Black Shuck (A Study in Emerald, Holmes, Watson)

[puella_nerdii]

I wrote one story for Yuletide this year, as usual, because no matter how often I promise I'm going to pick up a treat or two, I never actually seem to. Er. I got an absolutely great prompt from inmyriadbits for Neil Gaiman's short story A Study in Emerald, which is a Sherlock Holmes/Cthulhu version and is the HOTTEST THING EVER, particularly if you're into

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[pellucere]

Already told you this on the Twitters, but this story is still really, really good. It's like, I don't know, Neil Gaiman and Arthur Conan Doyle and HP Lovecraft all have/had their very particular ways of writing and telling stories, and you've managed to tread a line here that touches on all three of them.

And as for AO3, hum. It is certainly the rising star in the world of fic archives, and I do like the kudos feature. You could do worse than post your fic there! (I'm honestly half-tempted to get myself an account there, except for how I keep feeling I'm not good enough for it, which is stupid. fkjhgkl.)

[puella_nerdii]

And I shall say thank you again. *grins* It's been a while since I've tried a stylistic pastiche this direct, but the form of the story almost demanded it, and I'm actually pretty pleased with the way it turned out.

I'm going to keep posting to LJ, obviously, but I've been fairly crap about crossposting to non-LJ places, and a lot of the new features on AO3 make me want to reverse that trend. Seriously, kudos will make me actually leave feedback on things.

(and if you want to get an account, I might have an invite floating around somewhere!)

[pellucere]

Haha, yes, the kudos thing is very appealing. Comments are harrrrd.

(and thank you, but I've already got a standing offer for an invite from someone else -- you don't have to go to the trouble. Especially when I can't even decide if I ought to/want to join at all. :'|)

[crosshair]

I'd already left kudos for this on AO3, but I'd just like to say that I adored this story! Hound of the Baskervilles is my favourite Holmes story; has been since I was little. Its conflation with A Study in Emerald worked really well. ♥

[puella_nerdii]

Thank you for the kudos, and for the comment here. I love Hound, too; it's always had this eerie resonance with me that stands a little at odds with the way I feel about the rest of the Holmes canon, because there's so much that's unknowable in Hound, especially around Stapleton and his demise. And that's a neat thematic fit with Lovecraftian canon and with the Emeraldverse, I think.