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chapbook.livejournal.com2013-09-04 04:54 am
Entry tags:
- character: irene adler,
- character: original character,
- character: real person,
- content: bdsm,
- content: childhood,
- content: d/s,
- content: dub-con,
- content: underage sexuality,
- genre: angst,
- genre: au,
- genre: het,
- genre: slash f/f,
- pairing: irene adler/ofc,
- pairing: irene adler/omc,
- theme: female characters,
- verse: sherlock bbc
Fic Rec: Chez les bêtes
Title: Chez les bêtes
Author: breathedout
Pairing: Irene Adler/Various, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette/Mathilde de Morny
Length: 12,923
Rating: E
Warnings: Underage Sex
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Le Havre, 1908. The Child is mother of the Woman.
Reccer's comments: BBC's version of Irene Adler is a character I've had problems connecting with (unlike Doyle's Irene), primarily because the writing for ASiB is chaotic and full of holes, leaving us with an Irene who to me feels more like a symbol than a fully realized personality. In contrast, BreathedOut's brilliant history AU, which moves Irene to early-twentieth-century England and France, presents the reader with a raw and ferocious young woman who feels very human, with her artistic talents, youthful uncertainty, love for her mother, and her capacity to manipulate. The cultural beliefs of turn-of-the-century working- and middle-class Britons are on full display here, demonstrating how very difficult it is for a working-class woman, even one with Irene's abilities, to struggle against these values and expectations. As a result, Irene's attempts to escape the expected routine of grueling, poorly paid, and often unsafe "respectable" work, as well as the conventional roles of wife and mother are all the more powerful.
Alternating the past and present throughout the story effectively shows how "The Woman" came to be in a process neither direct nor easy. It's that structure that allows Irene's epiphany to feel earned rather than a bolt out of the blue. I look forward to seeing this Irene meet Violet Hour's Sherlock and John in the next installment of the Unreal Histories series. I suspect it will be a memorable confrontation!
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Author: breathedout
Pairing: Irene Adler/Various, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette/Mathilde de Morny
Length: 12,923
Rating: E
Warnings: Underage Sex
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Le Havre, 1908. The Child is mother of the Woman.
Reccer's comments: BBC's version of Irene Adler is a character I've had problems connecting with (unlike Doyle's Irene), primarily because the writing for ASiB is chaotic and full of holes, leaving us with an Irene who to me feels more like a symbol than a fully realized personality. In contrast, BreathedOut's brilliant history AU, which moves Irene to early-twentieth-century England and France, presents the reader with a raw and ferocious young woman who feels very human, with her artistic talents, youthful uncertainty, love for her mother, and her capacity to manipulate. The cultural beliefs of turn-of-the-century working- and middle-class Britons are on full display here, demonstrating how very difficult it is for a working-class woman, even one with Irene's abilities, to struggle against these values and expectations. As a result, Irene's attempts to escape the expected routine of grueling, poorly paid, and often unsafe "respectable" work, as well as the conventional roles of wife and mother are all the more powerful.
Alternating the past and present throughout the story effectively shows how "The Woman" came to be in a process neither direct nor easy. It's that structure that allows Irene's epiphany to feel earned rather than a bolt out of the blue. I look forward to seeing this Irene meet Violet Hour's Sherlock and John in the next installment of the Unreal Histories series. I suspect it will be a memorable confrontation!
Excerpt: ( Read more )