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Sorted by category and fandom, all the amazing fanworks created by this round's participants, for your perusal and entertainment and with names attached! Now comments can be answered and works reposted all over the web, and pimping shall commence far and wide! If you haven't added your fanwork to the AO3 collection, and you want to, you can add it here: Holmestice Exchange - Summer2025. If your work has been on AO3 all along and is in a fast-moving tag ("Sherlock (TV)" or "Sherlock Holmes/John Watson", for example), you might choose to update its publication date to today, so that your work has its turn at the top of the tag.

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And now, without further ado, the Grand Reveal!

( Art )
( Fiction )
( Podfic, Fanmixes, and Vids )

Title: They Say the Truth Hurts
Recipient: deelaundry
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Watson & Holmes Comics / Sinners
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/Jon Watson, Sammie Moore, Elias "Stack" Moore/Mary
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: Holmes wants to look into a very very old cold case - a terrible and mysterious incident that happened in Clarksdale, MS in 1932. His last chance is the Chicago Blues Fest.

(You don't need to have seen the movie to understand this, but it does contain mild spoilers)

Read on AO3: They Say the Truth Hurts

Title: The Fall
Recipient: Inspired by mom2boys request, but a treat for any and all Sherlock and Co fans.
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock and Co
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: A painting of The Fall. John reaches for Sherlock as he plummets off of the Reichenbach Falls.

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Title: Surprise
Recipient: CumberCurlyGirl
Artist/Vidder: REDACTED
Verse: BBCSherlock
Characters/Pairings: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Rating: g
Warnings:none
Summary:Sherlock knew that John had some stupid thing to go to this evening, but he had no idea that he'd be going in uniform.


View on AO3: Surprise

Title: Spooky
Recipient: vulgarweed
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Watson and Holmes (Comics)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Rating: gen
Warnings: none
Summary: Watson and Holmes Investigate the case of the Sussex, NJ vampire.

View On AO3: Spooky

Title: Bencoves
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Rathbone & Bruce
Characters/Pairings: H&W
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: Watson helps Holmes write a monograph on Polari

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Title: Wishful Thinking
Recipient: Mom2boys
Author: REDACTED
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: General
Warnings: Explicit drug use, drug addiction, suicidal ideation, panic attacks
Summary: A double entendre: The wishful thinking for how season 4 should've been. And the wishful thinking of different characters.
Or: How Sherlock and John are dealing with the aftermath of The Six Thatchers/The Lying Detective.

Read on Ao3: Wishful Thinking

Title: Butterflies and Orchids
Recipient: beamkatanachronicles
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: Canon
Characters/Pairings: Watson &/ Henry Baskerville
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary: Just two blokes on the moor when the powers of evil aren’t exalted.

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Title: Duty
Recipient: edosianorchids901
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: Suitable for General Audiences
Warnings: No Warnings
Summary: Watson wakes up in pain and tries to hide it from Holmes. Holmes notices anyways and takes care of him.

Read on AO3: Duty

Title: I See A Darkness
Recipient: treat for flowing_river
Author: REDACTED
Verse: A Study in Emerald
Characters/Pairings: platonic Holmes & Watson, Moriarty and Mycroft Holmes are both mentioned
Rating: Mature for canon-typical violence, angst, and mentions of mental illness
Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, also canon-typical.
Summary:

Dartmoor has uncanny stories that are older than the things that came from below.
The work that Holmes and Watson do brings a darkness to their lives, but they can always lead each other back to the light.

HOUN meets A Study In Emerald.

Read on AO3:I See a Darkness