Kingstoken

My blog is dedicated to my current interests. I write my own fanfiction and create my own gifsets. I rarely reblog unless it is something I really love. Support Me on Ko-fi

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[kingstoken]

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[fanmixexchange]

Sign-ups for the Fanmix Exchange are now open!  Please check the tagset before filling out your sign-up form, only characters/relationships in the tagset can be used in your sign-ups. All crossover relationships are listed under "Crossover Fandom".

Just a reminder: -You must request a minimum of 3 fandoms, and between 3 and 10 characters/relationships from the tagset. Each requested character/relationship must be unique, so you can not request the same character/relationship twice. -You must offer a minimum of 3 fandoms, and between 3 and 10 characters/relationships from the tagset. Each offered character/relationship must be unique, so you can not offer the same character/relationship twice. -You must choose a minimum of one type of fanmix to request/offer: fanmix, fanmix with liner notes, fanmix with cover art, fanmix with cover art and liner notes.  See the FAQs to understand the differences. -You must include your Do Not Wants (DNWs) in the optional details section. These can be types or styles of music (ex Heavy Metal, Country and Western, etc) or specific artists (ex Taylor Swift, Drake, etc).

Sign-ups will remain open until Sat July 18, 8:59pm EDT.

[fanmixexchange]

Hey everyone, this is just a reminder that nominations close tomorrow (July 11, 8:59pm EST). This is your last chance to add nominations to the tagset. Only characters/relationships in the tagset can be used when you sign-up. Also, check to see if any of your previous nominations were rejected and need to be submitted again. I wouldn't want anyone to be disappointed.

[kingstoken]

Watson Birthday Prompt Fest!

Returning for 2026, the Watson Birthday Prompt Fest! According to some sources, John Watson’s birthday is August 7. So, lets celebrate it, by having a prompt fest!

Come over to the Ao3 collection and leave a prompt or claim a prompt. Open to all Sherlock Holmes related fandoms, and all genres, ratings, and relationships (ships, gen, etc). The main rule being that all fanworks should focus on our beloved Watson.

Prompting and claiming will be open until August 7, 2025.

If you’re not sure how a prompt fest works on Ao3, please check out Ao3’s FAQs, and check out the rules for this fest here. If you have questions my ask box is open.

The goal is to have lots of fanworks to enjoy for Watson’s birthday on August 7th, so please share and reblog so we can get the word out, and have fun!

[kingstoken]

Hey everyone, Watson's unofficial birthday is exactly one month away! The prompt fest is still open, and we currently have 14 wonderful prompts for you to peruse. This is just a reminder that prompts can be claimed by more than one person, and they can be any length you'd like.

Let's try and get some wonderful fanworks for us all to enjoy on Watson's birthday!

[ghostbees]

A Peter Serafinowicz Show verse kiss for @kingstoken's amazing prompt in the last round of @holmestice. In fact, a prompt so inspiring that we were three to fill it!

[kingstoken]

This wonderful art that was made for me for the spring round of Holmestice. The Peter Serafinowicz Show sketch was a last minute addition to my sign-up, I just thought it might be fun, and I'm so glad so many people took me up on it.

[fanmixexchange]

Welcome to the Fanmix Exchange!

What is the fanmix exchange, you ask? It is an AO3 based multifandom character/relationship exchange for fanmixes (i.e. playlists). Where you will create a fanmix for another participant and receive one in return.

Schedule: Nominations now open! Tagset Nominations Close: Saturday July 11, 2026 Sign-ups Open: Sunday July 12, 2026 Sign-ups Close: Saturday July 18, 2024 Works due: Friday August 7, 2026 Works revealed: Friday, August 14, 2026

Nominations are open now!

Please visit the AO3 Collection and read the FAQs and rules for formatting guidelines before submitting nominations.

[tieflingkisser]

Who plays your favorite Sherlock Holmes?

Yûko Takeuchi in Miss Sherlock (2018)

Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Jeremy Brett in Sherlock Holmes (1984-1994)

Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010-2017)

Peter Cushing in Sherlock Holmes (1964-1968)

Jonny Lee Miller in Elementary (2012-2019)

Alex Jordan in Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2023)

James D'Arcy in Sherlock (2002)

Hero Fiennes Tiffin in Young Sherlock (2026-)

Henry Cavill in Enola Holmes (2020)

something not listed

I don't like Sherlock Holmes

Voting ended onJul 1

[kingstoken]

Follow Holmesians you know what to do.

[sponeszine]

(Cover Art by @urghblergh)

✨Issue 3: 'Golden Years' is out NOW!✨

Happy Spones Day everyone!

Just in time for the big day is the newest SWF issue of the Spones Zine! This time around we're celebrating their Golden Years!

Inside this Golden Years themed issue you will find artwork, poetry, fanfiction, edits, cosplay, & more from our extremely talented creators. This issue features over 40 pages of brand new Spones content for all to enjoy and download.

You can download it for free here on itch.io!

NOTE: itch.io may be experiencing some lag and downtime so please don't be alarmed if the page doesn't load right away. Please be patient, hopefully they have it sorted out soon!

A big thank you to all of our artists, writers, and content creators for contributing to this issue! We ask that you all please wait ONE WEEK until the grace period has ended to post your works elsewhere. After a week is up, feel free to post them wherever/however you'd like~!

Thank you to our moderators and to the ZIne committee for all of their hard work in making this issue a reality. We couldn't have done this without you!

And of course, thank you to everyone for continuing to support us. Please enjoy the issue, and don't forge to check out our past issues as well! Until next time, Live Long and Prosper! 🖖

[kingstoken]

Hello to any fellow Canadians, you may have heard about the proposed bill Bill C-34 (if you haven't learn more here), that which bans social media for children under 16, but what you might not know is the proposed bill would require all adults to provide their ID to a third party verification service before accessing the internet. These verification services are notorious for data leaks, and there is currently no safe age verification service. It also means giving all your personal info and an image of your ID to an unknown third party. Which is a huge invasion of privacy.

So what can you do? Contact your MP! Find out who your MP is and their email contact info here. (even better if you can send them a physical letter, politicians love those for some reason)

The Reddit user EmbassedHelp has provided a great email template for you to use:

Here it is in a easy copy and paste format:

Subject: Protect Canadians' Privacy: Oppose Bill C-34's Mandatory Age Verification Requirements Dear [Prime Minister/Minister/MP Name], I am writing to urge you to reject the mandatory age verification and age assurance requirements in Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, which would impose these measures across social media platforms, Al chatbot services, and adult content websites, including requirements previously proposed under Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne's Bill S-209. Mandatory age verification and age assurance as a condition of accessing lawful online content is an unacceptable threat to Canadians' privacy when accessing social media platforms, artificial intelligence systems, and adult content websites. Requiring individuals to verify their age to access lawful online content creates new opportunities for data breaches, surveillance, and misuse of sensitive personal information. In the case of sensitive or stigmatized personal information like adult content, data breaches can cause permanent and irreparable harm. These requirements create records and metadata that link a person's offline identity to their online activity. They also disproportionately target marginalized groups, such as the LGBTQ community. Once this infrastructure exists, its scope consistently expands beyond its stated purpose as seen in other countries. There is no such thing as private or anonymous age verification. Canadians deserve more privacy online, not less.

Protecting kids should not come at the cost of violating the privacy of all Canadians. I urge you to focus on better parental controls for parents, restrictions on K-12 school WiFi, and targeting services marketed as explicitly for kids. This would be in line with the recent Angus Reid survey on social media age bans, where 72% of Canadians said parents, and not the government, should be the ones enforcing the bans. Most Canadian parents already take measures to restrict their kids' technology and internet use. We should be supporting parents with better parental controls, instead of trying to force companies to violate Canadians' privacy. Sincerely, [Your Name] [Optional Postal Code] [City], [Province]

Please spread the word far and wide, they are trying to push this thing through fast, and we need them to know it's not acceptable the way it is currently written.

[kingstoken]

Now that the spring round of holmestice is complete I can now share the gift I made, a fanvid of the wartime husbands from the Basil Rathbone films!

It had been awhile since I had made a fanvid, so I was nice to try my hand at it again.

[kingstoken]

Summer Fic Reading Challenge Masterpost

femslash - [Podfic] "of nightmares, real and potential" by Melime read by (Kitsune_Heart) (This is How You Lose the Time War, Red/Blue, T, 4:29)

podfic from your first fandom -

OT3/poly - Sea of Lovers by mltrefry (OFMD, Stede/Izzy/Ed, T, 70,000+ words)

5+1 -

filk -

bodyswap -

oldest podfic in the tag -

outtakes at the end -

5+ year old podfic -

under the influence - Watch Over Him by psychicdreams (BBC Sherlock, Mycroft/Sherlock, T, 3300+ words)

drabble -

non-traditional format - To My Most Missed by oorsprong (Sherlock Holmes Rathbone movies, Holmes/Watson, M, 630 words)

free space - Greg Lestrade and the Adventure of the Long-term Plan by ConfusingThePolarity and RomanyWalker (BBC Sherlock, Mycroft/Lestrade, E, 27,000+ words) 

small fandom - A Murder for a Murder by blueintime (Sherlock Holmes Rathbone movies, Holmes, T, 1200+ words)

from your TBR - When It Rains by BlueMoon0nTheRise (BBC Sherlock, Mycroft/Lestrade, M, 98,000+ words)

podfic with music -

fic by someone you follow -

fic with art - We Are All Fools In Love by CorvidCordelia (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, E, 30,000+ words)

new fandom - The Adventure of the Sleeping Man by inevitablies (Warlock Holmes, Holmes/Watson, E, 7400+ words)

WIP - Five Ways to Break a Love Spell by CabinetSecurity (Warlock Holmes, Holmes/Watson, G, 2600+ words)

poetry -

new podficcer -

gen fic -

crossover/fusion - The Tenth Muse by Vulpesmellifera (BBC Sherlock, Mycroft/Lestrade, E, 25,000+ words)

[kingstoken]

Watson Birthday Prompt Fest!

Returning for 2026, the Watson Birthday Prompt Fest! According to some sources, John Watson’s birthday is August 7. So, lets celebrate it, by having a prompt fest!

Come over to the Ao3 collection and leave a prompt or claim a prompt. Open to all Sherlock Holmes related fandoms, and all genres, ratings, and relationships (ships, gen, etc). The main rule being that all fanworks should focus on our beloved Watson.

Prompting and claiming will be open until August 7, 2025.

If you’re not sure how a prompt fest works on Ao3, please check out Ao3’s FAQs, and check out the rules for this fest here. If you have questions my ask box is open.

The goal is to have lots of fanworks to enjoy for Watson’s birthday on August 7th, so please share and reblog so we can get the word out, and have fun!

[kingstoken]

Just a reminder everyone, the prompt fest is still ongoing. So far we have 13 wonderful prompts, but we could always use more! Come over to AO3 and leave a prompt or claim a prompt!

[razzlebathrobe]

can we please talk about how basil got arrested for being in a play about lesbians and was pissed off enough about it that he went on to write about it in length in his memoirs almost 40 years later?? i really appreciate that he didn't just pretend that it didn't happen, but continued to bring up the play in later years

(if you've never read the captive, i really recommend it! it's not particularly shocking by our standards ofc, but the ending is quite interesting -- not meant to be a happy ending but it can be read as such!)

YES!

Basil, and his costars, were arrested on February 9th 1927 (nearly 100 years ago!) and were released on bail. Two other plays were also closed, it was a bid by a local politician to try and make point of closing down 'immoral' plays.

Rathbone felt that the closing of the play was a "hideous betrayal, this most infamous example of the imposition of political censorship on a democratic society ever known in the history of responsible creative theater; this cold-blooded unscrupulous sabotage of an important contemporary work of art; this cheap political expedient to gain votes by humiliating and despoiling the right of public opinion to express itself and act upon its considered judgment as respected and respectable citizens" (In and Out of Character, p. 105).

—Variety, February 16, 1927, p. 39 For anyone that wants to read more about it, I suggest checking it out here Here are some photos from the play:

Basil Rathbone and Ann Andrews

Helen Menken, Ann Trevor, and Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone and Ann Andrews

[rauferes]

This is going to torture me. I need to see it, I need to see it SO BAD

[kingstoken]

Alrighty, I finished season 2 of BBC's Sherlock and I'm still really enjoying it. I have some mixed feelings about the Irene Alder episode, I wasn't really a fan of the ending. I do love that she used Sherlock to get to Mycroft, but I didn't love the villain woman undid by love for a man thing. Also, her damsel-in-distress ending was disappointing, like no way, Irene is no one's damsel, Anyways, those issues aside, it was a fun ride.

The Hound episode was fun, it didn't go where I expected it, and it felt like a fun little interlude between the two juggernaut episodes.

Now, Reichenbach, the fans must have gone feral for this back in 2012. Moriarty was very good in this. I love his level of machinations.

Funny thing, if you haven't watched the Rathbone films you might not see it, but there were a couple of references to those films: Moriarty trying to steal the crown jewels, him going to Baker St and stepping on the squeaky stair as Sherlock plays the violin, they're definite nods, and I only got them because I watched the Rathbone films recently.

The conversation between Sherlock and John at the end, and the graveside visit, was heartbreaking, poor John. To know you're on the phone with someone and to think you're watching them take their own life, that would screw him up way more than he already was.

I really wish there had been a scene between Sherlock and Mycroft in this episode, I really do. It really felt like it was missing in this episode, and god, John never told Sherlock that Mycroft said he was sorry! Sad sigh.

Anyways, I think I'll take a bit of break before starting season 3, and yes I have been warned repeatedly that season 3 is not good and season 4 sucks, so I am prepared for that.

On the fandom side of things I've started reading fics, because of course I have, Don't worry I'm trying to read older stuff so I won't be too spoiled (but I've kind of been spoiled for a lot of things just by Holmes fandom osmosis anyways.) I ended up reading a Mystrade fic, and god dammit it, it sold me on the pair. I haven't really fallen for side pairing in while, but I knew it would happen again at some point. Don't get me wrong, I ship Sherlock/John, I ship pretty much every iteration of Holmes/Watson, but that is not where interest is really pointing at the moment. So if you have any good Mystrade recs, especially if they take place after Reichenbach, and deal with the fall out of all that, send them my way please.

[kingstoken]

So guys, I'm so confused. I started watching BBC Sherlock to distract myself from feeling sad, I just finished the first season, and surprisingly I'm loving it. Are they in any way accurate to Holmes canon? Not even in the slightest. But each episode is like a fun action-adventure film with a mystery at the heart of it. They are so enjoyable!

I really don't know what I expected, but through fandom osmosis I had somehow gotten the idea that this program was a drama. Like don't get me wrong, there is some drama, but it's not a "drama". It's so funny the idea you get in your head about what a show is like when you've never actually watched it.

Anyways, I kind of wish I'd tried it sooner, but it has come along at the right time for me now.

[kingstoken]

If anyone wants to make a sad Ineffable Husbands fanvid I have a song suggestion: The Fall by Cody Johnson.