art rec: Floor Slippers, by spacefall

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Title: Floor Slippers
Artist: spacefall 
Pairing: Holmes/Watson. Ish.
Rating: PG-13.
Warnings: None.
Verse: ACD books.

Reccer's comments: this is actually a very badly-disguised artist rec, because spacefall has drawn scores of Holmes/Watson pictures, and some more involving other characters from the canon (Irene Adler posing with her husband, but also Lestrade and Hopkins come to mind), and it's very, very difficult to choose only one pic to rec. This one is gorgeous, but then so is this one, and this one, and this one… Some are definitely Not Safe For Work, some have a lot of snogging going on, and some are just plain adorable. And then you can just head over to the artist's memories; every line is beautiful and realistic and warm. They've basically become my headcanon for what ACD!Holmes&Wason look like. 

Fic Rec: E, by Sarren

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Title: E
Author: sarren
Pairing: Sherlock/Lestrade
Length: 8,259 words
Author's summary: Lestrade met Sherlock in 2005. Or at least, that's what he tells people.

Rating: Explicit. NC-17. Mature.
Warnings: M/M sex, and a brief mention of drugs.
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: In "A Study in Pink", Lestrade mentions that he's known Sherlock for five years. E offers a possible backstory for that - one starting when Lestrade responds to an anonymous text message to meet the sender in a gay club. Sex and crime-stopping ensue. But after that night, there's nothing for months, until he hears again from his one-night stand.

I love the way this story unfolds. Over time, Sherlock becomes a more prominent presence in Lestrade's life and thoughts - and in his work, as Sherlock's text-message-hints to Lestrade have begun to pave the way for his role as a consulting detective and Lestrade calls him in on a case.

This story contains everything - Lestrade's and Sherlock's voices are very much IC, there's sex, a case fic, and one of the most brilliantly funny phone calls ever, in which we learn the meaning of the name Sherlock, as well as why Sherlock will always fail at phone sex.

E, by Sarren