I am writing a story involving Mary and Dr. Watson on their honeymoon.  I have to ask, what do honeymooners do?  Other than the obvious.  I know about swimming and theatre but what else do they do?  Also, how long are honeymoons normally last?

I just finished reading the short-story The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, while reading the part with the woman sitting in the window struck me as really familiar. I have a vague memory of reading about a man who saw a woman sitting in a window but when they realized he was watching they shut it. Is there another Doyle-story which tells a ( Read more... )

How would transportation have worked back in the day? I'm writing a fic based on the 2009 movie verse, and I'm having trouble describing how Watson would have made it to Mycroft's country place. Basically, how would 'calling a cab' have worked? Did special organization need to be made if the cab was to go into the country/somewhere far out? Were ( Read more... )

Let's say for purely hypothetical reasons (fic), a certain Victorian gentleman would want to draw a bath while at home in the flat he shares with his (TOTALLY PLATONIC) consulting detective flatmate. And let's say hypothetically he lives upstairs ( Read more... )

I'm not lacking in rudimentary rugby knowledge, growing up in a rugby nation as I have, however, I am a little indecisive as to which position Watson was likely to have played. ACD never actually mentions it as far as I am aware, and even though I only need this info for a tiny little insignificant line in a fic, I like to stay as realistic as ( Read more... )

I'm currently working on a modern!AU for compaubigbang for which I'd need the exact birthdates of Holmes and Watson (so that I can make the modern timeline as accurate as possible). As accurate as I can get upon doing research (and from what I remember from the books) is that Watson is two years older than Holmes, born in 1852 which would mean Holmes was born ( Read more... )

(Mods, if this is too detailed of a question for this comm, feel free to delete it. :) Also, is there a place out there somewhere for people to post specific questions they may encounter while writing fic? Because I have a particular question about a couple of Watson's belongings, but I'm not sure where the best place to post it would be ( Read more... )