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For this week’s Featured Article, we’re highlighting Sherlock Holmes, the iconic detective stories created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories have been adapted into countless plays, films, TV shows and constitutes arguably the oldest fandom in modern fannish history.

The Holmesian canon comprises of 56 short stories and 4 novellas written between 1887 and 1927, most of which has entered the public domain since 2023. The stories garnered a dedicated fan base during the time of publication and have continued to amass new fans in the decades that follow. Sherlockian journals have existed for nearly a century, featuring both fiction and scholarly articles. Several of the well known adaptations have also sparked their own separate fandoms, most notably the BBC Sherlock series.

The most popular slash pairing in the original book fandom and almost all of its adaptations is Holmes/Watson. The pairing also has a great deal of gen fanworks that focuses on the platonic relationship between the two characters.

Want to learn more about the extensive history of the Sherlock Holmes fandom? Give the Fanlore page a visit!

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A supreme archangel and a prince of Hell. Mortal enemies? Or two sides of the same coin? Today’s Ship Sunday is Beelzebub/Gabriel from Good Omens.

Also known as Ineffable Bureaucracy or Boxfly, after the first season of the TV series there was a small but devoted fandom for this pair, but that fandom expanded exponentially after they unexpectedly went canon in season two. Their dedicated fans have created fanart, fic, and a two volume zine!

Are you one of their fans? Come help us expand their Fanlore page by adding your favorite tropes and fanwork examples!

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For Creature Feature Month, we’re highlighting the novel Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, which is regarded by many to be the first modern science fiction text. The novel was written by Mary Shelley and first published anonymously in 1818. Shelley later made several alterations to the text and republished it in 1831.

Frankenstein follows Doctor Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist who discovered the method for giving life to a being of his own creation. Once the Creature came to life however, Victor quickly grows terrified of what he has created and abandons the being, leading to a chain of tragic events that would forever haunt him.

The name “Frankenstein” is typically used in popular culture to refer to Frankenstein’s monster - known as “the Creature” in the context of the novel. Frankenstein’s monster has gone on to become a horror icon, with his signature look being heavily influenced by Boris Karloff’s portrayal in the 1930s Universal Frankenstein films.

A popular ship among fans of the novel is “Clervalstein”, which involves Victor Frankenstein and his childhood friend Henry Clerval. Victor Frankenstein and The Creature are also frequently shipped together, with the pairing having the second most amount of fanfics in the Frankenstein tag on AO3.

Interested in Frankenstein? Visit Fanlore and have a look at some of the fanworks!

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As part of Creature Feature Month, we’re highlighting Wing Kink, a trope in fanworks where a character’s wings are an erogenous zone that produces pleasurable feelings when caressed by another. This trope may include canonical characters with wings such as Angels, or characters who are given wings.

A common scenario in Wing Kink fanworks is wing grooming, where a winged character invites their love interest to take care of their wings, sometimes by applying wing oil to lubricate their feathers. A winged character allowing someone else to touch their wings also carry intimate and erotic implications.

Are you into wing kinks ;) ? Consider adding to the page on Fanlore!

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