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Monday, June 16th, 2025 12:10 am
Title: Tinge It With Romanticism
Recipient: [personal profile] iwantthatcoat
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Watson’s Sketchbook
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Violet Hunter
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: Set post “A Case of Identity”, Holmes looks through Violet’s Strand collection

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Sunday, June 15th, 2025 11:40 pm
Title: the wolves are swimming in our harbour
Recipient: [archiveofourown.org profile] beamkatanachronicles
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Canon/Poirot crossover.
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson, Poirot/Hastings. Mycroft Holmes is in the background.
Rating: Teen for drug use and references to mental illness.
Warnings: Depression like whoa.
Summary:
"I prefer to think on these things I see," Poirot said. "I do not intend to speak on them until it is time to pass judgement."

"Your own judgement, or that of the law?" Holmes shifted to light a cigarette; Poirot could just see his face, in the milky light of the coming dawn.

"Are they not the same thing?"


Two somewhat broken detectives meet, and perhaps they heal, just a little.
A canon/Branagh!Poirot crossover; a meeting between a retired Sherlock Holmes and a younger Poirot.

Read on AO3: the wolves are swimming in our harbour
Sunday, June 15th, 2025 06:48 pm
Event: Fandom5K is a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum.
Event link: @fandom5k
Pinch hit link: https://fandom5k.dreamwidth.org/tag/pinch+hits
Due date: 13 July

PH 1 - Blue Lock (Manga), 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 4 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agatha All Along (TV), Wicked (Movie 2024)

PH 5 - Hannibal (TV), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

PH 7 - Path of Night (Podcast), Vampire: The Masquerade - Various Authors (Choice of Games), Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga (Podcast)

PH 8 - 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 9 - 琅琊榜之风起长林 | Nirvana in Fire 2: The Wind Blows in Changlin (TV), Original Work, 永夜星河 | Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (TV)

PH 11 - The Fugitive (Movies), Crossover Fandom, Father Brown (2013), Forever Knight (TV 1992)

CLAIMED - PH 12 - Star Wars: The Acolyte (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)

PH 13 - Code Vein (Video Game), 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), 刀使ノ巫女 | Toji no Miko | Katana Maidens (Anime), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games), Xenoblade Chronicles (Video Game)

PH 14 - Call of Duty (Video Games), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Teen Wolf (TV), 9-1-1 (TV)
Sunday, June 15th, 2025 03:22 am
Thank you so much for another wonderful round of Holmestice! The mods want to say THANK YOU to all the creators who joined us this round. Being in this community with you is a joy and an honour.

Reveals and the Master List go up on June 20 (Baker Island time). Until then, please enjoy and comment on all the lovely fanworks. (If you haven't thanked your creator for your own gift yet, please do!) Creators, please do NOT respond to Dreamwidth comments with your name attached or post your works elsewhere on the Internet until reveals go up in the community. You may of course reply to comments on AO3, which preserves your anonymity.

Meanwhile, stay tuned: treats are coming up! We have a bumper crop this round! For anyone thinking of making a treat, we will accept treats until reveals, so if there's a prompt that inspires you, please have at it! Just use the regular submission guidelines and send your headers to holmesticemods@gmail.com.

If you'd like to guess who created what in this round, here's a list of all the contributors for the main gifts. (You'll have to put in some extra work to guess the treat-makers!) Go ahead and take a guess! It's all in good fun.

Contributors )

Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice artists, authors, podficcers, and vidders! See you again on the 20th, when we reveal who made what!
Sunday, June 15th, 2025 12:53 am
Title: A Secret Thought
Recipient: mom2boys
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: Trauma from canonical presumed death
Summary: While away from Baker Street during a case, Watson has a nightmare about Reichenbach Falls. When he joins Holmes for a late night drink, long-buried feelings come to light at last.

Read on AO3: A Secret Thought
Sunday, June 15th, 2025 12:45 am
Title: you had to go (i know, i know, i know)
Recipient: mom2boys
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Co. (Podcast)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
“I’ll stay,” he says.

“Are you insane?” Watson asks. “I’m not gonna leave you alone when there’s some murderous criminal mastermind chasing you.”


At the edge of the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock makes a move. Then, he makes a promise.

Read on AO3: you had to go (i know, i know, i know)
Sunday, June 15th, 2025 12:43 am
Sometimes in the process, when pinch-hitters come into play, a participant might receive two gifts.

This round's lucky winner is MOM2BOYS!
Sunday, June 15th, 2025 12:55 pm
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America, The Avengers
Characters/Pairings: Natasha Romanov/Maria Hill, James 'Bucky' Barnes/Steve Rogers, James 'Bucky' Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Nick Fury, Phil Coulsen, various MCU characters
Rating: Mature
Length: 04:21:03 (41,322 words)
Content Notes: Graphic depictions of violence, abuse of children by the Red Room, recollection of past pet death
Creator Links: Quietnight on the Audiofic Archive, Quietnight on AO3, notcaycepollard on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Action/adventure, Families of choice, Time travel, Fix-it

Summary: The fall is longer than Natasha expects.

It’s tears cold on her face, teeth bitten all the way through her lip and the taste of copper in her mouth; she’s falling and falling and then, bracing for impact—she wakes up.

Reccer's Notes: This is one of my favourite podfics by one of my favourite podficcers, and it's a tour de force. It's a long story by notcaycepollard that puts right Natasha's death with the soul stone - instead of dying she's sent back in time to the moment in her Red Room training she most regrets, and from that moment lives her life anew and, with her knowledge of the first time around, is able to fix the worst, most tragic disasters and losses of canon. It starts with Natasha rescuing her sister trainee black widows from the Red Room, plus Bucky the Winter Soldier who's there as well. There's a lovely, slow-burn relationship with Maria Hill in the story, but the key relationships for Natasha are with her sisters, aged from a four-year-old to teenagers when they escape, and the podfic's centre is the found family they create. The fix-it aspects are enormously satisfying and Quietnight's reading is, as ever, nuanced and fluent, beautifully performed - including all the Russian names and words, and a pleasure to listen to. An epic story and a wonderful podfic, stirring and heartwarming, and infinitely better than canon.

Fanwork Links: when i die i’ll sacrifice (more than enough for the afterlife) on the Audiofic Archive, and on AO3
(the fic is the first in a series of three stories)

Saturday, June 14th, 2025 07:13 pm
Title: The Adventure of the Baskerville Burglary
Recipient: beamkatanachronicles
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Sherlock Holmes, Granada Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson/Sir Henry Baskerville,
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: On holiday in Cornwall, after recovering from their experience with the Devil’s Foot poison, Watson receives a letter from Sir Henry Baskerville imploring them to visit Baskerville Hall and solve a mystery involving an archaeological dig, a priceless artefact and an unquiet spirit. Holmes is more than happy to relieve the boredom of enforced rest and Watson is keen to see his friend again. But there is more to it than a simple haunting: could there be a connection between a spate of thefts and the new occupants of Merripit House—a white-haired old invalid and his nurse? And does Sir Henry have an ulterior motive for inviting Watson to his home?

Read on AO3: The Adventure of the Baskerville Burglary
Saturday, June 14th, 2025 03:13 pm
Title:Traffic School
Recipient: [personal profile] tepidspongebath
Author: REDACTED
Verse:BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sally Donovan/Molly Hooper (implied); Mrs. Hudson
Rating:G
Warnings:None.
Summary: The trouble with creating breakthrough technology is that eventually anyone can use it.
Word Count:1996

Read on AO3: Traffic School
Saturday, June 14th, 2025 09:06 am
Fandom: Star Trek AOS (Reboot)
Pairings/Characters: Nyota Uhura
Rating: G
Length: 1866 words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] danahid
Theme: Female relationships

Summary:

I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map.

There are rules of diplomacy that you have been trained to follow. There are realities that you have been educated to expect. You are poised and dedicated and intelligent and professional, and there are horrors in the universe that you don’t want your sisters to know. There are false maps to terrible places that you don’t want your sisters to follow. You know that you can’t protect them from everything, but this you can protect them from for a little while longer.


Reccer's Notes: I am partial to stories that explore why people join Starfleet, and this is an excellent example. While the story talks about Uhura's motivations, it also explores her relationship with her younger sisters. She is both inspiration and protector to them, and she's very aware of her role.

This story takes on both the promise and sacrifice of going beyond traditional roles. Yes, Uhura accomplishes so much, but those accomplishments come at a cost, a cost she doesn't want her sisters to know about because she wants them to find their own way.

Danahid's writing is always exact and meticulous and beautiful, and this story is no exception. There's so much in these 1800 words, including a beautiful ending.

Fanwork Links: How to Write Letters Home to Your Sisters
Saturday, June 14th, 2025 04:11 am
Title: Hole in the Sky
Recipient: EstelRaca
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD canon/ Cthulhu Mythos
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, John Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: Horror, (minor?) Character Deaths, Bittersweet Ending
Summary: In the early days of the Great War, battles are fought on many fronts. Some will never make the mundane news. Some weapons are never thought to be such. Many sacrifices are lost to history forever - and without them there might not be a history at all.

Read On AO3: Hole in the Sky
Friday, June 13th, 2025 09:18 pm
Description: Do you have a Naruto fanfiction you'd love to read, but just can't seem to find? A familiar trope, ship, or character you can't get enough of? A piece of fanart you want to see come to life? Are you a fan creator who wants fresh inspiration and a fun, low-stakes challenge? The r/NarutoFanfiction Discord server is hosting a fest/prompt meme for Naruto fanworks - and we would love for you to join! Naruto fans of all ages (13+) are welcome to cheerlead, submit ideas for fanworks they'd like to see, and create fanworks for others. Fic minimums for filling a prompt are 500 words and art minimums are a finished piece. 

Prompting Period: Now-June 20

Works due & revealed: September 10

Creators revealed: September 17

An AO3 account is required for participation, and joining the r/NarutoFanfiction Discord server is highly recommended. By joining the server, you can participate in conversations about the event, make suggestions for this and future server events, and contact the moderators directly. For full event rules and for more information on how a fest/prompt meme works, please check the AO3 collection profile. If you don't wish to join the server, but still wish to participate and ask questions about the event, you may e-mail gerardwayissexah@gmail.com as well.

Links: 
AO3 Collection Profile (signup and view submitted prompts)
Discord Server Join Link (never expires)
Friday, June 13th, 2025 09:22 pm
Title: Rumour Has It
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Holmes (& Terry Pratchett’s Discworld)
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Summary: A mysterious illness is spreading throughout Ankh-Morpork and the city’s population is scrambling to find the culprit behind it. The rumour mills are running wild. Unable to get to the bottom of it all, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch seeks the advice of a long-retired detective and his faithful chronicler - How could Sherlock Holmes resist a case as puzzling as this one?

Read on AO3: Rumour Has It
Friday, June 13th, 2025 08:50 pm
Description: NejiTen Month is a monthlong event for fans of the romantic pairing between Neji Hyuga/Hyuga Neji and Tenten. Fanart, fanfiction, moodboards, podfics, edits, and other kinds of fanworks are welcome! Prompts posted to Tumblr are just for inspiration - feel free to disregard, complete out of order, or combine however you please. There are no minimums for either the amount of effort put into a work, or the number of works you post for the event. It's all welcome! 
Schedule: Post works to Tumblr and/or Archive of Our Own (AO3) July 1-July 31st.
Posting: Tag works on Tumblr with #nejitenmonth2025 in the first five tags so the mod can reblog everything. Please tag on AO3 with NejiTen Month 2025 or something similar. The AO3 collection is also an option.
Links:
Tumblr Blog
Full Event Rules
AO3 Collection

NejiTen Month event calendar with prompts
Friday, June 13th, 2025 04:18 pm
Title: Singularly Unique
Recipient: A_Candle_For_Sherlock
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: Victorian era ideas and taboos around homosexuality
Summary: Watson is happy with his life with Holmes, but things are going to change after a man from Watson's past contacts him.

Read on AO3: Singularly Unique
Friday, June 13th, 2025 08:16 pm
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Teyla Emmagan & Sam Carter, Evan Lorne
Rating: Teen
Length: 8824
Content Notes: canon-typical violence, minor character death
Creator Links: Rachel500 on AO3, ArwenLune on AO3, ArwenLune on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Female relationships, Action/adventure, Friendship, Women being awesome

Summary: When a diplomatic mission is interrupted by the Wraith, Sam and Teyla wrestle their personal demons to work together and find a way back to Atlantis.

Reccer's Notes:
This is set soon after Sam Carter comes to Atlantis to replace Elizabeth, and both she and Teyla initially grapple with her new role. Teyla, unlike John and Rodney, had no prior knowledge of Sam Carter and can't help missing Elizabeth and not fully trusting Carter. Then a mission goes badly wrong and they're thrown together, and have to find a way through their feelings as they deal with the dangerous situation. It's a gripping read with interesting character explorations and a satisfying ending. There's also a podfic version, excellently read by ArwenLune.

Fanwork Links: Walk Beside Me on AO3
And the Podfic, read by ArwenLune

Thursday, June 12th, 2025 11:24 pm
Title: a night of contemplation
Recipient: CumberCurlyGirl
Artist/Vidder: Redacted
Verse: Books: Doyle Canon
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: non-explicit sexual content
Warnings: none
Summary: A quiet night at Baker Street - full of blissful rest for some, anxieties and sleeplessness for others.

View on AO3: a night of contemplation