TL;DR: acd_holmesfest participants tend to produce PG-rated fic in the range 2000-4000 words, with a slight preference for M/M fic (almost exclusively Holmes/Watson) over gen fic, but with more gen fic than fandom in general.

Inspired by billiethepoet's recent analysis of the holmestice fic exchange, I did a purely descriptive statistical analysis of the contributions ( Read more... )

Just watched a Sherlock Holmes documentary on the website of the TV channel Arte, which might be of interest to some f-listers. It's only available in French or German. It's intended for a general audience, of course, so I don't suppose anyone here would learn anything much they didn't already know, but there's some nice footage.

Whoops, this reminds me that one of my New Year's Resolutions was to read more non-fanfic fiction, which I haven't been doing at all so far. Not because there's anything wrong with fanfic, of course, but more because I feel like over the past year or two I've been missing out on a lot of good fiction by only reading fanfic.


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Various fic from the past few months, in fandoms new and old, all posted on AO3.

Two X-Men fics

Monster

4000 words, rated M, Charles/Erik. This was written for frau_kali for the Secret Mutant exchange. Angsty canon-compliant post-DOFP fic with a happy-ish ending.

Listening Comprehension3000 words, rated M, Charles/Erik. This one's angsty canon ( Read more... )

Three fic recs!

I was lucky enough to receive not only my gift fic but also a treat in the X-Men Secret Mutant exchange. They're both quite dark, angsty and Magneto-centric, just what I was hoping for. They're also both very powerful, very well-written fics and definitely worth a read. One was This island we cling to by daymarket, and the other ( Read more... )

Podfic rec! This was my gift as part of this round of acd_holmesfest.

I feel a little weird reccing podfic of one of my own fics, but this is really good podfic, and I loved it. So if it's something you ever listen to, you can find it here. Highly recommended!

A while ago I decided to watch as many Holmes adaptations as I could get my hands on. I've been writing them up here on LJ, and I've been progressing pretty slowly. So far only managed ( Read more... )

Here's a webpage that I wish I'd discovered ages ago, with tools, plugins and bookmarklets for AO3, for doing stuff like sorting by the kudos/hits ratio, adding better search functionality, downloading statistics ( Read more... )

Just finished my Yuletide signup ( Read more... )

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