Bizarre historical fact as crossover prompt

[marysutherland]

I found this on the Jesus College Cambridge website:

The eighteenth century also saw the residence of the two most famous literary figures to have passed through the college: Laurence Sterne (1733) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1791)...Samuel Taylor Coleridge was awarded a Rustat scholarship, which was offered to the sons of deceased clergymen; but he too soon found himself in debt, and took refuge in the opium which was to wreck his life...Then, on an impulse, he left the college in December 1793 to join the 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons, under the name of Silas Tomkyn Comberbache

This definitely needs some kind of fic - I have some plans, but does anyone else want to pile into Coleridge/Sherlock crossovers?

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[fengirl88.livejournal.com]

*GASPS*

I have no plans, just excitement in anticipation of seeing what results from yours...

[marysutherland.livejournal.com]

It may take a long time, partly because I've got so many other things I should be writing first, and also because I have to go and stare at things in the British Library before I can finish writing it. But the currently intended plot includes not very much Coleridge (and almost no poetry), but does instead have a Terry Pratchett shout out, Mack the Knife, cowpox inoculations, the manuscript of Beowulf and several gratuitous attacks on John.

[fengirl88.livejournal.com]

this sounds like a lot of fun - will look forward to seeing it. great line-up!