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Title: They Say the Truth Hurts
Recipient:

deelaundry
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Watson & Holmes Comics / Sinners
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/Jon Watson, Sammie Moore, Elias "Stack" Moore/Mary
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: Holmes wants to look into a very very old cold case - a terrible and mysterious incident that happened in Clarksdale, MS in 1932. His last chance is the Chicago Blues Fest.

(You don't need to have seen the movie to understand this, but it does contain mild spoilers)

Read on AO3: They Say the Truth Hurts

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Title: Looking Forward To Dessert
Recipient: Mismeander
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: Rathbone
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: Holmes takes a surprised Watson out to Simpsons

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These pictures are from Thursday. I went foraging at the Charleston Food Forest. It's across the parking lot from the Coles County Community Garden.

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Current Mood: accomplished

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The Coles County Community Garden is across the parking lot from the Charleston Food Forest. It's not the kind where you rent a bed and grow what you want. It's tended by the community and anyone can come pick things to try.

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Title: The Fall
Recipient: Inspired by mom2boys request, but a treat for any and all Sherlock and Co fans.
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock and Co
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: A painting of The Fall. John reaches for Sherlock as he plummets off of the Reichenbach Falls.

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On Saturday afternoon, on the bus ride home, I finished The Traitor Baru Cormorant, because I couldn't wait until I got home to reach the end, despite a long history of reading-induced car sickness. It was totally worth it.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant is all fantasy politics. There's no magic or fairies or prophecies, just Seth Dickinson's invented world and the titanic machinations of Empire. And it is electric. Tentatively, I'd make a comparison to The Goblin Emperor, except that where TGE is about how Maia, completely unprepared for his role, is thrust into a viper's nest of politics, Baru Cormorant is about how Baru has painstakingly taught herself the ways of the empire and enters into the game fully prepared to rewrite the rules to her liking.

Dickinson creates a wonderfully believable world. The Empire of Masks—popularly known as the Masquerade—is sickeningly plausible, with their soft conquests of money and ideas backed by a highly-trained and well-equipped military. The Masquerade is not content to conquer land—it must conquer minds, people. It is relentless in its push to force its colonies and territories to adopt its ways of thinking, to the point of dictating who may and may not marry based on their bloodlines. With this comes a heaping dose of homophobia, frequently enforced on cultures who had formerly been relaxed or even accepting of queer identities and relationships. This presents a specific problem for Baru, who is the daughter of a mother and two fathers, and who is herself a deeply closeted lesbian.

The story makes use of incredibly mundane tools in its schemes, something that also rings realistic. It's not all backstabbing, murder, and blackmail—at one point, a serious political threat is nullified through currency inflation. Baru, who becomes an imperial accountant, is in a prime position to use these seemingly dull tools to marvelous effect. Many schemes are strangled in the cradle, such that only the plotter and the defeater are even aware that they existed. But the game goes on.

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Expanded, longer version of Gone to Ground

Title: Gone to Ground (*****'s version)
Recipient: edosianorchidss901
Author: REDACTED
Verse: A Study in Emerald
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Culverton Smith
Rating: T
Warnings: minor character death, eldritch horror, drug use
Summary: It is in the nature of monsters to be monstrous but what must one think of those who choose to become so?
A reimagining of The Dying Detective in the universe of A Study in Emerald - the somewhat longer version.

Read on AO3: Gone to Ground (****'s version)

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Title: Surprise
Recipient: CumberCurlyGirl
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: BBCSherlock
Characters/Pairings: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Rating: g
Warnings:none
Summary:Sherlock knew that John had some stupid thing to go to this evening, but he had no idea that he'd be going in uniform.

View on AO3: Surprise

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Title: Surprisingly Good
Recipient: KameoDouglas
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: Sweet and gentle first time. With slight sub/dom dynamics.

Read on AO3: Surprisingly Good

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Fandom: DC, technically the Justice League (2017) movie, but can reasonably fit with most DC timelines
Pairings/Characters: Martha Kent, Atlanna
Rating: T
Length: 2,909 words
Creator Links: susiecarter
Theme: Female Relationships, Female Friendship, Gen, Minor Characters, Superpowers

Summary: There's a very unusual woman on the train, when Martha boards just outside Metropolis.

Reccer's Notes: I love depictions of Martha Kent where she is no-nonsense and kind, but ultimately human. She is out of her depth in the superhero shenanigans but perfectly suited to handle any and all human things before and after. I love how she immediately clocks Atlanna as "strange and possibly dangerous" and so decides to strike up a conversation. It's lovely to see these two women bond over their sons even before they really know who each other is. Also Alfred cameos at the end which is always fun.

Fanwork Links: not far from the apples on AO3

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On Monday's outbound commute I finished the audiobook for Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk. This is a supernatural/fantasy noir romance and it does pack a lot of all three of those things into its brief 4-hour runtime.

This book relies heavily on stock film noir tropes—the veteran down-and-out private (paranormal) investigator (here a lesbian, Helen, our protagonist) who drinks too much and is haunted by past mistakes, a mysterious and sexy female client with a unique case, and "just one last" job before the PI plans to quit and retire with a beloved romantic partner. I didn't find them overused—and seeing them reworked to queer and female characters was fun—but other readers may find them too worn out even here.

Because the book is so short, it moves along at a very rapid pace. The whole thing takes place over the course of two days—the final two days before Helen's soul debt is called due and she finally has to pay the price of her warlock bargain. In this way, any rush felt appropriate, since it fit both the size of the novel and the context of Helen's urgency to get this last job done before she has to pay up.

The characters weren't super developed, but again—4-hour runtime. They're a little stock character-y, but not total cardboard cut-outs. It was disappointing for me to see Helen make the same mistake at the end of the book that she did prior to the start, as if she hadn't really learned anything, but since the novel ends promptly after that, the story never has to reckon much with it.

I was relieved that Edith, Helen's girlfriend, wasn't just the damsel in distress/goal object for Helen, which I was a bit worried about in the beginning. Edith has secrets and goals of her own.

Overall, the book was fine, and it entertained me well enough for a few days. Nothing extraordinary here, but nothing objectionable either. I will say I think keeping it short worked best for this book—I think drawing it out might have only weakened it. A fun little twist on a typical noir novel.

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Title: Spooky
Recipient: vulgarweed
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Watson and Holmes (Comics)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Rating: gen
Warnings: none
Summary: Watson and Holmes Investigate the case of the Sussex, NJ vampire.

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Title: Contrition
Recipient: beamkatanachronicles
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: Aftermath of poisoning, discussion of canon-typical lack of self-preservation
Summary: After their near-fatal brush with devil’s foot root, Holmes and Watson go out for a walk. The lingering effects of the poison cut their walk short, and while they rest, Watson confronts Holmes about the cost of endangering himself.

Read on AO3: Contrition

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Title: Bencoves
Recipient:

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Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Rathbone & Bruce
Characters/Pairings: H&W
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: Watson helps Holmes write a monograph on Polari

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I'd like to use an otf font file type that doesn't appear to be hosted on google fonts or other font sites (Dalelands.) I have some experience tweaking things via css and linking to fonts, but I've never added a font. If I have to host it offsite, where would be a good place to do this? Thanks!

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Fandom: Deadloch
Characters/Pairings: Eddie Redcliffe/Dulcie Collins
Rating: Teen
Length: 2518
Content Notes: Internalised homophobia, unreliable narrator, political correctness and Eddie aren't even in the same universe
Creator Links: pintpotjudas on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Backstory, Ambiguous relationships

Summary: Just Eddie, musing on hair. And lesbians. And herself, a bit. (She's meant to be thinking about the case.)
Set in a lull (???) in episode five, or thereabouts.

Reccer's Notes: The detective partnership of Eddie and Dulcie is central to Deadloch, and it's "enemies to friends" in canon, but with a tantalising hint of maybe-polyamory at the very end of the show. In this story, Eddie thinks about lesbians in general (Deadloch's full of lesbians), her odd fascination with Dulcie's long, thick, hair, and remembers a female friendship from her teens. It's a believable character study where we understand a bit more about Eddie and see the beginnings of her attraction to Dulcie, even if Eddie's still mostly in denial. Interesting, and well written, with great characterisation and Eddie's usual hilarious and colourful turns of phrase.

Fanwork Links: Horsehair

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Title: From the Desk of Regent Tobaccos
Recipient: Fans of Mycroft Holmes (Abdul-Jabbar/Waterhouse)
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: Mycroft Holmes series (Abdul-Jabbar/Waterhouse)
Characters/Pairings: Mycroft Holmes & Cyrus Douglas
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Summary: I only started reading the Mycroft Holmes series because of the amazing fanwork of everyone from Holmestice. Thank you everyone for introducing me to a verse I now love dearly!

A friend and I picked out these Mycroft & Cyrus fancasts together. Mycroft is portrayed by Colin Morgan in The Happy Prince and Cyrus is portrayed by Chiwetel Ejiofor in Dancing on the Edge. It was pretty funny when I realized my Mycroft fancast's role was Bosie Douglas, but not as funny as realizing what Sherlockian role Ejiofor has played. I'll let you look that one up yourselves lol.

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Title: Wishful Thinking
Recipient: Mom2boys
Author: REDACTED
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: General
Warnings: Explicit drug use, drug addiction, suicidal ideation, panic attacks
Summary: A double entendre: The wishful thinking for how season 4 should've been. And the wishful thinking of different characters.
Or: How Sherlock and John are dealing with the aftermath of The Six Thatchers/The Lying Detective.

Read on Ao3: Wishful Thinking

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Treat for DeeLaundry: They Say the Truth Hurts

Treat for mismeander: Looking Forward to Dessert

Photos: Charleston Food Forest

Photos: Coles County Community Garden

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Treat for mom2boys and Fans of Sherlock & Co: The Fall

Book review: "The Traitor Baru Cormorant" by Seth Dickinson

Treat for Edosianorchids901: Gone to Ground (****'s version)

Treat for CumberCurlyGirl: Surprise

Treat for KameoDouglas: Suprisingly Good

DCU: not far from the apples by susiecarter

Book review: "Even though I Knew the End" by C.L. Polk.

Treat for Vulgarweed: Spooky

Treat for beamkatanachronicles: Contrition

Treat for happyeverafter72: Bencoves

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Deadloch: Horsehair by pint pot Judas

Treat for Fans of the Mycroft Holmes book series: From the Desk of Regent Tobaccos

Treat for mom2boys: Wishful Thinking

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