Retirement!Holmes/Watson ahhh. Made these for Holmestice on LJ. My recipient was the brilliant @mistyzeo. They mentioned a couple of things they’d like to see in their gift, and I picked ‘snow’.
Special thanks to Holmestice Mods for running this event! xo
Hey friend, I sure do. The next episode of the Three Patch Podcast is all about gender-swapped femlock, and I’ve been delving into both femlock and femslash art and fic.
Favorite Femlock
The Witch of
Hazelmere by Ellipsical, 3 k, explicit. When I was first sent to live
with you at Hazelmere they warned me you were a witch.
Harpooned by okapi, 4 work, teen to
mature. Sentinel & Guide universe. Sentinel Sherlock and Guide John cross
paths on a crowded Underground platform. They meet again the next day at
Bart’s.
Keeping
Secrets by hubblegleeflower, 3 k, explicit. Hiding. John did try, of course she did. She tried to hide, and
tried to hide the fact that she was hiding. She thinks, now, that she must have
known it wouldn’t work, on some level. Once she and Sherlock had crossed that
line—finally—discovery was hardly even a risk. It was a certainty. But she
tried anyway.
For scientific purposes. Obviously. by shamelessmash, 8 k, explicit. Sherlock put something in the shampoo, it
dyed John’s hair red and she’s pissed. Somehow that leads to hot sex in the
sitting room chairs.
In the Redby magikspell, 3 k, explicit. “Uteri are so terribly boring,” Sherlock
announces several minutes later, closing her laptop and collapsing back on the
sofa. Femlock! PWP but with
humour and feelings. Sherlock is in agony
and John knows the best cure for cramps.
How the mouth changes its shapeby
breathedout, 132 k, explicit, 1955 AU. When someone is murdered in the washroom
of the city’s most notorious lesbian club, the investigation will lead both
Sherlock and Johnnie to reconsider their assumptions about themselves, each
other, and the world in which they live.
No Bangs Without Foreign Office Approvalby
reckonedrightly, 217 k, explicit, 1942 AU. Joan Watson knows what it is to keep
a secret, but she isn’t expecting to be recruited into the clandestine world of
espionage. Nor is she prepared to meet Sherlock Holmes, a former private
detective who has by her own admission ruined her own life at least three times
over—and who has a murder to solve in Occupied France.
Making the Cutby
testosterone_tea, 10 k, mature. Sherlock is genderfluid, but hasn’t told
anybody yet, afraid that they wouldn’t be accepted. However, feelings of
dysphoria make it harder and harder to hide. One day things get slightly out of
hand… will John accept Sherlock the way they really are? AFAB Genderfluid
Sherlock and Fem!John.
She’s
got you high and you don’t even know yetby consultinggalpals (sansa_undergrind), 5 k, explicit. The
room was silent but for the soft snicks of the scissors and the women’s twin
even breaths. John was concentrating on the task at hand, but couldn’t help
noticing how relaxed and pliant Sherlock was under her fingertips.
I’m going to add on to shamelessly self-promote my two femlock ficlets:
Long Fingers, Short Nails(221 words, teen) Does Sherlock keep her fingernails short because she’s a violinist, or a lesbian, or both?
Princess Sherlock and the Pea (778 words, rated G) Once upon a time there was a clever princess named Sherlock. The king and queen wanted their daughter to marry a royal prince. Princess Sherlock, however, was adamantly opposed to the idea. “Princes are not my area,” she said.
Tumblr likes to spin its wheels and spend time yelling at each other, so here’s a nice comprehensive guide. Five Things You Can Do Now That You Know We Were Serious About The Antisemitism:
1) Accept that if you’re in this to be an ally, you’re going to have a tough road ahead of you. We’re traditionally very wary of outsiders in our spaces because when we welcome them, well … this happens. In fact, if you want to convert to Judaism, you traditionally get rejected three times, just to make sure you’re serious and not shitting with us. Expect wariness. Expect to get your feelings hurt, because a lot of us are very raw right now. Stick with us anyway–once we know you’re not just bandwagoning us, you’re going to end up with a lot of friends who are relying on you. Nobody said allyship was easy.
2) Learn about Judaism. Note that I DO NOT MEAN LEARNING WITH INTENTION TO CONVERT. We don’t proselytize and it would be against Torah for me to even suggest it. What I mean here is, you can’t call bullshit if you don’t know what we’re about. Some good basic resources are The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred Kolatch; My Jewish Learning; and for a strict Orthodox standpoint, Chabad. You’ll find that some things in these sources contradict each other. That’s pretty par for the course in Judaism; we don’t have a single dogma or point of view.
3) Consider calling a local synagogue and asking if they have volunteer work for a gentile ally. Introduce yourself, explain (briefly) what got your attention, and offer your services–to stand outside during services, to walk folks to and from shul (this is particularly important in Orthodox communities, where driving on Shabbat is forbidden), hell, to help stuff envelopes for whatever vigil or service they may be holding in memoriam. Anything will help.
4) You may wish to make a donation to a local synagogue or Jewish charity. I strongly recommend the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), which is a Jewish charity focused on combating antisemitism. Jews traditionally give monetary gifts in sums of $18, which corresponds to the numeric value of the word “chai,” or “life.” The last time this happened I made a post about this tradition and got accused of being a Nazi because of the whole 1-8 A-H thing, so let’s just nip that right in the bud: yes, we know. It’s a horrible coincidence. We’re not giving up a few-thousand-year-old tradition because of some dipshit with a bad moustache. If you can’t afford $18, consider moving the decimal over and donating in multiples of 18, like $3.60. Your meaning will still be perfectly clear, and anything helps. If you wish to make a donation in memory/in honor (which many synagogues appreciate), I suggest either choosing the name of one of the shooting victims–giving tzedakah, or charity, in their names is considered a great mitzvah and a blessing to their families–or using the phrase “am Yisrael chai.” It means “Israel lives.” Although the country in the MENA region is called Israel, this is not what the phrase refers to–the traditional patriarch of Judaism was named Jacob, and renamed as Israel following a wrestling match with a messenger of G-d. To say “am Yisrael chai” is to say his people, that is, the Jewish people, live.
And on that note …
5) In the coming days and weeks, you’re going to see a lot of people making this about Israel or Zionism. Please tell them to shut the fuck up. Israel, Zionism, and Jews are three completely different, albeit related, things. To wit: Israel is a geopolitical country situated on the site of our ancestral homeland and currently headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Zionism is the belief that Jews deserve a safe homeland; and Jews are a group of people spread across six continents and most countries who are united by a common group of ancestors from the Levant (the part of the world now occupied by the geopolitical entity known as Israel). Saying the victims of this shooting had anything to do with the political situation in Israel would be like saying I, personally, am responsible for Vladimir Putin because I have a Russian ancestor. I speak exactly two words of Russian, have never been to Russia, have no family left living there (and haven’t for four generations), but I’m totally responsible for Russia. You see how ridiculous that sounds? The same applies to Jews and Israel. Please, please, PLEASE do not conflate this event with Israeli politics. I’m not saying Israeli politics aren’t a topic worth discussing–I’m saying this is not a discussion they belong in. Don’t let the powers that be (or the alt-right sleaze that sucks the dicks of the powers that be) distract from the topic at hand, which is “out of control guns meet out of control xenophobia and antisemitism,” by throwing OMG ISRAEL AND ZIONISM AND GLOBALISM into the mix.
And finally: yes, gentiles, this is okay for you to reblog. In fact I encourage it. And I will answer any questions you have to the best of my ability, if they’re asked in good faith. Please just follow the most basic tenet of Judaism, which is: don’t be a dick.
If you’re ready to stand and help, now is the time.
@la-bete-noire brought Billie Eilish’s “You Should See Me In A Crown” to my attention, and now I’m 100% convinced she’s a huge Moriarty fan.
WARNING: if you have a fear or disgust of spiders, do NOT watch this video! Lyrics under the cut.
Bite my tongue, bide my time Wearing a warning sign Wait ‘til the world is mine Visions I vandalize Cold in my kingdom size Fell for these ocean eyes
You should see me in a crown I’m gonna run this nothing town Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by You should see me in a crown Your silence is my favorite sound Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by (one)
Count my cards, watch them fall Blood on a marble wall I like the way they all Scream Tell me which one is worse Living or dying first Sleeping inside a hearse I don’t dream
You say Come over baby I think you’re pretty I’m okay I’m not your baby If you think I’m pretty
You should see me in a crown I’m gonna run this nothing town Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by You should see me in a crown Your silence is my favorite sound Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by (one)
Crown I’m gonna run this nothing town Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by You should see me in a crown Your silence is my favorite sound Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by (one)
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