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Sherlock Fic: Penumbra (Autumn Special)

2024-10-28T20:00:37Z

Title: Penumbra (Autumn Special)
Author: saki101
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: Teen
Genre: Urban fantasy
Warnings: No warnings apply
Summary: Buried treasure
A/N: Written for the 2024 Spook_me Ficathon where lots of other spooky fic may be found in a great variety of fandoms!
Prompt: evil book/grimoire

On AO3

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Sherlock Fic: ♢ ♧ ♤ ♡

2021-06-23T12:36:59Z

Title: ♢ ♧ ♤ ♡
Author: saki101
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mrs Hudson
Rating: Mature
Genre: Urban fantasy
Warnings: No warnings apply
Summary: An odd, little slice of life on Baker Street. (A sequel to Blades, although each may be read as a stand alone fic.)
A/N: Written for the 2021 Summer Holmestice Exchange where lots of other Sherlock Holmes fic, art, video and podcasts may be found!

(Any references to incidents in the later episodes of Sherlock do not imply that any major plot points in those episodes happened in this universe, although small incidents and bits of conversation may have.)

On AO3

Image source: Jan Jansz van de Velde - Glasses, Smoking Implements, and Cards - 1653.jpg WikiCommons

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MfU Fanfic: Shards

2021-04-10T12:32:27Z

After The See-Paris-And-Die Affair, Napoleon and Illya have a few things to work out.

Written for the 2021 MFUWSS Easter Egg Exchange to Aconitumn's' prompts: something involving France, a lavender field, and a surfeit of chocolate.

Title: Shards
Author: Saki101
Word Count: ~2.4K
Genre: pre-slash

On AO3.

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Sherlock fic: Penumbra (Winter Special) Complete

2021-02-21T09:06:33Z

Title: Penumbra (Winter Special)
Author: saki101
Rating: R
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John, Mrs Hudson, Mrs Turner, Wiggins, Greg Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, OCs
Word Count: ~41.7K (Chapters 38/38)
Summary: Autumn has faded into winter. As the days grow shorter, Holmeswood Manor celebrates the solstice.
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock BBC nor Dark Shadows belong to me.
A/N: Written in a series of short chapters to the prompts of the 2020 Advent Ficlet Challenge and taking as inspiration the John and Sherlock of the Unaired Pilot.

Another instalment of the Penumbra series, which is a gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the 1966 television series).

Preview: In Maine, there was Collinwood and the three centuries of history that were woven into its walls. In London, there is Holmeswood Manor (or the Manor on Baker Street as the urban legends have it), tucked now into a city street when once its oak woods rolled from the heath to the river.

Series One Overview: John grew up with its stories of ghosts and wizards and things that hunt in the night. They didn’t keep him from interviewing for a residential post at the Manor because he couldn’t afford London on an army pension and there could not possibly have been any truth to the tales.

Series Two Overview: It's been more than a year since John came to live at the Manor on Baker Street. He has learned many things, one being that the stories hadn't prepared him for the half of it.

Summer Mini-episode: A glimpse of life in the season after the ball.

Winter Special: The winter solstice approaches. John's knowledge of the Manor and himself expands.

***
Excerpt: I turned back to the window. “I don’t recall this last year. Were we away?” I leaned out. The breeze was sharp. The sound of bells louder.

“No. I told you this summer that you were changing.”

***

Posted on AO3.

Photo source material: A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels by Louis Comfort Tiffany, a public domain work of art from Google Art Project, Wikipedia Commons. (More information may be found here.)

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Sherlock Fic: Penumbra (Winter Special)

2020-12-04T13:32:53Z

Title: Penumbra (Winter Special)
Author: saki101
Rating: R
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John
Word Count: ~27.8K (first twenty-seven chapters)
Summary: Autumn is fading into winter. As the days grow shorter, Holmeswood Manor reveals something new to John.
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock BBC nor Dark Shadows belong to me.
A/N: Written in a series of short chapters to the prompts of the 2020 Advent Ficlet Challenge and
taking as inspiration the John and Sherlock of the Unaired Pilot.

Another instalment of the Penumbra series, which is a gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the 1966 television series).

Preview: In Maine, there was Collinwood and the three centuries of history that were woven into its walls. In London, there is Holmeswood Manor (or the Manor on Baker Street as the urban legends have it), tucked now into a city street when once its oak woods rolled from the heath to the river.

Series One Overview: John grew up with its stories of ghosts and wizards and things that hunt in the night. They didn’t keep him from interviewing for a residential post at the Manor because he couldn’t afford London on an army pension and there could not possibly have been any truth to the tales.

Series Two Overview: It's been more than a year since John came to live at the Manor on Baker Street. He has learned many things, one being that the stories hadn't prepared him for the half of it.

Summer Mini-episode: A glimpse of life in the season after the ball.

Winter Special: John's knowledge of the Manor expands further.

***
Excerpt: I turned back to the window. “I don’t recall this last year. Were we away?” I leaned out. The breeze was sharp. The sound of bells louder.

“No. I told you this summer that you were changing.”

***

Posted on AO3.

Photo source: Wiki Commons link to original

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Sherlock BBC Fic: The Flight of the Swans

2020-11-09T00:36:14Z

Title: The Flight of the Swans
Author: saki101
Rating: PG-13
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John
Word Count: 23.6K
Summary: A prospective client has observed things that make her doubt her sanity. She wants Sherlock to uncover the truth. As John discovers, Sherlock is uniquely qualified to investigate her case.
Disclaimer: Sherlock BBC does not belong to me.

Excerpt: Morning would come. Dreams would go.

Posted on AO3.

Photo source: Wiki Commons with link to Creative Commons Licence Image has been modified.

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Graphic: Penumbra (Series Two)

2020-08-14T19:53:27Z

Another graphic for Penumbra (Series Two) that I originally posted on Tumblr and wanted to preserve here on DW. I managed to accomplish that with one other graphic about two years ago and apparently started the process on this one, but never finished it. (Timescales anyone?!) Also, I don't remember how I managed to get it into my DW images archive. Anyway, it's here now - Mad Jim from the Ball (otherwise known as Andrew Scott in the role of King Louis XI of France in The Hollow Crown).

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Sherlock Fic: Penumbra (Summer mini-episode)

2020-08-12T21:09:35Z

Title: Penumbra (Summer mini-episode)
Author: saki101
Rating: E
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John
Word Count: ~800 words
Summary: London is having a heat wave. The solution for such things at Holmeswood Manor predates electricity by a very, very long time.
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock BBC nor Dark Shadows belong to me.

Excerpt: Sleep slid away. I reached out towards the other, often empty, side of the bed. My fingers found the cool curves of my bedfellow and I smiled.

Posted on AO3.

Photo source: Wikipedia Commons

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Sherlock Holmes Fic: Infinite Variety

2020-06-19T21:55:07Z

Title: Infinite Variety
Author: saki101
Rating: PG
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Doctor John Watson, Holmes/Watson
Word Count: ~4.5K
Warnings: consideration of the apparent death of Holmes, canon typical mention of off-stage death of minor characters
Summary: Almost as precipitously as when Stamford first introduced them, Holmes and Watson take up residence on Baker Street after Holmes returns from the dead. Subsequently, they sift through the implications.
Disclaimer: Public domain (at least all the ACD story elements referenced herein)
A/N: Written for the June 2020 Holmestice.

Excerpt: It is, with small gestures like this, that we nurture one another in our mutual convalescence of body and mind. We are neither of us whole, no matter what brave faces we may put on it.

Posted on AO3.

Painting: The Violin Student by Stephen Seymour Thomas (1868 - 1956)

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Sherlock Holmes Fic: He's Not Here

2020-04-05T14:22:48Z

Title: He’s Not Here
Author: saki101
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~7.9K
Warnings: consideration of the apparent death of Holmes, canon typical mention of off-stage death of minor characters
Summary: Holmes learns more about how Watson felt after the Reichenbach Fall, and what Watson did about it.
Disclaimer: Public domain (at least all the ACD story elements referenced herein)
A/N: Written for the 2020 ACDHolmesfest.

Excerpt: “Where did you get a photograph of me?”

I laughed. “From that photographer you suspected of murder. You sat for a whole series in order to have plenty of time to converse with him and observe his reactions. You told him you were an actor and had me bring along changes of costume, stage make-up, and props - a skull and a riding crop. Surely you remember?”

On A03.

Photo Source: Wikipedia Commons

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Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Seven

2019-03-08T09:38:34Z

So, here is the last of my seven.

Since the gilt print isn't clear in the photo, the title is 'The Works of Maupassant'.

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Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Six

2019-03-07T07:22:40Z

Nearing the end now...

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Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Five

2019-03-06T07:58:57Z

A few days ago, elmey issued an open invitation to post covers of seven books one loves - one cover a day for a week. There is to be no explanation or review, just the cover. With each cover one is to ask someone else to take up the challenge. Rather than tag folks who might not care to do this or have already done this, I, too, am issuing an open invitation to participate to anyone reading who would enjoy doing so!

The title isn't very clear, so I'll add it here: The Golden Treasury - Palgrave

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Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Four

2019-03-05T07:42:59Z

Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Three

2019-03-04T07:33:46Z

Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Two

2019-03-03T11:40:33Z

A few days ago, elmey issued an open invitation to post covers of seven books one loves - one cover a day for a week. There is to be no explanations or reviews, just covers. With each cover one is to ask someone else to take up the challenge. Rather than tag folks who might not care to do this or have already done this, I, too, am issuing an open invitation to participate to anyone reading who would enjoy doing so!

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Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day One

2019-03-02T13:03:07Z

Over on LJ, elmey issued an open invitation to post covers of seven books one loves - one cover a day for a week. There is to be no explanations or reviews, just covers. With each cover one is to ask someone else to take up the challenge. Rather than tag folks who might not care to do this or have already done this, I, too, am issuing an open invitation to participate to anyone reading who would enjoy doing so!

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Penumbra: series two graphic

2018-12-07T21:53:10Z

Penumbra is a fusion of Sherlock and Dark Shadows. Do you remember Dark Shadows?

In Maine, there was Collinwood and the three centuries of history that were woven into its walls. In London, there is Holmeswood Manor (or the Manor on Baker Street as the urban legends have it), tucked now into a city street when once its oak woods rolled from the heath to the river.

John grew up with its stories of ghosts and wizards and things that hunt in the night. They certainly didn’t keep him from interviewing for a residential post at the Manor because he couldn’t afford London on an army pension and was sure there couldn’t be any truth to those strange, old tales.

During Series One, John gained some insight into those while he considered whether he would make the Manor his home. A year on, in Series Two, we visit a wiser John, who has come to appreciate that the stories hadn’t half prepared him for the truth. And they had never, ever mentioned anyone remotely like Sherlock.

(This is my first attempt at saving a graphic that I'd created on tumblr for one of my stories.)

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Penumbra (Series Two, Last Chapter: Leave-taking)

2018-08-09T14:54:49Z

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Last Chapter: Leave-taking)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: (this chapter) John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, James Moriarty, Mummy Holmes, Mr Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~7.7K (for this chapter), 40K (for second series)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to my gothic fusion of Sherlock and the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), set about a year after the first series.

Chapter 6: Leave-taking on AO3

Series Two: (earlier chapters) on AO3

Series One (all five chapters) on A03

Excerpt: “Brother, dear.”

Sherlock hummed an acknowledgement, but did not turn his head.

“I’ve been informed that we have a guest who will not be leaving.”

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Penumbra (Series Two, Fifth Chapter: Thistle)

2017-06-12T23:43:29Z

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Fifth Chapter: Thistle)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, James Moriarty, Mrs Hudson, Mummy Holmes, Mr Holmes, Charles Augustus Magnussen, Culvert(on) Smith, Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade, OCs
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~6.9K (for this chapter), 33K (for second series)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to my gothic fusion of Sherlock and the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), set about a year after the first series.

Chapter 5: Thistle on AO3

Chapter 4: Glazed on AO3
Chapter 3: Hammam on AO3
Chapter 2: Alchemy on AO3
Chapter 1: Do You Dance? on AO3
Series One (all five chapters) on A03

Excerpt: “No honour among the malevolent, John.”

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Penumbra (Series Two, Fourth Chapter: Glazed)

2017-05-15T21:36:29Z

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Fourth Chapter: Glazed)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, James Moriarty, Mrs Hudson, OCs, Mummy Holmes, Mr Holmes, Charles Augustus Magnusson, Culverton Smith
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~6.1K (for this chapter), 26.3K (for second series)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to my gothic fusion of Sherlock and the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), set about a year after the first series.

Chapter 4: Glazed on AO3

Chapter 3: Hammam on AO3
Chapter 2: Alchemy on AO3
Chapter 1: Do You Dance? on AO3
Series One (all five chapters) on A03

Excerpt: “Serious business, names. Not to be invoked lightly nor given away casually.” He’d gone back to watching in the glass over my head.

“So, no one but your parents knows who I am?”

“Oh, they know who you are, John. That’s why they’d like to know your names.”

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Penumbra (Series Two, Third Chapter: Hammam)

2017-05-06T10:06:30Z

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Third Chapter: Hammam)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, James Moriarty, Mrs Hudson, OCs
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~7K (for this chapter), 20K (for second series)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to my gothic fusion of Sherlock and the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), set about a year after the first series.

Chapter 3: Hammam on AO3

Chapter 2: Alchemy on AO3
Chapter 1: Do You Dance? on AO3
Series One (all five chapters) on A03

Excerpt: “It’s not fairy gold, is it?”

Several expressions warred for supremacy on Sherlock’s face. “Its atomic structure is perfect, every proton, neutron and electron orbiting in its proper place...

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Penumbra (Series Two, Second Chapter: Alchemy)

2017-04-27T19:01:51Z

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Second Chapter: Alchemy)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, OCs
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~8K
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to my gothic fusion of Sherlock and the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), set about a year after the first series.

Alchemy on AO3.
Series One (all five chapters) on A03.

Excerpt: I put my hands over my face. When I’ve been wild, when he’s been away, when I have lain, sated and breathless beside him, there have been times when I’ve begged him to do whatever he wanted so long as we didn’t stop.

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Sherlock Fic: Penumbra (Series Two - First Episode: Do You Dance?

2017-04-20T02:26:14Z

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, First Chapter: Do You Dance?)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, OCs
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~5K
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
Preview:
A/N: A sequel to the gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series) written last spring for the 2016 Miniseries March Challenge at Fall TV Season Sherlock. This chapter is set almost a year later than the first series.

Do You Dance? on AO3.
Series One (all five chapters) on A03.

Excerpt: Some mornings I ache more than others.

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MfU Fic: Dragon's Skin (Part II of Dragon's Egg)

2017-04-16T23:34:18Z

Title: Dragon's Egg (Dragon's Egg: Part II)
Author: saki101
Genre: pre-slash
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing: Illya/Napoleon
Disclaimer: Man from UNCLE is not mine and no money is being made.
A/N: elmey’s prompt was an evocative photograph and a quote:
Every chance, every chance that I take
I take it on the road...

Also posted on AO3.

Excerpt: “You incinerating something?” Napoleon called when he came into the living room still towelling his hair.

The door to the balcony was open, the spring breeze bringing a singed aroma with it.

“Not deliberately,” Illya replied.

Napoleon tightened the belt of his bathrobe and stepped quickly out into the leafy shade. There weren’t many things Illya did accidentally.

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Sherlock Fic: Penumbra (Autumn Special)

Sherlock Fic: ♢ ♧ ♤ ♡

MfU Fanfic: Shards

Sherlock fic: Penumbra (Winter Special) **Complete**

Sherlock Fic: Penumbra (Winter Special)

Sherlock BBC Fic: The Flight of the Swans

Graphic: Penumbra (Series Two)

Sherlock Fic: Penumbra (Summer mini-episode)

Sherlock Holmes Fic: Infinite Variety

Sherlock Holmes Fic: He's Not Here

Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Seven

Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Six

Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Five

Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Four

Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Three

Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day Two

Seven Book Cover Challenge - Day One

Penumbra: series two graphic

Penumbra (Series Two, Last Chapter: Leave-taking)

Penumbra (Series Two, Fifth Chapter: Thistle)

Penumbra (Series Two, Fourth Chapter: Glazed)

Penumbra (Series Two, Third Chapter: Hammam)

Penumbra (Series Two, Second Chapter: Alchemy)

Sherlock Fic: Penumbra (Series Two - First Episode: Do You Dance?

MfU Fic: Dragon's Skin (Part II of Dragon's Egg)

Sherlock fic: Penumbra (Winter Special) Complete