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Treat for randomquadballpun: And Bid the Day Begin

Title: And Bid the Day Begin
Recipient: RandomQ / Randomquadballpun
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: After a long, taxing case involving sabotage to London’s weather, Holmes and Watson return home to enjoy a well-deserved rest and a little medical care.

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Treat for estelraca: Into the Setting Sun

Title: Into the Setting Sun
Recipient: EstelRaca
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson & Mycroft
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: When Holmes fails to arrive at Baker Street for a scheduled dinner, Mycroft and Watson go searching for him.

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Treat for Jabbage: Peace and Literature

Title: Peace and Literature
Recipient: Jabbage
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Canon
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: G
Warnings: No Warnings
Summary: Sherlock and Mycroft spend some quiet time together as children.

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Treat for beaglesbites: To Implore Your Light

Title: To Implore Your Light
Recipient: beaglesbites
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Now that Holmes had returned to London, alive and well, Watson had thought the nightmares would stop. He had the most marvelous proof that the worst had not happened, that Holmes was not lost, his body not left to be battered by the torrent of the Reichenbach Falls forever. Still, the nightmares continued.

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Treat for armchair_elvis: You May Keep It

Title: You May Keep It
Recipient: armchair_elvis
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: The Case of the Silk Stocking
Characters: Holmes & Watson & Jenny
Rating: PG (?)
Warnings: None
Summary: Holmes gets a few more books from Jenny

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Treat for flowing_river: Counterpoint

Title: Counterpoint
Recipient: flowing_river
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: “Hiding anything from Holmes was difficult, but in their present circumstances, he was no doubt distracted by the gunmen and the case in general. So long as Watson kept quiet, Holmes need not find out about this injury until later.”

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Treat for Mom2boys: "When you finish those I promise I'll find more"

Title: “When you finish those I promise I’ll find more”
Recipient: Mom2boys
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Co
Characters/Pairings: Young Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Warnings:Train Obsession!
Summary:Sherlock Holmes has always loved libraries

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Treat for EdosianOrchids901: Keeping Company

Title: Keeping Company
Recipient:
EdosianOrchids901
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Summary: Watson slowly made his way towards the stairs but stopped as he passed by Holmes’ closed bedroom door. There were faint noises coming from Holmes’ bedroom, noises of distress. Watson hesitated, unsure of what to do. His instinct was to enter the room and try to help Holmes, but Watson did not know if his help would be welcome, especially as he would have to intrude on Holmes’ personal space to do so.

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Treat for Rudbeckia: The Interesting Thing About the Queen Bee

Title: The Interesting Thing About the Queen Bee
Recipient: Rudbeckiasunshine
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: 1954 TV
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: A sweet little retirement scene

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Treat for estelraca: holy light, oh, burn the night

Title: holy light, oh, burn the night
Recipient:

estelraca
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Doyle - Canon
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson, Mycroft
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Brief mentions of drug use and violence
Summary: When two near-strangers intended to share lodgings, it was best that they knew the worst of each other before they entered into an agreement.

Holmes was an excellent violinist and a habitual user of morphia, but Watson did not know that yet. Nor did he know that he could be reduced to stupefied despair by a full moon.

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Treat for ghostofnuggetspast: Pigeons for Podsters

Title: Pigeons for Podsters
Recipient: GhostOfNuggetsPast
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Co. (podcast)
Characters/Pairings: A Pigeon
Rating: G
Warnings: Contains Pigeon
Summary: ... did someone say ... pigeons?

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Treat for kingstoken: Notes on a Holiday

Title: Notes on a Holiday
Recipient:
kingstoken
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: some vague references to drug use
Summary: Of course a nice holiday with Holmes in this remote and unpeopled corner of England would inevitably become, in short order, The Cornish Horror, but that is a story for another time.

Watson and Holmes have come to a lonely part of Cornwall, but they are alone together.

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Treat for iwantthatcoat: Bonobo in the Mist

Title: Bonobo in the Mist
Recipient: Iwantthatcoat
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Co
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes
Rating: G
Warnings:none
Summary:John and Mariana are chimps. Sherlock is a bonobo. I imagine John seeing this image in his mind after this fic. Titlecard for and Inspired by "Bonobosian" by Iwantthatcoat.

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Treat for happyeverafter72: 221B Coopers Chase

Title: 221B Coopers Chase
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Holmes/Thursday Murder Club
Characters/Pairings: Joyce Meadowcroft and Elizabeth Best
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: The Thursday Murder Club ladies as Holmes and Watson!

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Winter 2025 Guessing Post!

Thank you so much for another wonderful round of Holmestice! The mods want to say THANK YOU to all the creators who joined us this round. Being in this community with you is a joy and an honour.

Reveals and the Master List go up on December 21 (Baker Island time). Until then, please enjoy and comment on all the lovely fanworks. (If you haven't thanked your creator for your own gift yet, please do!) Creators, please do NOT respond to Dreamwidth comments with your name attached or post your works elsewhere on the Internet until reveals go up in the community. You may of course reply to comments on AO3, which preserves your anonymity.

Meanwhile, stay tuned: treats are coming up! We have a bumper crop this round! For anyone thinking of making a treat, we will accept treats until reveals, so if there's a prompt that inspires you, please have at it! Just use the regular submission guidelines and send your headers to holmesticemods@gmail.com.

If you'd like to guess who created what in this round, here's a list of all the contributors for the main gifts. (You'll have to put in some extra work to guess the treat-makers!) Go ahead and take a guess! It's all in good fun.

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Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice artists, authors, podficcers, and vidders! See you again on the 21st, when we reveal who made what!

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Fic for rabidsamfan: Potential for Friends

Title: Potential for Friends
Recipient: Rabidsamfan
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Books: Doyle - Canon(Directly after A Study in Scarlet)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, mentions of Jefferson Hope, Stamford, and Victor Trevor, no established relationships or pairings
Rating: T
Warnings: PTSD, drug usage(Smoking 'ship's'), verbal arguments, Nightmares
Summary: After A Study in Scarlet, Holmes observes Watson, and tries to reconcile with the fact that Watson may have just worked past his defenses… and just how he truly feels about this development of having a friend. And yet, after a fight, Holmes realizes just how much Watson carries-and why, to Holmes, having Watson around baffles him. But... maybe that's not a bad thing?

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Fic for periferal: Stranger Than Kindness

Title: Stranger Than Kindness
Recipient: periferal/grossferatu
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock Holmes & the Servants of Hell - Paul Kane
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson, past Watson/Mary, implied past queerplatonic Holmes/Moriarty
Rating: M
Warnings: BDSM, angst, aging, aftermath of trauma
Summary: After the events of Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, is there even enough left of Holmes and Watson to live out their remaining years in relative bliss? Yes, in a certain strange way.

Note: Sherlock Holmes & the Servants of Hell is a crossover with Clive Barker's Hellraiser universe, written by an editor and horror historian who specializes in it (and blurbed by Barker himself)

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Art for Helloliriels: Lost Without You

Title: Lost without You
Recipient:

helloliriels
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: light angst
Summary: There are things Sherlock and John are willing to lose but others they won't budge.

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Fic for Gardnerhill: in my own plain way

Title: in my own plain way
Recipient: Gardnerhill
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Summary: To Maud Bellamy, facts are more comforting than the kindest words.
A retelling of the Adventure of the Lion's Mane.

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Fic for DeeLaundry: Meeting Mr Holmes

Title: Meeting Mr Holmes
Recipient: DeeLaundry
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Co
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes & Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: No archive warnings apply
Summary:
”You say that, mate, but you told me the other week that your brother may as well be the British Government sometimes, and that he’s always been overprotective of you.” John countered, “For all I know, I’ll stick my foot in it and next thing I end up ‘disappeared’!”

Sherlock’s eyebrow rose, but his exasperated face was undermined by the fond smile he was failing to hide.

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A few months into their relationship - and since John discovered Sherlock had an older brother - the couple receive an invitation to join Mycroft Holmes for an afternoon tea. John is, predictably, anxious about making a good impression. But will he manage to do so with the mysterious elder Mr Holmes?

Holmestice gift for DeeLaundry - who asked about what this universe's version of Mycroft Holmes would be like. I hope I do him justice for you!

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