Fic Recs: everything you say has water under it & all the lace and the skin in the shop

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Title: everything you say has water under it
Author: electrumqueen
Pairing: pre-Sherlock/John
Length: 764
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: None given (genderswapped cast)
Reccer's comments: There are some fics that I can’t describe properly, fics that I just sort of have to push someone into reading and when they’re done, grin wildly and be like “get it?” My feelings about this author’s writing style is very much like that. It’s a fantastic mosaic of stream-of-consciousness, fragmented moments, and lyrical sentences that I can’t quite pinpoint how to describe. She absolutely does justice to her characters, gives them depth and complexity in a tiny amount of space. Absolutely beautiful. <3

Title: all the lace and the skin in the shop
Author: electrumqueen
Pairing: pre-Sherlock/John
Length: 872
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: None given (genderswapped cast)
Reccer's comments: I think of this as a companion to everything you say has water under it, since that one was from Joan’s perspective and this one is from Sherlock’s. Once more, I am absolutely astounded by how effortlessly the author manages to weave in so many details and revelations about the character in such a short space. Between a number of lines that capture Sherlock absolutely perfectly and everything that the author left unsaid but we get to understand anyway, I cannot describe how much I’m in love with these two fics. Gorgeous. <3