Artist Claims
First Round of Claims are CLOSED. Second Round is OPEN.
Due to some real life scheduling, I've moved the claims opening time up a bit. Until 2:00PM CT tomorrow, comments in this post will remain closed. Underneath the cut are the summaries of all currently participating authors, mixed and made anon. Take a look over them, decide which one appeals to you and be ready to claim tomorrow afternoon.
When claiming, please provide your username and your top three summary choices. Each summary will be assigned a number, so provide those when making your claim. Stories will be given out on a first come first serve basis.
Once all stories have been chosen, I'll open up claims for a second round for artists who either want to claim another story or, if we end up going fast, didn't get a chance to claim at all. If we have a large enough amount of artists, I may also open up for a third round, but that depends. Claims will officially end on Monday, June 18th. After that, emails will be sent out with the author/artist teams so that you can get in contact with each other and start planning out where the fic and art will be heading.
Artists, some summary information has been changed, so be sure to look things over again before claiming.
Alright! Ready, set . . . claim!
1.
Rating: R
Summary: post-Reichenbach, inspired by this gif set (with their permission, of course). May contain triggers, disturbing imagery, references to torture, PTSD.
Sherlock returns, whole, but battered and not just on the outside. There are things he's done, things he's discovered that he can't tell John. But the signs are there and it's only a matter of time before those secrets come out. Deals with Sherlock and what happened in those three years and how he copes with it now (mainly the latter), and how John copes with him. Slash/pre-slash, if it matters.
2.
Rating: PG-13/R
Summary: Nothing is ever normal at 221B Baker Street, not even love. John comes to a few realizations about himself, discovers some things about his infuriating flatmate, and pretty much everyone else in Sherlock's life tries to get him to let go of stubbornly held onto misconceptions about who he could be, and what he could mean for someone else. Or, Sherlock has asexuality-but-in-love-with-his-flatmate issues, Lestrade and Mycroft think he's an idiot, and John is left to deal with the inevitable fallout.
3.
Rating: PG or PG-13
Summary: (based loosely on My Sister's Keeper) Sherlock was born for the sole purpose of keeping Mycroft alive - Mycroft, who was suffering from leukemia. Sherlock was always kept under close supervision as a child. He was homeschooled and wasn't allowed out past the Holmes estate boundaries. As soon as little Sherlock is old enough, he begins donating tissue for various transplants that Mycroft needs. Mycroft is eventually cured and has been well for quite some time now, but Sherlock, as he continues to grow up, becomes increasingly resentful of his family and of Mycroft, whom he blames for everything that has happened to him. Sherlock eventually is able to flee the Holmes household, escaping as soon as his parents no longer have power over him by law, and he attends university and later meets Lestrade and begins his detective work. But he is still always, always alone. He is alone for so long and then suddenly he's not - he meets John and everything changes. John teaches him what it is to care and be cared for, to love and be loved. And Sherlock is, for the first time in his life, happy, really, really, stupidly happy.
Sherlock doesn't intend on telling John about the details of his childhood until Mycroft falls ill again and everything comes out as Sherlock's parents contact him directly for the first time in many, many years, begging him to save their son.
4.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Trapped in the throes of a conspiracy, Sherlock is framed for a crime he didn’t commit. He escapes, running from the authorities and his mysterious assailant both. Armed with nothing but a pocket watch and his considerable wit, Sherlock tries futilely to prevent further deaths in this string of murder and deception only to be outsmarted at every turn.
5.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: AU after The Great Game. Desperate to keep John safe, with Moriarty continuing to threaten him, Sherlock goes after Moriarty alone. When he is unsuccessful he realizes the only way to go after Moriarty is if Moriarty doesn't see him coming. He fakes his own death in a bombing, planning on bringing John along with him. But plans don't go the way they were meant to and John ends up believing Sherlock is dead. With no time to waste Sherlock leaves John to capture Moriarty. But John is not content to sit and mourn. He wants Moriarty to pay. John does his best to track down the assassin that's after him and the madman who hired him, calling in favors and using all the tricks he's learned from Sherlock. All in the name of avenging Sherlock. But the person John ends up tracking down is not Moriarty at all. He realizes, almost too late, that the trail he's been following is Sherlock's.
6.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: John Watson and Molly Hooper are each paid a visit after Sherlock's fall. John, because he knows too little, receives a visit from a very alive Sherlock, who's investigating the bizarre murder that's drawn him back to London. Molly, because she knows too much, receives a visit from a very alive Moriarty, who only plans on a quick little interrogation-until he wonders if Molly's not quite as boring as she seems. As Sherlock and John try to re-integrate their friendship after so much time apart, and John finds it increasingly difficult to conceal his feelings from himself, much less Sherlock, Molly dies in a tragic accident. Or does she? Convinced, instead, that her death was faked, Sherlock and John set out to solve the case, with unexpected results-for their plans, and for the nature of their relationship. First time fic/casefic.
7.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: He didn't mean to kill himself, not really, but after over a year of living without his best friend, it somehow happened despite himself. Or so he claims. While still in hospital, he is confronted by and faces visitors (Lestrade, Mrs Hudson) and ghosts of his past (the hours after the fall, Mrs Hudson, Mummy Holmes, Sherlock's belongings etc.) - while Sherlock, unbeknownst to John, deals with the ghosts of his present, namely Mycroft and Irene, trying to find a way back home. After Sherlock finally does return from the dead, he and John try to (re-)establish some kind of normalcy, but after some time they realize that that won't be possible for them. They end up living together despite the dysfuntionality of their relationship and their issues with all that has happened, having learned that some things leave permanent scars that not even a miracle can fix.
8.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: “There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before...” - Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlett
John had thought his affliction an irritation, but nothing more, but finally when John’s uncontrollable ‘shifts’ through time start leading him deeper and deeper into the life of one Sherlock Holmes he realises that this could be the most beautiful, and the most painful, thing to have ever happened to him. As he grows old his travels force him to watch Sherlock becoming younger and younger, less and less complete. Everything leads towards the inevitable, heart-breaking conclusion that John must prepare himself for, whilst preparing Sherlock for the road that John has already travelled.
The one rule: They shan’t spoil the game.
9.
Rating: R
Summary: set immediately after TGG with some small events from ASiB mentioned. Moriarty used John, everyone knew it- strapping a bomb to one’s best friend tended to do that- but John doesn’t realize how much he’d been used. When he begins to put the pieces together he slowly starts falling in on himself and for the first time in his life Sherlock feels helpless.
10.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: (Soul bonding AU.) Since nearly dying in the war, John (like most) is obsessed with finding a wife to bond with, which would secure him a place in her consciousness after death. But when Sherlock is injured, John makes a spur of the moment decision to bond in order to save him. Afterwards, he goes through an emotional crisis: He was unprepared for his sexuality to realign like it did and he’s convinced that Sherlock, practical and unemotional as ever, would take advantage of the bond the way he does with every other aspect of John’s life. Sherlock doesn’t realize they have a problem and the moment he tries to make use of their connection he simply confirms John’s fears. In the meantime, Moriarty's discovered their link and John’s in danger. Because what good is killing Sherlock if his faithful pet is there to keep him from dying properly? The two must somehow survive Moriarty's games and come to terms with their bond and with falling in love. On a side note: Mycroft is actually a pretty badass older brother.
11.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: There are a million lies she can say to break the silence, a million generic consolations she can give John but Harriet is crap at consoling and even worse at lying. “I could tell you that things will get better,” she starts, pauses, then continues unimpeded,” but, John, I can’t lie to you like that. Things won’t get better overnight. The best thing I can tell you is this: what would Sherlock say?” There’s a half-sob, half-laugh on the other end of the line, the first sign of life since she answered the call. “Dull.” John replies.
12.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: It’s been seventeen months since The Day when John bumps into Sherlock again. The Day doesn’t refer to Sherlock’s fake suicide, that’s way in the past. No, when John thinks of The Day then he remembers the moment when he and Sherlock broke up. They had gotten together a few months after Sherlock’s return and everything had gone well for over a year but then The Day had happened and now John lives in Southwark and is looking for a new job further away from Baker Street. Then he bumps into Sherlock again; whom he’d been trying to forget (without much success, I might add).
Suddenly John finds himself helping Sherlock with his current case and unfortunately for John and his peace of mind, it doesn’t stop there; especially not when Mycroft all but begs him to take care of Sherlock again. Sherlock’s opinion on the matter and whether John manages to keep the hurt feelings of their past our not … well, that’s for you to find out, right?