Hurricane season!

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Blow us some recs!

It's September already, and time to welcome our reccers for this month: biswholocked,  rachelindeed, and cherrytide.

Our thanks also to dioscureantwins and scfrankles, who have done a wonderful job of entertaining us for a steamy August.

Signups are open for any month that you'd like, right now. We welcome recs for old and new completed fic, vids, art, podfic, and meta, for any version of Sherlock Holmes. Sign up here! And please contact me if you have any requests or questions.

Art Rec: Sherlock

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Title: Sherlock
Artist: tilartdouspart on tumblr
Pairing: Gen
Rating: not rated, I would say G
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock, 2013 art

Reccer's comments: I love this piece. I labelled it "ghost violin" in my bookmarks. Sherlock's face, only half visible, emerges from the canvas's white space, which shrouds him like a fog. We see suggestions of his neck, the barest outline of his body, and a blurry hand emerging to rest on a violin defined largely by the lines of its strings and the gloss of its outer edges.

This is a work of art that plays with incompleteness. It shows us some details with startling clarity - the mouth, the nose - while hiding others partially or entirely. Many artists have created beautiful portraits of this character, but this one creates beauty in a different way, by guiding our eyes to see the elegance in features that we would likely overlook were we presented with a fully realized and recognizable form.

I find it a haunting, delicate image.

Fic Rec: The Vermilion Problem

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Title: The Vermilion Problem (series of 4 short fics)
Author: gardnerhill
Pairing: none
Length: 3,968 for the entire series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: blood, mentions of killing/ dying
Verse: ACD (AU)
Author's summary: Vampire!Holmes.
Reccer's comments: I first discovered gardnerhill through July Writing Prompts, and happily made my way through a number of the their fics on AO3. This series, though, really stood out to me; I generally prefer my ACD fics to remain free of supernatural / mythological elements, but gardnerhill blends vampires and the classic Holmes personality brilliantly. They also include great details - like a morroco case of holy water and garlic instead of cocaine - that make the stories more real for the reader. The series is a lovely little collection of drabbles/ one shots, and left me feeling both very satisfied and wanting more.