221B Recs

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.