Fic Rec: The Curse, by Toft

[ancientreader]

Title: The Curse
Author: Toft
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 4798 words
Rating: NC-17/E
Verse: Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), according to the author, but I think it could equally be read as ACD.
Author's summary: Genderfuck on a train.
"Watson, I am about to give you rather a great shock. Will you promise me that you will keep your head?"

Reccer's comments: There are some excellent fics featuring Holmes or Watson as trans; this isn't one of them ... or not exactly, though some of the same issues arise as those fics often address: what does it mean to be "a man" or to be "a woman"? to what extent do love and sexual attraction depend on the physical form of the beloved? I don't want to say more than that, because the actual premise here is, oh, fantastic, in the strict sense, and perhaps surprisingly not one I've seen the like of elsewhere.

Also, the sex is hot and has plenty of feelz to go with it.

I've tagged this as genderswitch, but it ... isn't, exactly. Though it is. I don't know! Go read!

An excerpt (Holmes speaks):

" ... Have I had a man proposition me?"

Holmes' voice was light, but her eyes were stormy, suddenly, and I regretted my question. I had meant to discomfit him, make him share this strange feeling of electric unease which was drowning me, but I was striking in the dark, and I suddenly felt that we were close to doing something unnameable, something unforgiveable. The carriage swayed, and my fingers inadvertently skimmed the rough bandages and fell against the smooth, pale skin of her - his shoulder.


Read on the AO3.

Art Rec: Where is my chair? & Where is my scarf? by trururu-matthew

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Title: Where is my chair? & Where is my scarf?
Artist: trururu-matthew
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 2 pages
Rating: G & NC-17
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary:
)))) [<---These are Russian smilies... took me a while to figure them out, lol]

Reccer's comments:
I'm posting a pair of comic strips by the same author this time, since they are both very short. The first, Where is my chair? is an adorably angsty hurt/comfort tale set after TSOT. And Where is my scarf? is naughty, silly, and sweet. The artist is Russian and a translation for the first comic is included in the artist's comments below the image. This guy has a wonderful, and frequently dirty, sense of humour, as well as a very mature and elegant cartooning style. I'm particularly fond of his Sheriarty!

Where is my chair? (G)

Where is my scarf? (NC-17)

(P.S. I just renamed my account so it matches my other screennames. Same person!)