Open Recs + Call for Reccers

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I really did mean to post this yesterday! /o\

Open recs: You're invited to post in comments here any recs or requests for recs for fic, vids, art, or podfic. All versions of Sherlock Holmes are welcome, as are WIPs.

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Fic Rec: bad girls go everywhere

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Title: bad girls go everywhere
Author: reckonedrightly
Pairing: Irene Adler/Kate, gen
Length: 746 words
Rating: PG (Teen and up)
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere. A number of Irene Adler-centric snippets based on various prompts.
Reccer's comments: Although listed as unfinished (due warning) this piece of writing contains two finished pieces connected only by protagonist Irene Adler. No date given, but this feels like a younger, less sure Irene. I'm recing it for the lovely sharpness of the language - she's x, he's y, and they have a story to finish, any minute now.

Fic Rec: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blow-Job

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Title: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blow-Job (Remix of Object of Focus by Jain)
Author: unovis
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Length: 2687 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: It's a remix. Thirteen different ways, as it says, structure and title borrowed from "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens. One part in particular borrows directly from that poem.
Interesting vignettes on their own, but the different approaches make more sense if you read the story it's based on.

Reccer's comments: I'm fairly sure it's not bad form to rec a mod's work? This gorgeous piece of writing covers so much ground in so few words. It's witty, wise, elegaic, colloquial, funny, and so perfectly structured the thought behind the words is breathtaking. I loved this when it was written and I still love it now.

Fic Rec: There's Something Living in These Lines

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Title: There's Something Living in These Lines
Author:teahigh
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 4676
Rating: M
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Two men, complete opposites in almost every way, who speak only in letters and pages torn from books.
Reccer's comments: This is a gorgeous, subtle story that stayed in my head long after I had read (and re-read) it. It has so many wonderful levels: the ambiguity of the situation, the angst of separation, and the growing tension between John and Sherlock in their careful communications. Blackout poetry plays a deliciously key role in the story. And watch for the achingly lovely blue Post-it note. Sigh.