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221b_recsTitle: Tanto Monta - Cutting as Untying (It Amounts to the Same)
Author: fresne
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes/John Clay, Sherlock Holmes/Original Male Character(s), John Watson/Original Female Characters, John Watson/Original Male Characters
Length: 62k words
Rating: Adult
Warnings: dubious consent, violence, talk of self-harm
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock began to turn into a desert when he was nine. Desertification took years, but grain by grain his Memory Palace turned from a primordial forest into scrub brush and sand. Only mad dogs and Englishmen could love the desert that he'd made of himself.
When John was fourteen, he stayed out late one particularly nasty March night at the rec centre reading a book. The results of that choice left him feeling like an ill fitting cog the rest of his life.
Or equal opposites in balance.
Reccer's comments: This is a challenging omegaverse story. It took me three tries to finish reading the first scene, both because of the parenthetical and mildly archaic language and because Sherlock, as a boy, not only witnesses but participates in the murder of someone he loves.
Most authors tend to 'normalize' Sherlock Holmes, to show him as a man that, underneath, isn't so different. Fresne does the opposite.
Sherlock's parents are genius grifters, forgers and criminals. In his family, "Omegas bear the children, alphas bury the bodies." In fact, Sherlock isn't his name, just one in a string of aliases that Sherlock and Mycroft made a pact to take as their own. As an adult, Sherlock has no home, but dozens of bolt holes around London. He's an urban legend in the city. If you have a very interesting problem, and sit in the right cafe and tell strangers about it, 'The Consulting Omega' just might solve the case for you. Oh, and Sherlock also has the worst possible taste in men. The alphas he's chemically and biologically attracted to are, without exception, thieves, murderers, and psychopaths.
John, in case you were wondering, also has a rather tragic tale here, albeit one much closer to canon.
For the first half of the story, their only connection is a medieval story called 'The Romance of Mystery'. The entire story has the feel of a tale from that era, with broad strokes between detailed adventures and gilt-edged horrors recited in a matter-of-fact tone.
The author is obviously very familiar with both BBC and ACD canon, and gleefully twists snips of both to her own devices. (ACD's murderous ape is used to great effect for one of their cases.) Of course this is a story about John's romance of his Mystery, and once the two of them meet, the story becomes an intense, messed-up, and vaguely criminal love story.
Reading it was a unique experience, and one I highly recommend!
Author: fresne
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes/John Clay, Sherlock Holmes/Original Male Character(s), John Watson/Original Female Characters, John Watson/Original Male Characters
Length: 62k words
Rating: Adult
Warnings: dubious consent, violence, talk of self-harm
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock began to turn into a desert when he was nine. Desertification took years, but grain by grain his Memory Palace turned from a primordial forest into scrub brush and sand. Only mad dogs and Englishmen could love the desert that he'd made of himself.
When John was fourteen, he stayed out late one particularly nasty March night at the rec centre reading a book. The results of that choice left him feeling like an ill fitting cog the rest of his life.
Or equal opposites in balance.
Reccer's comments: This is a challenging omegaverse story. It took me three tries to finish reading the first scene, both because of the parenthetical and mildly archaic language and because Sherlock, as a boy, not only witnesses but participates in the murder of someone he loves.
Most authors tend to 'normalize' Sherlock Holmes, to show him as a man that, underneath, isn't so different. Fresne does the opposite.
Sherlock's parents are genius grifters, forgers and criminals. In his family, "Omegas bear the children, alphas bury the bodies." In fact, Sherlock isn't his name, just one in a string of aliases that Sherlock and Mycroft made a pact to take as their own. As an adult, Sherlock has no home, but dozens of bolt holes around London. He's an urban legend in the city. If you have a very interesting problem, and sit in the right cafe and tell strangers about it, 'The Consulting Omega' just might solve the case for you. Oh, and Sherlock also has the worst possible taste in men. The alphas he's chemically and biologically attracted to are, without exception, thieves, murderers, and psychopaths.
John, in case you were wondering, also has a rather tragic tale here, albeit one much closer to canon.
For the first half of the story, their only connection is a medieval story called 'The Romance of Mystery'. The entire story has the feel of a tale from that era, with broad strokes between detailed adventures and gilt-edged horrors recited in a matter-of-fact tone.
The author is obviously very familiar with both BBC and ACD canon, and gleefully twists snips of both to her own devices. (ACD's murderous ape is used to great effect for one of their cases.) Of course this is a story about John's romance of his Mystery, and once the two of them meet, the story becomes an intense, messed-up, and vaguely criminal love story.
Reading it was a unique experience, and one I highly recommend!
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