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[mightymads]

I was about to make a fic rec list of recently (and not quite) written stories but realised there were too few in my bookmarks. Could everyone help out? If you have on your mind a new fic you’d like to give a shout out to or there’s a long-time favourite you’d like to remind the community of, please leave links in the comments, and I’ll compile a comprehensive list

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[rachelindeed]

Here are some recent Victorian-era fics I've enjoyed, off the top of my head:

A Queer Beginning by A_Candle_for_Sherlock (Mrs. Hudson/Mrs. Turner, pre-Holmes/Watson). Sherlock Holmes, smitten with his new flatmate, comes to Mrs. Hudson for advice.

A Winter’s Tale, or, The Case of the Slip-Shod Servant (2695 words) by OldShrewsburyian
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Tobias Gregson, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Book: A Study in Scarlet, Case Fic, Untold Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Legal Drama, Prison, Canon Compliant, Period Typical Attitudes, Victorian Attitudes, Victorian, Servants, Class Issues, Patriarchy, Some Humor, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson Friendship, John Watson is a Good Doctor, London, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Poverty
Summary:

Early in the days of their association, Holmes asks Watson’s assistance. The doctor acquiesces, but remains somewhat bewildered by his strange fellow-lodger.

The Threat of Lunch (1922 words) by sans_patronymic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Humor, Banter, Victorian Luncheon Menus, Diogenes Club, Pre-Relationship, Pining Sherlock Holmes, Holmes Brothers
Summary:

Sherlock receives a menacing telegram and Mycroft has some suspicions.

History Rewritten (5169 words) by sans_patronymic
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Sussex, Retirement, Post-War, Banter, POV Multiple, Established Relationship
Summary:

1920--The Great War has ended and Sherlock Holmes has settled into country retirement with his lover and his brother. What could possibly go awry?

Private Friends (6999 words) by orchid314
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mrs. Hudson (Sherlock Holmes)
Additional Tags: Poetry, Desire, Watson Attempts to Write a Sonnet, Developing Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Established Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary:

John Watson tries to make sense of words and desire. Sometimes, he finds, that’s not such a simple task.

[rachelindeed]

As for old favorites, I think I have too many to easily narrow down to a list? But I'll just throw out a few in hopes they may be new to someone:

Masked Ball (31626 words) by Waid
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, others - Character
Additional Tags: Case, casefic, Mystery, Masks, Fog, Lots and lots of fog, Internalized Homophobia, (But really half-arsed internalized homophobia though), Minor Violence, Tricksters
Summary:

Six months after Holmes’ return from the dead, the delicate equilibrium in Baker Street is disturbed when a stranger walks out of the London fog with a case – for Watson. Holmes is wary, Watson is fascinated. But who is the man calling himself Álvaro de León? And what does he really want?

Autumn in Wimpole (2122 words) by sans_patronymic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Additional Tags: Seaside, Companionable Snark, So Married, Case Fic, but not really case fic
Summary:

Watson struggles to uncover a mystery in a seaside village. Holmes is less than helpful.

The Chimney-Sweep's Aunt (4033 words) by ancientreader
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Tommy Jencks (OC), Annie Wilson (OC)
Additional Tags: character death (not Holmes or Watson), Child Labor
Summary:

In which Holmes is bested by a dying chimney-sweep, a retired music-hall artiste, and Dr. Watson; the episode does all four persons credit, and yet it is not an occasion for rejoicing.

A Study in Midnight (41537 words) by M_Leigh
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, James Moriarty, Sebastian Moran
Summary:

In a world dominated by an alien monarchy, criminals Sherlock Holmes and John Watson work to take down the royal establishment while detective James Moriarty and his associate Sebastian Moran try to track them down. Also featuring by Irene Adler and Roderick Maclean, who did in fact exist. AU based on Neil Gaiman's phenomenal short story "A Study in Emerald."

Sub Rosa (0 words) by prof_pangaea
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mycroft Holmes & Sherlock Holmes
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Additional Tags: Art, Epistolary, Great Hiatus, Telegrams
Summary:

"One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. The truly beautiful and noble puts its lover, as it were, at an infinite distance, while it attends him more strongly than ever." -- Henry David Thoreau

After Reichenbach Falls, Mycroft Holmes finds himself engaged in a singular telegramatic correspondence.

[rachelindeed]

Oh dear, it looks like Photobucket shenanigans in the intervening years since "Sub Rosa" was written have resulted in giant watermarks showing up over the text of many telegrams, making the story quite hard to read. Darn it!!! This is one of those stories I fell in love with back in the LiveJournal days (I think it was first posted around 2005), and I'm sorry that the art has been sabotaged by the changing rules of its image platforms. Grrrrrrrrr.

[rachelindeed]

The Book of Life (4812 words) by methylviolet10b
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Friendship, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Reichenbach, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Gen or Pre-Slash
Summary:

Five times Holmes observed Watson’s scars, and one time he allowed Watson to see his.

Baker Street Papas (17559 words) by sanguinity
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (TV 1980)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Additional Tags: Kid Fic, Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, Humor
Series: Part 7 of sang's moreholmes
Summary:

Holmes stood; the infant steadied itself with a fistful of his waistcoat. “Watson, I am given to understand that this is—”

“Violet Victoria Mary Smith-Watson,” I said, hearing the death knell of my easy, bachelor life with Holmes.

Intimations and The Taste of Love by nlralicia.

The Incident with the Bicycle (2606 words) by Garonne
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Additional Tags: Established Relationship
Summary:

We know Holmes can ride a bicycle, but when exactly did he learn?

The Maiden Voyage of the Tiresias (2861 words) by astolat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Originally Posted on LiveJournal
Summary:

Someone's getting taken for a ride.

Number 94 (7164 words) by tweedisgood
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, OC/OC
Characters: Kitty Winter, Violet de Merville, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Summary:

Appearances deceive. That is, one might say, their chief function.

[mightymads]

Wow, thank you so much, rachelindeed! I haven’t read many on your list, so it will be a discovery for me as well!

[rachelindeed]

Oh nice! I hope you enjoy them :)