31 flavours: Sherlock
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toujours_nigelToday's rec is a stunning and stunningly hot exploration of lesbian identities in 1950s London that also digs deep into female experiences in the interwar years and during WWII, featuring soft butch Johnnie Watson and angry androgyne Sherlock Holmes. The mystery is also A++
I'm being flippant because I am not nearly eloquent or articulate enough to express what a treasure this story is, and how stupendously it affected me the first time I read it.
How the mouth changes its shape (132531 words) by breathedout
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John(nie) Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Victor(ia) Trevor, John(nie) Watson/OFC
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John(nie) Watson, Victor(ia) Trevor, Sally Donovan, Original Characters, lots of them
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Today's drabble is about
Salwa arrives a week before the other kings, and Amba’s smile is brighter than the nine-branched bronze lamps lighting her chamber, and her waking life sweeter than dreams. In ten days they will be wed and she will be his wife and happy.
In her quieter moments Amba can admit that her mother has reason for her fears. Kashi is ancient and opulent, and blessed by the divine river. Salwa is little and ragged, but in its palaces they remember Princess Savitri of Madra, and in Madra the princesses train alongside their brothers.
Amba will be Salwa’s queen, and happy.
I'm being flippant because I am not nearly eloquent or articulate enough to express what a treasure this story is, and how stupendously it affected me the first time I read it.
How the mouth changes its shape (132531 words) by breathedout
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John(nie) Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Victor(ia) Trevor, John(nie) Watson/OFC
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John(nie) Watson, Victor(ia) Trevor, Sally Donovan, Original Characters, lots of them
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Today's drabble is about
Salwa arrives a week before the other kings, and Amba’s smile is brighter than the nine-branched bronze lamps lighting her chamber, and her waking life sweeter than dreams. In ten days they will be wed and she will be his wife and happy.
In her quieter moments Amba can admit that her mother has reason for her fears. Kashi is ancient and opulent, and blessed by the divine river. Salwa is little and ragged, but in its palaces they remember Princess Savitri of Madra, and in Madra the princesses train alongside their brothers.
Amba will be Salwa’s queen, and happy.
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