Guys, the only thing I used to do back in the day on LJ was the kinkmeme. I wasn't huge on LJ but that managed to get me there. I love prompt!fic. I really, really do.

The LJ kinkmeme eventually moved to DW, and died a sad death sometime in 2015, from the looks of the old page. RIP. You were a wild ride of joyous goodness.

Anyway, I'm starting a new one. All iterations of Holmes, all ships, with anon commenting and filling, because otherwise content policing gets nuts and like a kinkmeme isn't about that.

I'm going to need a way out of uni-brain over this next term. I'm terrified of this term. I used to mindlessly scroll Tumblr to look at pictures, but Tumblr's dead and also that wasn't great for my writing skills. So if it's a prompt I'm comfortable filling (don't like, don't fill is the motto) I'm gonna try writing prompt fic instead! Basically, if you're hesitant, consider this meme a place to just prompt me for fic, really.

Also: if you're hesitating because you're thinking of gen fic and saw the word 'kink': please leave your gen prompts too! They're absolutely welcome.

Some plot movement is happening! And Sherlock's a mess. 

Posh Boy (5357 words) by Aelfay
Chapters: 4/?
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Pretty Woman (1990)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Molly Hooper
Additional Tags: Soft sex, Alternate Universe - Pretty Woman Fusion, Alternate Universe - Escorts, Dom/sub Undertones
Summary:

John Watson as a professional prostitute? You fucking know he's not bending his pride to be one. John Watson got back from the war, decided civilian life was boring, and took a dangerous job deliberately. John Watson, prostitute, has actively helped very powerful men stumble their way into prison because they treated other sex workers badly and John Watson doesn't Stand for that. John Watson is teased about being "a John" but he's not really one, he just sees people who end up in this life not because they had a choice but because they were tossed onto the streets, and he bandages them up and he gives them tips and if they don't want to sell their sex he finds them other jobs.
John Watson is a sex worker in the same way that Olympic ice skaters are just people who slide around on ice.

Sherlock Holmes, who inherited a business from his father and lets his brother run it and hates the upper-class nonsense he's stuck in because he wants to make a difference in the world, Sherlock Holmes who owns an entire estate but prefers to live in a flat rented by an old lady in the middle of London, Sherlock Holmes -- stalls out a car on a street corner in Soho at 3 am. And meets John Watson.

Completed Fics

Gen Fic

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Sherlock/John

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Mycroft/Lestrade

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Jim/Sebastian

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Incomplete Fics

Sherlock/John

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Mycroft/Lestrade

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Jim/Sebastian

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I'm so pleased I finished this. Not beta-read, but it's up after I edited it twice, so hopefully I didn't miss anything egregious. My boys are finally together and happy.

Take Care of Me (Scenario 52-B) (10789 words) by Aelfay
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade
Additional Tags: Skin Hunger, torture mention, Gentle Sex, Light Dom/sub, Vulnerable Mycroft, Protective Greg
Summary:

Following an MI6 mission gone wrong, Mycroft Holmes has physically but not mentally recovered. Struggling to adjust to personal contact, he finds himself craving closeness. Will Greg help him to heal?
(Soft PWP, touch-starved Mycroft, gentle Greg.)

As one might surmise from my first entry on this DW, I'm a Holmesian, and recently arrived out of a wish to connect with community. 

It's quite odd, because Holmes has been in my life since I was around eight and first read the novels and short stories. Since then, he's been around in various incarnations; from films to telly shows to more books, fanfic, and pastiches. 

I quite liked BBC Sherlock when it first came out. I believe this was for several reasons.  

• I had just moved out of my mother's place, and Holmes felt like home.
• I needed community.
• I'd only recently been told by one of my mother's therapists that I was sociopathic (I'm not, but it hurt quite a lot to be told I was. My mother is an entirely different can of worms). BBC's Sherlock spoke to that hurt.
• It was a new take on an old friend. 

As time went on, the community went from fun, to frantic, to toxic. Fan communities tend to do that; it's the growth spectrum. When a medium is still producing Story, the fandom goes from childlike excitement, to bonding, to teenage judgement and exclusionism, and in five to ten years, when BBC Sherlock is a memory and on old hard drives, it will be a calm and complacent fandom once more, because those who can't get their emotional kicks from speculation and influx of new material will have dropped out. 

However, as a fan, I did slowly become disappointed in the show itself. The racism, sexism, and homophobia only seemed to increase. The twists on Doyle's stories went from fun to offensive. The most recent season made me feel ill at some of the themes portrayed in ways that I couldn't reconcile. 

I've never let go of the original stories; the canon holds a special place in my heart. Granada Holmes is perhaps my favourite Holmes of all time. It's hardly as though BBC Sherlock has ruined my enjoyment of the entirety of Holmesian lore. It never eclipsed it. It simply had the strongest community aspect.

However, as BBC Sherlock degenerated, so did large amounts of the community I had found. I'd had that community since 2011 and watching it dissolve was heartbreaking. I didn't agree with all of the people, and there were quite a few I was glad had left, but the sense of community was fractured and broken, and remembering the joy from the beginning now made my chest ache at the loss. 

I suppose I'm trying to find a semblance of community here, with a more balanced perspective, with the same love of the canon stories and victorian Holmes that I've kept since I was 8 years old and first read A Study in Scarlet for the first time.

AO3 is a marvellous site for reading, but not as much a community site. Tumblr is very large and easy for me to get lost in. LiveJournal has so many nested comment threads that I completely lose track of what's going on. DW seemed well-organised for a newbie. 

So here I am, wobbling my way through the new terminology (is a reading page like a dashboard? What's the difference between subscribing and joining? How do the tagging systems work? What can people see on my profile? What is going on????) and messing with the theme like a 13-year-old on myspace. It's all very new and exciting and I feel a bit silly, but that's part of the fun, I suppose. 

This won't only have Holmesian things; I'm sure I'll have knitting notes, random pictures, rants about my Uni (I'm reading Chemistry with a Pre-Med track, and finals are going to be murder). So you'll get to know a bit more of me, if you want to continue reading. 

In the meantime, my sincerest greetings to the people here. I hope to interact and connect here, and hopefully find joy in our friends, Holmes and Watson.