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Turns out Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms was just taking a quick Swiss vacation, and is now back in Baker Street where it belongs. Thanks to erinptah for letting me know!

In other news, I need to go change all my tags again.

Snowflake Challenge #15

My top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:

In no particular order:

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: I requested Scorfuma for femslashex and reflectedeve, who's one of my favorite femslash artists of all time, gave me this gorgeous Scorfuma art and it's amazing, oh my god, you need to see it.

Also, this summer, I did multiple full rewatches of She-Ra. I love Scorpia!!! And Entrapta. And Glitradora. Actually, a lot of characters and ships. I haven't managed to actually get any She-Ra fics to the point of posting, but I've spent a lot of time doing research for various Scorpia fics that I suspect will never leave my notebook. (I'm happy to share book recommendations and links if anyone else needs to research amputation or transracial adoption.)

Sherlock Holmes: I did holmestice this spring and participated in the final July Writing Prompts on watsons_woes, so I wrote a decent number of Sherlock Holmes fics (mostly very short). They're all on my AO3 or linked in my sticky post.

The Old Guard: I matched on Andy/Quỳnh for femslashex, so I spent a solid month living and breathing guilt-ridden immortal bisexuals. I rewatched the movie and even reread the comics. I read some great fics, too - check out my AO3 bookmarks if you want recs.

MCU: ziazippy5379 gave me this great time-traveling PeggyNat fic for femslashex. You should definitely read it if you like spy tropes. Aside from that, I haven't done much in the MCU fandom this year. I loved Wakanda Forever, but I kind of checked out of the MCU fandom after finding out more about Cap 4. (CNN; Variety; The Mary Sue. There's also the anti-Semetic connotations of the original name - they changed it, but the fact that it took them this long to realize there was an issue doesn't feel like a great sign for the project.) Ugh. Is it really this hard to make an anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid Captain America movie when you literally have Anthony Mackie to do it? (They might still manage it, I'm just... not inclined to give Disney the benefit of the doubt.)

Good Omens: I was... not a fan of season 2, to put it mildly. But Good Omens just barely earns its place on this list because of this drawing of a plant that's technically Good Omens fanart that's gotten more kudos than all of my other works combined. ...And because the author of the fic for which I made said fanart wrote a sequel and it's so good. ...And because I spent a fair bit of time writing a 3k fic about Anathema Device that I may or may not ever share with anyone but am nonetheless proud of. (I love Anathema so much, folks. Why was she not in season 2.) I guess I spent more time in Good Omens fandom than I realized.

My top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) in 2023 were:

1. AO3, of course
2. Dreamwidth
3. Tumblr - social media is not my thing, but it's where a lot of the fanart is. (If you're a fanartist reading this, please please crosspost to AO3 where there's a good filtering system and no algorithm and I will actually see your art, please, I know it's inconvenient but also I will love you forever.)
4. Etsy - I love stickers
5. Fanlore - I like to gawk at the Supernatural articles

The top 5 things I did to contribute to fandom in 2023 were:

1. Leaving AO3 comments! I leave a lot of AO3 comments. Often quite long ones. It makes me happy.
2. Writing fic
3. Uh. Participating in exchanges? If that counts separately from writing fic?
4. Writing image descriptions of fanart on Tumblr (I hate logging into Tumblr but I love writing image descriptions.)
5. Sending friendly Tumblr asks? I guess? I can't think of anything else for #5 so whatever

My top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:

If I'm being honest, this is just the top five fics that I wanted to link to and not actually based on any kind of rigorous judgement.

there's nothing she won't burn for slashmarks in femslashex
Fandom: The Old Guard (movie)
Relationship: Immortal Wives
Summary: Angsty unsent letters between Andy and Quỳnh, set roughly between the end of the movie and the epilogue, about 2k words
Commentary: This is a messy, self-indulgent character study with no real plot that I wrote to get a feel for the characters. (Even the title is self-indulgent - I don't normally do song lyric titles, but for femslashex , I decided to let myself.) It was a last-minute decision to post it as a treat. I'd never posted anything like it before and I didn't expect it to get as warm a reception as it did.

searching for a light for slashmarks in femslashex
Fandom: The Old Guard (movie)
Relationship: Immortal Wives
Summary: Andy rescuing Quỳnh and the two resting and recovering together, hurt/comfort, about 2.5k words
Commentary: I'm quite pleased with this one, although it's very, very AU. It's a nice bedtime read, I think. I first encountered the song that titled this fic through this lovely Sherlock vid by rachelindeed .

Bad Moon Rising for lupa_lunae in holmestice
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Relationship: Johnlock
Summary: Werewolf fluff, about 1k words
Commentary: My best attempt at writing werewolf!Sherlock. Neither canon-compliant nor very in-character, because my willingness to actually engage with BBC Sherlock as written is... limited. Takes a significant amount of inspiration from ACD Holmes, like both of my other Sherlock fics.

With Me There Is A Limit in watsons_woes
Fandom: Officially ACD Holmes, but compatible with many adaptations
Summary: Limerick about Holmes being a bad roommate
Commentary: The title is a quote from The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, which I maintain is the cutest Sherlock Holmes story. Watson tries to get Holmes to clean their flat. Holmes offers to tell Watson a story instead of cleaning and Watson immediately gives in because he can't resist Holmes telling stories. That is the entire plot. How adorable is that?

In the Water in watsons_woes
Fandom: Several seconds of footage of a kitten wearing a deerstalker hat and meowing (it's a long story)
Summary: 100 words set in graycardinal 's kitten!Holmes universe.
Commentary: By my count, there are four kitten!Holmes works by now (graycardinal 's fic, evilinsanemonkey 's podfic of graycardinal 's fic, rachelindeed 's amazing multiverse vid, and my drabble). Such is the power of Holmestice.