Fic: Galatea

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Title: Galatea
Author: one_windiga
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 7970
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John is a doll that Sherlock orders from a company online.

Reccer's comments: Another example of a premise that seems like crack say crack again but is anything but. Sherlock's loneliness in this fic is physically painful at points, and the way he toes the line of self-delusion and self-disgust is heartbreaking. I quite honesty had tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat the whole way through, and believe me, it takes a lot to get that kind of reaction out of me with fic. I love the way one_windiga develops Sherlock's attachment to 'John'; how at first it seems like a lark, something he's playing at even, only to spiral into something devastatingly real as his rationalizations become more and more desperate. What takes this fic from lovely into brilliant, however, is the reactions of everyone else in Sherlock's life to his new flatmate. Everyone is just absolutely spot-on, from the Yard, to Lestrade, to Mycroft, to Mrs. Hudson...and of course, written to chilling perfection, Moriarty.


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