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Title: This Machine Called Man
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock&John, ensemble
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 29,000
Disclaimer: This is a transformative work of the BBC’s Sherlock, which itself is a transformative work. Fun, not profit!
Warnings: canon-typical violence, gore, and bad decisions; brief discussion of hypothetical cannibalism, sex bots
Notes: Originally written and posted on the sherlockbbc_fic kinkmeme, there titled Identification. Massively edited and expanded for robotbigbang. It will have two sequels, and if you read the fic on the meme you’re going to want to reread before you read the sequels. Thanks to beta miss_sabre and britpicker rhuia, and to co-brainer, enabler, ninja-artist, and beta call_me_ishmael. Further notes, including abundant thanks, are to be found in the author’s notes.
Summary: London, 2081. John Watson, former army roboticist, has an expired licence and an illegal tri-wing screwdriver in his desk. Sherlock Holmes has fingerprints and a name, and in an office somewhere in Whitehall there are blueprints for the metal underneath his perfect, artificial skin.

Chapters: One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven 

Author’s Notes/Playlist/Links

Art Masterpost, by call_me_ishmael

Begin at the beginning...

Masterpost | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven

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( Chapter Five )

Masterpost | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five

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( Chapter Four )

Masterpost | Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three

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( Chapter Two )

Title: At Your Finger Ends
Fandoms: Sherlock BBC, Oxford time travel novels by Connie Willis
Characters/Pairings: (gen) John, Sherlock, Mike Stamford, Sally Donovan, Mycroft
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 7,500
Disclaimer: I don't own Sherlock, and I don't own all the dialogue shamelessly lifted from A Study in Pink, and I make no money off of any of this.
Warnings: Canon violence (nothing that wasn’t in A Study in Pink)
Notes: See the end for some notes re: AU, possible sequel, and the title. Beta by miss_sabre .
Summary: John has always wanted to be a historian. He was born in 2020, so he grew up hearing about developments in time travel technology and theory. For John, history is mostly about the adventure. Fusionfic with Connie Willis’s Oxford University time travel novels (Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, etc.), which you don’t need to have read to understand this. John is a time traveller from Oxford 2059 who gets stuck in London in 2009.


( John wakes up gasping... )

Title: Unspoken
Fandom/Ship: HP, Sirius/Remus
Word Count: 460 words
Rating: G
Prompt: August 6th, 2009 at dogdaysofsummer
Summary: James and Sirius used to have an extraordinary facility for speaking without words. AU, continuing Days 1,  2,  3,  4, and 5.

 

( They meet, days later, in a train station.... )

Title: Fairytales
Fandom/Ship: HP, Sirius/Remus
Word Count: 1000 words
Rating: PG13
Prompt: August 4th, 2009 at dogdaysofsummer
Summary: Sirius and Remus discuss white tulle. AU, continuing Days 1,  2, and 3.

 

( Somehow they make their way to Sirius’s flat.... )

Title: Strange Tiny Things
Fandom/Ship: HP, Sirius/Remus
Word Count: 777 words
Rating: PG
Prompt: August 2nd, 2009 at dogdaysofsummer
Summary: If he had let himself think about it, he would have found it funny that it was such a small inconsequential thing that made him think so forcefully of Sirius. AU, continuing Day 1.

 

( It’s warm enough, bizarrely, that they don’t go home, don’t part ways.... )

Title: Last Train Home
Fandom/Ship: HP, Sirius/Remus
Word Count: 595 words
Rating: PG
Prompt: August 3rd, 2008 at barefootboys
Summary: Long time no see: Remus meets someone on the train. AU.

Title: Begin Again
Rating: G
Prompt: # 29 at barefootboys
Word Count: 849
Summary: “Here goes,” Remus Lupin mutters to Sirius Black, and they turn down the path of Number Four.