Soooo…. way back in 2014, series 3 of Sherlock aired. I went...

Soooo…. way back in 2014, series 3 of Sherlock aired. I went slightly mad and immediately wrote three long, plotty, dense fix-it fics (Deductions of a Lesser Mind, Act IV, and Vena Cava). And then I was tired, and I decided to write something light and silly, allllmost crack. To my immediate irritation, that story instantly became the most popular one in my collection, by a WIDE WIDE margin. It has, despite having written literally over 2 million words more fic since then, retained that title. Best of Three just set a new hit count record in my own collection (and I only compete my fics with each other, never with other authors’!), reaching 140,000 hits sometime quite recently (did one of you lovely souls rec it recently or something??), with a staggering 6,245 kudos, and 1,800 public bookmarks (2,625 counting private ones). I have a little tradition of celebrating my fics’ progress with every new 10,000 hits reached, meaning that Best of Three has now had fourteen of these posts where I talk about how it came about and what new record it’s achieved this time. Fourteen!!! That’s so crazy! My irritation with this story’s popularity (ha!) faded years and years ago. Now I’m just delighted that so many of you apparently like it so much and that it’s still being read, re-read, and newly discovered eight years since its posting, way back in February 2014. That’s such a gift, so thank you for reading this one and for all the love you folks have heaped on it over the years! May John’s “sympathy erections” continue to make you chuckle for many more years to come!