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gamegirl22 Since: Dec, 1969
#1: Feb 12th 2011 at 11:32:53 AM

I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan and I've read some good fanfiction of it but I like to see some bad ones just out of curiosity how bad some of these can get. If anyone has links then that would be great.

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#2: Feb 12th 2011 at 3:36:31 PM

Personally I'm curious how many Suefics there are. I know of at least one that was actually published; it was in that Lovecraft/Conan Doyle crossover collection with A Study In Emerald.

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myrdschaem Since: Dec, 2010
#3: Feb 13th 2011 at 2:34:41 AM

[up][up] I don't know what you want, you're just asking for trouble... If I were you I would go to the pit and find the first one with bad grammar. Preferly for the last film version since the audience of younger, more inexperienced writers will be probably be there. D On't say I didn't warn you... Or maybe check out the other pit...?

Happythoughts413 Since: Jan, 2010
#4: Aug 2nd 2011 at 6:58:59 PM

A Study in Emerald makes me happy in the pants. For those of you who don't know, it's a Lovecraft/Holmes crossover written by NEIL GAIMAN with references to other Victorian British figures (Spring-Heeled Jack, Dr. Jekyll, etc.).

Anywho, the one good thing I've found about less common fandoms is that the fanfic tends to be much, much better. I read (and write :D) quite a bit of SH fanfic and I've never seen a truly awful one.

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#5: Aug 2nd 2011 at 7:05:21 PM

The Beekeeper's Apprentice is terrible. The sad part is that it's published.

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#6: Aug 2nd 2011 at 10:14:21 PM

Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years (I think it's called The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes in the UK, which is all and all a much better warning label) starts out as a reasonably average pastiche with a Rudyard Kipling character serving as Watson. Then it begins to dawn on you that this story was written by a particularly militant Tibetan nationalist. Then they actually get to the Dalai Lama, and abruptly it's WHAM INDIANA JONES MYSTICAL BUDDHIST NINJITSU. And that last bit does not even begin to do the craziness of the third act justice.

If you want a bad pastiche, that one is about as entertaining as you'll find.

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#7: Aug 3rd 2011 at 8:19:58 AM

2nding the Beekeeper's Apprentice. It was sue-tastic!

There's a pdf floating around on the web that's a novel length slash fic, it's hilariously terrible. I forget the name off the top of my head.

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#9: Aug 3rd 2011 at 11:17:41 AM

Mary Russell is totally a Sue, sure, but having survived too many Death Note fanfics with alleged "geniuses" to count, I have to credit King for exerting all her effort into selling her as a highly capable character with interesting stories to tell. She doesn't always succeed - particularly when the romance with Holmes is involved, because eww - but god knows she makes the attempt.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#10: Aug 3rd 2011 at 6:14:29 PM

One that was actually published and that got some fan rage over at the PPC forums is a story called "The Seven Percent Solution." I haven't read it, but apparently it takes the opinion that Moriarty was a drug-induced hallucination of Holmes, and that it features a particularly obnoxious Fixer Sue in the form of, of all people, Sigmund Freud.

edited 3rd Aug '11 6:14:50 PM by HamburgerTime

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#11: Aug 3rd 2011 at 7:50:48 PM

[up] I actually enjoyed that one, although Freud as this sort of kindly avuncular healer was pretty damn hilarious. It's not that Moriarty is a hallucination, but he was involved with a dark secret from Sherlock's childhood and when Holmes started succumbing to his cocaine addiction he imagined Moriarty was part of this conspiracy against him.

There's a great sequence with a fight raging up and down a train near the end. They even made a movie based on it (but I've never seen it). The sequel, The West End Horror, wasn't nearly as good.

TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#12: Aug 4th 2011 at 2:15:48 AM

Fanfiction Friday on Topless Robot featured a pretty bad Sherlock Holmes fic. I can't remember the title, but it involved Holmes coming down with a nasty case of constipation which required Watson to administer enemas.

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#13: Sep 5th 2011 at 5:23:29 PM

[up]Alimentary, my dear Watson.

DarthNietzsche Since: Mar, 2011
#14: Feb 6th 2012 at 11:24:22 AM

On "The Beekeeper's Apprentice," the really sad thing is that I have to read it for my college literature class. Everyone I know has dubbed it a mary-sue fanfic, even my mother, but my teacher apparently thinks it's a great book. My faith in humanity is failing.

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#16: Feb 6th 2012 at 1:44:15 PM

Self-thumped due to reading failure

edited 6th Feb '12 1:44:52 PM by DomaDoma

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totofan4ever Since: Sep, 2010
#17: Apr 17th 2012 at 10:28:18 AM

...I like "The Beekeeper's Apprentice." cool For those who thinks Russell is a Sue, I highly recommend the rest of the series. Believe me, it gets better every book. smile

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#18: Apr 19th 2012 at 10:55:15 AM

Meh, I think the books have really declined lately. Far too much filler, not enough Russell and Holmes interaction.

I know the OP wants bad fanfic, but I have to recommend Dust and Shadow, in which Holmes faces off against Jack the Ripper. It is very well researched, Holmes and Watson are very in-character, and Watson is wonderfully competent.

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#19: Apr 19th 2012 at 1:36:43 PM

Not a fic, but I've seen an incredibly strange play that gave Dr. Watson the Ron the Death Eater treatment, portraying him as actually wanting to kill Holmes for getting all the credit for their cases!

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#20: Apr 19th 2012 at 2:57:05 PM

From a Certain Point of View, every story that Conan Doyle wrote after the death of Holmes and Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls could be considered as bad Sherlock Holmes fanfiction. Bearing in mind that he only started writing Holmes stories because of what amounted to death threats from avid readers of the original tales in the Strand Magazine et al and had to come up with the mother and father of all retcons to bring him back.

Accela Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: I know
#21: Apr 19th 2012 at 3:02:31 PM

I disagree. Some of the best stories like "The Second Stain," "The Dancing Men," and "The Six Napoleons" were written after that retcon.

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#22: Apr 19th 2012 at 3:07:17 PM

Weel, I did say "From a Certain Point of View", 8-) And even at the time of release there were a lot of folks who held that.

Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#23: Apr 19th 2012 at 9:38:39 PM

There's actually reams of Holmes "fanfiction," going back about a hundred years. Some of it has even been published, and is by fairly well known authors...

Ever read Michal Chabon's "The Final Solution"? That could kinda be defined as Holmes fanfiction...

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#24: Apr 20th 2012 at 4:28:04 AM

Ah, believe us, we know. The only thing that doesn't count as fanfiction since Case-book (and Case-book is simply bad canon, by reputation and by the one story I read which went uncited by the haters) is the Horowitz book, and that's getting surprisingly little fanfare.

The continuity was wretched even before FINA, so I'll embrace it all as canon, thank-you.

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syvaris Since: Dec, 2009
#25: Apr 20th 2012 at 4:46:28 AM

Curse you for already posting the Topless Robot one! I was going to do that!

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2012/04/fan_fiction_friday_sherlock_holmes_and_watson_in_f.php

Ah well link anyway. There FFF section is so demented its great. Especially the comments!

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