Weekly Open Recs Post

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You're welcome to leave recs in comments to this post. Any version of Sherlock Holmes is welcome, and any fan work as fic, art, vids, or podfic. Please feel free to recommend WIPs as well. We'd rather have individual recs than links to external rec lists, however. If you have any questions, please comment or PM one of the mods.

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Fic Rec: The Pearl Diver

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Title: The Pearl Diver (http://archiveofourown.org/works/436694/)
Author: evil_whimsey
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson
Length: 3881
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: References to suicide, self-harm, implied major character death, deep sea monsters
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: "... ...because Sherlock knows, the mad bastard always knew just where to find him. Snag him and reel him in." Entry for the Tentacles trope. Post-Reichenbach, spoilers for basically everything. Major character death implied.

Reccer's comments: This work is an exploration of John's deep grief after Reichenbach, inspired by the legend of pearl diver Ame Tamatori. This story fuses elements of the legend with Sherlock and John's intense moments together--the fall, the pool--to create a mystical, magical tale. I found myself unconsciously holding my breath for the entire time I read it. This story is all the colors of blue, it is shimmering and dark and haunting and pearlescent. And there is beautiful podfic at the same link, deftly read by the author.

Re: Fic Rec: The Pearl Diver

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Sounds gorgeous! *adds to the Gigantic Pile of Fics to Be Read*

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Enthusiastically seconded.

[girlonadragon.livejournal.com]

VictoryCandescence's A Beginner's Guide to Apiology (http://archiveofourown.org/works/495747?view_adult=true) is a retirement AU with a bit of a twist. John and Sherlock meet for the first time when they're both old men who have already lived their lives. The ending is devastatingly beautiful. Bring tissues.

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

This also sounds lovely!

[yaycoffee.livejournal.com]

Seconded, Thirded, Fouthed (all the way to infinitiethed!) This story was AMAZING!

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Bah. This story made me cry, and that almost never happens to me. Beautiful fic.

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Run and read From Which Love Grows (http://sherlockbbc-fic.livejournal.com/6487.html?thread=31142743#t31142743)

Absolutely riveting. So happy I stumbled upon when I was a little link happy a few days ago.

Warning: WIP (for those of you who can't tolerate them). But the story is near the end and very satisfying even without it being complete.

FIC: The City & the City

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Title: The City & the City (http://archiveofourown.org/works/507187)
Author: thedeadparrot
Pairing: Gen; Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson
Length: 1,953
Rating: G
Warnings: No particular spoilers, and certainly none for plot points (such as they are), but depending on how you feel about these things, maybe proceed cautiously if you haven't seen the pilot? IDK, some people like to go in knowing absolutely nothing.
Verse: Elementary
Author's summary: This is how they understand each other, through the places they love and the things they have lost.

Reccer's comments: ashlhjjdfk, there is already Elementary fic!! And so far, this is the best I have read. By this point, Holmes and Watson are so iconic that I feel like there is a temptation to make them into BFFs from their first meeting. On the other hand, I really like to watch them figuring out how to like each other, knowing they'll get there in the end. This piece is short, Joan-centric, and navigates the two of them sort of feeling each other out and getting comfortable with each other. There's surprisingly a lot going on here for a show that hasn't properly aired yet. thedeadparrot has taken what we've seen so far and spun it together with some classic Holmes tidbits ("James liked numbers," he says, finally. "I thought we were alike, but we weren't.") into something really lovely.