Every Monday, I will post a prompt. You have until the following Monday to write and reply to this post with a 100-200 word fic inspired by the prompt. All Sherlock Holmes (& adjacent) fandoms are welcome!
For an extra challenge, try to hit exactly 100 words, or write a 221B drabble.
You can reply with the full text of the drabble, or link out to another site like Ao3, Tumblr, your personal DW, etc. Feel free to post completed works to our Ao3 collection!
Fics posted to the main challenge must be SFW; you must link out if your response is NSFW. Please warn for content where appropriate.
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If you're inspired to continue your drabbles, you're welcome to connect multiple challenge responses to each other, or expand on your fics outside of the challenge.
Characters: Holmes & Watson Fandom: ACD Canon / Granada Rating: Gen Notes/Warnings: n/a Word count: 187
On an early December morning, my joints frigid with cold and my back aching, I came down to breakfast to spot my friend by the glazed and white window.
“Why, it is snowing!” I exclaimed with glee from over his shoulder. Indeed, the street outside had been verily blanketed in a porcelain, crisp layer. I observed the little flakes that were still falling as I more keenly adopted Holmes’s point of view. I could see two children running about, tucked to their chins with woollen layers, and leaving tiny footprints, deeper at the heels, in the sheet of merry precipitation.
Holmes gave some strange, noncommittal hum.
I replied carefully. “You know, most people enjoy seeing the snow.”
“I recall seeing the wonder in it when I was younger. Perhaps it has some uses in detecting crime.”
“Well,” I proposed as nonchalantly as I could. “Why don’t we go out and inspect its properties?”
He looked at me for a taut moment, and I almost thought he might decline. Then, without a word, Holmes went for the door and picked up his coat.
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221bdrabbles2023-11-26 05:47 pm
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Fandom: The Great Ace Attorney
Rating: G
Notes/Warnings: n/a
Word count: 221
Link: here
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Fandom: ACD Holmes
Rating: General
Notes/Warnings: frostbite, snow trauma
Word count: 199, 182
Link: here
no subject
Characters: Holmes & Watson
Fandom: ACD Canon / Granada
Rating: Gen
Notes/Warnings: n/a
Word count: 187
On an early December morning, my joints frigid with cold and my back aching, I came down to breakfast to spot my friend by the glazed and white window.
“Why, it is snowing!” I exclaimed with glee from over his shoulder. Indeed, the street outside had been verily blanketed in a porcelain, crisp layer. I observed the little flakes that were still falling as I more keenly adopted Holmes’s point of view. I could see two children running about, tucked to their chins with woollen layers, and leaving tiny footprints, deeper at the heels, in the sheet of merry precipitation.
Holmes gave some strange, noncommittal hum.
I replied carefully. “You know, most people enjoy seeing the snow.”
“I recall seeing the wonder in it when I was younger. Perhaps it has some uses in detecting crime.”
“Well,” I proposed as nonchalantly as I could. “Why don’t we go out and inspect its properties?”
He looked at me for a taut moment, and I almost thought he might decline. Then, without a word, Holmes went for the door and picked up his coat.
We had a wonderful day.
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Fandom: Granada (90s AU)
Rating: G
Notes/Warnings: None
Word count: 100
Link: here