Series rec: The Cold Song

[getyourguns.livejournal.com]

Title: The Ceremony of Innocence (part 4 of The Cold Song series)
Author: eldritchhorrors
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: ~10,300 this part (~50,000+ total)
Rating: hard R for graphic descriptions of violence (NC-17 other parts)
Verse: BBC
Warnings: See author's warnings for each chapter.
Author's summary: Sherlock is tested to the shattering point, but some things must be broken before they can be fixed, and some things can never remain hidden...especially from ourselves.

And then Sherlock made this noise.

It was a terrible thing. As terrible as the assemblage in front of them. John had last heard that kind of agonized whimper from a five year old boy just outside Kandahar. He’d lost his entire family in a roadside bombing, the only survivor. They’d found him wrapped around his mother, half her head gone, lap a soup of viscera and blood. He’d made that sound, a keening low in the back of his throat, when John had separated him from the corpse.

He’d never have expected it from Sherlock.

Reccer's comments: Tags of this entry are for all parts of the series, not just this one.
The first three parts were rec'd previously here but the writer just posted an additional chapter that is so powerful, it definitely calls for a re-visit to the series. With this series alone, eldritchhorrors has become a favourite writer. The way in which they incorporate music and language and story into their fic is a tremendous achievement and makes for a very emotionally hard-hitting, dynamic series. a_lliteration

Previous chapters:
01. I Hear Those Voices That Will Not Be Drowned
02. Within This Frail Crucible of Light
03. A Light Shines In The Darkness

Comments

[eldritchhorrors.livejournal.com]

I am overwhelmed with love for you right now! Thanks so much for the rec. I never get recced, yet here you are, proving me wrong.

I'm so gratified that you enjoyed it.

[getyourguns.livejournal.com]

It was FANTASTIC. The first part alone is so very relevant to my interests and I just kept getting more and more emotionally invested in it. I hope you never stop~~~ *\o/*

[roane.livejournal.com]

Seriously? No, really? I read this whole series in one go and my brain was FRIED. I can't WAIT to read the rest of it, and I've been reccing it all over the place. :)

[eldritchhorrors.livejournal.com]

Really. I was never much recced until this part of the series was posted. I write about difficult subjects that a lot of people won't give a chance because they are often not treated well in fan fic. That was my theory, anyway. My current theory is that this new fic has made Sherlock much more human and accessible to most people; people read what they can identify with. I was writing him as the hyper-rational Aspie, but now we get to see that he isn't the way he is only because of genetics, and that he has more in common with everyone else, emotionally, than we might have imagined.

Thank you for your kind words.

[nidaria-noir.livejournal.com]

I started reccing your work after the second chapter went up, but I was doing it in the "finding things" post and on the meme, so you may not have seen it. So glad to see it officially recced, because it's amazing.

[nidaria-noir.livejournal.com]

...in fact I had just done so before seeing this entry:
http://sherlockbbc-fic.livejournal.com/9894.html?thread=111960486&

[thejiglett.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting. I'm tracking the author's tag for this series but for some reason I didn't get a notification. Excited to read!

[allonymity.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the rec! I hadn't realized there was a new story in this series. And what an amazing addition. I was glad to see more sequels are planned as well.