#@fruitviking

[friday411]

AU - BBC Sherlock inspired theater mashup

If you haven’t read this story by EmilyCare yet, it's oh-so-fantastic!

Check out this selection:

"Curling, luscious raven-black hair. A contrasting pale, angular face. With long dramatic lines of nose, brow and cheek that drew and riveted the eye. Arched, plush lips a dusky rose. Ice blue eyes traced with other hues begging a lover’s gaze to map endlessly. His ivory neck disappearing into a ruthlessly fitted pale blue shirt which was dashingly rumpled at the end of this long work day. Buttons undone at the neck teased a peep show of luminous chest. Cuffs rolled up high exposing surprisingly muscular arms and - breaking the pre-Raphaelite vision, but visible to John's trained eye - faint scars at the dimple of inner elbow attesting to past, repeated injection of drugs. The man looked beautiful. Unearthly. But there was something vulnerable about him. The skin a bit too translucent. The eyes dark with strain. "

[fairycosmos]

Oh are we doing pet pics?

Meet Ripley!

She's a Patterdale/Border Terrier mix who loves chewing on things and barking at the postman. She also has many stylish jumpers!

RIPLEY!! ❤️❤️ the pic of her on the bottom left all snuggled up is making my heart scream she is so so so adorable oh my goodness <3 what a style icon too. an absolutely precious little thing!! her big kind eyes and her little ears and coats........also the one of her sitting in the bag ahh ripley said gay rights for realllllll gorgeous gorgeous girl. you haveee to give her a treat and a little kiss from me. she can come to my house and chew up my things any time <3

[noa-nightingale]

Hi!

Asks sent from bots are annoying, I agree 🙄 here's one from a person who thinks you're really cool ❤️

What's your favourite Granada Holmes episode? Or top 3 if you have trouble choosing! X

Aw thank you so much, you are so sweet! <3 I really appreciate it.

Oh wow, I... am having trouble answering that hehe. ^-^

There are so many episodes that I love, I don't think I can even narrow it down to three, so I am going to have to cheat.

Top 3 Burke's Watson: The Dancing Men, The Greek Interpreter, The Norwood Builder

Top 3 Hardwicke's Watson: The Devil's Foot, The Bruce Partington Plans, The Master Blackmailer

I am also going to cheat again and add The Final Problem and The Empty House - they deserve a special mention. I would not watch them as casual entertainment (for obvious reasons) but they are both so... hbghbnghjgbhfgbhngb.

If I absolutely had to choose, I think the title of favorite episode would have to go to The Devil's Foot though. I love that episode to pieces.

Thank you for sending the ask (and saving me from the dreaded bots lol). Sending love and sunshine your way! <3

[out-of-context-dnd-quotes]

DM: "You age 30 years."

Rogue: "I'm an elf, does that matter?"

[beekeeperspicnic]

You know those posts about medieval beekeepers and plague doctors being friends?

For @fruitviking!

[snarky-wallflower]

Inspired by the fact that there is just...so much statements in London. Why. How are so many of these people still alive?

@fruitviking.

[skyriderwednesday]

Holmes is very dramatic...

(requested by @fruitviking, @amypihcs, @dathen)

[ibrithir-was-here]

Tada!

Very fun commission for @fruitviking of Holmes and Watson, based on 'Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs" by Frederic William Burton

This was really fun to do/figure out how to adapt. Ended up getting to use the facade of the Sherlock Holmes museum on Bakerstreet as a backdrop so that was neat! (If you're ever in London go check it out, they've replicated the flat and everything)

Thanks again for the commission!

Reference below the cut

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

Commission for @fruitviking based on their Sherlock Holmes fic These Hands of Mine, which you can read here. Check it out!

[teaspoonnebula]

Curated List of My Sherlock Holmes Fanfics & Pastiches!

Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction:

⌛The World Awry Series - Sherlock Holmes time travels to the 21st century. Aroace Holmes, platonic/queerplatonic relationship with Watson.

🕰️ The Time Enough Series - Watson has one of those 'spontaneous time travel' diseases causing him to live his life out of order. Bisexual Watson having romantic relationships with Mary and Holmes at different points in his life.

👦🏻 Tabula Rasa - Someone cloned Sherlock Holmes. (I know, I know, you'll have to just trust me on this one)

🤖 What Sleeps Within - Creating an artificial intelligence is difficult. Resurrecting the dead, however, is easy. A cyberpunk future where robots can be powered by human souls. (SH22ndC)

💧 Drop of Water - Holmes comes to terms with his connection to a robot named Watson, and that robot's connection to a man named Watson. (SH22ndC)

🛸 - Watson is a Time Lord - Lovingly intricate series of crossover stories between the Granada series and Doctor Who. A collaboration with @jeremys-come-to-bed-eyes and @fruitviking

Hiatus Stories:

☕ Kingdom of Tea - Victor Trevor is called to the deathbed of his tea-taster, a reclusive Frenchman called Pierre Laurent.

👻 Sinful Lips to the Ghostly Dead - Watson investigates a shady spiritualist medium.

👴🏻 His Brother - Watson and Mycroft are united by a shared grief, and later, a shared joy. 4654 words, Gen

Retirement Stories:

👓 Golden Visions, Are Ye Flown? - Something seems to be wrong with Sherlock Holmes, but Watson is there to take care of him.

Miscellaneous

❤️ Holmes is Where the Heart Is - The eccentric love story of Sherlock and Mycroft's parents.

🧠 Compos Mentis - In which Nigel Bruce Watson and ACD Canon Watson are the same Watson

[fruitviking]

I UPDATED THE HALLOWOODS/TMA CROSSOVER FIC

IT'S A 2024 MIRACLE

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

Annie hesitated, nervously turning the apple in her hands, lowering her gaze. “I must tell you first,” she mumbled, “that I can’t pay your fee, Mr Holmes, b-but I can help in the garden, or –“

„Oh, but lost animal cases are always free of charge,” Holmes said casually, folding the newspaper and throwing it onto the floor next to his armchair. He is, as I have often stated, really a rather brilliant man.

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After the Great War, Holmes and Watson are living a quiet life somewhere in Sussex. The days of great detective work lie in the past, but when a distressed young client asks them for help with finding her lost cat, Holmes and Watson have to solve a case that might turn out to be just beyond their limits.

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: Gen

Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Relationship: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson

Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson

Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Cats, Sussex, Post-Canon, Domestic Fluff, I didn't specify the kind of relationship Holmes and Watson are in, but they are certainly Very Married TM, you can read this as QPR or romance

Tagging the same people as in my last story and a few others, but please let me know if you'd be rather taken off this list!

@transholmes @teaspoonnebula @neverquiteeden @53rdcenturyhero @randomwholocker @sarahthecoat @amypihcs @plaidadder @huamirly @fruitviking @rainbow-person @bestnoncannonship @forever-1895

[amypihcs]

And here we are! I don't drink, i've never got drunk in my life and i don't plan to. But i've witnessed friends of mine being drunk (and drunkenly confessing things, but that's a long story), and i though i needed to get our gentlemen drunk!

There's one headcanon particularly dear to me in this story, and it's about the irregulars aadn, i hope you like it!

I thank my dear friend @louieclamlent for having betaed this fic and @i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end for being such a good friend and listening to my rant and making up HCs together!

Some tags?

@tyrannosaurusnacks @fruitviking @blistering-typhoons @euphoric-cha0s @skyriderwednesday @rainbow-person @cackled0g @usergreenpixel @r2y9s-notartblog @uygfiug

[dathen]

@fruitviking was talking about Holmes watching the bees during the seven hour stakeout in a bush and now it is my firm headcanon that is when his fascination with bees began.

Just before this he was like “You know what’s nice…? flowers”

So he’s stuck for seven hours in a flower bush so stares at the flowers and oh! there are bees now! MUCH more interesting than just the flowers!

And the bees are fascinating and have odd behaviors and he pulls out his magnifying glass to study them up close and is already writing a monograph in his head

As soon as the case is over, he turns to Watson like “Watson aren’t bees great??” to wrap up the parade of non sequiters he’s put this poor man through

[lxgentlefolkcomic]

Info and FAQ (Please read before sending asks)

What is this?

This is the League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk, a comic project based on the premise of Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Think The Avengers, but with characters from Victorian lit.

If you’re familiar with the Alan Moore comic, or the 2003 movie, don’t expect this project to look much like either one. I’m keeping the name, the basic premise, and most but not all of the core cast, and going my own way with all the rest.

Where can I start reading?

For the start of episode 1, click here. For non-canonical bonus material, click here.  I’ll be updating this post with more links as the comic proceeds.

Who’s working on this thing?

The LXGF team consists of:

Chicken (@mayhemchicken-artblog​): Project leader, artist, blog owner, part-time writer

linguisticparadox (@linguisticparadox​): Writer, blog admin

Dathen ( @dathen​, @datheneth on Twitter, Dathen on AO3): Editor, image description writer

L. Spooner (@fruitviking​, @voiceofspoon on Twitter): Writer

@see-arcane​: Writer

Mr. Pinniped (@mrpinniped​, Mr_Pinniped on AO3): Writer

Rosie C. (@absolutely-and-always13​): Writer

Lemur (@drowninginaseaoflemurs​): Writer

The Collector of the Whimsies (@pop-goes-the-weasel​): Writer

Jesterbells (@jesterbells): Writer

Luna: Editor

Drakontissa (@thegoatsongs​): Writer, image description writer

@cattuladaily​: Writer

@severedfeetpics​: Writer

@kouvei​: Writer

@the-constellation-collective: Image description writer

Hiri (@hirilelfwraith): Image description writer

Jade (@riseofthesea​): Image description writer

Do I need to read all the books and stories this is based on?

We’re aiming to make the comic accessible to people who have never read the original works. Reading the stories will enrich your experience with the comic, but it is by no means necessary.

If you’re interested in reading the original works, @linguisticparadox​ compiled a fantastic Google doc with links to all the texts we’re using as inspiration. (at least, all the ones we can currently share without giving away future spoilers... :3c)

How will you be handling [insert issue/plot point/character portrayal from either LoEG or one of the source texts here]?

Hopefully, in a respectful and nuanced fashion. We’re doing our utmost to remain faithful to the source texts we’re drawing from whenever possible, while at the same time avoiding uncritically reproducing the prejudices present in those texts.

What are the guidelines for sending in asks?

Be respectful. This is the “goes without saying” rule, but this is Tumblr, so I’ll say it anyway. Trolls, hate, bad-faith questions, and exclusionism will be deleted.

Read the FAQ. If your question is covered in this post, odds are I’m not going to answer it.

Be patient. I’m only one person, and I’m not always going to be able to answer asks in a timely fashion - or at all. This is my first time running a blog that receives this level of interaction, and I’m still figuring a lot of things out as I go.

Are you looking for guest artists/writers?

Not currently. We’ve talked about this possibility for the future, but as of right now we’re not accepting submissions for new writers. I’ve also had a couple people offer to help with inking/backgrounds, and while I appreciate the offer, I would like to clarify that I do not intend to do either. The comic will remain black and white and sketchy indefinitely.

What characters are part of this?

There are a LOT of characters planned to appear in this thing. I’m working on a separate cast list page, but in the meantime, the core League by the end of Episode 2 will consist of: Mina and Jonathan Harker, Irene Norton (better known as Irene Adler), Dr. John “Jack” Seward, Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde, Ashley Griffin, and Captain Nemo. Additionally, expect to see a wide variety of supporting cast members in roles both large and small, including more official League members to be added down the road.

Why is Jonathan Harker here?

Because he loves his wife!! And I love him. Also, he’s a white-haired kukri-wielding genderqueer possibly-a-cryptid, and how can you NOT put a character like that in your comic?

(Slightly more serious answer: Because this comic is founded almost entirely on spite and self-indulgence, and in my humble opinion the Harkers were done dirty by Alan Moore. I’m a huge Dracula fan thanks to Dracula Daily, and I want to give Jonathan Harker the spotlight I feel he deserves.)

Where can I learn more?

Join the Discord server! We’re discussing the comic, the works that inspired it, Alan Moore’s uhh...questionable creative choices, and more! There’s some bonus art in there, too.

[gilgamushroom]

Empty House over - time to give a shout out to this AMAZING post-Empty House oneshot by @fruitviking featuring just the most cathartic way to resolve all the unspoken interpersonal issues Doyle just kinda skipped over here with Holmes and Watson. Perfect way to end this story. It is canon. To me.