Roundup: Five Figure Fandom Exchange

[firecat]

Five Figure Fandom Exchange is, as the name implies, an exchange for works over 10,000 words. It’s one of three exchanges required to qualify for the Triple Crown of 10K exchanges. (The other two are FicInABox and Heart Attack Exchange.)

I signed up as a pinch hitter and wrote two related works, which I placed in a series:

Games Gentlemen Play (https://archiveofourown.org/series/2230302)

I’ve written other >10K works, but this pair was the most challenging. I’m happy with what I wrote, though, especially the Sherlock Holmes pastiche. I wanted to try my hand at that because Watson’s is one of the voices that lives in my head. (I’ve been reading the Holmes canon since childhood.)

The Case of the Christmas Crackers (13452 words) by firecat

Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, Sherlock Holmes & Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes & Mycroft Holmes, Original Male Character/Original Male Character
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Lestrade (Sherlock Holmes), Mycroft Holmes, Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Pastiche, Case Fic, POV John Watson, Phantom Thieves - Freeform, safecracking, Snuffboxes, Diogenes Club, Holmes Brothers’ childhood, competitions, Auctions, Corporate Espionage, Protectiveness, Class Differences, Meet-Cute, Young Love
Series: Part 1 of Games Gentlemen Play
Summary:

Breaking into safes is one thing. Stealing trinkets is another. But breaking into safes and leaving trinkets behind? Lestrade has got his hands full with this mysterious case. Before it's all sorted out, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, and Mycroft Holmes will have been recruited as sleuths as well.

Thief of My Dreams (5396 words) by firecat
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Experienced Amateur Cracksman/New Amateur Cracksman Who Steals the Thing First
Characters: Experienced Amateur Cracksman, New Amateur Cracksman
Additional Tags: Gentleman Thief, safecracking, Snuffboxes, Competition, Gambling, Gentlemen's clubs, Auctions, Meet-Cute, Competence Kink
Series: Part 2 of Games Gentlemen Play
Summary:

Then he heard it. The most satisfying sound in the world. The sharp sound of metal falling against metal that told him the final piece of the mechanism had yielded.

I have qualified for the Triple Crown! (*bounce*)

Comments

[greghousesgf]

this was just great!

[firecat]

Thank you so much!