9:11pm: "Oh for Fawkes Sake!" (Holmes Minor Monthly Prompt, November 2016) Title: Oh for Fawkes Sake! Author: gardnerhill Form/Wordcount: 500 Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson Rating: G Warnings/Content: None Summary: Those who ignore history… Author’s Notes: For the Holmes Minor November 2016 prompt: Fireworks
1:35pm: "L’arbore di Diana (In Diana’s Garden)" (ACD, Vampire!Holmes 'Verse, Rated PG) Title: L’arbore di Diana (In Diana’s Garden) Author: gardnerhill Fandom: ACD Holmes (“Vermilion Problem” series) Pairing: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson Word Count: 6666 Rating: PG (mention of blood) Warning: Mention of blood. Summary: When Diana and Amore confront each other, there can be only one winner. Author's Notes: For the LJ Comm Spook Me October 2016 Halloween Ficathon. A story in my “Vermilion Problem” Vampire!Holmes series. Two visual aids provided by the mod can be found here: Vampyre /// Vampyre Hunter
The July Watson's Woes Promptfest (JWP) 2016 is over, and I join the few, the proud, the perfect scores! (finished every entry under the 24-hr deadline, also used all the amnesty prompts).
The icon is bestowed on me for killing Watson in the very first story on the very first day. Go me! (He got better.)
List of stories and their locations, amnesty prompt included, in my master post for the 2016 JWP.
JWP 2016 Personal Stats Word Count for July: 20,858 Word Count for August Amnesty: 2,301 Longest entry during July: 2027 words Shortest entry: 100-word drabble Stories by Holmes 'Verses (includes crossovers) with word-count: ACD Canon/Granada: 13 (7400) Elementary: 5 (4973) BBC Sherlock: 2 (1283) Great Mouse Detective: 2 (969) BBC Radio One: 1 (221) Ritchie Films: 1 (165) My Dearly Beloved Detective (Russian 1980 female-cast film): 1 (563) - my first story in this 'verse 2013 Russian SH series: 1 (338) Watson and Holmes (comic book): 1 (100) Duck-Tective (Gravity Falls): 1 (400) Assorted AUs (vampires, pirates, animals, Hawaiian): 4 (5508)
Since the August Amnesty piece was a mishmash of about 50 Holmes 'verses, I am not including it in the stats.
Alas, this year I did not manage to do a Without a Clue story, nor add to my Bakerstown Western AU. Oh well - there's always the monthly prompts.
8:57pm: "I Heard the AU Call My Name" (Multi-Verse, 2016 JWP Amnesty Prompts, Rated G) Title: I Heard the AU Call My Name Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Lots. Word Count: 2301 Rating: G Warning: No human being can withstand this much crack. Summary: Boys? Dad wants a word with you. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest Amnesty – a 221b for each of the 10 Amnesty prompts, in order, to tell the story: - Dogs and cats turning detective: whether it's an actual animal AU, a sleuth hound, a clever animal providing assistance in a case, or a visit with Basil of Baker Street, include an animal in this entry. - The arts: music H&W seem to agree on, painting not so much. - Welcome to the neighbourhood: Outsider fic from the POV of someone else living near 221 Baker Street. - Use Your Words: Use all three words in your entry: childhood, old age, sore feet. - The Sea! An adventure on the sea, at the sea, or under the sea. Granted, Captain Watson isn't a navy captain, but still... - The show at the end of the pier. - Quarantine. A situation involving a dangerous/infectious/rare disease and there must be a quarantine - does John Watson have to save Sherlock Holmes or vice versa? Or what else? - Genre Shift: Sherlock Holmes as any genre other than mystery/crime drama. (E.G. musical, romantic comedy, sci-fi, horror...) - What's a Character Like You doing in a Place like 221B? : Crossover happens. - That's All Folks: Let the end be the beginning (or the entirety) of today's entry.
1:43pm: "Huzzah!" (Elementary, 2016 JWP Prompt #31, Rated G) Title: Huzzah! Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Elementary Word Count: 500 Rating: G Warning: None. Summary: Joan Watson is a huge geek girl – tell ME she isn’t a Rennie too. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #31, Once More, With Feeling: Music has always had a major role in the lives of the Baker Street denizens. Use or allude to some form of music in your offering. Further Note: The song used in today’s story, “Pour Your Brother” by Heather James Alexander, can be found here. (The flatulence song briefly mentioned by Sherlock can be found here.) This story is an expansion of a scene briefly mentioned in a previous story, Heel Turn.
9:50am: "Club Talk" (ACD or Granada or Howard&Crawford, 2016 JWP Prompt #30, Rated G) Title: Club Talk Author: gardnerhill Fandom: ACD (or Granada, or the Ronald Howard/H. Marion Crawford series) Word Count: 335 Rating: G Warning: None. Summary: Just two men comparing their home lives. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #30, "Why exactly do you need chloroform at 2am?"
2:19pm: "Making a Baker" ("A Study In Crimson" pirate AU, 2016 JWP Prompt #29, Rated G) Title: Making a Baker Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (“A Study In Crimson” pirate AU) Word Count: 1073 Rating: G Warning: Some minor bloodshed. Summary: Piracy isn’t just drinking rum, waving a cutlass, and saying “Arr.” (A story in my A Study in Crimson pirate AU.) Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #29, Arr! Arr! ARRR! Arr! Arr! Send Holmes and/or Watson down to the dockyards, or away to sea, or aboard a ship. Sinister cargo, sinister crew? Does a sailor come to them for help, or is there mischief brewing down at the harbour warehouses? It's up to you! Further Note: I’d have been gullied for sure by several WW shipmates if I let this prompt pass without a return to the good ship Baker.
10:21pm: "Like Water Off a Detective’s Back" (Gravity Falls, 2016 JWP Prompt #28, Rated G) Title: Like Water Off a Detective’s Back Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Gravity Falls (The “Duck-Tective” show-within-a-show from the animated series) Word Count: 400 Rating: G Warning: Too hot and tired to write sanely. Summary: Some folks are just better adapted to English weather than others. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #28, "In July the sun is hot; is it shining? No it's not." - Flanders & Swann: A song of the weather. Further Note: The “Duck-tective” shorts from Gravity Falls can all be seen in this clip.
9:41pm: "Disambiguation" (Elementary, 2016 JWP Prompt #27, Rated G) Title: Disambiguation Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Elementary Word Count: 585 Rating: G Warning: None Summary: Their communication skills are unparalleled in their perfection. Nearly. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #27, Thx 4 Nothing: Holmes has never been known to write letters where a telegram would serve, and Sherlock would rather text than talk. But the easy way is not always the best way. Show a time where a communication shortcut did more harm than good.
8:55pm: "What I Walk Through For You" (Ritchie!Verse, 2016 JWP Prompt #26, Rated G) Title: What I Walk Through For You Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Ritchie!Verse Word Count: 165 Rating: G Warning: None Summary: Any half-decent Wiccan priestess would declare them married. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #26,Elementally, My Dear Watson: Earth/Air/Fire/Water. Involve one or more of them in your entry today.
8:20pm: POOF (ACD + 100% Pure Crack, 2016 JWP Prompt #25, Rated G) Title: POOF Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Assorted) / Calvin & Hobbes Word Count: 839 Rating: G Warning: Crack-a-doodle-doo. Done without a poof-reader. Summary: Some kids should really put their toys away when they’re done. Someone could find them. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #25, Trope Trainwreck!:
9:06am: "Poetic License" (2013 Russian films, 2016 JWP Prompt #24, Rated G) Title: Poetic License Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (2013 Russian films starring Igor Petrenko & Andrei Panin) Word Count: 338 Rating: G Warning: Dead bodies. Summary: Watson is a better writer than most people take him to be. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #24, “Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist” (from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)--use this in the entry today, either at the beginning, end, or middle.
3:07pm: "Sauce for the Gander" (ACD, "Wounded Warriors" series, 2016 JWP Prompt #23, Rated G) Title: Sauce for the Gander Author: gardnerhill Fandom: ACD, my Wounded Warriors series Word Count: 650 Rating: G Warning: Paranomasia. Summary: Fun and games in Aldershot. A Watson-POV of a scene from this story from my "Wounded Warriors" series. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #23, The Lowest and Highest Form of Humour: Use a pun in your entry today.
9:22pm: "Acorns" (ACD, 2016 JWP Prompt #22, Rated G) Title: Acorns Author: gardnerhill Fandom: ACD (Baring-Gould Timeline) Pairing:None Word Count: 200 Rating: G Warning: You may get feels on this ride. Summary: Both became magnificent oaks. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #22, Shine Yer Shoes Guvnor? Take a child’s-eye view of Holmes and/or Watson or their world, in any version. It can be the POV of an Irregular, the child of a wealthy client, Olivia Flaversham, or Young Sherlock Holmes for that matter.
4:24pm: "À Paris (In Paris)" (ACD, "Oubliette" series, 2016 JWP Prompt #20, Rated G) Title: À Paris (In Paris) Author: gardnerhill Fandom: ACD (“Oubliette” series) Word Count: 811 Rating: G Warning: None. Summary: Paris; city of lights, city of romance, city of murder. A story in my Oubliette series. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #21, 21 Song Salute: Choose one of the following songs/song titles to inspire your story today. (I chose to use them all.)
1. You will be mine 2. April in Paris 3. Dream Dancing 4. Forgive and Forget 5. Make me Rainbows 6. Behind the Broken Glass 7. Old Devil Moon 8. You saw me standing alone 9. The man that got away 10. Someone to watch over me 11. Just around the corner 12. A bedtime story 13. I've got it bad and that ain't good 14. Starlight in your eyes 15. Afternoon in Paris 16. Stranger in Paradise 17. Whisper Not 18. Stolen Moments 19. Your warm embrace 20. Song in the Moonlight 21. Murder by Numbers
2:58pm: "We Now Afloat" (Watson and Holmes, 2016 JWP Prompt #20, Rated G) Title: We Now Afloat Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Watson and Holmes (Comic) Word Count: 100 Rating: G Warning: Mention of infant death. Summary: Jon Watson had a choice to stay out of it. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #20, "There is a tide in the affairs of men" - Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
I could have stayed out of it.
I had a normal life in the E.R., a normal medical intern doing normal work. I could have written off that poor little lost girl as just another Jane Doe, victim of poverty and neglect.
But this short dude with a white fedora strides into my domain and takes it over with an authority I’m only trying to attain – and with the work he’s doing I saw a glimmer of hope that some justice will be found for that tiny patient left in a Dumpster.
4:55pm: "Five Things That Should Have Happened in Canon" (ACD / BBC Sherlock, 2016 JWP Prompt #19, Rated G) Title: Five Things That Should Have Happened in Canon, and One That Should Have Stuck To Canon Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD, BBC Sherlock) Word Count: 1062 Rating: G Warning: Serious Canon divergence, as well as Moffat contempt. Summary: Five ACD Stories that Should Have Diverged from Canon, and One Adaptation that Should Have Stuck to ACD Canon Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #19, Great Minds Think Alike: So many of you provided wonderful prompts along the lines of "AU", it would be criminal not to let you choose from among the myriad visions. Pick one or more of the following and have fun! …My selection, How It Should Have Ended.
7:25am: "Couerier" (ACD, WWI Era, 2016 JWP Prompt #18, Rated G) Title: Couerier Author: gardnerhill Fandom: ACD (WWI Era) Word Count: 279 Rating: G Warning: You may get feels on this ride. Summary: Another missive. A sequel to Casualty Clearing Station 59. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #18, From "Handwritten" by The Gaslight Anthem: And with this pen, I thee wed / From my heart to your distress
9:04pm: "Or Not" (BBC Radio One Production, 2016 JWP Prompt #17, Rated G) Title: Or Not Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (BBC Radio One’s 1980s comprehensive Canon series) Word Count: Rating: G Warning: Summary: You know that scene in Enter the Dragon where Bruce Lee is up against a warlord’s entire army? Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #17, A Team Effort: Teamwork saves the day, or not. Further Note: The BBC Radio One adaptation of “The Final Problem” is spectacular, especially the first half that goes back-and-forth between Holmes and the police’s strategy meeting and Professor Moriarty holding his own “business” meeting at the same time.
10:02am: "Screening the Clients" (Great Mouse Detective/Basil of Baker Street, 2016 JWP Prompt #16, Rated G) Title: Screening the Clients Author: gardnerhill Fandom: Great Mouse Detective/Basil of Baker Street Word Count: 400 Rating: G Warning: Crossover in progress. Summary: They don’t accept all of them. Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #16, ”I Feel A Bit Prouder Knowing Sherlock Holmes Is British”: Have a character (or characters) from another British work crop up in some way in your offering.
