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I debated what the last item on this list should be but day before yesterday I added a postcard of fireworks to my new planner and that decided me.

I love fireworks. I know many of my DW friends don't, but for me, they are a happy childhood memory, one of few I can look back on without pain, shame, or disgust. I lived in a place where they were legal and sold year-round and we shot them off as a family for every holiday. When I still had contact with the Trump side of my extended family, I would buy $100s of dollars of fireworks at places in Tennessee and take them to Mississippi and shoot them off for the holidays. Today, I have a tiny box of 6 sparklers for New Years' Eve. A long way from the old days, but I still put the stems between my teeth :) If you aren't about to lose a finger or an eye, you're doing it wrong.

So I wrote a double drabble set in my BBC Sherlock Waffle House/firework stand AU. The fireworks ficlet was Snap-Crackle-Boom and the Waffle House AU was Scattered, Smothered and Covered
 
Title: Still scattered, smother, and covered
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Summary: John is reading a newspaper article about a fireworks accident. Sherlock is making hashbrowns, diner-style.

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That's it. I will not be doing this again, but I am happy and relieved I finished.

The List

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
Fannish 50: 2024: #43: Jin of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #44: Advent calendars
Fannish 50: 2024: #45: Snoopy
Fannish 50: 2024: #46: Inspector Rebus detective series- Ian Rankin
Fannish 50: 2024: #47: Scary movies
Fannish 50: 2024: #48: V of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #49: Short stories
Fannish 50: 2024: #50: Fireworks

I like horror movies. I have borrowed plots from different horror movies for fic through the years. I prefer older films or the first of the franchise. This Christmastide I watched:

1. Jack Frost (1997). I enjoyed this. It was so camp, so ridiculous, so cheesy. I recommend it if you want a laugh. So the van carrying a serial killer and a van carrying Secret Stuff collide on a snowy night and the serial killer becomes a snowman. And (spoiler) there is a scene of the sheriff and the serial killing snowman wrestling in a truck bed filled with antifreeze. Crack-tastic.

2. Black Christmas (1974). I will probably watch this again. There are some cringe moments (the Margo Kidder character is an ugly drunk) but there were elements of it that are still pretty awesome. A killer haunts a sorority house at Christmas. And it's the origin of the phrase 'the call's coming from inside the house.'

3. Silent Night Deadly Night (1984). This was the first horror movie I ever saw and the only part I remembered was the best part (in my opinion). The killer grabs a half naked girl and impales her on the antlers of mounted deer. My uncle has/had A LOT of mounted animals around his house (deer, turkey, and other antelope, kudu, and horned animals he shot in Africa) so that made that part very memorable to a young okapi. But in general it's just sad. A traumatized orphan is abused by nuns and grows up and is forced by an employer to trigger himself at Christmas and goes on a spree with an axe. It was just sad (except for the chick impaled on the antlers).

4. Silent Night Bloody Night (1972). This is a bit contrived but very atmospheric. If you watch it at night with the lights out, you could probably scare the shit out of yourself. A man dies and leaves a house where a lot of tragedy has occurred, and a developer comes to town 15 years later to sell the house. And a killer is on the loose. There is a lot here about 'crazy people' i.e. people committed to mental institutions getting loose and being extremely organized and violent. That rankles. But it was scary in a retro way.

I really like the idea of BBC Sherlock getting an evil advent calendar from Moriarty.

Title: The psychopath's advent calendar, Day 1
Rating: Teen for implied violence/dark themes
Length: 500
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Prompt: Listen
Summary: Sherlock receives a sinister Christmas gift from Jim Moriarty (inspired by Black Christmas).

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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.

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I love autumn! My favorite season.

I like the cooler weather and Halloween and the color of the leaves. I don't have many autumn-themed stickers left. So I shall have to offer the collage I posted before and my latest jigsaw.



And it was a challenge to figure out how autumn could be part of a murder. But I think I managed it. For sweetandshort:

Title: A Killing Autumn
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Prompt: enemies
Summary: Sherlock explains how autumn murdered a man.

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I love audiobooks. I listen to them on Youtube, on two different services provided by my library (Libby & Hoopla) and on CD (using the player in the car or the DVD player in the house). I definitely have preferences with regard to narrators. In general, I prefer British English male narrators. David Suchet is an exception to this. I really don't like his female voices. A narrator makes a difference. I am re-listening to all the detective stories of Gervase Fen (by Edmund Crispin), and I find Phillip Bird conveys the dry humor so much better than any other narrator. Wanda McCraddon does a good job of Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Alleyn. I can find Joan Hickson's versions of a few of the Miss Marple novels and short story collections on Youtube. Grover Gardner is a good American narrator.

So, to make it murder (for the Everything is Murder edition), I did a short ficlet for vocab_drabbles prompt 93: obfuscate.

Title: Obfuscate
Prompt: obfuscate
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Characters: Sherlock & John
Warning: murder (non-graphic)
Summary: What a murder victim was listening to is a clue.

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So for this one, you were supposed to take a question that another participant. I took this from yarnofariadne. I fucked up with my questions, though. I didn't realize they were supposed to be about fandom. Everyone else's questions were about fandom, and I purposefully didn't make mine about fandom because that wasn't so interesting to me, and now I feel bad. But anyway, on y va. I'll read more carefully next time.

What signature piece of clothing or jewellery would you borrow from a fictional character?

I'd love to have BBC Sherlock's coat but only if I can have the height and build too. Being very short and very fat it wouldn't have to same effect, waltzing into a room, deducing every body, and waltzing out. But it is a good coat.

[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.

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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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What a fun month! And a great stone to end on. I did not know about this, but knowing it's a newly discovered stone that only is found in the volcanoes of Indonesia is very cool. Here's a moodboard and a BBC Sherlock drabble.



1. Drabble, BBC Sherlock. Sherlock/John. Gen (the first 100 words, the rest is on AO3 and is rated Mature, reunion sex)

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Merry Christmas to me from me because I am DONE with Kinktober! I finished my last fic. I am so relieved, you can't even imagine. Just a huge weight lifted. I loved writing this but I love even more that it's done and I can start 2022 with a blank slate.


Wonder Bred (19126 words) by okapi
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mike Stamford, Mrs. Hudson (Sherlock Holmes), Detective Inspector Dimmock (Sherlock)
Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Sherlock, Alpha John, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Dirty Talk, Breeding, False Pregnancy, Mpreg, Porn With Plot, Inflation, Cock Warming, Sherlock is a Size Queen, Oral Sex, Pregnancy, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Horror, Needy Sherlock, Male Lactation, Lactation, Marathon Sex, Wet & Messy, Happy Ending
Summary:

Omega Sherlock agrees for Alpha John to see him through his first heat since puberty, but a bit of pheromone-induced dirty talk has an odd residual effect on Sherlock's body.

False pregnancy/pseudo-pregnancy. For Kinktober 2021.