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Molly Hooper's laboratory is complete by request for Heather, as my humble way to thank her for all the work that went into putting on 221b-con. This was a fun challenge! On the body is Sherlock's riding crop, and below is a brain in a pan.

Working on something. Here's a... preview? Rough line art... idk.

(Gloriously beautiful art commissioned from @willietheplaidjacket, based on @roquentine19’s favorite picture of BC. And then I wrote a ficlet based on it for this month’s @hiatustory prompt, bed sharing.)

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He had been walking the shadowed streets of Edinburgh for hours, and the problem remained unsolved:

He was a coward.

It had been the perfect accidental setup. Their train had been severely delayed, and they’d arrived at the hotel far past their guaranteed reservation time. The only room left contained one queen bed. They’d taken it, of course; what choice did they have? It’s not as if they hadn’t done it before. Well, Before. Which was the problem. Everything had been Before, and now it was After, and there had never been a During.

Sherlock desperately wanted a During with John, and sometimes he thought maybe John wanted it too. There had been several moments over the last few months where he thought John was about to say Something, but there was always an interruption in the form of Rosie or Mrs. Hudson or a text from Lestrade, and the moments had all passed. But there was no couch or chair in their tiny hotel room, and barely any floor space, so they’d have no choice but to share the bed and maybe this thing that Sherlock so desperately wanted might…happen.

So naturally when John had gone into the shower, Sherlock had thrown on the Belstaff and fled.

Where’d you go?

Needed a walk. Don’t wait up. –SH

Then Sherlock had walked, and walked, and walked. He’d stopped at one point and had two fingers of Scotch in a pub, and then he’d walked some more. He was cold and he was tired and he was lonely and he was so, so afraid. He was afraid of going back to the room and he was afraid of staying away; he was afraid of John finding out and afraid of holding this secret close to his chest forever.

He was afraid that John would decide Rosie needed a mother, or that Sherlock was unfit to be in Rosie’s life. He was afraid that now that he’d realized how lonely he was, he would never be anything else.

He wasn’t used to being afraid, but everything having to do with John Watson was a rare exception to the way he lived the rest of his life.

He took a deep breath, turned the key in the lock, and pushed open the hotel room door. He would use the bathroom, put on his pajamas, and just…get into the bed.

The room was dimly lit by both the bedside lamp John had obviously left on for him and the television that was quietly displaying the end of Rear Window, and John was asleep. His head was at the foot of the bed–wanted to be closer to the screen without having to sit in the desk chair–and he was sprawled out on his back–fell asleep watching the movie on his stomach; flipped over to his customary sleeping position sometime after. Sherlock found himself crossing not to the bathroom as he’d intended, but directly to the bed, where he stared down at the wonder that was John Watson.

Sherlock relished the rare chance to look his fill unnoticed. John was always beautiful to him, but in sleep, with his edges softened and his cares laid aside, he was at once the entire world and the only thing Sherlock had ever truly wanted. It was so easy to imagine crawling in beside him and curling up with his head on John’s good shoulder, letting their breathing patterns syncopate as they slept. It was equally easy to imagine waking John with his mouth, either with a gentle kiss on the lips or by tugging down his pants and–

John stretched in his sleep, one hand coming up behind his head, and as the muscles in his bicep shifted, Sherlock swallowed hard. He’d spent hours, days, years cataloging everything those hands could do, and twice that time fantasizing about the things he wanted them to do. He let out a quiet sigh, briefly letting his eyes fall shut as he thought about the way John’s hands might feel on his skin.

When he opened them again, John was gazing up at him.

It was too late to school the emotions away from his face, and he knew that everything he felt was plainly visible for John to see. He was so tired of hiding, so tired of running. John would see, and John would react, and at least then Sherlock would finally know. He was so wrapped up in this revelation that it took him a long moment to see that John, too, was done hiding.

And the world, at last, fell away.

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Part two is now here: http://msdisdain.tumblr.com/post/162461708184/part-2-johns-pov

A “rework” commission piece in progress. Prints still available of the original piece. If you see something in my store that inspires or you have an original idea, feel free to get in touch to discuss its creation!

New art for ’The Heart In The Whole’, by the amazingly talented Concuelo (check out her other work!)

tumblr i’m sorry but i really like this au fic okay

even though i’ve never read any pern novels

it’s just really cute okay

also my obsession with monster hunter armors crept in and made me spend way too much time drawing this

it’s a daaaate it’s date niiiiight

Sherlock fandom

Are You Real?

His mother told him the mirror in his room was magical and that its twin was out there somewhere. John didn’t quite believe that. 

At first glance, the mirror looked ordinary. It was oval with a thin black frame, and when he stood in front of it, he only saw himself and parts of the room behind him. But sometimes, when he looked at it from another angle, strange things could happen. Such as a vibrating surface, a change of colour, and the mirage of several worlds beyond it. 

It happened so rarely though; therefore, John determined that the thing was just a mirror; that his imagination had got the better of him.

When he reached puberty, the incidents stopped completely. He was both relieved and devastated once he realised that. After all, he used a serious amount of time in front of the item to style his hair and to despair about new pimples.

i made it a while ago but whatever

I literally just finished my last drawing while I’m still 31. This has been one heck of a year…and drawing Ben was the very last cherry on top. Roll on 32… :)

 It’s safe to say that the Belstaff and I have an intense love/hate relationship.

This is one of the scariest things I’ve ever done! Putting myself out there and asking for things is HARD, and I genuinely don’t know if there’s enough interest in this for it to be viable.

BUT shy bairns get nowt and all that, and if there is enough support and this does work out, then it’s a chance to do something really exciting. Very few people have had a properly fitted suit of historical plate to test with, and even fewer of them have an audience of this size to share their findings with. And while I may not be the best person for the job, I’m the only person that I am.

SO, if you want to see how far I can push movement in plate armour, or how many fantasy tropes I can recreate; if you want to see the process of making and fitting a full suit, and learn more about historical craftsmanship; OR if you want to watch a goofy goober pole dancing and attempting gymnastics in a clanky tin suit, with lots of failure along the way, please support this project.

There’s no way I can do it on my own, but if enough people chip in, there’s a chance!

image googling “how to suture a wound” and watchin melting corpses on Bones all night. i am maxed out on yuck.

Thanks 💜

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OOO this is a good one, I've never actually done this kind of list before! Problem is, that I am horrid at knowing any classic stuff, I just went to a few "top 100 classic literature" lists and tag searched every one of them on my lists, so I'm CERTAIN there are some missing. BUT this should get you started!!

If anyone has some others to suggest, PLEASE send them my way and I'll make a Part 2 list :)

CLASSIC LITERATURE-INSPIRED FICS

See also:

Fairy Tales and Fantasy

TV, Movies, and Books AU (Fantasy Pt. 2)

Crossovers & Fusions Pt 1

Crossovers & Fusions Pt 1.5 (MFL)

Crossovers & Fusions Pt 2

BOOKMARKS

Equilibrium by augustbird (M, 12,351 w., 1 Ch. || Flowers for Algernon Fusion || Jealous then Worried Sherlock, Sick John) – At Baskerville, John is infected by a virus that turns him into a genius. But when the infection progresses into neurodegeneration, it's a race against time to save himself.

Once Upon a Beast Becoming by antietamfalls (T, 24,042 w., 6 Ch. || Beauty and the Beast AU || Magical Realism, Folklore, Celtic Mythology) – An act of pride, a druid’s curse, an enchanted leaf; Sherlock’s torment has lasted an age. Hope arrives in the form of one John Watson, a man uniquely suited to break the spell. But with a single night to win his affections, Sherlock finds his carefully laid plans disrupted by a monstrous killer whose sights are set on the only thing he has left to lose: John.

Darkling, I Listen by You_Light_The_Sky (T, 73,254 w., 8 Ch. || Fairy Tale AU || Loosely Based on Beauty and the Beast, Magical Realism, Suicidal Themes, Romance, Creepiness, Adventure) – No one who enters old London ever comes out. They say that the beast devours them. When his sister disappears, John ventures into the dead zone beyond the wall, and finds a brilliant madman under a terrible curse... Part 1 of Darkling I Listen + Extras, Deleted Scenes

MARKED FOR LATER

The Picture of Sherlock Holmes by CarmillaCarmine (M, 3,306 w., 1 Ch. || Victorian Dorian Gray AU || Angst, Paris, London, Travel, Painting, Major Character Death, Opera, Captain John, First Meetings) – Sherlock Holmes, a rich and frivolous man, after a lifetime of debauchery finally falls in love. His heart chooses Captain Watson.

A Midnight Clear by khorazir (T, 13,120 w., 1 Ch. || Christmas-Carol Inspired || Post S3/Post-TLD / TFP Doesn't Exist, Christmas, Angst, Fluff, Pining, Canon-Typical Violence, Friends to Lovers, First Kiss, Implied / Referenced Drug Use, Magical Realism) – It’s Christmas Eve, and Sherlock is working. Because that’s what he does. He doesn’t need Christmas, or holiday cheer, or even company. He’s fine on his own, thank you very much – until a series of strange encounters on his way back to Baker Street makes him reconsider.

A Chamber to be Haunted by Calais_Reno (T, 18,963 w., 4 Ch. || Supernatural Elements / Jane Eyre Inspired || Ghost, Haunting, Boarding School, Poor Sherlock, Sad Childhood, Mutual Pining, Sherlock Talks to Ghosts, Orphan Sherlock, Ghost John, POV Sherlock) – Sherlock Holmes, orphaned at an early age and brought up by uncaring relatives, is lonely until he meets a ghost, a boy long dead who still haunts his uncle's house.

Much Ado About Nothing or Get Over Here and Kiss Me Already! by MorganeUK (NR, 19,847 w., 13 Ch. || Much Ado About Nothing AU || Mutual Pining, Angst, Lestrolly) – AU in modern time where the Holmes' are a powerful noble family, Mycroft is the chief of defences and Sherlock is working for secret service. Lestrade is a high rank officer in the army. Ms Hudson is an old Lady that took care of her niece and nephew Molly and John since their youth. Part 1 of the Sherlock / Shakespeare series

Second Intention by fiorinda_chancellor (T, 29,512 w., 4 Ch. || Sleeping Beauty AU || Folk Tales, Fluff and Humour, Sherlock’s Mind Palace, Telepath/Empath John, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, Waltzing) – John Watson is a soulsurgeon damaged by war and by caring too much -- if there is such a thing. Sherlock Holmes is struggling with the effects of a curse that bids fair to end his days as the world’s only consulting detective unless a way is found to lift it... But Sherlock doesn’t believe in curses. Even assuming that he learns to believe in John... will that be enough to save him?

John & Sherlock: A Romeo & Juliet loosely inspired modern AU by MorganeUK (T, 36,814 w., 17 Ch. || Sherlock/Moriarty, Possessive / Creepy Moriarty, Government Mycroft, Not A Good Brother Mycroft, Fluff and Smut, Non-Consensual Touching, OOC Moriarty, Angst With Happy Ending, Character Death) – Sherlock is the brother of the powerful Mycroft Holmes, a tool in his hands... And what Mycroft wants is for his brother to date Moriarty. John is the brother of the activist Harry Watson, the thorn in Mycroft quest to more power... Is love at first sight is enough, when all the stars are against you?Are they gone be wiser than their original counterpart and find an happy ending? (spoiler: Yes, of course!) Part 2 of the Sherlock / Shakespeare series

All Our Gifts At Once, or, the Young Sea-man by tiltedsyllogism (T, 48,119 w., 9 Ch. || Victorian Grimm’s Little Mermaid AU || Sacrifice, Pining, Angst, Realistic Fairy Tale, Bittersweet, Botany, Gardens) – John Watson, storyteller and shipwright's son, walks way from his entire life in Portsmouth to follow the mysterious Sherlock Holmes to London.

The Measure of a Gentleman by i_ship_an_armada (E, 67,096 w., 25 Ch. || Pride and Prejudice / Regency AU || Regency Romance, Historical) – It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a partner. Less universally acknowledged is that a single man in possession of very little in the way of fortune may be in want of a partner as well, but John Watson had little time or energy to devote to his own wants or needs... Enter one Mr Holmes... Part 1 of the TMoaG Universe series

The Vampires of London by consultingdetective (E, 72,660 w., 21 Ch. || Dracula AU || Pining Sherlock, Army Doctor John, Sharing a Bed, Porn With Feelings, Plot Twists) –  Over one hundred years after the first battle, a series of murders have caught the attention of London's police force and Sherlock Holmes. While most of the city has forgotten the vampire that once walked its streets, the descendants of the Van Helsing, Harker, and Seward families have not.

So Grant Us All a Change of Heart by ArwaMachine (E, 83,276 w., 5 Ch. || Christmas Carol Fusion || T6T Compliant, Pining, Angst with Happy Ending, Smut, Temporary Character Death, Drug Use / Reference, Suicide) – It’s Christmastime at Baker Street, but things are far from festive. Mary is dead, John and Sherlock’s friendship is all but ruined, and Sherlock has become a right dick about everything. More convinced than ever that sentiment is objectively useless, Sherlock needs a little paranormal intervention to see the error of his ways or else run the risk of losing all that is important to him.

Come to Morning by sunryder (T, 95,891 w., 36 Ch. || The Hobbit Fusion || Character Death) – John Watson was a Shire Hobbit, born and bred, but he was really quite terrible at it. Perhaps that's why Bilbo Baggins has never heard his story before. Or maybe he's never been told because John Watson ran away from home, then darted around Middle Earth trying to stop a serial killer, and fell in love with an Elf.

The Stories in Our Veins by victorianpining (E, 101,717 w., 29 Ch. || Dracula Crossover / Victorian / Vampire AU || Unreliable Narrator, Blood and Injury, Blood Drinking, Gaslighting, Mental Instability, Depression, Suicidal Thoughts, Strangers to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Angst with Happy Ending) – You hold in your hands a leather-bound book inscribed with the title The Stories in Our Veins. No author is named by the cover. On the first page, the following passage has been written in an elegant, cursive hand: A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is indeed an ideal helpmate. Sherlock Holmes in “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier,” written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1926.

Nonsense and Insensibility by ChrisCalledMeSweetie (T, 112,812 w., 52 Ch. || Regency AU / Sense and Sensibility Fusion || Johnlock, Mystrade, Viclock || Young Sherlock, Captain John, Bisexual John, Drama Queen Sherlock, No Period-Typical Homophobia, No Heteronormativity) – Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes were born to an extraordinary fate. They were born to discover the falsehood of their own opinions, and to counteract, by their conduct, their most favourite maxims. The oft-spoken conviction of each — “the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love” — would be put to the test by Greg Lestrade, Victor Trevor, and Captain John Watson. Part 3 of Jane Austen Writes Sherlock

WORK IN PROGRESS