Fic Rec: I Put Away Childish Things
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221b_recsTitle: I Put Away Childish Things
Author: kirstenlouise
Pairing: Molly Hooper/Jim Moriarty
Length: 7123
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: rape/non-con, underage sex (adult sexual relationship with a minor)
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: One lonely, naive girl, desperate to be noticed, and a man clever enough to make her feel special.
Reccer's comments: Big fat content warning right up front: this story depicts child rape. Read the tags.
The author explores a predatory adult/child relationship through Jim and Molly, with a deftness of touch that allowed me to feel all at once Molly's childish resentments, her budding sexuality, and the thrill of her transgressions, along with my own presumably sane adult reaction of wanting to punch Jim in his disgusting smarmy creeper face. (Molly's neglectful parents could use a kick, too.) This is less a case of "so hot and so wrong" and more a case of "yeah this is hot but oh god, no." The horror in the reading derived from the ease with which I could sympathize with pre-adolescent Molly - her desires, her troubles, her naivety - while finding Jim's cold-blooded, coercive seduction pathetically obvious. I could absolutely see why he was effective, and that was the creepiest part.
The characters are fundamentally recognizable inside their AU personas. Molly is a lonely, precocious child, eager to impress, curious, bright and stubborn. Jim is a beady-eyed predator employing superficial charm, sudden shocks, crude bullying, and insinuating sexuality as long-familiar tools ready to hand.
String by string, the author constructs a believable tangle of situation, personality, and opportunity that leaves Molly tragically vulnerable to exploitation. This writer is gifted at melding dark scenarios and WRONG!sex with compassionate character studies. Don't look for happy endings. Do look for stories that haunt you for years.
(I am thanked in the author's notes, but was privileged only to help kick around a couple of plot points and transitions before I saw the whole thing written out. I'd've left this for someone else to rec, but I didn't want to leave it forever. Personal bias aside, it's remarkable work.)
Author: kirstenlouise
Pairing: Molly Hooper/Jim Moriarty
Length: 7123
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: rape/non-con, underage sex (adult sexual relationship with a minor)
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: One lonely, naive girl, desperate to be noticed, and a man clever enough to make her feel special.
Reccer's comments: Big fat content warning right up front: this story depicts child rape. Read the tags.
The author explores a predatory adult/child relationship through Jim and Molly, with a deftness of touch that allowed me to feel all at once Molly's childish resentments, her budding sexuality, and the thrill of her transgressions, along with my own presumably sane adult reaction of wanting to punch Jim in his disgusting smarmy creeper face. (Molly's neglectful parents could use a kick, too.) This is less a case of "so hot and so wrong" and more a case of "yeah this is hot but oh god, no." The horror in the reading derived from the ease with which I could sympathize with pre-adolescent Molly - her desires, her troubles, her naivety - while finding Jim's cold-blooded, coercive seduction pathetically obvious. I could absolutely see why he was effective, and that was the creepiest part.
The characters are fundamentally recognizable inside their AU personas. Molly is a lonely, precocious child, eager to impress, curious, bright and stubborn. Jim is a beady-eyed predator employing superficial charm, sudden shocks, crude bullying, and insinuating sexuality as long-familiar tools ready to hand.
String by string, the author constructs a believable tangle of situation, personality, and opportunity that leaves Molly tragically vulnerable to exploitation. This writer is gifted at melding dark scenarios and WRONG!sex with compassionate character studies. Don't look for happy endings. Do look for stories that haunt you for years.
(I am thanked in the author's notes, but was privileged only to help kick around a couple of plot points and transitions before I saw the whole thing written out. I'd've left this for someone else to rec, but I didn't want to leave it forever. Personal bias aside, it's remarkable work.)
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