Res ipsa loquitur

Indelible (3037 words) by Resonant
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Aliens Made Them Do It, Dubious Consent, because aliens, Romance, First Time, Second Time, Amnesia, Post-Season/Series 02, goes au after reichenbach, Don't copy to another site
Summary:

They flashed a bright light in John's eyes when it was over, just like in the movies.

Do you ever have stories that are just ... finished, but inert? It's so common for me to do two drafts of a story, enough to stitch all the pieces together, but no matter how many times I hit them with bolts of lightning, they just don't ever sit up and walk. It's the most common end of stories for me.

This one had been lying on that metal table under the lightning rod since 2013, and I'm so so so grateful to fox, who first identified something that made me feel something about it, and to desireearmfeldt, who worked with me as I tried, over and over, to bring that feeling to life.

Unusual Requirements (di Resonant) (4010 words) by TJill
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Slash, Rating: NC17, Romance, First Time, Translation, Italiano | Italian
Summary:

"Se vogliamo fare questa cosa, John, penso che sia giusto dirti che ho. Ehm. Insolite esigenze sessuali."

TJill has done it again!

TJill is continuing this amazing feat of translating stories into Italian! It's so exciting!

DNA (di Resonant) (2127 words) by TJill
Chapters: 1/3
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Romance, Slash, Rating: NC17, Threesome - F/M/M, Italiano | Italian, Translation, First Time, Friends to Lovers
Summary:

Postulato. Non c'è niente di strano in un ragazzo di bell'aspetto che fa molto sesso con molte donne diverse, nessuna delle quali presenta al suo coinquilino.

Nota: per l'amor di Dio, è di Sherlock Holmes che stiamo parlando.

Natural (di Resonant) (3352 words) by TJill
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: HEYER Georgette - Works, The Foundling - Georgette Heyer
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Adolphus "Gilly" Ware/Gideon Ware
Characters: Adolphus "Gilly" Ware, Gideon Ware
Additional Tags: Romance, Regency, Slash, Rating: NC17, Polyamory, First Time, Post-Canon, Italiano | Italian, Translation
Summary:

Ancora una volta, Gilly risolve tutto.

(including the 42-word sequel in the story notes, hooray)

I'm gearing up to move again; now that I don't have to stay in the school district*, I'm looking at a couple of places that are smaller, cheaper, closer to work, and ideally a little less damp.

But of course the idea of touching every single item I own, again, is incredibly intimidating.

So I decided to try packing one box a day.

There's quite a lot of low-hanging fruit -- at least ten boxes that I never got around to unpacking two years ago when we moved here. I may very well bog down when it comes to starting from scratch. But here's two days' worth of progress:

Day 1

Packed: One box from the bedroom. Mostly books and miscellaneous desky stuff.

Discarded: One bag of books and three bags of clothes to Goodwill. Half a recycle bin's worth of paper.

Find of the day: A bunch of little spiral notebooks from the pre-Iowa days, when I used to get Saturday mornings alone to write. Much probably-doomed writing in there, including the title of a Discworld story ("Hard-Boiled Egg") and the summary of a Sherlock story ("Suicide by vampire. At least, that was the plan.") and about 500 words of a story I was going to write about how in an Alpha/Omega universe the end of fertility must be heralded by an Omegapause ("Everybody around him was so goddamned fucking young.").

Day 2

Packed: One box of cookbooks and other non-fragile kitcheny stuff.

Discarded: Another bag of books ready to go to Goodwill, and a garbage bag full of things which stop being edible after being left in a box on the living room floor for two years.

Find of the day: So that's where all the AA batteries were.

* Let's just take a moment to let that sink in. Barring really strange circumstances, I am finished with school districts. School districts will never again play a role in my real estate decisions. I am no longer the parent of a public school student. I have attended my last teacher conference, and probably also my last progress report.

cathalin asks: What story do you most wish someone would write, that for some reason you aren't writing/won't write (original or fannish)? Who would it be about, and what would happen? (And if you can say, why would it be something someone else and not you would write?) Why would you like such a story? What tropes or ideas or etc. would it explore that you wish you could find more of?

I would really like someone else to write the definitive BBC Sherlock "taking account of Mary Morstan" story.

I would like it long and plotty, with canon-typical adventure. I would like it mostly about establishing a relationship of some sort between Mary and Sherlock, since the other two sides of that triangle are well established. I would like the story to have as many surprises about Mary as the canon did.

I would accept a wide range of resolutions, from Mary dead the way she is in book canon to happy settled threesome, but what I want is fifteen thousand words on how they got there, wherever there may be.

And I feel like a real wimp for saying this, but I tried to write it, and last summer's absolutely palpable stew of Mary-hate and Moffatt-hate just made the whole idea of wading into it feel icky.

Not work safe.

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( Fourth and final part )

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Not work safe, did I mention?



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I have mixed feelings about this, but if I'm going to get the Sherlock's Sexual Dysfunction story posted before getting a bunch of new canon to digest, this is the only way I can think of to do it.



It should be OK -- it's pretty much 100% sex or talking about sex, so it's not as if there's any plot for me to mess up and come at in the wrong order ...



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karmageddon prompts: What's your fic unicorn : the story you would read the hell out of, if only it existed?

Oh my. I wish I had started on this earlier!

Guys, this should be a meme. I encourage everyone to answer this question in your journals, because it was all kinds of fun.

As for my story, let's see. It would be BBC Sherlock and John, obviously, since they're the ones I'm in love with at the moment.

It would be published complete, all at once, and it would have pacing on purpose instead of just tension rising and falling depending on how much writing time the author had that day.

It would be satisfyingly long but not so long that a person couldn't read it all in one day.

It would have a slow-burn love story, and the author would understand that coitus interruptus is not the same thing as romantic suspense. The emotional barriers that are there in the canon would be there in the story, or possibly even more so, and it would take actual work to get past them. There would be genuine relationship development, which would continue even after the sex.

There would be enough possibility of emotional misunderstanding to give me some good gut-clenchy moments. The resolution would be solid and satisfying, but not be carried out in the form of a long out-of-character conversation.

The guys would be themselves; I wouldn't be saying to people, "Did you read that AU where Sherlock cares a lot about how other people feel?" But they would be good at what they're good at, too.

Most readers, at this point, say, "There'd be a good case," or, "The other characters we love would be their adorable selves," but honestly, dear readers, I don't care if the entire story takes place in John's bedroom and no other human being is seen, heard, or referred to from start to finish.

John would not be coaxing Sherlock to eat or sleep, as if John were a parent who hadn't quite worked out that one has no control over a toddler's bodily functions. There would be no mention of shopping, washing dishes, tidying, or any sort of chore whatsoever. If there was a pancreas hanging over the towel bar on the first page, there would still be a pancreas hanging over the towel bar on the last.

I'm a sucker for virginity, for John getting to be smarter than Sherlock about some things, and for sexual desperation, and for Sherlock being really, really touch-starved.

John would be strong enough that I could feel happy about his being in a relationship with Sherlock, rather than having the sinking feeling that he was going to wind up flattened by Sherlock's emotional steam-roller.

Possibly there would be sequels.

Enough real life. Let's play a game.

You give me a fannish character I'm reasonably familiar with, and for that person I will give you a hangup. You know: a sexual dysfunction, an unexpected inhibition or aversion, some perfectly ordinary thing he/she simply cannot handle.

If I'm *not* familiar with your character, maybe some other reader will join in.

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We have requests that I'm unable to fill:
Joe Dawson
John Winchester
Reese or Finch
Christopher Chant

Anybody want to take these on?