Fic Rec: Conversations Around a Couch

[venusinthenight]

Title: Conversations Around a Couch
Author: beanarie on AO3
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson
Length: 3495 words over four chapters
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None apply (see reccer's comments)
Verse: Elementary
Author's summary: After Kitty leaves, Sherlock visits Joan to find an apartment in disarray and a friend coming undone.

Reccer's comments: Very rarely does Elementary let us see Joan as anything other than a woman who has it together. She's typically portrayed as a rock, the one who is there for everyone, especially Sherlock. She rarely lets her emotions out.

Here, we see the opposite: Joan, in a state of disarray, drunk, unburdening herself to Sherlock, with him being a listening ear for her, looking after her. And it is beautiful.

(Content notes, derived from fic tags: alcohol use, mention of drug use, PTSD)

Vid Rec: A Thousand Years

[sanguinity]

Music Title & Artist: Christina Perri, “A Thousand Years”
Vidder: irondeficientbull | redhandsredribbons
Pairing or Character: Holmes/Watson
Verse: Multi (Rathbone, Granada, Ritchie, Sherlock, and Elementary)
Link: tumblr announcement post
Reccer's Comments:

From quiet moments at home to Reichenbach and back again, Holmes and Watson have loved each other for well over a century now, and will love each other for at least that long again to come.