We’re pleased to announce that after seven months, the Archive of Our Own is once again available on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine!
Late last year, the AO3 suddenly vanished from the Wayback Machine, a non-profit archiving service. We reached out to its maintainers several times during this period, to find out why AO3 pages weren’t archived anymore. The project’s director contacted us this week and explained the problem.
Rather than excluding only pages belonging to users who had asked for their content to be taken down (e.g. their profile page or specific works), the entire archiveofourown.org domain had been mistakenly excluded. The folks at the Wayback Machine have corrected this problem and the AO3 is available there once more. (Check out the Archive homepage from 2010!)
While the Wayback Machine is a great service, and another useful tool in the efforts to preserve fanworks and fan history, this is a good reminder not to keep all your eggs in the same basket. Download works you might want to read again in a year, crosspost your own works to other sites, and be sure you save back-ups locally and/or with a trusted online service.
GUYS! They are all back! I am in raptures! Here are a few of the deleted fics I’ve found on the Wayback machine previously, all links are once again live. As always, download and save copies for your personal use because you never know when stuff will disappear!
I’d love to find a few more Sherlock-centric blogs to follow. My only real criterion is that you actually enjoy the 221b multiverse.
I’m talking any Sherlock adaptation here. Doyle. Granada. BBC. Ritchie. Gay Ifdoing their thing. Russian Holmes. Elementary.
You don’t need to be uncritically in love with the show. I love me some criticism of the showrunners, characters, whatever – so long as you’re actually enjoying being critical. If it’s done in fun, out of love, that’s fine. That’s actually great.
And I’m talking Johnlock, other pairings, non-shipping, whatever. Sherlock sleeping his way across London vs ace!Sherlock vs anything in between. My favorite thing is when other people let me see the world through their eyes, letting me slip into their shoes and seeing what they love.
If you have someone you think I might enjoy (yourself included!) please drop me a line!
I have enough. I am going to say my piece, and perhaps after this, I can already move on.
After series two was aired and during setlock season 3, I realized that Mofftiss loved to lie. Lie they might, lie they would just because they wanted to protect their narrative, which was darn understandable. Of course, many people were hurt, heartbroken. But since I fell so hard with this series, I let it pass. Months dragged, with so many spectacularly written metas I read, fan fics and fan arts i devoured, a few friendships were forged ( @andrealein , who I got to meet personally, hello girl!) , rewatching the seasons, buying Sherlock BBC merchandise, even attending the first fan-run Sherlock convention in my city, it was all fantastic.
But after season 4, and its disappointing turns and results, the massive plot holes, its horrible treatment (erasing his significance) of JW, TPTB’s petty treatment of fans, who saw the relationship between JW and SH was more than platonic, it time for me to stop pining for this show.
I despise the contradiction (as revealed by the result of this convention) and the condescending manner some fans displayed here, who still believe that Mofftiss have an agenda. Listen, I don’t think they have one. They have botched it all up. They contradict themselves, they play with our minds, I don’t want it anymore.
There are other shows out there, better ones. I will still reblog the first three seasons (and maybe the moments I love in season 4), still adore MF and Cumberbatch. But I have enough of wanting, of believing that Mofftiss only want to protect their story. You see, they could shove their secrets to their arses. I don’t care. This time I refuse to be played with.
They might be lying (or not), as sad and unfortunate as it is, it is time to disengage.
Totally understand your point of view. I agree with you. Thank you for posting.
I agree too. Sherlock gave me many things and I am glad for that but I’m far past hoping. The new quote about purposely baiting about Hiddles is simple and minor but somehow drove their sick love of fooling people home to me. They take perverse pleasure in having the power to get hopes up and dash them, to take advantage of people’s very love for them and their show so they can then laugh at them. Perhaps they feel justified because they look down on fannishness (especially in women) so therefore think anyone who bothers to care that much (about anything) deserves to get fooled. Been hurt too much themselves, which turned them into nasty Teachers? Or just naturally heartless pricks? Idk.
They have proven themselves to be arrogant, supercilious men.
And he aggressively writes real person fic about Sherlock with every single person in his life and absolutely refuses to stop. Sherlock becomes infamous because everyone is reading it and it’s really cramping his untouchable-virgin style. Consider:
“His Archenemy” by thereal_moriarty, featuring Sherlock Holmes/Mycroft Holmes, explicit, incest, chan, D/s dynamics
“You Are Important to Me” by thereal_moriarty, featuring Sherlock Holmes/Molly Cooper, het, fluff, smut, PWP
“Turn Around and Don’t Even Breathe” by thereal_moriarty, featuring Sherlock Holmes/Philip Anderson, smut, hate sex, angst, toplock
“Correct Me, Doctor” by thereal_moriarty, featuring Sherlock Holmes/John Watson also ft. Sherlock’s riding crop, explicit, crack, fetish
“Not Your Housekeeper” by thereal_moriarty, featuring Sherlock Holmes/Martha Hudson, roleplay, age difference, humour, milf
And Sherlock is all like:
And Moriarty is all
LOL
OMG this is HILARIOUS!
Can I play?
“Find Yourself Another Friend” by thereal_moriarity. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Sally Donovan, enemies to lovers, handcuffs, rough sex, shame kink, dirty talk.
“A Quick Cup o’ Joe” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Mr. Chatterge, coffee shop AU, casual sex, hook ups, bathroom sex.
“It Only Matters If You’re Caught” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Sarah Sawyer, infidelity, cheating with your best friend’s girlfriend, seduction.
“I’m The Only Drug You Need” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Jefferson Hope, car sex, non con, drugged sex.
“Welcome Home” by thereal_morarity. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/The Empty Hearse Fan Club, gang bang, group sex, orgy, where do all these limbs go.
“Water Water Everywhere” by thereal_morarity. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/The Waters Family Gang. Polyamory, group sex, relationship negotiations, lots of cuddles.
“In My Free Time” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Anthea-his-brother’s-PA. Secret relationship, silent sex, caught in a compromising position.
Give me more minor or almost invisible characters and I’ll keep going.
“Light Me Up, Doctor” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Doctor Stapleton. Sex as an experiment, sex in a laboratory, cunnilingus, unexpectedly hot clinical talk.
“Bunny My Honey” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Bluebell. Fluffy animal as a masturbatory aid, frottage, sensuality.
“Let Me Be Your Hero” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Bombing Victim #2. Rescue turns romantic, hero worship, pity sex.
“Just Platonic” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Kitty Riley. Bathroom sex, sex to prove heterosexuality, sinks and mirrors will be shattered along with Kitty’s belief that Sherlock is gay.
"I’ve Been A Bad Boy" by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Prosecuting Solicitor in TRF. Suit kink, Dom/Sub, Sub Sherlock, verbal orders, boot licking, rough sex.
"Only You Can Help Me" by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Defending Solicitor in TRF. Rescue kink, role play, power exchange, Sherlock just wants to be taken care of, handjobs.
"You Must Find Me Guilty" by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Judge from TRF. Wig kink, blowjob under black robe, hiding under the bench to tease your lover, public sex kink, blowjob during a trial.
"Come Fly With Me" by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Lady Carmichael/The TAB pilot. Time travel, sex on a plane, Mile High Club, threesome M/F/F, a new meaning to the term COCKpit, selfcest, flight instruments as sex toys.
@iris-wallpaper Do you want more? Cause there are still:
Soo Lin DI Dimmock Henry Knight Sebastian Wilkes Billy Wiggins The museum curator Tom the Meat Dagger Dave Mary’s ex
Also didn’t see Mary Greg Janine Eurus Faith – Culverton Smith daughter
Yes!!! Wonderful addition @mychakk I can’t do them all right now but will come back to it this evening or tomorrow.
“Precision” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Soo Lin. Museum conservation tools as sex toys, sex at work, tickling, brushing, paint and solvent smells as aphrodisiacs.
“I’m In Charge Here” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/DI Dimmock. Sex in a murdered man’s bed, restraints, gags, spanking, acrobatic sex.
“It Happened One Night” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Henry Knight. Sherlock comforts a terrified Henry, comfort sex, sex with the lights on, sex with the curtains open, exhibitionism, making animal growls during sex.
“Around The World Twice In A Week” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Sebastian Wilkes. Hatesex, revenge sex, pissing contest, not literal pissing, edging, seeing who can hold out longer, dry orgasm, repeat hatesex.
“And That’s Coming From Me” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Billy Wiggins. Drugged out sex, sex multiple times in a day, chafing, surreal sex due to hallucinating, inability to attain orgasm, because drugs, rimming, blowjobs.
“The Original” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/The Museum Curator from TGG. Partially clothed sex, hate sex, not really hate sex more contempt sex, sex in a museum, biting, scratching, swearing, dirty talk, accents as aphrodisiacs.
“Meat Market” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Tom The Meat Dagger Guy. Role play- pretend meeting in a gay bar, mutual masterbation, phallus worship, Dom Sherlock, blow job, humiliation kink.
“Text Alert” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Dave Mary’s Ex. Casual sex, being summoned for sex, Come Anyway, top Sherlock, rough sex, ball gag, blindfold, flail.
Finishing out @mychakk prompts:
“You Gotta Have Faith” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Faith Smith – the real Faith Smith not Euros-as-Faith. Sex in a morgue, inappropriate use of stainless steel autopsy table, cane as a sex toy, caning, blood play, scalpel play.
“Make Me Wear The Hat” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Janine Donlevy. Extended sex romp, cosplay, The Deerstalker as a sex toy, copious amounts of lube, spanking with the hat, exhibitionism.
“Not My Department” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade. Hangover, sex in a jail cell, food play, gorging on donuts, making a porn movie on a smartphone.
“Nicely” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Mary Morstan. Gun play, power exchange, Dom Mary, Sub Sherlock, blood play, scar kink, humiliation kink.
“Finger Play” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Eurus Holmes. Hand holding, twining fingers, music kink, fingering, multiple costume changes, wig kink, so much fingering.
And I thought of more:
“Lost Weekend” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Billy the Innkeeper/Gary the Innkeeper. Cross Keys Inn, threesome M/M/M, three in a double room, sugared coffee flavored lube, aftercare, snoring.
“Ten-Hut” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Major Barrymore/Corporal Lyons. Military kink, threesome M/M/M, following orders, bottomlock, sex in an office, uniform kink.
“A Funny Thing Happened On The Way Out” by thereal_moriarty. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Doctor Frankland. Elevator sex, frottage, height difference, lab coat kink, hallucinagetic gas, sex under the influence, dubious consent due to influence of drug.
“Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.”
This….is fantastic!
So….is anyone writing any of these? I really hope someone starts an AO3 as thereal_moriarty and starts writing these.
Will the real Moriarty please rise up
I’m so serious, too! It can be like a collaboration – that’s a lot of stories for one person. Someone creates the AO3 for this, and people can pick which stories they want to write and submit for uploading. The only rule is to stick to the tags and description as noted in this post.
I WANT THIS SO BADLY!!
It could be a collection on AO3. I’ll try to figure out how to set up a collection this weekend and set it up. Anyone can write from the prompts and link their fic to the collection. thereal_moriarty collection!
Another rule is to write badly. Use all the no-nos for fic writing. Write like Moriarty would write – crazed psychopath writing.
@iris-wallpaper this is genius! Your moriarty fic ideas are amazing. If you need help setting up a collection lmk–it’s pretty easy though as I recall.
(Personally, I think Jim would be a fastidious fic writer–proofreading until his eyes bled and writing so convincingly that by the end of each fic, the more susceptible in his audience would definitely ship whatever-it-is—a fact that would drive Sherlock extra bonkers.)
“Masterpiece” by thereal_moriarity. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/The Old Man Who Paints Like Vermeer. Travel, steamy South American nights, posing nude, erotic painting, finger painting, Down There, brushing, tickling.
“I’ll Get A Candle” by thereal_moriarity. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Angelo. Food porn, cock and ball torture (CBT), cock rings, hot wax torture, candlelight scene.
“Mesmerized” by thereal_moriarity. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Derren Brown. Dubious consent due to hypnotism, pinching, paddling, barking like a dog, dildos, double penetration.
“In The Corner” by thereal_moriarity. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/The Boring Teacher One. Role play, teacher/student, school uniform, dunce cap, humiliation kink, paddling, orgasm denial.
“Reboot” by thereal_moriarity. Featuring Sherlock Holmes/Jim From IT. Underwear kink, tataurine cream as lube, clubbing, dancing, exhibitionism/vouyorism, pulling in a gay club threesome, but not really because Sherlock just likes to watch.
It’s okay. It’s not okay. No, but it is what it is.
–The Lying Detective (2017)
If you would have told me 6 months ago that we’d be using our knowledge of M*fftiss (and analyzing their stuff) to drag BBC Dracula I would have laughed.
But really I’m so @_@ with how all of this has gone that it just seems like the natural absurd progression of things
Don’t I just love how people are already trying to police what people in fandom do or watch or rant about. I will hate whatever the fuck I want and blog about it. I do not need to walk away from something that I don’t like anymore, I am free to engage in negativity if it pleases me. Stop telling me what the fuck to do.
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