Inspired by the marvellous fic Ravelling by @calaisreno in which both Sherlock and John learn to knit.
The artwork is also for this month’s @sherlockchallenge: Joke
The colourful socks may look like one, but what they signify actually isn’t.
Lineart of an illustration inspired by the wonderful Knittinglock (is that a thing yet? Or is it Yarnlock?) fic Ravelling by @calaisreno
“Night”
Inspired by the corresponding May Prompt by @calaisreno and this lovely ficlet by @gaylilsherlock
It’s also for this month’s @sherlockchallenge : Ink
Inspired by the fabulous The Wizard of Baker Street by @calaisreno in which Sherlock is a down-on-his-luck wizard and John a cat (at least some of the time).
Thank you, @arwamachine , for tagging me! (I think someone else did as well, but I've forgotten who.) In any case, I think you for thinking of me.
Sometimes the universe winks at you, just to let you know.
Summary: John and Sherlock meet again, years after they were school boys together. John hasn't forgotten why he still hates Sherlock Holmes.
Author note: I certainly had a lot of fun writing this. Glad so many people loved it!
I've written 123 stories, so there are bound to be a few that are overlooked. Here are two written a while ago that might do better now than they did then.
Summary: Sherlock finds himself in a parallel world where he is supposedly dead.
I love parallel world stories, but neither of the ones I've written (Q-Axis and this one) have been big hits, though they have their fans. This one is sort of cracky towards the end, but also heart-rending. Happy ending, John and Sherlock in the same universe.
At any rate, I am currently writing another one for this series: Offset.
Summary: At night, anything you can imagine can happen in the woods.
One of the very early stories I wrote on AO3, where Sherlock is a magical creature discovered by a lonely boy, John Watson. About growing up, losing the magic of childhood, and rediscovering love when you least expect it.
I don't know who else has done this, but would love to know the hidden gems of other writers: @discordantwords @jobooksncoffee @raina-at @helloliriels @khorazir @jrow @vulpesmellifera
Today is my anniversary. Three years ago today I received an invitation to join @AO3. At that point I'd been reading fanfiction there for three months.
Will you think that I'm weird if I tell you that I'd been writing fanfiction for most of my life, but never knew that other people did?
I used to write original fiction and belonged to an online writing community for a couple years. Fanfiction was a guilty pleasure that I did not share.
I loved BBC Sherlock when I first watched it, but that wasn't until 2016. (No, I wasn't living on a desert island or in a bomb shelter; I just never watched television from 2010-2015.) I spent a year writing about the show (most of it rubbish, never to see the light of day), and then accidentally discovered that other people were doing this too.
The first fandom story I read on AO3 was Performance in a Leading Role by @madlori My oldest bookmark is When a Man is Wrong by @plantsareneat-blog. The first story I downloaded to my ipad was Scar Tissue by @jbaillier.
I must have read several hundred stories in the first six months, all of them opening my mind to new possibilities for what fanfiction could be.
I posted my first story, Disgrace, on 13 July 2018. It's an ACD story because that's the fandom I started in. My next story, Concurrence, was my first step into writing within the BBC fandom. It's a time travel story, BBC Sherlock meets Victorian Watson. My first completely BBC story was an apocalyptic short called Eye of the Storm.
Today have 96 stories posted on AO3 and have written over 1 million words there. I look at those who have been around longer than I and hope my career will be as long and creatively happy as theirs.
On AO3 I have encountered some of the best writing I've read: wonderful characterization, incredible plots, use of language whose beauty makes me weep. Fanfiction is empowering, part of a long literary tradition, and gives a voice to marginalized people. It involves everyone from teens to old people like me, people with literary training and college degrees, people still in high school, and people of any age or background who write just because they love stories. Here are doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, librarians, students, stay-at-home parents, artists-- people who go to work or school every day, come home and read stories, write stories, and transform ideas into art.
I am deeply grateful to the Sherlock community and the AO3 volunteers that make the site such a wonderful place to share stories, to the readers and writers who inspire me.
You are a wonderful writer and I’m so glad you ended up here!!
Inspired by the amazing fic While You Were Dead by @calaisreno
