The Little Sparrow

[queen-of-the-merry-men]

Am I the only one who really wants Holt and Kevin to have a daughter? 

And by that I don’t mean I want him and Kevin to adopt. 

I mean I want it to be an average day at the precinct when Holt walks out of his office with a young woman. They shake hands, bid goodbye and Jake walks over to ask who she is. 

“Who’s that? Someone from city hall?”

And Holt just casually replies. “No that’s my daughter.” 

And everyone in the bullpen just stops, stunned. Because he’s never mentioned it before, ever, even in passing. 

“You have a daughter?” 

“Yes, her name is Claire, she is 24 years of age and studying at Jon Hopkins.” 

Everyone turns to look at Amy who’s frantically flipping through six, thick binders, freaking out because she has not even a footnote on Claire’s existence!

[steadfast-deactivated20191017]

My wish for all my favorite characters

[theodoredimas]

A needed addition

[fanonical]

ah yes, the elder wand, and its copies, the younger wand, the middle aged wand, and the still-claiming-to-be-twenty-five-despite-the-fact-that-it’s-been-a-literal-decade wand

[valtsv]

woman in a victorian novel: *develops a fever from worrying too much*

me, shivering and sweating with stress-induced anxiety: wtf that’s so unrealistic lol

[littleoil]

who eat the night?

[wherestoriescomefrom]

A Goodbye, of a Sort

I finished writing the last chapter of Song as Old as Rhyme.

It’s going to go through some rounds of edits, it’ll probably be ironed out a little over time - I might even scribble a few one-shots for later. But as of now, the last of my long stories featuring Molly Hooper has been finished. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be publishing it on both ao3 and ffnet. 

I’ve been doing this for a long time now. 

I know a lot of you probably don’t remember why you follow me, or what my tiny bits of contribution were - but here it is, a history of the last six years of me. Allow me to reintroduce myself: I’m Ridiculosity. I’ve not had much, not always - I wasn’t a big name, but people read me. I have loved everyone who took what they can from whatever I could offer. 

I first started writing Sherlolly (multichaptered Sherlolly, mind. I’d been doing the one-shot variety for a bit before that) with Endless Forms Most Beautiful - a five chapter something that I wrote for @the-littlesparrow. Arguably, the Sherlolly I am most known for is Two Hundred and Twenty One B, Baker Street. Most of my writing has come from a place of having loved Molly Hooper, wanting to know her as well as I possibly could. I have loved her through countless reinterpretations, through numerous ship wars, through infighting and outfighting, the debacle of season four and with no promise of having more than five minutes of screentime each episode. 

Half of my journey is her. The other half is you guys. 

All of you wrote so many comments, cheered me on so many times. I remember usernames of people I got so used to seeing in my comments section they felt like friends. I have slipped so many times - fallen, and found it hard to come back to writing. You made me love Molly over and over again, you made me love my writing over and over again, and I have never been more grateful. 

Then @whyimmathere happened to me. Molliarty happened to me. I wrote Nameless, arguably my most famous and popular work, I wrote more prompt fills, I wrote one-shots for side fandoms like Agent Carter. I became friends with @s1e1pilot. I wrote Derry Girls fanfic, and Uprooted fanfic, and @iridogorgia and @thebookishtea created the Molliarty discord - and before I knew it, I was writing Song as Old as Rhyme. @lockwoodmyass Made me fanart!!!!!! @s1e1pilot DID AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I don’t know which of those made you follow me, but I am grateful because I don’t know when I will return to Molly Hooper (and by extension, possibly fanfiction) again. I’m not saying never again, because even now I have the urge to write a short one-shot, or maybe to do a prompt fill of some sort - but I wanted to say goodbye, because I have no new plans for a multichapter. Anything else that I write will happen based on a mood, on a whim, and not necessarily with the kind of dedicated time I’ve put into these other stories. 

My time in fanfiction is not coming to an end, I just have other projects I want to focus on. I don’t know when or if I am returning, but I don’t think it’ll be through Sherlock. I wanted to say goodbye to Molly Hooper, the person I have loved so intensely without ever having met her. 

I wanted to thank all of you - for everything you have given me, for everything you have taught me. Both the Sherlolly and Molliarty communities have been so wonderful, and I’ve never forgotten a single reblog, a comment, nothing. You all have made me a better writer, and I cannot stress that enough. Again, this is hardly forever, but it is an ending of a sort - and it’s a good place to end, with most of my stories completed. I only hope that I am remembered for whatever I wrote, and I hope you return to me, just as I fully expect to return to you all the time. It’s not a forever, nothing is - its a sort of. 

I love you all, so so much. I will come back when I feel up for it, when I am less tired. Maybe I might even get an idea for a longer story again, and this whole thing would have been for nothing. But I sincerely wanted you all to know what a huge impact you had on my life. I wouldn’t have been writing for so long had it not been for you. 

Cheers, love, and all of me, 

Ridiculosity

[the-littlesparrow]

love u <3

[factsinallcaps]

THE LIST OF THINGS NINTENDO PREDATES INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES FRANCHISE

UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISHENHOWER’S BIRTH

THE NOVEL “DRACULA”

THE NOVELS “THE TIME MACHINE” AND “WAR OF THE WORLDS” BY H.G. WELLS

THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES

THE DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON EARTH

[sightless-raiton]

… Okay. I believe you. But like… how?

[factsinallcaps]

NINTENDO WAS FOUNDED IN 1889 AS A CARD GAME MANUFACTURER AND ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS HAPPENED IN 1890 OR LATER

[captainlordauditor]

WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT DRACULA WAS EARLIER WHAT THE FUCK

[factsinallcaps]

YOU COULD WRITE A DRACULA FANFIC WHERE DRACULA TRAVELS TO JAPAN AND BUYS A PACK OF NINTENDO BRAND PLAYING CARDS AND IT WOULD BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. SAME DEAL FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES.

[marauders4evr]

No no no no no!

Don’t write fanfic!

Those things are in the public domain!

You can legally write, publish, and sell a Dracula book where Dracula travels to Japan and buys a pack of Nintendo brand playing cards!

Same deal for Sherlock Holmes!

[pinejaysong]

what if you write a book where dracula and sherlock holmes travel to japan at the same time and reach for the last pack of nintendo brand playing cards that they both wanted

[dogglefoxkvk]

Here’s where the romance happens

[the-littlesparrow]

@wherestoriescomefrom

[jikooksgirl]

[djjamesstockdale-deactivated201]

[teaboot]

I’ve been watching Good Omens for ’ll of about ten minutes and I have to say, I do like the poetry between hell’s most angelic demon and heaven’s most demonic angel coexisting

[teaboot]

Through watching the rest of the show I went from “worst demon and worst angel- a demon that is too kind and an angel that is too hedonistic”, to “best demon and best angel- a demon so rebellious he can’t even cooperate with the rebellion and an angel so angelic he was ordered to love humanity and now refuses to stop”, and having finished, now, I’ve found myself resting on “two beings who are in fact very very human and love each other very much”

[july-19th-club]

i NEED to sit in chairs with armrests but not for my arms only so that i can then sling my leg over them in a debonaire and extremely comfortable style 

[coltonwbrown]

Cacti from Mexico

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[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

im gonna watch dr. who in chronological order by the time period they travel to

[1000-alshain]

*accidentally gets obsessed with something*

[emptytheroll-deactivated2020052]

crazy how so many of your experiences as a girl are shaped based on whether you are perceived as attractive or not

[imovedtomynewblog-deactivated20]

[banditthewriter]

What do you mean that I have to physically write a fic in order for it to be written? This is some bullshit.

[darnwafflessideblog]

Why don’t I just re-imagine it in my head with increasingly more detail as I lie in my bed and stare at the ceiling. Also if I get one detail wrong I have to start from square one

[banditthewriter]

I know I’m the op but #mood