Art Rec: I'll bring you home, little brother

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Title: I'll bring you home, little brother
Artist: whimsycatcher
Pairing: Sherlock & Mycroft
Rating: not rated, but SFW
Warnings: reference to drug use, blood, nothing graphic
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: So The Abominable Bride had a lot of brotherly feels and inspired me to draw this series - 3 times Mycroft carried Sherlock, I might call it? I indulged in cuteness, angst, and some punk in between! Was gonna pair each scene with a ficlet, to sorta explain my derived headcanons, but I’ll just leave the visual details to your own imaginings!

Reccer's comments: The Abominable Bride did such sweet and sad things with the history of Mycroft's approach to Sherlock's drug use -- this portrait of the changing, yet constant, ways that Mycroft carries his brother home tugs at the heartstrings. I particularly love the way that this picture series offers wildly different glimpses of Mycroft at different phases of his life, but keeps his pose the one constant -- gently implying that the changes we observe in his character and the recognizable powerhouse he eventually becomes are dictated by his brother's unchanging need. A lovely series.

(A note about tagging: I have simply tagged this as BBC Sherlock rather than using the new tag for "Abominable Bride Victorian," since this only references the modern-day portions of the episode.)