LINKDING

<blockquote>"Sherlock asked me to set up some deductive reasoning scenarios this week. I set up some problems - how has the room changed and what can be deduced from those changes, how does décor reflect personality, that sort of thing." "He did. Of course he did." Joan presses her fingers to her forehead. "Have you been here long?"</blockquote>

<blockquote>If Joan had to summarize her observations of Cookie to Sherlock – and, who is she kidding, he's celebrity-obsessed and will probably wring it out of her one day – she'd say that she's a woman who strikes out first with her weaknesses and hides her strengths until they're needed. It's nearly enough to knock Joan off balance.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Marcus gets along really well with Holmes' friends.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The bad news: In 111 days, an asteroid will strike the Earth in a cataclysm that promises to destroy human civilization as we know it. The good news: There's been a murder.</blockquote>

“I believe, Watson,” Sherlock said, loudly and much too close, “that the customary salutation at moments such as this is ‘Eureka’. Watson. Watson.”

<blockquote>Sherlock is all at once a gentleman and a villain; unflinchingly reckless and often belligerent, but more than a little kind, too. Behind those shutters he puts up there sits a person who just can’t bear the thought of making a tortoise into soup.</blockquote> ➤ scenes from a life

<blockquote>In which Joan solves a murder, goes on an unexpected date, outwits Sherlock, and survives his highly questionable attempts at emotional support.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Joan thinks she should be less surprised by his sudden, “Watson, we’re getting married!” and yet, here she is, cooking her egg and trying not to be astonished." Infants are vanishing, and Sherlock and Joan go undercover as a married couple to find their kidnappers.</blockquote> ➤ I have this terrible need to see Sherlock and Joan in all the traditional slash tropes only platonically (okay no lbr I kind of want that for ALL THE FANDOMS, but this one especially) so the ending made me sad because it is a shippy ending. ➤ But everything else about the fic was great!

<blockquote>Improbable was not a synonym for impossible.</blockquote>

<blockquote>My prompt was: Sherlock as a maverick knitting designer.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Joan tries to date, and Sherlock gets in the way.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alternate Universe. Mob doctor Joan is told to detox a debt-ridden addict named Sherlock Holmes. It goes poorly. For the mob, that is.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Holmes mostly called her his Diotima when he was drunk—the nickname was a surer sign than any slur in his speech or hitch in his step that he'd reached the bottom of a bottle of fine single malt. Joan was sure that if pressed, he'd claim it was because intoxication inevitably reminded him of his years at Cambridge, slouching his way through the Classics with an insouciance that never failed to gladden and gall his tutors in equal measure. Joan thought it was more due to the fact that he could be a pretentious shithead when he wanted to be.</blockquote> ➤ OR <blockquote>Diotima of Mantinea was a female seer whose ideas are the origin of the concept of Platonic love</blockquote>