Hey, hot take, but if a company decides they no longer want to distribute a piece of media they own the rights to, then they should be legally required to sign the rights back over to the creator.
They shouldn’t be allowed to just sit on the IP for the rest of time, especially if they have no intention of ever releasing it again.
You know what, that’s also a valid take, let’s add that to the post
In computer gaming there’s a concept called Abandonware that runs on this premise. That if the company isn’t making it and selling it anymore, it’s acceptable to copy/download/pirate it.
Applied in a wider sense, if there’s no way for you to access it legally, then illegally is fuckin’ fine.
But yes, if the owner isn’t using it they ought to be obligated to make it available to someone who will.
til Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula, written 1978, was considered by the British Fantsy Society to be “one of the better” Dracula/Holmes crossovers. i was not previously aware this was a genre
i am sorry? Sherlock Homes vs Dracula? is a real book? and not a fever dream i had while scrolling through ao3????
apparently it’s a real genre and it doesn’t end there!
have you ever wanted to read a comic book pitting the wits of the famous Sherlock Holmes against the Menace of the world’s most infamous vampire? Now you can have multiple series!!!
In conclusion, die old, leave behind a body of literature for the world to ransack
you say this but I checked ao3 and to my shock and disappointement there are only 2 fics for Dracula/Sherlock, I am devastated
Good news Gaud! My flatmate’s grandad wrote a Sherlock Holmes/Dracula novel in 2011! Her grandma illustrated it!
I think you can only get it on Amazon unfortunately :(
Me and my other flatmates were actively campaigning for him to add a smut chapter. He said he’d think about it, but as he’s 96 I don’t know that there’s too much thinking time left :(
please tell your flatmate’s 96 year old grandpa that dozens of internet strangers are cheering for him/actively begging him to add a sherlock x dracula smut chapter to his sherlock x dracula fanfic
it is 2023 and I am once again reminding you that there are STILL only 2 Dracula/Sherlock Holmes works on ao3. do the heavens truly expect me to countenance this travesty??
“You know what I am, Mr. Holmes.”
It is not phrased like a question, which is just as well: there is no question in Holmes’s mind, either.
“I have ruled out the impossible,” he answers, “and am left with nothing but myth and legend. All my powers of deduction, all my rigorous skepticism, falling so woefully short of enumerating the truth of my own senses.”
The movement of glass catches what little light there is in the darkened room, a glint of silver on the rim of a cup, a flash of red from within.
“And yet,” the count continues, lifting the glass to his mouth, “you still choose to come to me.”
thank you for this lovely gift, i am going to spend the next half hour eyes closed vividly imagining a scene-by-scene Dracula/Sherlock Twilight AU retelling, thanks for the inspo!
