That girl who wrote that fic.

Series: Alternate and Missing Scenes for A Cure for Boredom
Author: Emma Grant
Fandom/Pairings: Sherlock BBC; John/Sherlock, John/others, Sherlock/others

Alternate Scene 4.2
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: none
Length: 4600 words
Summary: Sherlock's POV of the safeword scene in Chapter 4.
Notes: There are references in this to things that happened in earlier missing scenes, Interlude in particular. If you haven't read that, some of this might not make sense. Thanks to drinkingcocoa for her always insightful comments!
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Title: Interlude (What Sherlock Doesn't Want John to Know)
Author: Emma Grant
Series: Alternate and Missing Scenes for A Cure for Boredom
Fandom/Pairings: Sherlock BBC; Sherlock/OMC
Rating: Explicit
Contains: bad BDSM practices, partner sharing, Sherlock/OMC, drug use
Length: 23,600 words
Summary: Prequel of sorts to A Cure for Boredom. Sherlock told John that he'd had a sexual encounter with a man a decade ago, and that it had been brief. But that was far from the truth. (Some dubious consent and bad BDSM practices here. This is not a happy, fluffy story overall, so if that's not your thing, you might want to skip this one.)
Notes: Huge thanks go to drinkingcocoa for her endless support and feedback. She saw multiple drafts of this story over nine months and her insight made it far better than it might have been otherwise. Thanks also to the readers who have waited SO patiently for me to get back to work on this. I'm sorry it took so long!
Links: On AO3 | On LJ
Index of Missing Scenes

( Interlude )

Series: Missing and Alternate Scenes for A Cure for Boredom
Author: Emma Grant
Fandom/Pairing: Sherlock BBC, John/Sherlock, John/others
Index of all missing and alternate scenes

Alternate scene 3.5
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Length: 4700 words
Summary: Set during chapter 3. Sherlock's POV of the last scene in chapter 3. (This will probably make no sense if you haven't read the original fic.)
Notes: I have to thank drinkingcocoa for her incredibly detailed commentary on a first draft of this scene.
Alternate link: On AO3

( Scene 3.5 )

The fantastically talented mayracs has illustrated a scene that was implied, but never written. I'll just say it involves John, a box of condoms, and a banana.

Check it out here. :-D

Psst, foxestacado! You do realize this is indirectly your fault, right? ;-)

This totally brightened what is otherwise going to be a difficult day:

Part 1 of the podfic for A Cure for Boredom has been released! I can't wait to listen. :-)

One of the things I love most about Tumblr is that it's easy to post and share graphics there. I realize this is a feature some people hate about it, and I totally understand their reasons. However, I LOVE gifsets, which are abundant on Tumblr. I find them fantastically creative and a very clever way of telling stories.

And to my huge delight, the lovely (Pondmelody) has created lots of gifsets for one of my fics. Some of them have an insane number of notes already, and if you follow me on Tumblr you may have seen some of these already. I've linked to them from the text of the fic on AO3, but I thought I'd make a little masterpost of all of them because they are just that awesome. :-)


Chapter 1:
"Are you asking me to help you?"
"Why are you watching porn on my laptop?"
"Oh my god," he whispered, feeling his cheeks flush.He shouldn't be looking at this. He really shouldn't.
"Aren't you having one?"
"Don't worry, darling. Your boyfriend explained everything. This is going to be fun."

Chapter 2:
"Should we do introductions?" the man asked.

Chapter 3:
"Blow job. I'll help."
"Did you seriously just kick me out of that room so you could wank?"
"Are you gay?"

Chapter 5:
"As long as it ends with his cock in your mouth, I'll be satisfied. Now go."

Chapter 8:
"You asked me to choose someone, and I choose you.."
"I understand congratulations are in order."
"Yes, we were shagging."

Sherlock POV, chapter 1:
"Why don't you shut the fuck up and go have a wank like a normal person?"

The amazing Doublenegativemeansyes over on Tumblr posted this very gorgeous,NSFW, and aptly titled piece called Cinnamon today.

The SOUNDS that came out of my mouth when I saw this. I mean seriously, OMFG. Not only is it incredibly hot and gorgeous and evocative, but it actually had the effect of showing me something I hadn't really seen in my OWN freaking fic. I think that because I was inside John's head for that entire fic, a lot of it didn't read to me as hot or even all that kinky. It was more about the emotional journey John was going on and the lengths he was willing to go to in order to be closer to Sherlock. He enjoys the things that happen to him, but mostly he enjoys the effect it all has on Sherlock, and so he's not thinking about himself so much, if that makes sense. So I saw this art this morning and had a moment of 0_0 at the thought that that is what people see in that scene. It's hard to explain, but I really hadn't thought about Sherlock sitting there coolly observing and this random unidentified guy hovering sort of dangerously behind John, because I was John when I wrote it, and I couldn't see any of that. That probably makes no sense. :-P

It's still such a strange thing to me that this fic is so insanely popular because I don't really understand why it has wide appeal. When I first wrote it I really thought a handful of people would enjoy it, but the fandom would mostly ignore it because it's not all fluffy-happy Johnlock love. It's sort of cracky and a bit dark and kinky and involves lots of casual sex in many variations, and I really thought that would turn most people off and they wouldn't actually read the love story underneath it all. I'm still sort of boggling about how it's got a life of its own, completely separate from me at this point. Very weird, but also very cool. :-)

But that art: Isn't that amazing? Gah.

Series: Missing and Alternate Scenes for A Cure for Boredom
Author: Emma Grant
Fandom/Pairing: Sherlock BBC, John/Sherlock, John/others
Index of all missing and alternate scenes

Alternate scene 3.2
Rating: R
Length: 2300 words
Summary: Set during chapter 3. Sherlock's POV during the days before they went back to the club.
Alternate link: On AO3

( Scene 3.2 )

Series: Missing and Alternate Scenes for A Cure for Boredom
Author: Emma Grant
Fandom/Pairing: Sherlock BBC, John/Sherlock, John/others
Index of all missing and alternate scenes

Alternate scene 2.3
Rating: NC-17
Length: 5880 words
Summary: Set during chapter 2. Sherlock's POV of the scene with Annie and Ryan.
Alternate link: AO3

( Scene 2.3 )