[identity profile] chapbook.livejournal.com
Title: The Mystery of Ill Opinions
Author: mundungus42
Pairing: Sherlock/John, Mycroft/Lestrade (background)
Length: 29,044
Rating: M
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC, Hollow Crown RPF
Author's summary: Two Elizabethan actors dream of leaving women's roles behind, and Master Sherlock Holmes agrees to help them find them a playwright to write them roles to rival Marlowe's Tamburlaine. But strange things are afoot in the Holmes household, and Sherlock and John must accomplish this feat while discovering who wants to kill Sherlock and why.

Reccer's comments: Fans of Elizabethan drama and Shakespeare, rejoice! For here you shall find a most delightful concoction, one to rival the plays presented in the Curtain and the Rose. [livejournal.com profile] mundungus42 creates a tour de force: mixing the history and drama of Elizabethan England and skillfully bringing into it many of the characters we love so well. The dialogue is intelligible to 21st-century readers and shines with wit throughout (keep your eye out for many references to Shakespeare's plays). Sherlock, John, Shakespeare, and Sally especially stand out for me, not least because of the terrific banter that sparks between them.

The settings and the culture of the period are treated with equal care. I clearly felt that this was a world with rather different values and beliefs than our own; yet it was not so foreign that the motivations and emotions of the main characters were obscured. If you enjoy AUs, history, or the theatre, I strongly suspect you will be satisfied by the richness of the repast spread before you.

Excerpt: John followed Master Sherlock up a creaky wooden staircase to a store-room, which held all manner of props and pieces of scenery. To John's surprise, the gatherer who had given him a free ticket had positioned himself in the store-room beside the heavy curtain that separated the store-room from the theatre.

“Master Sherlock!” he exclaimed, giving an exaggerated bow. “How delightful to see you again for the Lyly! Pray, was it Mister Burbage's Phao that enticed you to our Great O once more, or perhaps Mister Kempe as Cupid?”

“Neither,” said Master Sherlock shortly.

“Oh?” asked the gatherer, with badly feigned innocence. “Was it perhaps Mister Hoddleston as Venus or Mister Wishart as Sapho?”

John managed to turn a guffaw into a cough, but Master Sherlock stiffened.

“If you really wish to make a career of acting in order to support your wife and children and pay the debt you owe for your house in Stratford,” he said coldly, “you would do well not to practice your base humour on your betters, particularly those who patronise your troupe. And if you cannot control your idle tongue, perhaps you should return to the glove making trade your father tried to knock into your thick skull.”

If Master Sherlock's verbal assault struck anywhere near the truth, the gatherer made no sign of it as he bowed. “Base humour is, of course, in the eye of the beholder. Shall I send up an orange seller for your amusement?” he asked John.

John glanced at Sherlock's pursed lips and shook his head. “We would prefer to be left alone.”

The gatherer eyed John with new interest. “Oh, would we?”

“Hang you, you brazen-faced churl!” exclaimed Master Sherlock as he swept past the impertinent fellow.

The gatherer met John's eye challengingly. He had intelligent hazel eyes and sported a pointed beard that reminded John of Lord Holmes's, but John was in no mood for games. He seized the gatherer by the doublet and slammed him against the store-room's wall.

“You've had your fun,” said John in a low voice. “But it's over now. If I see you so much as raise an eyebrow in my master's direction, by God's bones, you're going to find it difficult to speak your lines through a broken jaw. Am I understood?”

“You're made of sterner stuff than his last minder,” he said approvingly. “Let us all hope that your fortitude will last the next three hours.”
[identity profile] what-alchemy.livejournal.com
Title: Enduring, Quiet, and Calm
Author: thesardine
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 1024 words
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: At 2:37 AM, a feverish Sherlock decides to prepare a "romantic" dinner for John.

Reccer's comments: thesardine writes strange, satisfying stories that are unlike any others in fandom. Though thesardine has longer and more popular stories, all of which are fantastic, this one is my favorite for what it reveals about Sherlock in the very limited amount of space it occupies. thesardine has mastered restraint and economy of words, never hand-holding or over-explaining - a rare thing in fanfic. Without revealing too much about such a short story, I want to emphasize that Sherlock is spot-on in this different sort of sick fic - he cares so much, and the way that caring manifests itself is odd and endearing and perfectly him. John, of course, understands.
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[personal profile] swissmarg
Title: Getting Better Series
Author: faviconLittlePippin
Pairing: John/Sherlock, background Lestrade/Molly
Length: 199,424 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: None provided for the series. Post-Reichenbach return, hurt/comfort with major injury and illness.

Reccer's comments: Oh, poor John. Poor Sherlock. The things they go through in this series. They are, respectively, shot and blown up, then endure seizures, endless vomiting, nausea, headaches, loss of bladder control, fainting, septicemia, and the flu. They are in and out of hospital so much it's a wonder they don't have a permanent reservation.

It's not just a lot of being sick, though. Each installment in the series has a unique and original case that needs to be solved, forcing the two detectives to keep up a punishing pace that pushes them to their mental and physical limits, and beyond.

And as if that weren't enough, there is their new relationship status to contend with. The series starts out with Sherlock's post-Reichenbach return, where the two are just friends, and moves slowly into a romance with deeper feelings. There is no explicit sex (see the rating), but that doesn't hinder the emotional and physical development of their relationship at all.

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The writing is no-nonsense, clear and straightforward and just a pleasure to read. The series caused me several bleary-eyed late-nighters as I devoured each installment in turn.

It actually reminds me in a lot of ways of magicbunni's fabulous Baker Street Series*, only with slash instead of gen. And more puking.

This series was originally posted on ff.net a while ago, but has now been copied over to AO3. The author is known as LittlePippin76 over there and has quite an extensive catalogue of Sherlock fics that haven't all been moved to AO3, including more sick!fic, so go check it out for more yummy hurt/comfort goodness!

*See my rec of magicbunni's series here.
[identity profile] chapbook.livejournal.com
Title: All We Ought to Ask
Author: [livejournal.com profile] achray
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 56,027
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary:1860. Change is in the air. John is a clergyman and former army chaplain, attempting to settle down in a country parish and lead a quiet life. But with Sherlock Holmes, reputed to be England's most dangerous religious controversialist, as the local aristocrat, what are his prospects of success?

Reccer's comments: Below is my history!fan squee, but I should let fans of English literature know that this AU was inspired by and plays with the conventions of the Victorian religious novel. Yep, it does that and earns its rating! :)

History AUs, particularly those that aspire to at least some historical authenticity, are an especial challenge for the writer. Cultural differences can have an enormous impact on a character, making it difficult to balance the core aspects of the personality with the inevitable changes that arise when a person is raised in a different time. For example, how do you make Sherlock and John come alive in the 1860s, rather than having Holmes and Watson grow up a few decades earlier? To do so well requires a strong grasp of the BBC versions of Doyle's characters as well as the period in question. Achray achieves this particularly well with her John Watson, who from the first is clearly not content with his new position as a rural parson in a quiet English parish:

Birds called in the trees outside, and there was the distant lowing of some cows, but otherwise all was silent. To John, used to the noise of London and before that, the cheerful and frantic bustle of a garrison full of soldiers, the quiet was oppressive. He laid his hands on his books and thought about how far they’d come, by land and sea and rail. He’d spent most of his life running away from precisely this scenario, and now here he was.

Achray's representation of contemporary bigotry is particularly skillful, for she allows even her main protagonists to say and do things that today many of us find unpleasantly reactionary, yet avoids making these characters unsympathetic. Assigning such prejudices to villains would be too easy and shortchange the complexity of the past, where you can find legions of thoughtful, engaging people writing of their love for their family or relatives in one sentence and expressing racist/sexist/classist sentiments in the next. John in this story is kind to women (he clearly enjoys working with Molly and asks her opinion on matters where she is the expert), but he is no supporter of equal rights or suffrage for the fairer sex (though by the end of the story one can envision him eventually thawing under the influence of the right company). Moreover, his letters to Mary show contempt towards what he considers "less interesting" work, the very work she would be handling if she became his wife:

I had expected to spend much of my time engaged in sermon-writing and in reading – as you told me, I am sadly behind after my years away – but my parishioners are determined to entertain me and tell me of their troubles. An astonishing number of them wish to be married, or have their children christened, or take communion classes. I see more than ever how invaluable your assistance could be, as I am unaccustomed to dealing with ladies’ charitable committees and the other smaller concerns of the parish.

For his part, clever, sharp-tongued, iconoclastic Sherlock forgets the realities of everyday life for the middle class and poor, not foreseeing that altering an individual's worldview may cause them not just spiritual anguish, but also destroy their economic stability. And Mary Morstan is an earnest, patient, talented, and faithful woman, but she shares the deep religious prejudices towards unbelievers expressed by many European Christians. It's these imperfections that make the characters more human, as well as situating them realistically in England of the mid-nineteenth century.

In short: come for the Victorian worldbuilding and dialogue, stay for the characters and a certain passionate, heady romance.
[identity profile] chapbook.livejournal.com
Title: Birdsong
Author: [livejournal.com profile] aderyn8
Pairing: Sherlock/John or Sherlock & John
Length: 912
Rating: PG
Warnings: Temporary Major Character Death
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary:
The cemetery is full of birdsong, as it should be.

(John. I’ve brought you back to life as well.)

Reccer's comments: This moving one-shot is inspired by [livejournal.com profile] quarryquest's wonderful meta post, Cemetery Birding, about the wildlife at the cemetery in TRF. I was hooked by the end of the first section of Aderyn's work, hopelessly caught by its melancholy then joyful beauty. The birds provide benediction, a sense that life continues amidst death, that physical healing does more than mend physical hurts. Both men call out to each other (as the birds do): Sherlock with his cries for "John"; John with his series of slow, melodic "Goodnight"s. The blackbird and his healer will roost again, amidst the rooks, gulls, blue tits, and swifts of London.
(Full disclosure: this was dedicated to me)

Excerpt: It’s at the cemetery that he hears the rooks. Settling in for the night, a whole storytelling of them, sounds like, he thinks, having heard that word once (a parliament, a clamour, or was it glamour; a whole rookery of rooks, he thinks, but not one of you).

A whole storytelling but there’s not one story he can tell save the one, which has an ending he does not like.

“Goodnight, Sherlock,” he says. The wings are soft all around him, the calls, but the headstone doesn’t call back....

In Afghanistan, land of pigeons and falcons, he once clipped a dove’s leg free from twine while some men watched and afterwards blessed him in Pashto as a good man, not a veterinarian obviously but a healer, and that translates cross-species; he can mend wings as well as arms, set fine bones, salve scaled feet, hear the whistle of wings, high, as a patient wheels away.

Once, in London again, as he was in a desperate flutter of knife and hands cutting rope from Sherlock’s arms (a case, of course, gone wrong), he thought about that bird and choked with relief as Sherlock palmed his neck and whispered, John. (John. I’ve brought you back to life as well.)
swissmarg: Mrs Hudson (Molly)
[personal profile] swissmarg
Title: (Beyond) The Science of Horizons
Author: thetreesgrowodd
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 11,403 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: In the downtime after a disastrous case, Sherlock is depressed and John is ailing. That's when Sherlock discovers an amazing new ability that manifests when he strokes John's skin. Whether or not it's all in his head is insignificant.

Reccer's comments: This is a gorgeous inside-Sherlock's-head view of what happens to him after a very difficult case, when he struggles with severe depression. In this story, Sherlock is asexual, but he is deeply in love with John and finds himself transported to a transcendental mental state when they touch. John takes comfort in the intimacy as well and acquiesces to it all in his usual stride.

Excerpt:

"Sherlock, what is this?" John asks quietly.

Sherlock can't voice one single word of what he's experienced. He can't because he's a rational person. He supposes there are terms like meditation and hallucination and lucid dreaming. Explanations to be made, but...

"I don't mind it," John says, vulnerably. "I won't make you stop. It's just..."

He can either act like a Real Human Person and make up some lie (probably too late for that, to be honest) or he can be Sherlock and tell the truth. No, make that part of the truth. "I like touching you."

"Alright," John says. "I like it too."

"Excellent."

The descriptions of Sherlock's raptures are beautifully poetic, and the depictions of his depressive mood achingly real. I think what I liked the most, though, is how both men try to continue to function outwardly, forcing themselves to do 'normal' things, while their inner world is plagued by demons and horrors. And in the end, what saves them is this strange, inexplicable connection, and the fact that they don't try to explain it, but just accept it and let it heal them.

Another interesting facet of the story is that 'The Recent Case' which started it all is never fully detailed, but we get snippets and flashbacks that allow us to understand in part the anguish and trauma which both men experienced (no serious physical injuries though). Trigger warnings for depression, suicide, and graphic violence.
[identity profile] arminaa.livejournal.com
Title: Evidence of Human Life
Author thesardine
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 16,906
Rating: Explicit
Warnings N/A
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary Sherlock's sanity deteriorates while he and John are stranded on a deserted island.

Reccer's comments This story, from Sherlock's POV, shows him very realistically and very sadly losing his mind from lack of intellectual stimulation on a deserted island. His only saving grace is John, but even that's not enough sometimes. It's a heartbreaking read, especially since you're seeing the inside of Sherlock's mind and it's breakdown, but the story just draws you in. I'm amazed at the author's skill at writing such a difficult subject matter. Well worth it!
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[personal profile] swissmarg
Title: Electric Pink Hand Grenade
Author: [livejournal.com profile] truths_in_lies / [info]BeautifulFiction
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 67,787 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: "If Sherlock's brain is a hard drive, then these attacks are an electro-magnetic pulse." Sherlock Holmes does not do anything by half, not even a migraine.

Reccer's comments: This is a gorgeous hurt/comfort fic, which can basically be summed up as: Sherlock has the mother of all migraines. John helps him through it.

One of the most fascinating things about this fic is the view we have inside Sherlock's head throughout the course of the migraine. In the initial stages, he suffers from synaesthesia, a phenomenon in which visual input may be perceived as sound, or auditory input as colour, for example. This makes for spectacular imagery, as when John is administering a medication intravenously:

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There is quite a lot of medspeak and medical procedures (non-invasive, other than occasional blood draws and injections), but not so much that I, as a layperson, felt alienated. There is a modicum of mystery as John and the other doctors try to discover what is causing Sherlock's symptoms, but it's not really the point of the story. It's all about the relationship between John and Sherlock, and to a lesser extent that between Sherlock and Mycroft, who plays a significant role as well. Over the several days that the migraine lasts, each man in turn reassesses his preconceived notions both about himself, and about the others, and the concommitant shift in dynamics is delicate and expertly orchestrated by the author. The question is, when the illness recedes, what will remain of the fragile connections that have been made?
[identity profile] pennypaperbrain.livejournal.com
Title: Hell in a Greek Myth
Author: anon – kinkmeme fill
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 6 LJ comments
Rating: PG
Warnings: none needed by comm rules
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: None. The prompt was ‘A depressed Sherlock is given meds to help stabilise his moods.’

Reccer's comments: While I don’t think I’ve ever seen this fic mentioned or linked to elsewhere, it’s my own personal favourite out of everything I’ve found on the kinkmeme. The topic of Sherlock and depression can sometimes tempt people to overwrite, but this is a beautifully spare and unsentimental plumbing of the depths followed by a similarly-handled return to life. The fic asks what is wrong with Sherlock and whether it needs fixing, and answers the question in the most realistic and open-ended (the two qualities are probably connected!) way I’ve ever seen.
This story is in the second person, which I normally hate, but it’s handled so gracefully here that I love it. Talented authoranon, if you are still out there, this really deserves to be cleaned up and posted where everyone can find it. Plus I'd love to read your other work.
(NB: Be careful to read in the right order. Part 1/6 appears lower on the page than Part 2/6.)

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[identity profile] sussexdowns.livejournal.com
ugh, this month really got away from me D:

Title: Variations of Use
Author: aubkae
Pairing: Sherlock/Victor Trevor, a very little bit of Sherlock/John
Length: 5,000 words
Rating: R/Mature
Warnings: Drug addiction, slight dub-con (neither of the listed pairings)
Verse: Sherlock BBC, though Trevor and the case of the Gloria Scott are bookverse.
Author's summary: Sherlock's smile is crooked and shaky and uncertain what it's doing on his face, but Victor just smiles back. And then there's Sebastian, and a mirror, and a razor, and a straw. He smiles at Sherlock like he has a secret.

Reccer's comments: I'm insta-reccing this because I actually just read it, and it is beautiful and gut-punchy and every sort of amazing. The writing is a bit sparse, and the story seems to be told in a series of connected vignettes, and it really, really works. Also, certain phrases and themes are repeated in a really effective way. as for characters, Victor is a really nice guy here, and I love the two of them together, but I can't fault him for the decision he ultimately makes. Seb is pitch-perfect and a creepy asshole without really being a villain, which I find very believable. And Sherlock's obsessive focus on uncovering the truth of everything means he knows exactly how to lie convincingly to himself. Watching the trainwreck that is his life in his 20s is kind of heartbreaking, but not overdone. Basically, everything about this fic is A++.

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[identity profile] chapbook.livejournal.com
Title: Negative
Author: [livejournal.com profile] aderyn8
Pairing: Gen, but could be interpreted as Sherlock/John
Length: 3,291
Rating: T
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: "When Sherlock comes back from the dead, he comes back dead. Or that’s what John thinks at first.
...and then the violets come in at the house across the street."
A little help from the living, and the dead: Because this story can’t be written.

Reccer's comments: Can the written word convey a palette? This story certainly takes on the hues of a hand-tinted vintage photograph: grays, silvers, with sudden splashes of bright color. One of my favorite post-Reichenbach works. It features a wonderful premise (a metaphorical take on Sherlock's return), rhythmic prose, and a haunting, dream-like atmosphere. Many characters, including a few never seen alive onscreen, have cameos, thus bringing the past into the present (a theme in many of aderyn's ficlets and one-shots).
Note: Per the author's comments, this one-shot could be taken as a sequel to Black Dog, or Elegy for an Idiot.

Two excerpts:

Sherlock wakes, finally, and he needs to eat, so John brings him a soup made of 50% vegetables from the market (tiny expensive spinach probably imported from Belgium), 25% knee-eliminating sorrowful relief and 25% unadulterated extract of rage. (Of course John doesn't believe in that sort of thing; food does not contain our emotions; it’s not even a decent metaphor for them, but hell, that's how he feels; fuck.)

“I'm not feeding you,” he says, when Sherlock barely manages to sit up on the sofa.

“I'm not putting my head in your lap then,” Sherlock says, sleepily, taking the bowl.

*****

London comes awake with a jerk, the hawthorns on Primrose Hill the color of fresh blood. The city celebrates, or no, it doesn’t, but perhaps it ought to, to celebrate, to burst out in the kind of Latinate melodrama it might not be meant for: for its returned daemon, its genius; for the good light and the good name and the Crown Jewels and the currency, the banks and the Yard and the theatres and the art museums should rejoice. Well, fuck it, then, London awakens.
[identity profile] numberthescars.livejournal.com
Title: Cost of Living
Author: [livejournal.com profile] americanjedi
Pairing: Gen
Length: not sure of word count...12 chapters
Rating: R
Warnings: Horror, violence, and some intense dream sequences
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John Watson's family has always been a little different. He never thought about it until Sherlock died. Now John is running through dreams collecting hearts. Monster!John
Reccer's comments: One of the most criminally under-appreciated fics I've come across in this fandom. [livejournal.com profile] americanjedi constructs a completely believable world, in which John has the dangerous and disturbing ability to hunt for other peoples' hearts--and an unfettered loyalty to Sherlock that makes him want to do it. The transformation John undergoes in pursuit of his goal is startling, and brilliantly written; it will cause you to shudder, laugh and cry right alongside him. Also, the dream sequences in this fic--so tough to  get right--are amazing: just the right mixture of fantasy, memory and absurdity. It almost feels like you're dreaming yourself as you read. I won't say more about the plot, for fear of spoiling it, but let me just say: read it. You won't be sorry.
[identity profile] getyourguns.livejournal.com
Title: "Correspondences" AU series (3 parts)
Author: faviconthirdbird / [livejournal.com profile] thirdbird_fic
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 13,467
Rating: PG first part, R subsequent parts
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: What if John and Sherlock had met five years earlier?
01. Fairytale of London A03 / DW
02. The Correspondence A03 / DW
03. The Damage Done A03 / DW

Reccer's comments:
This is a great AU that explores how John and Sherlock's relationship would be a little different had they met on much different terms, long before John had been invalided home from Afghanistan. The author does a great job with John's voice, detailing a bit of his experiences in the war as well as as a medical professional. There is also a look at Sherlock's drug use and history and how that effects his view of John and their possible future together. This is another story I hoped had kept going past it's ending, but it's a pretty complete story in itself.
Warnings: descriptions of war violence, drug overdose
[identity profile] falling-voices.livejournal.com
Title: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Author: [livejournal.com profile] w_a_i_d
Pairing: Mostly gen, with Holmes/Watson undertones.
Length: 6,700 words.
Rating: None given. Between PG-13 and R.
Warnings: Drugs, self-inflicted gruesomeness.
Verse: ACD!canon. References to The Dying Detective, The Final Problem and The Empty House.
Author's summary: A tall, thin, grey-eyed foreigner, running for his life.

Reccer's comments: This is actually a standalone within the frame a greater story, An Antidote to Sorrow, which is sadly still a WIP. It fits within that universe, but the author has intended it as a freestander, and having read the books suffices to understand everything. It depicts Holmes' journey after his supposed death at the Reichenbach falls, a gruesome, filthy, difficult one, rife with dangers both self-inflicted and from outsiders; [livejournal.com profile] w_a_i_d's style is breathtaking, each description vibrant with detail and colour, and Holmes' characterization — as he loses himself again and again and misses home like a physical thing — is one of the best I've ever read.
[identity profile] ningen-demonai.livejournal.com
Title: Turnabout’s Fair Play
Author: [livejournal.com profile] jumperfkr
Pairing: Mostly gen, squint-y Sherlock x John at best (or as the author says "Holmes/Watson friendshippy/squint/pre-slash/IDK")
Length: 6,400
Rating: PG
Warnings: None, other than the "expected amount of murder and misdeeds"
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: A holiday to Cornwall turns into a test of Watson's John’s patience.

Reccer's comments: If it's not obvious after reading the summary (which it wasn't to me as I'd yet to read the original story), this fic's a reworking of an ACD story. What I like about this is that I can pretty much see this happening in the series' future, when Sherlock and John are more comfortable and used to each other. Yeah, this is a case fic, but it's almost like a domestic scene. John's being longsuffering and resigned to Sherlock's dramatics and Sherlock's being stubborn and bossy even in sickness. God, I adore them.

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[identity profile] pyjamapants.livejournal.com
Title: Soldier's Heart
Author: [livejournal.com profile] piplover
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Length: 85,088
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: physical and mental aspects of PTSD
Verse: Ritchie films and ACD
Author's summary: After his return from his three years' "death," not all is as it should be for Holmes. The road is long ahead, but Watson will always be there to walk it with him.
Reccer's comments: Soldier's Heart gorgeously tells the story of Sherlock's failing health following his return from the Great Hiatus. Interwoven with the story of his recovery is a developing relationship with Dr. Watson and a simply amazing cast of Irregulars and other OCs.

This is one of the only stories I've read that deal with Holmes' PTSD, although there are many (particularly in Sherlock BBC 'verse) that cover Watson's. I cannot say enough good things about this story. [livejournal.com profile] piplover paints Holmes' experience with heartbreaking realism, but it's balanced by so warmth and richness in the original characters. The role of the Irregulars and the insight into Holmes' upbringing truly makes the story special. 

Also available on LJ.
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[personal profile] keladry_lupin
Title: In the Genes
Author: [livejournal.com profile] alice_day
Pairing: Gen (as far as I can tell)
Length: 7,400-ish words
Rating: PG
Warnings: This is a work in progress; it has not been updated since 30 November 2010. (Three chapters out of five have been posted.) Swearing. One racist comment in chapter three.
Verse: Sherlock BBC, House MD crossover
Author's summary: A diagnostician and a detective must join forces to solve a mystery that threatens both their lives.

Reccer's comments: I found this one a few months back and have been lurking ever since, hoping for an update. I got into House MD several years ago and was tickled pink when, after getting into the Sherlock fandom, I learned that Laurie and Cumberbatch had played father and son in Fortysomething. The scene where Wilson and Watson escape from House and Holmes and compare notes is brilliant.
[identity profile] unovis.livejournal.com
Hi!
Just a few words on our tags and tagging your recs.

Tags are useful search tools for grouping the recs by categories: by pairing, genre, content, and sources for the stories or other fanworks.

We ask that reccers attach tags that are relevant to the works they rec. You don't have to add everything that applies-- for example, not a character tag for everyone who might appear in the story, or every theme or content. But if Molly has a significant cameo, say, that you think people searching for her might appreciate, then by all means list her in a tag. Likewise if you think this is the addiction story people should read, then use the content: addiction tag.

The required aspects to tag are pairing (if it applies), relationship genre (i.e., gen, slash, or het*), and verse (the source: ACD books, Sherlock BBC, Granada, etc.).

The easiest place to see all of the tags available is in this list of tags.

Tagging is enabled only for the author of the post and the mods. Only the mods can add new tags. We have a beginning list up now, anticipating likely categories and characters. We'll add more as recs are made, if characters and pairings, for example, aren't covered already. You can request a new tag to be added by commenting here or by contacting one of the mods. Keep in mind, again, that we'll be adding character tags as additional characters appear in recs.

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have been abbreviated as SH and JW in pairings and some other places (e.g., content: sick jw). Since this recs comm is open to all versions of Sherlock Holmes, it seemed the simplest way to identify the characters. Lestrade, Gregson, and Dimmock are listed as "inspector" following ACD book canon, and Moriarty is listed only once by his (their) surname alone. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is abbreviated throughout as ACD.

*We won't add a category for "slash-if-you-squint" or similar invitations for the reader to see subtext in a story. If the author hasn't labeled her work as slash, then it's genre: gen or genre: friendship.
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[personal profile] themusecalliope
The Paradox Series (in order)

Title: An Act of Charity
Author: [livejournal.com profile] wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 4,032 words
Author's summary: In which what's in his head is never going to get any better, and John is nearly thrown out of his flat. Sherlock POV
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Mental Strangeness
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: (Podfic of same by [livejournal.com profile] pandarus) This is the beginning of a dark and enthralling series. (Fair warning. These stories contain: insanity (no...really), controlling behaviour, dark stuff, drug use, alternative ways of perceiving, relationships that would be unhealthy outside of this context, and all manner of disturbing things. They are also very, very good. This first story is quite tame compared to the rest.)

Title: The Paradox Suite
Author: [livejournal.com profile] wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 5,369 words
Author's summary: Being with Sherlock is a series of shocks, but John is game for it anyhow. John POV
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Violence, Sex
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: (Podfic of same by [livejournal.com profile] pandarus.) This installment looks at John's perception of his world, paradoxes, and and Sherlock. This series switches back and forth between POVs in each installment, so you often get both sides of an event.

Title: The Death and Resurrection of the English Language
Author: [livejournal.com profile] wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 15,663 words
Author's summary: Wherein the English language dies, Sherlock mourns it, and John revives a dead tongue. Sherlock POV
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Violence, Sex, Mental Illness
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: (Podfic of same by [livejournal.com profile] pandarus) Wow. Sherlock goes through the mill a bit in this one, but he also gets something he never thought to. You really get a look inside Sherlock's mind in this one.

Title: Entirely Covered in Your Invisible Name
Author: [livejournal.com profile] wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 15,722 words
Author's summary: Sherlock solves crimes, loses himself, comes back again, and all the while John prays that he never comes to his senses. John POV (A/N - WARNING: this fic paints a picture of a relationship many reasonable people would find crosses the line into disturbingly possessive and/or flirting with actual abuse by way of verbal threats. If verbal threats and brief physical restraint bother you, skip this fic. I'd never fault you for it in the slightest.)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Violence, Sex, Mental Illness, Drug Use
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: (Podfic of same by [livejournal.com profile] pandarus) This installment kicks the series up another notch...of tension, worry, and awe. Heed the author's warning.

Title: Moon River Wider than a Mile
Author: [livejournal.com profile] wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 1290 words
Author's summary: None
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Kissing
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments: A ficlet written for a meme, that nevertheless falls here. A melancholy moment.

Title: New Days to Throw Your Chains Away
Author: [livejournal.com profile] wordstrings
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 14,803 words
Author's summary: When Sherlock decides that he needs to be higher functioning, he simultaneously finds the perfect tutor. Sherlock POV (A/N - WARNING: this fic paints a picture of a relationship many reasonable people would find crosses the line into disturbingly possessive and/or flirting with actual abuse by way of verbal threats. If verbal threats and brief physical restraint bother you, skip this fic. I'd never fault you for it in the slightest. It also has one torture scene, so skip that if you are disturbed by what Sherlock does at the end of Study in Pink.)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language, Dark themes, Violence, Sex, Mental Illness, Torture
Verse: Sherlock (TV)
Reccer's comments:...And this is the last of it (so far). I love this series.

(...and I hope that I did all of this correctly.)

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