![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frozen_delightTitle: All The Towers Of Ivory Are Crumbling (also on AO3)
Author:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daasgrrl
Pairing: Sherlock/Mycroft
Length: 3,700 words
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: It really was just like old times, except, perhaps, that Mycroft was now all too aware of what he had already forsaken. The Sign of Three post-ep.
Reccer's comments: This story features a totally lovely, holmescesty conclusion to The Sign of Three and has immediately become one of my favourite new Sherlock fics. There's music, there's dancing, there's the two Holmes brothers talking in the slighty mysterious, enigmatic way that always seems like a language of their own, there's tragic misunderstandings, unrequited feelings, wistful remembrances and a long overdue talk - in short everything that makes for an emotionally satisfying read.
Moreover, though, the story manages to do justice to both brothers. When they argue, they really both have a point because they manage to put their finger on exactly the character traits of the other person which prevent them from realising the other's true feelings. Naturally, this makes it a lot more believable that these two immeasurably clever people can err so terribly and not understand what's right before them.
Furthermore, I'm in awe of the fact that this is one of the few Holmescest stories which actually brings up John, too, and doesn't play down his influence in Sherlock's life. Instead, John's marriage presents a perfect opportunity to deal with all the issues that the Holmes brothers have been carrying around with themselves for years, allowing them to finally come to terms with the past and make a new start for the future.
Obviously, for soppy readers like myself, it's absolutely marvellous that even though this fantastic story manages to lay out with great clarity why Sherlock and Mycroft can never be happy ever after together, it still gives us a happy ending of sorts.
Author:
daasgrrlPairing: Sherlock/Mycroft
Length: 3,700 words
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: It really was just like old times, except, perhaps, that Mycroft was now all too aware of what he had already forsaken. The Sign of Three post-ep.
Reccer's comments: This story features a totally lovely, holmescesty conclusion to The Sign of Three and has immediately become one of my favourite new Sherlock fics. There's music, there's dancing, there's the two Holmes brothers talking in the slighty mysterious, enigmatic way that always seems like a language of their own, there's tragic misunderstandings, unrequited feelings, wistful remembrances and a long overdue talk - in short everything that makes for an emotionally satisfying read.
Moreover, though, the story manages to do justice to both brothers. When they argue, they really both have a point because they manage to put their finger on exactly the character traits of the other person which prevent them from realising the other's true feelings. Naturally, this makes it a lot more believable that these two immeasurably clever people can err so terribly and not understand what's right before them.
Furthermore, I'm in awe of the fact that this is one of the few Holmescest stories which actually brings up John, too, and doesn't play down his influence in Sherlock's life. Instead, John's marriage presents a perfect opportunity to deal with all the issues that the Holmes brothers have been carrying around with themselves for years, allowing them to finally come to terms with the past and make a new start for the future.
Obviously, for soppy readers like myself, it's absolutely marvellous that even though this fantastic story manages to lay out with great clarity why Sherlock and Mycroft can never be happy ever after together, it still gives us a happy ending of sorts.
