Fic Rec: The River Variations

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Title: The River Variations
Author: withoutawish
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 11,619 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John Watson never knew that he wanted a ‘no toast in the mornings’ normal until he realized what an honor it is to be destroyed by Sherlock Holmes.

Reccer's comments: On the surface, this is a casefic, the case in question being a very faithful modern re-telling of Conan Doyle's The Three Garridebs. But we're not actually here for the case. We're here for the emotions and the metaphors and for Sherlock's attempts at telling John how he feels consistently being misunderstood (which, to be fair, said attempts are extremely oblique). We're also here for Sherlock being a BAMF who very much goes over the line of 'a bit not goodness'.

( Excerpt contains mention of suicide... )

This story turns out to be rather important, as do the physics of bee flight, the space on Sherlock's hard drive, John's relationship to toast, and the difference between what is 'good', what is 'lovely', and what is 'beautiful'. Really, everything's important. I had a hard time picking an excerpt to share because you can take pretty much any section of the fic and find that it's saying something profound without being obvious about it.

The fic is rated Teen, but personally I feel like it pushes the boundary with some fairly explicit gore, strong language, and a bedroom scene. So just, you know, go in prepared. It'll be worth it.

Fic Rec: that shaky feeling

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Title: that shaky feeling
Author: overnightbivouac
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 2879 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: Sherlock emerges from his own trauma. He has friends to help him.

Reccer's comments: *Guh…* Can a review just be “Guh?” overnightbivouac’s writing is sizzling and concise, while John and Sherlock’s personalities are clearly recognizable. Let’s just say she/he has a way with words that leaves me blushing and then checking to see if anyone is watching me. This particular story is set in an Alpha/Omega universe. (I’d never read an Alpha/Omega story until immersing myself in the Sherlock fandom. As I understand it, writers create their own spin on this, but basically the Omega is the yin to the dominate Alpha’s yang, and when one of them goes into heat it presents the ultimate take on horniness, ending in what else, but fornication.) Sherlock is an unbonded Omega and John is the unbonded Alpha (both BAMF and protective) when Sherlock goes into heat unexpectedly. There is also a follow-up story called when you need it most. *fans self* Read these in the privacy of your home.