Ten Words meme

[elaby]

caitirin did this meme the other day with Konata and Kagami and it was awesomesauce, so I'm trying my hand at ten-word Holmes, er, thingies. I wouldn't dare to call them stories.

Rules: Take the major fanfic categories and write something for each using ten or fewer words.

I used ten for all of them, and it was painful. I'm particularly skeptical about the first one, but I was done and didn't want to think about it anymore.

Fandom: Sherlock Holmes, Holmes/Watson (some of them are slashy, but it's all innuendo, so I'm not sure what to rate it.)



Angst: 1891 - Mrs. Hudson drew down the blinds when I left.

Fluff: Sunlight cut the fog one Sunday; we sailed the Serpentine.

UST: Describing Holmes, I draw not from a writer's dedication alone.

Friendship: "I'd have you with me," he said, "stiff leg or no."

Hurt/Comfort: My blood soaked his shirt-front; still he held me up.

Adventure: More harrowing than Dartmoor was watching Mrs. Hudson's small nephews.

Smut: Not without reason did I describe his fingers as "sensitive."

Humor: "Perfectly safe," Holmes assured me, prior to the fire-engine's arrival.

Comments

[janeturenne.livejournal.com]

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These are AWESOME! Adventure and Humor both make me giggle like a madwoman, and are therefore my favorites (Mrs. Hudson's nephews! BWEE!); Friendship and UST are utterly gorgeous, and Friendship in particular displays your usual profound understanding of their closeness in full force; and they all say so much with so little! I was waiting eagerly for these, and they were even better than I could have hoped :D

Now you've got me torn between the feeling that I should do real, ten word ones as a follow-up to my cheating sentences, and the knowledge mine could never live up to these. But it's a happy, fuzzy, awestruck kind of knowledge!

[elaby.livejournal.com]

*pops into a little ball of happy* Thank you so much! They were really hard, and I kept despairing over them, so the fact that you liked them, being the writer you are, means a lot to me :) I don't know if I could capture the right tone for a "Holmes and Watson watch Mrs. Hudson's nephews" fic, but it's tempting XD

I think you could do it, and they would be just as if not more awesome than mine.

[janeturenne.livejournal.com]

Oooooo, I want the Mrs. Hudson's nephews fic so much! Holmes with kids is the most adorable thing ever. I can just imagine it in your voice, and it's perfect, and oh, the preemptive joy! Pleasepleaseplease? *bats eyelashes* Would a bribe help? 'Cause I happen to have one-- or eight-- sitting about...


Angst: Mycroft fears Sherlock’s eulogy for Watson, wary of graveside confessions.

Fluff: Holmes’ verdict on the latest Strand—“Tolerable”—provokes matching grins.

UST: In coffeepots, in mirrors, and, sometimes, directly, Holmes watches.

Friendship: Watson forgets Holmes’ birthdays purposefully. It’s the best possible present.

Hurt/Comfort: Watson invents fantastical revenges for Grüner, Holmes laughing despite bruises.

Adventure: “If you will just slip your revolver into your pocket…”

Smut: Watson’s mouth, tutored on three continents, is worth the risk.

Humor: “No, I will not call Watson my brother-in-law. Really, Sherlock…”

[elaby.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA YAY! *giggles like crazy* These are AWESOME! Awesome awesome awesome! I love them all! Oh my gosh, the first one, so sad and serious in so many ways. "Friendship" is just so Watson and so perfect, and I really love the Hurt/Comfort one (how very them!) and OMG, three continents! The last one, too, SQUEE XD You managed not only to do all eight in ten perfect words each, but you also worked Mycroft into two of them! Eeeee!

I'll totally write that "Mrs. Hudson's nephews" fic for you XD kcscribbler suggested making a fic out of the Serpentine one too, and I'd love to do that, so I'll have to start writing these down! Hee!

[janeturenne.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Mycroft is so much fun to play with (that scenario in the last one I've been dying to write for ages). Some day I will set aside a month, and write The Many Adventures of Mycroft, Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson, London's Unlikeliest Crime-Fighting Trio!, because, for serious, secondary character love <3

And YAY!!!! Thankyouthankyou! I can't wait!

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee! Secondary character love LIKE WHOA! I think that would be the coolest story (or series!) ever XD

[janeturenne.livejournal.com]

They're just so wonderful, all three of them! Sometimes I try to decide which of them I love most, and it makes my brain hurt, because how can I decide between three such equally excellent and yet so different characters? The Holmesian universe is so much richer and more real for having them there, even if they don't show up all that often. And they're all such fun to write!