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.
WHAT ELSE?
Don't worry if you miss a week! You don't have to commit to this challenge and are welcome to drop in and out. You can also go back and write a late response anytime.
You may post more than one response to a single week's prompt.
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.
“Undoubtedly, Jefferson Hope received his justice,” said Holmes, after the constables had left. “But I wonder if it might have been possible to achieve the same effect without neglecting his health.”
I was a little surprised to hear Holmes speaking like this after all we had been through this past week. He did not strike me as the kind to wonder abstractly in such a way.
“If we lived in a world where our police were more efficient,” I ventured. “Then you would be right, perhaps Hope may still be alive.”
“Yes, but it is so much more satisfying to do it yourself, is it not? To earn what you yourself deserve.”
“I suppose so.” I didn’t know where he was leading me.
He walked over to the window. “Yes, it would be ideal to live in a world with an able justice system. But if one feels it worth to take matters into their own hands, then there is nothing for it. And so I say again,
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
beamkatanachronicles) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
221bdrabbles2023-10-23 01:17 pm
no subject
Characters: Holmes and Watson
Fandom: ACD Sherlock Holmes
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count: 182
“Undoubtedly, Jefferson Hope received his justice,” said Holmes, after the constables had left. “But I wonder if it might have been possible to achieve the same effect without neglecting his health.”
I was a little surprised to hear Holmes speaking like this after all we had been through this past week. He did not strike me as the kind to wonder abstractly in such a way.
“If we lived in a world where our police were more efficient,” I ventured. “Then you would be right, perhaps Hope may still be alive.”
“Yes, but it is so much more satisfying to do it yourself, is it not? To earn what you yourself deserve.”
“I suppose so.” I didn’t know where he was leading me.
He walked over to the window.
“Yes, it would be ideal to live in a world with an able justice system. But if one feels it worth to take matters into their own hands, then there is nothing for it. And so I say again,
“‘Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.’”
no subject