Fic Rec: The Shattered Marque

[allonymity.livejournal.com]

Title: The Shattered Marque

Author: Kryptaria

Pairing: Sherlock/John

Length: 19,330 words

Rating: Teen and up

Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: After living at Baker Street for almost two years, John Watson thought he’d learned everything there was to know about his flatmate, Sherlock Holmes. But when the gruesome murder of a foreign fashion designer opens a door into the exotic, mysterious world of the D’Angelines, he realizes just how little he actually knows.

Reccer's comments:  This amazing crossover story is a Sherlock BBC AU fused with a modern adaptation of Kushiel’s Legacy by Jacqueline Carey.  I would’ve never have imagined it, but the two worlds work wonderfully together.   Kryptaria has done a masterful job of taking Carey’s worldbuilding and updating it to the 21^st century.   And of course Sherlock would canonically be a quarter D’Angeline, from his Vernet grandmother (who is a fantastic OC in this story).  But you don’t need to be familiar with the Kushiel books to enjoy this story.  Because it’s written from John’s POV, the reader can learn about the D’Angeline culture the same time John does, so if you enjoy a good fantasy AU case!fic, then don’t pass this one up.

Fic rec: Like You Hate Me and Dig It Up, Tear It Down

[pennypaperbrain.livejournal.com]

Title: Like You Hate Me and its sequel Dig It Up, Tear It Down
Author: quamquam20
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 2,411 and 5,856
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none needed by comm rules
Verse: BBC Sherlock

Author's summary: John cannot stop thinking about Sherlock making him helpless, controlling him, doing what he wants with him. Sherlock, quite aware, wants to see how long it will take before John throws himself at him.

Reccer's comments: I once swore to ONLY EVER TALK ABOUT THIS ‘VERSE IN CAPITAL LETTERS, BECAUSE IT IS JUST THAT HOT, but I’m going to break that vow for the sake of a readable rec. The premise of the fics is pretty simple: John is longing to sub to Sherlock, and he spends the first fic fantasizing about it and the second fic getting to do it. In a way this is PWP, except it really isn’t, because of the relationship development that occurs during and through the extremely hot kinky sex.
Sometimes I find dom!Sherlock a little hard to take – it’s too much an inflation of his already exaggerated canon personality – but in this ‘verse he is perfectly pitched. The stories are from John’s POV but I don’t doubt for a moment that Sherlock would act as described. Sherlock’s pleasure comes through clearly in quamquam’s description of his behaviour.
And the lot of it is hot, hot, hot.

( Excerpt )