stories.

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Title: Death on an island
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Prompt:

Summary: Miss Marple is on holiday on a Spanish island.

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Title: A strange bequest
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Prompt: pretentious
Notes: References to the Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze"
Summary: Miss Marple is summoned to a London solicitor's office.

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Title: The frowsty bedsit
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Prompt: frowsty
Summary: Dolly Bantry & Miss Marple are going through the bedsit of a murdered girl looking for clues to her death.

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Title: A good dog
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Prompt: sandy
Notes: cute/sweet scene
Summary: Miss Marple chats with young Leonard about his new dog after a case.

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Title: Picture Show
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Prompt: picture
Length: 500
Notes: Poignant, a bit angsty about getting very old
Prompt:

Also for:

sweetandshort 10 out of 20: picture
Summary: A very old Miss Marple muses on television.

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I often use the Victorian language of flowers in ficlets, and the resource I use is Kate Greenaway's The Language of Flowers [1884].

I did four ficlets and four collages for four flowers.

Two for

vocab_drabbles in Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Hibiscus means 'delicate beauty' and Red poppies mean 'consolation.' And two for

sweetandshort in the Miss Marple fandom: Water lily means 'purity of heart' and Camellia means 'perfected loveliness.

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Title: sticky
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: Gen
No of lines: 14
Poetic form: English sonnet
For: 2023 GYWO Yahtzee roll #4 prompt: Sticky
Notes: Based on the Agatha Christie short story "The Perfect Maid" and should be considered SPOILERS for that work.

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Another double drabble. Again not sure if these are going anywhere but they are words!

Title: Hung with Care
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Length: 100
Prompt: Day 02: Polar bears on the mantelpiece, red and white stockings
Summary: Miss Marple notices something about one of the stockings hung at Bertram's hotel.
Warning: Pun!

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Title: Hung with Care
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Length: 100
Notes: Genderswapped. Sherlock is a vampire. John is human. Mrs. Hudson is a troll.
Prompt: Day 02: Polar bears on the mantelpiece, red and white stockings
Summary: There's an unexpected new addition to the 221b decor.

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There are picture prompts over at

adventdrabbles for anyone keen. I had an idea and went with it two ways. Maybe these will lead to something, maybe not.

Title: Catch a Falling Star
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Length: 100
Prompt: Red bus in Christmas crowd.
Notes: Genderswapped Johnlock. From my AU where Sherlock is a vampire and John is human.
Summary: John is dreaming.

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Title: Catch a Falling Star
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Length: 100
Prompt: Red bus in Christmas crowd.
Summary: While Christmas shopping in London, Miss Marple and friend Dolly Bantry witness an accident.
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In case it's anyone's cup of tea here.

Green Fingers (3033 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Dolly Bantry, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Zombies, Gardens & Gardening, Crack Treated Seriously, Warning: Animal Murder [cats], Horror
Summary:

Miss Marple helps Dolly Bantry discover the secret of her gardening rival's success.

Zombies. Crack. Warning: murder & serial murder of cats. Horror of the 'Twilight Zone' variety.

The final installments. A big thank you to

singedsun for sponsoring the challenge!

Title: Nesting #4 & #5
Length: 3000
Rating: Gen
For: the Anamnesis challenge hosted by

singedsun. See this post has the link to sign up and more info if you want to play.
Notes: I use Cassandra Snow's Queering the Tarot as my guide for card interpretation for Act 5. Just to be clear, the characters are 1. Carmilla [from Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla 2. Miss Marple [from Agatha Christie] and 3. my own gender/cisswapped menstrual-blood-drinking vampire Sherlock Holmes from my Cup Runneth Over series. I will put clean it up and put it on AO3.

FILL #1 OF MY PROMPTS is posted here.

FILL #2 OF MY PROMPTS is posted here.

FILL #3 OF MY PROMPTS is posted here.

My #4 Prompts

You have learned much about yourself. Take some time to reflect.

THE TOWER
You seek out conversation with someone. Who do you reach out to? What do you want to discuss?

THE HERMIT
You realize you are crying. Why?

THE HIGH PRIESTESS
You decide to seek company. How do you go about this?

ACT 5 --
Your past my shape your experiences, your thoughts, your desires, but it does not define you. You are in control of your own path. The road ahead may be built from the stones that you've gathered, but these fragments of your past do not dictate where it leads. It is time to move forward.

Choose one of the Major Arcana to represent your present self. Do not draw from the deck. Choose freely among the card. You are in charge of your own identity.

Who are you? What do you do next?