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Alright my friends! I know I promised a feedback form like… almost two months ago now and I really did intend to but school is kicking my ass this semester and quite frankly any motivation I have at the moment I need to put into my education (to the point where I quit my job because of it lol), which is making it entirely difficult to do what is seemingly a pretty easy task due to a wide variety of barriers I won’t bore you with.

Now, I will get around to the other two things I promised (likely in my next school holidays which are just over a month away), but this one, I feel, is a much more time-pressing matter (as that lovely anon in my inbox so kindly pointed out), so my low-spoons, actually-get-it-done solution is as follows: feel free to put any feedback you have on how the Sherlock & Co Secret Santa event went last/early this year in the notes of this post, or drop an ask in my inbox if you want the anonymity. Any kind of feedback is welcome! Thank you I love you all and appreciate you dearly I’m very sorry I couldn’t make a proper form as promised xx.

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Hello

You said you will do a feedback form

I think if too much time passes between the ending of the event and the feedback form, people might forget what they would have had to say

If that makes any sense

Oh my god you’re so right thank you so much for the reminder I genuinely forgot life has been HECTIC af. Will hop on that ASAP watch this space 🫡

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Aaaaalllrightio folks. Long post incoming, I’m about to get sappy probably.

First off, I just want to say a huge thank you to every single one of you. You all made this event possible by signing up and participating and baring with me when things went wrong or I had to push dates back or didn’t get things out quite when I said I would. I appreciate you all and I couldn’t’ve done any of this without your support.

This is the first time I’ve ever run an event like this, and the second time I’ve ever participated in one - although the first time was years ago, and I’d completely forgotten about it until this moment, so I’m not sure if it really counts - and I’m so so infinitely grateful to you all for sticking with me while I figured out the kinks.

I encourage you all to reach out to your Santa’s directly, if you haven’t already, it’s brought me so my joy to see how much you’ve all loved your gifts over the past few days and I’m sure they’ll feel the same.

A quick overview of what will happen going forward: within the next few days I need to make a couple last posts to wrap everything up, this will include (but is not necessarily limited to),

- a feedback form

- a list of links to every gift made for this event

- likely some updates to the pinned post

When we get closer to the end of the year, I plan on putting out a call for some more admins for the event, so keep an eye out for that in a while if you’re interested :)

Now, in true JPW style, because apparently I’ve just decided to draw that comparison, I’ve got a few shoutouts.

To those who managed to guess their Santa’s right, as I promised:

Roze - @rozecantspeak

Tempest - @/contempestous on twitter

Vani - @lxvenderjewel

Lev - @consultingfujoshi

Lotte - @dasloddl

May - @mayhasopinions

Jen - @glitterymumfriend

Bezel - @bluecarbun

And especially Robin (@itsnobodysproblem) who not only guessed the author of their own gift, but also the author of another, pinning Jen for both “The Case of the Locked Container” and “Experiments in affection”

To all of our incredible pinch-hitters, for swooping in and picking up extra work to ensure that everyone received a gift:

Jen - @glitterymumfriend

JuJu - @sarcasstic-jpmvr

Nat - @naturallyahoe

And Vani (@lxvenderjewel) who picked up two extra assignments, and ended up writing three works for the event, you’re incredible Vans, thank you so much.

A quick shoutout to my dear friend Dasha (@dasharr), without whom this event wouldn’t exist. They proposed the idea of a Sherlock & Co Secret Santa event months ago, and I took that and absolutely ran a marathon with it.

To the Johnlock & Co server, for dealing with my insane rambles, letting me run things by them, and hanging out & being my background noise on vc while I went through and did a shit ton of the admin.

To my dear friends from the ninjago fandom, who let me check things past them as people who are both more experienced in fandom events than I am and also completely unrelated to Sherlock & Co - the perfect combination for checking over the things I couldn’t tell y’all yet.

This is a bit of a silly one, but… gosh I think his name is Phil Plates? Of Crash Course Astronomy - it’s the only thing that kept me on track while I was posting reveals and I’ve learnt a lot about space in the last two days.

And again, last but certainly not least, every single one of you. Thank you all for making this possible and giving me this opportunity. This event has brought me so much joy and I couldn’t do it without you, can’t wait to do it all again next time!

This is your host, signing off for (not quite) the last time,

- Charli (@artqueen02) xx

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Alright my friends! That is officially every single work from this event revealed!! I've just hit the button to un-anonymise the AO3 collection, and everyone can feel free to post their own works personally now. Expect a post or so from me in the morning, but for now I'm off to bed for the night 🫡

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From Soph (@itwassophiehanseniswear) for Pat (@abstractfrog)

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From Charli (@artqueen02) for Vani (@lxvenderjewel)

"Wanna Be Yours" (fic)

Read it on AO3

Marijohnlock, Hanahaki Disease, Mutual Pining, Happy Ending, Crack Treated Seriously -ish?, Can be read as romantic or QPR

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From Nat (@naturallyahoe) for Bird (@birdifulhuman)

"After All, Whatever Would I Do?" (fic)

Read it on AO3

Medieval AU, First Meet and a cuddling session to wrap it up sweetly! John Watson, a knight, returns to his hometown after an injury only to meet a man he didn't know would change his life.

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From DB (@/DoodleBlue221B on twitter) for @/emilycare on AO3

"Only to be with you"

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From Vani (@lxvenderjewel) for Tempest (@/contempestuous on twitter)

"i'm so obsessed with your ex" (fic)

Read it on AO3

jealousy, hurt/comfort, angst, tension, awkwardness, pining, arguing, love confessions

john learns victor and sherlock dated in uni and subsequently loses all ability to be normal around the two of them

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From Finny (@/podlockedd on twitter) for Jaz (@son-of-drogo)

"The Little Things" (fic)

Read it on AO3

Fluff, Gift Giving, It's been a distant day from Sherlock. John wonders why.

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From Lev (@consultingfujoshi) for Krzys (@/brrrreadgobrrrr on twitter)

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From Dara (@catsandfanart47) for Nina (@creepyalphabet)

"Plasters on Scratch Marks" (fic)

Read it on AO3

Tags: Self-harm, angst, hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, mental health issues, set sometime after GLOR, Sherlock Holmes needs a hug, PTSD

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From Jaz (@son-of-drogo) for Neko (@/nekoholmes3 on twitter)

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From Victiore (@jonk-md) for Jasmine (@jasminet-art)

""You Bring Me to Life", a little drawing of a marble sculpted Sherlock and his sculptor, John. Sherlock credits John for how much he has come to be a figure, whilst John finds inspiration in life within Sherlock. Both of them are moved to be something greater by the other. (From Victiore, for Jasmine, with love!)"

Description: A painting of Sherlock and John in front of a dark, dusty background, faint off-white beams of light from the upper right corner. Sherlock is stood, holding his violin in a playing position. His skin is grey like marble, and the stone aroudn his eye is crumbling to reveal his "human" eye, which is looking down towards John, who seems to be kneeling, and is hugging Sherlock's hip tightly, his face pressed agains his waist. John is wearing a white tank top, brown suspenders, and has dust on his face and arms. He looks up at Sherlock with a pleased smile, and a glimmer in his eyes.

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From Jen (@glitterymumfriend) for Gav (@/GavrocheDoesArt on twitter)

"Experiments in affection" (fic)

Read it on AO3

Tags: QPR, podlock, johnlock, fluff, 5+1, queerplatonic Sherlock Holmes/John Watson,

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From Lotte (@dasloddl) for Brick (@bricksbloggyplace)

"Cozy Christmas Day in 221B"

Description: A digital drawing of 3 People (sherlock, John and Mariana) and one dog (Archie) sitting around a Christmas tree, decorated with round ornaments and many lights. The whole room ist dark/black and only the outlines from the 4 can be seen due to them being lit from the glowing Christmas tree. The light is warm/yellow. Under the tree there are a few wrapped presents that can only be seen very slightly due to them being dark and under the tree.

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From Freda (@lynn-or-something) for DB (@/DoodleBlue221B on twitter)

Christmas Season at 221B (fic)

"John Watson is still working his way through losing Mary. Mariana tries to get him to talk about hi sfeelings more, but he does not want that. Until he realizes that, sometimes, you do have to talk about things to get over them." (Freda, if you post this fic anywhere let me know and I'll link it here!)