Holmesian radio rant

Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes owes much of his enduring popularity to writer and actress Edith Meiser, who worked tirelessly to bring adaptations of Holmes stories to radio in the 1930s,

I've seen this in several places on the Internet, with a longer description explaining how she persuaded broadcasters to run her series by going out and recruiting sponsors. I understand that I should be grateful, but there's just one problem ... the episodes she wrote are AWFUL!!!!

I thought that perhaps she just wasn't a very good writer when she was making up her own stories, but lately we've been listening to her adaptations of the Sacred Canon. While they are substantially faithful to the original stories, her habit of making Watson into an utter dolt persists, even to the point of altering events that made Watson look competent or Holmes look as if he gave a damn. ( Cases in point: The Devil's Foot, The Three Garridebs )

Fic: Facts over Feelings 1/1

Title: Facts over Feelings
Author: Amedia
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Word Count: 1668
Rating: PG. Pre-slash.
Warning: Unabashed fluff. (Slightly abashed, actually.) Spoilers for TBB.
Author's Note: This begins very shortly after the big showdown/action scene in The Blind Banker.

( Facts over Feelings )

ETA: There is now a sequel, Something Like Shagging.

Informal fic recs

The world of Sherlock Holmes fandom is frickin' enormous! There are stories and art and other fanworks based on various adaptations everywhere you look. So I'm not going to pretend to make recommendations as if I had read everything that's out there and these were the best - I'm just going to report on things that just stood out to me personally when I read them.

Two Sherlock (BBC) stories struck me recently as really, really enjoyable.

A is for Astronomy by janeturenne is a poetic 600-word ficlet that is dense with meaning all out of proportion to its brevity. Something about it reminds me of the best of Tin Man fanfic, though I'm not sure what.

Untitled present fluff by rabidsamfan is a delightful Christmas humor piece with great characterizations of both John and Sherlock.