Fic Rec: Intersections

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Title: Intersections
Author: mazaher and jns
Pairing: Sherlock/John implied
Length: around 10,000 (includes images with words)
Rating: not given
Warnings: none needed by comm rules
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: The hiatus years, seen through the eyes of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.

Reccer's comments: This is an illustrated prose poem which follows Sherlock through his Reichenbach quest and back to John, weaving in a deepening of the understanding between Sherlock and Mycroft. 'Beautiful' is the best single word for it, followed by 'complex'. The opening pic of London as splintered glass sets the tone for this. Cliches are remade by the changing of a word – utter certainty being at the bottom of *lungs* for example – into something which has the power of the original phrase (images become cliche for a reason) plus a whole new perspective. The fic continues to unfold in the mind for a long time after reading.
Don't expect to while away a light half-hour with this one, but do go there to sink into the language.

ETA: It turns out this is a repeat rec. I was trying to avoid doing that, but penny!fail apparently. Original rec from chapbook.

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