Fic Rec: Guitar Man series

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Title: Guitar Man overview
Author: 221b_hound
Pairing: Gen (with a few exceptions, check the individual story tags)
Length: varying lengths
Rating: general audiences (except installment 32, "Can’t Keep My Hands Off You.") Future stories may vary.
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Reccer's comments on the series: Guitar Man seems to be an ongoing series (new stories keep popping up, though most stand alone). I'm not quite sure how to cover it, since it's currently at 32 installments. I'm going to highlight a few, but I hope you will want to read them all, and preferably in order.

In some fics Sherlock's violin is almost a character in own right and music is the way he expresses his feelings. "Guitar Man" is another series in which music plays a key role as a medium for emotions, connections, healing, and growth. Sherlock has his violin, but John is the guitar man - previously the lead singer and songwriter for an almost-famous band in his teenage years.

This series covers a span of 30 years - from a year after John moves into 221B Baker to their retirement in Sussex. Some installments are light-hearted. Some are serious. They evoke laugh-out-loud merriment, sad tears, joyful tears, heart-in-throat anxiety, smiles of adorableness, and nods of insight. There are song lyrics. There are weddings. And glimpses into John's and Sherlock's childhoods. Guitar Man goes in unexpected directions, with unexpected pairings, but it always feels right, making full use of all the major canon characters. It even redeems Anderson!

Guitar Man beautifully conveys a friendship as profound and meaningful as any romance - as, in fact, a great love story.

I adore this series.

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