Art Rec: Abstinence is Not Immortality

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Title: Abstinence is Not Immortality
Artist: deebzy
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: T
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: None. A fancomic inspired by the glasshouse scene in TAB.

Reccer's comments: A lovely fancomic that makes the subtext of the glasshouse scene text. If you are wondering about this, one likely source of inspiration for the scene is the conversation between Holmes and Watson in Billy Wilder's heartbreaking film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. This scene had a powerful impact on Mark Gatiss, as he writes in the Guardian:

It's a fantastically melancholy film. The relationship between Sherlock and Watson is treated beautifully; Sherlock effectively falls in love with him in the film, but it's so desperately unspoken. There's an amazing scene where, to get out of a situation where a Russian ballerina wants Sherlock to father her child, he claims Watson and he are gay. Watson is outraged and, when he calms down, speaks of the women all over the world who could attest to his sexuality. He says to Sherlock, "You do too, don't you?" Holmes is silent, and Watson says, "Am I being presumptuous? There have been women, haven't there?" Holmes says, "The answer is yes – you are being presumptuous." Sensational.

I particularly like the spareness and rhythm of this comic, as well as the terrific use of a callback to ASiP in a way that mirrors the way the waking and dream worlds of TAB are occasionally intercut.

Comments

What a lovely piece of art

[haikitteh.livejournal.com]

Thank you for rec'ing it!

[geneva2010.livejournal.com]

Sensational art!