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update on my fic - life has gotten HORRIFIC recently in multiple ways so it may be a while until I manage to get an update out. please bear with me, I promise it’ll be worth it :)

I've been writing a holmes/watson fic for a while now and I think it's finally time for me to start posting it. I'm very nervous about this one as this fandom is so precious to me and there are already so many amazing works out there. Plus this is a bit of a longer fic than what I've written before, so a lot more effort is going into getting the story right. Also, I'm trying my hand at some sprinklings of smut, which is a bit scary!

Anyways, if you fancy giving the first two chapters a read, they're up on ao3 now. Feedback, as always, is much appreciated!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63030817/chapters/161422138

ok byeeeeeee

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This is a wonderful story about Jeremy Brett. A beautiful man inside and out 🖤

In February 1989, my friends and I travelled to Wyndham's Theatre in London to see "The Secret of Sherlock Holmes" a two hander with Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke - both of whom were on stage for about two hours and held us in rapt attention.

After the play we went to the stage door in hope that we could get our brochures signed. the man went away and was gone about ten minutes. He returned and said "Mr Brett is too fatigued to come out, sorry" we were about to say "Fair enough" when he added "So he asks if you would mind coming to his dressing room to see him?"

Six of us were led into the bowels of the building and the man knocked on the door. The familiar voice said "COME!!!" and we entered. Mr Brett was still in his "death mask" makeup and was sitting with a tea and a fag on a chaise long.

"Gentlemen! Do come in - how very nice of you to come and see me!" he cried. We were all agog. He spent about twenty minutes chatting and signing and my friend Robert C Kew a talented artist and sculptor presented him with an 18" high model he had made. Jeremy later appeared in the TV Times and the model was on his mantle piece at home.

Just then the door was knocked and Edward Harwicke came in "Ah Ted come and meet my friends - and Rob presented him with a model too.

We all agreed as we left that Mr Brett was the greatest gentleman we had ever met - and that day is burned into my memory. Sadly I lost the photo with "Ted" (as I like to call him haha) but have two great shots with the one and only Mr Sherlock Holmes, my favourite incarnation and a wonderful person. EDIT I have added some images of Robert's models - he's seen with Ted

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Holmes: I would die for you. I would kill for you. There is nothing in the world I would not do for you.

Watson: Can you tidy up your paper-

Holmes: No.

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When these videos pop up on my YouTube I always light up with joy but this one took the biscuit

Out of Context Granada Holmes: Solitary Cyclist edition

(more here)

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*pats Sherlock Holmes*

This boy can hold so much neurodivergency.

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RIP Arthur Conan Doyle. You would’ve hated us for still obsessing over a man you hated so much that you had to kill him.

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I just had to watch this and now I gotta live with the implications so now you do too

God. The things that Jeremy’s acting choices add to this character, the whole backstory he’s come up with for Holmes, all the little glimpses they give us of what’s going on beneath the surface - I know I’ve said it before and I say it all the time but I will say it again. Granada Holmes is the Best Holmes.

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rereading canon holmes and realising how acd literally gave no fucks about these men. like

what's ur name again doctor man? something beginning with j? james? meh, i'm sure that's right, whatever.

oh and that villain dude who kills off the beloved hero? james. villain's brother? james. they can all be james for all i care

any sense of coherent timeline? nah cba with this guys

AND THEN the fact that... a whole century of scholars have devoted their lives to decoding all the secret details. when. acd was just out there gratuitously jamesing around.

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I've been writing a holmes/watson fic for a while now and I think it's finally time for me to start posting it. I'm very nervous about this one as this fandom is so precious to me and there are already so many amazing works out there. Plus this is a bit of a longer fic than what I've written before, so a lot more effort is going into getting the story right. Also, I'm trying my hand at some sprinklings of smut, which is a bit scary!

Anyways, if you fancy giving the first two chapters a read, they're up on ao3 now. Feedback, as always, is much appreciated!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63030817/chapters/161422138

ok byeeeeeee

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what ao3 sees when I’m once again back to read my 100th first time and first kiss trope of the same ship

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okay those are two WILDLY DIFFERENT situations

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rereading canon holmes and realising how acd literally gave no fucks about these men. like

what's ur name again doctor man? something beginning with j? james? meh, i'm sure that's right, whatever.

oh and that villain dude who kills off the beloved hero? james. villain's brother? james. they can all be james for all i care

any sense of coherent timeline? nah cba with this guys

AND THEN the fact that... a whole century of scholars have devoted their lives to decoding all the secret details. when. acd was just out there gratuitously jamesing around.

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<3

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(anti)christ on a bike. I promised myself I wouldn't go feral over this again but here we are I guess.

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It’s been exactly three years wtf

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Forgot to post the traditional @holmestice offering, wee Granada wintery errands for the talented @edosianorchids901 :)

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hilarious that Ranma thinks that turning into a girl will kill the romantic tension between Akane and him when shit like this happened practically as soon as he met her