The Dancing Men: Appropriation

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Title: The Dancing Men: Appropriation
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning:  Romantic postulation.
Summary: More than one way to dance around the censors.

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“At my club?” I shook the paper festooned with dancing figures at Holmes.

A smirk. “Those dullards thought it a joke, correct?”

“A joke that caused my flushed face and a sudden need to examine the back of a chair until I’d quelled my reaction!”

“Yet you returned with all haste.”

“Bastard,” I growled, and tipped him on his back.

The Dancing Men: The Chalking on the Wall (of Watson's Bedroom)

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Canon Story: The Dancing Men
Rating Gen
Warning: Slash implied
Summary: As seen chalked on Watson's bedroom door one morning (translation below the cut)




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Discussion Post: The Dancing Men

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Dancing Men and the chosen topic is Gentlemen’s Clubs—and Ladies’ Too!

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Dancing Men

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.




The Sadness of Clothes

by Emily Fragos


Note from Rachel: Mrs. Cubitt outlived her initial despair and spent many years in the house she had shared with her husband, surrounded by memories. This poem seemed true to her grief, courage, and loss. (After all, our good Queen Victoria has had her husband's clothes laid out for him every morning, though he's been dead for years. She chooses to act as though he might one day walk back through the door and put them on again.)



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the circular poem. (The link takes you back to a previous poetry page.)

But you do not have to use that form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, line messaging, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Dancing Men in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!



Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Dancing Men: Recovery

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Canon Story: The Dancing Men
Title: Recovery
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I only know that I have heard she recovered entirely, and that she still remains a widow, devoting her whole life to the care of the poor and to the administration of her husband’s estate. Inspired by Rachel’s note on the poetry page.


I recovered physically. Slowly I learnt to live with the grief and guilt. I took comfort in working hard and in caring for others.

I discovered I had true friends I could rely on. And eventually I smiled again. Laughed again.

I chose to go on.

My story didn’t have a happy ending, but it wasn’t a hopeless one either.

The Dancing Men: Communication (or lack thereof)

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Canon Story: The Dancing Men
Title: Communication (or lack thereof) (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Holmes’ attempts at communicating in code with Mrs Hudson have backfired.  He used the dancing men to tell her what time we would be requiring dinner this evening.  Her reply came in the form of cut out paper dolls, each one bearing a word which read: “CANNOT UNDERSTAND MESSAGE NO TIME TO COOK DINNER”.  I am going to my club.