Fic: I used to live alone before I knew you (PG-13), Etothepii

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Title: I used to live alone before I knew you
Author: etothepii 
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 11,100
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Where Mycroft is an angel, Sherlock is a demon, and John is still John.
Notes: Good Omens fusion. Written for this prompt on the kink meme. Also, yes, title is a quote from that song. I'm such a cliché. Also, art by dauntdraws ! Yay! \o/

Reccer's comments: This was one of the first fusion fics I ever read and it blew my mind. Good Omens blends with Sherlock with absolute seamless ease. Sherlock as a Devil and Mycroft as an Angel is a fantastic retelling of both the Good Omens mythology and the Sherlock/John dynamic. Powerfully written and structured, this story is one I reread and get lost in each and every time.

Art: Drowning, After a Fashion, PG-13 by verilyvexed

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Title: Drowning, After a Fashion
Artist: verilyvexed 
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Medium: comic, 10 panels
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: 9 page comic with a bonus gag page created as a gift for morelindo  in the Holmestice summer fest, just concluded.

Reccer's comments: Here, just in time for the US Holiday weekend, is a great summer-themed comic, beautifully drawn, depicting Sherlock at the beach. He begins, as you might expect, inappropriately dressed, snarky and clearly uncomfortable. The way verilyvexed  depicts Sherlock as his cranky self, pale, scowling with crane-like limbs, is hilarious all by itself. Add The ever-patient John, alternately bemused and befuddled. When clothing begins to come off, things get, of course, more interesting. Maybe Sherlock isn't such a fish-out-of-water as he seems!

a taste:

That was fun :)

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Hopefully for you, too!

A round of applause for my awesome fellow reccers this last month, sc010f, tweedisgood and lelek!

Also to the permanet reccers, who I don't always mention... I really appreciate you guys!


So, on to July! (In which I will have to mod while somehow avoiding to click on any of the recs, since I have a rather horrible exam at the end of it, that I should really have started studying for like, last year. Oh well. Wish me luck.)


Our reccers this time are: brighteyed_jill, venturous1, machshefa, she_burns1 and sussexdowns.

The comm is theirs for the next 31 days!

Fic Rec: Broken Substitutes

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Title: Broken Substitutes
Author: zarah5
Pairing: Holmes/Watson (past Watson/Mary)
Length: The whole story is broken up into four parts, all of it equaling to roughly about 33,000 words
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Mentions of both character death and drug use, sexual situations
Verse: Ritchie films
Author's summary: Death and loss, hurt and comfort, Moriarty, drugs, addictions and sex that is a means to an end, until it isn’t anymore. Also: a couple of scientific details that might require a suspension of disbelief. (Post-movie, with several elements stolen from the books.)

“I never said I didn’t find it difficult to stay away.” Holmes laid the violin bow across the table, one end dipping into the marmalade. “I considered it a wise decision. However, as soon as I heard of your loss, I couldn’t—I wouldn’t, that is. Leave you alone in these hard times.”

Reccer's comments: This is one of those, 'I am astounded it wasn't rec'd here before' fics. This was the first Sherlock Holmes fan fiction I ever read and it is very much my measuring stick for any other fic I read in the fandom. The writing here is novel worthy and the characterizations dead on.

There is just something so captivating about how broken both Watson and Holmes are in the beginning of this tale and how, through the course of it, they manage to fix and make one another better. It shows how well they really complement one another and why they work so well together. I also adore how Watson here truly loves both Mary and Holmes. How his love for each of them is different, but neither one is better or stronger than the other.

Lastly the plot is richly deep and not only beautifully orchestrated but also beautifully executed. The story produces an overall feeling of intensity – it left me breathless not only in action but also in dialogue, atmosphere, and *ahem* descriptions of heated relations. If Ritchie and Hollywood had chosen not to make a sequel to this film, I could easily envision this as one.