Fic Rec: Sub Rosa

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Title: Sub Rosa
Author: prof_pangaea
Pairing: Gen
Length: N/A
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Verse: ACD
Author's summary: "One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. The truly beautiful and noble puts its lover, as it were, at an infinite distance, while it attends him more strongly than ever." -- Henry David Thoreau

Reccer's comments:
I'm not sure whether this fabulously creative endeavour is best classified as a fic or fanart, but whatever your definitional preference, it's certainly one of the more unique fanworks I've encountered recently. It's a post-Reichenbach story told through telegrams between Holmes and Mycroft. Each of the telegrams has been rendered as an image, complete with postage stamps, creases, folds and tears. It's an absolute joy to trace Holmes' travels through the various telegrams. The author has also set up a wonderful contrast between Mycroft's verbose messages and Holmes' curt and abrupt missives.

It's quite an old fic, so if you've been in the fandom for a while you might have encountered it before. But if you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to check it out. The level of care and attention to detail the author has invested is impressive, and the characterisation is absolutely spot on.