Vid Rec: Narrow It Down, by Grable424

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Title: Narrow It Down
Music Title & Artist: Victorious, by Sasurai Goza Makura
Vidder: Grable424
Pairing or Character: Gen; Sherlock-focus
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txf3qiXPCv8

Reccer's Comments: Be aware--some flashing lights and rapid, blinking cuts.

The one good thing I expected from Season 3 was new material for vidders, and here it pays off in spades. This is a brilliant vid for the series to date with razor-sharp editing and perfect use of dialogue from the source. It's a trenchant look at Sherlock and violence, concentration, and all the varieties of danger in his life.

Wonderful music choice, too. I'm not familiar with the vidder, and this is apparently her first Sherlock work.

Fic Rec: A Lopsided Symmetry of Sin and Virtue

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(Since we're a little short staffed this month me and unovis will contribute a few recs)

Title: A Lopsided Symmetry of Sin and Virtue
Author: language_escapes
Pairing: Sherlock/Joan
Length: 25610
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Verse: Elementary
Author's summary: Joan thinks she should be less surprised by his sudden, “Watson, we’re getting married!” and yet, here she is, cooking her egg and trying not to be astonished.
Infants are vanishing, and Sherlock and Joan go undercover as a married couple to find their kidnappers.
Reccer's comments: I have to confess I'm a big fan of the "pretend marriage" trope and this is the best fic in that category I've read in a while. Language_escapes does a terrific job with it, because they don't use the trope as a cheap device to get them together but to explore how the characters would react if they suddenly had to play the happy couple.
I'm really impressed with how they wrote Sherlock, too. His tics and idiosyncrasies are perfect.