Yuletide Reveal! Sherlock Holmes: Commonplaces and Merlin: That Shall Achieve The Sword
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Commonplaces (2478 words)
Sherlock Holmes/Irene Adler
Only to be adored was, in the end, nothing; to be adored by someone worthy, everything.
Written for betareject!
I was really thrilled with this request, and then pondered for a long time what to do, exactly, before realizing that the thing is, we *know* Holmes -- we have a lot of him in canon, we already love him. And so I felt what I really wanted to do was to get to know and love Irene better, fill in more of her life, and once I knew I was going to write from her POV, Reichenbach Falls made the perfect starting point.
And I love Watson, of course, and thought there was a really interesting parallel between him and Godfrey Norton, from what little we see another true-to-form Victorian Englishman buying into his own mythology, the ideal of that type -- honorable and chivalrous and solid, in a way that I think Holmes and Irene would both find irresistible, even when they also found it maddening.
very_improbable lived up to her name and totally guessed this was me. I have no idea how anyone does that. There are 2400 freaking stories! :O
And as several OTHER people figured out (although if you guessed after I posted my recs list last night it totally does not count, NICE TRY giandujakiss! *g*):
That Shall Achieve The Sword (5438 words)
Arthur/Merlin preslash
Arthur had just started to get really irritated, as opposed to the low-grade and permanent Merlin-is-late-again irritation that somehow managed to be endearing -- and how exactly Merlin had managed that, Arthur would really have liked to know, mostly so he could work out how to use it on Uther.
Written for marzilla!
I always like to write at least one fandom I've never written in before at Yuletide, so after I got Holmes as my main assignment, I had my eye out for something else, and meanwhile I was sort of poking at Merlin casually, and then I ended up mainlining it just before the holidays while (of all bizarre things) crocheting a family present, and then I poked through the treats page and saw Cori's, and all of a sudden I was rambling the whole story out at elynross in chat and writing frantically until the very last second (with hiatuses for database-fixing, argh).
The whole key for me in this story was Arthur climbing up on the stake with Merlin while still angry at him over the secrecy -- I always want, with a situation like this where a deep dark tortured secret comes out, to put the characters in a place where they can't actually talk it out like reasonable people, because that is no fun; in fiction I totally believe in conflict resolution through grand gestures and violence.
silverkat1620, teneagles, and kaia_kyrial all guessed this. Also julad and kaneko independently figured out this was me just from the SUMMARY (though the two of them had the advantage of knowing I have gone all MERLIN MERLIN MERLIN in chat so they do not count either).
I was being so stealthy, too, but then I think I blew it posting flashfic the other day, thus revealing that I have jumped on the bandwagon driving through Camelot.
Also, Cori, you asked for slash, and this IS slash, I swear, it's just the story just had to stop before it got there! So, er, sequel coming soon? Which happily will cover many of the guessers' requests, although I think I do still owe very_improbable some more Holmes fic. :>
Oh, oh, and, as a bonus, I am also posting a reveal for Lemuel Cork, who does not have an LJ but writes at the computer about ten feet away from mine and so has been lured into participating. *g* I will maybe drag some notes out of him later but here is the story itself in the meanwhile:
Number Thirteen
Arsenic and Old Lace, Dr. Einstein/Jonathan Brewster
Dr. Einstein and Jonathan Brewster on the run.
♥
Commonplaces (2478 words)
Sherlock Holmes/Irene Adler
Only to be adored was, in the end, nothing; to be adored by someone worthy, everything.
Written for betareject!
I was really thrilled with this request, and then pondered for a long time what to do, exactly, before realizing that the thing is, we *know* Holmes -- we have a lot of him in canon, we already love him. And so I felt what I really wanted to do was to get to know and love Irene better, fill in more of her life, and once I knew I was going to write from her POV, Reichenbach Falls made the perfect starting point.
And I love Watson, of course, and thought there was a really interesting parallel between him and Godfrey Norton, from what little we see another true-to-form Victorian Englishman buying into his own mythology, the ideal of that type -- honorable and chivalrous and solid, in a way that I think Holmes and Irene would both find irresistible, even when they also found it maddening.
very_improbable lived up to her name and totally guessed this was me. I have no idea how anyone does that. There are 2400 freaking stories! :O
And as several OTHER people figured out (although if you guessed after I posted my recs list last night it totally does not count, NICE TRY giandujakiss! *g*):
That Shall Achieve The Sword (5438 words)
Arthur/Merlin preslash
Arthur had just started to get really irritated, as opposed to the low-grade and permanent Merlin-is-late-again irritation that somehow managed to be endearing -- and how exactly Merlin had managed that, Arthur would really have liked to know, mostly so he could work out how to use it on Uther.
Written for marzilla!
I always like to write at least one fandom I've never written in before at Yuletide, so after I got Holmes as my main assignment, I had my eye out for something else, and meanwhile I was sort of poking at Merlin casually, and then I ended up mainlining it just before the holidays while (of all bizarre things) crocheting a family present, and then I poked through the treats page and saw Cori's, and all of a sudden I was rambling the whole story out at elynross in chat and writing frantically until the very last second (with hiatuses for database-fixing, argh).
The whole key for me in this story was Arthur climbing up on the stake with Merlin while still angry at him over the secrecy -- I always want, with a situation like this where a deep dark tortured secret comes out, to put the characters in a place where they can't actually talk it out like reasonable people, because that is no fun; in fiction I totally believe in conflict resolution through grand gestures and violence.
silverkat1620, teneagles, and kaia_kyrial all guessed this. Also julad and kaneko independently figured out this was me just from the SUMMARY (though the two of them had the advantage of knowing I have gone all MERLIN MERLIN MERLIN in chat so they do not count either).
I was being so stealthy, too, but then I think I blew it posting flashfic the other day, thus revealing that I have jumped on the bandwagon driving through Camelot.
Also, Cori, you asked for slash, and this IS slash, I swear, it's just the story just had to stop before it got there! So, er, sequel coming soon? Which happily will cover many of the guessers' requests, although I think I do still owe very_improbable some more Holmes fic. :>
Oh, oh, and, as a bonus, I am also posting a reveal for Lemuel Cork, who does not have an LJ but writes at the computer about ten feet away from mine and so has been lured into participating. *g* I will maybe drag some notes out of him later but here is the story itself in the meanwhile:
Number Thirteen
Arsenic and Old Lace, Dr. Einstein/Jonathan Brewster
Dr. Einstein and Jonathan Brewster on the run.
♥