Teaspoon Nebula

Currently the secretary of a fictional Victorian. I'm the same person as @jabbage and @beekeeperspicnic, I made this account while Tumblr had mistakenly banned my account and now I'm stuck with it so I put a lot of Sherlock Holmes things here!

[teaspoonnebula]

Curated List of My Sherlock Holmes Fanfics!

Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction:

🛸 - Watson is a Time Lord - Lovingly intricate series of crossover stories between the Granada series and Doctor Who. A collaboration with @jeremys-come-to-bed-eyes and @fruitviking

⌛The World Awry Series - Sherlock Holmes time travels to the 21st century. Aroace Holmes, platonic/queerplatonic relationship with Watson.

🕰️ The Time Enough Series - Watson has one of those 'spontaneous time travel' diseases causing him to live his life out of order, which explains his wonky grasp of chronology. Bisexual Watson having romantic relationships with Mary and Holmes at different points in his life.

👦🏻 Tabula Rasa - Someone cloned Sherlock Holmes. (I know, I know, you'll have to just trust me on this one)

💧 Drop of Water - Holmes comes to terms with his connection to a robot named Watson, and that robot's connection to a man named Watson. (SH22ndC)

🖊️ Nothing Without My Boswell - The Return of Sherlock Holmes... Or something like him. Watson performs a literary resurrection. Collaboration with @fruitviking

Hiatus Stories:

☕ Kingdom of Tea - Victor Trevor is called to the deathbed of his tea-taster, a reclusive Frenchman called Pierre Laurent.

👴🏻 His Brother - Watson and Mycroft are united by a shared grief, and later, a shared joy. 4654 words, Gen

Retirement Stories:

👓 Golden Visions, Are Ye Flown? - Something seems to be wrong with Sherlock Holmes, but Watson is there to take care of him.

Miscellaneous

🧠 Compos Mentis - In which Nigel Bruce Watson and ACD Canon Watson are the same Watson

[j-h-watsons-mustache]

I just realized it's ✨pride month✨ and I can post whatever I want :))

Aromantic Sherlock Holmes be upon ye! 💚🤍🩶🖤

And some variations:

[icantbotherwithusernames]

do you think dr. james mortimer and sherlock holmes could have some yaoiful potential (with That One scene).................. #fruitful endeavors

listen anon i drew this entire thing for you because this idea also floated in the darkest pits of my brain.....fruitful indeed.

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[icantbotherwithusernames]

thinking about how Mormonism in a Study in Scarlet was censored as the “M religion” in furry Sherlock… and how McDonald’s is known as M記… and how periods (like 🩸) are called M in Cantonese slang… (like instead of saying “I’m on my period” you say “我M到咗”)

there’s no actual correlation between them (Mormonism, McDonald’s and Menstruation all start with M) it was just funny to me.

6th grade me did not expect the whiplash of realizing that the unnamed religion in the book was not made up and like. An actual religion. That ACD named explicitly.

the mcdonalds period religion.......

I actually forgot that Mormons were a part of stud. I only read the novel once, and I think i just erased the Mormons from my memory because I swear I dont remember that. When people mention this I have to blink a few times to accept this old-new reality of "Mormons are an integral part of the first sherlock holmes story".

[teaspoonnebula]

Reminds me of being a kid and assuming that the KKK were a fictional group entirely invented by Arthur Conan Doyle.

(And learning that wasn't correct from Quantum Leap, so you know... swings and roundabouts.)

[harrimaniac27art]

Okay! All four of my first run of Poirot sticker designs are finally up in my ko-fi shop!

A HUGE thank you to everyone who pre-ordered!!

These stickers start at only $3 and I ship worldwide, so head on over and grab one if you want one!

[fruitviking]

YeeH&W!

We're back in the Old West with Holmes, Watson, and another mystery to solve!

John Watson is woken early one morning by the arrival of Victor Hatherley—a young engineer with an unusual tale and a missing thumb. Who were the men who hired him last night? What was their hydraulic machine really for? Can Sherlock Holmes work it all out before they disappear for good..?

Read it here!

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Playing the quiz game which is literally a stone's throw from the Reichenbach Falls

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If you're wondering about my thought process here -

Watson's previous profession tripped me up because although he was an army surgeon, I wouldn't say that makes his profession 'soldier', he was still a doctor. But I figured it was the intended correct option.

As for Moriarty's alter-ego Rodney, idk man. Is that a BBC Sherlock thing?

[geeoharee]

I'm afraid even in BBC his name is not Rodney. The alias you wanted was Richard Brook. It's a good episode!

[teaspoonnebula]

Rodney is much funnier, though.

[itch-for-subotic]

I don't remember the episode very well but

reich = rich

Bach = brook

Reichenbach => Rich Brook

[teaspoonnebula]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh

Ok, that's fun.

[teaspoonnebula]

Playing the quiz game which is literally a stone's throw from the Reichenbach Falls

[teaspoonnebula]

If you're wondering about my thought process here -

Watson's previous profession tripped me up because although he was an army surgeon, I wouldn't say that makes his profession 'soldier', he was still a doctor. But I figured it was the intended correct option.

As for Moriarty's alter-ego Rodney, idk man. Is that a BBC Sherlock thing?

[geeoharee]

I'm afraid even in BBC his name is not Rodney. The alias you wanted was Richard Brook. It's a good episode!

[teaspoonnebula]

Rodney is much funnier, though.

[teaspoonnebula]

Playing the quiz game which is literally a stone's throw from the Reichenbach Falls

[teaspoonnebula]

If you're wondering about my thought process here -

Watson's previous profession tripped me up because although he was an army surgeon, I wouldn't say that makes his profession 'soldier', he was still a doctor. But I figured it was the intended correct option.

As for Moriarty's alter-ego Rodney, idk man. Is that a BBC Sherlock thing?

[oceangems85]

😳 WHAT 😳

[dduane]

The Star Trek title card generator is over here:

Star Trek Title Card Generator

Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!

The sitemaker (Josh Mayfield at https://bsky.app/profile/bean525.bsky.social) has asked for people to come in and kick its tires so he can work out any bugs they turn up. So do give him a hand, if you feel inclined. :)

(also, deeply amused by this one...)

[fruitviking]

I...may have messed around with some crossover episodes.

And the one that did not need to change,

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

In 1894, Henrik Sigerson makes the acquaintance of Dr John Watson in a chemical laboratory in Montpellier.

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: Gen

Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms

Relationship: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson

Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson

Additional Tags: Hiatus, Story: The Adventure of the Empty House - Arthur Conan Doyle, Alternative Version of The Empty House, Montpellier, Reunions, Fainting, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, crying and hugging you know the drill, Sigerson - Freeform

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Imagine that a TV company is willing to give you an infinite budget to make the Sherlock Holmes tv show of your dreams, but:

You must include a third secret Holmes sibling somewhere in it and

You can't adapt any of the original stories.

What would you do?

[visorforavisor]

okay, so:

we all know (I hope) that Holmes is autistic and also variously mentally disabled in other ways.

I’d make it a sibling who is autistic too, but who is intellectually disabled and completely non-speaking, unlike Sherlock (and Mycroft if you like… I don’t have strong opinions on whether he is autistic). in the late nineteenth century, such a person could be in some sort of an institution or in full-time care at the family’s house, paid for privately (and we do think the Holmeses are relatively well off).

I’d open the story with the final Holmes parent dying and entrusting, in their will, the care of this sibling to Sherlock and Mycroft, but sans any sort of useful details about their needs or even their location (maybe the parent meant to have a conversation with Sherlock and Mycroft about them but died suddenly before having the chance). for bonus heart-wrenching emotions, maybe Sherlock and Mycroft didn’t even know about this sibling’s existence (perfectly possible given the way that disabled people were often hidden away in the past, especially if this sibling was born first).

they have to go on a big adventure to get them out of the institution they are in — after finding them in the first place, of course, which won’t be easy when they might not even be using the Holmes name — and on the way get caught up in other crimes being committed at the corrupt institution. there would be scope here for some really interesting discussion of how to communicate with disabled people (for the investigation) when the AAC technology we would tend to use now is not available, or when knowledge of BSL was not wide-spread, or when nobody has even done research into how to communicate with people who have certain conditions, and also some discussion of how people assume disabled people (especially the non-speaking) don’t understand, which could lead to some of the residents at the institution having heard some really relevant things because the care staff just didn’t consider not talking about it in front of them.

naturally, along the way Holmes comes to the conclusion that he is mentally disabled too. maybe they’re poking around the records in the institution’s archive and find out that his parents inquired about having him put there too? maybe he didn’t talk for much of his childhood and they thought he was intellectually disabled too?

institutions were for physically disabled people too, so we could explore Watson’s feelings about his old war wound and his (what I think is) myalgic encephalomyalitis / chronic fatigue syndrome from having enteric fever. going with this, I think it is probably best if we make Mycroft completely abled, to contrast. with Sherlock finding out he is disabled too, we could put in that maybe Mycroft as a young teen heard his parents worrying about how they thought they had just had a blip with their first kid, and Mycroft turned out fairly normal (if a bit clever) which comforted them, but now the third one’s all weird too. and Sherlock angry at Mycroft for never telling him about this (which can be all mixed up with anger at their parents for never telling them about their older sibling). (would need to figure out a way for Mycroft to have heard that conversation and not know about the sibling. maybe the parents were referring to them in past tense as if they had died young, which would be a perfectly reasonable assumption for Mycroft to make given nineteenth-century infant mortality. but actually they were just doing it out of shame.)

it would have to be handled with a lot of care to avoid coming across as using disability for cheap drama, but disabled people do deserve to be included in drama and so it would be worth the effort. I don’t know how it would conclude — I don’t know what the happy ending is here — but I’m sure I could find one.

actually, I might write this… please nobody take my idea!

[teaspoonnebula]

Oooh I love this!

I'm going to make the case for Mycroft definitely being autistic. Known facts about Mycroft include:

He has the same routine every day and very rigidly sticks to it. He goes between his home, his work and his club, which are all in close vicinity to each other. We can infer that he probably finds breaking his routine distressing, or at least not ideal.

He founded a gentleman's club which attracts oddballs like himself, where you can enjoy creature comforts without having to socialise and make small talk.

He loves silence. Does he have a lot of sensory sensitivities?

Although he's good at deducing facts about people, he seems to be very bad at inferring how they are going to feel and act, which leads to a lot of problems in The Greek Interpreter.

He has a job where he deals with facts and figures, because he's very good at memorising them and storing them in his mind. He's kind of the government's IT guy.

Although he's not 'clubbable' and doesn't seem to have any kind of social circle, we can maybe infer that he has few good friends who trust him - his neighbour Mr Melas seems to have seen him as a good person to turn to in a crisis, at least.

[teaspoonnebula]

Imagine that a TV company is willing to give you an infinite budget to make the Sherlock Holmes tv show of your dreams, but:

You must include a third secret Holmes sibling somewhere in it and

You can't adapt any of the original stories.

What would you do?

[pgtip]

[teaspoonnebula]

Ugh this intimate little moment where we, the audience, sees Holmes' expression and Watson does not.

And just... the micro-expressions going on in Brett's acting. He's had memories conjured up which he didn't want to recall. He's hurt by the unintended implication that perhaps he too is damaged in a way that separates him from the rest of humanity. He's embarrassed. But there's also a hint of amusement there too. That Watson has blithely hit on something so deep, and has no idea.

(Which also suggests Watson really does know nothing about Holmes' childhood and it is something unspoken between them. I'm just feral about it)

[teaspoonnebula]

Do you mind if people (which may or may not include me) write fics taking place in the AUs you write??

Oooooh please do, that would be amazing! 😍