Fic Rec: Quercus Robur

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Title: Quercus Robur
Author: kikainausagi
Pairing: Gen 
Length: 1,600 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: One day John Watson turns into a tree.
Reccer's comments: This fic was inspired by one of those prompts on the meme you think are destined for crackdom, and then suddenly you get...this. A brilliant, touching fic that integrates a truly insane idea into a the real (er...television) world with such deftness and beauty that you swallow it completely, hook, line and sinker.
I think they call it "magical realism."

"An English oak," he says, voice deep with amusement, "Quercus robur. Of course. But John," and here his eyes crinkle up at the corners with merriment, "you do realize 'Heart of Oak' is the Navy's march? Wrong branch entirely."

John drops a twig on Sherlock's head in retaliation. 

Read it on LJ or AO3

Saturday open recs

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Welcome to our first Saturday open recs post. 

You're invited to post in comments any recs or requests for recs for fic, vids, art, or podfic. All versions of Sherlock Holmes are welcome. Please let us know if you have any questions in comments or PMs to the mods.

You're also invited to make a rec in an individual post.

ETA: Sorry, all -- LJ is seeing replies to this post as spam, and I've had to "unspam" them (when I see them) to make them visible. I added AO3 to our whitelist, but that seems not to be the problem.

Open Recs Weekend

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Welcome to the first Open Recs Weekend!

The comm is now open for everyone to post recs. As usual, you can rec fic, art, vids and podfics, but please use our headers and make sure you've read the rules if you're new to reccing here. Especially our tagging and warning guidelines.

We don't have a theme this time around, so anything goes (except recent WIPs).

Note: A separate post where you can make shorter recs in the comments (including WIPs) will follow in a bit!

If you've got any questions or comments post them here or PM one of the mods.

Points of Light by Pennypaperbrain

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Title: Points of Light
Author: pennypaperbrain
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 15,000~
Rating: NC-17
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock and John are both damaged people. Gradually they discover how they can help each other to stay alive. And not only stay alive, but live.
Reccer's comments: I'm a sucker for stories where two broken men come together and fall in love. And there is so much to love about this fic. It is extremely well written with a very full use of language. It keeps both John and Sherlock in character, and really explores their motivations with sensitivity and depth, so that the intensity of them coming together keeps ramping up. And when that intensity finally explodes...wow. Amazingly hot, very emotional sex that also manages to be a powerful character study. Penny doesn't skimp on the emotional journey that brings them together, and by the fourth chapter, John & Sherlock, Sherlock & John is inevitable. And brilliant. There is a BDSM component to the story, but I find it quite incidental to the emotional growth between the characters. (And the world can always use more Dom!John and Sub!Sherlock.)

"Sherlock has been chasing a revelation, and the one he has found is not the one he expected. Even while he trains the gun on their enemy and calculations cascade through his head, it’s the sight of John wrapped in semtex that draws his gaze again and again.

Moriarty is a cracked and magnificent mind, but Sherlock already has one of those. John is patience, nightmares, judgement, comfort, anger, touch, dead cabbies, friendship, the promise of sex.

Extraordinary."

Shadow

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Title: Shadow
Author: qthebadwolf
Pairing: John/Sherlock "sort of" -- I'd call it gen
Length: 4,236 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: parental alcoholism, family dysfunction, one racial slur (author's warnings)
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: When he was five years old, John Watson had a cat called Shadow.
Reccer's comments: Some fics you keep going back to, although it sounds odd to call a fic which invariably has me reaching for kleenex as a comfort fic, this is one of mine. It might be the adorableness of five year old Johnny Watson. It might be the uncertain and frequently distracted observations of his older sister Harry, who has the central point of view. And it might be the sheer bloodymindedness of a certain small black cat...

In any case, it's a wonderful read.

( excerpt )