Series Rec: Serviceman

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Title: Serviceman 
Author: PrettyAbritrary
Pairing: John/Sherlock, John/OMCs
Length: 10,509 words (two stories)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Verse: BBC Sherlock

Author's summary: Don't you dare look down your nose at John Watson for his service. He's proud to be an army omega. You'll never know how good he has it. 100% non-problematically consensual and largely non-angst-ridden omegaverse, because world-building is cool and this freaking setting won't stop building itself in my head.

Reccer's comments:  Are you curious about omegaverse fic but worried about falling down the rabbit hole of knotting, heats, gender politics, and dubcon/noncon themes?  Very smart of you.  Omegaverse is one of those odd paths in fandom that makes it so wonderful and so twisted.  And this series is the perfect gateway drug to this verse.  PrettyArbritrary set out to write a fully consensual omegaverse fic and succeeded admirably.  It doesn’t downplay the issues of a culture so tied to biology, but it also paints a convincing picture of cleared-eyed choices on how to deal with the hand you're dealt with a sense of respect for all parties.  Plus the sex is very, very hot.

November Recs

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Heya!

Hope everyone on the US east cost weathered Sandy ok! And hopefully everyone who celebrated had a fun Halloween :).

A big thank you to our awesomecake October volunteers: ruth0007, swissmarg, oreganotea and to my co-mod unovis_lj.

The new and returning reccers for November are going to be pipmer1, allonymity, holyfant, frodosweetstuff and ningen_demonai.
Have at it!

December sign-ups are open, if you're interested in reccing yourself!

Fic Rec: Ten Days

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Title: Ten Days
Author: Engazed
Pairing: John/Mary, but it's not the focus of the story
Length: 133761 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con, Graphic Violence, Major Character Death (Not Sherlock or John)
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock Holmes has been dead for forty months, and John is at last beginning to live his life again. But just when he is beginning to believe that he might be happy, his world crashes back down around him.

John is named a missing person. Someone is pointing DI Lestrade in the wrong direction. And as the days pass, his situation only grows more dire. It seems like the disappearance of his best friend is the only thing that can bring Sherlock Holmes back from the dead.

Reccer's comments: This one is intense, folks, but oh so worth it. This one will heavily appeal to all the John!Wumpage fans out there, and boy, does it deliver in spades. I've never read a fic that puts John through as much as this one does. And the characterisation of Sherlock is lovely and spot-on.

Sherlock has been gone for forty months, with no intentions of ever returning, when Molly contacts him with news that John has disappeared. Sherlock returns, revealing himself only to Lestrade and Molly, and sets out to solve the case. The situation, and by extension Sherlock, becomes more desperate when the reason for John's disappearance becomes apparent.





( Excerpt: spoilery for why John has disappeared, but not necessarily for who is behind it )