The Progress of Sherlock Holmes

The Progress of Sherlock Holmes is a long, intricate Sherlock/John fic by Ivy Blossom. Notably, the story includes John's marriage to Mary Morstan, John Watson's wife in several of the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories. In contrast to many popular fanworks, Ivy Blossom does not portray Sherlock as sociopathic or asexual; he is merely a shy, relatively misanthropic genius. The fic pays a good amount of attention to the psychological motivations of each of the characters, weaving a complex web of relationships built (in part) on the ways each character is "broken" and how they must work to understand one another.
The fic was originally posted as a WIP series of fics;ivyblossom's LJ post, 22 March 2011. The chaptered version,offline as of 15 Dec 2022 the first story was called Anchorite.
The author provides the following summary on the Archive of our Own: "Sherlock is head over heels for John, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him. First-person present-tense series of short scenes from Sherlock's point of view, borrowing heavily from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories."
In 2015 was discussed in the reading221b lj community, to read the conversation access the masterlist -- it is necessary to join the community to view the discussions.
==Reaction==
The Progress of Sherlock Holmes is immensely popular within the fan community. In its first three weeks on AO3 in March and April 2011, it garnered enough "hits" to put it in the top 60 most-viewed works in the Sherlock fandom (of the more than 1500 works in the archive at the time). This is despite the fact that many of the chapters had long been available elsewhere as a work-in-progress.
Out There recommended the piece on the AO3 on April 2, 2011, writing: "It's long and absorbing, but the style is immediate and personal. Most Sherlock POVs almost work for me -- as a version of Sherlock, a possibility -- but this one was Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock, the Sherlock I see on my screen and can imagine smiling and running after danger and moping around Baker St. ..."
Another reviewer wrote of the finished work: "Perfect ending to a wonderful story. I think this will become one of the fandom's big core stories - along with Loren Ipsum, Paradox Suite…"
In 2012. a printed copy of the story was offered in 6x9 format, perfect bound with a color cover by Julia Vidanova. The book was published by One's Own Publication located in Russia and has 192 pages.
==Inspiration==
The story was made into an eight-hour podfic by cellardoorpodfic for Amplificathon 2012,See the Amplificathon post, 15 March 2012. See The Progress Of Sherlock Holmes on the Audiofic Archive with musical arrangement, below the complete list of music used:
*Start of track 2: Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20: Scéne (moderato), Tchaikovsky
*Ends of tracks 2 through 4: Danse russe from Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Act III), Tchaikovsky
*Ends of tracks 5 through 8: Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35: II. Canzonetta. Andante, Tchaikovsky
*Ends of tracks 9 through 16: Méditation in D minor, Op. 42, No. 1, Tchaikovsky
*Ends of tracks 17 through 21: Sérénade mélancolique in B-flat minor, Op. 26, Tchaikovsky
*Ends of tracks 22 through 25: Swan Lake - Ballet In Four Acts Op. 20, Act I, 5. Pas de Deux: II. Andante - Allegro - Molto Più Mosso (Ida Haendel, Violin), Tchaikovsky
*End of track 26: Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12: I. Adagio non troppo/Allegro non tardante, Mendelssohn
The story was also translated into:
* Italiano: The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by silkspectred-translations (silkspectred)
* Español: El progreso de Sherlock Holmes by ADalek
* Deutsch: Die Entwicklung des Sherlock Holmes by Lune_de_Londres
* Français: La progression de Sherlock Holmes by orphan_account
* Svenska: Sherlock Holmes Utveckling by MadameDiamante
* 日本語: 【翻訳】The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by orphan_account
* Polski: Postęp Sherlocka Holmesa by aeval74
* Slovenčina: Pokroky Sherlocka Holmesa by Jedovka
* Русский: The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by io_mann
Works inspired by this series:
*An artistic interpretation of how the chapter 17 should have ended by purpleandsparking
* Cover- The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by blanketforyourshock
* Podfic: The Progress of Sherlock Holmes (ivyblossom) by Cellar_Door
* The Progress Of Sherlock Holmes - Book Cover by ficklewordsmith
* Plus de Frisson (Bleu) by PoppyAlexander
* Cover for The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by Fabulae
* The Progress of Sherlock Holmes - Fanmix by hertie
* It's 3.05pm. by Aeslehx
* Cover -- The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by thewaysinwhich
==Reviews and Comments==
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==References==
Category:Slash Fanfiction
Category:2010 Fanfiction‎
Category:2011 Fanfiction‎