Comforting – janto321 (FaceofMer) – Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle [Archive of Our Own]
Comforting – janto321 (FaceofMer) – Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Comfort, Established Relationship, Cuddling & Snuggling
Summary:
When the world gets hard, it’s good to lean on someone
Holmes, Watson, and First Names
So, if you have spent any time in the ACD canon fandom you will have encountered conversations about why Holmes and Watson always use each other’s surnames and never each other’s first names (or, as they would have put it, “Christian names”) when speaking to each other, even in private. And if you have spent a LOT of time in the ACD canon fandom, you may have encountered conversations about whether this would change if hypothetically speaking they Declared Their Love or Became A Couple.
So, in addition to what everyone else has to say on the subject, it occurred to me that it’s significant that during the first of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry–the one where Queensberry was the defendant–there’s a whole thing in Sir Edward Carson’s cross-examination of Wilde about Christian names.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier – janto321 (FaceofMer) – Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Developing Relationship, Love Confessions, Love, First Kiss, Post-The Empty House
Summary:
Watson is surprised to find a tin soldier in Sherlock’s travel-worn jacket
Some ACD johnlock feels today. I somehow got here from an offhand comment about Sherlock swiping a pop figure that he thinks John would like…
(really that gif could apply to almost all my fics)