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.

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[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...

[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.

[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.