by @deeplovesleep
YOU ARE THE REASON
trying on a metaphor
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Kaledo Art

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by @deeplovesleep
Start the day off
Solace and Joy, 78: "Morpheus" (a 221b)
Fluffbruary (Infinifluff) 11-14-24
Summary: In the arms of Morpheus, Sherlock finally learns to sleep.
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When we started sharing a bed I never expected to sleep the night through. After all, I almost never had before. Yet by some happy spell, hour after hour—barring the frequent, delectable waking spells—I slept, cuddled up with him. It was ecstasy.
After some weeks we found a pattern, or I finally discerned one: our best sustained slumber came from spooning. We divided it mostly evenly, as we did other pleasures, and so smoothly that I didn’t wake when we turned over in the night. Only I’d drift off lying on my left side, John flush against my back, his right arm holding me to him, right hand over my heart. Then I’d wake up on my right side, my left arm holding him close. It made for some delay in getting to the toilet, as neither wanted to wake the other too early.
The pattern has become our preference. There are variations, of course. Alone, John falls asleep on his left side, his right hand clasping his own heart, and I remember how he’d been as protective of it as I’d been of my own. How long might we have gone on sleeping alone, if we hadn’t stopped guarding our hearts?
But I tend not to fall asleep without him—actually, it never happens. Why would I bother?
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Fluffbruary prompts for today: cuddle, happy, spell. Also: bookshelves :)
Mid-November--not sure which day--is my BBC-Sherlock anniversary. In 2014, I fell into the magic of this fandom, cursing the while: "I won't have my brain to myself for at least three months, dammit," I thought. Joke's on me: make that ten years. Laugh along with me?
Thanks for rebloggin'!
@totallysilvergirl, It should have been silver, not Gold. That said, I ihope you will still be weaving your magic in the fandom for many, many years to come.
Some much needed fluff!!!! 🥈and 10 yrs?!?! We're the lucky ones!! 🩶🩶🩶 xoxo
Happy Fandomversary!!! @totallysilvergirl
Thank you @7-percent @ghostofnuggetspast @calaisreno @meetinginsamarra @helloliriels @lisbeth-kk
It's a wonderful alternate reality to be stuck in, truly.
I can’t believe he won
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Category: M/M Fandom: House M.D.
Relationship: Gregory House/James Wilson
Characters:
Gregory House
James Wilson
Lisa Cuddy
Allison Cameron
Robert Chase
Eric Foreman
John House
Blythe House
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Other HELP Committee members
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Angst with a Happy Ending
Type 1 Diabetes
U.S. Healthcare System
American Dream - Freeform
Set After COVID
House/Wilson Modern Setting
Challenges of a Medical Professional
Insurance Issues
YouTube
Youtuber - Freeform
Child Abandonment
Not a Doctor
Commentary on the U.S. Healthcare System
Open Heart Surgery
Hurt/Comfort
Different Backgrounds
Homophobia
Toxic Parenting
Reverse Canon
John House is Nice While Blythe Isn't
LGBTQ Themes
Note: This story is written for personal expression. Racial Profiling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Category: M/M Fandom: House M.D.
Relationship: Gregory House/James Wilson
Characters:
Gregory House
James Wilson
Lisa Cuddy
Allison Cameron
Robert Chase
Eric Foreman
John House
Blythe House
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Other HELP Committee members
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Angst with a Happy Ending
Type 1 Diabetes
U.S. Healthcare System
American Dream - Freeform
Set After COVID
House/Wilson Modern Setting
Challenges of a Medical Professional
Insurance Issues
YouTube
Youtuber - Freeform
Child Abandonment
Not a Doctor
Commentary on the U.S. Healthcare System
Open Heart Surgery
Hurt/Comfort
Different Backgrounds
Homophobia
Toxic Parenting
Reverse Canon
John House is Nice While Blythe Isn't
LGBTQ Themes
Note: This story is written for personal expression. Racial Profiling
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
John should have known better; time to do some damage control over last night. It would help if he actually remembered what he's said or done, though…?
Our boys head out for some shopping and a bit of feigned normalcy.
But once the hour becomes late and distractions run out…
Poor Sherlock
My fanfic A Broken System
Rating:
Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning:
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category:
M/M
Fandom:
House M.D.
Relationship:
Gregory House/James Wilson
Characters:
Gregory House
James Wilson
Lisa Cuddy
Alson Cameron
Robert Chase
Eric Foreman
John House
Blythe House
Sen Bernie Sanders
other HELP Committee members
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Angst with a Happy Ending
Type 1 Diabetes
US Healthcare system
American Dream - Freeform
Set after Covid
House/Wilson modern setting
Challenges of a medical professional
Insurance shit
YouTube
Youtuber - Freeform
Child Abandonment
not a doctor
its a commentary on the US healthcare system
open heart surgery
Hurt/Comfort
different background
Homophobia
toxic parenting
reverse canon
John House is nice
while Blythe isn't
LGBTQ Themes
If your a House MD fan cheek out my new fanfic examining the US Healthcare system: A Broken System
Rating:
Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning:
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category:
M/M
Fandom:
House M.D.
Relationship:
Gregory House/James Wilson
Characters:
Gregory House
James Wilson
Lisa Cuddy
Alson Cameron
Robert Chase
Eric Foreman
John House
Blythe House
Sen Bernie Sanders
other HELP Committee members
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Angst with a Happy Ending
Type 1 Diabetes
US Healthcare system
American Dream - Freeform
Set after Covid
House/Wilson modern setting
Challenges of a medical professional
Insurance shit
YouTube
Youtuber - Freeform
Child Abandonment
not a doctor
its a commentary on the US healthcare system
open heart surgery
Hurt/Comfort
different background
Homophobia
toxic parenting
reverse canon
John House is nice
while Blythe isn't
LGBTQ Themes
SHEIN and Temu aren't the innocent, budget friendly alternatives you may think them to be. They're both companies rooted in exploitative, inhumane business practices, including dehumanising working conditions and slave labour. There's a viral video going around that shows a large amount of Temu factory workers, barely clothed and being observed by security guards, as they sort through thousands upon thousands of packages.
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Happy birthday my baby boy <3 I love you 💗💋
Happy birthday Dr House
and why his husband has a wooden cane
Reblog if you love AO3 and appreciate their volunteers who are working harder than God, fighting battle after battle, making sure the place that is a safe space for every fandom is staying up and running for all of us
I'd do this every day if it helped Ao3
Happy May Day or international Labor Day🧑🎨👷🧑✈️🧑💻👩🎨👷👨🎤🧑🍳👩🍳👨🍳
Crossover, fusion or AU or all of the above...?
Fandom is full of overlapping and difficult-to-define terms. The differences between crossovers, fusions and AUs is one conundrum that keeps on interesting me.
An AU we can all recognise, right? Let’s take an example: the spectacular Gimme Shelter by @sincewhendoyoucallme-john. John and Sherlock are not in London, it’s not the year 20XX and they are not a consulting detective and his blogger. It’s an AU – easy peasy. But, looking at the tag list we find: “Blue Crush fusion if you squint really hard”. In this context I assume it means that a setting, or some other worldbuilding elements may have been inspired by/borrowed from Blue Crush, but we don’t have Blue Crush characters showing up or the story of the film being repeated. What is the difference between writing something inspired by a thing, and a story being a fusion of two things?
Let’s take another example: Skeletons by flawedamythyst. I don’t want to offer any hints as to which universe it borrows from (you should all go read the story, it’s wonderful!) but I will mention that there are characters from that universe showing up. In the story, John and Sherlock also literally visit that other world. Would this, then, make it a crossover?
Could it be that all crossovers could be described as fusions, but not all fusions are crossovers?
Third example: The Grating Roar by @engazed (which has me completely hooked at the moment). Original premise, future setting, nothing borrowed from anyone else’s works (except for BBC Sherlock, of course). An AU with no fusion elements, amirite? Not a crossover, not a fusion.
In a future fic project, I am borrowing a world created by others, and mentioning characters from it, but also using OCs and a settings the types of which have been featured in this original world but which do not specifically exist outside of my fic. The borrowed canon characters do not meet our leading gentlemen. Crossover, fusion or both?
I would be fascinated to hear how people define these things.
Does it really matter what it’s called? All fan fiction is actually AU because it involves things that didn’t happen in books or on the screen. Fusion- the merging of two different stories would apply to all fan fiction written using that character on Spongebob’s screen above- because it’s a fusion of the original ACD canon and a modern day setting of Mofftiss. Cross-over? I suppose when Thor and Doctor Steven Strange start showing up in a Sherlock story… I used to think I would only write Canon Sherlock- but (as pointed out above) my whole writing opus is actually an AC because it isn’t Victorian. And a lot of it BECAME AU when Mofftiss threw in the weird wonders of Series 3 and 4, after I had written a more ACD compliant backstory for the Holmes Brothers.
@7-percent but did it become AU, or just canon divergence? If the basic elements of the BBC universe are still there and you haven’t thrown in, say, wizards, I wouldn’t call it AU. Unless (as you pointed out) we want to start calling everything AU that isn’t just an episode transcript.
I like semantics, so I semanticise. (that’s not even a word, is it?) I gotta know so I can tag correctly.
Oh, good discussion, I’ve wondered myself about this too. I think “fusion” is an umbrella term, perhaps used when the limits are hard to define. I called The Darkness Within, So Close a crossover because it has characters from two different universes interacting (Sherlock x Broadchurch). But the action is set as a continuation of canon (from both shows), albeit with some divergence from canon - but not enough to warrant a proper “canon divergence” label (although maybe I should tag it, now that I think of it). I definitely classify Skeletons as a crossover for this same reason.
For me, an AU is when your characters take over the roles in another universe. If Sherlock and John had become Alex and Ellie in TDWSC, then it would have been an AU. Taking the characters from their physical context in canon and placing them in another universe is what constitutes an AU, I would argue. So, The Grating Roar and Gimme Shelter are clearly AUs (even if in TGR Sherlock is still a consulting detective). I’m writing an AU where characters from The Bodyguard are replaced by those from BBC Sherlock (guess who gets to be Whitney Houston). So, a clear case of AU. DSMT is an AU because it’s a different first meeting and also complete, utter crack.
Then, canon divergence is, in its most simple to identify version, those stories where fanfic writers said ‘screw this, I’m doing it differently’ but don’t alter the basic premises of the canon - John is still a wounded army doctor back from Afghanistan, Sherlock is still a consulting detective, they solve cases in London, and everybody else is, well, themselves. If it’s divergence, it must diverge from something that is already established, right?
Of course, the difficulties arise from the in-between. And the definition of what canon is. @7-percent writes backstories compliant with ACD’s canon and (as much as possible) BBC Sherlock’s while Mofftiss throws curve balls at the universe, so at some point it becomes canon divergence from BBC Sherlock’s but not necessarily from ACDs (because the latter is a closed process and therefore easier to write and explore, while BBC Sherlock is still evolving within a living fandom - who the hell could predict Eurus?). So, some stories might not be canon divergent until a new series comes out (actually, a lot of stories are like this).
So, what to call @jbaillier‘s future story? The ‘fusion’ umbrella term might be a good one, but consider: are John and Sherlock taking over roles that belong to characters that existed in that universe? That would fall under AU. Or do they keep their basic roles as consulting detective/army doctor from canon but interacting with characters from another world (regardless of if they exist in the original story or if they are OCs - they still belong to that universe, not BBC Sherlock’s)? Then I’d be tempted to call it a crossover. Given that it’s placed in the future, I’d be less tempted to call this a crossover, though - depends on how the backstory is written, I guess. Then, I think fusion is actually a good term, since it’s a concoction using elements from different worlds in a way that is not clear-cut crossover or pure AU.
Good grief, what a long rambling, sorry about that. Probably didn’t help one bit, lol.
Are you kidding @shiplocks-of-love this is extremely helpful in that I am seeing the logic behind these different interpretations much better now. I agree with your definition of crossover; if I understood you correctly, in its purest form it would be changing essentially nothing about the two canons while bringing them together. In other words, crossovers might be very canon-compliant, if the two original sources happen in the same time and setting (Broadchurch and Sherlock certainly do; modern-day Britain with no speculative elements).
It might be a good description of @7-percent‘s genre conundrum that she tries to canon but Mofftiss keep shoving her off the road. So yes, I’d say her verse could be considered AU (or at least canon divergence since the foundations of those stories are very much what the canon used to be) post-season 3.
To conclude this, I want to add that I am totally on board with this Bodyguard AU and The Darkness Within, So Close is on the top of my reading list bc I love Broadchurch and your stuff.
Re: my upcoming project (which is, quite literally, a future story): they are, indeed, taking over roles in which characters of this borrowed universe have had, although Sherlock starts from a rather canonical situation of living in London as an aimless drug addict. John is an army doctor at the start, but his background is a bit different, and this sure ain’t the British army. So yes, AU, and a fusion one at that, since there are two worlds colliding. Characters from that other world will be mentioned but not shown, and lots of new things have been thrown in and some things altered so crossover may not best describe it.
Because I have the flu and thus I’m bored and because I am a public service-minded individual, I have made this horrible infographic to illustrate the definitions that are emerging:
Suddenly this old post is getting a lot of attention. Dunno why. But I still stand by these graphics.
For me The definitions of AU is very vague because as people here pointed out All Fanfics are AU but for me AU places, American Sherlock, AU profession like YGTMH or AU events Like SH and JW gets together....
pov ur about to become a victim of muppet malpractice
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