Open Recs Post

[unovis.livejournal.com]

Sorry I'm so late this morning! I didn't realize it was Saturday. Please, rec away.

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.

Comments

[ashspark.livejournal.com]

Last Genderbending fic which was rec here was recced in December 2011... Anybody has some more recent genderbendibgfics they would like to rec? Please and thank you.

ETA: preferrably in the BBC verse, or a very thorough movie verse. As an historian, a story can be ruined by the author mentionning that makes no sense history-wise, sorry. Also, John/Sherlock. I don't care who is the one becoming a she though...

[roane.livejournal.com]

"How the Mouth Changes its Shape" (http://archiveofourown.org/works/470634/chapters/814021) is a work in progress by breathedout, but it's AMAZING. Both John and Sherlock are women, it's a historical AU from an author with an excellent track record there. I mean come on, she footnotes her chapters. :)

[tocourtdisaster.livejournal.com]

Is a self-rec okay? Because I'm in the process of writing a series of ace!fem!Sherlock/John stories. The ones that are finished can be found here (http://archiveofourown.org/series/22226).

Mods, if this isn't okay, please feel free to delete.

[swissmarg]

Two time travel fics for you this week:

Rule Seventy-Two Thousand by Trill. ACD/BBC/Homeward Bounders crossover. John/Sherlock, Molly/Lestrade, rated Teen. ca. 11,000 words. I have never heard of the Homeward Bounders verse, but I was able to pretty much figure out what I needed to in order to follow the story. It's scifi!Holmes, kind of steampunkish time travelly, with a pretty clever resolution.

Beware the Jabberwock by ObsidianEmbrace. ACD/BBC crossover. John/Sherlock, Watson/Holmes, rated Mature. ca. 26,800 words. Both sets of partners are transplanted to the others' time. What happens when one of them doesn't want to return? Interesting exploration of homosexual relationships in the respective times.

And one kidfic:

Fill Our Mouths With Cinnamon Now. John/Sherlock, rated Explicit. ca. 115,000 words. Sherlock is the father of a four-year-old girl. Through the course of several cases, we learn both how that came to be and how things that happened in the past are very much connected to the present and Moriarty.

[grey853.livejournal.com]

I second Fill Our Mouths with Cinnamon Now. It was lovely.

[swissmarg]

Sorry, forgot to mention the author's name on Fill Our Mouths With Cinnamon Now. It is by lbmisscharlie. :)

[swissmarg]

Okay, I really need to stop, but this piece was *just* posted and it's really quite amazing. (Full disclosure: I was a beta reader on it, which is what brought it to my attention.)

Contact by LaDolceMia. John/Sherlock, rated Explicit. ca. 8,700 words. No one has ever made creepy!Sherlock so hot. (Make sure to read the fic that this is the sequel to first, Undercurrents by entangled_now.)

[allonymity.livejournal.com]

You so don't need to stop if you're going to keep recommending such wonderful fic. Wowza!

[mijeli.livejournal.com]

Totally sticking these on my Kindle :3 Thanks!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

these two stories are really, really fabulous. thanks so much for your consistently wonderful recs!

[ntjnke.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy to be hearing so many good things about Fill Our Mouths with Cinnamon Now on the comms. I started reading it, but it seemed like it would turn into another rambling kid!fic.


With all the praise, I'm going to go give it another try. I only went a few chapters in last time.

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

The first two sound intriguing. Thank you!

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

breathedout's begun Exercises in Style (http://archiveofourown.org/works/513858/chapters/906554), a series of sketches covering the same event(s) in the styles of different authors. Austen and Hunter Thompson so far. Delightful (although one does not usually think of that adjective in combination with HT)! S/J, L/M, I/K. I would also strongly recommender her 1920s S/J AU The Violet Hour (http://archiveofourown.org/works/384405/chapters/629311). Wonderful authorial voice and the ability to translate historical research into attractive OCs and a vivid sense of place and time. I haven't read her other works yet, but I suspect they are superb as well.

EmmaDeLosNardos has updated That Obscure Object (http://archiveofourown.org/works/463195/chapters/798936), which is a series of rich psychological character sketches of John (and also Sherlock). Her latest chapter is sensual and full of S/J UST. Full disclosure: this work is dedicated to me.

Finally, a big thank you to the mods for continuing the weekly recs posts here, especially as things were so quiet here over the summer. Tumblr has its pluses, but I REALLY appreciate a stable and accessible "meeting place" for people to share their love of outstanding fanworks.