David Stark
Some shenanigans your captain might experience in Sunless Sea. Wait - is that... Yes, it's the Redolent Fleshmerchant, last seen running from a mob in the Chelonate. Of course he'd end up in Hideaway. What better place to be forgotten? What better place to sample the strange bounties of the sea?...
David Stark
It occurred to me that Dumbledore's Army was basically a paramilitary student organization. In reality, those tend to be bad news. So here's a cynical alternate history, told through newspaper headlines. Any similarity to real-life events is blatant and intentional. The boy who lived! As Harry...
David Stark
Another Sherlock Holmes reinterpretation: Holmes goes into fugue states where he becomes Moriarty and commits crimes. He doesn't consciously know about this double identity, but passively, information flows both ways. So Holmes believes that Moriarty is extremely clever because he's "always one...
David Stark
I continue to be fond of alternate takes on Sherlock Holmes, so here's another one: Holmes is actually a network of experts hiding behind a common pseudonym. That's why he's considered a "master of disguise" - it's all different people. "Watson" is simply the codename used for cases where two...
David Stark
I have given in to the lure of fanfic. Here's a take on what might happen eighty years after Bruce Wayne's death. "It's simple. We kill the Botman." Julia looked taken aback. She still wasn't used to Percival's rather... direct approach to problem-solving, but she had to admit he had a point....
David Stark
It's long been fashionable to reinterpret Sherlock Holmes, such as in the recent TV shows Sherlock and Elementary. Apart from changes in time, place, and mood, the exact nature of Holmes and Watson has seen various permutations - here amusingly referenced by Kate Beaton. So here's my cynical take...