Reveals are complete and all is calm after the summer edition of Holmestice, which counts as highly entertaining all round (as per usual).
I was assigned to
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sanguinity (who is a co-moderator, and so immune to being totally surprised), and thought briefly about writing a Dinosaur!Holmes story (the source is a very strange 2010 movie from The Asylum, specialist in offbeat adaptations of minor classics). But then I noticed a reference to a certain Philip José Farmer work in their request list, and instead did this:
The Women in the Case Fandom: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms,
Enola Holmes Series - Nancy Springer,
Mary Russell - Laurie R. King,
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer - Philip Jose FarmerRating: General Audiences
Words: ~6700
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Enola Holmes & Mary Russell
Characters: Enola Holmes, Mary Russell, Nell Watson | Nylephtha Good Curtis, Sherlock Holmes, Von Bork, Original Moriarty Character(s)
Additional Tags: Women Being Awesome, Bechdel Test Pass, Alternate Universe - Fusion, Meta, Footnotes
An account from a cache of manuscripts attributed to Enola Holmes - which both answers a great many questions about significant women in the Holmesian canon, and raises a great many others.
I've had parts of the underlying action in mind for this since writing a prior Enola Holmes story some rounds back -- having wondered what effect Enola's presence in the Russellverse might have had on the events of
The Beekeeper's Apprentice. But I didn't know how to fill the glaring hole I'd chopped in the back end of that book till I did a quick reread of
Peerless Peer. It was clear at once that (1) bringing "Nell" home would be a catalyst for more feminine strategizing, and (2) that swapping in a freshly escaped Von Bork for the Moriarty I'd displace would set up a revised finale very nicely indeed.
Not surprisingly, I fooled pretty much no one in the guessing round with this contribution, but it was great fun to write and seems to have pleased its readers, so all is well on the home front.
As to gifts: it was a season for podfic this round:
[Podfic] The Kincardine File: Notes From an Untold Case by
flashforewardFandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan DoyleRating: General Audiences
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Length: 0-10 minutes
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mary Morstan, Mycroft Holmes
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Untold Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
A podfic of Gray Cardinal's fic "The Kincardine File"
What it says on the tin – a collection of notes and correspondence from a case for which no full manuscript has been found (almost certainly because Watson thought better of writing this one up for posterity).
A lovely reading of one of my prior Holmestice stories -- in this case, a short epistolary account of a matter that didn't make it into Watson's official memoirs. I am delighted to be able to listen to this; I was a CBS Radio Mystery Theater fan back in the day, and Holmesian tales in general tends to make for good audio material.
And then, while the treat was officially for
starfishstar , the written story podficced below was originally a gift to me in a prior round, so I count this as a double win on my end. It's an excerpt from a longer story by
language_escapes, written for me (for which my prompt was essentially "how do you explain Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes being alive and well this far into the 21st century?"). I am hoping that the teaser here will eventually be expanded into a complete reading....
[Podfic] an excerpt from Blood Relatives by
starfishstarFandom: Mary Russell - Laurie R. King,
Dracula series - Fred SaberhagenRating: General Audiences
Length: 0-10 minutes
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mary Russell, Mina Harker
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Crossover, Post-Canon, excerpt
Left at home while Holmes is away applying his skills to the war effort, Russell receives an unexpected visitor.
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