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scfrankles.livejournal.com2014-07-15 11:31 pm
Fic Rec: An Impossible Shape: the Triangular Geometry of Flawed Hearts
Title: An Impossible Shape: the Triangular Geometry of Flawed Hearts (Remix of the series Not Your Average Threesome 'Verse: John/Lestrade + Sherlock by thirdbird)
Author: alltoseek
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade/John Watson
Length: 2,145
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: A triangle with shifting angles, its lines changing length as the energies between its three points waxed and waned… the three lines that made up the triangle, the vectors of energy all flowing down toward one point. One of the lines was weakened; it collapsed; the whole thing fell apart.
Lines, points, vectors and graphs… pages of notes with rough geometrical designs sketched out, notated in neat, minute handwriting… sketches and equations… numbers and angles and degrees, isosceles and scalene, sine and cosine and tangent… J=90, S=190, G=150. “It’s soothing to put it in those terms… it was at first. Until all the angles started going wrong. Now it’s nothing but a nightmare and a headache. It doesn’t work,” Sherlock said. “It’s an impossible shape.”
Reccer's comments: This is something a little unusual—a piece of found poetry. It’s literally a remix: phrases from the original stories have been taken out and then slotted together again to make something new and rather splendid. The poem is a sestina (I must admit this went right over my head initially) and I suppose it's also a kind of concrete poem. The piece is presented as a graphic image (the text is also posted separately after it), and there’s more to the poem than just the verses. Extra little lines are tucked in between. There are equations that act as comments on the verses; names are circled and lines come out from them to connect verses together. It all suggests Sherlock’s thought processes. I find the structure of the poem very satisfying—it’s like standing in the middle of a poem.
The poet says the piece will much more sense if you’re familiar with the series that’s been remixed, and that’s probably true. But when I first read the poem, I wasn’t terribly familiar with the stories—I’d read a couple of them but certainly couldn’t remember them in detail. I think the poem works as a moving piece of art even if you haven’t read the stories yet. This is an intelligent piece that also contains a lot of heart.
Author: alltoseek
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade/John Watson
Length: 2,145
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: A triangle with shifting angles, its lines changing length as the energies between its three points waxed and waned… the three lines that made up the triangle, the vectors of energy all flowing down toward one point. One of the lines was weakened; it collapsed; the whole thing fell apart.
Lines, points, vectors and graphs… pages of notes with rough geometrical designs sketched out, notated in neat, minute handwriting… sketches and equations… numbers and angles and degrees, isosceles and scalene, sine and cosine and tangent… J=90, S=190, G=150. “It’s soothing to put it in those terms… it was at first. Until all the angles started going wrong. Now it’s nothing but a nightmare and a headache. It doesn’t work,” Sherlock said. “It’s an impossible shape.”
Reccer's comments: This is something a little unusual—a piece of found poetry. It’s literally a remix: phrases from the original stories have been taken out and then slotted together again to make something new and rather splendid. The poem is a sestina (I must admit this went right over my head initially) and I suppose it's also a kind of concrete poem. The piece is presented as a graphic image (the text is also posted separately after it), and there’s more to the poem than just the verses. Extra little lines are tucked in between. There are equations that act as comments on the verses; names are circled and lines come out from them to connect verses together. It all suggests Sherlock’s thought processes. I find the structure of the poem very satisfying—it’s like standing in the middle of a poem.
The poet says the piece will much more sense if you’re familiar with the series that’s been remixed, and that’s probably true. But when I first read the poem, I wasn’t terribly familiar with the stories—I’d read a couple of them but certainly couldn’t remember them in detail. I think the poem works as a moving piece of art even if you haven’t read the stories yet. This is an intelligent piece that also contains a lot of heart.