fanfiction rec: The Physics of Present Tense

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Title: The Physics of Present Tense

Author: paxlux

Pairing: Mycroft/Sherlock

Length: 37850

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: sibling incest, drug use

Verse: BBC Sherlock

Author's summary: It happens instantaneously, but it takes years. It’s like looking up at the stars and spinning around with your arms out and letting gravity take you.

Reccer's comments: Mycroft/Sherlock (Holmescest, if you will) is definitely a pairing that is not for everyone. paxlux illustrates how isolating it can be, being a Holmes. Physics starts off when they are children, and follows the brothers all the way to ASiP. I love how they contrast and simultaneously reflect each other, as well as the repetitive theme of stating their ages. There's a world that only the two of them exist in; and this story pulls you inside. I will dare to say that if you only allow yourself one chance to read a Mycroft/Sherlock fanfiction, this one should be it. By the end of the story, it only seems right that they are together. Which, I suppose, is the point. 

Excerpt: 

Sherlock finds the furcula on his pillow again the next time Mycroft leaves. He wants to snap the bone, demand the wish, and calculate their momentum over their timeline, because this is fast pulling at his center of gravity and he can’t see where they’re going.

But it’s brilliant, it’s exciting.

Sherlock is intoxicated with possibilities and tangents and variables, but he returns to a single theorem: how he and Mycroft are equals, halves making a whole, no integrals required.

No one else is like them.

There is only them, together.

And he wants it.

fanfiction rec: Although the brightest fell

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Title: Although the brightest fell

Author: justwolf

Pairing: None/Gen

Length: 1468

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: canonical character death

Verse: BBC Sherlock

Author's summary: We all start the same – naked and gaping. Then we begin to change. Spoilers for The Reichenbach Fall.

Reccer's comments: A short but very satisfying Jim Moriarty character study. I like the way the writing flows and I also like that it is just about Jim, alone. I do enjoy MorMor as a pairing, but it can be frustrating to only see them together, and to never see Jim apart. There's a tendency to only see Jim through the 'eyes' of Sherlock/John/Molly when, in fact, there's a lot more of Jim that can be fleshed out. 

Excerpt: We all start the same, but Jim wished we didn't. He didn't mind bodies and their blood and excrement and pain and the endless indignity of breathing. He didn't like to get his hands dirty, but he didn't mind bodies. Bodies belong to the devil: it is the angels who own the rest of us.