Dreambook - Sacrilege!

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Name or Alias:	Aya Shiroi
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: You are amazing. Watson is a bit OOC, but the story still makes my hearth beat faster. I love it, great work.

Name or Alias:	klaudyna
About general site, or specific page? :	Blank Ink, White Paper
Comments: What a lovely, lovely story! I kept giggling practically the whole time I read this :) It's exactly what H/W slash should be, thank you so much for writing this!

Name or Alias:	nina
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: i love your site!

Name or Alias:	Blurgle
About general site, or specific page? :	About ...Could Fill a Book
Comments: I don't know if Irene Adler is still posting H/W stories or following her feedback, but I'd like to pass on how much I enjoyed this story. The characterizations are spot on, the mystery is well-planned and well-executed, and the love between the two characters is realistic and charming. I especially enjoyed the fact that Watson was the one in the know and in many events was ahead of Holmes. The only quibble, and it's large enough to take me completely out of the story in part 6, is that Ms. Adler got one thing so ridiculously wrong that it made me snort tea. Lord Ethelred St. John Smythe-Moran (what a great name!) would not be correctly called "Lord Smythe-Moran", but far more importantly he would never, ever, EVER be addressed as "Your Grace". That last one took me out of the story because it's so incredibly, ludicrously wrong. Addressing a member of Parliament as "Your Grace" is weirder than addressing an American congressman as "Your Majesty" - it's that ridiculously, bizarrely, laughably wrong. At the most formal he'd be addressed as "Your Lordship", but a man of Holmes's Bohemian beliefs would likely simply address him as "Lord Ethelred".

Name or Alias:	Lookfar
About general site, or specific page? :	Solstice
Comments: A lovely story, with lots of convincing settings. Oooo, the stately home, what a great place to lose your maidenhead. And very sexy. "Why, I do thank you, Watson, for you singularly backhanded compliment--" I think you mean "your," right?

Name or Alias:	Shameless Slasher
About general site, or specific page? :	'Under the Desk'
Comments: Oh, my goodness. That was that rare thing - a PWP which is sweet, funny and genuinely erotic. Lovely!

Name or Alias:	Wendy Raimi
Homepage URL:	http://www.tagnout.com
About general site, or specific page? :	"sharing breakfast" over on Cress writings
Comments: You probably know this already, but the classic english breakfast I ended up having in England comes close to what you describe. eggs, rashers, baked beans, toast, tea. The Irish breakfast I have here has: eggs, rashers, sausage, black and white pudding, potatoes, toast, tea, and baked beans.

Name or Alias:	VFbG
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: I DEMAND EUPHORIA!!

Name or Alias:	Angharad
About general site, or specific page? :	Regarding Deborah's "Artifice et Guile"
Comments: You may want to add a footnote that the line "Watson, I need you." quotes Bell's first telephone message.

Name or Alias:	Jude
Homepage URL:	http://www.broomstick.org/utena
About general site, or specific page? :	An Ideal Husband
Comments: My wife has been reading me the Holmes stories lately, and happened to mention that she'd found, a while ago, a fic slashing Irene Adler and Violet Hunter. Avid femslash writer/reader that I am, I had to go detecting it! And I found it! And it was goooood. Thank you for this lovely piece of work. There ain't enough good femslash in the world!

Name or Alias:	DarkEternal09
About general site, or specific page? :	Escort
Comments: First off, I've read all the stories on Sacrilege! as well as the sketches and I like most of them. I just had to comment on Escort. It is a great sketch and it would make a wonderful story. Funny thing is is that even though you haven't finished it, you could endit where it is and just make it a PWP. I know you're attempting to make it have a good plot besides H/W flirting/making out/getting in bed but if you can't seem to work out all the details to the plot I say just leave it as it is and make it a PWP. Every time "Adam" spoke to "Jack" I just pictured Holmes' voice as very feminine and now that I look back on it it's quite funny how I pictured his voice changing. Continue to work on it and great work as always. ~DarkEternal09

Name or Alias:	Kuolema Nox
About general site, or specific page? :	Guide to Victorian Diction
Comments: About when to use "shall/will" and "should/would": I'm pretty sure that you use "shall" and "should" in the first person and "will" and "would in the second and third person. So you'd have phrases like, "Shall we retire to our chambers, Watson?" and "Would you like a fifth glass of wine?" etc. Confusingly enough, they swap around sometimes; if you're saying something really "strongly", it'd change, so you might say, "I shall accompany you to the Turkish baths" because you're saying it calmly, but you'd say, "I won't let you marry Mary, Watson!" because there's a greater emphasis on it. The example my great-aunt always taught me was this: a drowning man would say "I shan't be saved and I will drown". You see, if he'd said "I won't be saved and I shall drown", that'd mean "I WON'T let myself be saved and I'll end up drowning", which'd be silly.

Name or Alias:	Evangeline
Homepage URL:	http:// eva_rosen.livejournal.com
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: Nice page. What I am saying, gorgeous page!

Name or Alias:	JoAnn Soper-Cook
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: Re: Book of Secrets. I love how you let Watson give voice to his feelings of apprehension, yearning, fear and love. His interior narrative is one of the best things about the story. I liked his descriptions of Holmes' beauty and mystery. This is a very poetical and loverly Watson, and I enjoyed hearing him. Oh, and did I mention how extremely hot this was? You are a good sex writer indeed. On the constructive criticism side (and I have no idea when you posted this; you've probably gone on to greener pastures by now), the story could use some care in the Victorian authenticity department. It is doubtful that there is such a word as "alright" even now, and there certainly wasn't then. It's " all right." And I found it highly improbable, given the penalties for sodomy, that two men would ever kiss each other in the open air or fornicate in a train compartment, no matter that the door was locked. It simply wouldn't be done, and I think, given that they have just discussed what could be lost if they were ever suspected, they would not be prone to flaunt convention so grossly. They are still people with positions to protect. Other than that, oh yummy!

Name or Alias:	fawn
About general site, or specific page? :	alphabet
Comments: i don't mean to be offensive, but that was really dumb, juvenile, and pretty poorly thought out. i'm not morally offended, just aesthetically.

Name or Alias:	MissM
Homepage URL:	http://www.sevenpercent.splinder.com
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: Hello! I call MissMicol and are Italian. English you will seem strange why I am using babelfish like translator. I adore to design sherlock holmes and to read the fanfic slash on he! I design and on my situated put images, here some images: http://www.labottegadelleandroidi.net/images/imagesmicol/disegni/furrysherlock.JPG http://www.labottegadelleandroidi.net/images/imagesmicol/disegni/love.jpg http://www.labottegadelleandroidi.net/images/imagesmicol/sito/immagine.jpg http://www.labottegadelleandroidi.net/images/imagesmicol/disegni/boldini.jpg I have link to you and if you want, he goes you to put my images in yours gallery? Hello and soon!

Name or Alias:	graycastle
About general site, or specific page? :	the story "A Victorian Valentine"
Comments: Hey there! I should say to start with that I'm so glad I found this site - it fills my perverted, evil, sick, terrible, monomaniacal need to read h/w slash in a most gratifying way. Hurrah! I just wanted to make a note on the note to the story "A Victorian Valentine" - the yellow backed novel that Watson is reading in the Boscombe Valley Mystery is actually a piece of what was called sensation fiction or french sensationalism. The yellow-backed novels were total tasteless titillating reading, imported from france. The yellow-backed novel type was adapted and adopted in british fiction like The Woman in White or Lady Audley's Secret, which are sensation fiction. Sensation fiction combined elements of the gothic with crime fiction (Newgate novels, etc.), newspaper sensationalism, and - characteristically - upperclass intrigue. They typically featured bizarre murder, bigamy, sexual indiscretion, etc. So the joke is that Watson throws aside the yellow-backed novel in a fit of pique, proclaiming that the adventure which he and Holmes are currently on is far more interesting; implicitly, that the Sherlock Holmes stories are better than the suspected-low-class, bad-for-you, causing-improper-ideas-and-corrupting-young-women sensation fiction of the 1860s onward. Sorry for such a long note, but you said that the yellow-backed novel "could be anything," when in reality it's a very clear type of novel whose presence is a wonderful joke on the literary genres in which Conan Doyle participates. And, again, LOVE the site.

Name or Alias:	Fer-de-Lance
Homepage URL:	http://www.livejournal.com/users/fer_de_lance
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: I am working my way through all of your Sketches and enjoying them immensely! They make something in my chest flutter--and not just the smut. You catch the interactions so very well, the conversations and arguments and the Victorian tensions. (I'm so bloody picky about my Holmesslash; nothing without that Doyle flavour will catch me. You do it very well!) I adore stories that remember context; and your little note in one about Watson possibly quipping that what they've just done was illegal is only one example of your obvious grasp of the the era. ((loves Oscar Wilde's cameo, too)) At any rate, I'm dropping in to dash off this note and say that you have broken another of my general dislikes; I've never been one for crossdressing fic, but the "dressmaking" snippet was wonderful. I would love to see it rewritten into a full story, and I have to shamefully admit that, well, as far as I'm concerned, the longer the better--a full week of Holmes "trying out a disguise" would be marvellous to read. My only nitpick is a tiny one--the font used on all the Sketches is very difficult to read, being so angular and thin. A nice Times New Roman would be so much kinder to my eyes! Anyway, it's past midnight and I'm starting to ramble, so I shall ask one quick question: do you have a Livejournal? (Or other way I might keep track of you?) I greatly enjoyed the Sketches, and I would love to see some of them developed into full stories! Good luck, and thank you for sharing them! ~Fer-de-Lance (oddplaces @ gmail.com)

Name or Alias:	Cress
About general site, or specific page? :	The website is currently down.
Comments: I am aware that the website is down, and will be working on getting it up again soon. Thanks to everyone who has left messages on the guestbook.

Name or Alias:	poison_apple
About general site, or specific page? :	A Sign of Change
Comments: I've also just read the first two parts and was wondering if its going to be continued. Its really great!!

Name or Alias:	Tia
Homepage URL:	http://www.livejournal.com/users/xsense/
About general site, or specific page? :	Fic: The Sign of Change
Comments: I've read part 1 and 2, but there is no date on the fiction here, so I don't know if it was written recently or not. Is there any chance of the fic being completed? An interesting site with some good fics BTW.

Name or Alias:	Magus Umbra
About general site, or specific page? :	After 1914
Comments: Brilliant! This is easily one of the best Watson/Holmes stories I've ever read that takes place in their later years. A beautiful story and I wonder where it goes. Happily ever after, hopefully. Thank you very much. Magus

Name or Alias:	Drpicard@aol.com
About general site, or specific page? :	ENTIRE SITE
Comments: Please please please....I beg of you bring your site back. I loved Sacrilege and often just browsed the stories, thinking they would be here. I am so very very sad that you have taken your site down. If you would like someone to take it over for you, I would be more than happy to do so. But you were the only source for many of the stories you posted. PLEASE RECONSIDER!!!! Thank you

Name or Alias:	boundlight
About general site, or specific page? :	sign of change
Comments: A sign of Change is an awsome story, especially for a PG story. I hope dearly that the author continues the story.

Name or Alias:	Scholar Gypsy
About general site, or specific page? :	.
Comments: Your site is wonderful; I particularly enjoyed the nonfiction section--it has a depth of research and intelligence not often to be found. ThoughofcourseIreadthefictoo. And I liked it.

Name or Alias:	Peony
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: I love this site! It's really great, and I'm totally addicted grins I'm sending you the bills if (when) I get sent to the madhouse.

Name or Alias:	Chris Cashew
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: Thought that perusers of your excellant site would be interested in a book I came across this summer -it's called 'Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century'. It is full of really interesting data, is well written, and (!) a good portion of the last chapter is devoted to Sherlock. I don't want to misquote it, but it's very informative, with lots of 'I knew it! I knew it!' moments which are very satisfactory to Holmes slashers. Thought you might like to know.

Name or Alias:	Estelendur
Homepage URL:	http://estelendur.tripod.com
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: I absolutely love this website, and I would like to repeat a question posed by 'Jo': Will this site ever again be updated? If the answer is no, why not let all your faithful followers know, so our hopes will never again be raised? I may sound bitter, but I am merely sad, and having a bit of trouble expressing it in words. Sincerely yours, Estelendur

Name or Alias:	Miss Micol
Homepage URL:	http://www.sevenpercent.splinder.it
About general site, or specific page? :	Gallery
Comments: Hi! I am italian girl and sorry for my inglish. I love your site! on my site I draw Sherlock Holmes. I can link your page? e-mail me on missmicol1884@yahoo.it

Name or Alias:	NITE
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: I have a problem with who has the attention deficit? If Holmes is a fictional character how then can he have ADD or is tt that the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has the attention deficit. Hope you have the answers.

Name or Alias:	Joanna Blaidd
Homepage URL:	http://www.livejournal.com/users/jkb
About general site, or specific page? :	Unrequited by Veinglory
Comments: I just wandered by after having read the site review by Slashmistress, and the first story I opened was "Unrequited." It's very well-written and absorbing, a good illustration of what Slashmistress said about the quality of writing and characterization on this site. Very cool. :)

Name or Alias:	Jo (PenM)
Homepage URL:	http://www.livejournal.com/~penm
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: Hi. I'm not even sure if the comments are being read or if the archive is even tended to any more, but, I'll post anyway. I'd been to this site before, a year or so ago, I believe. My interest in the Sherlockian fandom was momentary, but it has been roused again recently, and I found myself looking for Holmes/Watson slash (because I'm a slasher myself. :D). I found this cozy site, and I was completely mindblown. It far surpassed any slash I'd hoped to find. Admittedly, my standards weren't high, because I've never been much of a Sherlockian (a fact that's changing soon, because my friend is buying me the complete book of Sherlock Holmes. That made me insanely happy. But I digress). I adore the works of fiction. I've wept because some of them were incomplete (one of these fabulous pieces being "A sign of change" by Katie -- would anyone happen to know if Katie has a website or online journal of some sort? That story didn't just pull at my heartstrings. It burrowed its way into my chest and yanked them, then secured them in tight knots) and I have wanted more. "Absurdly Simple" has drawn me over and over. So. My question to Cress (Miss Roylott), as the owner of the website, is: when is this page going to be updated? Do you even check on it any more, or is it over and done, a past experience, getting up, moving on? It makes my heart twist to think of such a lovely archive as this being abandoned for two years, because I do so enjoy reading the fic and browsing through the art section, though some of the links don't work for me. Also, most searches for H/W slash turns up paltry and disappointing results. Miss Roylott, do you have an alternate page or journal that I could have a link to? If you'd rather email it privately, my email is on my LiveJournal profile. Thanks. Yours, Jo.

Name or Alias:	Laura
Homepage URL:	http://www.livejournal.com/users/jacinthsong
About general site, or specific page? :	"A Marrying Man"
Comments: Wow, I loved this story - I never even knew the archive existed until a friend recced this, so I'm doubly grateful. grin The style of writing and setting both fitted in with the canon very well, and I enjoyed the little references to lines and events in the story. Lovely characterisation and handling of Victorian homosexuality, better than many other first-time fics I've read and without ever losing the elegance of Holmes & Watson's conversation. Favourite line: "Really, Holmes, for all the times you've flouted the law, I can count the number of times you've done something immoral on my thumbs." - so Watson! adores Right, now I'm off to peruse the rest of the archive...expect me out in 2008.

Name or Alias:	Brett
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: Cress -I think you're a brilliant writer! I have been looking at this site and the older messages of homesslash, and I absolutely love your work. Thank you so much. My best wishes! :)

Name or Alias:	Lillian
About general site, or specific page? :	A Sign of Change
Comments: Katie, this is really excellent. I do hope you continue on this piece! The voices are very much well-captured.

Name or Alias:	Maria
Homepage URL:	http://www.livejournal.com/users/mariaparanoid/
About general site, or specific page? :	A Marrying Man
Comments: I didn�t find Kristophine email Addy. So I will post it here: I really like this story. I wrote a rec in my LJ. (long one in German, short in English). If Kristophine don�t like it, please mail me or leave a comment.

Name or Alias:	sunny-historian
About general site, or specific page? :	AHEMual innuendo
Comments: Yes, that's one of my favourite stories -- lovely lines like "To the last gasp he would always be my master". But I don't really think anything went on then -- after all, if Watson is to be believed he thought Holmes was dying right up to the point that H. sat up. Surely if they'd just had something passionate, he'd realise that Holmes was maybe not so ill as he pretended...? Nice piece, though! (And if you're looking for innuendo, howsabout the Adventure of the red circle when H and W are shut in a cupboard together, quite voluntarily?)

Name or Alias:	grusha
About general site, or specific page? :	"The Sign Of Change" by Katie
Comments: I never cry, but this story made me want to. This is beautiful. Any news on the possibility of future installments?

Name or Alias:	Valerie
About general site, or specific page? :	general
Comments: chanting Update! Update! Update! Please~!