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what-alchemy.livejournal.com2013-11-06 12:18 pm
Fic Rec: Butterfly
Title: Butterfly
Author: dogpoet
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 4873
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: in-character use of anti-trans* slur
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock borrows John's razor, ostensibly for a case. John gets turned on. A misunderstanding ensues. And then a mystery is solved.
Reccer's comments: What I love about this story is its intimacy. On the surface, it looks like a shaving/crossdressing kink fic, but ultimately that's not how I read it, and not, I think, how it's meant to be read. "Butterfly" is instead about navigating desire and attraction when the men involved are at first too emotionally constipated to discuss it, and when they're already more involved than they even know. Though the narrative mode is 3rd limited from John's point of view, I find the insight into Sherlock here compelling: he's a prick but he's tender, he manipulates but he's vulnerable, he's the world's only consulting detective but even he gets things wrong. Dogpoet is a wonderful writer with a lovely sense of restraint and character.
Author: dogpoet
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 4873
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: in-character use of anti-trans* slur
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock borrows John's razor, ostensibly for a case. John gets turned on. A misunderstanding ensues. And then a mystery is solved.
Reccer's comments: What I love about this story is its intimacy. On the surface, it looks like a shaving/crossdressing kink fic, but ultimately that's not how I read it, and not, I think, how it's meant to be read. "Butterfly" is instead about navigating desire and attraction when the men involved are at first too emotionally constipated to discuss it, and when they're already more involved than they even know. Though the narrative mode is 3rd limited from John's point of view, I find the insight into Sherlock here compelling: he's a prick but he's tender, he manipulates but he's vulnerable, he's the world's only consulting detective but even he gets things wrong. Dogpoet is a wonderful writer with a lovely sense of restraint and character.