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made an ethel cain x johnlock edit. expect more bc she has a lot of songs that fit them.
Sherlock BBC Fanfic Rec's
Just as the title suggests. My favorite Sherlock (BBC) fanfictions! I'm going through my bookmarks and my most recent fandom at the moment is Sherlock (BBC)... (The Flash CW next!)
The linked fanfiction + word count, rating and pairing, a brief summary and then just me gushing about it. (No ratings, no "critiques," or anything like that, because these fanfictions are shared completely free and made in the authors spare time, and reading it at all is a privilege!)
[title w/ link] by [author] (word count, rating, pairing)
author summary
⭐My Notes
Oneshots & Short Fics
Mathematics by Blind_Author (807 Wordcount, Gen, Johnlock)
Summary: It isn’t bravery that makes John so willing to risk his life for Sherlock. At least, he doesn’t think it is – it’s just simple mathematics.
(I don't want) happiness by halves by coloredink (2k, Mature, Johnlock)
Summary: John Watson is the king of second best.
First Night Out by verityburns (3k, Mature, Johnlock)
Summary: As John recovers from the effects of a brutal kidnapping, he and Sherlock attend the Yarders' Christmas Party. There are... developments on the dance floor...
The Trials of the Average British Swan by americanjedi (3k, Gen, Mycroft & John)
Summary: There are people who always dream of home, of family, or children. John has always been one of them. And as Mycroft helps him deal with the death of Sherlock, and the loss of John's wife and child, then with Sherlock triumphant return, John realises Mycroft might feel the same. Is there still room for hope?
⭐Tag: "Mycroft and John being bro-married". Dare I say, I'm in love. Post-Reichenbach feels, with a heart-wrenching twist on canon, Sherlock and John's strained relationship, and Mycroft and John giving off platonic married couple vibes!
Proxy by smilebackwards (3k, Teen, Mycroft & John)
Summary: "I vastly underestimated Mycroft's capacity for guilt," John says.
⭐Author's note: "Basically Mycroft turns all his smothering brotherly love toward John." I love any Post-Reichenbach but Pre-Sherlock's return fic where Mycroft is smotheringly caring of John... <3 In his own weird way, of course.
And A Doctor by stillwaters01 (24k, Teen, Sherlock & John)
Summary: 5 times Dr. Watson treated others and 1 time he treated himself.
⭐Doctor John Watson >>>>> As one of the tags say, "John Watson is an awesome doctor". After I started my read of The Sign of the Four, where there's a scene where they're interviewing someone involved in the case and the man asks for Watson to check his heart, I have been going crazy for any fic where John gets to be his doctor self!
A Week in November by JRow (26k, Teen, Johnlock)
Summary: Mycroft’s request seems simple enough. Tedious even. So tedious that John can’t understand why Sherlock agreed to it so easily. John is the one with reservations – there must be ways they can help that don’t involve his having to appear as (former) Captain John Watson. But it turns out that questioning a potential spy and providing an "extra set of eyes" at the National Service of Remembrance will prove much more emotional and exciting than John imagined.
⭐Post-Canon w/ Rosie! THISSSSS ONEEEEEE. Is perfect to me. I love John Watson and I love him being a badass! And I especially love any fic that explores his service as a soldier and his PTSD. This is one of the fics I highly highly recommend you check out! It's so fucking worth it. The angst is so good, the action is written so well. Worth! The! Read!
26 Pieces by Lanning
Summary: Mycroft gives Sherlock the apparently simple task of solving a puzzle box containing a stolen microchip. It isn't simple.
⭐The ACTION and the WHUMP in this fic is top tier, out of this world. Sherlock and John's protectiveness of each other >>> Also Mycroft and John texting in the beginning is so fucking funny PLEASEEEEE. If John is anything other than sarcastic and passive aggressive to Mycroft Holmes, then you can count on it being the end of the world. Oh, and, once again, John's trauma and PTSD <3
Writers, which software do you use?
Google docs
Microsoft word
Ellipsus
Libre office - writer
Notepad (the fuck is wrong with you lol)
Pages
Other (comment, please, esp if you recommend it)
Checking results
I used to use Google docs, but the white mode only was really annoying me (tires my eyes), so I swapped to Ellipsus (which I genuinely love and recommend), but it was bothering me a bit that I need wifi in order to use it, so now I switched to LibreOffice Writer, which I do like.
It very much has a Microsoft Word feel, but is open source and you need no accounts to use it. It's local on your device, so no AI can scan it, and no wifi is needed.
I still wish it had the Google Docs cards, because, bitch, that thing is so good for easy organizing.
a bunch... of friends.... ❤️
My comic from @very-sincerely-yours-zine !
This was a lovely little thing to hop into after finishing last Summer after The Beekeeper's Picnic.
I spent a while debating whether Mycroft Holmes is a jam first or a cream first kind of scone eater.
Barry with one of those large square DoorDash delivery boxes strapped to his back full of food from some restaurant 300 miles away
Reading is in the trenches because why did my 9 yr old nephew look at the word "jealous" and said "jewish"? And when asked why he mistaken it as such he said they both started with a "J". It's like his brain is doing autofill. No matter how many time I try to tell him slow down and sound out the words he just won't.
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TRAP CARD ACTIVATED
No, but seriously, anon, you need to look into what's going on in his classroom because he's probably being taught this trash method instead of phonics. He does not know how to slow down and sound things out because his school has never taught him that. When you tell him to do this, he has no context for what you're even talking about.
This has come up repeatedly here, and I don't have time to froth at the mouth today, but look up "whole language".
This podcast made waves a few years ago when all the lockdown parents discovered, to their horror, that their kiddos weren't being taught to read in the NORMAL FUCKING WAY WE'VE USED FOR LITERALLY CENTURIES and were instead being taught a fake-ass method backed by vibes and antivax-levels of pseudoscience.
Intervene now, anon, or he's never going to read well.
I remember one of my grade school teachers discussing with my mother the differences between me and my sister at learning to read, and he described me as a "sight reader from the start"... which is to say, an acknowledgement that most people do not do that and it's not reasonable to expect that of the majority of kids, who really do need the phonics and the "sound things out."
Generally speaking if a kid has arrived at school not knowing how to read already, they're not going to do well with sight reading and need phonics. The few kids who develop The Reading in the way the whole language people think they should do it before they hit school.
So true. I know a retired teacher who bawwws and tries to contradict me when I rant about whole language at our knitting meetup. She's all "different kids need different approaches!" and "I saw it work!"...
But of course it feels intuitively sensible to her. She taught herself to read at age 2. That's the exact kind of experience that does make this method sound reasonable. But like you say, if it's going to happen, it happens very early and without the school curriculum.
As for me, I've said it before, but I assume anon wasn't around: I could not learn to read.
I was in second grade. (First grade? I can't remember. Around then.) Most of my classmates were reading at least a little. Me: nothing. I could not learn.
It was even a god damn private school, but I had to have a fucking tutor. I got dragged over to that lady's office a few days a week for... two months? Four months? It really wasn't that long, as far as I know. I was more than ready to learn. I just needed an actual fucking method that wasn't lying trash. Almost at once I jumped from nothing to reading well above grade level. For the rest of my childhood, I continued to diverge from my classmates in how many words I knew, how well I could read, the works. Every year of grade school makes that gap widen. I was on the desirable side of that gap. I was lucky.
It's obvious how verbal I am from reading my tl;dr on this blog.
But I could not learn to read.
I was a couple years younger than this nephew, but not that much younger. It's not too late. Now is the perfect time for some tutoring. If you can afford it, get a pro. If you can't, do your best. But you've got to do something.
The four cueing systems if whole language reading education are a band-aid method used by severely dyslexic people. When people's dyslexia is so bad that they simply cannot learn to read effectively, tricks like cueing allow them to function well enough in society to get by. They do NOT teach proper literacy.
This system was popularised by a guy who is obviously dyslexic, refuses to acknowledge that when asked, and essentially decided that everyone else must be like him and therefore the system that helped him get by was a substitute for real literacy since it was so much faster and more achievable for him to learn to "read" this way than phonically. It's kind of like if somebody without hands was learning to sew, found it incredibly frustrating to do without hands, so they started putting their creations together entirely with fabric glue which they found easier to apply... and told everyone how much easier it was so all the schools got rid of needles and thread and sewing machines and everyone was taught to "sew" using fabric glue only and then wondered why their clothing kept falling apart on their bodies.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR and JUDE LAW as SHERLOCK HOLMES and DR. JOHN WATSON
SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie
*absolutely freaking out beyond words over this*
am always obsessed when someone says to a character “call off your dog” about another character.
The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.
Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"
The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."
THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026
This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.
This torches everything. And I do mean everything.
A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):
ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives
allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason
preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies
requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.
What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.
Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.
Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.
Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:
"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"
But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.
Some added 101-level context from someone (me) who’s worked in federal grantmaking for 20 years and is literally certified on this document - this is a document that governs all federal grantmaking. It’s been around for over a decade and is a mega-document that combine multiple previous smaller documents that have been around for ages. It is updated every few years and generally the updates are minor - a notable change in the previous update was raising the small procurement threshold from $10,000 to $15,000 for example. Deeply dry boring minutiae that no one outside of federal grantmakers need concern themselves with. It was also federal GUIDELINES, which means there was flexibility.
This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.
This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.
So yes, please comment. You don’t have to read all 400 pages before doing so, it’s dry and dense as fuck, but I thought this information might be helpful. Also, while there is a public comment period, this isn’t voted on by Congress. The OMB just fucking issues it. Pressuring your elected officials into publicly saying “hey what the fuck are you doing here” is good, though.
Please note the comment period is open through JULY 13th, not JUNE 13th. I saw a lot of relogs yesterday saying "last day!" and I just want to say it is very much not too late.
As of today, 7/8/26, we have five days for public commentary on this to go through. I am begging y'all: if you care about independent science in the country that produces the most global science funding in the world, please leave a comment.
The FCC wants to change the e-Rate program, which could eliminate discounts libraries and schools get to provide internet to their community
The FCC wants to change the e-Rate program, which could eliminate discounts libraries and schools get to provide internet to their community. — Kelly Jensen on Book Riot
What is e-Rate? The E-Rate program makes the internet affordable and accessible through public schools and public libraries by providing large discounts or financial aid. To understand more go to this link: FFC.GOV
What can I do to help? You can check out the link at the top for resources on where to sign petitions and contact your representatives about this proposed cut in discounts and financial aid.
Save Our E-Rate will tell you when FFC is open for comment and when it is, you can provide feedback on cutting E-Rate's discounts.
You can also sign a petition at: The American Library Association
I didn't actually know what E-Rate was until I got an email from one of the literary magazines I'm subscribed to talking about it being threatened. And I learned that every library in my county is supported by it and so was the elementary school, middle school and high school I went to. Not my usual content and who even knows if this will reach very far but read the article and do what you can, even if that's just a reblog!
JOHNLOCK CRUMBS IN ENOLA HOLMES
I know you loved him HOLMES!
proposing a new genre of fiction called an anti-romance where u r presented w a couple at the start & the story is about their emotional journey towards a catastrophic break up
will they won't they (end this farce). there's only one bed (but for some reason they don't really want to share it). out of context eavesdropping (that paints the relationship in a better light than it deserves). chasing after them to stop them getting on that plane (and stopping them from finally being free)
nobody understands my vision i don't mean any old story where a relationship fails and it's tragic or w/e i mean a story where the intention is for the audience to root for it failing the same way u root for it succeeding in a romance. & when the relationship finally implodes at the climax of the story it's all very cathartic & everybody cheers.
like have u never wanted a fictional couple to break up so badly it hurt?
Bloodied man losing a fight, voice broken with arousal: “Oh, you’re good”
Imagine whumper saying this as whumpee’s beating them up🧍♂️
Bloodied man losing a fight, voice broken with arousal: “Oh, you’re good”
savitar + looking at barry
my friends and I are all noticing that it's getting harder and harder to fundraise for Palestine.
Some grassroots initiatives helping people and families in Gaza:
Relief for Rafah: a Mutual Aid Project
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
Isnad: Supporting Students in Gaza
