Chapter 14: Res Miranda

Summary: Hello and goodbye to 2053, a final mission, a few surprises, and an unexpected reunion. The moment we've all been waiting for! One more chapter will wrap up this timey-wimey adventure.

Thank you for reading / reblogging!

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I am SO excited for this!  I read the first chapter when it was posted and it filled me with such anticipation to read the rest.  Only one more chapter to go and then it is aaaaallllllll mine!!

Sketches for the remaining three of my four Fandom Trumps Hate 2023 contributions:

• illustration for Jam by @jrow

• illustration for Angelo’s Redux by @onesmallfamily (72reasons)

• illustration for Midnight Becomes You by @chriscalledmesweetie

Looking forward to adding ink and watercolour to all three, but first I must finish an artwork for the Folio Society competition.

HELLO AWARD SEASON WINNERS

@khorazir @algyswinburne @calaisreno @7-percent @mydogwatson @conversationswithjohnlock @podfixx @cathedralcarver @silentauroriamthereal @inevitably-johnlocked @entanglednow @bluebellofbakerstreet @lynneyginnyjoan @willietheplaidjacket @danger-and-diatribes

We still have more awards coming!

All winners are invited to nominate another! Have a fave fic? A specific work of art or artist? An inspiring blog? or a lifetime achievement to rec? Inbox is OPEN! ... or message me with the why's and where's! IT'S AWARD SEASON, BABY!

These are all so beautiful!

How wonderful! Thank you so much - and to be paired with such a giant of the fandom - amazing!  @conversationswithjohnlock​ whowouldathunk it?? I just know you’ll be thrilled! 💖💖💖😘

Finally managed to do a bit more art this week. Experimented with those Krita watercolour brushes.

Do not post my art on other sites/social media or use in any other way without my written permission.

Pressure Point - Sherlock art by MLH musingmayhem

😲😲😲😲

Sharing a link to this wonderful, beautiful podfic by @podfixx on the 6 year anniversary of (Never) Turn Your Back to the Sea’s completion.

Oh my word, is it really 6 years?  The time just gallops by.

Thank you so much for the shout out and link.  

Here’s what I said in my introduction to this great story:-

Oh, I am very excited to bring this podfic to you! This is the first story I have read (dared to read!) that begins to answer some of the problems thrown up by TFP. It never ceases to amaze me how clever our fandom authors are - to take something so problematic and turn it into something beautiful and meaningful. I have been all at sea since series 4 aired and DiscordantWords made me realise that I just had my back turned to it. Take my hand and turn to look. You may be pleasantly surprised.

If podfic isn’t your bag, the original wonderful story can be found here.

@discordantwords​, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - you chose the worst misnomer you could have - not a word of yours is discordant - every one is wonderful and clever, spinning magic to make the very best stories. I cannot wait for Nothing to Celebrate to reach its conclusion so that I can dive in and revel in more of your fantastic writing! 💖

Life is very long, when you’re lonely - (2023)

I gathered in this post all the BBC Sherlock speed paintings / artworks I did between December 2022 and March 2023. I did them at first to practice lights and textures but I ended up with a series centered around loneliness, grief and…means of transportations.

Marvellous work ❤️

Sherlock Holmes has made one enormous mistake which would destroy the lives of everyone he loves and everything he holds dear

Do you remember when we met, John says, quietly, into the muss of Sherlock’s curls. Sherlock shifts, stretches, settles back into the curl of John’s body, back into the crook of his neck. The bedroom is dark, dove-greys and wine-dark shadows; the window is cracked an inch, letting in a breeze and the sound of the drizzling rain. It’s peaceful. 

Sherlock’s lips pucker and soften against John’s skin; his hands tighten and loosen under John’s thin t-shirt. I remember. 

I thought I must have imagined you. John’s voice is a whisper, a confession. You were - fascinating. Like magic. And you saw - his sentence cuts itself off. He swallows, swallows again. 

I saw you, Sherlock finishes. He presses closer. And you were such a contradiction, you were so many things and there was so much to see, and I was already in danger of losing you. 

John slides himself down, pulls Sherlock up; brushes a kiss over his forehead, his nose, his mouth, sleep-soft but alive with a desperation that sometimes goes dormant but never really dies away: I love you I need you don’t leave me. It’s the kiss John would have given Sherlock that first night, with the taste of garlic sauce and soy on their lips, you idiot I just got here you can’t leave, and it’s the kiss Sherlock would have given John that bright cold morning, with their tears on their cheeks and the crosshairs on John’s heart, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’ll come back for you, and it’s the kiss they would have given each other the morning of a wedding that was not their own if only they’d known it would have been accepted, drunk in, wanted, needed, please, oh god. 

It’s the kiss that was the first kiss, full of tentativeness and fear, and it’s the kiss that was the hundredth kiss, full of comfort and familiarity, and it’s the kiss that is this morning, remembering their past, knowing there’s a future. Happiness and nostalgia and curiosity and certainty and joy. Possibility. Opportunity. Inevitability. 

I’m here, John says, and you’re here, John says, and we didn’t lose each other. We made it. We’re going to be together forever. 

Sherlock kisses him again, again. Draws his fingertips over the small of John’s back. Kisses John, and sees him with all five senses, and with the sort of sixth sense that means he is home. 

Forever, he repeats, nudging his nose along John’s, breathing through a laugh. You know, it might not be long enough. 

Find this in the dictionary under both “Heart Eyes” and “Lovestruck Sighs.”

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

“I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,—or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”

Part 3 - I'm in for this watercolor thing for a good while. And currently obsessed with this Belstaff coat😊

For @bakerstmel, for a case.

SCREAMING FOR ALL ETERNITY. Gorgeous. Thank you so much.

Let’s all applaud another fine Sherlock fan artist. Thank you @gurkenpflaster

FINALLY DONE! for @jbaillier and her wonderful fic Scar Tissue 

from the You Go To My Head series by 7PercentSolution and JBaillier 

 This was the single most difficult commission pieces I’ve ever done, I encountered so many problems from the background to the colours. It sent me to 4 separate episodes of art block because i just couldn’t trust my eyes, i kept trying to fix the colours but every tweak that i did just made it look worse or its just wrong and I thought “if i look away from this and do something else for a while, maybe when I come back to it, I can have a fresh perspective and then i’ll be able to fix what’s wrong. But nope, that didn’t work…after pausing and trying again, I kept getting it wrong still… and that cycle kept repeating 4 times… at one point, I even screapped it completely and drew an entire new background in a separate file, but that one also didnt pan out and plus this first version’s wip had already been approved by the client. So I went back to this, the third time, drew it in black and white and “i’ll think about the colours later” and then when i had to do the colour again… art block again. After the fourth art block, i just gave up with whatever my brain said and i just went with it and it’s now finally, FINALLY done!! I’m crying blood tears now, this was a real challenge, I’m so sorry I took so long

Amazing 🎨

(source)

Ooooofff!

So this just happened…

Holy hell 👌🏻

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“Never Supposed To Leave”

Ok, the story of this artwork is pretty strange. It had to be a sort of “reverse shot” of my previous drawing, Welcome Home. In fact, it has turned into a sort of sequel, because here Sherlock has no longer suitcases in hand. I know, the scene is quite melodramatic, but I was in a sentimental mood. The title is a line taken from Welcome Home by Radical Face, a song I rediscovered after finishing my previous artwork (no, the title wasn’t inspired by the song). The lyrics concern a father and a son, but I think they can be applied very well to two friends.

This drawing was conceived as a thank you for the warm reception reserved to Welcome Home! I sincerely thank all those who have loved and shared it! I am at your disposal and… commissions are open!

Can’t believe I’ve never re-blogged this one before! 🧡🧡🧡

“Grief”

“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious.” 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Prints available here: REDBUBBLE SOCIETY6 Please, don’t repost! Just reblog, thanks! :)

I love this drawing so much, I bought a copy, and used it as my AO3 thumbnail before I became Podfixx.