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To set a good modly example I'm appointing myself as one of the January reccers, and am going to do the first rec post. May many follow!

ETA: Please note that since I've made this post I've changed the rules to "only one rec per post" (for tagging reasons). I'll leave it like this for now, but in the future please limit each of your entries to one rec. Sorry about the confusion!


These are all well known I think, but we gotta start somewhere ^^.


Title: Thought experiments
Author: entangled_now
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 7300
Author's summary/ excerpt: Thought experiment: an attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.
John can't remember the last time he came back to the flat and had to ask a normal question. It's never 'do we have any milk?' or 'where's the post?' No, these days it tends to be 'why are there eyeballs in the microwave?' or 'why are all the walls covered in dead butterflies?' or 'where did this 40 gallon tank come from?' Or, on one particularly memorable Thursday, 'why are you tied to a chair?'
Rating: R
Warnings: -
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Reccer's comments: I love the characterization in this piece. It's one of those fics where I can actually hear their voices in my head while reading.


Title: Like bad wallpaper
Author: flawedamythyst
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 6300
Author's summary: Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. (Nietzsche)
Rating: PG13
Warnings: -
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Reccer's comments: This sums up perfectly why I hate to go to any and all family gatherings. John and Sherlock attend Harry's 2nd wedding. Together. Speculation ensues... ;)



Title: It's not the violin
Author: Sam_Storyteller
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: ~4000
Author's summary: Somewhere between Alejandro and the fistfight, John Watson became someone Sherlock Holmes would kill for.
Rating: R
Warnings: some violence
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Reccer's comments: I'm kinda a hurt!John fan, so this hits a lot of my buttons :). Add to that absolutely fantastic writing and you have one of my all time favorites! Also, Sherlock playing Lady Gaga on his violin will never not be awesome!


Title: The case of the unwelcome owl
Author: Pandarus
Pairing: None, it's gen.
Length: ~7400
Excerpt:"What if I told you it were an evil ninja owl in Moriarty's employ?” Sherlock asked, after a pause.
Rating: PG
Warnings: -
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Reccer's comments: Sherlock/Harry Potter crossover \o/! Made of pure WIN!! God, I laughed SO HARD! And really, it explains SO much!


Title: Forgotten
Author: protectorgf
Pairing: Gen
Length: ~4000
Author's summary: Watson goes missing at the climax of a case.
Rating: PG13
Warnings by the author: Dark and intense emotion, includes the phobia of small spaces
Verse: Book Verse afaik
Reccer's comments: This is a pretty intense fic. I was practically biting my knuckles...
Features protective Holmes and hurt!Watson - how could I resist?

FicRec: The Paradox Series by Wordstrings

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The Paradox Series (in order)

Title: An Act of Charity
Author: wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 4,032 words
Author's summary: In which what's in his head is never going to get any better, and John is nearly thrown out of his flat. Sherlock POV
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Mental Strangeness
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: (Podfic of same by pandarus) This is the beginning of a dark and enthralling series. (Fair warning. These stories contain: insanity (no...really), controlling behaviour, dark stuff, drug use, alternative ways of perceiving, relationships that would be unhealthy outside of this context, and all manner of disturbing things. They are also very, very good. This first story is quite tame compared to the rest.)

Title: The Paradox Suite
Author: wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 5,369 words
Author's summary: Being with Sherlock is a series of shocks, but John is game for it anyhow. John POV
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Violence, Sex
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: (Podfic of same by pandarus.) This installment looks at John's perception of his world, paradoxes, and and Sherlock. This series switches back and forth between POVs in each installment, so you often get both sides of an event.

Title: The Death and Resurrection of the English Language
Author: wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 15,663 words
Author's summary: Wherein the English language dies, Sherlock mourns it, and John revives a dead tongue. Sherlock POV
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Violence, Sex, Mental Illness
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: (Podfic of same by pandarus) Wow. Sherlock goes through the mill a bit in this one, but he also gets something he never thought to. You really get a look inside Sherlock's mind in this one.

Title: Entirely Covered in Your Invisible Name
Author: wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 15,722 words
Author's summary: Sherlock solves crimes, loses himself, comes back again, and all the while John prays that he never comes to his senses. John POV (A/N - WARNING: this fic paints a picture of a relationship many reasonable people would find crosses the line into disturbingly possessive and/or flirting with actual abuse by way of verbal threats. If verbal threats and brief physical restraint bother you, skip this fic. I'd never fault you for it in the slightest.)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Violence, Sex, Mental Illness, Drug Use
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: (Podfic of same by pandarus) This installment kicks the series up another notch...of tension, worry, and awe. Heed the author's warning.

Title: Moon River Wider than a Mile
Author: wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 1290 words
Author's summary: None
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Kissing
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: A ficlet written for a meme, that nevertheless falls here. A melancholy moment.

Title: New Days to Throw Your Chains Away
Author: wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 14,803 words
Author's summary: When Sherlock decides that he needs to be higher functioning, he simultaneously finds the perfect tutor. Sherlock POV (A/N - WARNING: this fic paints a picture of a relationship many reasonable people would find crosses the line into disturbingly possessive and/or flirting with actual abuse by way of verbal threats. If verbal threats and brief physical restraint bother you, skip this fic. I'd never fault you for it in the slightest. It also has one torture scene, so skip that if you are disturbed by what Sherlock does at the end of Study in Pink.)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Violence, Sex, Mental Illness, Torture
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments:...And this is the last of it (so far). I love this series.

(...and I hope that I did all of this correctly.)