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    “I’m looking for a castle,” John informed the scarecrow. “A moving one.”

    Except that, as it turned out, it was not a moving one at all.

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    10 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    This essay, originally written in 2016 for the Johnlock Fanzine "Behind Closed Curtains No More," examines the history of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson as literary figures, their relationship to one another, and looks forward to the then-upcoming Series 4 with the anticipation that it would at long last unveil the true nature of their story.

    While that didn't happen, I have always been tremendously proud of this piece. Of all my old work, it's the only thing I've never been ashamed of. This essay distills what I considered to be the key elements of the TJLC reading into their own kind of narrative, one about a story waiting desperately to be told.

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    10 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 54

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    You hold in your hands a leather-bound book inscribed with the title The Stories in Our Veins. No author is named by the cover. On the first page, the following passage has been written in an elegant, cursive hand:

    A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is indeed an ideal helpmate.

    Sherlock Holmes in “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier,” written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1926.

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    10 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    "I am compelled to admit that, having taken my pen in my hand, I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader."

    One wintry evening, Dr. Watson returns home to find that Holmes has rekindled their most longstanding disagreement by creating his own rendition of one of Watson's narratives. Braced for criticism, in reading Holmes' story Watson instead finds the one thing he had long believed Holmes to be incapable of giving.

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    10 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 18

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    This is a collection of Mystrade One Shots. Some soft, some angsty, some teeth rotting sweet.

    I will update the tags along the way. I hope you enjoy them, and I am always open for prompts and ideas!

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    02 Jun 2026