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I love highadrenalineexchange! The trick is to only offer to write stuff you're sure you could come up with a 10k-worthy story for. This year, as always, a lot of great fic got written. Here are my faves!

I received a great Reva-and-Ahsoka fic that I can't recommend highly enough.

Dandelion Seeds (15364 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars: Rebels
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reva Sevander & Ahsoka Tano
Characters: Reva Sevander | Third Sister, Ahsoka Tano
Additional Tags: Set Between Kenobi and Rebels, Canon-Typical Violence, Force Philosophy (Star Wars), Pre-Relationship, Planet Dantooine (Star Wars), Late Night Conversations, Crimson Dawn Crime Syndicate (Star Wars), Imperial Inquisitors (Star Wars), Jedi Philosophy (Star Wars), Lightsaber Construction (Star Wars), Jedi Holocrons (Star Wars)
Summary:

A Mirialian collector has a Jedi Holocron stored safely in her vault, and rumours of its existence have reached multiple organizations. Crimson Dawn orders Reva to retrieve this holocron through any means necessary, while the Rebellion asks Ahsoka to acquire it through the most legal means possible.

When Reva and Ahsoka encounter each other at the vault door, they choose not to bring the holocron to either organization, but instead to listen to the Force and work together to learn what the holocron can teach them—and discover what they can learn from each other.

Other fics I enjoyed:

( DCEU, Sherlock Holmes, Bridgerton, Rivers of London, Kingsman, Poirot, A League of Their Own )

As someone on the spectrum, I knew right off the bat that the Sherlock Holmes in the BBC Sherlock series is not on the autism spectrum, despite vague comments from the actor and/or directors and writers that maybe he was supposed to be.  But when you try to point out all the reasons why not, you get all kinds of crap.  wellingtongoose (on both LJ and Tumblr) has done a series of excellent meta posts about Sherlock (everything from Britpicking to John's probable career history), and for one entry asked four professional psychiatrists whether Sherlock was on the autism spectrum.  All four of them said "no, absolutely not."  There was all kinds of furor and pushback and "how dare they, obviously they can't have any idea what they're talking about!" (because of course actors, writers, and TV watchers who have read three blog posts and a news article about the horrors of autism know better than people who deal with it every day on a professional basis).  So they have written a further explanation.  I bet it results in people flinging the same kind of crap; hopefully at least one or two people will read it and go, "oh, maybe they have a point."

Why we wrote: Sherlock does not have autism, thanks, from 4 Psychiatrists.

I loved the first episode--it's awesome.  (For those not in the know, it's a modern version that despite being modern is far closer to the original than the movie cracked out version was.  The first ep, "A Study in Pink," aired on BBC on Sunday.  I am charmed.  It was lots of fun, and I love the way the major characters--Watson, Holmes, Lestrade, and Mycroft--are being played.  His first case was tracking a serial killer, and being a CM fan, I now want a crossover between the two shows.  If nothing else, a ficlet about the team watching the show and what they think about Mr. Holmes, and whether he's any good at it.