700 Sherlock Holmes Bookmarks

[swissmarg]

As of yesterday, I now have 700 bookmarks on AO3, all but one, as far as I recall, for fan fiction based on various versions of Sherlock Holmes. I don't even want to guess how many millions of words they encompass, but that certainly represents a good chunk of my life over the past two years.

The 700th bookmark was for a great fic, too, so I'll link it here:

The Madness Of Angels * (87455 words) by ayalesca
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Matthew Swift Series - Kate Griffin, Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, James Moriarty, Sebastian Moran, Original Characters, Blue Electric Angels, Irene Adler, Lady Neon
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Magic, Alternate Universe - Fusion, Urban Fantasy, Case Fic, Romance, Magic Realism, graphic depiction of aftermath of torture, graphic depiction of human experimentation
Series: Part 1 of The Madness of Angels
Summary: Urban fantasy AU. In which John Watson is a war sorcerer recently invalided home from Afghanistan. In London he meets Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most irritating urban sorcerer and only consulting detective. There, John finds himself and Sherlock suddenly under attack by a mysterious and malevolent power—and drawn into a mystery that may tear London apart. A fusion with the Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin, but no prior knowledge is needed.

*This fic has been deleted, but you can still find it (at the moment) here: HTML / PDF

The bookmarks are all sorted into collections, which you can read more about here if you're interested.

Comments

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

And I must thank you for it. Your recs are very helpful and I appreciate the time and effort you put into them.

[swissmarg]

Thanks very much. :)

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that is a lot! I haven't started using the bookmark system on AO3 but think I might do so soon, as my current system of keeping track of fics is opening a tab in Firefox. I currently have over 500 open tabs... :S

Thank you for your recs! I found quite a few excellent fics thanks to you!

Haven't had time to leave fb for the latest chapters of The Baker Street Nativity but will do so soon! Greatly enjoyed them. :DDD

[swissmarg]

500 tabs?!! How does that even work? o_O You must have some crazy RAM capacity on your computer!
One thing I really like about bookmarking on AO3 is that it allows you to create bookmarks for anything, so the fics can be on LJ or ff.net or anywhere, not just on AO3.
And then organizing them into collections makes them way easier to find. Or you can create your own tags when you make bookmarks too, to make them more easily searchable by your own criteria.

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

I never thought you could have that many tabs but they slowly multiplied and when I last saved them it said 523 tabs. *blushes* I have managed to close around 10 yesterday...

Ooooh, I didn't know I could link to LJ, too! I really must look into this - very neat!

[swissmarg]

I looked it up, and apparently there is no limit to the number of tabs you can open, but it will slowly eat up your memory. I saw people mentioning regularly having 100 tabs open, but no one came close to your 500 in the posts I read.

I put up a post about how to make collections on AO3 here: http://swissmarg.livejournal.com/127701.html

Feel free to PM me if you want any more details. :)

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

Sadly, Ayalesca left AO3 last month and deleted all their fics in all fandoms. I'm not sure why. I do have a copy of the epub, courtesy of another fan. If anyone wants it, they can message me.

[swissmarg]

Oh, too bad. I have a copy of this too in .mobi format (for Kindle).

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

Would you mind sharing the .mobi with me? I keep forgetting that .mobi is what I need for the Kindle. *blush*

One thing's this has taught me is that if I adore a fic I need to download it in case this happens. So many things can happen to make fics disappear, even accidents unintended by the author.

[swissmarg]

There is this converter which I like: http://www.2epub.com/

You can convert from epub to mobi there. But I can send you the file too. Just PM me your email address.