Free August, Open Recs Post

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Greetings, all.

Because we've had too few reccers for August, we won't have individual recs this month. Instead, we'll put up weekly Open Recs posts, for you to post recs in comments -- beginning today!

Please make your recs in comments to this post. As always, we welcome recs for any version of Sherlock Holmes, for fic, podfic, vids, and art. WIPs are allowed in Open Recs, as are requests for specific or general types of works.



We're also open for September signups now -- sign up here. As usual, we're looking for a variety of reccers to make between three and twelve recs a month. Reccers should wait three months before taking a turn reccing again, and be members of the comm (so we can give you posting access).

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[chapbook.livejournal.com]

A few WIPs for your pleasure:

No Fixed Point (http://archiveofourown.org/works/881081) (38474 words) by bendingsignpost (http://archiveofourown.org/users/bendingsignpost)
Chapters: 4/5
Fandom: Sherlock (TV) (http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Sherlock%20(TV))
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Summary:

The AU of AU's: First, he is shot in Afghanistan (again). Second, he wakes on a boat. Third is pain, fourth is normalcy, fifth is agony and sixth is confusion. By the tenth, he's lost hope.

(Original prompt: "ECM!John gets hurt again, and ends up with a few more lives. By overwriting Stranger at the Gate!John and Behavioral Modification!John. " ... NOT an official continuation of any of these 'verses.)

All Things Inherit (http://archiveofourown.org/works/909026) (7485 words) by BeautifulFiction (http://archiveofourown.org/users/BeautifulFiction)
Chapters: 1/4
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Greg Lestrade
Summary:

"For John, it's not a bullet that throws his existence into disarray – it's a bite."

In a world where twelve percent of the population are Mactiri - people with the ability to turn into wolves at will - John finds himself struggling with a new and horrifying existence. The victim of a shocking attack, he is discharged from the army and sent home, determined never to acknowledge what he can now become.

However, when his health starts to fail, it is up to his enigmatic new flatmate to show him that perhaps his life is not the nightmare John believes it to be.

All We Ought To Ask (http://archiveofourown.org/works/868705) (42034 words) by achray (http://archiveofourown.org/users/achray)
Chapters: 9/?
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Molly Hooper, Greg Lestrade, Mary Morstan
Summary:

1860. Change is in the air. John is a clergyman and former army chaplain, attempting to settle down in a country parish and lead a quiet life. But with Sherlock Holmes, reputed to be England's most dangerous religious controversialist, as the local aristocrat, what are his prospects of success?

Brittle Blossoms (http://archiveofourown.org/works/845794) (3821 words) by wiggleofjudas (http://archiveofourown.org/users/wiggleofjudas)
Chapters: 3/?
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Additional Tags: Fawnlock, Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale, Suicidal Thoughts, Omega Verse, Scenting, Nature, Intercrural Sex
Summary:

John moves to the woods for the solitude. Unfortunately, Sherlock beats him to it.

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

And a couple complete works:

I ADORED the format and content of this heartbreaking (and I mean no happy ending) work. The work that must have gone into recreating a medieval manuscript and its scholarly "commentary", including academic conflict, must have been enormous:

British Library, Cotton Domitian viii, Item IV, ff. 70-80: Historia Johannis (http://archiveofourown.org/works/891798) (3913 words) by longwhitecoats (http://archiveofourown.org/users/longwhitecoats)
Chapters: 1/1
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Medieval, Writing on Skin, Writing on the Body, Literacy Kink, Multilingual, Footnotes, Epic Love, Literally an epic love, Implied character death - ambiguous, Academia
Summary:

Here follows the first translation of the Historia Johannis, commonly called "The Hermit's Tale."

John goes to War. Vivid style, be careful of the thorns:

Hollow to Your Bones (http://archiveofourown.org/works/890267) (884 words) by wiggleofjudas (http://archiveofourown.org/users/wiggleofjudas)
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Sherlock (TV) (http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Sherlock%20(TV))
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Additional Tags: 221B Ficlet, War, Frogs, Autumn
Series: Part 2 of The Snow Queen (http://archiveofourown.org/series/43371)
Summary:

Truth outs bright as coreopsis, painful as buckthorn.

British Library....

[the-hobbet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for this rec. It's so original. Amazing.

Re: British Library....

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it! The whole set-up is so well done...

Re: British Library....

[arcsupport.livejournal.com]

This was so good! I hope it gets properly re-recced at a later date so it can join the Spreadsheet of All Good Things.

[galaxy-song.livejournal.com]

Most Ghosts are Idiots (http://archiveofourown.org/works/367174)(18236 words)
Rating: Gen
Relationships Sherlock and John friendship
Summary: The one where Sherlock is already dead but hits it off with John anyway. John returns from Afghanistan later than he did in canon and rents a long vacant flat in Baker Street. But it has a few problems, he discovers, such as the ghost of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock throws books about, plays the violin at all hours, and leaves ominous messages on the bathroom mirror. John settles in regardless, determined not to let a haunted flat get the best of him. Though he does wish Sherlock would stop hiding his cane. Sherlock’s not an ordinary ghost, but then, most ghosts are idiots.

This is a wonderful story John and Sherlock still become best friends even when Sherlock is a ghost.

Tile: Left (http://archiveofourown.org/works/639976/chapters/1160160) (Words 45153)
Rating: Mature
Relationship: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John Watson is left-handed.

He’s tried not to let it affect his life, but as any Lefty knows, that’s almost impossible.

My recs for the week of 4 - 10 August 2013

[swissmarg]

These are in the Sherlock (BBC) verse:

Magical realism prequel to the meeting at Bart's:

Waiting for You (3,927 words) by flawedamythyst
Rating: PG
Relationships: John/Sherlock, brief John/OFC
Summary: He couldn’t remember a time when he hadn’t known that Sherlock was coming, just like he couldn’t remember not knowing that Mummy’s eyes were brown and Daddy’s were blue. One day, there would be Sherlock and he would be John’s family, and his best friend.

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Lovely use of language in this, as well as a very cool idea with the book:

Thunder, Skin-Silk, and Magic (16792 words) by SherlockWho
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: In an effort to help John research a book he isn't really writing, Sherlock agrees to really bond with John, just like men in the armed forces would. Things reach critical mass when John is abducted one time too many and Sherlock's distractions with the writing project lead to unforgivable mistakes.

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Astounding. But then, it's from holyfant:

The Speed of Objects in Motion (48411 words) by holyfant
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock, John and a lifetime of falling together and apart.

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File this one under "Things That Make You Go 'Awwww...'" Not too fluffy but heartwarming and insightful all the same:

A Terrific Soporific (11269 words) by antietamfalls
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock, a long-time sufferer of insomnia, is forced to share a bed with John at a hotel while on a case. To his astonishment, he finds that spending the night next to John helps him sleep and becomes determined to maneuver himself back into John's bed.

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All the feels:

Sussex (26636 words) by SilentAuror
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John can't seem to stop touching Sherlock. He can push the anger away, but sometimes he just needs to take Sherlock's pulse again. Slight angst, case-fic, post-Reichenbach.

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And an ACD one:

Part of a series, but you do not need to have read the first two parts. What I liked about this fic was its depth and subtlety, referring to things like Holmes' fear that Watson will leave him for a woman, skirting the issue of Holmes' recreational drug use, Holmes' longing for a more public acknowledgement of their relationship, and the nature of family bonds and loyalty. Really well done story.

Les Paradis Artificiels (10519 words) by Violsva
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock Holmes has a number of bad habits, but Watson has put up with all of them for years without objection. That may not continue, which is an inconvenient realization to have right before an interesting – but possibly too personally relevant – case.

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

So much good stuff being written! I'm at the point where my to-read list might look less like a mountain and more like a mountain range. But which one?